DevFest Ottawa 2025: Code. Connect. Create.

Room #C240, Learning Crossroads (CRX), 100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, K1N 9N3

GDG Ottawa

A day of tech, community, and innovation at DevFest Ottawa 2025. Ottawa’s biggest developer conference of the year.

Nov 2, 2025, 2:30 – 9:30 PM (UTC)

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About this event

About this event

🌟 GDG Ottawa DevFest 2025 🌟

Join us on Sunday, November 2nd, 2025 for Ottawa’s biggest developer conference of the year! 🚀

From 09:30 AM – 4:30 PM, we’re bringing together Googlers, Google Developer Experts (GDEs), and top local professionals to share their knowledge, insights, and real-world experiences across topics like Cloud, AI/ML, Web, Mobile, and more.

This one-day event is a great opportunity to learn, connect, and be inspired by the tech community in Ottawa and beyond.

🎤 What to Expect:

Engaging talks and sessions from industry experts

Networking with developers, tech leaders, and innovators

Light breakfast, coffee, and lunch included

Fun swag giveaways 🎁

📍 Location: Room # C240, Learning Crossroads (CRX) , 100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3

🗓️ Date: Sunday, Nov 2nd, 2025

🕙 Time: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Parking Information:

https://www.uottawa.ca/about-us/administration-services/office-chief-risk-officer/parking

Parking Rate:

https://www.uottawa.ca/about-us/administration-services/office-chief-risk-officer/parking/visitors-daily-parking-rates

Sandy Hill, Osgood Street and Wilbord Street may have some free street parking (for 1hr-3hr)

If you are joining Gleb Otochkin's workshop, Please fill up this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdkQwgG3iVjweYk3j8ilgrUw0H35OJIWH1-OG3ul78iBFKkcg/viewform?usp=header

Whether you’re a student, professional developer, or tech enthusiast, DevFest 2025 is for you. Come expand your skills, meet like-minded people, and be part of the global Google Developer Group community!

When

When

Sunday, November 2, 2025
2:30 PM – 9:30 PM (UTC)

Agenda

Registration, Breakfast and Swag Collection
Keynote
Develop an App with Gemini (Code Assist) by Yufeng Chen
From Concept to Cloud: Accelerating AI with Cloud Run by Raju Dawadi
AI: The End of Jobs or the Start of Freedom? by Derek Kim
Lunch
Build Multi-Agent Systems with ADK by Gleb Otochkin
Bridging Human Intent & Code: Building AI Assistants with Model Context Protocol
Gemma: An Introduction to Google's State-of-the-Art Open Models by Arunesh Choudhary
Snacks, Networking and Generative Art Showcasing
Closing remarks

Speakers

  • Gleb Otochkin

    Google

    Cloud Advocate, Databases

  • Raju Dawadi

    Freelance DevOps

    Google Developer Expert(GDE) in Cloud Platform

  • Yufeng Chen

    Government of Canada

    Senior technical advisor

  • Arunesh Choudhary

    Dialabot.ai

    Conversational AI Engineer

  • Hyomin Kim

    Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud Platform, SRE, Karrot

Hosts

  • Yasmin Elsaddik

    Government of Canada

    Executive assistant

  • Hind Mukhtar

    University of Ottawa

    Data Scientist/PhD Candidate

  • Zoey Menekse

    Living Water Resorts

    Digital Marketing Specialist

Organizers

  • RAHATARA FERDOUSI

    Queen’s University

    Adjunct Professor

  • Naz Zarreen Oishie

    Siemens

    Softwere Engineer

  • Erica Silva

    Salesforce l

    Project Manager

  • Eslin Üstün

    Event Organizer

  • Samima Khan

    SurveyMonkey

    Product Designer

  • Khan Tanvir Hossain

    easyfinancial Services

    Financial Service Representative