DevFest Edmonton 2026

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.

Agenda

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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…

Hosted By

Rohan Saha, Event & Technical

Vannia Hnatiuk, GDG Organizer

Ndidi Obinwanne, Co - Organizer

Experienced Project, Product and Client Success manager, with a Master's degree in Computing Science. I am passionate about Machine Learning, Data Science and Full Stack Development. I aim to take an idea from concept to completion; improving utility and impact, enabling accessibility, and enhancing algorithms.

Temitope Ajiboye, Senior Flutter Developer

Flutter developer and open-source contributor.

Mike Hoff, CFO

Jonathan Pu, Events Coordinator

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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/.