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. 

Playlist for DevFest Troy'25 (most of talks will be published here)

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• Location:

  📍 Darrin Communications Center 📍

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Address: Darrin Communications Center, Troy, NY 12180

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 (slides)

• 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 + keynote by prof. Wes Turner:  Combinatorics and Community: How to Leverage DevFest to Build Your Network (slides, recording)

• 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Three tracks

• 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch break (food and drinks provided)

• 2:00 PM - 5:45 PM: Three tracks (continued)

• 5:45 PM - 6:15 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 (slides, recording)

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  (slides, recording, all links)

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 (recording)

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

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Why LLMs Need Ontologies,  Alex Kalinowski (recording)

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Panel: Life after a CS degree, Michael Race and Heman Kolla, William Chen, Raven Levitt, Jack Lobianco (recording)

5:45 PM - 6:15 PM Closing Remarks and Raffle (recording)

Schedule for Track 2, Room 318:

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM AI & BigQuery: A match made in heaven! Austin Bennett (slides, recording)

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

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Influence Design in the AI Era: Business Strategy, Sean Smith (slides, recording)

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

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM  The Pursuit of AI: Deploying AI Systems in the Wild, Lydia Manikonda (recording)

Schedule for Track 3, Room 324:

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Extending Google Workspace with Gemini API, Alice Keeler (recording)

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

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 (recording)

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Using Gemini with AppSheet, Alice Keeler (recording)

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM  Building Production Ready AI Agent with Vertex AI Agent Builder, Karthigayan Devan (recording)

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