# Foojay Podcast #72: JCon Report, Part 1 - Grow your career, public speaking, 30 years of Java, greener coding,...

> On May 13th and 14th, Foojay attended the JCON conference in Köln, Germany, where we did over 30 live-stream interviews. In this episode, we present to…

- URL: https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-72/
- Published: 2025-06-02
- Authors: Brian Vermeer, Frank Delporte, Baruch Sadogursky, Markus Westergren, Richard Fichtner
- Categories: Conference, Podcast


On May 13th and 14th, Foojay attended the JCON conference in Köln, Germany, where we did over 30 live-stream interviews. In this episode, we present to you the first set of these interviews, in which we focus on celebrating 30 years of Java, how you can grow your career, become a public speaker and writer, make your code more green, a bit of AI (of course...), and how the connections between open-source contributors can be visualized.

## Video

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## Content

00:00 Introduction

00:37 Richard Fichtner: About JCON

* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfichtner/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfichtner/%20)
* <https://jcon.one/>

03:27 Bruno Souza: Building your career

* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/brjavaman/>
* <https://careermasterplan.dev>

17:09 Markus Westergren: Mentoring and growing to become a senior engineer

* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/markuswestergren/>

21:56 Brian Vermeer: Public speaking, NLJUG, the importance of writing

* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer/>

30:08 Aicha Laafia: Green coding

* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/aicha-laafia-0266a6126/>

36:33 Baruch Sadogursky: History of Java, job changes because of AI

* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbaruch/>

44:40 Dmitry Yanter: Connections in open-source projects

* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-yanter/>

53:12 Conclusion