Champion
Zoran Sevarac
Deep Netts
Zoran Sevarac is a seasoned software engineer, university professor of Artificial Intelligence, and passionate Java developer with more than two decades of experience in software engineering, AI research, and open-source innovation.
He is the creator of two pioneering AI development platforms built entirely in Java — Neuroph and Deep Netts — which made AI development more accessible to the Java community. His work bridges modern AI technologies with the reliability, performance, and scalability of the Java ecosystem.
A Duke’s Choice Award winner, Java Champion, and member of the JCP Executive Committee, Zoran has been instrumental in driving the evolution of AI support in Java. His mission is to simplify AI adoption, enable GPU acceleration through Project Panama and the Vector API, and bring high-performance, energy-efficient, and FinOps-friendly AI to enterprise systems.
He is the creator of two pioneering AI development platforms built entirely in Java — Neuroph and Deep Netts — which made AI development more accessible to the Java community. His work bridges modern AI technologies with the reliability, performance, and scalability of the Java ecosystem.
A Duke’s Choice Award winner, Java Champion, and member of the JCP Executive Committee, Zoran has been instrumental in driving the evolution of AI support in Java. His mission is to simplify AI adoption, enable GPU acceleration through Project Panama and the Vector API, and bring high-performance, energy-efficient, and FinOps-friendly AI to enterprise systems.
Badges 5
Talks 3
- Devoxx Belgium 2026
Java is for Data Science, Too: Building an End-to-End ML Pipeline Without Leaving the JVM
- Devoxx Belgium 2026
High-Performance Java-Native AI with CUDA and the Vector API
- Devoxx Belgium 2025
Java as an AI development Platform