James Ward: Kotlin for Java Developers

5:30-6:00: Food, Soda, Beer and Networking

6:00-6:15: Announcements

6:15-7:45: Kotlin for Java Developers

Kotlin is a modern, productive, and fun programming language for the JVM and other platforms. This talk will introduce some of the most useful and interesting parts of the language, including using Spring with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, null safety, and Kotlin Multiplatform.

About James Ward

James has been a professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. A Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot who often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. Currently the Kotlin Product Manager at Google.

You can learn more about James at https://jamesward.com/about-james-ward.

7:45: Door prizes

8:00: Post-meetup networking sponsored by Okta.