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DevFest Troy '25

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, 12180

GDG Hudson

Get ready for the ultimate tech extravaganza at DevFest 2025 in Troy, NY - it's gonna be epic! October 31 - Networking and hands-on labs November 1st - Full day of talks and workshops

Oct 31, 9:00 PM – Nov 1, 10:00 PM (UTC)

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About this event

This is our annual professional developers festival, brought to you by your local tech community.

  • October 31 - Networking and hands-on labs 
  • November 1st - Full day of talks and workshops. 

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  • early bird till 9/16
  • late bird 9/16th-10/17



AGENDA:

Friday, October 31st

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM 

Hands-on Workshops

Awesome workshops to be delivered simultaneously in three rooms: 

  • Building Agents with Google and LangChainJS, by Allen Firstenberg
  • Exploring On-Device LLM with Gemma and Flutter, by Omar Farouk
  • Comparing AI Studio and Gemini Canvas, by Alice Keeler


Saturday, November 1st 

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM 

Multi track conference filled with brilliant talks

  • 9:30 AM: Registration and Coffee
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Opening remarks and keynote
  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Three tracks
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch break (food and drinks provided)
  • 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Three tracks (continued)
  • 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Closing Remarks and Raffle
When

When

October 31 – November 1, 2025
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM (UTC)

Speakers

  • Alice Keeler

    AliceKeeler, LLC

    Google Developer Expert

  • Roman Jaquez

    Philips

    Software Engineer / Flutter GDE

  • Allen Firstenberg

    Google Developer Expert for Google Assistant

  • Austin Bennett

    Google Developer Expert

  • Omar Farouk

    KOF CORPORATION

    Founder, GDE

  • April King

    ArtherapyHQ

    Brand Ambassador and Content Creator

  • Alexander Kalinowski

    Empire State University

    Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence

  • Sri Kolagani

    Elastic

    Senior Engineering Manager

  • Ben Morss

    DeepL

    Developer Evangelist

  • Christopher Smith

    Promptly Technologies, LLC

    President

  • Edward Pollack

    Transfinder

    Data Architect | Microsoft Data Platform MVP

  • Lydia Manikonda

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

    Assistant Professor

  • Jyoti Shah

    ADP

    Director of Application Development

Facilitators

  • John Sturman

    Open Hub

  • Yulia Ovchinnikova

    Open Hub

    President

Hosts

  • Yulia Ovchinnikova

    OpenHub

    President

  • John Sturman

    RPI

    Lecturer

Partners

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OpenHub

Agora Media logo

Agora Media

Organizers

  • Yulia Ovchinnikova

    OpenHub

    GDG Organizer

  • John Sturman

    OpenHub

    Agile Facilitator / CSM

  • Richard Lin

    New York

    Ecosystem builder

  • Dave Long

    Developer, inventor, musician

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