Wednesday Mar 4 - Day 0

Workshops 9.00 am - 5.00 pm *** Workshop Tickets Required ***
Event Driven Architecture & Event Streaming Workshop
Daniel Hinojosa
AI Tools ( 315 )
Agentic, Assistive & Predictive AI Patterns
Rohit Bhardwaj
AI in Practice ( 311 )
Cruising Along with Java: From Java 9 to 25
Venkat Subramaniam
Core Java ( 301 )
Modernize your apps in days with AI Agents
Brian Benz & Ayan Gupta
Gen AI ( 316 )
Fundamentals of Software Engineering In the age of AI Workshop
Nathaniel Schutta & Dan Vega
Practices ( 302 )
Hands-On: Building Agents with Spring AI, MCP, Java, and Amazon Bedrock
James Ward & Josh Long
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
18:15:00
Networking Happy Hour

Thursday Mar 5 - Day 1

09:00:00
Its Up To Java Developers to Fix Enterprise AI
Rod Johnson
Keynote ( 411/412 )
10:00:00
Design Patterns for Multi-Agent Systems
Brian Sam-Bodden
AI Tools ( 315 )
AI for Busy Java Developers
Frank Greco
AI in Practice ( 311 )
Unbundling of the Cloud Data Warehouse: Open Source Databases and Data Lakes
Zoe Steinkamp
Architecture ( 314 )
To Java 26 and Beyond!
Billy Korando
Core Java ( 301 )
What's new in Spring Boot 4.0 & what's arriving 4.1
Phil Webb
Frameworks ( 313 )
Agents, Tools, and MCP, oh my! Next-level AI concepts for developers
Jennifer Reif
Gen AI ( 316 )
The Mentorship Hub (all day at open-source cafe!)
Bruno Souza & Luiz Real
Community Hub
Refactoring RN
Aaron McClennen
Practices ( 302 )
Life after dad joke apps - building "enterprise grade" AI frameworks for Java
Kevin Strohmeyer & Josh Long & Rod Johnson & Adib Saikali
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
Zero Migration Java: Stay Current Without Breaking Your App
Yee-Kang Chang
Security ( 304 )
Building Engineers or Teaching Technicians?
Jonathon Graf
Tech Leadership ( 303 )
How I automated my life with MCP Servers
Cedric Clyburn
Tools and Techniques ( 305 )
11:00:00
Morning Break
11:20:00
Brokk: an AI-Native Code Platform for Java, in Java
Jonathan Ellis
AI Tools ( 315 )
The wrong reasons to build an MCP server
Daniel Oh
AI in Practice ( 311 )
TBD
JUnit 6 + exploring the testing ecosystem
Jeanne Boyarsky
Core Java ( 301 )
Spring Data 4: Data Access Revisited
Chris Bono
Frameworks ( 313 )
10 Tools & Tips to Upgrade Your Java code with AI
Vinicius Senger & Jonathan Vogel
Gen AI ( 316 )
Lean Software Development
Leigh Griffin
Practices ( 302 )
Modern API Versioning and Enterprise-Ready AI enablement with Spring Cloud Gateway
Spencer Gibb & Chris Sterling
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
Bootiful Spring Security
Josh Long & Rob Winch
Security ( 304 )
Modern Architectures for Software Development Leaders
Venkat Subramaniam
Tech Leadership ( 303 )
Unlocking Engineering Productivity with IDE-Based Coding Agents
Josh Kurz
Tools and Techniques ( 305 )
12:20:00
Lunch
13:20:00
Fundamentals of Software Engineering In the age of AI
Nathaniel Schutta & Dan Vega
AI Tools ( 315 )
10 Things I Hate About AI
Cody Frenzel & Laurie Lay
AI in Practice ( 311 )
Java Cloud Optimization: Serverless, Native, and CRaC – Unleash Peak Performance
Rustam Mehmandarov
Architecture ( 314 )
Java Performance: Beyond Simple Request Latencies
John Ceccarelli & Simon Ritter
Core Java ( 301 )
Beyond SWE-bench: Enterprise Java AI Agents and Real-World Development Benchmarks
Mark Pollack
Frameworks ( 313 )
Building AI Agents with Spring & MCP
James Ward & Josh Long
Gen AI ( 316 )
Git features you aren’t using
Raju Gandhi
Practices ( 302 )
The Modern Spring Workflow: Enterprise-Ready Delivery and AI-Boosted Coding with Tanzu
Chris Sterling & Cora Iberkleid
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
Building Trustworthy and Reliable LLM Applications
Alex Soto & Markus Eisele
Security ( 304 )
The Accidental Leader: How to Succeed When You Weren’t Planning to Lead
Emily Harden
Tech Leadership ( 303 )
The Developer Skill Tree: Growing Beyond the Code
Bree Hall
Tools and Techniques ( 305 )
14:20:00
Afternoon Break
14:50:00
Hands-on Embabel
Rod Johnson
AI Tools ( 315 )
Inside MCP: Live Protocol Messages, Real-Time Flows, and Smarter Agents
David Parry
AI in Practice ( 311 )
Modular Monoliths: A happy middle
Raju Gandhi
Architecture ( 314 )
Beyond default settings: Optimizing Java on K8s with AI-driven performance tuning
Stefano Doni
Core Java ( 301 )
Supercharge Your Applications with Java, Graphs, and a Touch of AI
Jennifer Reif & Erin Schnabel
Frameworks ( 313 )
From Monolith to AI Agent: Modernizing Java Systems with MCP
Theo Lebrun
Gen AI ( 316 )
Clear up Messy Code with Refactoring Maneuvers in IntelliJ IDEA
Ted M. Young
Practices ( 302 )
Building AI Agents with Spring AI and Tanzu Platform
Josh Long & Adib Saikali
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
The Missing Protocol: How MCP Bridges LLMs and Data Streams
Viktor Gamov
Security ( 304 )
How to run a 1 on 1 for Everyone (Not Just Managers!)
Alex Riviere
Tech Leadership ( 303 )
The Engineer's Guide to Socialization
Nerando Johnson
Tools and Techniques ( 305 )
15:50:00
The Evolution of Memory in Humans and AI Agents
Raphael De Lio
AI Tools ( 315 )
When One Agent Isn’t Enough: Experiments with Multi-Agent AI
Kenneth Kousen
AI in Practice ( 311 )
From Legacy to Cloud-Native: Effective and Scalable Java Modernization with Automation
Emily Jiang
Architecture ( 314 )
Developer Career Masterplan: 15 steps to grow beyond senior developer
Bruno Souza
Core Java ( 301 )
What Every Spring Developer Should Know About Jakarta EE
Ivar Grimstad
Frameworks ( 313 )
Architecting Microservices for Agentic AI Integration
Rohit Bhardwaj
Gen AI ( 316 )
The Ultimate Showdown of Database Migration Tools
Pasha Finkelshteyn & Anton Arhipov
Practices ( 302 )
Enabling High-Throughput, Low-Latency Inference for Your AI Applications
Cora Iberkleid
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
Privacy in design (PbD) in DevSecOps
Anitha Dakamarri
Security ( 304 )
Thriving in an Evolving Software Industry
Nathaniel Schutta & Glenn Renfro
Tech Leadership ( 303 )
Developer Experience != Developer Productivity
Jeremy Meiss
Tools and Techniques ( 305 )
16:50:00
The OffHeap Podcast. Devnexus Edition (Now with AI Agents
Freddy Guime
Core Java ( 301 )
Conference Reception

Friday Mar 6 - Day 2

09:00:00
Hacking AI - How to Survive the AI Uprising
Gant Laborde
Keynote ( 411/412 )
10:00:00
Connecting the Dots with Context Graphs
Stephen Chin
AI Tools ( 315 )
Spec Driven Development Why your prompt chaos won’t scale
Simon Maple
AI in Practice ( 311 )
Introduction to Cell Architectures
Christopher Curtin
Architecture ( 314 )
Scotty I need Warp Speed - Ways to improve JVM startup
Gerrit Grunwald
Core Java ( 301 )
API Versioning in Spring
Spencer Gibb
Frameworks ( 313 )
OK, But What About Predictive AI?
Brayan Muñoz V. & José R. Almonte C.
Gen AI ( 316 )
Maven's hidden secrets to speed up your build
Ko Turk
Practices ( 302 )
Spring Cloud Supercharged for Production-Ready Apps
Ryan Baxter & Chris Sterling
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
The Hidden Security Hazards in Your Java Stack
Brian Vermeer
Security ( 304 )
Back to the Future of Software: How to Survive the AI Apocalypse with Tests, Prompts, and Specs
Baruch Sadogursky & Leonid Igolnik
Tech Leadership ( 303 )
BoxLang vs the World : From zero to stable in 20 months
Luis Majano & Brad Wood
Tools and Techniques ( 305 )
11:00:00
Morning Break
11:20:00
Performant GraphRAG: Improving Neo4j to Drive Autonomous AI
Brandon Tylke & Jon Gentsch
AI Tools ( 315 )
From Microservices to Agent-Services: Architectural Patterns for Autonomous System Boundaries
Mo Haghighi & Prasanth kumar Pari
AI in Practice ( 311 )
Breaking the Monolith Mindset: Hexagonal Architecture vs Traditional Layers in Java
Emmanuel Guzmán & Jorge Cajas
Architecture ( 314 )
Trash Talk - Exploring the memory management in the JVM
Gerrit Grunwald
Core Java ( 301 )
Autoscaling Spring Boot apps in Kubernetes with KEDA
John Coyne
Frameworks ( 313 )
Integrating LLMs in Java: A Practical Guide to Model Context Protocol
Dan Vega
Gen AI ( 316 )
Sociotechnical Platform Engineering
Chris Corriere
Practices ( 302 )
Refactoring the ROI of Software: Continuous Mondernization with Tanzu Platform
DaShaun Carter
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
Implementing MCP Authorization using Spring Security OAuth 2.1 capabilities
Joe Grandja
Security ( 304 )
Delivering Value through Software: A Practical Guide for Tech Leads
Sujith Paul
Tech Leadership ( 303 )
A Data-Oriented Programming Approach to REST APIs
Kenneth Kousen
Tools and Techniques ( 305 )
12:20:00
Lunch
13:20:00
Agentic AI for Java Microservices: Cloud Performance Optimization at FinTech Scale
Sibasis Padhi
AI Tools ( 315 )
Conversational AI Semantic Search for E-commerce using Elasticsearch + RAG
Karthik Govardhanan
AI in Practice ( 311 )
Durable Execution: Building Apps That Refuse to Die
Sam Dengler
Architecture ( 314 )
Just-in-Time Compilation Isn't Magic
Douglas Hawkins
Core Java ( 301 )
I Can See Clearly Now: Observability of JVM & Spring Boot 2-3-4 apps
Jonatan Ivanov
Frameworks ( 313 )
From Context Windows to Context Graphs: The Next Generation of AI Systems
Medha Chakraborty & Srijani Dey
Gen AI ( 316 )
Better Assertions with AssertJ
Tim te Beek
Practices ( 302 )
The Golden Path Starts at Home: Engineering Developer Experience from Laptop to Production
Tim Sparg & DaShaun Carter
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
The Responsible Java Developer: Trustworthy GenAI in Practice
Brian Benz
Security ( 304 )
TBD
Advancing with Java
Rodrigo Graciano & Chandra Guntur
Tools and Techniques ( 305 )
14:20:00
Afternoon Break
14:40:00
Stop Fighting Your AI: Engineering Prompts That Actually Work
Martin Rojas
AI Tools ( 315 )
Real-Time Fraud Detection in Java with Kafka, Streams & Vector Similarity
Tim Kelly & Ricardo Mello
AI in Practice ( 311 )
Isolation Isn't All Bad, For Your Database
Sean McNealy
Architecture ( 314 )
Java's Asynchronous Ecosystem
Daniel Hinojosa
Core Java ( 301 )
Extend your JPA applications with Relational JSON documents
Anders Swanson
Frameworks ( 313 )
Choose your fighter: Spring AI vs LangChain4j
Malavika Balamurali
Gen AI ( 316 )
Grow Beyond Senior Through Java Contributions: JUGs, the JCP and OpenJDK
Bruno Souza & Heather VanCura
Practices ( 302 )
Staying Current: A Journey in Software Maintenance
Shriyu Gaglani & Ho Jong Yu
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
Deep dive into data streaming security
Olena Kutsenko
Security ( 304 )
Engineering the Shift: How Technical Leaders Drive Enduring Change
Niranjan Prithviraj
Tech Leadership ( 303 )
How I AI: Building Custom GPTs to Supercharge Everyday Work
Daneez Zamangil
Tools and Techniques ( 305 )
15:40:00
AI Agents for Java Devs: From Demo to Deployment
Brian Benz
AI Tools ( 315 )
TBD
Microservices for Pragmatists
Hazel Bohon
Architecture ( 314 )
Zero to C-speed with only Java
David Vlijmincx
Core Java ( 301 )
TBD - HOLD
Debugging with IntelliJ IDEA
Anton Arhipov
Practices ( 302 )
Stop getting "shift left'ed" on
DaShaun Carter & Kevin Strohmeyer
Production Ready Spring ( 312 )
Code Your Way to Quantum-Safe Development by Solving Tomorrow’s Encryption Crisis
Barry Burd
Security ( 304 )
TBD
16:40:00
Prize giveaways and conference close!
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