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JCON USA 2026

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JCON USA 2026 ran Oct 26–29, 2026 at Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, United States. It is a Java conference. ConferenceGrid lists 29 speakers and 29 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Oct 27, 2026 · dates verified Sep 15, 2026

JCON USA 2026 is the Java Community Conference held within IBM TechXchange in Atlanta. Bringing together Java developers from all over the world, JCON USA offers two days of deep technical sessions, community networking, hands-on labs, certification opportunities, and more. Attendees get to engage with Java Champions, JUG leaders, and IBM engineers, enjoying…

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29Speakers
0Sponsors
29Sessions
23Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at JCON, in alphabetical order.

Bhupendra Mishra
Sr Staff Software Engineer at SiriusXM · SiriusXM
Brian Benz
Principal AI Advocate at Microsoft · Microsoft
Brian Demers
Developer Advocate at Gradle · Gradle
Brian Fox
Co-Founder & CTO @ Sonatype · Sonatype
Bruno Borges
Product Manager at Microsoft · Microsoft
Chandra Guntur
Sr. Principal Engineer at JPMorganChase · JPMorganChase
DaShaun Carter
Spring Developer Advocate atBroadcom · Broadcom
Donald Raab
Managing Director at JPMorganChase · JPMorganChase
Ed Burns
Principal Architect at Microsoft · Microsoft
Elder Moraes
Principal Developer Advocate at IBM · IBM
Emily Jiang
Cloud Native Architect and Chief Advocate at IBM · IBM
Gerrit Grunwald
Senior Developer Advocate at Azul Systems · Azul Systems
Ivar Grimstad
Developer Advocate at Jakarta EE · Jakarta EE
Jennifer Reif
Senior Developer Advocate at Neo4j · Neo4j
Kito Mann
Principal Conultant at Virtua Inc · Virtua Inc
Krishna Nandivada
Professor for Dept of CSE at IIT Madras · IIT Madras
Luis Fabricio De Llamas
Developer Advocate at HumaSynk · HumaSynk
Luiz Real
Forward Deployed Engineer at Arkana · Arkana
Mark Stoodley
Chief Architect for Java at IBM · IBM
Markus Kett
CEO at Cyrock.AI, Inc. & Editor in Chief at JAVAPRO Magazine · Cyrock.AI, Inc.
Mary Grygleski
VP of Global (Western Hemisphere)-AI Collective · AI Collective
Micah Silverman
Director, AI Acceleration @ Snyk · Snyk

Agenda

Selected from 29 sessions.

  • TBA

    Adding AI to Enterprise Java Without Rewriting the Application

    Adding AI to an existing Java application doesn’t have to mean rebuilding the entire system around a model. With the right boundaries, AI features can become another well-defined p…

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    AI Agents Need the Engineering Java Already Has

    Building an AI agent is easy to demo. Building one your company can actually rely on means dealing with metrics, configuration, error handling, deployment, lifecycle management, an…

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    AI in Java: No Python Required

    Adding AI to an enterprise application doesn’t have to mean introducing a new language, a separate stack, or rewriting what already works. With Jakarta EE, MicroProfile, and langch…

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    AI Security Engineer Foundations: OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications

    Agentic AI systems don’t just generate answers, they can take actions, call tools, access data and make decisions. That creates a different security model, where mistakes can have …

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    A Modern Introduction to Serialisation in Java 26

    Java serialisation has carried a bad reputation for years, but with records, newer APIs, evolving runtimes and JDK 26, it’s worth asking whether the old advice still holds up. Ste…

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    Beyond Code: The Intent-Driven IDE for the Agentic Age

    As AI agents take on more implementation work, the developer’s role starts to shift from writing every line of code to expressing intent, shaping context and reviewing what agents …

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    Big Data and AI Architecture: Apache Iceberg, Spark and LLMs

    Turning massive datasets into useful AI applications takes more than adding an LLM. The real challenge is connecting large-scale data processing, storage, and natural-language inte…

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    Building Observable Java Apps that Scale with Quarkus

    Getting an application into production is only half the job. Once it’s running, developers need to understand what is happening inside it. Especially when performance drops, reques…

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    Building Scalable Multi-Agentic AI Systems in Java: Orchestrating Agents with Event-Driven Approach

    Tech Talks

Quick answers

When is JCON USA 2026?
JCON USA 2026 ran Oct 26–29, 2026 at Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, United States.
Where is JCON USA 2026 held?
JCON USA 2026 was held at Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, United States.
Who is speaking at JCON USA 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 29 speakers, including Bhupendra Mishra (Sr Staff Software Engineer at SiriusXM, SiriusXM), Brian Benz (Principal AI Advocate at Microsoft, Microsoft) and Brian Demers (Developer Advocate at Gradle, Gradle).
Company intelligence

An audience of 23 companies, parsed from the program.

23 companies in attendance.

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
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
23Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

31% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite517%
  • Founder / Owner13%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of27%
  • Manager / Lead621%
  • Product13%
  • Engineer · IC1241%
  • Other roles13%

Of 29 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1IBM3
2Microsoft3
3JPMorganChase2
4AI Collective1
5Arkana1
6Azul Systems1
7Broadcom1
8Cyrock.AI, Inc.1
9Deep Netts Technologies1
10Gradle1
11HeroDevs1
12Hugging Face1
13HumaSynk1
14IBM Canada1
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.