The Self-Hosted Agent: Architecting Autonomous AI with Spring AI and Ollama with DaShaun Carter

​Stop building chatbots and start building teammates by moving beyond simple prompt-response cycles into the era of autonomous AI. In this session, DaShaun Carter, Spring Developer Advocate at Broadcom, will architect a high-performance, private AI stack using Spring AI and Ollama to run sophisticated models entirely on your local hardware. You will learn how to give these models "hands" using Spring AI Agent Utils to enable them to safely navigate file systems and execute shell commands while leveraging Embabel to move from brittle workflows to Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP). We will demonstrate how Java’s robust type system, combined with Rod Johnson’s next-gen orchestration, allows you to build autonomous, reasoning-based agents that solve complex domain problems without ever sending a single token to the cloud.