title	conference	date
Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA	JNation 2026	2026-05-26
Live demo builds a small Java app that reads lines, refactors it into cleaner methods, and runs — showing concrete shortcuts and IDE features that actually… Talk on
Learning modern Java the playful way	Voxxed Days Bucharest 2026	2026-04-28
A Java 8-style image-search app is modernized end-to-end: embeddings come from a Genom multimodal encoder, stored in Elasticsearch and browsed in Kibana… Talk on
Learning modern Java the playful way	Devoxx France 2026	2026-04-22
Live demo builds an image search pipeline: use multimodal encoder (Gina) to create vector embeddings (1,000 floats), index filenames and embeddings into… Talk on
AI inside the IDE	JCON EUROPE 2026	2026-04-20
Argues that reading beats writing when half the code is AI generated and insists on owning any code pushed to production, demonstrating IntelliJ integrations… Talk on
Learning Modern Java the Playful Way	JCON EUROPE 2026	2026-04-20
A runnable image-search demo encodes images and captions with a multi‑modal model (Gina) into Elasticsearch with 1,000‑dim embeddings and a 12‑document… Talk on
Getting more out of Maven	Voxxed Days Zurich 2026	2026-03-24
Shows concrete Maven practices: prefer mvnw verify over install to avoid polluting ~/.m2, add a Maven wrapper (used 3.9.14 in demo) for reproducible builds… Talk on
Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA	Voxxed Days CERN 2026	2026-02-10
Live demo shows IntelliJ creating a Spring Boot project, editing Java that reads lines from a file and refactors it into a try‑with‑resources with streams, and… Talk on
Learning modern Java the playful way	Voxxed Days Ticino 2026	2026-02-05
Demo shows upgrading a Java 8–style image search app to Java 25: compact source files and compact source files with simple IO replace Scanner, DTOs become… Talk on
Learning modern Java the playful way	Voxxed Days Thessaloniki 2025	2025-11-07
Demos show concrete upgrades: a multimodal encoder indexes image vectors into Elasticsearch and a hybrid search (keyword + vector, free reciprocal rank fusion)… Talk on
Learning modern Java the playful way	Confitura 2025	2025-09-19
Prototype that indexes multimodal embeddings into Elastic and runs hybrid search with reciprocal rank fusion, demonstrated working end to end with keyword… Talk on
TDD: Test-Driven Development vs TAB-Driven Development	JCON EUROPE 2025	2025-05-12
Experiments use JetBrains AI Assistant and the coding agent Juny to follow TDD by writing tests first and asking the agent to implement code; simple exercises… Talk on
public static void main 🎶	JCON EUROPE 2025	2025-05-12
Live pop-quiz converts public static void main into lyrics for 15 songs found by scanning the top 2,000 tracks, with live guitar, screencast timing edits and a… Talk on
Reading code	Devoxx UK 2025	2025-05-07
Research claim: developers spend 58% of their time reading existing code. Concrete practices shown include running printed two‑page snippets through structured… Talk on
Be more productive with IntelliJ IDEA	Voxxed Days Zürich 2025	2025-03-25
Demo builds a small file-reader program that runs and prints lines while showing exact IDE moves: use Shift+Shift search, PSVM/live templates, camel-case and… Talk on
Public Static Void Main	Devworld Conference 2025	2025-02-27
Claims that 15 songs map cleanly onto the lyric "public static void main" and some also fit the new void main form, demonstrates a concrete result. A live… Talk on
Reading Code	NDC London 2025	2025-01-27
Developers spend 58% of their time reading code, so a structured practice shows faster comprehension: a code reading club meets monthly (two years running)… Talk on
Reading code	Build Stuff 2024	2024-11-13
Claim: developers spend about 58% of their time reading code. Practical setup: print a one‑ to two‑page sample, run structured drills like First Glance and… Talk on
Reading code	Devoxx Belgium 2024	2024-10-07
Developers spend about 58% of their time reading code, and deliberate practice via a code reading club—monthly sessions using 1–2 page samples on paper and… Talk on
Will AI Assistant make developers redundant?	Devoxx Belgium 2024	2024-10-07
JetBrains AI Assistant lives inside IntelliJ IDEA and combines project-aware context with LLMs to refactor and explain code, search the repo for SQL or… Talk on
IntelliJ IDEA Tips & Tricks	Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2024	2024-06-20
Live demo shows IntelliJ reading lines from lines.txt into a BufferedReader, building an ArrayList, converting to streams, applying multiple filters, and… Talk on
Reading Code	JCON EUROPE 2024	2024-05-13
Research shows developers spend 60% of their time comprehending code, and a 1992 experiment finds groups that read code with explanations or only read… Talk on
Reading code	Voxxed Days Bucharest 2024	2024-03-27
Claim: developers spend about 58% of their time reading code, and deliberate practice improves comprehension. Evidence: a 1992 study replicated in The… Talk on
Code reading	Øredev 2023	2023-11-08
Research shows developers spend about 58% of their time comprehending existing source, so the talk gives concrete practice: timed first glance exercises… Talk on
Reading code	GeeCON Prague 2023	2023-10-19
Developers spend 58% of their time reading existing code, so deliberate practice matters: monthly code reading clubs use structured exercises (a one‑minute… Talk on
Keep Your Dependencies in Check	JCON Europe 2023	2023-06-20
Shows that keeping dependencies current is practical but messy: uses Maven/Gradle dependency trees and IntelliJ’s vuln checks to find issues, then drives… Talk on
Open Source Panel	Spring I/O 2023	2023-05-18
Spring I/O 2023 - Barcelona, 18-19 May Panelists: DaShaun Carter / Josh Long / Marit van Dijk / Ronald Dehuysser / Heiko Scherrer / Raquel Pau With millions… Panel on
Keep your dependencies in check	Voxxed Days Zurich 2023	2023-03-16
Many teams balance safety and speed by automating dependency updates with tools like Dependabot, Renovate, and Snyk while using build tools (Maven/Gradle) and… Talk on
Keep your dependencies in check	J-Fall 2022	2022-11-03
Compares automation and migration tools and gives concrete tradeoffs: Dependabot (GitHub-native alerts plus security/version PRs), Renovate (more fine‑grained… Talk on
Keynote: Collaborating on Open Source Software	Voxxed Days Cluj-Napoca 2022	2022-10-05
Personal account of contributing to Cucumber that starts in August 2017 and tracks concrete outcomes: first contribution August 2017, fixes include adding… Talk on
Use testing to Develop Better Software Faster	Voxxed Days Cluj-Napoca 2022	2022-10-05
Argues that testing must run throughout the DevOps cycle and gives concrete practices: use JUnit 5 and the right tool for the job (Mockito/WireMock… Talk on
How I Started Contributing to Open Source and Why You Should Too	JetBrains Technology Day for Java 2020	2020-07-10
After two years contributing to Cucumber the talk gives concrete entry points: adding unit tests, refactoring Java to idiomatic Kotlin, reviewing PRs and… Talk on
JetBrains Technology Day for Java 2020	JetBrains Technology Day for Java 2020	2020-07-10
Nine short sessions show concrete tools, code and outcomes: Bootiful Testing demos Spring Boot test slices and Mockito based examples; Good Old Stream API… Talk on
Collaborating on Open Source	CukenFest London 2019	2019-04-04
Starts by learning Java by contributing to Cucumber and quickly running into a bad merge that gets reverted with core contributors helping to fix git mistakes… Talk on
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