DevFest Centro e Norte 2025

Name: DevFest Centro e Norte 2025
Start: 2025-12-13T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-13T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Belmiro de Azevedo Learning Centre

Belmiro de Azevedo Learning Centre, Lugar do Espido, Via Norte, Maia, 4471-909

GDG Porto

GDG Porto, Braga and Coimbra come together to bring you this year's DevFest.Welcome to the most exciting tech event of t...

Dec 13, 2025, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM (UTC)

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About this event

GDG Porto, Braga and Coimbra come together to bring you this year's DevFest.
Welcome to the most exciting tech event of the year! Join us at Belmiro de Azevedo Learning Center (Maia) on December 13th for a day filled with innovation, learning, and networking.
Meet fellow tech enthusiasts and listen to inspiring speakers. Whether you're a student, developer, or tech enthusiast, there's something for everyone at DevFest Centro e Norte 2025!
Mark your calendars and get ready for an unforgettable experience. See you there!

100% of all ticket sales for this event will be donated to charity. The beneficiary organization will be announced soon.

All event details, including talks and speakers will be updated here. Stay tuned to our social networks as well!

When

Saturday, December 13, 2025
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM (UTC)

Where

Belmiro de Azevedo Learning Centre
Lugar do Espido, Via Norte
Maia 4471-909

Agenda

9:30 AM	Check in
10:00 AM	Welcome Session
10:30 AM	Renan Araujo - Flutter, Games and Shaders	Let's explore how the Shader Pipeline API on Flame transforms the visual appeal of Flutter games. Techniques such as glass and watermorphism, fog, and light reflection, along with post-processing, will be discussed.
11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:30 AM	Augusto Moreira - NextGen SOC - Our walk	Join us as we present Sonae MC’s evolution toward a modern and resilient SOC. We will outline the strategic vision that guided this transformation, highlight the role of Google SecOps as a key enabler, and demonstrate how it is integrated into our daily operations. We will also discuss how AI is already enhancing efficiency and strengthening our security capabilities. This session offers a clear, real-world perspective on how strategy and technology come together to advance cybersecurity.
12:15 PM	Gonçalo Martins - Document AI in the Banking Sector: Automation and Efficiency in Document Management	The implementation of Document AI-based solutions is redefining how banking institutions manage and process information. This session explores the integration of this technology into internal document management systems, highlighting how machine learning and natural language processing models enable the automatic identification, classification, and extraction of data from documents. The presentation will cover the main technical challenges of implementation, the strategies adopted and the operational gains achieved through the automation of document workflows.
1:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM	Susanna Wong - Supercharge Your Web Development with Chrome MCP: How I Build Faster with AI-Powered Workflows	AI is rapidly transforming the way we build for the web — but most developers are still stuck context-switching between browser tabs, chat interfaces, and dev tools. Chrome MCP (Model Context Protocol) changes that. It creates a secure bridge between your browser, local environment, and AI models, letting you bring AI into your workflow instead of constantly jumping out of it. In this session, I’ll share my perspective as a an engineer currently building an AI agent at a fast-moving startup - I’ll walk through how I’ve leveraged Chrome MCP and other AI tools to completely transform my daily web development process, from automating tedious tasks, to generating production-ready code with real project context, to debugging complex browser issues with AI at my side. We’ll break down what MCP is, how to set it up, and why it’s a game-changer for frontend and full-stack developers, especially in in improving the front end performance of your apps. Through live demos and real use cases, you’ll learn how to build custom MCP tools tailored to your own projects, and leave with actionable steps to integrate AI deeply into your development workflow.
3:00 PM	Akshata Mohanty - Agents to Zero: Experiments with Serverless Multi-Agent Architectures on Google Cloud	Anyone can build an agent, but building the right agent is still a challenge. Prototyping speed, deployment, and unit economics are critical. Using a real-world demo, this talk progressively walks through the lifecycle of an AI product: from leveraging Vertex AI to deploy a simple inference-as-a-service model server to building a complex multi-agent serverless architecture using ephemeral, containerized, stateless agents on Cloud Run. The talk will briefly cover concepts such as host-remote agent patterns with ADK, agent communication protocols, stateless memory management and handling known serverless bottlenecks such as cold starts, latency and concurrency. Attendees will see how agents instantiate, collaborate, and scale to zero, uncovering practical insights into building elastic, cost-efficient, event-driven AI systems in the cloud.
3:45 PM	Closing Session
4:00 PM	Beer Networking
5:00 PM	Goodbye!

Speakers

Susanna Wong

Google Developer Expert, QuantumBlack

Akshata Mohanty

Google Developer Expert in AI/ML

Head of Engineering - Tilla

Renan Araujo

Google Developer Expert - Flutter

Gonçalo Martins

BPI

Data Scientist

Augusto Moreira

MC Digital

Security Operation Center & Identity Access Management

Organizers

Cristina Martins

GDG Organizer

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Vicente Lora

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Tiago Lucas

Organizer

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FERNANDO DE JESUS GRANGEIRO

Organizer

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Gláucia Esppenchutz

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DevFest Centro e Norte 2025

Dec 13, 2025, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM (UTC)

Key Themes

About this event

When

Where

Agenda

Speakers

Susanna Wong

Akshata Mohanty

Renan Araujo

Gonçalo Martins

Augusto Moreira

Organizers

Cristina Martins

Vicente Lora

Tiago Lucas

FERNANDO DE JESUS GRANGEIRO

Gláucia Esppenchutz

Dec 13, 2025, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM (UTC)