September 24-26, 2024
Dallas, TX Courtyard Dallas Allen

LONE. STAR. JAVA.

A community Java conference is coming to Dallas!
A three day event diving deep with experts from across the Java and Cloud ecosystem.

5 Tracks • 50+ sessions • 5 workshops

A premium Java, Cloud and Big Data conference at a community conference price!

Expert speakers including Java Champions, community contributors & open source commiters

Lots of opportunities to network with speakers and attendees!

Schedule

Tuesday, September 24

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5
8:00 AM	Registration and Breakfast
9:00 AM	AI-Driven Development: Enhancing Java with the latest AI Innovations Brian Benz	Architectural Design Patterns Deep Dive Daniel Hinojosa	Fundamentals of Migration Engineering with OpenRewrite Jonathan SchneiderOlga Kundzich	Spring Boot 3 Workshop Josh Long	Cruising Along with Java: Making use of the Modern Features Venkat Subramaniam
5:00 PM	Workshops end & post workshop networking at local bar

Wednesday, September 25

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5
8:00 AM	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM	Code Review, you said? Venkat Subramaniam
10:00 AM	Trash Talk - Exploring the memory management in the JVM Gerrit Grunwald	Clean code, is it really worth it? A story of monsters, heroes and victories Jonathan Vila	Building a custom AI chatbot with Spring Boot, React, and LangChain4j Marcus Hellberg	Are Your Microservices Small Balls of Mud? Hugh McKee	Building data pipelines with open source Rustam Mehmandarov
11:00 AM	Morning Break
11:30 AM	To Java 23 and Beyond! Billy Korando	Apache Maven 4 is Awesome Chandra Guntur	Codebase Resurrection: Revive and Refactor with AI David Parry	Troubleshooting, Monitoring and Profiling with Java Flight Recorder, Mission Control and Cryostat Jeremy Davis	Developer’s Guide to Test-Driven Development and Approval Testing Burk Hufnagel
12:30 AM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Hidden security features of the JVM - everything you didn’t know and more Steve Poole	Harmony in Innovation: Building Stronger Engineer-Product Relationships Erin Geoghan	Gen AI for Java developers – one step at a time Rich HagartyDana Price	The Wild West…East, North and South: Multi-Region Java Apps in the Cloud Denis Magda	Streamlining Open Source Foundation Operations with Quarkus and GitHub Actions Erin Schnabel
2:30 PM	Afternoon Break
3:00 PM	Java cloud-native shoot-out: InstantOn vs CRaC vs Native Image Rich Hagarty	TBD	Spring into AI: Building Intelligent Applications with Spring AI Dan Vega	Navigating the Observability Landscape: From Serverful to Serverless with OpenTelemetry Journey Daniel Oh	One Does Not Simply Query a Stream Viktor Gamov
4:00 PM	Craft Fully Open Imperative and Reactive Cloud-Native Microservices Kevin Grigorenko	The Unseen Script: Documentation in Software Engineering Valerie Gurka	Pass or Play: What does GenAI mean for the Java developer? Jennifer Reif	Death to the Monolith Cody Frenzel	Venkat session TBD
5:00 PM	Moving Java Forward Together Sharat Chander
5:30 PM	Conference Reception

Thursday, September 26

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4
8:00 AM	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM	Keynote
10:00 AM	Spring Modulith: What the what? Glenn Renfro	An Introduction to Rancher Desktop Dwain Sims	Brick-by-Brick: Exploring the Elements of Apache Kafka® Danica Fine	Bootiful Spring Boot 3 Josh Long
11:00 AM	Morning Break
11:30 AM	Cache Me If You Can: Speed Up Your JVM With Project Valhalla Theresa Mammarella	Making Sense of Other Peoples' Code Scott Wierschem	Build next generation Big Data applications with Delta Lake Theo Lebrun	Seamless integration of Machine Learning Inference for Intelligent Edge Devices Mo Haghighi
12:30 AM	Lunch
1:00 PM	Wargames - Java vulnerabilities and why you should care Gerrit Grunwald	Spring off the HTTP High Dive into an Optimized Connection Pool John Coyne	A Million Ways to Fail in Production: Embracing Catastrophes for Fun and Profit Jonatan IvanovFreddy Guime	TBD
2:00 PM	Afternoon Break
2:30 PM	Coding Fast and Slow: Applying Kahneman's Insights to Improve Development Practices and Efficiency Baruch Sadogursky	Revolutionizing API Testing and Mocking with TestContainers Modules Hugo Guerrero	Going beyond ORMs Andres Almiray	LLMs and Spring: Building Smart Chat Applications with Redis Brian Sam-Bodden
3:30 PM	Conference Closing Remarks

2024 Workshops

Full-day, deep dive, hands-on workshops

Get a full day of training on these topics from industry experts!

Brian Benz

Brian is a Java Champion and a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, helping developers get the most out of Azure.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Driven Development: Enhancing Java with the latest AI Innovations

This hands-on workshopn will dive deep into how to build and maintain a Java codebase using AI. I’ll share insights and experience on the best ways to work with AI when... Read More

Daniel Hinojosa

Independent Consultant

Architecture

Architectural Design Patterns Deep Dive

In this day-long work workshop, we will review a catalog of all the standard architectural design patterns. For each design pattern, we will run docker-compose files that... Read More

Jonathan Schneider

Co-founder @ Moderne

Java

Fundamentals of Migration Engineering with OpenRewrite

How adaptable is your technology stack to changes in business requirements, technological advancements, and the availability of new and better tools (and avoiding vendor... Read More

Josh Long

Spring Developer Advocate, Pivotal

JVM Langs and Platform

Spring Boot 3 Workshop

Spring Boot 3 is the new major revision of Spring Boot. In this workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of the new features available in the Spring portfolio and also... Read More

Venkat Subramaniam

Agile Developer, Inc

Java

Cruising Along with Java: Making use of the Modern Features

Java was once a language that dragged along at snail's pace. Thankfully, that's no longer the case. In the recent years the pace of development has accelerated, both in... Read More

Sessions

JConf.dev 2024 sessions

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Andres Almiray

Seasoned Sourceror

Going beyond ORMs

Baruch Sadogursky

Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate, Gradle

Coding Fast and Slow: Applying Kahneman's Insights to Improve Development Practices and Efficiency

Billy Korando

Java Developer Advocate

To Java 23 and Beyond!

Brian Benz

Brian is a Java Champion and a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, helping developers get the most out of Azure.

AI-Driven Development: Enhancing Java with the latest AI Innovations

Brian Sam-Bodden

Senior Developer Advocate at Redis

LLMs and Spring: Building Smart Chat Applications with Redis

Burk Hufnagel

Solution Architect - Daugherty Business Solutions

Developer’s Guide to Test-Driven Development and Approval Testing

Chandra Guntur

Distinguished Engineer/Sr. Director, Java Champion

Apache Maven 4 is Awesome

Cody Frenzel

Solutions Architect at Ippon Technologies

Death to the Monolith

Dan Vega

Spring Developer Advocate

Spring into AI: Building Intelligent Applications with Spring AI

Dana Price

Distinguished Engineer, CTO for IBM Software Modernization

Gen AI for Java developers – one step at a time

Danica Fine

Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

Brick-by-Brick: Exploring the Elements of Apache Kafka®

Daniel Hinojosa

Independent Consultant

Architectural Design Patterns Deep Dive

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate

Navigating the Observability Landscape: From Serverful to Serverless with OpenTelemetry Journey

David Parry

Unlocking Innovation Through Expertise: David Parry, Director of Architecture

Codebase Resurrection: Revive and Refactor with AI

Denis Magda

Head of DevRel, Yugabyte

The Wild West…East, North and South: Multi-Region Java Apps in the Cloud

Dwain Sims

Solution Architect, SUSE

An Introduction to Rancher Desktop

Erin Geoghan

Head of Product Engineering – Ippon

Harmony in Innovation: Building Stronger Engineer-Product Relationships

Erin Schnabel

Distinguished Engineer, Maker of Things

Streamlining Open Source Foundation Operations with Quarkus and GitHub Actions

Freddy Guime

Principal Engineer - Expedia Group

A Million Ways to Fail in Production: Embracing Catastrophes for Fun and Profit

Gerrit Grunwald

Senior Developer Advocate at Azul Systems

Trash Talk - Exploring the memory management in the JVM

Gerrit Grunwald

Senior Developer Advocate at Azul Systems

Wargames - Java vulnerabilities and why you should care

Glenn Renfro

Spring Developer at VMware

Spring Modulith: What the what?

Hugh McKee

microservices, event-driven, event-sourcing, CQRS, Java, serverless, distributed systems,

Are Your Microservices Small Balls of Mud?

Hugo Guerrero

Sr Principal Developer Advocate

Revolutionizing API Testing and Mocking with TestContainers Modules

Jennifer Reif

Neo4j Developer Relations Engineer

Pass or Play: What does GenAI mean for the Java developer?

Jeremy Davis

Solving things, slinging opensource

Troubleshooting, Monitoring and Profiling with Java Flight Recorder, Mission Control and Cryostat

John Coyne

Expert Application Engineer

Spring off the HTTP High Dive into an Optimized Connection Pool

Jonatan Ivanov

Staff Software Engineer - Spring Engineering Team at Broadcom

A Million Ways to Fail in Production: Embracing Catastrophes for Fun and Profit

Jonathan Schneider

Co-founder @ Moderne

Fundamentals of Migration Engineering with OpenRewrite

Jonathan Vila

Developer Advocate at Sonarsource

Clean code, is it really worth it? A story of monsters, heroes and victories

Josh Long

Spring Developer Advocate, Pivotal

Spring Boot 3 Workshop

Josh Long

Spring Developer Advocate, Pivotal

Bootiful Spring Boot 3

Kevin Grigorenko

IBM Application Runtimes SWAT, Senior Software Engineer

Craft Fully Open Imperative and Reactive Cloud-Native Microservices

Marcus Hellberg

VP of Developer Relations at Vaadin

Building a custom AI chatbot with Spring Boot, React, and LangChain4j

Mo Haghighi

Distinguished Engineer

Seamless integration of Machine Learning Inference for Intelligent Edge Devices

Olga Kundzich

co-founder, Moderne

Fundamentals of Migration Engineering with OpenRewrite

Rich Hagarty

IBM Dev Advocate

Gen AI for Java developers – one step at a time

Rich Hagarty

IBM Dev Advocate

Java cloud-native shoot-out: InstantOn vs CRaC vs Native Image

Rustam Mehmandarov

Passionate computer scientist

Building data pipelines with open source

Scott Wierschem

Keep Calm and Refactor

Making Sense of Other Peoples' Code

Sharat Chander

Community First. Technology Second.

Moving Java Forward Together

Steve Poole

Director Developer Advocacy, Sonatype

Hidden security features of the JVM - everything you didn’t know and more

Theo Lebrun

Senior Data Engineer at Ippon Technologies

Build next generation Big Data applications with Delta Lake

Theresa Mammarella

Software Engineer @ IBM

Cache Me If You Can: Speed Up Your JVM With Project Valhalla

Valerie Gurka

Technology Leader and Engineering Manager

The Unseen Script: Documentation in Software Engineering

Venkat Subramaniam

Agile Developer, Inc

Cruising Along with Java: Making use of the Modern Features

Venkat Subramaniam

Agile Developer, Inc

Code Review, you said?

Viktor Gamov

Head of Developer Advocacy, StarTree

One Does Not Simply Query a Stream

Timeline

January 1
2024 Kickoff
Call for Papers, Early Bird tickets sales (first 100 only, then prices +$100), sponsor sales, scholarship program all open
January 31
CFP Close
CFP Closes
March 1
Speakers Announced!
Speakers announced, regular ticket sales
July 1
Late ticket sales
Late ticket sales, order now to get a swanky badge and tshirt
September 24
Workshop day!
JConf.dev 2024 starts with workshop day
September 25
The big show!
JConf.dev 2024 begins!