GDG Cloud Edmonton

A jam session.
Not a hackathon.
GDG Coding Jams transform standard tech meetups into vibrant, hands-on community sandboxes where developers actually build together. Two hours, a slice of pizza 🍕, Google’s AI stack — and a real prototype walking out the door.

Come build your first app with us and walk out the door with a working prototype in just 90 min. You will learn alongside local tech leaders, including host Ndidi Obinwanne and local tech leader Paul Bakhmut, founder of Autenda, who will share practical insights on turning ideas into real products. All you need to bring is your laptop with Antigravity IDE ready and your enthusiasm—RSVP today to reserve your spot!

Four beats, and you’re out with a working app.
No Tech background required. No prior project. Build your fist App !

🚨IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: this event starts at 1:00 pm at the Full Programs Room in Edmonton Unlimited

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Speaker

Paul Bakhmut - Autenda (Founder)

Paul Bakhmut is the founder of Autenda, a car-maintenance startup he built using Lovable, going from initial idea to first paying customer in three days and reaching 15 paying customers within three weeks. He is also the founder of Edmonton Tech Wednesdays, a weekly technology and startup community that has hosted more than 150 meetups, and he organizes hands-on sessions that help people turn …

Host

Ndidi Obinwanne - University of Alberta (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

I recently embarked on a new journey in Computational Science; learning and researching new ways to harness the power of technology in the field of Artificial Intelligence - improving utility and impact, enabling accessibility, and enhancing algorithms.
I am interested in collaborations that provide opportunities for the application of Data Science and Machine Learning models for educati…

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Edmonton Unlimited (https://edmontonunlimited.com)
We are a city of innovators with solutions to the world’s toughest challenges. Whether you launch here, land here, or pivot here, at Edmonton Unlimited, we are here for you. We provide free programming and resources that Edmonton’s innovators, big thinkers and problem solvers need to turn their ideas into solutions.

Google (https://Google.com)

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-edmonton-presents-gdg-coding-jam-edmonton/.

DevFest is the world's largest community-driven tech conference, bringing together developers and builders to learn, build and connect. Professional developers, non-traditional developers and tech savvy individuals who build with dev tools but are not developers by profession (“Builders”), startups, enterprises and aspiring developers come together to learn, build and connect. Google Developer Experts (GDEs) and Googlers are an important part of this puzzle: giving talks, showing demos and leading the “learning by doing” sessions.

🚨IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: this event starts at 3:00 pm

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Speakers

Roman Jaquez - Philips (Software Engineer / Flutter GDE)

Roman Jaquez is a Google Developer Expert in Flutter / Dart, as well as a Google Certified Cloud Architect who loves sharing his passion for Flutter with the wider developer community. He is also lead organizer at GDG Lawrence, as well as a GDG Mentor for the Northeast in the USA, with 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, currently in the medical field. He enjoys spreading the word …

Christopher Chalcraft - Databricks (Solutions Architect Manager)

With extensive experience in data processing originating in the oil and gas industry, Christopher built complex geophysical software using open-source tools before transitioning into data science applications. Over his six years at Databricks, he served as a Field Engineer and now manages a team of AI specialists. Christopher is passionate about optimizing developer environments, sandboxes, co…

Hugo Leyton - HAS Friends Ltd (Sotware Engineer)

Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience building web applications, cloud infrastructure and scalable back-end systems across the airline, retail and technology sectors in Chile and Canada.

Hosts

Mike Hoff - Translink (Senior Manager, IT Resilience)

Almost 40 years of IT experience roles as Manager, Architect, Project Manager, Resiliency presented on Risk & Ethics, Linux, Security talking head on movies and Hollywood - TV, radio, online Community Groups including GDG Movie Maverick Mike

Vannia Hnatiuk - GDG Cloud Edmonton | WTM Ambassador (Data Analyst)

Vannia is a promising data scientist, based in Edmonton, Canada. She has work on projects which combines time series analysis and machine learning. Her passion for coding took her to the Data Science field and Web Development. She is leads GDG Cloud Edmonton, where she loves to help their community upgrade their skills as she did in her beginnings. She enjoys…

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Platinums

Google (https://Google.com)

Edmonton Unlimited (https://edmontonunlimited.com)
We are a city of innovators with solutions to the world’s toughest challenges. Whether you launch here, land here, or pivot here, at Edmonton Unlimited, we are here for you. We provide free programming and resources that Edmonton’s innovators, big thinkers and problem solvers need to turn their ideas into solutions.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-edmonton-presents-devfest-edmonton-2026/.