Name: Java and AI
Start: 2024-07-25T17:30:00+10:00
End: 2024-07-25T20:30:00+10:00
Location: Amazon Web Services

The Sydney JVM Meetup group is proud to announce that we’re organising another meetup. This time, we'll have a focus on AI and Java.

Date: **25th of July**
Time: **5:30 pm**
Location: **Amazon Web Services P/L Allianz Centre, Amazon SYD15, Office Level 8/2 Market St, Sydney NSW 2000**

We have two sessions with three great speakers: **Khozaima Motiwala and Shilpa Sharma from AWS and Felix Abdullaev from CXC**

**Felix Abdullaev - Senior Java Engineer at CXC**
Felix is a 20-plus-year digital professional with the last 10 of them being a Java/JS and Cloud Developer. Holding all the latest Oracle Java professional certifications and is passionate about coding any moment he has for it. Now engaged with CXC technology providing digital services in fintech spaces for one of the digital banks as a Senior Java Developer. In his free time, he is a big fan of basketball, swimming, and good food.

Topic: **“Coding Smarter, Not Harder - Leveraging GitHub Copilot for Java."**

* Introduction to GitHub Copilot – principles.
* Numbers and feedback about CoPilot in the tech community
* Spring Boot project from scratch with CoPilot
* -Basic H2, CRUD, Web project
* -Prompting and better context are key to success
* -How to use the suggestions and refactor the code
* -VCS help from CoPilot
* React project from scratch with CoPilot
* Future of AI Pair Programming
* -CoPilot workspaces
* -CoPilot plugins
* Q&A

Speakers: **Khozaima Motiwala - Lead Cloud Architect at AWS and Shilpa Sharma - Cloud Modernization Architect at AWS**

**Khozaima** brings expertise in modernization, Artificial Intelligence, and large-scale cloud transformation initiatives. With over 8 years of industry experience and an academic background from Boston University, he has worked with Fortune 50 companies in the USA, leveraging his experience to tackle mission-critical use cases. Khozaima specializes in building and scaling cloud practices, combining his varied industry experience with real-world expertise to drive successful cloud transformations.

**Shilpa** has delivered innovative solutions working backward from customer problems in the field of Application Modernization and DevOps powered by AWS Serverless, Containers, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Recently she led the all-women application development team in Swimming Australia to develop a cutting-edge solution for providing real-time analytics for athlete performance.

Topic - "**Effortless Java App Upgrades with Amazon Q Developer Agents".**
Are you tired of spending countless hours manually upgrading dependencies and refactoring deprecated code for your Java applications? Amazon Q Developer Agents for code transformation automates the entire process, reducing app upgrades from weeks to days or even minutes.
Leverage the power of generative AI to effortlessly analyse your legacy Java projects, generate comprehensive transformation plans, and execute code changes with precision. During this session, you'll gain valuable insights and witness a live demo showcasing how Amazon Q Developer Agents can revolutionize your Java development workflow.
Reduce tedious manual upgrades and join us to discover how you can streamline your Java app upgrades.

The evening is proudly sponsored by **Amazon** and has been organised in collaboration with **Lanson Partners**, who are recruitment company based in Sydney. They specialise in Software Engineering, Cyber and Data Analytics.

We’re grateful for their support in making this event happen!

Join us at 5:30 pm for networking and speakers will kick off at 6 pm.

Hope to see you all!

Erik and Sasha

Oleksandra Berezovska

Erik Pragt

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