Share what you know about Java.
First-time speakers welcome
You don’t need to be an expert. If you’ve built something, fixed something or learned something, the community wants to hear it.
- Rehearsals with an organiser before the day
- Slide reviews and help shaping your abstract
- A friendly room of developers and students
Pick a format
- 60 min
Keynote
A big idea, the state of Java or a story from years in the field.
- 45 min
Talk and demo
Show how something works, with code on screen.
- 20 min
Quick-fire talk
One tip, one tool or one lesson learned. Ideal for a first talk.
What we’d love to hear about
Anything Java or JVM is welcome. These are a few ideas to start from.
- Modern Java: records, pattern matching, virtual threads
- Spring Boot and Spring AI
- Jakarta EE and MicroProfile
- Testing, observability and performance on the JVM
- Cloud-native Java: containers, Kubernetes, native images
- Kotlin, Scala and other JVM languages
- Building Java teams and careers in Kenya
From idea to stage
- 1
Send your idea
A title, a few sentences on what people will learn, and the format you prefer. A rough idea is fine.
- 2
We get back to you
An organiser replies and helps shape the abstract if you’d like.
- 3
Rehearse with us
Run through your talk with an organiser, get feedback on your slides and test the demo.
- 4
Take the stage
Speak at a meetup or Java Connect KE, in front of developers and students from across Kenya.
Got an idea? Send it over.
The button opens an email with a short template. Fill in what you can, and we’ll take it from there.