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Staying up to date with Modern Java can feel overwhelming. If you don’t have any experience with recent Java versions (or at all), features like Structured Concurrency or Stream Gatherers might sound exciting, but also scary: “How do I even get started with that?”
Fear not! In this session Marit and Piotr will explain to you the new exciting things and also show you how to use them in your IDE, so that the next day you can start having fun and profit with modern Java in your favorite tools on your own.
Staying up to date with Modern Java can feel overwhelming. If you don’t have any experience with recent Java versions (or at all), features like Structured Concurrency or Stream Gatherers might sound exciting, but also scary: “How do I even get started with that?”
Fear not! In this session Marit and Piotr will explain to you the new exciting things and also show you how to use them in your IDE, so that the next day you can start having fun and profit with modern Java in your favorite tools on your own.
![[VDBUH2026] Marit van Dijk & Piotr Przybył - Learning modern Java the playful way](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/47a1xmKmVCQ/mqdefault.jpg "[VDBUH2026] Marit van Dijk & Piotr Przybył - Learning modern Java the playful way
Staying up to date with Modern Java can feel overwhelming. If you don’t have any experience with recent Java versions (or at all), features like Structured Concurrency or Stream Gatherers might sound exciting, but also scary: “How do I even get started with that?”
Fear not! In this session Marit and Piotr will explain to you the new exciting things and also show you how to use them in your IDE, so that the next day you can start having fun and profit with modern Java in your favorite tools on your own.")
![[VDBUH2026] Victor Rentea - Kenote: AI Didn’t Replace You. It Promoted You!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5hVlf9_G71Q/mqdefault.jpg "[VDBUH2026] Victor Rentea - Kenote: AI Didn’t Replace You. It Promoted You!
We’ve always been rewarded for writing code, debugging systems, and mastering frameworks. But today, AI no longer just assists – it builds, analyzes, debugs, and reasons, so our role gets upgraded to shaping systems, taking decisions, and achieving outcomes. But as our attention moves away from code, how can we remain in control and keep the quality high? That’s the tension many senior engineers feel. This talk explores how AI agents can offload our chores, preserve our mental energy, and amplify our impact across the system—distilling lessons from early adopters of agentic engineering.
But this is not a talk about tools. It’s a talk about identity.
Because the real question today isn’t: “Will AI change my job?”
It’s: “Will I evolve fast enough to stay relevant?”")
