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Jennifer Reif
Jennifer Reif

Neo4j Developer Relations Engineer

Jennifer Reif is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j, speaker, and blogger with an MS in CMIS. An avid developer and problem-solver, she has worked with many businesses and projects to organize and make sense of widespread data assets and leverage them for maximum business value. She has expertise in a variety of commercial and open source tools, and she enjoys learning new technologies, sometimes on a daily basis! Her passion is finding ways to organize chaos and deliver software more effectively.

Java

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

GenAI, LLM, and other buzzwords are everywhere. The sea of acronyms can feel like (and sometimes actually are) a black box for the complex logic and processes that underpin them. Does/should a Java developer care? In this session, we’ll explore how these technologies operate and cover many of the technical terms that go along with them, such as hallucinations, grounding, and more. We will understand the abilities GenAI can provide to technical solutions alongside some of the struggles they bring, as well. Live-code examples will show how Java developers can utilize GenAI and help determine whether they are worth the hype. Come see if you should pass or play on GenAI.

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

LONE. STAR. JAVA.

A community Java conference is coming to Dallas!
A two or 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!

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Ticket fee includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, drinks, conference reception, tshirts, and entry into our mega raffle prizes and more!

Late Individual Conference Pass

Conference Only - September 25-26

Late Individual Workshop/Conference Pass

Conference + Training - September 24-26

Late Group (5+) Conference Pass

Conference Only - September 25-26

Late Group (5+) Workshop/Conference Pass

Conference + Training - September 24-26

Schedule

Tuesday, September 24

Wednesday, September 25

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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

Code Quality in the AI era, needed more than ever

Jonathan Vila

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

Marcus Hellberg

TBD

11:00 AM

Morning Break

11:30 AM

Let’s Set the Records Straight

Venkat Subramaniam

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
12:30 AM

Lunch

1:30 PM

To Java 23 and Beyond!

Billy Korando

Harmony in Innovation: Building Stronger Engineer-Product Relationships

Erin Geoghan

Streamlining Open Source Foundation Operations with Quarkus and GitHub Actions

Erin Schnabel

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

Burk Hufnagel
2:30 PM

Afternoon Break

3:00 PM

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

Rich Hagarty

One Does Not Simply Query a Stream

Viktor Gamov

Spring into AI: Building Intelligent Applications with Spring AI

Dan Vega

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

Daniel Oh
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
5:00 PM

Moving Java Forward Together

Sharat Chander
5:30 PM

Conference Reception

Thursday, September 26

2024 Workshops

Full-day, deep dive, hands-on workshops

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

Choose your ticket

Ticket fee includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, drinks, conference reception, tshirts, and entry into our mega raffle prizes and more!

Late Individual Conference Pass

Conference Only - September 25-26

Late Individual Workshop/Conference Pass

Conference + Training - September 24-26

Late Group (5+) Conference Pass

Conference Only - September 25-26

Late Group (5+) Workshop/Conference Pass

Conference + Training - September 24-26

Sessions

JConf.dev 2024 sessions

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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!

JConf.dev 2024 team

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