Create Generative AI Apps in Java with Don Bourne, sponsored by IBM TechXchange

** Note special location for this event: the IBM offices at 16 York Street, on the 7th Floor. Please register for this event at https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/W9G8XCMB/landing/page/landing.**

Doors open at 6:00. Theresa Mammarella will be on site to sign guests in.

The talk will start at 6:30.

Topic

Create Generative AI Apps in Java

Generative AI can help make your applications more flexible, enable new modes of user interaction and create business opportunities. In the past, AI was the domain of data scientists and AI code was written in languages like Python. New libraries like LangChain4j make it easy to build generative AI apps in Java, using skills you already have. In this talk/demo you'll learn how to:

- build your first Generative AI app
- use prompts to guide LLM behaviour
- get LLMs to respond in ways that interface cleanly with your Java objects and logic
- empower your AI apps to call tools

About the speaker
Don Bourne

Don Bourne is a Software Architect at IBM, where he has spent over 2 decades contributing to Java-based application servers and architecting solutions for problem determination, logging, metrics, tracing, OpenTelemetry and all things observability. In recent years, Don has expanded his expertise to Generative AI, leveraging Java as the primary programming language. As a hobby, he experiments with machine learning libraries and is always up for a good datathon.