DevFest St. John's 2024

Join us for the annual developer conference, featuring sessions, workshops, training, code labs, and much more by awesome speakers. 

With an amazing keynote, workshop, and demo DevFest St. John's will advance your expertise in cloud and web. Master the tools and techniques required to design, architect, develop, scale, launch, integrate, and maintain today’s advanced technology solutions. 

This year's DevFest explores how AI can be responsibly developed or applied to keep its users safe, from business to healthcare to education. We acknowledge AI's potential, while also recognizing the challenges it presents.

Agenda

9:00 AM: Registration and Welcome

9:30 AM: Welcome Address - AbdulKabir Sulaiman

9:45 AM: Embeddings: A key component for modern AI - Kyle Nickerson

10:45 AM: A Linguistic Perspective on Responsible AI - Anissa Neal

11:30 AM: Live Demo: Build a Software Development Agent - Mitchell Hynes

12:15 PM: Networking, Lunch, Socials

12:45 PM: Live Demo: Build your first mobile app using React Native - Shawn Chen

1:30 PM: How tech companies grow: From Startup to Unicorn - Liam Flanagan

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Speakers

Kyle Nickerson, PhD - trophi.ai (Senior Data Scientist)

Shawn Chen - Shopify (Senior Software Developer)

Liam Flanagan - techNL (Program Manager, Ready Talent)

Anissa Neal, PhD - University of Massachusetts Amherst (Graduate Researcher)

Mitchell Hynes - Fullstack Developer (Spellbook.legal)

Hosted By

AbdulKabir Sulaiman, GDG Lead

AbdulKabir is an Innovative and award-winning Community Management Professional with multiple skills and experience across program management, communications (writing, speaking, presentation), product and relationship management.

He's also an experienced Software Engineering professional with over 4 years of experience delivering effective backend web applications that are fast, data-driven, and scalable, restful APIs, database integrations, deployments, and DevOps practices.

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Partners

Google (https://developers.google.com/)

techNL (https://technl.ca/)
techNL provides visibility, business growth services and a collective influential voice to the tech sector in Newfoundland and Labrador with a vision to make Newfoundland and Labrador the most sought-after Canadian tech ecosystem, globally recognized for its collaborative community, diversity and quality of life.

JetBrains (https://www.jetbrains.com/)
JetBrains is a cutting-edge software vendor specializing in the creation of intelligent development tools, including IntelliJ IDEA – the leading Java IDE PhpStorm, PyCharm, WebStorm, RustRover amongst other tools and plugins..

CTS-NL (https://ctsnl.ca/)
The Computer Technology Society Newfoundland Labrador, generally known as CTS-NL, is a community group for people who work in or have an interest in software development, technology, and computing in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Kodeco (https://www.kodeco.com/)
The best investment for your mobile development career. Kodeco is a publisher of high-quality mobile development tutorials for iOS, Android, Flutter and other platforms.

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Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-st-johns-presents-devfest-st-johns-2024/.