10:30 AM–10:50 AM
Tech Talk
Java on Kubernetes Without Container Images: The WebAssembly Way
Bruno Borges
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
Schedule notes: Tech Talk details below are based on the list provided. Mentoring times, titles, speakers, and session codes are updated from the full list provided. Breakout session details are transcribed from the full list provided. The AJUG theater session was supplied with an 11:30 AM–12:00 PM slot (30 minutes), unlike most 20-minute talks; that duration is preserved as provided. Confirm last-minute changes in the IBM conference app.
MentoringBreakoutTech Talk
Tuesday, October 27 · 24 sessions
10:30 AM–11:15 AM
Breakout
A Modern Introduction to Serialisation in Java 26 [TEC-4876]
Steve Poole
B315, Level 3, Building B
10:30 AM–11:15 AM
Breakout
Who moved my (Java) Heap? AI, CLIs and Libraries to the rescue! [TEC-4962]
Chandra Guntur; Don Raab
B316, Level 3, Building B
11:00 AM–11:20 AM
Tech Talk
Steering a Coding Agent Toward Quarkus Best Practices
Elder Moraes; Luis Fabricio De Llamas
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Mentoring
Have You Considered Contributing to Jakarta EE? [MTE-4888]
Reza Rahman
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Tech Talk
Growing Big Ideas from Local Roots With AJUG
Glenn Renfro
Theater, User Group Pavilion, Sandbox
11:45 AM–12:30 PM
Breakout
Adding AI to Enterprise Java Without Rewriting the Application [TEC-4881]
Brian Benz
B316, Level 3, Building B
11:45 AM–12:30 PM
Breakout
Debugging in the AI Era: Tools, Techniques, and Mindset [TEC-4880]
Bhupendra Mishra
B315, Level 3, Building B
12:00 PM–12:20 PM
Tech Talk
How DDD Gives AI Assistants the Context They're Missing
Oliver Ernesto Sierra Pac
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
12:30 PM–1:00 PM
Mentoring
Beyond Borders - Connecting Technology, Industry & Global Careers [MTE-4883]
Fabiana Piazza
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
1:00 PM–1:20 PM
Tech Talk
Beyond SEO: Optimizing Your Web Content for the Age of AI
Nerando Johnson
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
1:30 PM–2:00 PM
Mentoring
From Code to Context - The Future of Technical Leadership [MTE-4886]
Bhupendra Mishra
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
1:30 PM–2:15 PM
Breakout
Java's Evolution: How Java is Quietly Transforming Itself for the AI era [TEC-4871]
Vijay Sundaresan; V. Krishna Nandivada
B315, Level 3, Building B
1:30 PM–2:15 PM
Breakout
Java-Native AI on IBM Semeru: High-Performance AI with OpenJ9, CUDA and the Vector API [TEC-4885]
Zoran Sevarac
B316, Level 3, Building B
2:00 PM–2:20 PM
Tech Talk
Seven Ways You Can Build an Amazing Dev Career in the AI Era
@brjavaman Souza; Karina Souza
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
2:30 PM–3:00 PM
Mentoring
What Is My Java Expertise Worth in an AI World? [MTE-4879]
Ari Waller
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
2:45 PM–3:30 PM
Breakout
Free Isn’t Free: Moving From Open Source Abuse to Alignment [TEC-4889]
Brian Fox
B315, Level 3, Building B
2:45 PM–3:30 PM
Breakout
The Jakarta Agentic AI Specification - Status and Future [TEC-4890]
Reza Rahman
B316, Level 3, Building B
3:00 PM–3:20 PM
Tech Talk
Building Scalable Multi-Agentic AI Systems in Java: Orchestrating Agents with Event-Driven Approach
Mary Grygleski
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
3:30 PM–4:00 PM
Mentoring
From Coding to Leading - Learning to Focus on Different Kinds of Problems [MTE-4892]
Mark Stoodley
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
4:00 PM–4:20 PM
Tech Talk
Customized Jakarta Bean Validators
Scott Sosna
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
4:00 PM–4:45 PM
Breakout
Expect the Unexpected: Handling Exceptions in Enterprise Applications [TEC-4895]
Kito Mann
B316, Level 3, Building B
4:00 PM–4:45 PM
Breakout
Of Microservices and Monoliths [TEC-4894]
Spencer Gibb
B315, Level 3, Building B
4:30 PM–4:50 PM
Tech Talk
Java NIO Deep Dive: Building a File System on Neo4J
Scott Sosna
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
Wednesday, October 28 · 23 sessions
10:30 AM–11:00 AM
Mentoring
AI is NOT Replacing Human Developers [MTE-4899]
Mary Grygleski
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
10:30 AM–11:15 AM
Breakout
JCON Panel: Has AI Broken Application Security Forever? [TEC-4898]
Steve Poole; Zoran Sevarac; Brian Fox; Micah Silverman; Dan de Silva
B316, Level 3, Building B
10:30 AM–11:15 AM
Breakout
Scotty I Need Warp Speed - Ways to Improve the JVM Startup/Warmup [TEC-4897]
Gerrit Grunwald
B315, Level 3, Building B
11:00 AM–11:20 AM
Tech Talk
TODO or not TODO
Kito Mann
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
11:30 AM–12:00 PM
Mentoring
Beyond Senior Dev - The Next Steps for The Technical Career [MTE-4901]
@brjavaman Souza
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
11:45 AM–12:30 PM
Breakout
AI Security Engineer Foundations: OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications [TEC-4902]
Micah Silverman
B316, Level 3, Building B
11:45 AM–12:30 PM
Breakout
AI in Java: No Python Required [TEC-4870]
Emily Jiang; Ivar Grimstad
B315, Level 3, Building B
12:00 PM–12:20 PM
Tech Talk
Learning Java When AI Is Your Pair Programmer
Jennifer Reif
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
12:30 PM–1:00 PM
Mentoring
AI Adoption Clinic - From Experiments to Engineering Capability [MTE-4904]
Luis Fabricio De Llamas
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
1:00 PM–1:20 PM
Tech Talk
Is Java a statically or dynamically compiled language? Get the best of both with static analysis
Vijay Sundaresan; V. Krishna Nandivada
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
1:30 PM–2:00 PM
Mentoring
Giving Coding Agents a Real Dev Environment [MTE-4907]
Jonathan Putney
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
1:30 PM–2:15 PM
Breakout
Beyond Code: The Intent-Driven IDE for the Agentic Age [TEC-4906]
Bruno Borges
B316, Level 3, Building B
1:30 PM–2:15 PM
Breakout
Treat Your Build Like Prod. Attackers Already Do. [TEC-4905]
Brian Demers
B315, Level 3, Building B
2:00 PM–2:20 PM
Tech Talk
Reviewing AI-Written Java: Coding Assistants and a CI Gate
Brian Benz
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
2:30 PM–3:00 PM
Mentoring
FIRST - How to Start Something Without Waiting for Permission [MTE-4909]
Alexandra Arguello Saenz
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
2:45 PM–3:30 PM
Breakout
Big Data and AI Architecture: Apache Iceberg, Spark and LLMs [TEC-4910]
Pratik Patel
B315, Level 3, Building B
2:45 PM–3:30 PM
Breakout
Getting the most out of the Semeru Runtimes JDK [TEC-4875]
Mark Stoodley
B316, Level 3, Building B
3:00 PM–3:20 PM
Tech Talk
The Reputation Formula: Turbocharge Your Developer Career
@brjavaman Souza
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
3:30 PM–4:00 PM
Mentoring
Get Started with Open Source - and What's AI Got to Do with It? [MTE-4912]
Ivar Grimstad
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
4:00 PM–4:20 PM
Tech Talk
The Lauda Question: What Separates the Top 5% of AI-Era Java Engineers
Silvio de Morais
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
4:00 PM–4:45 PM
Breakout
My children will never deploy active-passive [TEC-4915]
DaShaun Carter
B316, Level 3, Building B
4:00 PM–4:45 PM
Breakout
One Tool Call Doesn’t Make an Agent: Building Real Agentic Workflows in Java [TEC-4914]
Jennifer Reif
B315, Level 3, Building B
4:30 PM–4:50 PM
Tech Talk
What Is My Java Expertise Worth in an AI World?
Ari Waller
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
Thursday, October 29 · 10 sessions
9:00 AM–9:20 AM
Tech Talk
Why AI Agents Struggle With Your Java Web App
Alexandra Arguello Saenz
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
9:00 AM–9:30 AM
Mentoring
Grow Your Dev Career Building Visibility in the Java Community [MTE-4917]
Luiz Real
JCON Hub | 370, Sandbox
9:00 AM–9:45 AM
Breakout
AI Agents Need the Engineering Java Already Has [TEC-4873]
Elder Moraes; Luis Fabricio De Llamas
B316, Level 3, Building B
9:30 AM–9:50 AM
Tech Talk
What xz should have taught us (and didn’t)
Brian Demers
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
10:00 AM–10:20 AM
Tech Talk
rm -rf self-doubt: Debugging Impostor Syndrome for Developers
Vincent Mayers
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
10:15 AM–11:00 AM
Breakout
Building Observable Java Apps that Scale with Quarkus [TEC-4920]
Thiago Gonzaga
B316, Level 3, Building B
10:15 AM–11:00 AM
Breakout
People-First Software Engineering: 10x Your Team's Delivery with AI Agents [TEC-4919]
Luiz Real
B315, Level 3, Building B
10:30 AM–10:50 AM
Tech Talk
How Old Is Your Code?
Steve Poole
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
11:00 AM–11:20 AM
Tech Talk
Refactoring the ROI of Software: Lessons from the Frontlines of OpenRewrite Adoption
DaShaun Carter
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox
11:30 AM–11:50 AM
Tech Talk
AI Security Engineer Foundations: Addressing Shadow AI
Micah Silverman
Tech Talk 05 | 371, JCON Hub, Sandbox