WAT.DEV FEST

Happening on October 17th and 18th!
Here's where the future meets the present and theory transforms into practice. Whether you're a developer, creator, researcher, or simply curious about where artificial intelligence is taking us, this summit is designed to push boundaries and spark innovation.

Pssttt, people who register as members on our site waterloo.dev get some exciting discounts! 🎉

Day 0 [Workshops]
5:30-6:00 - Refresher

Workshops (6:00-7:30)

5:30-6:00 - Refresher

Workshops (6:00-7:30) [Parallel Sessions]

The Lab Shop:

Building & Deploying an AI “Unhinged Therapist” with Firebase, Vue, and Gemma

Taha Bouhsine

Unleash AI Agents: Transform Your Business in 90 Minutes

GDG Cloud Toronto

From Vibe to Reality: Building Beautiful Apps with Firebase Studio

Yvonne Monterroso

Alex Sandu

The Creatives Lair:

The Developer's Kitchen: A Recipe for AI-Powered Workspace Add-ons

Alice Keeler

Workshop 5 (The Studio): Jamming with AI: Introducing PromptCraft as Creative Collaboration

Sean Yo

Day 1: Agenda
Main Stage Sessions (All Attendees Together) 9:00-9:30:

8:30-9:20: Registration | Networking & Breakfast

9:20-9:45: Introduction and welcome talk 

Sanjay + Yash

Bardish Chagger

Rachel

09:45-10:30: Keynote 1: "Surv^H^H^H^H Thriving in an AI"

Frank van Puffelen

10:30-11:15:  Panel 1:"The $100 Billion Question: Who Pays When AI Makes Mistakes?"

Yvonne Monterroso

Taha Bouhsine

Bryce Howitson

Simon

Sanjay (Host)

11:15-12:30: Workshops

Workshop 6 (The Lab): Code Your First Multi-Agentic RAG System in Under an Hour

Kiruthika Subramani

Building a Production Multi-Agent Code Review Assistant with Google ADK

Ayo Adedeji

12:30-1:30: Lunch

Parallel Track Sessions (1:30-3:30)

1:30-2:10

The Lab (Room 1): Talk: “Multi-Modal Fusion: A Technical Deep-Dive on How Vision using JAX”

David Cardozo

The Lab (Room 2): Talk: pip install robot: The Future of AI Development for Robotics

Steven Rice

The Academy (Room 3): Talk: "Human Computer Interaction: The UX of AI"

Bryce Howitson

The Commons (Room 4): Talk: "Healthcare AI: Life-or-Death Decisions"

2:10-2:50

The Lab (Room 1): Demo: "Live Model Fine-Tuning: Customizing Gemma 3 270M in Under 30 Minutes"

Thomas Chong

The Academy (Room 2):Talk: "AI Around The World"

Jeremy Wilken

The Commons (Room 4): Talk: "Legend Has It: Why AI Should Never Make Management Decisions"

Sean Yo

2:50-3:30

The Lab (Room 2): Demo: “Building the Chain of Trust: A Google ADK Blueprint for Grounded Legal AI Agents”

Boris-Wilfried

The Academy (Room 2): Talk + demo: "The Ghost in the Machine Learning: When Statistical Patterns Dream of Electric Sheep"

Faisal Abid

The Studio (Room 3): Demo: "Press A for Assistance: Making Games Accessible with AI"

Veronica Reingold

The Commons (Room 4): Talk: "AI Warfare Ethics"

David Cardozo

3:30-4:10

The Lab (Room 1): Work Smarter, Not Harder: Gemini CLI for Developers and Architects

Sudipta Deb

The Academy (Room 2): Talk: “Responsible AI - Algorithmic Fairness in Model Building”

Ali El-Sharif

Main stage continues:

4:15-4:45 Talk (Main Stage): "The $2 Trillion AI Economy: How Google Cloud is Reshaping Global Finance"

4:45-5:00: Networking Snacks & Break

5:00-5:45: Panel 2: "After the AI Revolution: What Do 8 Billion Unemployed Humans Do?"

Alice Keeler

David Cardozo

Faisal Abid

Sanjay (Host)

5:45-6:00: Closing Remarks

6:00: After Party (TBD)

Agenda

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Hosts

Sanjay Sekar Samuel - GreenSheart (AI Software Engineer)

Yash Hiren Dave

As a community organizer, student, and AI enthusiast, Yash is an international student who moved from Qatar to Canada to study Data Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. He started as a participant in community events before founding the Google Developer Student Club at Laurier. Now, he organizes tech and community-focused events with both the City of Waterloo chapter and the Laurier Universi…

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