🚨 MAJOR UPDATE....🚨
Google DevFest Atlanta 2026 is Here!!
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Build, Secure, Scale: Developers and Builders in the Agentic Era
Get ready for the Southeast’s premier developer gathering! Google DevFest Atlanta 2026 brings together over 1,000 developers, AI builders, engineers, and tech executives for two packed days of hands-on building, visionary keynotes, and community connection.
Whether you're deploying autonomous agents, scaling cloud infrastructure, or building the future of web and mobile, this is your front-row seat to the modern AI ecosystem.
🏛️ A Historic Venue for the Future of Tech We are profoundly honored to host DevFest Atlanta 2026 on the prestigious campus of Morehouse College. As a towering institution of excellence and global leadership, Morehouse provides the ultimate backdrop for shaping the "Silicon of the South." Here, a profound legacy of history converges with the cutting-edge emerging technologies of tomorrow, establishing an unparalleled ecosystem for developers and visionaries to build, connect, and scale. ✨
🔥 FEATURED EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
💻 Google Hands-On Codelabs & Tech Deep Dives: Test code live, prototype applications, and master the Gemini API, Google Cloud Platform, Android, and Flutter alongside expert mentors.
🏙️ Georgia 311 Challenge: Collaborate directly with the civic leaders and the City of Mabletons' Mayor's Office to build high-impact tech solutions for the city.
🎃 Annual DFA26 Costume Contest: Since Day 2 falls on Saturday, October 31st, bring your most creative tech or pop-culture concept to win official Google prizes!
📅 THE OFFICIAL AGENDA IS DROPPING NOW!
From Executive Panels on AI Infrastructure to deep dives into the Gemini Enterprise Platform and Cybersecurity, our speaker lineup is absolutely stacked.
📍 ARRIVAL, CHECK-IN, & PARKING
Conference Venues: The event is primarily hosted in the Shirley Massey Executive Conference Center [SMECC] and the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel. Both buildings are located right at the edge of the campus on a corner block, surrounded by the stadium and the parking deck, making them highly visible and very easily accessible.
🚗 Transportation & Rideshare Notice:
On-campus parking at Morehouse is extremely limited. We strongly encourage all attendees to utilize rideshare (Uber/Lyft), MARTA, or off-site shuttle services for convenient access.
If driving, these paid garages are on the perimeter of the college with easy walking access:
DAY 1: Friday, October 30:
🚗 Morehouse College Parking Deck - Individual Payment | 830 Westview Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA 30314
🚗 Morehouse School of Medicine Parking - Individual Payment | Address: 720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30314 and the entrance to their parking garage is off of Lee Street
🚗 Spelman College Parking Deck - Individual Payment | Address: 350 Spelman Lane SW Atlanta, GA 30314
🚗 Clark Atlanta University - Individual Payment | 90 Mildred Street, Atlanta, GA
🚗 Off-Campus Parking
DAY 2: Saturday, October 31:
🚗 Morehouse College Parking Deck - Individual Payment | 830 Westview Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA 30314
🚗 Morehouse School of Medicine Parking - Individual Payment | Address: 720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30314 and the entrance to their parking garage is off of Lee Street
🗺️ View Campus Map for Clarity
VIP Check-In: Proceed directly to the MLK Jr. International Chapel [Check-In Area]. Present a Valid Picture ID to receive your official speaker badge.
🚨 Capacity & Waitlist Advisory:
Space inside our venues is strictly limited, and we fully anticipate a waitlist. RSVPs are granted on a first-come, first-served basis—set your alarm and claim your pass immediately!
🛡️ Safety & Entry Guidelines
🆔 Mandatory Check-in: All registered attendees must provide their full legal name during registration and present a valid government-issued ID at check-in.
🛑 Safety Policy: For the safety and comfort of all guests, no real weapons or weapon-like props/objects are permitted anywhere on campus.
⚖️ Policies & Terms
By participating in Google DevFest Atlanta 2026, all attendees agree to abide by Google’s event policies:
📄 Google Terms and Conditions
🤝 Google Community Guidelines
🔒 Google Privacy Policy
Agenda
Day 1
9:00 AM: CHECK-IN
MLK JR Chapel Plaza
10:00 AM: Google DevFest Atlanta 2026 Kickoff & Welcome Address
LOCATION: MLK JR Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
10:30 AM: GEORGIA 311 CHALLENGE ~ Showcase & Kick-Off: Mayors & Councilpersons
LOCATION: MLK JR Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
Georgia 311 Challenge: Collaborate directly with the civic leaders and the City of Mabletons' Mayor's Office to build high-impact tech solutions for the city.
10:30 AM: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EXECUTIVE PANEL: Victoria (Versus) Smith —Culture Runs on Code
LOCATION: SMECC Bank of America Auditorium
Artists, producers, and creative entrepreneurs are no longer just using technology. They are building with it. This panel brings together voices from music, media, live events, and creative tech to share how they use Google tools like Gemini, YouTube, and Google Cloud to create, distribute, and monetize their work. Expect real workflows, honest takes on where AI helps and where it falls short, and ideas you can put to work right away.
10:30 AM: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Aaron Butler: Breaking Into Cybersecurity
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
We’ll explore why the cybersecurity industry is structured the way it is and address common challenges faced by newcomers. You’ll gain valuable insights into the various domains within cybersecurity, helping you chart a personalized career path. Aaron will recommend essential certifications and skills to acquire, and share tips on how to build a resume that stands out.
Key Takeaways: * Understand the current cybersecurity landscape and future trends. * Identify your ideal cybersecurity career path. * Learn about recommended certifications and skills. * Discover how to enhance your resume and gain relevant experience. * Avoid common mistakes and navigate the industry effectively.
10:30 AM: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Arjun Prabhulal (GDE) — From Spec to Shipping: Building AI Agents with Google ADK and Antigravity
SMECC Meeting Rooms B
We’ll explore why the cybersecurity industry is structured the way it is and address common challenges faced by newcomers. You’ll gain valuable insights into the various domains within cybersecurity, helping you chart a personalized career path. Aaron will recommend essential certifications and skills to acquire, and share tips on how to build a resume that stands out.
In this session, we will use a spec-driven approach to build an AI agent with Google ADK, Antigravity, and Agents CLI. We will define what the agent should do, identify the tools it needs, and describe its expected behavior.
We will then use Antigravity and Agents CLI to turn the specification into an implementation plan and scaffold the ADK application. Finally, we will explore the core ADK components used to build the agent, including instructions, tools, sessions, state, and workflows.
11:15 AM: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Adaora Onwumelu - The Cybersecurity Layer Every AI Builder Needs: Building Secure AI Products in the Agentic Era
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
AI is moving from systems that simply generate answers to systems that can reason, make decisions, access data, and take action. For builders, that shift creates an important question: how do you build AI products that are not only useful, but secure and trustworthy?
In this practical, builder-focused session, Adaora Onwumelu; cybersecurity professional, AI governance practitioner, and founder building Synthara, an AI-powered cybersecurity education platform; explores the security considerations that should enter the product conversation before an AI system reaches production.
Using lessons from building Synthara as a real-world case study, attendees will learn how to think about AI security across identity, data, permissions, model behavior, tool access, human oversight, and monitoring.
Rather than treating cybersecurity as a final checklist, this session reframes security as part of the product architecture and user experience.
Attendees will leave with a practical framework they can use when designing or evaluating AI-powered products and agentic workflows, including questions such as:
What data can the AI access?
What actions and permissions does it have?
Who authorized those actions?
What happens when the model makes a wrong or unsafe decision?
Where is human oversight necessary?
How do we detect misuse and monitor an AI system after deployment?
Whether you're a developer, founder, product builder, student, or technical professional entering the AI era, this session provides a practical way to build, secure, and scale AI with trust designed in from the beginning.
11:15 AM: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Jitendra Gupta — MCP: The USB-C of AI — Connecting AI Agents to the Real World
SMECC Meeting Rooms B
An LLM can write code, explain concepts and answer questions — but what happens when you want it to use your tools and actually get things done?
This session introduces Model Context Protocol (MCP) through a simple developer-first approach. We’ll explore how MCP enables AI applications and agents to connect with external tools, data and services through a common interface — much like USB-C made it easier to connect different devices.
Starting with a simple AI application, we’ll progressively give it access to real-world capabilities such as files, APIs, developer tools and application data. We’ll see what happens when an AI moves from simply generating an answer to using tools, gathering information, reasoning over the results and taking action.
The session will also cover the basic architecture of MCP, how MCP servers and tools work, and where this technology fits into the rapidly evolving agentic AI ecosystem.
No deep AI or ML background is required. If you can build a basic application and are curious about what comes next for AI, this session is for you.
11:15 AM: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Saurabh Mishra — Agents Don't Sleep: Always-On AI Systems
SMECC Meeting Rooms C
This session dives into the architecture of asynchronous, event-driven AI agents on Google Cloud. We will explore how to move beyond standard synchronous API patterns by leveraging Cloud Scheduler for heartbeat-driven autonomous objectives and Eventarc to wire together decoupled, reactive agent workflows. You’ll learn how to build a resilient, "always-on" orchestration layer that feeds environmental triggers, system webhooks, and temporal events directly into Gemini models, enabling agents that continuously observe, orient, decide, and act
12:00 PM: ConnectGA - Michael Cortez
LOCATION: MLK JR Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
Building in the agentic AI era requires more than just write-access to cutting-edge APIs—it takes real-world resources, capital, mentorship, and ecosystem support. Whether you are shipping autonomous agents, launching an AI-first venture, or looking for technical co-founders, navigating Georgia’s rapidly expanding tech landscape can be the difference between a side project and a venture-backed startup.
In this fast-paced 15-minute lightning talk, we will explore ConnectGA, Georgia’s centralized platform for innovation, entrepreneurship, and startup growth.
Key Takeaways for Techies & Founders:
Mapping the Ecosystem: How to leverage ConnectGA to locate hyper-relevant incubators, specialized accelerators, and local tech hubs tailored to your stage.
Capital & Grants: Where developers and early-stage founders can discover non-dilutive grant opportunities, angel networks, and venture funds active in Georgia.
Collaborators & Talent: How to connect with technical co-founders, researchers, and ecosystem mentors to accelerate your build-to-launch cycle.
Scaling in Georgia: Practical steps to take your prototype from prompt-to-production while plugging directly into Atlanta’s technology leadership network.
12:00 PM: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | Animesh Kumar — The Cybersecurity Layer Every AI Builder Needs
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
As enterprises move from experimenting with AI to deploying autonomous agents in production, the attack surface is changing just as fast as the defenses. When ransomware hit MGM Resorts in 2023, it knocked out reservations, room keys, and slot machines for over 10 days a warning sign that manual, rule-based security can't keep pace with modern, AI-accelerated attacks. This session covers how machine learning detects anomalies and automates threat response in real time, how attackers are using generative AI for smarter phishing and social engineering, and how organizations can build responsible-AI guardrails governance, model evaluation, human oversight into agentic systems from day one, so speed doesn't come at the cost of safety.
12:00 PM: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM O Leonard | Digital Wellbeing in the Age of AI
SMECC Meeting Rooms C
“Technology is a good servant but a bad master.” – Gretchen Rubin
New apps and gadgets are released every day, and it can feel overwhelming to keep up. With the democratization of AI, the pace of development is speeding up. Digital wellbeing is about finding balance between your digital life and overall health.
It's important to take time for self-reflection on our relationship with technology and explore some practical tips to help maintain a more intentional use of digital technology even when it is at the core of our daily lives.
12:30 PM: Morehouse College Address: Dr. Muhsinah L Morris
LOCATION: MLK JR Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
Historically Black Colleges and Universities carry an ancestral charge: to educate, liberate, and create opportunity for Black communities, including descendants of enslaved people. As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in the technologies shaping our lives, that charge demands collective institutional action. We define the culture, so we should design the future.
In this talk, Dr. Muhsinah Morris introduces her vision for Future Black Colleges and Universities: the FBCU. She proposes a coordinated approach through which HBCUs can develop shared AI capacity, expand access to expertise and infrastructure, and build sustainable pathways to ownership. The vision includes a council with representation from every HBCU, a cross-campus student leadership council, reciprocal learning opportunities, shared research resources, and collective approaches to fundraising and revenue generation.
The talk challenges educators, developers, students, and institutional leaders to move beyond isolated experimentation toward a future they build together. It addresses the practical questions that cooperation requires: institutional autonomy, equitable participation, responsible AI, intellectual property, and the distribution of resources and benefits. Attendees will leave with a framework for a proposed 90-day collaborative pilot and a call to turn Black brilliance into lasting opportunity for our institutions and all humanity. One Band, One Sound, One Humanity, One FBCU!
12:45 PM: 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | Rachel Dumas - ChatGPT is Not Your Doctor: Safe A.I. Development & Usage in Healthcare
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
Generative AI is rapidly transforming healthcare, but healthcare is not a “move fast and break things” environment. When AI is used in situations involving human health and safety, developers and builders need to think beyond model performance and build for safety, transparency, privacy, and appropriate human oversight.
This session explores the real-world risks of using and building generative AI in healthcare, including hallucinations, automation bias, overreliance, privacy concerns, inappropriate recommendations, and failures to escalate potential harm.
Using healthcare scenarios and lessons from building HEARD™, an AI-powered healthcare navigation and benefits intelligence platform, Rachell Dumas will show how builders can incorporate human-in-the-loop workflows, guardrails, documentation, evaluation, and real-time escalation pathways into healthcare AI products.
Attendees will leave with practical strategies for building AI that supports people without pretending to replace clinical judgment.
12:45 PM: 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM Tejas Pravinbhai Patel | Can You Trust Your AI Agent? Evaluating and Securing Gemini Powered Agents
SMECC Meeting Rooms C
AI agents can call tools, access data, make decisions, and execute multi step workflows, which also creates new reliability and security risks.
In this session, we will explore how to evaluate and secure Gemini powered agents before they are trusted in production.
We will cover prompt injection, unsafe tool use, excessive permissions, data leakage, hallucinated actions, failure recovery, guardrails, and agent evaluation. We will also look at practical techniques for testing agent behavior, measuring task success, detecting failures, and designing safer tool boundaries.
The session will show how developers can combine Gemini, Google ADK, evaluation workflows, observability, and security controls to build agents that are not only capable, but also measurable, predictable, and safer to operate.
Attendees will leave with a practical checklist and architecture patterns for evaluating, monitoring, and securing AI agents in real applications.
1:00 PM: OPENING KEYNOTE: Patrick Bentley
LOCATION: MLK, JR Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
1:00 PM: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Lab 1 Orchestrating Long Horizon Durable Agent Swarms with Zero Cost Pausing
LOCATION: SMECC Bank of America Auditorium
1:45 PM: 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM Callie Richardson - Main Character Energy: Build Your Personal Operating System
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
1:45 PM: 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM Swapnil Kale | Private by Design: On-Device ML for Smarter Mobile Experiences
SMECC Meeting Rooms B
Modern mobile applications offer an expanding range of capabilities, but greater functionality can also make it harder for users to quickly find the features they need. In financial applications, where customers frequently return to functions such as payments, transfers, and other routine services, intelligent personalization can simplify navigation. However, personalization should not require sensitive behavioral data to leave the user's device.
This session explores a privacy-first approach to predictive feature navigation using on-device machine learning. Attendees will see how interaction patterns can be processed locally to identify relevant features and surface them at the right time, while keeping behavioral information on the device. The implementation uses ML Kit on Android and Core ML on iOS to perform real-time inference without depending on round-trip cloud requests.
The session examines the architectural decisions involved in bringing machine learning directly into mobile applications, including model training pipelines, deployment to resource-constrained devices, local inference, optimization, and testing. It also demonstrates how an on-device architecture can strengthen data privacy, reduce dependence on backend inference infrastructure, provide responsive predictions, and continue supporting intelligent experiences when network connectivity is limited.
Using mobile banking as a practical example, attendees will learn how this pattern can help users discover frequently needed functions while maintaining stronger control over their data. The same approach can extend beyond financial services to other feature-rich mobile applications where recurring temporal behavior can help guide personalization.
Developers will leave with practical strategies for evaluating when on-device ML is appropriate, integrating models into Android and iOS applications, optimizing inference for mobile environments, and testing whether predictions meaningfully improve feature discovery. The goal is to demonstrate how mobile teams can build intelligent experiences that balance personalization, performance, operational efficiency, and privacy by design.
1:45 PM: 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM Yashas Majmudar | Building Apps Like LEGO: I Inherited an AI-Generated Flutter App. Here's What It Cost Me
SMECC Meeting Rooms C
This talk is about the architectural patterns that make AI-assisted development actually scale, instead of quietly compounding technical debt one generated feature at a time. A genuinely good Flutter app is modular before you ever hand a prompt to an AI tool: auth, networking, logging, and your design system should be bricks with clear boundaries, so AI can generate a feature that snaps into an existing contract instead of inventing its own. I'll walk through what counts as a brick inside a single app, what happens when those boundaries do not exist, and how the same discipline lets you extract shared packages cleanly once a second or third app shows up. Along the way, I'll cover what most teams share versus keep separate, the tradeoffs between one core package and several, and the mechanics of managing it with a monorepo.
You'll leave with a concrete framework for setting up the architectural guardrails that let you build with AI faster, without paying for it later.
Key takeaways:
- Which modules (auth, networking, logging, design system) need clear boundaries before AI tools start generating features around them
- What AI-generated or fast-moving code commonly gets wrong architecturally, and how to set up guardrails that prevent it upfront
- A practical framework for what to share versus keep separate across a family of Flutter apps
- The tradeoffs between a single core package and multiple split packages, and how to choose
- How to structure a monorepo so apps, and AI-generated features, adopt core changes on their own schedule
2:00 PM: BITCON PANEL - From Summit to Scale: What Organizing Atlanta's 404 Summit Taught Us About Building Community- Speakers: Sasha Smith
LOCATION: MLK, JR Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
The BIT Atlanta board just wrapped the 404 Summit, three days of workshops, a student hackathon, career coaching, and receptions powered almost entirely by volunteers. In this session, we pull back the curtain on what it really takes to organize a tech community at scale. We'll share how we use Google Workspace as our operating system, from Forms and Sheets for registration and surveys to Drive and Calendar for keeping a distributed board aligned. You'll hear what worked, what broke, and what we would do differently. Whether you lead a GDG, a meetup, or an employee resource group, you'll leave with practical playbooks for growing a community that lasts beyond one event.
2:30 PM: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Lab 2 Data Engineering with Real Time Auction Streams and Self Patching Harnesses
LOCATION: SMECC Bank of America Auditorium
2:30 PM: 2:25 PM - 2:55 PM Dr Sheila Volante | Beating the Odds: A Framework for Technology Initiative Success
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
Technology-led initiatives fail roughly 80% of the time. In this session, we break down why and more importantly, how to change it through the PPPT framework, a proven approach to scaling successful technology initiatives.
Designed for leaders driving digital transformation, this session reveals how to align people before technology, ensuring your organization builds the human foundation needed to support lasting change rather than letting new tools outpace the people expected to adopt them.
2:30 PM: 2:25 PM - 2:55 PM Dinoy Raj | Build Your Pocket Brain: Custom On-Device LLMs via MediaPipe on Android
SMECC Meeting Rooms B
The era of cloud-dependent Generative AI presents challenges in latency, cost, and user privacy. The next frontier is on-device AI, and MediaPipe's new LLM Inference API is leading the charge for Android developers. beyond simply running pre-trained models like Gemma on a device, we will dive deep into the power of customisation using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), a parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) technique.
3:00 PM: 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Cheryl Cooper — Wisdom Meets AI: Practical AI for Life Women in Tech
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
Wisdom Meets AI is designed for adults 50+ who are curious about how AI can support what’s next in their lives. That may include growing a business, navigating a career change, exploring consulting or entrepreneurship, becoming more productive, learning new skills, managing everyday responsibilities, or simply understanding how AI can be useful in daily life.
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn the language of AI in plain English, explore tools such as Gemini and other leading AI platforms, and discover practical ways to use AI for business, work, planning, research, decision-making, creativity, health and well-being preparation, personal organization, and everyday life.
The workshop will also include a dedicated “AI for Your Next Chapter” segment for participants who are rethinking work, income, purpose, or opportunity. This could include identifying transferable skills, exploring new career paths, developing consulting or business ideas, and using AI to help shape a practical path forward.
Throughout the workshop, AI is positioned as a thinking partner, not a replacement for human judgment. Participants will also learn essential guardrails around privacy, accuracy, sensitive information, and responsible AI use.
Participants will leave with greater AI confidence, a clearer understanding of where these tools fit in their lives, and a simple roadmap they can begin using immediately.
3:00 PM: 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Harsh Kathiriya | Unleashing Autonomous Agents: Building with Google AI Studio and the Antigravity Harness
SMECC Meeting Rooms B
The era of conversational AI is evolving rapidly into the era of autonomous agents. With the release of Google Antigravity, developers now have access to the exact agent harness that powers Google's own internal models. But how do you take these agents from a playground concept to a secure, executing environment?
This session is a deep dive into building autonomous, multi-step agents using Google AI Studio and the Gemini API's new Antigravity capabilities. We will explore how to instantiate general-purpose managed agents that can reason, execute Bash/Python code, manage files, and browse the web from inside a secure Google-hosted Linux sandbox. We will walk through the architecture of tool-use loops, automatic context compaction for long-running sessions, and how to define custom functions to connect Antigravity agents to your own external APIs and databases.
By the end of this session, developers will know how to move beyond simple prompts and build agents that can autonomously plan, act, and verify complex technical tasks.
3:30 PM: 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Bhargav Trivedi | Why Did My Agent Do That? Building Explainable, Trustworthy Agentic AI for Commerce
SMECC Meeting Rooms C
AI agents are moving from answering questions to acting on behalf of users: they interpret intent, rank options, and recommend decisions in real time. Commerce is one of the first domains where this shift is happening at scale, and it exposes a critical gap. When users cannot see why an agent made a choice, trust collapses. Regulations such as the EU Digital Services Act are also turning explainability into a baseline requirement.
This session presents an architecture for building explainability directly into agentic systems, using AI-powered retail search as the working example. The framework has five interdependent components. A Goal Engine disambiguates user intent, and a Perception Layer interprets and explains queries. A Decision Core surfaces the reasoning behind both recommendations and exclusions. A Memory Store makes personalization auditable, and a Feedback Loop connects explanations to measurable outcomes.
Developers will see how this works in practice: transparent preference controls in the interface, an explainability layer built with LIME, SHAP, and attention visualization, semantically aware backend ranking, and privacy-preserving analytics using federated learning. The talk also defines what makes an agent trustworthy. That includes autonomy that is honest about its limits, goal-directed behavior tied to visible motives, calibrated transparency, and conversational interfaces that let users ask "why did you show me this?" and get a meaningful answer.
Finally, the session makes the engineering and business case for explainability. It lowers user anxiety, strengthens retention, reduces technical debt from opaque models, and improves observability for debugging and optimizing agent pipelines. These patterns apply to agents built on any stack, including Gemini and Vertex AI.
Attendees will leave with a practical blueprint for building agents that are secure, responsible, and trustworthy at scale.
4:00 PM:
Day 2
9:00 AM: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CHECK-IN
MLK JR Chapel Plaza
10:00 AM: Google DevFest Atlanta 2026 Day 2 - Welcome Back
MLK Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
10:15 AM: 10:15 AM - 10:40 AM KEYNOTE: Jennifer Raiford
MLK Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
10:15 AM: 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Panel: From Hype to Infrastructure: Building Better AI Workflows - Speakers: Ronald Williams, Jelani Campbell, Erica Mitchell, Jonathan Exume
SMECC Bank of America Auditorium
10:45 AM: 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM | Jim Stephens - The Hidden Constraint Index (HCI)
MLK Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
11:00 AM: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Esports Showcase
SMECC Bank of America Auditorium
11:00 AM: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Mrinal Jain — Building AI-Driven Interfaces with Generative UI in Flutter
SMECC Meeting Rooms C
11:00 AM: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM WORKSHOP: Patrick Bentley
SMECC Classrooms 150
11:00 AM: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Anukriti Bansal (GDE) — From Vibe to Live: Design, Code & Deploy with AI
SMECC Classrooms 152
11:15 AM: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Don Morrow — AI & The Future of Human Work
SMECC Meeting Rooms B
11:45 AM: 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Kandasamy Sellappan (Local) — Architecting Secure-by-Default Cloud Backends
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
11:45 AM: 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM John Green II — "Built Different"
SMECC Meeting Rooms C
11:45 AM: 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM Ayush Dwivedi — Day 2 for AI Agents: Securing, Evaluating, and Scaling
SMECC Classrooms 152
11:45 AM: 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM Godsent Izinyon — Experience with Building a functional Flutter App with AI
SMECC Classrooms 154
12:45 PM: 12:45 PM - 1:15 PM Yamirah Newsome — Prototype the Workflow First
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
12:45 PM: 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM Neha Prakash & Madhushree Kumari — Beyond the Chatbot: Building Trusted AI Agents
SMECC Classrooms 150
12:45 PM: 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM An Pham (Local) — How We Built an AI-Native Company: Humans and AI Agents Working as One Team
SMECC Classrooms 152
12:45 PM: 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM Sweeya Ghanta — A Second Brain: Building AI Around What You Know
SMECC Classrooms 154
1:00 PM: 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Mark Lawson — Beyond the Code: What a Reality Show Taught Me
SMECC Meeting Rooms B
1:00 PM: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Building AI Agents with Gemini 2.5 Flash | Anika Khatri, Chapter Lead, GDG Athens, Kingsley Ulinfun, Vilasini Gunasekaran, Zayan Hoodani
SMECC Meeting Rooms C
1:45 PM: 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM Amar Chheda — Things I Learned While Building a Local-Only Agentic AI System
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
1:45 PM: 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM Kevin Desai — Offline by Default: On-Device LLMs in Kotlin Multiplatform
SMECC Meeting Rooms B
1:45 PM: 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Jonathan Zhuo From Vibe-Coded to Trusted: Shipping an Agent on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
SMECC Classrooms 150
1:45 PM: 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM David Hanscom | From Prompt to Production Habits: How Non-Engineer Builders Adopt Agentic AI Without Breaking Ops
SMECC Classrooms 152
2:00 PM: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Malcolm Williams: I Never Sleep
SMECC Bank of America Auditorium
2:30 PM: 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Sandeep Gusain — Governing Autonomous Agents: Trust and Guardrails
SMECC Meeting Rooms A
2:30 PM: 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Jeff Small - The Great Unbundling: Personal Intelligence, Conversational UI, Agentic OS, and the Modern Mobile Experience
SMECC Meeting Rooms B
3:30 PM: Closing Remarks & Costume Contest
MLK Chapel Nave [Auditorium]
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Hosted By
Cinamon White, Founder
Zach Farley, Organizer
Soumya Sinha, Lead Organizer
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-atlanta-presents-google-devfest-atlanta-2026-empowering-developers-amp-builders-in-the-agentic-era/.
