It continues to thrive because of the strength of its core ideas and because the team and community have always been happy to embrace good new ideas and move on from obsolete approaches. Rod will talk about the story of Spring and how it's rising to the challenge of Gen AI. Expect hands on coding with Spring Boot, Kotlin and Spring AI.

Speaker: Rod Johnson

Rod Johnson is an independent investor, author and software developer. Creator of the Spring Framework. Co-founder and CEO of SpringSource. Following the acquisition of SpringSource by VMware, SVP, Application Platform at VMware (2009-2012). Author of several books on Java and Java EE, including “Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development” and “J2EE without EJB”. Board member at Neo Technology, elasticsearch, Typesafe, Meteor and Hazelcast.