Java Summit IL sessions are focused on pragmatic knowledge for your everyday work as a developer in the JVM ecosystem, with focus on Java and other JVM programming languages. We prefer knowledge that is gained from real world experiences, sharing both the pitfalls and the upsides of the topic presented. 

The conference is divided into 2 parallel tracks, hosting 3 types of sessions:

• Deep Dives: 50 minute long session, covering a topic in depth to fully grasp how it works and whether it can benefit your organization. It balances both the pros and cons, avoiding displaying just the "happy side" of a topic.
• Overview: 25 minute session, overviewing a topic and providing a general understanding of how it works. Sharing just enough valuable information to understand whether this is applicable to your organization.
• Bite Size: 15 minute short session, covering the gist of a topic, triggering the viewer to start exploring it more.

Topics We Search For

Core Java 

• New language features
• Future Java features (projects)

Performance & Troubleshooting

• Use cases of writing high performance, low latency Java services
• Tips/Tricks/Tools for troubleshooting microservices in production

Tooling

 Tools a JVM developer needs to be familiar with. Examples:

• Kubernetes and its ecosystem of tools (Helm, KNative, Service Mesh, …)
• Streaming Technologies (Kafka, Pulsar, …)
• Databases (Graph, Document, Timeseries, Relational)
• Observability (Jaeger, Prometheus, Parca, OpenSearch, …)
• Build Tools (Gradle, Maven, Bazel, …)

JVM Languages

• Features / advantages of other JVM languages, such as Kotlin, Scala, …

JEE

• Discussing new standards (Jakarta) and how they may affect developers

Show & Tell Architectures

• Real use cases of complicated problems, and their solutions: Tools, architecture patterns, libraries, etc.

Developer Productivity & Developer Experience 

• Any tooling and its glue, allowing to achieve better Developer Velocity
• Continuous deployment 

Libraries and frameworks  

• Microservices ecosystems: Spring boot, Vert.x, Dropwizard, JHipster, Quarkus, Micronaut
• Libraries: Configuration, Persistency, Metrics, Observability, Data Structures, Concurrency, Distributed Applications, Feature Flags …
• If you are a committer or an owner of the OSS project you want to speak about please state it in the submission   

Methodologies

• Case studies of methodologies to work better as a team / organization
• Microservices Architecture
• Testing methodologies 

Security

• Pitfalls to avoid, leading to more secure Java Microservices
• Security you need to know: HTTP/S in Java

We would like our speakers to be  software professionals and we are seeking purely technical content. Marketing / Sales pitches are strongly discouraged. All talks will be selected only according to topic quality and relevance to the community. There will not be any sponsored talks. We value any person with first hand knowledge and good presentation skills. 

First time speakers are welcome. As we understand that a first public talk can be challenging thus we provide extensive assistance: building the slide deck, dry runs with feedback, and presentation skills workshops. It’s important for us to have a good mix of top notch experienced speakers *and* first time speakers. 

Speaker Benefits 

Being a speaker provides not only a unique experience sharing your knowledge, but a lot more:

• A free ticket to the conference 
• Airfare and accommodation expenses for speakers arriving from outside of Israel  
• Speakers dinner that will take place a day before the conference 
• A day trip in Israel that will take place the day after the conference. It is complimentary for all the speakers.