DevFest Sherbrooke 2026

🚀 DevFest at the University of Sherbrooke: Applied AI — From Academia to Industry

Curious about how Artificial Intelligence is moving from research labs into real-world applications? 🤖 Join us for a day of talks, hands-on workshops, and discussions exploring the growing impact of AI across different fields.

🔍 Discover recent developments in Computer Vision

📈 Explore Time Series and Demand Forecasting

🧠 Learn about Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

💻 Get hands-on experience through practical workshops

💬 Exchange ideas with researchers, students, and industry professionals

Whether you are discovering AI for the first time or already working in the field, come learn, experiment, and connect with the AI community. 🌟

🎯 RSVP now and join us for a day exploring the connections between AI research and real-world applications!

Agenda

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Speakers

Nav Singh - Manulife (Mobile Software Engineer, Google Developer Experts)

Google Developer Expert for Android, an organizer at GDG-Montreal, and an author of articles on Android and Kotlin. Outside of his day-to-day job, he spends his time learning new technologies/frameworks. In his free time, he loves to read books.

Farah Hammami - GDG Monastir (Organizer)

Software and Data engineering student , GDG Monastir Organizer

Ifeanyi Idiaye - Verbalytix Editing & Analytics (AI & Data Science Expert)

Ifeanyi is a data scientist, software developer, and Google Developer Expert in AI/ML passionate about building intelligent systems that solve real-world problems. He designs and develops end-to-end applications—from data pipelines and APIs to interactive web interfaces—often integrating AI models to power features like text summarization, image analysis, and knowledge retrieval. His work span…

Jitendra Gupta - EPAM Systems (Enterprise Cloud & AI Architect (Google Developer Expert in GCP))

Hosted By

Nadia Tahiri, PhD, Organizer

Dr. Nadia Tahiri received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher working on QSAR/PBPK model prediction in environmental health sciences at the University of Montreal, Canada. She has received several awards and scholarships, author of scientific works that have been published in prestigious journals, conferences, and book chapters. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sherbrooke. Her research interests include bioinformatics, phylogenetic tree, phylogeography, clustering, classification, computational biology, supertree, and consensus tree. Nadia is also very involved in community initiatives that promote women in technology and make committee programs more inclusive (the right measures for equity, diversity, and inclusion) as a committee scientific, an active member of ACM Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing, an ambassador of Women Techmakers, and an organizer of GDG Montreal (collaboration)/GDG Cloud Sherbrooke (lead).

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Partners

University of Sherbrooke (https://www.usherbrooke.ca/)

Google (https://gdg.community.dev/)

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