GenAI for Developers: What You Need to Know - Jennifer Reif

• 6pm Dinner
• 6:30-7:15 Presentation
• 7:15-7:45 Group Discussion
• 7:45 Door prizes

GenAI for the Java Developer: What You Need to Know

You’ve been tasked with implementing or learning AI, whether that includes LLMs, RAG, or MLOps. The sea of acronyms in this era of AI can feel like (and sometimes actually are) a black box for the complex logic and processes that underpin them. There’s so much to learn and not enough time.

In this session, we’ll explore how these technologies operate and the different practical ways GenAI is being used. We will explain common architectures for applications with GenAI, including RAG and GraphRAG. Live-code examples will show how Java developers can start using GenAI and help determine where they can be best applied. Come see how to play in the GenAI era.

Jennifer Reif is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j, speaker, and blogger with an MS in CMIS. An avid developer and problem-solver, she has worked with many businesses and projects to organize and make sense of widespread data assets and leverage them for maximum business value. She has expertise in a variety of commercial and open source tools, and she enjoys learning new technologies, sometimes on a daily basis! Her passion is finding ways to organize chaos and deliver software more effectively.

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