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Stop just watching. Start engaging.💡 @venkat_s & @prpatel know that in-person conferences trigger ideas you won't get anywhere else. Get inspired at #ArcofAI this month! 🚀Check out the schedule & get tickets: arcofai.com 📅 April 13 - 16 | Austin #AI #Conference

"What if you don’t train your people and they stay?" 🤔 @venkat_s highlights the real risk of tech stagnation with @prpatel. In-person at #ArcOfAI, your team gets the recharge they need to come back and solve problems better. 🔋 Invest in your team: arcofai.com

Inside the inaugural Advantage AI Leadership Summit 🤖 @prpatel, from @AzulSystems speaking to a packed room of tech leaders about what it truly means to be AI-native, in his session- AI Architecture for Tech Leaders: Building Blocks for AI Applications. This is where AI strategy gets serious! aileaders.devnexus.com #AI #AINative #TechLeaders #AdvantageSummit #GenAI #Leadership #Atlanta

The Great Robot Revolution might be coming.🤖 Good thing AI still has weaknesses. 🔥 KEYNOTE at #Devnexus: @GantLaborde from @infinite_red shows how machines can be manipulated—and how developers can stay ahead. devnexus.com/events/hacking-… 🎟️ Get tickets: devnexus.com ✉️ Stay up to date: atlj.ug/Xconnect #AI #MachineLearning #CyberSecurity #AIEthics #SoftwareEngineering #TechConference #ArtificialIntelligence

The creator of Spring Framework, @springrod, is LIVE at ADVANTAGE: The AI Leadership Summit! 🚀 Learn how to choose the right language, stack, and framework for enterprise AI success, including LLMs, existing business logic, and real-world production patterns. Learn from the mind that shaped modern Java. aileaders.devnexus.com/sessi… 🎟️ Get tickets: advantage.devnexus.com ✉️ Sign up to keep up to date with all the conference info atlj.ug/Xconnect #Java #SpringFramework #EnterpriseAI #GenerativeAI #AIEngineering #TechLeadership #DevCommunity #ADVANTAGESummit #AILeadership #AI

🚀 ADVANTAGE: The AI Leadership Summit — The premier gathering for tech leaders ready to move from AI hype to practical impact. Join industry leaders as they share strategies, frameworks, and real-world examples for embedding AI across your organization, your products, and your teams. Meet the speakers and sessions: @springrod — Language Stacks and Gen AI @daviddryparry — Shift to Agentic Software Engineering Dennis Ruzeski — From Concept to Platform: Building Hivemindd with AI at the Core Laurie Lay — The Journey Awaits: Accelerating AI Tool Adoption with GitHub Copilot @prpatel — AI Architecture for Tech Leaders: Building Blocks for AI Applications @frankgreco — A Leader’s Playbook for AI @kenkousen — Managing Your AI-Driven Manager @travisjgosselin — AI Enablement in the SDLC: A Strategy Sampler 💡 Gain practical insights on: AI strategy, architecture, tool adoption, agentic development, and building AI into real systems. 📅 Date: March 4 📍 Location: Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA 🔗 Learn more and get tickets: aileaders.devnexus.com #AILeadership #TechLeadership #EnterpriseAI #AgenticAI #AIDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #AIArchitecture #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #Devnexus #CTO #CIO #VPofEngineering

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🚀 Big Data meets AI—powered by Iceberg, Spark & LLMs At #ArcOfAI, @prpatel shows how to build a real architecture that lets users query massive datasets with natural language—no dashboards, no SQL, just questions & insights. arcofai.com/speaker/1c241471… 🎟️ arcofai.com

🚀 ADVANTAGE: The AI Leadership Summit — The premier gathering for tech leaders ready to move from AI hype to practical impact. Join industry leaders as they share strategies, frameworks, and real-world examples for embedding AI across your organization, your products, and your teams. Meet the speakers and sessions: @springrod — Language Stacks and Gen AI @daviddryparry — Shift to Agentic Software Engineering Dennis Ruzeski — From Concept to Platform: Building Hivemindd with AI at the Core Laurie Lay — The Journey Awaits: Accelerating AI Tool Adoption with GitHub Copilot @prpatel — AI Architecture for Tech Leaders: Building Blocks for AI Applications @frankgreco — A Leader’s Playbook for AI @kenkousen — Managing Your AI-Driven Manager @travisjgosselin — AI Enablement in the SDLC: A Strategy Sampler 💡 Gain practical insights on: AI strategy, architecture, tool adoption, agentic development, and building AI into real systems. 📅 Date: March 4 📍 Location: Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA 🔗 Learn more and get tickets: aileaders.devnexus.com #AILeadership #TechLeadership #EnterpriseAI #AgenticAI #AIDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #AIArchitecture #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #Devnexus #CTO #CIO #VPofEngineering

How do you adopt AI in your organization without leaking sensitive data or overspending on infrastructure? 🔐 At ADVANTAGE: The AI Leadership Summit, @prpatel from @AzulSystems will guide tech leaders through practical approaches for building AI responsibly and efficiently. Learn how to implement guardrails, make informed infrastructure and deployment choices, and understand the difference between AI-enhanced systems and AI-first applications built from the ground up. This session is ideal for VPs of Engineering, Software Managers, and Team Leads looking to bridge strategy and execution in AI projects. Walk away with actionable insights to make AI adoption safer, smarter, and aligned with your business goals. 🔗 Session details: aileaders.devnexus.com/sessi… 🎟️ Get tickets: aileaders.devnexus.com ✉️ Stay up to date with all of the conference news: atlj.ug/Xconnect #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TechLeadership #AILeadership #AIGovernance #EnterpriseAI #Devnexus #AIArchitecture #DataPrivacy #Innovation #SoftwareEngineering #GenAI

🙋‍♀️ who is joining for the @ljcjug and @virtualJUG connect session all about AI and modern #java? Session 1: Bootiful Spring AI with @starbuxman Session 2: AI Native Architecture for Java Applications with @prpatel Virtual: luma.com/rzz21xzj IRL: bit.ly/3ZeQWvi

Java hasn’t stood still — and neither should you. ☕➡️🚀 Join @venkat_s at #Devnexus for a hands-on workshop cruising through Java 9 → 25, exploring modern syntax, semantics, and performance under the hood. 🔗 devnexus.com/events/cruising… 🎟️ Get tickets: devnexus.com ✉️ Sign up to keep up to date with all the conference info atlj.ug/Xconnect #Java #ModernJava #JVM #JavaDevelopers #SoftwareArchitecture #Devnexus #TechConference #Programming #EnterpriseJava

🤖 Introducing the Devnexus Generative AI Track Generative AI is moving fast — and it’s becoming a real part of how modern software is built. The Generative AI Track at Devnexus is designed for developers and architects who want practical, production-focused guidance on applying GenAI, from agents and MCP to RAG and Java-based systems. 💥 Here’s what’s coming in the Generative AI Track: • Agents, Tools, and MCP, oh my! Next-level AI concepts for developers — @JMHReif, from @neo4j • 10 Tools & Tips to Upgrade Your Legacy Code with GenAI — @siliconvini & Jonathan Vogel from @AWS • Building AI Agents with Spring & MCP — @starbuxman, from @Broadcom & @JamesWard, from AWS • From Monolith to AI Agent: Modernizing Java Systems with MCP — @falydoor, from @IpponUSA • Architecting Microservices for Agentic AI Integration — @rbhardwaj1, from @salesforce • GenAI for Supply Chain at Apple using RAG — Varsha Venkatesh, from @Apple • Integrating LLMs in Java: A Practical Guide to Model Context Protocol — @therealdanvega, from Broadcom • From Context Windows to Context Graphs: The Next Generation of AI Systems — Srijani Dey & @medhac6, from @BlackRock • Choose your fighter: Spring AI vs LangChain4j — Malavika Balamurali This is one of 11 tracks at Devnexus, designed for engineers who want to build with GenAI confidently and stay ahead as AI becomes core to modern software development. devnexus.com/schedule/ai 🚀 Don’t just experiment with AI — engineer it into your systems. 👉 Secure your ticket: devnexus.com Sign up to stay up to date with all conference news: atlj.ug/fbConnect #Devnexus #GenerativeAI #AIEngineering #Java #SpringAI #LangChain4j #SoftwareArchitecture #DevCommunity #TechConference #AI #GenAI

AI enablement isn’t a tool—it’s an operating model. ⚙️ At ADVANTAGE @travisjgosselin from @SPS_Commerce shares real-world lessons on embedding AI across the SDLC with guardrails, workflows, and metrics that scale. 🔗 aileaders.devnexus.com/sessi… 🎟️ Tickets: aileaders.devnexus.com

Online learning has a "pause" button, but it doesn't have a hallway track. ⏸️❌ As @venkat_s says, #Devnexus is about the people. You can watch a video anywhere, but you can’t replicate the unscripted magic of a deep-dive conversation with a peer over coffee. ☕ Get away from the screen and into the community! Check out the schedule: devnexus.com/schedule 🎟️ Tickets: devnexus.com ✉️ Sign up to stay up to date with all conference news: atlj.ug/Xconnect #Java #Cloud #AI #TechLeadership #Security #SoftwareDevelopment #Community #Atlanta #HallwayTrack

The creator of Spring Framework, @springrod, is LIVE at ADVANTAGE: The AI Leadership Summit! 🚀 Learn how to choose the right language, stack, and framework for enterprise AI success, including LLMs, existing business logic, and real-world production patterns. Learn from the mind that shaped modern Java. aileaders.devnexus.com/sessi… 🎟️ Get tickets: advantage.devnexus.com ✉️ Sign up to keep up to date with all the conference info atlj.ug/Xconnect #Java #SpringFramework #EnterpriseAI #GenerativeAI #AIEngineering #TechLeadership #DevCommunity #ADVANTAGESummit #AILeadership #AI

☕ Introducing the Devnexus Core Java Track Java keeps evolving—but mastering it means knowing what’s under the hood. The Core Java Track at Devnexus dives into the JVM, modern Java features, performance tuning, testing, and how Java really runs in production. Here’s what’s coming in the Core Java Track: • To Java 26 and Beyond! — @billykorando, from @oracle • JUnit 6 Exploring the Testing Ecosystem — @jeanneboyarsky, from Code Ranch • Java Performance: Beyond Simple Request Latencies — @Jceccarelli1 & @speakjava, from @AzulSystems • Beyond Default Settings: Optimizing Java on K8s with AI-Driven Performance Tuning — @stef3a, from @AkamasLabs • Peek Inside Production JVMs for Full Insights — @brunoborges, from @Microsoft • The OffHeap Podcast: Devnexus Edition (Now with AI Agents) — Freddy Guime • Scotty, I Need Warp Speed: Ways to Improve JVM Startup — @hansolo_, from Azul • The Self-Cleaning Castle: How Garbage Collection Works in Java — Renette Ros, from @Entelect • Just-in-Time Compilation Isn’t Magic — @dougqh, from @datadoghq • Java’s Asynchronous Ecosystem — Daniel Hinojosa • Zero to C-Speed with Only Java — @David_Vlijmincx, from @JPoint This is one of 11 tracks at Devnexus, built for engineers who care about performance, correctness, and the long-term evolution of Java. 🚀 Don’t just write Java — understand how it works at its core. 👉 Secure your ticket and sharpen the Java skills that power production systems. devnexus.com Sign up to stay up to date with all conference news: atlj.ug/Xconnect #Devnexus #CoreJava #Java #JVM #JavaDevelopers #SoftwareEngineering #PerformanceEngineering #CloudNative #Kubernetes #TechConference #DevCommunity

CTOs and tech leaders face tough AI questions every day. ADVANTAGE, The AI Leadership Summit delivers practical strategies for deploying, governing, and scaling AI — without hype, and with confidence you can take back to your org. 🎟️ Secure tickets today - aileaders.devnexus.com ✉️ Sign up to keep up to date with all of the conference info: atlj.ug/Xconnect #TechLeader #TechLeadership #AI ##AILeadership #Java #Cloud #Architecture #SoftwareDevelopment #AILeader #Devnexus

Get ready! The release of the Java Track This year, the community (reviewers and JUG attendees) asked for sessions that are practical, solve real problems, and still bring a sense of fun. From exploring new Java features to solving production performance problems, all the way to learning how to write truly bad code. You definitely don’t want to miss these sessions 😄 🔹 Gearing up to Java 25: Key Language Features — @venkat_s 🔹 Tracing Java Performance Bottlenecks — @VictorRentea 🔹 10 Things I Hate About Java — @iam_carpenter 🔹 Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values: Putting it all together — @BalaRawool 🔹 Spring Boot in the Cloud: Advanced Optimization Deep Dive — @patbaumgartner 🔹 Java 25 in Production: Memory Dieting to Tame Latency and Garbage Collection — Manish Askani 🔹 How to Write Bad Java Code — @prpatel 🔹 Early returns from outer space (in Kotlin) — @trupill 🔹 The record: migrate to immutability — @JohanHutting Explore the full schedule: 👉 m.devoxx.com/events/vdams26/… 🎟️ And get your early bird ticket (times ticking) 👉 amsterdam.voxxeddays.com/#ti… The Java track is shaped by the (50 ) community reviewers, the CFP board (@MaritvanDijk77 , @wilcoburggraaf , Simone de Gijt, @KayaWeers @jlengrand @MichelSchudel @iamsoham @KoTurk77 ) and track lead @Sander_Mak #vdams26 @triforkams @AzulSystems @jetbrains @42talents @ingnl @picnic