A community Java conference is coming to Chicago!

September 26 - 28, 2022

Venue: Dorin Forum, University of Illinois - Chicago



Java · Cloud · JVM Languages · Big Data


DEEP. DISH. JAVA.


Registration

Registration is now open!

Additional $50 discount (or more for large groups, email hello@connectevents.io) for group tickets!

Individual Conference

Conference Only September 27-28

Workshop and Conference Combo

Conf + Workshop September 26-28

Foojay Day add-on ticket (extra full day of sessions, September 26)

Add-on ticket with purchase of either above ticket

$100 $50
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Tracks: 5

5 tracks with experts from our local and global Java community

Sessions: 50+

50+ in-depth sessions and 2 awesome keynotes

Workshops: 5

Get hands-on learning with workshops from professional trainers on Sept 26


Join us for Foojay Day on Sept 26

Foojay Day will be a day of single track sessions from Friends of OpenJDK (aka Foojay) as an add-on ticket.

Please note that Foojay Day is on September 26, the same day as workshops, and is an add-on ticket for the main conference ($50).

Keynote by Venkat Subramaniam on "The New Excitement Around The Good Old Java"

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Full Day Hands-on Workshops

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Registration

Additional $50 discount (or more for large groups, email hello@connectevents.io) for group tickets!

Individual Conference

Conference Only September 27-28

Workshop and Conference Combo

Conf + Workshop September 26-28

Foojay Day add-on ticket (extra full day of sessions, September 26)

Add-on ticket with purchase of either above ticket

$100 $50
Click here to register

Schedule

Time in CST


September 26th 2022






September 27th 2022


TimeMain Room (Java)D (Cloud)F (Practices)G (JVM Platform)H (Misc)
09:00
Be ‘Mr. Miyagi’ or find one!
Kelly Jille
10:00
Java to the Future!
Billy Korando
Race between pair programming tools
Kaya Weers
Maven Puzzlers
Andres Almiray
Ixchel Ruiz
Fast JVM startup with Checkpoint and Restore
Tobi Ajila
The Mechanics of Metrics: Aggregation across Dimensions
Erin Schnabel
11:00
Morning Break
11:15
How Java Litters Beyond the Heap (And What We Can Do About That)
Denis Magda
From Zero to Hero in Kubernetes Native Java
Daniel Oh
Demystifying DevOps and CI/CD
Jeremy Meiss
Developing Gradle Plugins
John Burns
Five Challenges in Real-time Stream Processing and Five Solutions
Fawaz Ghali
12:15
Lunch
13:15
Generics in adulthood
Saleem Siddiqui
Building an E-commerce Service Backend with NoSQL
Mary Grygleski
Rags Srinivas
Aaron Ploetz
What the CRaC - Superfast JVM startup
Gerrit Grunwald
Jakarta EE and MicroProfile Highlights
Josh Juneau
Edwin Derks
Apache Pulsar Development 101 with Java
Timothy Spann
14:15
Better, Stronger, Faster Java in the Cloud
Jarek Gawor
Tobi Ajila
Learn Kubernetes the Java way
Oleg Šelajev
Progressive Delivery in the Kubernetes era
Alex Soto
Java 19's Project Panama 4 Newbies - A brief introduction to the foreign functio...
Carl Dea
Dapr: Dinosaur or Developer's Dream?
Maarten Mulders
15:15
Afternoon Break
15:45
Loom Virtual Threads in the JDK 19
José Paumard
Enterprise Observability with OpenTelemetry
Christopher Judd
Natural Language Processing in Java
Summers Pittman
Easy Java Integration testing with Testcontainers
Fabio Turizo
Pouring Coffee into the Matrix - Building Java Applications on Neo4j
Jennifer Reif
16:45
You Have More Power Than You Think: Influence and Persuasion Tools Every Technol...
Randy Dojutrek
17:30
Conf Reception




September 28th 2022


TimeMain Room (Java)D (Cloud)F (Practices)G (JVM Platform)H (Misc)
09:00
A Journey to K8s: Patterns and Experiences
Charles Lambert
10:00
Making the move to Java 17
Alex Motley
Cindy High
How Do I Build Thee? Let Me Count The Ways!
Melissa McKay
Mastering Testcontainers for better integration tests
Oleg Šelajev
Jakarta EE 10 - Simplicity for Modern and Lighweight Cloud Applications
Ivar Grimstad
Java meets TypeScript: building modern web apps with full-stack type safety
Marcus Hellberg
11:00
Morning Breaj
11:15
Security Vulnerabilities for Java Developers
Brian Demers
On a Hunt for the Traces of the Next Step in IT Evolution: History, Fundamentals...
Benjamin Nothdurft
All about dependencies
Ixchel Ruiz
Spring Cloud Stream Past, Present, and Future.
Glenn Renfro
Taking off With JDK Flight Recorder
Billy Korando
12:15
Lunch
13:15
Relook at Microservices
Emily Jiang
All Paths Lead to Production: A Fast Paced Guide to delivering Spring Boot Apps ...
Mark Heckler
Measuring Software Craftsmanship
Ben Scott
Welcome to Kotlin!
Justin Lee
Building data pipelines with open source
Rustam Mehmandarov
14:15
5 Tips to Create Secure Docker Containers for Java Developers
Brian Vermeer
The DevOps Chronicles: Kubifying Java apps with Dekorate.io
Ana Maria Mihalceanu
The Secret Life of Maven Central
Steve Poole
Save time and the planet 🌎 with serverless Quarkus!
Josh Gavant
API Security & Observability Standardization - A full circle of tools to shift l...
John Coyne
George Mitry
15:15
Afternoon Break
15:35
Git - Beyond Just Committing
Dwayne McDaniel
The (Not So Subtle) price of Microservices
Freddy Guime
Dependency Management in a Complex World
Roberto Perez Alcolea
How your Friendly Neighbourhood JDK Protects You
Theresa Mammarella
TBD
16:35
Conf Closing and Mega Raffle!







Speakers

Timeline

2022 Kickoff

Call for Papers, super early bird ticket sales, sponsor sales, scholarship program all open

June 12

CFP Close

CFP Closes (but submit early!) Early bird tickets sales

July 5

Speakers & Workshops Announced!

Speakers announced

July 12

Late ticket sales

Late ticket sales, order now to get a swanky badge and tshirt

September 1

Workshop day!

Jconf.dev starts with workshop day

September 26

The big show!

Jconf.dev begins!

September 27

Conference Info



Location

Dorin Forum, UIC, located near downtown and the L, with free parking!
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Code Of Conduct

All participants are expected to follow the code of conduct

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Hilton Garden Inn South Loop

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Conference Team


Java Champion and Conference Chairperson
Vincent Mayers
Conf team - Chicago JUG and Java Champion
Mary Grygleski
Conf team - Chicago JUG and Java Champion
Bob Paulin
Conf team - NYJavaSIG and Java Champion
Chandra Guntur
Conf team - Java Champion
Pratik Patel
Conf team - Sr Director, Java Product Management & Develope...
Sharat Chander
Conf team - Java Champion
Ana Maria Mihalceanu

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