Panel Discussion: LangChain4j Turns Two - What We’ve Learned and What’s Next

Guillaume Laforge is a Developer Advocate at Google, focusing on generative AI solutions. He is a Java Champion. He co-founded the Apache Groovy programming language project.

Lize Raes loves helping developers to bring AI into real-world applications. As Developer Advocate for Java + AI at Oracle and collaborator at LangChain4j, she’s invested into making cutting-edge tech accessible and useful for developers. Her path has taken her from cochlear implant research to advising the Belgian government during COVID-19, to bioinformatics for drug development. Lize likes her projects hands-on and slightly unconventional, especially when they help make the world a bit better. Outside of work, you’ll find her behind the piano or in her woodworking atelier.

Dimitris has 25+ years of experience in IT and he is currently Sr.Director of Engineering at Red Hat in charge of the Cloud Native Runtimes group that includes Quarkus, Vert.x, SpringBoot, Node.js, as well as his former WildFly / JBoss Enterprise Application Server teams that he used to run for several years. He also served as the JBoss AS project lead and he has been a JBoss addict and contributor from the early start-up days. He worked previously at Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems. Dimitris studied computer science at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and received an M.Sc. by research from University College Dublin, Ireland.

Dimitris is a passionate advocator of Opensource & Red Hat technologies and has presented on a variety of events and conferences around the world. He has been an invited speaker at various Java/Linux community events and user groups, and he has delivered inspirational talks on technology and Open Source in universities and educational institutes. In his spare time he has also helped with the organization of technology enablement events for children, like Scratch Days, Devoxx4Kids and JCrete4Kids.

Julien Dubois manages the Java Developer Relations team at Microsoft.
He is known as the creator and lead developer of the JHipster project, and as a Java Champion. In the past 25 years, Julien mainly worked with the Java and Spring technologies, leading technical teams for many different customers across all industries. As he loves sharing his passion, Julien wrote a book on the Spring Framework, spoke at more than 200 international conferences, and created several popular Open Source projects.