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Does technology exacerbate the climate crisis or can it also help to solve it? That was the central question of the Ada Lovelace Festival 2020, which we had to celebrate virtually due to the corona pandemic. The motto of this year’s festival was Sustainability Tech. During three days at the end of September and the beginning of October, 450 ada fellows and 420 ada alumni met on 16 virtual stages and in 22 zoom calls. In workshops and interactive sessions, the participants discussed sustainability related tech topics amongst others with machine learning researcher David Rolnick from McGill University, Rosalind Picard, Founder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT Media Lab and the Chief Digital Officer of the City of London, Theo Blackwell.