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

• October 31, 5:00-8:00 PM - Networking and hands-on labs 

• November 1st, 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM - Full day of talks and workshops. 

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• early bird till 10/16th

• late bird 10/16th-10/27th

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 Wes Turner

• 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

Schedule for Track 1, Room 308:

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM MCP demystified: how your LLM can do things in real world Ben Morss

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Unleash your AI Canvas Creations: Hands-on with Google's Nano Banana, Veo, and the Ethics of GenMedia Allen Firstenberg

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Selling Made Easy with AI Robots: Building Towards AGI in CRM Sri Kolagani

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM How Analytic Data is Stored in Google BigQuery (and Everywhere Else!) Edward Pollack

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Why LLMs Need Ontologies Alex Kalinowski

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM LLMs from the command line: A simple, ugly, overpowered tool Christopher Smith

5:45 PM - 6:15 PM Closing Remarks and Raffle 

Schedule for Track 2, Room 324:

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM AI & BigQuery: A match made in heaven! Austin Bennett

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM LLMs from the command line: A simple, ugly, overpowered tool Christopher Smith

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Panel: Life after a CS degree Michael Race

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Journey of a Solo Developer in a Collaborative World Roman Jaquez

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM  Influence Design in the AI Era: Business Strategy Sean Smith

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM The Pursuit of AI: Deploying AI Systems in the Wild Lydia Manikonda

Schedule for Track 3, Room 330:

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Extending Google Workspace with Gemini API Alice Keeler

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Beyond Chatbots: Unlocking Gemini's Potential through Flutter Roman Jaquez

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Galvanize your Career Growth with Google Cloud Training > Become a Generative AI Leader Norbert Kremer

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Using Gemini with AppSheet Alice Keeler

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Micro front end micro services architecture with AI Jyoti Shah 

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Building & Deploying an AI “Unhinged Therapist” with Firebase, Vue, and Gemma Taha Bouhsine