In 2025 I visited the conference Devoxx in Antwerp from 2025-10-06 to 2025-10-10. As always, the first two days were „deep dive“, with longer talks and fewer participants, followed by two intense days with many talks, mostly about 50 min long, followed by the Friday with only 3 talks and much fewer participants. A lot of people see to skip the last day. I used to think it was because of Belgian beer, because there were some evening events with beer on Thursday, but I think it is just the desire to go home for the weekend. I recommend staying in Belgium for the weekend after the conference, at least once or twice.
Once again AI was an important topic during the whole conference. The euphoria of the previous years was still present and the organizer Stephan had done a lot of great development for the Devoxx-Web-Application using AI. Also the intro movie before the talks was great and this would not have been possible without AI.
Here are some photos of my impressions of the Devoxx:
