# Foojay Podcast #76: DevBcn Report, Part 1 – Learn from the Community > In early July, the DevBcn conference in Barcelona featured a diverse lineup of speakers, covering topics across multiple technology domains. Geertjan… - URL: https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-76/ - Published: 2025-07-21 - Authors: Frank Delporte, Geertjan Wielenga, Jonathan Vila - Categories: Conference, Java, Podcast 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. ## Video {{< youtube LopozI76KyA >}} ## Podcast Apps You can listen and subscribe to the Foojay Podcast on: * [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/6CpTfgn9LirzJGAtc4ICdQ) * [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/foojay-io-the-friends-of-openjdk/id1652281304) * And most others... ## Content 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Nacho Cougil and Jakub Marchwicki talk about the history of the DevBcn conference. 02:45 Bert Jan Schrijver is excited about the people in the Java community. 03:06 Ricardo Romero Benítez has a Spanish YouTube challenge about Java and is surprised by the experience of junior developers. 05:43 Christoph Neumann discusses closure and a database created using it. 08:03 Victor Rentea gives Java workshops about architecture, performance, maintainable code, etc. 09:46 Justin Reock measures developer productivity and talks about improving the development experience. 17:44 Will Fleury accelerates coding by integrating AI in IDEs and compares different solutions. 23:38 Kamesh Sampath handles big amounts of data for AI and other processing. 26:19 Cedric Clyburn shares his experience with Linux and Kubernetes and is fascinated by open-source AI. 28:33 Brian Vermeer helps to make Java applications and AI tools secure. 31:53 Andrey Sitnik promotes local-first privacy versus the user-data-selling approach. 35:59 Isabel Garrido Cardenas about cognitive load when working with a lot of microservices and the right way of testing with AI. 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. 40:13 Ruben Cordeiro shares his experience with volunteering at the conference and what he learned from the talks. 42:36 Horacio Gonzalez about simple to use cloud services by developers for developers. 44:46 Jonatan Sempere about communication and network APIs to prevent fraud for banking. 47:36 Luis Majano and Cris Escobar talk about BoxLang, a new dynamic JVM language. 59:42 Miguel Xoel García Balsa about observability and the difference with monitoring. 01:03:32 Silvia Bellmunt shares her experience with the Java community, the DevBcn conference, and data science. 01:06:15 Rijo Sam talks about framework- agnostic development, using plain Java as much as possible. 01:09:37 Nacho Cougil and Jonathan Vila invite you to the DevBcn conference next year. 01:11:33 Outro