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Sharat Chander
Sharat Chander

Community First. Technology Second.

Sharat Chander has worked in the IT industry for 25 years for firms including Bell Atlantic, Verizon, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. His background and technical specialty is in Java development tools, graphics design, and product/community management. Sharat has been actively involved in the Java community for 20 years, helping drive greater Java awareness, acceptance, adoption, and advocacy. As Oracle’s director of Java Developer Engagement, Sharat served as the JavaOne conference content chairperson for 10 years, driven the technical content strategy and Java community involvement in multiple outreach channels, and continues to drive Java community loyalty program for Oracle. He is a frequent keynote speaker and participant in developer programs worldwide. Sharat holds a BS in corporate finance from the University of Maryland and an MBA in international business from Loyola College, Maryland. You can often find Sharat at global developer events and Java community meet-ups. When not growing visibility for Java, he follows his passion for baseball, actively Little League teams and fanatically following his hometown Baltimore Orioles. You can find Sharat on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Sharat_Chander

Java

Moving Java Forward Together

Modern application development is unrecognizable without Java. Rather than resting on our laurels, Oracle’s leadership continues to drive Java innovation forward. Equally important is Oracle's continuing stewardship of the Java ecosystem because without you, the community, Java doesn't move forward. The role you play is critical in ensuring Java's future for today as well as tomorrow and for the next decades ahead of us. In this session, you'll learn about the many ways YOU can help ensure Java remains the leading choice to build the future.

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!

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

Individual Conference Pass

Conference Only - September 25-26

Individual Workshop/Conference Pass

Conference + Training - September 24-26

Group (5+) Conference Pass

Conference Only - September 25-26

Group (5+) Workshop/Conference Pass

Conference + Training - September 24-26

2024 Workshops

Full-day, deep dive, hands-on workshops

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

Brian Benz
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
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

Venkat Subramaniam
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

Jonathan Schneider
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
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

Choose your ticket

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

Individual Conference Pass

Conference Only - September 25-26

Individual Workshop/Conference Pass

Conference + Training - September 24-26

Group (5+) Conference Pass

Conference Only - September 25-26

Group (5+) Workshop/Conference Pass

Conference + Training - September 24-26

Sessions

JConf.dev 2024 sessions

Many more sessions to be announced soon!

Andres Almiray
Andres Almiray

Seasoned Sourceror

Going beyond ORMs

Billy Korando
Billy Korando

Java Developer Advocate

To Java 22 and Beyond!

Brian Benz
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

Christian Mueller
Christian Mueller

AWS, Principal Solutions Architect

Java on AWS

Cody Frenzel
Cody Frenzel

Solutions Architect at Ippon Technologies

Death to the Monolith

Dan Vega
Dan Vega

Spring Developer Advocate

Spring into AI: Building Intelligent Applications with Spring AI

Danica Fine
Danica Fine

Staff Developer Advocate, Confluent

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

Daniel Hinojosa
Daniel Hinojosa

Independent Consultant

Architectural Design Patterns Deep Dive

Daniel Oh
Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate

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

David Parry
David Parry

Unlocking Innovation Through Expertise: David Parry, Director of Architecture

Codebase Resurrection: Revive and Refactor with AI

Denis Magda
Denis Magda

Head of DevRel, Yugabyte

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

Dwain Sims
Dwain Sims

Solution Architect, SUSE

An Introduction to Rancher Desktop

Emily Jiang
Emily Jiang

IBM, Cloud Native Architect and Chief Advocate

Craft Fully Open Imperative and Reactive Cloud-Native Microservices

Erin Geoghan
Erin Geoghan

Head of Product Engineering – Ippon

Harmony in Innovation: Building Stronger Engineer-Product Relationships

Freddy Guime
Freddy Guime

Principal Engineer - Expedia Group

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

Gerrit Grunwald
Gerrit Grunwald

Senior Developer Advocate at Azul Systems

Trash Talk - Exploring the memory management in the JVM

Gerrit Grunwald
Gerrit Grunwald

Senior Developer Advocate at Azul Systems

Wargames - Java vulnerabilities and why you should care

Glenn Renfro
Glenn Renfro

Spring Developer at VMware

Spring Modulith: What the what?

Hugh McKee
Hugh McKee

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

Are Your Microservices Small Balls of Mud?

Hugo Guerrero
Hugo Guerrero

Sr Principal Developer Advocate

Revolutionizing API Testing and Mocking with TestContainers Modules

Jeremy Davis
Jeremy Davis

Solving things, slinging opensource

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

Jim Bethancourt
Jim Bethancourt

Houston JUG leader & Principal Consultant at Improving

RefactorFirst: Clean Up This Mess!

Johan Hutting
Johan Hutting

Developer advocate at ING

AI developer assistance in review

Jonatan Ivanov
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
Jonathan Schneider

Co-founder @ Moderne

Fundamentals of Migration Engineering with OpenRewrite

Jonathan Vila
Jonathan Vila

Developer Advocate at Sonarsource

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

Josh Long
Josh Long

Spring Developer Advocate, Pivotal

Bootiful Spring Boot 3

Josh Long
Josh Long

Spring Developer Advocate, Pivotal

Spring Boot 3 Workshop

Marcus Hellberg
Marcus Hellberg

VP of Developer Relations at Vaadin

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

Maximilian Schellhorn
Maximilian Schellhorn

AWS, Senior Solutions Architect

Java on AWS

Olga Kundzich
Olga Kundzich

co-founder, Moderne

Fundamentals of Migration Engineering with OpenRewrite

Rich Hagarty
Rich Hagarty

IBM Dev Advocate

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

Richard Fichtner
Richard Fichtner

Principal Software Architect / CEO at XDEV Software GmbH

Java Reborn: Write Kindergarten-Code and get high-performance apps

Sharat Chander
Sharat Chander

Community First. Technology Second.

Moving Java Forward Together

Steve Poole
Steve Poole

Director Developer Advocacy, Sonatype

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

Theo Lebrun
Theo Lebrun

Senior Data Engineer at Ippon Technologies

Build next generation Big Data applications with Delta Lake

Theresa Mammarella
Theresa Mammarella

Software Engineer @ IBM

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

Timothy Spann
Timothy Spann

Principal Developer Advocate for Data in Motion @ Cloudera

Universal API Development with DataFlow

Valerie Gurka
Valerie Gurka

Technology Leader and Engineering Manager

The Unseen Script: Documentation in Software Engineering

Venkat Subramaniam
Venkat Subramaniam

Agile Developer, Inc

Cruising Along with Java: Making use of the Modern Features

Viktor Gamov
Viktor Gamov

Head of Developer Advocacy, Kong

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!

JConf.dev 2024 team

Meet the team behind the conference

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

Vincent Mayers
Vincent Mayers

Conference Organizer and Java Champion

Chandra Guntur
Chandra Guntur

Java Champion | CFP Team

Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel

Java Champion | CFP Team

Erin Schnabel
Erin Schnabel

Java Champion | CFP Team

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