Thanks to open source, in the past year, we’ve seen a fundamental change: developers and enterprises are moving away from proprietary, closed-source models. To save costs, prioritize privacy, and allow for customization, they are building, testing, and deploying their own open models. However, this journey can feel overwhelming. Which foundation model should I use? How do I connect my model to existing data sources or build agentic capabilities to start seeing real value with AI, especially in an already existing Java application?
The key to navigating this emerging path is adopting the flexibility, transparency, and collaboration of open source that many of us are familiar with. We'll walk through the critical aspects of AI feature implementation using LangChain4J, also showing observability (OpenTelemetry), testing (Promptfoo), CI/CD (Tekton) and more. Join us as we get hands-on with language models and use open technologies to control our own AI journey!
The key to navigating this emerging path is adopting the flexibility, transparency, and collaboration of open source that many of us are familiar with. We'll walk through the critical aspects of AI feature implementation using LangChain4J, also showing observability (OpenTelemetry), testing (Promptfoo), CI/CD (Tekton) and more. Join us as we get hands-on with language models and use open technologies to control our own AI journey!
Kevin Dubois
IBM
Kevin Dubois is a software architect and platform engineer with a career spanning over 20 years. He is often featured as a keynote speaker at conferences around the world where he shares his experience and knowledge about cloud native & AI software development, developer experience, open source and Java. Kevin is also an author and Java Champion. He currently works as a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at IBM, and is also Technical Lead for the CNCF Developer Experience Technical Advisory Group.
Cedric Clyburn
Red Hat
Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Senior Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software developer with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. Focused on open-source software, he both contributes (e.g., Podman, vLLM) and enjoys speaking, with prior experience at Devoxx, WeAreDevelopers, The Linux Foundation, and more. Cedric also spends (too much) time creating video and written content helping developers learn new topics in emerging technologies, with over 2M+ views online. He’s based in New York City and is an organizer of the local Kubernetes Community Day.
Legare Kerrison
Red Hat
Legare Kerrison is an Open Source Engineer and Developer Advocate on Red Hat's AI team. She focuses on open source tools for building and deploying AI. Currently, she works with projects like vLLM and Podman desktop. She aims to make technical complexity digestible. She loves matcha and the outdoors. Based in Boston.