Q03 · Techniques & MethodsHold— SteadyHorizon: Now

Green Software Engineering

Measuring and reducing the carbon footprint of compute, including AI training/inference.

Important in principle and increasingly demanded by enterprise procurement, but tooling for accurate, workload-level carbon accounting is still immature — track the space, do not over-invest yet.

Green Engineering across other industries

Measuring and reducing the carbon and material footprint of compute and production.

Manufacturing & IndustrialHold

Green & Sustainable Manufacturing Engineering

Engineering practices and tooling optimising for energy and material efficiency.

Platform

From the Technology & SaaS Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.

An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.