The Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Toledo Google Developer Groups (GDG) are teaming up once again to bring you the 10th Michigan DevFest on Oct 26, 2024 at the Little Caesar's Global Resource Center.

With our 10th DevFest, we aim to put together a great day of networking and knowledge sharing for all involved. We currently have our Call for Speakers (https://www.papercall.io/midevfest2024) open and we hope you'll consider speaking.

We have different pricing levels for our tickets: Normal, and Last Minute. Purchase your tickets early to save money and help us know how many attendees we will have.

Doors will open at 8am and the event will conclude at 4:30pm. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Additional event details will be posted soon.

Here are our current confirmed talks:

AI Talks

• The Rise of AI Agents: From Concept to Reality by Nilesh Patel, Google
  
• Evaluating the Evaluators - Navigating the complexities of GenAI metrics by Vikram Tiwari, Cloud & ML Google Developer Expert
  
• Security Implications of AI in Code Generation and (S)SDLC by Kavitha Bangalore, Cleveland Clinic
• Introduction to RAG with LangChain and Gemini by Godfrey Nolan, RIIS LLC
  
• GenAI - Agents here, Agents there, and soon, Agents everywhere by John Thompson, EY
• Workshop: Building and Evaluating a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Pipeline to Land a Job! by Keith Bourne, Johnson & Johnson

• Workshop: Application of Machine Learning Models to Predict Heart Disease by Ankita Gush, Freudenberg e-Power System 

• Improving Accessibility for Deaf Gamers through Real-time Audio Classification by Ben Jacques, SpinDance
• Old to Gold: How to Modernize Your Legacy ASP.NET Apps Gradually by Jonathan "J." Tower, Trailhead Technology & Microsoft MVP
• Bye WebSockets and WebRTC! Boost Web Comms with Rust, QUIC, WebTransport and HTTP3! by Dario A Lencina Talarico, May Mobility