Champion

James Ward

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.

Badges 13

Talks 18

Devoxx Belgium 2026
Exquisite Evals for Skills & MCPs
October 2026Development Practices
Devoxx Belgium 2026
MCP 2.0 - Stateless, New Auth (CIMD), and Exciting Extensions
October 2026Agentic Engineering & Tooling
Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
Intelligent Kotlin
April 2026Java
Voxxed Days Amsterdam 2026
Building AI Agents With Spring & MCP
April 2026Data & AI
Devoxx Belgium 2025
Hands-On: Building AI Agents with Embabel
October 2025GenAI & Beyond
Devoxx Belgium 2025
Bootiful Spring AI
October 2025GenAI & Beyond
Devoxx Belgium 2025
Hands-On: Building Agents with Spring AI, MCP, Java, and Amazon Bedrock
October 2025GenAI & Beyond
Devoxx Belgium 2025
Beyond local tools: Deep dive into the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
October 2025GenAI & Beyond
Devoxx UK 2025
Write Once, Deploy Everywhere: From Containers to Serverless
May 2025Build & Deploy▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2024
Pkl: Safe and Maintainable Config for Java Apps and Infrastructure
October 2024Build & Deploy
Devoxx Belgium 2024
Structured Concurrency: Managing the Hierarchical Cancelation and Error Handling
October 2024Development Practices▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2022
Spring + Kotlin = Modern + Reactive + Productive
October 2022Server Side Java▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2022
Google's Journey from Java to Kotlin for Server-Side Programming
October 2022Server Side Java
Devoxx UK 2021
All Things Serverless: Kotlin, Kafka and Stream Processing
November 2021Build & Deploy
Devoxx Belgium 2019
Knative workshop - your own platform as a service on kubernetes
November 2019Cloud, Containers & Infrastructure
Devoxx Belgium 2019
Kotlin mullets - business in the front, party in the back
November 2019Programming languages▶ Watch
Devoxx Belgium 2019
What's coming in scala 3
November 2019Programming languages▶ Watch
Devoxx US 2017
Introduction to apache kafka - the next gen event streaming system
March 2017bigdata▶ Watch

James Ward

Badges 13

Talks 18

Exquisite Evals for Skills & MCPs

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

Intelligent Kotlin

Building AI Agents With Spring & MCP

Hands-On: Building AI Agents with Embabel

Bootiful Spring AI

Hands-On: Building Agents with Spring AI, MCP, Java, and Amazon Bedrock

Beyond local tools: Deep dive into the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Write Once, Deploy Everywhere: From Containers to Serverless

Pkl: Safe and Maintainable Config for Java Apps and Infrastructure

Structured Concurrency: Managing the Hierarchical Cancelation and Error Handling

Spring + Kotlin = Modern + Reactive + Productive

Google's Journey from Java to Kotlin for Server-Side Programming

All Things Serverless: Kotlin, Kafka and Stream Processing

Knative workshop - your own platform as a service on kubernetes

Kotlin mullets - business in the front, party in the back

What's coming in scala 3

Introduction to apache kafka - the next gen event streaming system