Great Lakes Software Symposium

August 1 - 2, 2025

Sessions

Craig Walls

Craig Walls

Author of 'Spring in Action' and 'Building Talking Apps'

Fri 1:15 PM	What's New in Spring and Spring Boot
Fri 3:15 PM	Observing AI with Spring Boot and Spring AI
Fri 5:00 PM	Penning Powerful Prompts: Crafting effective prompts to get the best from an LLM
Sat 9:00 AM	Building Intelligent Spring Applications with Spring AI

Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten

Forward Leaning Software Engineer @ Bosatsu Consulting

Fri 8:30 AM	AI Crash Course : Catching Up to the Future
Fri 5:00 PM	Agent Protocols Standard Communication Between Disparate Agents
Sat 9:00 AM	Automating Security Fixes with OpenRewrite: Patching Vulnerabilities Across the Codebase
Sat 1:30 PM	Useful Strategies for AI

Daniel Hinojosa

Daniel Hinojosa

Independent Consultant

Fri 3:15 PM	Architectural Patterns Focus: EventDriven Architecture & Messaging
Fri 5:00 PM	Architectural Patterns Focus: Security
Sat 9:00 AM	Stay Ahead with Java’s Latest Features! You can't rest one minute. Java is always Advancing!
Sat 11:00 AM	Apache Flink: Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data Processing
Sat 1:30 PM	Gonna Go Back in Time with Apache Iceberg Data Flux Capacitor Not Included

Raju Gandhi

Raju Gandhi

Founder, DefMacro Software

Fri 8:30 AM	Git features you aren’t using
Fri 10:30 AM	Modular Monoliths: A happy middle
Fri 1:15 PM	Platform Engineering: The Why, What and How
Fri 3:15 PM	Platform Engineering: The What, Why & How
Sat 11:00 AM	Microservices + Kubernetes - CrossCuttingConcerns = Istio
Sat 1:30 PM	On being an effective developer

Venkat Subramaniam

Venkat Subramaniam

Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.

Fri 8:30 AM	Refactoring to Modernize Java Applications
Fri 10:30 AM	The Three Amigos: Intermixing Pattern Matching, Records, and Sealed Classes
Fri 1:15 PM	The Power and Perils of Using Copilot and ChatGPT for Application Development
Fri 3:15 PM	Identifying and fixing Issues in Code using AI based tools
Fri 5:00 PM	Scaling Servers with Virtual Threads

Michael Carducci

Michael Carducci

Holistic Software Architect @ Truly Magic

Fri 8:30 AM	Six Secrets to Succeeding with Microservices
Fri 10:30 AM	Architecture Blindspots, Biases, and Blunders: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in System Design
Fri 1:15 PM	Hypermedia APIs and the Future of AI Agentic Systems
Sat 9:00 AM	Architecture Patterns for AIPowered Applications
Sat 1:30 PM	Architecting the Future: Evolving Legacy Systems with the Tailor-Made Architecture Model