AI4Devs Interviews - Part 2 (#80)

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This is part 2 of the interviews recorded on September 19th, 2025, at the first AI4Devs Conference (https://amsterdam.ai4devs.io/) in Amsterdam. In Part 1, we explored many AI-related topics as libraries, security, infrastructure, use cases, and more. In this second part, we'll dive into data science, tools for better AI development, Java in the cloud, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how the conference came together.
I also asked these guests the same opening question: 'What's your name, and what brings you to this conference?'

00:00 Introduction
00:43 Eileen Kapel
Data Scientist, building an evaluating a model, taking the enduser into account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileenkapel/
06:13 Jonathan Ellis and Ryan Svihla
Coding with AI with Brokk, AI-native code platform, Java language improvements while keeping stability
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbellis/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-svihla-096752182/
https://brokk.ai/
https://foojay.io/today/indexing-all-of-wikipedia-on-a-laptop/
16:24 David Parry
Qodo, AI developer tools, empowering engineering teams to standardize code quality and move fast with AI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddryparry/
https://www.qodo.ai/
28:46 Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza
Java in the cloud, Impact of our job on the environment and our future, Green Software Foundation, Dutch Cloud Native meetup and conference
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandrovozza/
https://cloudnative.amsterdam/
https://greensoftware.foundation/
Article by Miro about energy usage: https://foojay.io/today/research-measuring-energy-consumption-in-programming-languages-for-ai-applications/
35:02 Sushant Shekhar
Using Java and AI, Moved from Java to other languages and back, Building your own models versus tweaking
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sushant-shekhar-2b43ba17/
39:09 Arno Koehler
Organisator, Ai code experiments versus production use, Schiphol POC, Kotlin versus Java versus Scala, The power of the JVM
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnokoehler/
45:37 Joost Kaan
About organizing the conference, Python and Java driving AI forward
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joost-kaan/
50:45 Coen de Waal, Samantha Burattini, and Luis San Martin
Conference sponsor, Use of AI in a banking environment
https://www.linkedin.com/in/coen-de-waal/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samantha-burattini/
54:51 Nahir Vila
Student, How the youth is using AI
57:33 Jonathan Vila
AI4Devs Organizer, How the conference started and a lookback at the end of the day, How AI can be used when writing articles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanvila/
01:05:58 Outro