Supercharge Your Applications with Java, Graphs, and a Touch of AI

We all want to use GenAI to give ourselves superpowers, right? It’s fun to imagine and build innovative applications, but what does it take to move beyond simple examples? In this session, the presenters will build a RAG application using Quarkus and Neo4j, highlighting the differences from a traditional, non-AI approach. We’ll explore how Quarkus leverages familiar Java development patterns while supporting the performance and efficiency needed for AI workloads. Along the way, we’ll discuss design considerations, common challenges, and developer-friendly features that simplify building smarter apps. From concepts to coding, join us to learn how to take your Java applications to the next level.

Jennifer Reif

Jennifer Reif is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j, speaker, and blogger with an MS in CMIS. An avid developer and problem-solver, she has worked with many businesses and projects to organize and make sense of widespread data assets and leverage them for maximum business value. She has expertise in a variety of commercial and open source tools, and she enjoys learning new technologies, sometimes on a daily basis! Her passion is finding ways to organize chaos and deliver software more effectively.

Erin Schnabel

Erin Schnabel (@ebullientworks) is a Distinguished Engineer and maker of things at Red Hat. She is a Java Champion, with over 25 years under her belt as a developer, technical leader, architect and advocate, and she strongly prefers being up to her elbows in code. Erin learns (and teaches) by coding ridiculous things, like "Monster Combat" (https://github.com/ebullient/monster-combat), an application that makes monsters fight each other to explore application metrics; and “Game On! Text Adventure” (https://gameontext.org) for exploring cloud native development.