Saturday October 4th, 8:30am-5pm

GDG Cloud Boston, GDG Boston Android, GDG Lawrence, GDG Manchester NH, GDG Providence and GDG On Campus @ Hult International Business School are teaming up this year to bring you our best yet DevFest for 2025. Our co-hosting New England GDG Chapters have over 6000 members combined.

Prepare to be captivated by a lineup of:

📢 Epic talks

🧠 Mind-blowing hands-on demos

🌟 Led by renowned Googlers, Google Developer Experts, and industry speakers, these sessions will take you on a transformative journey, expanding your knowledge and supercharging your skills.

🏛️ DevFest Boston is where you'll witness the power of technology unfold before your eyes, and where you'll find the tools and resources to shape the future of tech. From emerging trends to groundbreaking advancements, this event will keep you at the forefront of this ever-evolving tech landscape.

🛠️ DevFest 2025 will feature hands-on Agentic AI workshops at Introductory and Advanced levels

🥇 Get the Google Cloud Generative AI Leader Certification before attending DevFest. It is excellent preparation for the hands-on workshops. Check out this cool video from Google: https://youtu.be/kRkty6a0__I?si=Wl9uLh8OUusSXdus and see the video recordings of our Become a GAIL events that were held on September 16 and September 23. Those are in GDG Cloud Boston's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK-2jJomEFkRoyQ6Nq9hE4w

Doors will open and registration will begin at 8:30 AM.
Lunch will be provided (and coffee of course).

🚀 Agenda:

9:00 AM: Event begins & Keynote

9:05 AM - Keynote Address
Lori van Dam
CEO at Hult Prize Foundation at Hult International Business School

9:35 AM - Google DevFest Launch Video
featuring Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, Paige Bailey (Google DeepMind) and Logan Kilpatrick (Google DeepMind)

Track 1 - Mobile, Android, Web

10:00 AM - Flutter vs Kotlin Multiplatform
Kevin Moore
GDE (Flutter) & Android Developer

11:00 AM - End-to-End Rapid Prototyping of Apps with Gemini CLI and Deploying them to Google Cloud
Suvaditya Mukherjee
MS AI @ USC | ML GDE | External Author @ PyImageSearch

12:00 PM - LUNCH provided by Hult & GDG

1:15 PM - Automating Medical Coverage Decisions with Agent Development Kit
Shadab Hussain
Senior Associate, TheMathCompany & Co-Founder, Quantum Computing India

2:05 PM - Offline Intelligence: Hands-On with Gemini Nano in Android
Rafael Rodriguez Adames
Senior Product Engineer

3:00 PM - Building AI products with the customer in the loop
Sumita Palanisamy
Director of Engineering, CarGurus

3:30 PM Google Chrome Browser Demo - AI-enabled features, presented by several Google Developer Experts
Mark Johnson, Shadab Hussain, Suvaditya Mukherjee

3:30 PM Google Cloud Certifications and Google Cloud Skills Boost - Informal Discussion with GDEs
Roman Jaquez, Norbert Kremer, Kevin Quan

Track 2 - Cloud, AI, Data

10:00 AM - From Models to Agents: Building the Future of Enterprise AI with Google Cloud
Mark Johnson
GDE in Cloud & Solutions Architect

11:00 AM - Bridging Silicon and Software: Moving AI from PoCs to Production at the Hardware Level
Santosh Appachu Devanira Poovaiah
NVIDIA | Senior SoC Verification Engineer

12:00 PM - LUNCH provided by Hult & GDG

1:15 PM - Agent Development with ADK (85 minute Advanced level workshop)
Qingyue (Annie) Wang
Software Engineer and Internal Career Coach at Google

Track 3 - Cloud, AI, Data

10:00 AM - Are we in the AI Commodity Trap?
Tamilla Triantoro
Professor, Quinnipiac University

11:00 AM - AI in Finance: Building Smarter, Safer Systems for the Future
Narasimha Rao Vanaparthi
State Street Corporation - Assistant Vice President

12:00 PM - LUNCH provided by Hult & GDG

1:15 PM - Your epic quest awaits: Conquer the Agentverse (60 minute Introductory level workshop)
Christina Lin
Dev Rel Engineering Manager at Google

2:15 PM Agentic AI in Healthcare: Turning Hype into Real Impact
Alex Lee
A visionary innovation leader in healthcare AI agents

3:00 PM - Bridging the Disability Data Desert: A comprehensive review for inclusive Generative AI
Pradeep Kumar Muthukamatchi
Principal Cloud Architect, Microsoft & Manoj Varthan Velumani Assoc. Director at Axtria

4:00 PM - Wrap-up & Networking

Swag Raffle

Transportation:

We recommend the MBTA subway system or MBTA Commuter Rail. Here are some options:

• Green Line to Science Park / West End, then walk to the Hult School (< 10 minutes)

• Green Line to Lechmere, then walk to Hult School (< 10 minutes)

• Orange Line to Community College, then walk cross Gilmore Bridge, take Murphy Staircase (just past Sanofi Building) down to street level, proceed to Hult School (< 15 minutes)

• Red Line to Charles/MGH, then walk to Hult School (20 minutes)

• If arriving by car, the parking option recommended by Hult is the Museum of Science parking facility. There may be street parking on Saturday on Otis, Thorndike or Spring Streets, etc. Please strictly observe parking regulations and time limits, Cambridge parking enforcement is extremely efficient!

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