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Our annual Java Champions Conference. All speakers and moderators are Java Champions. It's the crème de la crème of Java luminaries. And it's completely free, as in beer. Hope to see you there! @Java #Java

Being on a program committee for a conference and seeing how talks are reviewed, discussed, and carefully selected, is a very educational and humbling experience. If you can, join your local conference, it will help both your community and you as a speaker.

🎅 New video is coming tomorrow! 🎄 My lovely editor decided to also create a short one with some behind the scenes footage 😅. #santa #java #timefold #planningai #quarkus

New Video! 🎄 Helping Santa solve his Traveling Salesmen Problem and helping him find a better route with #java and #timefold. I live-code a simple example using #quarkus and #leafletjs. 👨‍🏫 Catch it here and let me know what you think! 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=mYotsQ…

So, no event from us in Januari, it is leaking over to Feb3.☺️ However, Java Champions are organizing a #free online conference. Sign up and join! jchampionsconf.com

Hello 2025, here we are! Time for our next session of BeJUG, this time in Heverlee with a double headliner! We are extremely gratefull to AE (ae.be) who are hosting us this month! Signup for free at: meetup.com/belgian-java-u… #java #community

How to handle Employee (un)availability in automated Shift Rostering. It's not as simple as it looks! youtube.com/watch?v=xyk7jI… @PlanningAI #ai #timefold

After learning about Model Context Protocol (MCP), a way to expose external software to LLMs, I decided to experiment with it! 🧪 You can read all about it on my latest blog post: tomcools.be/post/2025-jan-… Thanks Max Rydahl Andersen for the #quarkus guide for #MCP. #java #camel

Timefold hitting the front-page of Hacker News Bot 😍. The blog post Geoffrey De Smet wrote is probably the best explainer why I switched companies after 11.5 years at my first employer. It's heartfelt, personal and excellent: timefold.ai/blog/how-i-bui… #OpenSource #Founder

Duke's Corner Podcast with Tom Cools on his mission to spread Java all over Belgium! We chat about the Belgian JUG, the evolution Java, the Java release cycle, contributing to the community, and some life issues developers have to manage during their careers. Java Tom Cools

Excited for #JCON EUROPE 2025? See Tom Cools at #JCON2025 in Cologne talking about '#Braving the Change: #Recalibrating to New #Realities' ‘Change is the only #constant in our industry’… but they never told … Get your free #JUG Ticket: jcon.one

The quickstarts readme for our open source solver had a make-over! It's now easier to find the right example and start solving your scheduling or routing problem with #PlanningAI. Try it out: github.com/TimefoldAI/tim…

🎤 Byte size session announcement We’re excited to welcome Tom Cools from Timefold to the Voxxed Days Amsterdam lineup! Great to have you, Tom, looking forward to your byte size session! 🙌 🧠 Talk: “LLMs can't optimize schedules, but AI can!” 🔹 LLMs are great, but not

Let’s keep up the #java vibes! 🚀 Heading to NSI ITSS in Awans & a big thanks to our hosts! Excited to have Matthias share all about Maven 4. Register here: meetup.com/belgian-java-u… Plus, an open Quick Slot for 10-25min talks—volunteers, step up: github.com/BeJUG/bejug.gi…

Our Open Source solver now has a dedicated home: solver.timefold.ai It's a place for the Timefold Solver community, with everything you need to build a solution for any planning, scheduling or routing optimization problem. Is there anything missing that you would like to

LLMs can’t do everything — but AI still can! 🤖 Join Tom Cools April 23rd for a session that cuts through the GenAI hype! Learn how Timefold tackles scheduling problems LLMs can’t solve Live Stream: bit.ly/4jaIpBS

Event Alert! 🚨Our May session of BeJUG is very early in the month, this time in Leuven! We'll have Jonas Geiregat join us to talk about Event Driven systems. We are extremely gratefull to Randstad Digital Belgium for hosting us! 🙏 Signup for free at: meetup.com/belgian-java-u…

Long overdue! Steve is one of the people who helped me a lot in my career. Congratz!

Can LLMs solve scheduling or routing problems? Can GenAI help companies save millions of dollars by optimizing Vehicle Routing, Shift Rostering or Job Scheduling to increase productivity and retention? Why not? Which type of AI can? And how can we combine it with LLMs to make

In the lead up to #Java's 30th, let's celebrate some Java Legends. Drop a comment & tag the legendary figures in the Java community. We will go first, James Gosling, Brian Goetz, Mark Reinhold, Venkat Subramaniam, Ana Maria Mihalceanu 🇳🇱🇷🇴, Billy Korando 🍃☕️ 🐈🐈, and Nicolai Parlog