Happening on October 17th and 18th!

Here's where the future meets the present and theory transforms into practice. Whether you're a developer, creator, researcher, or simply curious about where artificial intelligence is taking us, this summit is designed to push boundaries and spark innovation.

Pssttt, people who register as members on our site waterloo.dev get some exciting discounts! 🎉

Day 0 [Workshops]

5:30-6:00 - Refresher

Workshops (6:00-7:30)

5:30-6:00 - Refresher

Workshops (6:00-7:30) [Parallel Sessions]

• The Lab Shop:

  • Building & Deploying an AI “Unhinged Therapist” with Firebase, Vue, and Gemma

    • Taha Bouhsine

  • Unleash AI Agents: Transform Your Business in 90 Minutes

    • GDG Cloud Toronto

  • From Vibe to Reality: Building Beautiful Apps with Firebase Studio

    • Yvonne Monterroso

• The Creatives Lair:

  • The Developer's Kitchen: A Recipe for AI-Powered Workspace Add-ons

    • Alice Keeler

  • Workshop 5 (The Studio): Jamming with AI: Introducing PromptCraft as Creative Collaboration

    • Sean Yo

Day 1: Agenda

Main Stage Sessions (All Attendees Together) 9:00-9:30:

• 8:30-9:20: Registration | Networking & Breakfast

• 9:20-9:45: Introduction and welcome talk 

  • Sanjay + Yash

  • Bardish Chagger

  • Rachel

• 09:45-10:30: Keynote 1: "Surv^H^H^H^H Thriving in an AI"

  • Frank van Puffelen

• 10:30-11:15:  Panel 1:"The $100 Billion Question: Who Pays When AI Makes Mistakes?"

  • Yvonne Monterroso

  • Taha Bouhsine

  • Bryce Howitson

  • Simon

  • Sanjay (Host)

• 11:15-12:30: Workshops

  • Workshop 6 (The Lab): Code Your First Multi-Agentic RAG System in Under an Hour

    • Kiruthika Subramani

  • Building a Production Multi-Agent Code Review Assistant with Google ADK

    • Ayo Adedeji

• 12:30-1:30: Lunch

Parallel Track Sessions (1:30-3:30)

• 1:30-2:10

  • The Lab (Room 1): Talk: “Multi-Modal Fusion: A Technical Deep-Dive on How Vision using JAX”

    • David Cardozo

  • The Lab (Room 2): Talk: pip install robot: The Future of AI Development for Robotics

    • Steven Rice

  • The Academy (Room 3): Talk: "Human Computer Interaction: The UX of AI"

    • Bryce Howitson

  • The Commons (Room 4): Talk: "Healthcare AI: Life-or-Death Decisions"

• 2:10-2:50

  • The Lab (Room 1): Demo: "Live Model Fine-Tuning: Customizing Gemma 3 270M in Under 30 Minutes"

    • Thomas Chong

  • The Academy (Room 2):Talk: "AI Around The World"

    • Jeremy Wilken

  • The Commons (Room 4): Talk: "Legend Has It: Why AI Should Never Make Management Decisions"

    • Sean Yo

• 2:50-3:30

  • The Lab (Room 2): Demo: “Building the Chain of Trust: A Google ADK Blueprint for Grounded Legal AI Agents”

    • Boris-Wilfried

  • The Academy (Room 2): Talk + demo: "The Ghost in the Machine Learning: When Statistical Patterns Dream of Electric Sheep"

    • Faisal Abid

  • The Studio (Room 3): Demo: "Press A for Assistance: Making Games Accessible with AI"

    • Veronica Reingold

  • The Commons (Room 4): Talk: "AI Warfare Ethics"

    • David Cardozo

• 3:30-4:10

  • The Lab (Room 1): Work Smarter, Not Harder: Gemini CLI for Developers and Architects

    • Sudipta Deb

  • The Academy (Room 2): Talk: “Responsible AI - Algorithmic Fairness in Model Building”

    • Ali El-Sharif

Main stage continues:

• 4:15-4:45 Talk (Main Stage): "The $2 Trillion AI Economy: How Google Cloud is Reshaping Global Finance"

• 4:45-5:00: Networking Snacks & Break

• 5:00-5:45: Panel 2: "After the AI Revolution: What Do 8 Billion Unemployed Humans Do?"

  • Alice Keeler

  • David Cardozo

  • Faisal Abid

  • Sanjay (Host)

• 5:45-6:00: Closing Remarks

• 6:00: After Party (TBD)