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DevFest Montreal 2026

Featured Speakers

Meet our world-class lineup of speakers, Google Developer Experts, and industry leaders sharing practical technical projects, hands-on workshops, and interactive panels.

39 Speakers(including 3 Googlers and 16 GDEs)
Rebecca Abi Chahine

Rebecca Abi Chahine

Lead

GDG on Campus Polytechnique

Google Developer Groups (GDG) on Campus: Mission, Impact, and Student Perspectives

COMMUNITY
Ethiel Adiassa
GDE

Ethiel Adiassa

Senior Software Engineer

Ava Finance

Agentic Mobile Testing: Automating Flutter E2E Flows with Maestro MCP

APPDEV/AI
Angie Ariza

Angie Ariza

AI Tech Lead

Plus Company

One Brain vs. The Hive What Actually Happens When AI Agents Swarm

AI
Radwan Baba

Radwan Baba

AI Engineer

Info-Tech Research Group

Six Agents, One Patient Record: A Google ADK Retrospective

AI
Lester Botello

Lester Botello

Software Development Team Lead

Wepoint

The Web Could be Agentic: A first dive into Google’s WebMCP Proposal

AI
Faustin Bouchard

Faustin Bouchard

System Architect

Universal Intelligence Architecture Inc.

Beyond Red, Blue and Purple: Meet the Gold Team

CLOUD
Olivier Bourgeois
Google

Olivier Bourgeois

Developer Advocate

Google

AI-driven troubleshooting for Google Cloud infrastructure

CLOUD/AI
Cesar Bustamante

Cesar Bustamante

Senior Manager, Infrastructure

PwC Canada

1:1 Coaching· 25 min

Career coaching 1:1

CLOUD/COMMUNITY
David Cardozo
GDE

David Cardozo

Sr AI Engineer

Dataiku

Ouvrir la boîte noire : L’interprétabilité mécaniste des LLMs

AI
Etienne Caron
GDE

Etienne Caron

CTO

Kanastruk Services Conseils Inc.

Building the Doomsday Course: Robots, Live Video and an Agentic Coding Coach

The Doomsday Course

1:1 Coaching· 25 min

Career coaching 1:1

AI/COMMUNITY
Romain Chezeaud

Romain Chezeaud

Director, Data Strategy and AI Innovation

Groupe BMR

1:1 Coaching· 25 min

Career coaching 1:1

AI/COMMUNITY
Thomas Chong
GDE

Thomas Chong

AI Research Engineer

Beever AI

Make Your AI Agent Think Fast and Slow: System One Decisions in Google ADK

AI
Arunesh Choudhary

Arunesh Choudhary

Conversational AI Engineer

Dialabot.ai

APPDEV/AI
Ludovic Dessemon

Ludovic Dessemon

VP Consulting Canada - Global AI Lead

oXya Consulting Inc.

Bâtir une plateforme agentique d’entreprise avec Google ADK et Gemini : Retour d’expérience sur Nova

AI
Guryash Singh Dhall

Guryash Singh Dhall

Senior Data Engineer

Nova Scotia Health Authority

The 90% You Don’t See: Shipping AI Inside a Health System

AI
Mathieu Fillion

Mathieu Fillion

Development Teams Manager

Wepoint

Edge AI on Mobile: Practical Approaches and Challenges

APPDEV/AI
Raphaelle Giraud

Raphaelle Giraud

Team Lead Développeuse Agents IA

Vooban

1:1 Coaching· 25 min

Career coaching 1:1

AI/COMMUNITY
Sebastian Senen Gonzalez
Google

Sebastian Senen Gonzalez

Outcome Customer Engineering (Google Cloud)

Google

1:1 Coaching· 25 min

Career coaching 1:1

CLOUD/COMMUNITY
Angelo Italiano
GDE

Angelo Italiano

Principal Engineering Manager

RAVL

Terminal to Stadium: Building an AI Sports PA Announcer with Gemini

AI
Eckarath Khounsombath

Eckarath Khounsombath

Principal Solution Architect

ECKA Studio

From Prompt Engineering to Harness Engineering: Securing Autonomous AI Agents on GCP

AI/CLOUD
Rishab Kumar
GDE

Rishab Kumar

Staff DevRel

Twilio

Build a Personal Productivity Assistant on Cloud Run

CLOUD/AI
Jhin Lee
GDE

Jhin Lee

Senior Software Developer

Unity

Flight Mode AI: Shipping Reliable Offline AI with Flutter and Dart

APPDEV/AI
François Légaré
GDE

François Légaré

Senior Manager Data Science

Bell

Under the Hood of Gemini Enterprise: No-Code Agents, and Workflow Automation

AI
Felipe Lujan
GDE

Felipe Lujan

Gemini Live: Architecting, building and pricing conversational experiences

AI
JL Maréchaux

JL Maréchaux

Senior Director, AI & Innovation

National Bank of Canada

Montreal Tech Community: How local tech groups are shaping Montreal’s digital future

1:1 Coaching· 25 min

Career coaching 1:1

COMMUNITY/AI
Kevin Moore
GDE

Kevin Moore

From Black Belts to Small Language Models: My Taekwondo AI Journey

APPDEV/AI
Boris-Wilfried Nyasse
GDE

Boris-Wilfried Nyasse

Founder

Oloodi

Off the Edge: Grading Google AI Edge and Gemini Against a Practitioner’s Eye

AI
Gleb Otochkin
Google

Gleb Otochkin

Cloud Advocate

Google

From Data to Action: Building AI Agents with Google ADK, MCP, and Cloud Databases

Building Applications with Google AI Studio and Databases

AI/CLOUD/APPDEV
Jihoo Park

Jihoo Park

Senior Data Analyst | WTM Ambassador

1:1 Coaching· 25 min

Career coaching 1:1

COMMUNITY/AI
Stefania Pecore

Stefania Pecore

President

Women Techmakers Montreal

Montreal Tech Community: How local tech groups are shaping Montreal’s digital future

1:1 Coaching· 25 min

Career coaching 1:1

Closing Keynote Kickoff & Community Remarks

COMMUNITY
Michael Persico

Michael Persico

Lead

GDG on Campus Concordia

Google Developer Groups (GDG) on Campus: Mission, Impact, and Student Perspectives

COMMUNITY
Olayinka Peter Oluwafemi
GDE

Olayinka Peter Oluwafemi

Sr. ML Engineer @ Brainbox AI

Building Real-Time RAG Systems with Gemini & the Multimodal Live API

AI
Dev J. Shah

Dev J. Shah

SWE

TribalScale

AI
Nav Singh
GDE

Nav Singh

Android Engineer

Manulife

Android AppFunctions: Exposing Your App to AI Agents

APPDEV/AI
Cyprien Tankeu
GDE

Cyprien Tankeu

Co-founder & Head, Google Workspace

Miradie Conseils Inc

Automatisez la gestion des admissions de vos événements avec Gemini et Google Apps Script

AI
Stacy Véronneau
GDE

Stacy Véronneau

Senior Customer Engineer

TELUS Digital

AI Isn’t Magic: The Infrastructure That Actually Wins the Race

1:1 Coaching· 25 min

Career coaching 1:1

CLOUD/AI/COMMUNITY
Daniel Wei

Daniel Wei

Lead

GDG on Campus McGill

Google Developer Groups (GDG) on Campus: Mission, Impact, and Student Perspectives

COMMUNITY
Aisha Yaseen

Aisha Yaseen

Co-Founder & FDE

AREHSOFT

Beyond Push-to-Talk: Real-Time Fact-Checking Agents with Gemini Live API and Google Search Grounding

AI
Jonathan Zhuo
GDE

Jonathan Zhuo

GCP Principal Architect (Sr. Director)

Capgemini

From Vibe-Coded to Trusted: One Agent Through Build, Scale, Govern and Optimize on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

CLOUD/AI