Gateway Software Symposium - No Fluff Just Stuff

Gateway Software Symposium

April 2 - 3, 2026

Sessions

Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten

Forward Leaning Software Engineer @ Bosatsu Consulting
Michael Carducci

Michael Carducci

Holistic Software Architect
Thu 8:45 AM Architecture Blindspots, Biases, and Blunders
Avoiding Common Pitfalls in System Design
Thu 10:30 AM Six Secrets to Succeeding with Microservices
Thu 1:15 PM Why AI Acceleration Keeps Slowing You Down
The Paradox of Speed vs Delivery
Thu 3:00 PM Refactoring REST APIs for the Last Time: Strategies for a Future-Proof Design
Fri 8:45 AM When Code is Cheap, Architecture is Everything
Architecture in the Age of AI
Fri 10:30 AM 3rd Generation Agentic AI
Solving Integration, Intelligently
Fri 1:15 PM Your data is worthless to AI (Without a semantic layer)
Here's How to Fix It...
Daniel Hinojosa

Daniel Hinojosa

Independent Consultant
Thu 8:45 AM What's New in Java (Live): Tools, Gatherers and Constants
Essential Tools, Stream Gatherers, Module Imports and Lazy Constants
Thu 10:30 AM What's New in Java (Live): Concurrency
Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency, and Scoped Values
Thu 1:15 PM What's New In Java (Live): Simplicity and Vector API
New `main`, Simple Sources, Web servers, Value Objects, and the Vector API
Thu 3:00 PM What's New in Java (Live): Language and Native Interop
Primitive Patterns, Flexible Constructors, Foreign Functions
Fri 8:45 AM Java Testing Lab: Test Driven Development (with Ai)
Fri 1:15 PM Java's Asynchronous Ecosystem
Too Many Tools, One JVM
Fri 3:00 PM Apache Flink: Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data Processing
Brent Laster

Brent Laster

Global author, trainer and founder of Tech Skills Transformations LLC
Thu 8:45 AM AI 3-in-1: Agents, RAG and Local Models
Building out an AI agent that uses RAG and runs locally
Thu 1:15 PM Understanding MCP (Model Context Protocol) - A hands-on guide
Understanding how AI agents can connect to the world
Fri 10:30 AM AI Security for Developers and Practitioners - 1/2 day
Building Safe, Trustworthy, and Resilient AI Systems
Fri 1:15 PM Incorporating AI into your SDLC
Leveraging AI tooling across the phases of your software development lifecycle
Fri 3:00 PM Prompt Engineering Accelerator for AI (A Short Workshop)
Mastering the Techniques, Patterns, and Strategies Behind High-Performance AI Prompts