February 25-27, 2026
Montreal, Canada
Old Dog, New Tricks: The Java 25 Reinvention
Modern Java has evolved into a powerful and expressive language, while maintaining readability, safety, and performance. This talk demonstrates how Java 25 now rivals Kotlin, Scala, Rust, and Go with features such as pattern matching, virtual threads, structured concurrency, records, and the Foreign Function & Memory API. See how Java is not just catching up but redefining what a modern language can be.
A N M Bazlur Rahman
Hammerspace
A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Toronto-based senior Java technologist and Java Champion. He leads the Java User Group Bangladesh, contributes as an InfoQ and Foojay.io editor, and speaks at international conferences including Devoxx and ConFoo.
He is the author of *Modern Concurrency in Java* (O’Reilly) and focuses on modern Java features, high-performance concurrency: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/modern-concurrency-in/9781098165406/
