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2025 speaker

Matt "Kelly" Williams

Matt "Kelly" Williams

Sustainable IT Innovator Championing Agile Sustainability & Green Tech | | CEO of Sustainable IT Manifesto Foundation | International Speaker | Advisory Board Member

Loveland, CO

Matt "Kelly" Williams is the founder of Making Software Greener, the CEO of the Sustainable IT Manifesto Foundation, advisory board member for the Green Computing Foundation, and a speaker and mentor on IT practices including DevOps, Cloud Computing, and mental health advocacy. He has always wanted to be a Renaissance person; perhaps one day he will be. In the meantime, he explores IT Sustainability, is learning photography, designs tabletop games, reads, weaves, cooks, hacks, and explores the mountains near Loveland, Colorado.

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2025 · keynote

Putting the FUN back in Fundamentals: Data Structures, Algorithms, and More!

In this session, we will bring FUN back to Fundamentals as we:

Look at favorite data structures and algorithms from the 70s, 80s, and 90s: where are they today?

Discover why hashes aren't just for breakfast.

Discover the Lolrus' favorite data structure (hint: it's got a bukkit).

Discover why some searches gallop and others proceed at a snail's pace.

Face hard truths: sometimes brute force is the best method.

Face harder truths: someone has to maintain the code you write today... and they know where you live.

Face the hardest truth: CPU, Memory, Storage, and I/O are not infinite.

And... most importantly... discover the BEST algorithm and the BEST data structure.

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