All Things Java at VoxxedDays Amsterdam (#69)

On April 3rd, the first VoxxedDays event in Amsterdam took place. VoxxedDays are tech events organized by local community groups, with support from the Devoxx team. Geertjan Wielenga brought along a camera and microphone and spoke with many of the attendees.
This is the first Foojay podcast ever to feature more than 20 guests! Geertjan asked the same two questions to many of conference visitors: “Tell us who you are and what excites you about the technology landscape?” and “What are two tips or insights you’d like to share?”

As you might expect, there's a lot of talk about AI and machine learning, but you’ll also hear about new Java features, profiling, open source, security, code reviews, and much more!

00:00 Introduction
00:33 Ko Turk: VoxxedDays organization
linkedin.com/in/ko-turk-b271b929
01:34 Stephan Janssen: F ounder of Devoxx and VoxxedDays
linkedin.com/in/stephanjanssen
05:27 Lutske de Leeuw: Important new features in Java
linkedin.com/in/lutske
06:25 Johannes Bechberger: Profiling and instrumentation
linkedin.com/in/johannes-bechberger
07:03 Christian Tzolov: Spring AI and MCP
linkedin.com/in/tzolov
09:01 Tom Cools: AI, machine learning, mathematical optimization, and all the opportunities in this field.
linkedin.com/in/tom-cools-17547548
11:30 Eric-Wubbo Lameijer: Automated code analysis
linkedin.com/in/eric-wubbo-lameijer-64303013
13:02 Abraham van de Vyver: GenAI, impact on job and opensource projects
linkedin.com/in/a5r
15:01 Soham Dasgupta: Combining cloud native applications with AI, GenAI
linkedin.com/in/dasguptasoham
17:05 Josh Long: AI and its impact, MCP, role of junior developers
linkedin.com/in/joshlong
21:33 Susanne Pieterse: RAG and AI, vector search, VoxxedDays community reviewer
linkedin.com/in/susannepieterse
23:22 Brian Vermeer: Security on using LLMs and what can possibly go wrong?
linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer
24:47 Anton de Ruiter: Migrating the Dutch tax system to microservices and containers
linkedin.com/in/antonderuiter
25:32 Rafael de Lio: Redis, real-time databases
linkedin.com/in/raphaeldelio
27:55 Jonathan Stronkhorst: Spring AI
linkedin.com/in/jonathan-stronkhorst
28:29 Jos Roseboom: Encapsulation with Spring Modulith
linkedin.com/in/jos-roseboom-75508b11
29:18 Soroosh Khodami: Software supply chain security
linkedin.com/in/sorooshkhodami
30:33 Artem Makarov: Applied AI, real use cases after the hype
linkedin.com/in/artemy
31:46 Kaya Weers: Learning thanks to the community
linkedin.com/in/kayaweers
35:27 Eddy Vos: Devoxx4Kids Foundation, volunteers learning children to code
linkedin.com/in/eddyvos
38:00 Paco van Beckhoven: Improving the code review and pull request process with errorprone and openrewrite
linkedin.com/in/pacovanbeckhoven
39:30 Hanno Embregts: Using AI and GenAI in a good way
linkedin.com/in/hannotify
41:14 Martijn van Iersel: Learning through gamification, internationalization of code, unicode
linkedin.com/in/martijn-van-iersel-2314464
43:54 Charl Fasching: Impact of AI on Dev and DevOps
linkedin.com/in/charl-fasching-77843288
47:43 Joris Kuipers: Experimenting with AI to integrate in applications, learning at conferences
linkedin.com/in/jkuipers
48:48 Conclusion