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Rod Johnson is the CEO of Embabel, former CEO of Atomist, and a coder, author and investor. He is the creator of the Spring Framework and was co-founder and CEO of SpringSource. Following the acquisition of SpringSource by VMware, he served as SVP, Application Platform at VMware.

He is the author of several popular and influential books on Java and Java EE, including "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development" and "J2EE without EJB" (with Jürgen Hoeller).

He sits on the board of five prominent open source companies: Neo Technology, elastic, Lightbend, Meteor and Hazelcast.

Upcoming conference sessions featuring Rod Johnson

Why Do We Need An Agent Framework?

Aren’t LLMs smart enough to solve our problems directly? Aren’t MCP tools all we need to allow them to solve complex problems?

The founder of Springsource Rod Johnson has a new Open Source project: Embabel; an agent framework, initially for the JVM, that is intended not just to play catchup with Python agent frameworks, but to leapfrog them.

Friday Dec 12 @ 14:15 @ YOW! Sydney 2025

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Why Do We Need An Agent Framework?

Aren’t LLMs smart enough to solve our problems directly? Aren’t MCP tools all we need to allow them to solve complex problems?

The founder of Springsource Rod Johnson has a new Open Source project: Embabel; an agent framework, initially for the JVM, that is intended not just to play catchup with Python agent frameworks, but to leapfrog them.

Friday Dec 5 @ 14:15 @ YOW! Melbourne 2025

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Why Do We Need An Agent Framework?

Aren’t LLMs smart enough to solve our problems directly? Aren’t MCP tools all we need to allow them to solve complex problems?

The founder of Springsource Rod Johnson has a new Open Source project: Embabel; an agent framework, initially for the JVM, that is intended not just to play catchup with Python agent frameworks, but to leapfrog them.

Tuesday Dec 9 @ 14:15 @ YOW! Brisbane 2025

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Content featuring Rod Johnson

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Simplification and Automation in Java: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Simplification and Automation in Java: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
GOTO Copenhagen 2018
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Why You Need a Software Delivery Machine
Why You Need a Software Delivery Machine
GOTO Copenhagen 2018
50:06
Why You Need a Software Delivery Machine
Why You Need a Software Delivery Machine
GOTO Chicago 2019
40:33
Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI
Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI
YOW! Sydney 2024
40:33
Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI
Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI
YOW! Brisbane 2024
40:33
Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI
Practical Gen AI: Building a Chatbot using Spring AI
YOW! Melbourne 2024
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