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JCON USA 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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17Speakers
0Sponsors
14On the bill · sessions
15Companies · in total
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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
DaShaun Carter
Spring Developer Advocate atBroadcom · Broadcom
Ed Burns
Principal Architect at Microsoft · Microsoft
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
Krishna Nandivada
Professor for Dept of CSE at IIT Madras · IIT Madras
Markus Kett
CEO at Cyrock.AI, Inc. & Editor in Chief at JAVAPRO Magazine · Cyrock.AI, Inc.
Pratik Patel
AI Data Engineer and Developer Advocate at Hugging Face · Hugging Face
Reza Rahman
Enterprise Java technologist, leader, architect, consultant, author, speaker
Spencer Gibb
Co-founder and Lead of Spring Cloud · Spring Cloud
Steve Poole
Developer Advocate at HeroDevs · HeroDevs
Thiago Gonzaga
Software Engineer | JUG Leader at Java Noroeste · Java Noroeste
Vijay Sundaresan
Java Performance Architect at IBM Canada · IBM Canada
Zoran Sevarac
CEO at Deep Netts Technologies · Deep Netts Technologies
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Agenda

Selected from 14 sessions on the bill.
  • 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 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

    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

    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

    Debugging in the AI Era: Tools, Techniques, and Mindset

    As GenAI becomes a normal part of software development, developers increasingly have to understand, verify, and debug code they didn’t write themselves. That makes strong debugging…

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    Java-Native AI on IBM Semeru: High-Performance AI with OpenJ9, CUDA and the Vector API

    High-performance AI in Java has traditionally meant JNI bindings, native wrappers, and a lot of integration complexity. Modern Java APIs such as the Foreign Function & Memory API a…

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    Java's Evolution : How Java is Quietly Transforming Itself for the AI Era

    AI is not only changing the applications developers build, it is also influencing how programming languages, runtimes and frameworks evolve. For Java teams, the key question is how…

    Breakout Sessions
  • TBA

    My Children Will Never Deploy Active-Passive

    Regional outages shouldn’t automatically mean downtime. For modern applications, active-active architectures can remove the dependency on a single primary region and make resilienc…

    Breakout Sessions
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 15 companies, parsed from the program.

Fifteen 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
15Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

24% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite318%
  • Founder / Owner16%
  • Manager / Lead318%
  • Engineer · IC953%
  • Other roles16%

Of 17 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Microsoft2V
  2. 02Azul Systems1V
  3. 03Broadcom1V
  4. 04Cyrock.AI, Inc.1V
  5. 05Deep Netts Technologies1V
  6. 06Gradle1V
  7. 07HeroDevs1V
  8. 08Hugging Face1V
  9. 09IBM1V
  10. 10IBM Canada1V
  11. 11IIT Madras1V
  12. 12Jakarta EE1V
  13. 13Java Noroeste1V
  14. 14SiriusXM1V
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.