Windsor-Essex GDG DevFest 2025

Odette School of Business, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, N9B 3P4

GDG Windsor

DevFests are Google-sponsored software developer conferences that allow the local software development community to network and learn about the latest and greatest technology. The DevFest is also an opportunity to present topics that are aligned with the latest industry trends or have the potential to be one, and to share knowledge and experience with others. Topics/sessions around Generative AI,

Nov 8, 1:00 – 10:00 PM (UTC)

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About this event

The Windsor Google Developers Group (GDG) is proud to host our annual Windsor-Essex DevFest on Saturday, November 8, 2025.

DevFests are Google-sponsored software developer conferences that allow the local software development community to network and learn about the latest and greatest technology. The Devfest is also an opportunity to present topics aligned with the latest industry trends or that have the potential to become such, and share knowledge and experience with others. 

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When

When

Saturday, November 8, 2025
1:00 PM – 10:00 PM (UTC)

Speakers

  • Luis Serrano

    Serrano Academy

    Founder and Chief Education Officer

  • Don Ward

    Google

    Customer Engineer Specialist

  • Nilesh Patel

    Google

    Customer Engineer Specialist

  • Naresh Jasotani

    Google

    Principal Technologist | Gen AI Ambassador

  • Satish Venugopal

    Google

    Senior Cloud Architect

  • Mark Johnson

    Learn.Grow.Deploy, LLC

    Solutions Architect and Google Cloud Trainer

  • Glen Yu

    PwC

    Google Developer Expert | Cloud and Data

  • Ben Morss

    DeepL

    Developer Evangelist

  • Nicholas Schmidt

    SolasAI & BLDS, LLC

    Chief Technology and Innovation Officer

  • Godfrey Nolan

    RIIS

    President

  • Ahmed Abou Gharam

    Molex

    Design for Reliability Director

  • Mina Girges

    TransForm Shared Service Organization

    Vice President & Chief Information Officer

  • Andrea Irina Yzeiri

    Picsume

    Chief Data & Analytics Officer and Lead AI Engineer

  • Frank Abbruzzese

    CEO & President at AlphaKOR

  • Adam Castle

    WEtech Alliance

    Director of Venture Services & Partnerships

  • John Langlois

    Scelta

    Chief Technology Officer

  • Umair Durrani

    Presage Group

    Data Scientist

  • Joseph Youssouf

    Oden Technologies

    Data Scientist

  • Daria Deriagina

    DashDev

    UX/UI & Web Designer

  • Raneem Ghalion

    ADOPLI AI

    Co-Founder and AI Business Strategist

  • Salma Aly

    BlinkTech Solutions.

    Founder

  • Veronica Reingold

    University of Windsor

    Computer Science Student

  • Steven Rice

    University of Windsor

    AI Researcher

  • Kiran Puthan

    Bell Canada

    Solution Consultant

  • Safiia Mohammed

    University of Windsor

    PhD Student

  • Keval Patel

    REALIQ

    Data Scientist

  • Wen Teoh

    President & Principal Consultant

Mentors

  • Ron Mckenzie

    Greater Essex County District School Board

    Teacher

  • Rob Chaykoski

    Ontario Health

    Lead Security Engineer

Facilitators

  • Maha Tantawy

    University of Windsor

    Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship,

  • Andreas Maniatis

    University of Windsor

    Assistant Professor

  • Vivian Tang

    University of Windsor

    MBA Candidate

Panelists

  • Don Ward

    Google

    Customer Engineer Specialist

  • Nilesh Patel

    Google

    Customer Engineer Specialist

  • Satish Venugopal

    Google

    Senior Cloud Architect

  • Naresh Jasotani

    Google

    Principal Technologist | Gen AI Ambassador

Moderator

  • Aasha Khan

    Youth Tech Labs

    Founder & Lead Organizer

Organizers

  • Ali El-Sharif

    St. Clair College

    Professor

  • Kiran Puthan

    Bell Canada

    Solution Consultant

  • Arunesh Choudhary

    University of Windsor

  • Vivian Tang

    MBA Candidate

  • Ashlynn Ward

    University of Windsor

    Computer Science Student

  • Daria Deriagina

    DashDev

  • Esraa Abdelhalim

    University of Windsor

  • Troy Hector

    Mosaic North America

    St. Clair College

  • Sam Ghasan

    Enterprise Architect

  • Keval Patel

    Data Scientist

  • Kayode Babalola

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