Jamie Matthews

(he/him)

Jamie Matthews

DabApps

Co-Founder and Technical Director

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jamie Matthews is Co-Founder and Technical Director at DabApps, helping ambitious organisations solve meaningful problems through pragmatic technical thinking, well-built software and carefully applied AI. With an academic background in computer science, evolutionary biology and AI, he has spent more than 15 years working on production software projects across startups, scale-ups and larger organisations. Jamie is the author of Django RAPID Architecture, a practical guide to structuring Django codebases so they remain understandable and adaptable as teams and products grow. His work focuses on judgement, clarity and long-term usefulness, particularly in complex areas such as energy, climate tech, health, B2B software and AI-enabled product development.

Sessions

Adam Newman

Mariachiara Restuccia

Jamie Matthews

12:20

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13:00

Panel

Builders Stage

The Hidden Cost of Code: Can We Build Technology That Doesn’t Cost the Earth?

Sustainability in technology is often discussed at a high level, but far less attention is given to what it actually means in practice for the teams designing, building and running modern systems. This session brings the conversation back down to reality. Where do emissions really come from in software? How much is driven by cloud infrastructure, compute intensity, and inefficiencies that are often invisible at scale? And as AI adoption accelerates, how do organisations balance its environmental cost with the value it creates? Rather than taking a theoretical view, this panel focuses on the decisions being made every day inside engineering and product teams. What does “green software” actually look like when you are shipping product? What trade-offs are being made between performance, cost and sustainability? And who is ultimately accountable for those choices? Bringing together perspectives from engineering, sustainability and policy, the discussion will explore how organisations are starting to respond, where progress is real, and where gaps still exist. If sustainability was treated as a core constraint, not a consideration, how differently would we build?

Adam Newman

Mariachiara Restuccia

Jamie Matthews

12:20

-

13:00

Panel

Builders Stage

The Hidden Cost of Code: Can We Build Technology That Doesn’t Cost the Earth?

Sustainability in technology is often discussed at a high level, but far less attention is given to what it actually means in practice for the teams designing, building and running modern systems. This session brings the conversation back down to reality. Where do emissions really come from in software? How much is driven by cloud infrastructure, compute intensity, and inefficiencies that are often invisible at scale? And as AI adoption accelerates, how do organisations balance its environmental cost with the value it creates? Rather than taking a theoretical view, this panel focuses on the decisions being made every day inside engineering and product teams. What does “green software” actually look like when you are shipping product? What trade-offs are being made between performance, cost and sustainability? And who is ultimately accountable for those choices? Bringing together perspectives from engineering, sustainability and policy, the discussion will explore how organisations are starting to respond, where progress is real, and where gaps still exist. If sustainability was treated as a core constraint, not a consideration, how differently would we build?