Join us at the Pasadena Convention Center for DevFest Los Angeles 2025 — the premier event for developers, students, tech enthusiasts, and industry professionals. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your skills, explore the latest innovations, or connect with the local tech community, DevFest has something for you.

Experience a full day of inspiring keynotes, hands-on workshops, and thought-provoking sessions led by industry leaders. Network with like-minded peers, discover new opportunities at our job fair, and take advantage of exclusive student discounts.

Enjoy free food and stick around for exciting raffles and giveaways, including Google products. This is more than just a conference — it’s a celebration of technology, creativity, and collaboration.

Mark your calendar and get ready to learn, connect, and grow at DevFest Los Angeles 2025.

Event Agenda (exact schedule subject to change)

10:00–10:30 Doors

10:30–11:30 Keynote by Sharad Aggarwal, Global Head - Strategy, Partnerships & AI Solutions at Google Cloud

Speaker Track (Ballrooms D-E)

11:40–12:20 Building and Monetizing Your Apps by Ellie Kuang

Ellie will be talking about the startups she formed and how she managed to monetize them using Google AdSense and social media. Anyone can turn their hobbies into an app. Whether it is through vibe-coding or not, we can definitely leverage AI to build something interesting.

12:20–1:40 Lunch

1:40–2:20 What Prompts and Birthdays Teach Us About the AI Experience by Bryce Howitson

The evolution of UI combined with the silliness of communication makes AI feel like a crazed genie. You'll learn to build AI interfaces for everyone; those who aren't prompt engineers as well as the rest of us. Attending may not make you more attractive, but it WILL help you help others talk to computers. This session is for anyone who might someday build AI products for human engagement regardless of role or experience level.

2:30–3:10 Scaling Cancer Research to Billions of Pixels: an AI and Cloud-Powered Approach by David Haley

Big data is the new frontier in the fight against cancer. Modern imaging captures terabytes of stunning detail from tissue samples, but this information deluge overwhelms traditional analysis, turning data processing into a bottleneck for new discoveries.

In this talk, you'll learn how our spatial bioinformatics team broke through this barrier. We'll show you how we leveraged Google Cloud Platform to supercharge our scientific applications with AI and cloud infrastructure, accelerating our workflows by over 100x. This goes beyond speed: the efficiencies mean we can access much larger data sets than before.

Join us to learn how we're turning data overload into a decisive advantage in the fight against cancer.

3:20–4:00 AI Around the World by Jeremy Wilken

Dozens of countries have made significant investments and plans in developing custom AI and strategies for their needs. AI is spreading around the world, but many countries are looking at how to invest and develop AI that is designed for regional and local needs and preferences. Learn about how innovations spread and how various countries and regions are trying to shape AI to fit their visions of the future.

4:10–4:30 Scaling Apps for the AI Era: Patterns, Architectures, and Tools for Any Stack by Martino Yovo

As AI reshapes how we build applications, developers across every stack, whether Flutter, Android, or iOS, face a common challenge: how to design apps that are scalable, secure, and ready for AI-driven experiences.

In this talk, we’ll explore universal architecture patterns and engineering practices that prepare apps for the AI era. You'll will leave with practical patterns and architecture blueprints you can apply immediately, regardless of technology stack.

Workshop Track (Ballrooms A-C)

If you wish to participate in a workshop, be sure to bring your laptop!

11:40–12:40 Mission AI Possible: From Zero to Gemini with Google Workspace™ by Alice Keeler

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to unlock the full potential of Google Workspace by building custom automations powered by the Gemini API. While you can start with simple scripts, this session is a developer-focused deep dive into building a complete, AI-driven Google Workspace Add-on. We will move quickly from authentication to execution, demonstrating how to build a robust, publishable Add-on that intelligently automates tasks across Google Workspace. You will see live-coded examples of integrating the Gemini API with services like Drive, Gmail, and Sheets to create a seamless user experience. Leave with production-ready code patterns, prompt engineering strategies, and a clear understanding of how to build and publish the next generation of AI-powered Workspace Add-ons.

12:40–1:40 Lunch

1:40–3:10 Vibecoding with Gemini CLI by Siena Aguayo

This workshop guides application developers to master the new paradigm of "vibe coding" by transforming them into "Shadow Blades," heroes who use the Gemini CLI as their weapon. This hands-on training, presented within a fun fantasy framework, is structured to ensure all participants successfully complete a real-world workflow. Key takeaways include setting up a controlled environment, implementing coding guardrails with gemini.md, building an AI agent, and deploying it through a CI/CD pipeline.

3:20–4:30 Building AI Agents with Vertex AI Agent Builder by Bryan Bergo

In this workshop, you'll learn how to build a fully functional AI Agent using Google Cloud's Vertex AI Agent Builder. You will design an agent persona, create the conversational flow, and enhance its knowledge by grounding it with an external datastore. The final steps show how to integrate the live agent into a website and deploy it to Cloud Run.

4:30–5:00 Event close, prizes, networking

Brought to you by:

Google Developer Groups: Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Culver City, Los Angeles Android

Google Developer Groups on Campus: Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State LA

Women Techmakers of Greater Los Angeles

Contact the host of DevFest 2025 - GDG Greater Los Angeles Area