BrabantJUG

Details
When Sinterklaas is back to Spain but Christmas has not yet started. What do you do? Well, you could find your way to the BrabantJUG meetup at TomTom in Eindhoven on 8 december! We have two inspiring speakers: Ramona Domen and Ko Turk. And of course our real Brabantse gezelligheid at the hallway track.

Hope to see you there!

Timetable
17:00 Doors open
18:00 Food & drinks
18:50 Introduction
19:00 Voice UI's, AI, and the future of usability Ramona Domen
19:45 Break
20:00 What's New in Java 26, 27 & Beyond? Ko Turk
20:45 Drinks

Voice UI's, AI, and the future of usability
When interacting with technology, most of it is done via a visual medium, yet for us humans, speech is the more native form of communication. With the AI evolution picking up speed, should we abandon our “old” ways of developing and look into designing applications and the way we interact with them from scratch?

What would a world look like when every user has their own UI customized to their needs and preferences, and what would that mean for our work? Will we still have frontend developers? How will it change the way we create API's and handle information provision when the UX and UI are always different?

Join Ramona on this thought experiment and discover what our work might look like in the future, now that we have AI not only as a coding companion, but also as a part of our user interface.

What's New in Java 26, 27 & Beyond?
Java keeps evolving, and the latest releases bring some interesting changes to the platform.
But which ones are worth taking a closer look at, and what difference do they make in your applications?

We'll start with Java 26, exploring HTTP/3 support in the HTTP Client,
improvements to Ahead-of-Time caching that can reduce application startup time,
and changes to G1 garbage collection.

Then we'll move on to Java 27, with post-quantum hybrid key exchange for TLS 1.3,
compact object headers that reduce memory overhead,
G1 becoming the default garbage collector,
and improvements to Java Flight Recorder.

And we'll look ahead to Java 28,
including Ahead-of-Time code compilation and Structured Concurrency,
which finally moves beyond preview.

Through live demos and code examples,
we'll see how these features work,
how to configure them, and what they mean for existing Java applications.
We'll distinguish between improvements that work out of the box and those that require configuration or code changes.

We'll also take a look behind the scenes.
How does an idea become a JEP?
What roles do OpenJDK and Java SE play?
And how does a proposed feature eventually make it into a JDK release?

The goal is to help you decide which changes are relevant to your projects and how to start using them.

About Ramona
Ramona is a software engineer, Microsoft MVP and public speaker with a passion for creating inclusive and accessible applications. She likes to spread awareness about this topic and hopes to inspire people both in her daily work and by taking the stage whenever she gets the chance.