Name: Bootiful Spring AI
Start: 2025-11-18T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-18T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Dorothy Young Center for the Arts

Please be advised that [registration](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bootiful-spring-ai-tickets-1967865265984?aff=oddtdtcreator) via EventBrite is required for in-person and on-line attendance is required.

We are happy to announce a second meeting this month featuring [Josh Long](https://gsjug.org/profiles/josh-long.html) and [James Ward](https://gsjug.org/profiles/james-ward.html)! They will present **Bootiful Spring AI**!

**Abstract:**
The age of artificial intelligence (because the search for regular intelligence hasn't gone well..) is nearly at hand, and it's everywhere! But is it in your application? It should be.

AI is about integration, and here the Java and Spring communities come second to nobody. In this talk, we'll demystify the concepts of modern day Artificial Intelligence and look at its integration with the white hot new [Spring AI](https://spring.io/projects/spring-ai) project, a framework that builds on the richness of Spring Boot to extend them to the wide world of AI engineering.

**Bios:**
Josh Long is the Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom. Josh is a Java Champion, author of five books (including O'Reilly's upcoming “[Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry](https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Native-Java-Designing-Resilient/dp/1449374646)”) and three best-selling video trainings (including “[Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-microservices-with/9780134192468/)” with [Phil Webb](https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipwebb), Staff Engineer 2 at Broadcom), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin).

James Ward has been a professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. He is a Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot who often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. James is currently a Developer Advocate for AWS.

James' many achievements that include:

* Co-Authored [Effect Oriented Programming](https://effectorientedprogramming.com/) with Bruce Eckel and Bill Frasure in 2024
* Presented at numerous developer conferences around the world
* [Kotlin Foundation](https://kotlinfoundation.org/) Treasurer since 2023
* Recognized as a [Testcontainers Community Champion](https://testcontainers.com/community-champions/james-ward/) in 2023
* Recognized as a [Java Champion](https://javachampions.org/members.html) in 2021
* Led the Salesforce [Open Source Program Office](https://opensource.salesforce.com/), 2017-2018
* Helped define The [Reactive Manifesto](https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/) in 2014
* Created [WebJars](https://webjars.org/) in 2012
* Co-authored [First Steps in Flex](http://www.firststepsinflex.com/) with Bruce Eckel in 2008
* Created the first Java hosting service in 1997

As usual, pizza and soft drinks will be provided!

Please note that as Josh and James will be traveling from Brooklyn, departing at 5:30pm, Mike Redlich will kick things off with his **Getting Started with Jakarta EE 11 and What's New in Jakarta EE 12** presentation.

We hope to see you on November 18!

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