Gateway Software Symposium

April 4 - 5, 2025

Sessions

Craig Walls

Craig Walls

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

Fri 8:30 AM	What's New in Spring and Spring Boot
Fri 10:30 AM	(Re)introducing Spring Security
Sat 9:00 AM	Building Intelligent Spring Applications with Spring AI
Sat 1:30 PM	Penning Powerful Prompts: Crafting effective prompts to get the best from an LLM

Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten

Forward Leaning Software Engineer @ Bosatsu Consulting

Fri 5:00 PM	Automating Security Fixes with OpenRewrite: Patching Vulnerabilities Across the Codebase
Sat 9:00 AM	Vector Databases : Accelerating Learning and Discovery
Sat 1:30 PM	Agent Protocols Standard Communication Between Disparate Agents

Daniel Hinojosa

Daniel Hinojosa

Independent Consultant

Fri 8:30 AM	Stay Ahead with Java’s Latest Features! You can't rest one minute. Java is always Advancing!
Fri 10:30 AM	The Java Sessions: Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency
Fri 1:15 PM	Architectural Patterns Focus: EventDriven Architecture & Messaging
Fri 3:15 PM	Architectural Patterns Focus: Data
Sat 9:00 AM	Apache Flink: Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data Processing

Michael Carducci

Michael Carducci

Holistic Software Architect @ Truly Magic

Fri 8:30 AM	Architecture Blindspots, Biases, and Blunders: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in System Design
Fri 10:30 AM	Six Secrets to Succeeding with Microservices
Fri 1:15 PM	Hypermedia APIs and the Future of AI Agentic Systems
Fri 3:15 PM	Breathing New Life into Legacy Web Apps with HTMX
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

Raju Gandhi

Raju Gandhi

Founder, DefMacro Software

Fri 1:15 PM	Platform Engineering: The Why, What and How
Fri 5:00 PM	Modular Monoliths: A happy middle
Sat 11:00 AM	Microservices + Kubernetes - CrossCuttingConcerns = Istio
Sat 1:30 PM	Git features you aren’t using

Ken Sipe

Ken Sipe

Cloud Architect & Tech Leader

Fri 5:00 PM

Architectural Principles: Building the Foundations of Design Excellence

Brent Laster

Brent Laster

Global author, trainer and founder of Tech Skills Transformations LLC

Fri 8:30 AM	Incorporating AI into your SDLC Leveraging AI tooling across the phases of your software development lifecycle
Fri 10:30 AM	What's new and exciting with GitHub Copilot?
Fri 1:15 PM	Gen AI: Testing with GitHub Copilot
Fri 3:15 PM	Gen AI: Understanding and Navigating the LLM Landscape
Fri 5:00 PM	Gen AI: AI Agents - Making LLMs work together in an organized way