**Hybrid Tech Conference \| Online worldwide \+ Onsite in Berlin & Cologne** *This here is the registration for **Berlin or online**. 🙂* *Click here to grab a seat for* ***[Cologne](https://www.meetup.com/ibmpoweraizurich/events/315787200/).*** Developers, DevOps, Architects, hands-on Techies - join a series of 3 tech events covering different R&D issues & trends that keep us up at night, starting on 21 July, with afternoons full of **tech** talks **without annoying sales pitches.** What makes the events stand out? 🥷🧙♀️🧝🪄 Tech + Community-first: Join bloody honest tech insights from like minded techies together with other practitioners — not just watching, but discussing, reacting, and learning in real time. The **upcoming 2 events** with different topics and speakers will take place hybrid (**online worldwide + onsite in Berlin & [Cologne](https://www.meetup.com/ibmpoweraizurich/events/315787200/)**) on: \- 2nd September\, \- 22nd October *The events are free of charge. Tickets to attend onsite, in person are limited.* If you’re curious about where the SDLC, software engineering, platform engineering and DevOps is going next - and how it impacts your life, this is a great place to plug in. Let's make this an amazing shared community experience with tech in its center. Join a variety of senior **practitioners** and run into like minded **techies** and discuss your thoughts with the community in a relaxed setting, with fingerfood and drinks... 👉 **Agenda** for the 2nd September: 13:00 Open Doors & local Networking ***in person in Berlin + Cologne*** 14:00 Official Welcome & ***online Livestream*** *starts*, **Sebastian Grodzietzki** 14:15 Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) & Event Sourcing: Stop asking for data. Announce what happened, and let the ecosystem react., **Oliver Rebmann** 14:45 Java modernization without getting paged at 2 a.m., **Lars Besselmann** 15:15 Quarkus vs Spring Boot in 2026, **Martin Stefanko** 16:00 Coffee break & snacks 16:20 AI-Infused Quarkus; how to integrate LangChain4j in your Java application, **Martin Stefanko** 17:00 LLM Integration & AI-Assisted Workflows: Augmenting our code and our applications with intelligence, **Manfred Buchmann** 17:30 Spec-Driven Development, **Niklas Heidloff** 18:15 Wrap-up, Dinner & Drinks, Networking We are looking forward to an inspiring event full of valuable content and discussions. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch at anytime... 🙂 \*\*\* Looking for more **free practitioner events**? Follow the **BuildersHub** **event calendar**: **[https://luma.com/BuildersHub](https://luma.com/BuildersHub)**