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dev2next 2026

dev2next is the premier conference designed for software developers, architects, technology leaders, development managers, and directors. The event explores cutting-edge strategies, tools, and essential practices for building powerful applications, focusing on the latest trends and industry best practices. Attendees will gain exclusive insights from industry…

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50Speakers
21Sponsors
9On the bill · sessions
55Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at dev2next, in alphabetical order.
Andrew Igdal
PhD Candidate, Energy Policy · LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin
Ayan Gupta
Cloud Advocate · Microsoft
Barry Burd
Professor · Drew University
Bhupendra Mishra
Sr Staff Software Engineer · SiriusXM
Brent Laster
President and Lead Trainer · Tech Skills Transformations LLC
Cedric Clyburn
Senior Developer Advocate · Red Hat
Chetan Galgali
Architect Sr · Insight Enterprise
Craig Walls
Prinicipal Engineer · habuma.com
Daniel Hinojosa
Developer and Consultant · evolutionnext.com
Daniel Steinberg
Storyteller · Dim Sum Thinking
Dan Vega
Spring Developer Advocate · Broadcom
David Parry
Principal Architect · Qodo
Deepti Mittal
Principal engineer · Mimecast
Dwayne McDaniel
Principal Developer Advocate · GitGuardian
Eric Deandrea
Java Champion | Sr. Principal Software Engineer · IBM
Eyal Wirsansky
Staff AI Engineer · Aingelz Inc.
Garima Agarwal
DevOps Engineer II · Bank of America
Glenn Renfro
Staff Engineer · AJUG/Devnexus
Ivar Grimstad
Jakarta EE Developer Advocate · Eclipse Foundation
John Burns
Sr. Software Engineer · Netflix
Jonathan Johnson
Independent Software Engineer · Dijure, LLC
Josh Cummings
Spring Security Maintainer · Spring
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Agile Developer, Inc.Sustainability Supporter
AI Coding & CloudCommunity Supporter
Barranquilla JUGCommunity Supporter
BellSoftSustainability Supporter
Boston Java Users ACM ChapterCommunity Supporter
Boulder JUGCommunity Supporter
ChronomillSustainability Supporter
ConfluentSustainability Supporter
Denver JUGCommunity Supporter
Eclipse FoundationSustainability Supporter
Garden State JUGCommunity Supporter
GitGuardianSustainability Supporter
Insight EnterprisesSustainability Supporter
Java Metroplex User Group (JavaMUG)Community Supporter
NetflixSustainability Supporter
Orlando JUGCommunity Supporter
QodoSustainability Supporter
Red HatSustainability Supporter
Software MillSustainability Supporter
Tampa JUGCommunity Supporter
Utah JUGCommunity Supporter
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Agenda

Selected from 9 sessions on the bill.
  • October 12, 7:00-7:30PM

    Welcome to dev2next

    Welcome to the conference.

    Agility
  • October 12, 7:30-8:30PM

    Why does Yesterday's Best Practice become Tomorrow's Anti-pattern?

    Software development exhibits a curious trend: yesterday’s best practice becomes tomorrow’s antipattern. Why? EJB and SOA were once Best Practices, now shunned as anti-patterns. Th…

    Architecture
  • October 12, 9:00-5:00PM

    Asynchronous Programming in Java: From Callbacks, to Completable Futures, to Virtual Threads

    Languages like Java, C#, and C++ predominantly focused on multithreading whereas some languages including JavaScript kept their eyes on asynchronous programming. As it turns out, w…

    Polyglot Programming
  • October 12, 9:00-5:00PM

    Building an Agentic AI System on Kubernetes

    Most AI orchestration frameworks ignore infrastructure. Kubernetes doesn't. In this full-day workshop, you'll build a multi-agent AI system using Kubemoot, an open-source Kubernete…

    DevOps
  • October 12, 9:00-5:00PM

    Designing Distributed Systems

    Software architects have no clean, easy decisions: everything is a terrible tradeoff. Architecture has lots of difficult problems, which this platform-agnostic class highlights by …

    Architecture
  • October 12, 9:00-5:00PM

    Fundamentals of Software Engineering In the age of AI

    Agentic coding assistants and editor based AI chat interfaces are altering the development workflow leading some to proclaim the end of software engineering. Is it time to explore …

    Current Trends
  • October 12, 9:00-5:00PM

    The Event Sourcing Mindshift: A Hands-On Workshop

    You finally have a Domain Model that represents the business and supports the functionality of the system. Then the hard part: how do you persist that model to a relational databas…

    Architecture
  • October 12, 9:00-5:00PM

    The Hands of AI: Building Agent Tools with MCP and CLIs

    AI agents become useful when they can act. They need tools: ways to inspect code, run tests, query systems, retrieve context, open tickets, call APIs, summarize logs, and perform c…

    Current Trends
  • October 12, 9:00-5:00PM

    Visualising software architecture with the C4 model

    It's very likely that the majority of the software architecture diagrams you've seen are a confused mess of boxes and lines, irrespective of whether they were created by humans or …

    Architecture
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 55 companies show up, and 11 bet on three roles at once?

55 companies. eleven are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
11All threespeak · spons · exh
10Sponsoringsponsor only
34Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Netflix·Red Hat·SoftwareMill·Agile Developer, Inc.·BellSoft·Chronomill·Confluent·Eclipse Foundation·GitGuardian·Insight Enterprises·Qodo

Speakers by seniority

2% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Director / Head of12%
  • Manager / Lead1530%
  • Engineer · IC2550%
  • Other roles918%

Of 50 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01NetflixSp·S2V
  2. 02Red HatSp·S2V
  3. 03SoftwareMillSp·S2V
  4. 04Agile Developer, Inc.Sp·S1V
  5. 05BellSoftSp·S1V
  6. 06ChronomillSp·S1V
  7. 07ConfluentSp·S1V
  8. 08Eclipse FoundationSp·S1V
  9. 09GitGuardianSp·S1V
  10. 10Insight EnterprisesSp·S1V
  11. 11QodoSp·S1V
  12. 12AI Coding & CloudSp·C
  13. 13Barranquilla JUGSp·C
  14. 14Boston Java Users ACM ChapterSp·C
Sponsors by tier
community supporter10
48% of 21
sustainability supporter11
52% of 21
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

Related events · by shared sponsors