Foojay Podcast #76: DevBcn Report, Part 1 – Learn from the Community
- July 21, 2025
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In early July, the DevBcn conference in Barcelona featured a diverse lineup of speakers, covering topics across multiple technology domains. Geertjan Wielenga took the camera and microphone with him to Spain. Together with Nacho Cougil and Jonathan Vila, two of the organizers, he spoke with many visitors about what they like most in Java, how AI influences their work, and what is important to them in the work they do.
We have more than 20 people who are passionate about the Java community and are eager to share their knowledge with you.
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00:00 Introduction
00:45 Nacho Cougil and Jakub Marchwicki talk about the history of the DevBcn conference.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/icougil
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kubamarchwicki
02:45 Bert Jan Schrijver is excited about the people in the Java community.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjschrijver/
03:06 Ricardo Romero Benítez has a Spanish YouTube challenge about Java and is surprised by the experience of junior developers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-romero-ben%C3%ADtez-b4a4048a/
https://www.youtube.com/@programando_en_java
05:43 Christoph Neumann discusses closure and a database created using it.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-neumann-6089438/
08:03 Victor Rentea gives Java workshops about architecture, performance, maintainable code, etc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-rentea-trainer/
09:46 Justin Reock measures developer productivity and talks about improving the development experience.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinreock
17:44 Will Fleury accelerates coding by integrating AI in IDEs and compares different solutions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/willfleury
23:38 Kamesh Sampath handles big amounts of data for AI and other processing.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kameshsampath
26:19 Cedric Clyburn shares his experience with Linux and Kubernetes and is fascinated by open-source AI.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedricclyburn
28:33 Brian Vermeer helps to make Java applications and AI tools secure.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianvermeer
31:53 Andrey Sitnik promotes local-first privacy versus the user-data-selling approach.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinik
35:59 Isabel Garrido Cardenas about cognitive load when working with a lot of microservices and the right way of testing with AI.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelgarridocardenas
38:59 Isabella Sohlman is a student, joining the conference to learn how she can grow her career and to meet people from the Java community.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabellasohlman
40:13 Ruben Cordeiro shares his experience with volunteering at the conference and what he learned from the talks.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubencordeiro
42:36 Horacio Gonzalez about simple to use cloud services by developers for developers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/horaciogonzalez
44:46 Jonatan Sempere about communication and network APIs to prevent fraud for banking.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsempere95
47:36 Luis Majano and Cris Escobar talk about BoxLang, a new dynamic JVM language.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lmajano
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristobalescobarh
https://www.boxlang.io
59:42 Miguel Xoel García Balsa about observability and the difference with monitoring.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelxoel
01:03:32 Silvia Bellmunt shares her experience with the Java community, the DevBcn conference, and data science.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvia-bellmunt-36220aa3
01:06:15 Rijo Sam talks about framework- agnostic development, using plain Java as much as possible.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijosam19
01:09:37 Nacho Cougil and Jonathan Vila invite you to the DevBcn conference next year.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/icougil
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanvila
01:11:33 Outro
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Frank Delporte is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java and JavaFX, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.
Geertjan is Senior Director of Open Source Projects at Azul and holds an LL.M in European Union Law from the University of Amsterdam.
Jonathan is a developer advocate at Sonar. He is a Java Champion and co-founder of the conferences in Spain JBCNConf and DevBcn and organizer of the Barcelona JUG. He has also been a speaker at several conferences including DevNexus, Oracle CodeOne, DevoxxUK, JNation, DevConf.IN, DevConf.US, and JFokus.
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