James Ward - Speaker at Devoxx Belgium 2026

AWS

Professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. A Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot who often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. Currently a Developer Advocate for AWS and AAIF Technical Committee member.

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Christian Tzolov

Spring Team

James Ward

AWS

Exquisite Evals for Skills & MCPs

The speaker built the javadocs.dev MCP server to give Java, Kotlin, and Scala agents efficient library documentation access. They created a custom eval framework showing it is up to 5x more token-effi...

Development Practices

Tools-in-Action 30 min.

INTERMEDIATE

James Ward

AWS

MCP 2.0 - Stateless, New Auth (CIMD), and Exciting Extensions

The session reviews recent MCP spec and implementation changes and their impact on server developers. It covers stateless transport, new CIMD authentication, and extensions like MCP Apps, Tasks, and S...

Agentic Engineering & Tooling

Conference 50 min.

INTERMEDIATE