Foojay Podcast #80: AI4Devs Interviews - Part 2

This is part 2 of the interviews recorded on September 19th, 2025, at the first AI4Devs conference 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?’

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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