Devnexus 2027
Devnexus 2027 takes place on 30–31 March 2027 at Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. B2DB lists 45 speakers and 48 sessions announced so far.
Devnexus brings together AI, Java and modern software development at one of the largest and longest-running developer community conferences in the United States. Founded by the Atlanta Java Users Group in 2004, it draws 1,500+ developers to Atlanta for hands-on training, expert-led sessions, mentoring and live demos. With 120+ sessions covering AI-assisted development, AI applications and agents, production engineering, Java, security and leadership, the 2027 edition runs 29-31 March at the Georgia World Congress Center, with a workshop day followed by two conference days.
Key facts
| Dates | 30–31 March 2027 (upcoming) |
|---|---|
| Venue | Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, United States of America |
| Series | Devnexus |
| Speakers | 45 |
| Sessions | 48 |
| Stages | AI, Java & the JVM Ecosystem, Dev Practices |
| Sponsors | 7 |
| Official site | devnexus.com/events |
Speakers (45)
Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.
- Aaron McClennen
- Abbey Perini
- Abhishek Bharadwaj LinkedIn
- Angel Banks
- Anna Chernyshova
- Billy Korando
- Brayan Muñoz V.
- Brian Vermeer
- Bruno Souza
- Corey Gallon
- Crystall Gabriel
- Dan Vega
- David Parry
- Elder Moraes
- Eric Deandrea
- Erin Schnabel
- Eyal Wirsansky Aingelz, Inc.
- Frank Greco
- Gant Laborde
- Glenn Renfro
- Jeanne Boyarsky
- José R. Almonte C.
- Josh Long
- Kathryn Grayson Nanz Progress Software
- Kenneth Kousen
- Kevin Dubois
- Laurie Lay
- Leigh Griffin
- Martin O'Hanlon
- Martin Rojas PlayOn Sports
- Nathaniel Schutta
- Nyah Macklin
- Paul Power
- Rob Winch
- Rustam Mehmandarov Miles AS
- Sara Hix Watershed Health
- Simon Ritter
- Snigdha Tadanki Microsoft
- Soby Chacko
- Susa Hart
- Theo Lebrun
- Tom Cools
- Viktor Gamov
- Wes Widner
- Željko Kozina Chronomill
Agenda (48 sessions)
- Agentic Coding, Intentional Design AI
- AI Says This Java Code Is Better. Let’s Check. Java & the JVM Ecosystem
- Autopilot: Building the Ultimate Ops Engineer with JFR and AI AI — Billy Korando
- Beyond LLMs: Hybrid AI Patterns for Real Applications AI — Eyal Wirsansky
- Bootiful Security Dev Practices — Josh Long, Rob Winch
- Break Your Java Agent Before Someone Else Does Dev Practices — Elder Moraes
- Context and Similarity - Food for Thought AI — Frank Greco
- Customer Trust Is the Last Real Edge: A Leader's Guardrails for AI Adoption Dev Practices — Crystall Gabriel
- DevOps Never Finished, And AI Is Exposing the Wall We Never Actually Tore Down Dev Practices
- Durable, composable and scalable agents with Spring AI 3.0 AI — Dan Vega, Soby Chacko
- Engineering Patterns for Building AI-native applications AI — Snigdha Tadanki
- Fix Production Rollouts on the Fly with Agentic AIOps AI — Kevin Dubois
- Fundamentals of Software Engineering in the Age of AI Dev Practices — Dan Vega, Nathaniel Schutta
- Generation Got Cheap. Your Review Budget Didn't. Dev Practices — Theo Lebrun
- How to Build Auditable Memory Using Context Graphs AI — Nyah Macklin
- Making the JVM Faster with AI: Promises and Pitfalls Java & the JVM Ecosystem — Simon Ritter
- MCP Killed the Handshake: What Stateless Really Means for Agents AI — David Parry
- Microservices in the GenAI Era AI
- No Country For Old APIs. Wrapping legacy Java services as MCP tools without rewriting them. Dev Practices — Željko Kozina
- Nobody Taught You How to Work With Humans Dev Practices — Sara Hix
- OK, But What About Predictive AI? AI — Brayan Muñoz V., José R. Almonte C.
- Pouring AI Sauce on Your Architecture Dev Practices — Glenn Renfro, Nathaniel Schutta
- Refactoring LOL (Lean On LLMs) Dev Practices — Aaron McClennen
- Reinventing Testing Practices in the AI Era AI — Anna Chernyshova, Eric Deandrea
- Restoring Lost Work in Git: A Forbidden Love Story AI — Abbey Perini
- RoboCoders Judgement Day: From Side Projects to Software Factories AI — Viktor Gamov
- Slopless in Atlanta: Six Steps to Agent Pull Requests That Maintainers Actually Merge AI — Corey Gallon
- Someone Vibe-Coded It. Now It's Your Problem. Dev Practices — Kenneth Kousen
- Spend Your Tokens Where They Matter: Development with a Token Budget AI — Erin Schnabel
- Taming the Chaos: Security and Predictability in LLM-Powered Applications Dev Practices — Rustam Mehmandarov
- Testing Java apps in the age of AI Java & the JVM Ecosystem — Jeanne Boyarsky
- The Demo Worked. Then Reality Happened: Building AI Inference for the Real World AI — Paul Power
- The Human API: DevOps for the Soul Dev Practices — Nathaniel Schutta
- The Secret You Encrypt Today Is Already Broken: Post-Quantum Cryptography for Every Developer Dev Practices — Leigh Griffin, Paul Power
- The UX of AI: Making AI-Powered Apps Your Users Don't Hate AI — Kathryn Grayson Nanz
- Think Fast: OnDevice AI and Vector Features AI — Gant Laborde
- To Java 28 and Beyond! Java & the JVM Ecosystem — Billy Korando
- Toxic Flows in MCP Servers and Skills: What Your Agent Blindly Trusts Dev Practices — Brian Vermeer
- Traditional software development roles are collapsing - are you ready? Dev Practices
- Unlocking AI: Breaking the Safeguards in Open-Weight Models Dev Practices — Wes Widner
- What’s that? How an Agent & Context Graph analyzed a message stream AI — Martin O'Hanlon
- When Garbage Collection Becomes an Availability Incident Java & the JVM Ecosystem — Abhishek Bharadwaj
- You May Now Optimize The Wedding! An intro to Planning AI AI — Tom Cools
- Your Agents Don't Need More Context. They Need True Context — and You Can't Buy It AI — Martin Rojas
- Your AI Can Design. You Still Have to Review It. Dev Practices — Angel Banks, Susa Hart
- Your AI Maturity Score Is Probably Wrong Dev Practices — Laurie Lay
- 7 Ways You Can Build an Amazing Dev Career in the AI Era Dev Practices — Bruno Souza
- Your GPU, Your Model: Running Open-Weight AI AI
Organisers, sponsors and partners
Sponsors (7)
VMware · Neo4j · MongoDB · BoxLang (Ortus Solutions) · Commonhaus · Qodo · DevOpsDays
Source: the published agenda. See how B2DB compiles its records.