Jacksonville JAVA User Group (JaxJUG)

NOTE: This meetup will be held on a Tuesday due to speaker availability. The location of the in-person meetup is new as well: FSCJ South Campus, room U135A (adjoins the cafeteria, see attached image),
11901 Beach Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32246

Abstract:
Most of us are not writing our own Large Language Models (LLMs). We are consuming them, and integrating them into our enterprise applications. And guess what? Java is the perfect language for this! You don't have to learn Python or any other language for your AI integrations.
This session will explore different options there are for Java developers and how to integrate them into your enterprise Java applications. There will be live demos using libraries and tools such as LangChain4J, Spring AI, and Jakarta EE.
Speaker:
Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion and JUG Leader based in Sweden.
Besides advocating the Jakarta EE technologies, Ivar is contributing to the Jakarta EE specifications as well as being the PMC Lead for Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J). He is also one of the specification leads for Jakarta MVC and represents Eclipse Foundation on the JCP Executive Committee.
Ivar is also involved in various other open-source projects and communities. He is a frequent speaker at International developer conferences.

Bonus Session:
Deliver AI infused app innovation with Open Liberty on AKS
Delivering innovation on top of an open spec commodity platform is a time-honored recipe for success in IT. Examples include Linux, graphics cards, web frameworks, just to name a few. This session shows how building on the open standards of Kubernetes, Jakarta EE, Langchain4J, and Azure OpenAI can help you deliver innovation like never before. While using GitHub copilot certainly helps building apps, this session shows how AI is applied in the problem domain of the application itself.
Speaker:
Ed Burns, Principal Architect on the Java Tooling and Experiences team at Microsoft.