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DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
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SUMMARY:KEYNOTE
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
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SUMMARY:☕ BREAK
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
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SUMMARY:The interface is optional: building enterprise automations with AI 
 agents
DESCRIPTION:Wagner Luciano — CEO | Founder | Software Architect | AI & Lo
 gistics Technology Strategist\n\nThis session presents\, in practical term
 s\, how to design enterprise automations capable of executing complete pro
 cesses and reserving human intervention for exceptional situations.\n\nUsi
 ng the operation of a Dominican courier company as the common thread\, we 
 will learn to break a process down into events\, states\, rules\, data sou
 rces\, tools and decisions. This separation will make it possible to deter
 mine which tasks should be solved through traditional automation and which
  can benefit from artificial intelligence's capacity for interpretation an
 d reasoning.\n\nWe will see how to turn emails\, documents and unstructure
 d messages into reliable data\; how to use function calling to connect AI 
 models with enterprise tools\; and how to coordinate modular workflows thr
 ough n8n\, PostgreSQL\, APIs and webhooks. We will also address state hand
 ling\, transition validation\, idempotency and the separation between prob
 abilistic decisions and deterministic operations.\n\nThe session will expl
 ain how to design error-resistant flows through retries\, traceability\, o
 bservability\, least privilege\, validations and human intervention mechan
 isms. It will show how to prevent the model from directly performing finan
 cial calculations or critical modifications without verifiable controls.\n
 \nDuring the demo we will build and run a representative sequence that sta
 rts with an external event and ends with recording a transaction\, its inv
 oicing\, notification and next operational action. The goal will be to und
 erstand the architectural pattern\, not just the business case used.\n\nBy
  the end\, attendees will have a methodology for identifying automatable p
 rocesses\, defining the tools available to an agent\, setting limits of au
 tonomy and evolving from isolated assistants toward autonomous enterprise 
 workflows. The same approach can be applied to logistics\, sales\, custome
 r service\, finance and administrative operations.\n\nThe central idea of 
 the session is that\, when systems can understand events\, query informati
 on and execute actions safely\, interfaces stop being a permanent requirem
 ent and become an optional mechanism for supervision and control.\n\nhttps
 ://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,Product & Startups
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SUMMARY:Gemma 4 & the Open-Source AI Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Carlos Alarcón — CTO at Quix | GDE | MVP | Youtuber\n\nExplo
 re what Gemma 4 means for the future of open-source AI. In this session\, 
 we’ll break down its capabilities\, practical use cases\, and the growin
 g opportunity for developers and organizations to build\, customize\, and 
 deploy powerful AI systems with greater control\, transparency\, and acces
 sibility.\n\nKey points:\nThe importance of open source\, how Gemma works\
 , the advantages of a local model\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/e
 n/schedule
LOCATION:Laboratorio\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. Cé
 sar Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Workshops
CATEGORIES:AI/ML
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SUMMARY:How to Run a Global Blockchain Infrastructure Without Losing Your M
 ind or Your Budget
DESCRIPTION:Lowell Abbott — Co-Founder nodefleet.net\n\nLearn how we buil
 t an infrastructure that handles 300 million daily requests across 45 diff
 erent blockchains in US/EU/Japan on an efficient budget using k8s\, haprox
 y\, docker and cloudflare to set up a global DNS where every change goes t
 hrough a memory brain without breaking anything in the process\n\nKey poin
 ts:\nInfrastructure\; AI\; Blockchain\; Web3\; DNS\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgs
 antodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:Cloud,Blockchain,DevOps
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DTEND:20261009T160500Z
SUMMARY:Principle-Based Testing
DESCRIPTION:Victor Leonardo — Operations Director @ Smart Testing | Softw
 are Testing Specialist and Instructor\n\nTools change. Technologies change
 . Principles remain.\n\nAnd at a time when AI can generate test cases\, da
 ta\, automation and even analyze results\, the Tester's real value lies le
 ss and less in running tests and more in knowing what to test\, why to tes
 t it\, where to look for risk and how to interpret what they find.\n\nKey 
 points:\nApply the 7 Testing Principles to make better decisions about wha
 t\, when and how much to test.\; Prioritize testing by risk and context\, 
 understanding why exhaustive Testing is impossible.\; Identify how automat
 ion can create a false sense of security when tests do not evolve alongsid
 e the product.\; Integrate AI into Testing activities without replacing cr
 itical thinking\, risk analysis and the Tester's judgment.\; Assess qualit
 y beyond “the tests passed”\, taking into account real user needs and 
 business value.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:Testing / QA
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SUMMARY:Compiling Your StartUp: From the Terminal to Closing Deals
DESCRIPTION:José Aquino Cepeda — José M. Aquino\, MSc\n\nIt is common t
 o see brilliant tech projects stall in their beta phase\, not because of f
 ailures in the code\, but because of the lack of a "human connection proto
 col". In the entrepreneurial ecosystem\, knowing how to code\, analyze dat
 a or configure servers is only half the job\; the other half happens away 
 from the keyboard\, at negotiating tables and industry events.\n\n"Compili
 ng Your StartUp: From the Terminal to Closing Deals" tackles head-on the b
 iggest "bug" of technical founders: the fear of sales and of business prot
 ocol. \n\nDuring this session\, we will break down the human hardware and 
 software you need to build a company from scratch. \n\nYou will learn why 
 a firm handshake and the strategic use of business cards (physical and dig
 ital) are as crucial as clean code.\n\nBeyond attitude\, the talk provides
  an operational roadmap. \n\nWe will explore how to optimize your "bandwid
 th" through time management\, the importance of projecting a professional 
 image (*smart casual*) that builds trust\, and why taking the step toward 
 legal and tax formalization is your company's true deployment to productio
 n.\n\nIf you are ready to step out of the IDE (*Integrated Development Env
 ironment*)\, network with impact and turn your ideas into formal\, profita
 ble and scalable businesses\, this talk will hand you the algorithm to pul
 l it off.\n\nKey points:\nStartups\; Entrepreneurship\; Tech\; IT\; Entrep
 reneur\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:Product & Startups,Career
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DTSTART:20261009T160500Z
DTEND:20261009T170000Z
SUMMARY:🍽 LUNCH
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
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UID:talk-00543371-d2d1-45f0-90e6-cfacd4be332a@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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SUMMARY:From Operator to Dev: Exporting My Brain How I Turned 15 Years of C
 ommercial Experience Into AI Systems.
DESCRIPTION:Maria Shrayber — Founder\, GTM\, RevOps\, Partnerships\, Ecos
 ystems\n\nWho do you become when AI stops being a chatbot and turns into a
 n extension of your brain?\nWhat happens when\, all of a sudden\, you have
  tools to export the systems that for decades existed only in your head?\n
 In this talk I am going to tell you how I ended up throwing myself —with
  a fork\, optimism and a fair amount of recklessness— into the shark tan
 k that is the world of public tenders.\nHow you build a mental system to n
 avigate thousands of pages of technical documentation\, negotiate with man
 ufacturers on the other side of the world\, develop commercial intelligenc
 e\, win almost 40 million dollars in contracts... and also lose 2 million 
 dollars over a single form\, because in this business mistakes are paid fo
 r dearly.\nBut the real story is not about tenders.\nIt is about discoveri
 ng that what truly creates value is not the documents\, or the emails\, or
  the Excel files. The real asset is the decision-making system a professio
 nal builds over years of experience.\nWhen I understood that\, I stopped a
 sking myself how to use artificial intelligence.\nI started asking myself 
 how to teach artificial intelligence to think like me.\nThat question ende
 d up turning into an ecosystem of tools that today let me research markets
 \, build commercial intelligence\, automate processes and turn professiona
 l experience into scalable products.\nThis is not a talk about prompts.\nI
 t is a talk about how a professional can transform decades of tacit knowle
 dge into measurable\, repeatable and scalable systems.\nBecause AI does no
 t replace experience.\nAI multiplies those who know exactly how they think
 .\n\nKey points:\nHow to identify the value of your experience\; How to tu
 rn mental processes into a system\; Why AI multiplies but does not replace
  human judgment\; Million-dollar mistakes and how to avoid multiplying the
  chaos\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:Career,AI/ML
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SUMMARY:UX after the AI Apocalypse
DESCRIPTION:Claudio Henriquez — CoFounder @ thraive.do\n\nAI tools have a
 lready changed how we design. What almost nobody is discussing is how they
  are going to change what we design.\n\nIn this follow-up to the previous 
 talk\, we go beyond the current state of the tools to ask the uncomfortabl
 e questions: which parts of the craft are about to stop existing? Which sk
 ills go from “nice to have” to being the real difference between a des
 igner and a Figma operator? And how do you design an interface when the us
 er no longer navigates\, but delegates?\n\nWe will talk about the surfaces
  that do not exist yet and that someone is going to have to design: interf
 aces for supervising agents\, UIs generated at runtime\, systems where des
 ign is not a screen but a behavior\, and the new problems of trust\, permi
 ssions and traceability that come with them.\n\nNo hype and no doom. An ho
 nest read of the field from practice\, for designers who want to still be 
 relevant in five years.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Laboratorio\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. Cé
 sar Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Workshops
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,UI/UX
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UID:talk-b7d986d4-a37f-4e3f-bf06-831b1e9cf4c5@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261009T170500Z
DTEND:20261009T174500Z
SUMMARY:Multi-Agent vs. Workflow Loops: how to choose the right orchestrati
 on pattern in Google ADK
DESCRIPTION:Julio Quinteros P. — Google Developer Expert | AI and GCP Spe
 cialist\n\nAs agentic AI matures\, the first hard design decision is not w
 hich model to use\, but how your agents coordinate. Google's Agent Develop
 ment Kit (ADK) offers two very different answers: dynamic multi-agent rout
 ing\, where LLM agents decide who to transfer control to\, and structured 
 workflow loops (LoopAgent)\, where execution follows a fixed sequence base
 d on shared state.\n\nUsing a deliberately deterministic domain — a mult
 i-agent math expression evaluator — this talk makes the trade-offs visib
 le instead of leaving them up in the air. We build both patterns and then 
 dig into three failure modes that only show up once you have it running: r
 unaway tool-call recursion\, operator precedence breaking under fixed sequ
 encing\, and loops that end silently without returning the result. Along t
 he way we look at nested sub-agents and error boundaries (a division-by-ze
 ro guard) and a log-based explainability timeline to trace the transitions
  between agents.\n\nYou leave with a concrete decision framework for when 
 dynamic flexibility beats deterministic sequencing — and when it quietly
  costs you latency\, tokens and sanity.\n\nKey points:\nWhen to choose dyn
 amic multi-agent routing and when to choose a workflow loop (LoopAgent) in
  Google ADK: a decision framework based on the nature of the task\, not on
  what is fashionable.\; Why multi-agent orchestration charges a "coordinat
 ion tax": every transfer of control is an LLM call that computes nothing\,
  and that cost scales with the complexity of the problem —\; How to inst
 rument ADK agents to measure latency\, tokens and real cost per run\, sepa
 rating useful work from coordination overhead.\; Three failure modes that 
 only show up in production: runaway tool-call recursion\, operator precede
 nce breaking under fixed sequencing\, and loops that end silently without 
 retur\; Why predictability (low variance in cost and latency) is often wor
 th more than the average when planning for production\, and which pattern 
 gives it to you.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:AI/ML
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UID:talk-5585dbd8-cecd-4b73-b4a6-e15b76b18cf0@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261009T175000Z
DTEND:20261009T183000Z
SUMMARY:KMP without the smoke - What to share\, what not to\, and how to de
 sign a scalable architecture without dying trying
DESCRIPTION:Aneudy Vargas Almanzar — Senior Mobile Developer\n\nKMP promi
 ses "write once\, run everywhere"\, but in production the real question is
  not whether to adopt Kotlin Multiplatform\, but what to share and what no
 t to. In this talk we lay out a conservative\, proven approach: Kotlin doe
 s the heavy lifting (domain\, data\, networking\, state) and Swift limits 
 itself to drawing the UI\, without giving up the native experience. We wil
 l see how to structure the project with a Clean Architecture familiar to a
 ny Android dev (domain\, core\, data\, shared)\, how SKIE turns Flow and c
 oroutines into something idiomatic for Swift\, when to use expect/actual w
 ithout abusing it\, and how to package and distribute the iOS build (XCFra
 mework + Swift Package Manager) without losing your weekend. It closes wit
 h a checklist of 10 best practices to take straight to your next project.\
 n\nKey points:\nWhat to share between Android and iOS and what to keep 100
 % native.\; How to structure a KMP project with Clean Architecture (domain
 \, core\, data\, shared)\; Why to adopt SKIE from day one.\; When to use e
 xpect/actual and when to avoid it.\; How to package and distribute the iOS
  build without CocoaPods.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedu
 le
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:Mobile
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SUMMARY:Full stack founder: How artificial intelligence makes one-person co
 mpanies possible
DESCRIPTION:Leonardo Jimenez — Founder Enrankeo/Rektora\n\nFor the first 
 time in history\, a single person with judgment + AI + modern tools can bu
 ild\, distribute and operate an entire company at scale — and that chang
 es who can start a business and how businesses get started.\n\nIn this tal
 k I am going to share my experience and the thesis I hold about how the wo
 rld is changing.\n\nKey points:\nAI\; Entrepreneurship\n\nhttps://devfest.
 gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,Product & Startups
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UID:talk-bb265309-f526-4594-8d49-f8b260b8c546@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261009T183000Z
DTEND:20261009T184500Z
SUMMARY:☕ BREAK
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-51a62ff0-62f1-48ce-97bc-24f7b9c0c5e9@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261009T185000Z
DTEND:20261009T193000Z
SUMMARY:Panel
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-aae4489a-ff4c-4831-9920-80eabe168ad3@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261009T193500Z
DTEND:20261009T201500Z
SUMMARY:Marketing for Your SaaS - 101
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Santana — Developer Relations/Engineering/Product @ Cler
 k\n\nMany SaaS companies invest time and money in campaigns that generate 
 visits but not customers. In this talk we will go through a practical fram
 ework for building a marketing strategy focused on user activation and ret
 ention. With real tactics from content\, community\, SEO\, partnerships\, 
 DevRel and product-led growth that can be implemented from the earliest st
 ages through to growing companies\n\nKey points:\nHow to identify the ICP 
 (Ideal Customer Profile) you need\; How to create messages that connect wi
 th real problems and with people\; Which channels work best depending on t
 he stage of the SaaS\; How to measure the full funnel: awareness\, signup\
 , activation and retention\; How to use content and community to generate 
 sustainable demand\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:Marketing,Product & Startups
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-0ea7b54b-7b46-4ee7-a949-3a8f1eeaa591@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261009T193500Z
DTEND:20261009T210000Z
SUMMARY:Building Agent Orchestration with Google Agent Development Kit
DESCRIPTION:Carmelo Cueto — Systems Architect\n\n2026 has become the era 
 of orchestration\; having one agent is no longer enough. What you need is 
 a group of agents that can solve complex tasks. This workshop will show ho
 w to organize sub-agents as Agents as tools. To tackle complex problems.  
 We will also look at memory handling and the different responsibilities th
 at turn memory into a layer of cognition.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomin
 go.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Laboratorio\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. Cé
 sar Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Workshops
CATEGORIES:AI/ML
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-597e980c-14a4-45d7-b41f-fdb81ffbe3b6@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261009T193500Z
DTEND:20261009T201500Z
SUMMARY:The Technology Behind Dominicana Tech Week
DESCRIPTION:Jorge Vargas — Managing Partner Venture.do\n\nHow we used AI 
 to run the backoffice of a distributed unconference with 70+ sessions and 
 2\,500+ attendees in under 2 months\, and what we learned for the next edi
 tion.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,Community
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-dd5e210f-f363-4f9f-9210-627e8ddaa5ea@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261009T202000Z
DTEND:20261009T210000Z
SUMMARY:Your Reputation Is Your Best Framework: Personal Branding for Tech 
 Professionals
DESCRIPTION:Xiara Mahovy Paulino Frías — Social Communication & Digital 
 Media Specialist | Strategy & Reputation\n\nFrameworks change\, languages 
 evolve\, and tools get replaced — but reputation stays. In a market wher
 e thousands of professionals compete for the same opportunities\, personal
  branding has become a strategic asset. This talk explores how to build an
  authentic professional reputation from within the tech ecosystem: what to
  communicate\, where to do it\, how to build trust\, and how to stay consi
 stent between what you do\, what you share\, and how you're perceived. We'
 ll look at common mistakes\, positioning strategies\, and real examples of
  tech professionals who turned visibility into job opportunities\, partner
 ships\, investment\, and leadership within their communities.\n\nKey point
 s:\nPractical channels and formats to build visibility with consistency\; 
 Practical channels and formats to build visibility with consistency\; How 
 to build trust with peers\, recruiters\, and communities online\; Common p
 ersonal branding mistakes tech professionals make\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsa
 ntodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:Career,Community
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-293db3f0-9123-4b88-b01e-d0aeb0bea3c9@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261009T202000Z
DTEND:20261009T210000Z
SUMMARY:Agents in Your Pipeline
DESCRIPTION:Adrian Catalan — GDE and Innovation Lab Director\n\nWhat does
  it take to go from an isolated prompt to a system of agents that collabor
 ates in your development cycle? In this talk we adopt the agentic mindset 
 —decompose\, delegate\, review and approve— and put it into practice b
 y building\, with Google ADK\, a ReviewerAgent that analyzes code and prod
 uces structured findings with Pydantic\, and then chaining it to a TestAge
 nt through SequentialAgent to form a pipeline that generates test cases re
 ady for CI/CD. We close with orchestration patterns\, real-world challenge
 s (predictability\, stability\, operations) and how to scale from two agen
 ts to N without rewriting the pipeline.\n\nKey points:\nadk for designing 
 agents in the SDLC\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,DevOps
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-11f81001-4bea-418a-9a58-571a9438191e@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261010T130000Z
DTEND:20261010T134500Z
SUMMARY:The illusion of speed.
DESCRIPTION:Noe Branagan — AI Babysitter\n\n"Speed illusion"\, "You are n
 ot faster\, you are more productive at things that do not matter".\n\nTher
 e is something worse than speed. The instinct to smell that something is w
 rong in a piece of code was built by writing code\, reviewing it and getti
 ng it wrong. If you stopped doing all three\, that instinct is atrophying 
 right now and there is no metric to warn you. 44% of developers write less
  than 10% of their code by hand. Only 48% consistently verify what AI hand
 s them before committing.\n\nThis talk is about how to measure your real s
 peed instead of feeling it\, which skills are rusting\, and what to practi
 ce deliberately so you do not wake up in two years as someone who approves
  code they no longer understand.\n\nKey points:\nWhat to practice delibera
 tely so you do not lose the instinct\, and how often.\n\nhttps://devfest.g
 dgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
CATEGORIES:Career,AI/ML
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-a8a32f63-41b3-4274-8325-267babe1c7fa@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261010T135000Z
DTEND:20261010T143000Z
SUMMARY:Live Prediction Markets: Deploying an AI Oracle with CI/CD on Googl
 e Cloud
DESCRIPTION:Ayesha Yege — Scale and Optimize Engineer - Palo Alto Network
 s\n\nImagine a future where cloud infrastructure governs\, optimizes and r
 epairs itself using a combination of programmable economic systems and art
 ificial intelligence. In this vision\, resources such as compute\, storage
  and bandwidth are not simply allocated statically\, but dynamically negot
 iated\, traded and optimized by autonomous agents operating in a decentral
 ized market.\n\nThese agents\, deployed with CI/CD pipelines on Google Clo
 ud\, would use advanced AI techniques such as reinforcement learning\, evo
 lutionary game theory and generative models to:\n\nPredict future demand a
 nd adjust supply in real time\nDiscover new pricing and coalition-formatio
 n strategies\nAutomatically detect and respond to anomalies and failures\n
 Generate new network architectures and topologies optimized for cost-perfo
 rmance\nEvolve and improve themselves through mutation and artificial sele
 ction\n\nKey points:\nPredict future demand and adjust supply in real time
 \; AIDiscover new pricing and coalition-formation strategies\; Generate ne
 w network architectures and topologies optimized for cost-performance\; Ve
 rtex and AI model training\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/sched
 ule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,DevOps,Blockchain
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-daf92202-6157-4a0c-99a6-23608d11da4e@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T135000Z
DTEND:20261010T143000Z
SUMMARY:Code That Saves Lives: Understanding Google Crisis Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Alberto Castillo — Tech Lead in Crisis Contexts | GDG Organiz
 er | Google Gen AI Alumni & AWS AI Early Adopter\n\nIn a crisis\, the core
  problem is not the lack of data\, but its asymmetry and an excess of nois
 e. This session breaks down the engineering behind Google Crisis Resilienc
 e\, showing how code structures information to save lives through systems 
 such as Android Earthquake Alerts\, Flood Hub and SOS Alerts.\n\nWe will l
 ook at the platform through three architectural pillars:\nDistributed Tele
 metry: How the signal from millions of smartphone accelerometers is ingest
 ed and processed to create the largest earthquake detection network in the
  world.\n\nPredictive Modeling (ML): The application of Machine Learning a
 lgorithms and satellite imagery to anticipate flood trajectories before th
 ey happen.\n\nDeployment at Scale: The integration of APIs\, critical data
  routing and the design of highly legible interfaces (UX) to distribute ma
 ss alerts when physical infrastructure collapses.\n\nThis session will sho
 w how cloud computing and large-scale data processing become the fastest a
 nd most effective humanitarian tool at our disposal.\n\nKey points:\nPredi
 ctive modeling\; Google Crisis Resilience tools\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsant
 odomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Laboratorio\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. Cé
 sar Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Workshops
CATEGORIES:Cloud,Community,AI/ML,Data
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-f1e79670-8b55-4663-9a96-91b6c4d1ea86@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261010T135000Z
DTEND:20261010T143000Z
SUMMARY:Docker AI & Go: An Architecture Guide for AI Agents (ADK)
DESCRIPTION:Victor S. Recio — KubeAstronaut 🚀 | Docker Captain 🐳 | 
 Microsoft MVP 🏆 | ☁️ Cloud & Software Architect | 🏢 ex-Microsoft
  | 🎓Educator & Speaker 📢\n\nThe real challenge of Artificial Intelli
 gence today is not writing a good prompt\, but building autonomous systems
  that execute code\, interact with databases and make decisions in a safe\
 , predictable and scalable way. In this technical session we will take the
 ory into real practice. We will analyze how to design the architecture of 
 an ecosystem of autonomous agents using Go\, taking advantage of its high 
 performance and concurrency\, together with the Agent Development Kit (ADK
 ).\n\nWe will not stop at conceptual slides. We will build real agents liv
 e\, package them into containers and use Docker AI's capabilities for envi
 ronment isolation\, secure context orchestration and lifecycle governance 
 of AI workloads. If you want to move your AI initiatives from simple local
  scripts toward production-ready enterprise infrastructure\, this session 
 will give you the definitive blueprint.\n\nKey points:\nGo\; Containers\; 
 AI agents\; AI governance\; AI architecture\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodom
 ingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,Cloud,DevOps
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-7fdd2ea5-5a60-45c7-87b5-4d17a6b412e9@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T143000Z
DTEND:20261010T144500Z
SUMMARY:☕ BREAK
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-e0e4dbdb-bcea-41d1-9968-fc5056af5140@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261010T144500Z
DTEND:20261010T152500Z
SUMMARY:Vibe Coding in production: architecture\, technical debt and scalab
 ility with AI
DESCRIPTION:Edgar Garcia — CTO @backsource.ai & @Caribium.ai\n\nAI is mak
 ing it possible to build software in hours instead of weeks. But when that
  prototype reaches production\, the real challenges show up: architecture\
 , maintainability\, testing\, security\, observability and technical debt.
 \n\nIn this talk we will explore how to take advantage of AI tools and vib
 e coding without sacrificing good engineering practices. We will go throug
 h a practical workflow for moving from an idea to a system ready to grow\,
  using architecture documents\, PRDs\, task-based planning and AI assistan
 ts as part of the development process.\n\nIf you are already using AI to w
 rite code\, or you are thinking about bringing it into your team\, you wil
 l discover how to speed up development without compromising the quality or
  the scalability of your applications.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.
 org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,DevOps
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-64c3ed91-ae8e-4e0b-bd7f-0d2e16bece14@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T144500Z
DTEND:20261010T152500Z
SUMMARY:Engineering with Gemma: Use Cases and Architectures
DESCRIPTION:Adrian Catalan — GDE and Innovation Lab Director\n\nWe will e
 xplore how to design solutions with Gemma by combining local execution on 
 the edge with orchestration in services. We will review code\, implementat
 ion challenges and lessons learned building productive tools on Android an
 d the backend.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,Mobile
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-5fd03c21-9215-44c2-824f-91cc485df80c@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T144500Z
DTEND:20261010T161000Z
SUMMARY:Is AI Going to Take My Job? How to Turn It Into Your Ally
DESCRIPTION:Leomaris Reyes — Android Dev\n\nIs Artificial Intelligence co
 ming to replace us\, or can we turn it into an ally?\n\nIn this hands-on w
 orkshop you will discover\, with no technical background required\, how yo
 u can use AI to boost your skills\, make your day-to-day tasks easier and 
 turn your ideas into solutions.\n\nOn top of that\, we will work in teams 
 to create an idea using AI tools and present it in a 3-minute pitch. The g
 oal: learn by doing and discover everything you can achieve when you put A
 I to work for you. 🤖✨\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/sched
 ule
LOCATION:Laboratorio\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. Cé
 sar Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Workshops
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,Product & Startups
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-7501dfe7-979f-450a-9397-620101132b97@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T153000Z
DTEND:20261010T161000Z
SUMMARY:Marketing as a Pipeline: From deploy to customer. Audiences\, funne
 ls\, ads and AI
DESCRIPTION:Daviana Nuñez — Digital Marketing Strategist / Paid Media Sp
 ecialist  @Couplemedia.marketing\n\nThis talk translates the world of mark
 eting into the language developers already speak: systems\, automation and
  data.\n\nMost developers believe three things about marketing: that it is
  "posting on social media"\, that it is "hitting the promote button"\, and
  that it is a creative talent they do not have. All three are false — an
 d that confusion is exactly why technically superior products die in anony
 mity while mediocre products turn into businesses.\n\nThis talk takes the 
 mindset a developer already masters — thinking in systems\, data flows\,
  conditions and automation — and uses it as a bridge to explain what dig
 ital marketing really is today. We go through one contrast after another b
 etween "what you thought it was" and "what it actually is": from social me
 dia to the complete digital ecosystem\; from the improvised post to a stra
 tegy based on buyer persona psychology and awareness levels (TOFU / MOFU /
  BOFU)\; from "promoting" to advanced segmentation\; and from manual work 
 to marketing as an automated system with funnels\, AI flows in n8n and age
 nts that nurture customers 24/7.\n\nAttendees leave with a concrete shift 
 in mindset: they stop seeing marketing as a creative black box and start s
 eeing it as a system they can design\, measure and automate — with the s
 ame mental tools they use to code.\n\nKey points:\nA clear mental map of w
 hat real digital marketing is made of\; The awareness-levels model and the
  TOFU/MOFU/BOFU funnel — and how it maps to a data pipeline they already
  understand.\; Why segmentation and audience analysis decide whether your 
 budget brings customers or just curious onlookers.\; How modern marketing 
 is automated with funnels\, AI flows (n8n) and agents — territory where 
 a dev has an advantage.\; A first actionable step to start getting known w
 ithout becoming a "marketer".\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/sc
 hedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:Marketing,Data
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-7dac4efa-3c83-4406-b4c3-8ff17de174fb@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261010T153000Z
DTEND:20261010T161000Z
SUMMARY:CODE IS NO LONGER THE BOTTLENECK Spec-Driven Development: the next 
 leap in Business Agility
DESCRIPTION:Carlos Paulino — CCTO & founder cobalto consulting / EraNova 
 technologies\n\nArtificial intelligence is changing one of the fundamental
  rules of software development: writing code takes less and less time.\n\n
 But that does not mean we are building better products.\n\nWhen an AI agen
 t can generate code\, tests and components in minutes\, the real bottlenec
 k moves somewhere else: our ability to define precisely what we should bui
 ld\, why\, and how we will know it works.\n\nIn this session we will explo
 re Spec-Driven Development (SDD) as a natural evolution of agile practices
  in teams that are starting to work with AI agents.\n\nWe will see how to 
 move from user stories designed to coordinate people to specifications cap
 able of conveying business intent\, rules\, constraints and verifiable cri
 teria to humans and agents.\n\nAnd we will discuss a question that may red
 efine the next few years of Business Agility:\n\nIf AI can write the code\
 , where is the real work of Product Owners\, developers and agile teams no
 w?\n\nIt is not about developing faster.\n\nIt is about shortening the dis
 tance between a business idea and working software in the customer's hands
 .\n\nKey points:\nCode is no longer the bottleneck\; Agile was designed fo
 r a different world\; Prompting ≠ Spec-Driven Development\; From User St
 ories to SpecificationsThe SPEC becomes a new unit of work\n\nhttps://devf
 est.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,Product & Startups
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-ec5c3784-7306-4033-b2c1-3447863b0b07@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261010T161000Z
DTEND:20261010T170000Z
SUMMARY:🍽 LUNCH
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-0c28268c-8de2-4fcf-9057-a553ed0dbf87@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T170000Z
DTEND:20261010T174000Z
SUMMARY:MAD Skills + On-Device AI: Building Reactive Android Apps with Gemi
 ni Nano and Jetpack Compose
DESCRIPTION:Edgardo Panchana — Mobile application development\n\nModern A
 ndroid Development (MAD) practices revolutionized the way we build mobile 
 applications. Now\, with the arrival of small language models (SLMs) that 
 run directly on the phone's processor\, Artificial Intelligence is integra
 ted as one more native component of the Android ecosystem.\nIn this 100% h
 ands-on workshop\, you will learn to apply MAD Skills patterns to integrat
 e Gemini Nano (Google AI Edge) into a modern\, private and functional Andr
 oid application with no internet connection required.\n\nhttps://devfest.g
 dgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Laboratorio\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. Cé
 sar Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Workshops
CATEGORIES:Mobile,AI/ML
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-ff325ea8-8293-40fc-b28c-5e194e8123f0@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261010T170000Z
DTEND:20261010T174000Z
SUMMARY:To be announced
DESCRIPTION:Harys Vizcaino — Ingeniero en software y creador de contenido
  sobre IA y tecnología @harysvizcaino\n\nLa audiencia entenderá qué sig
 nifica realmente ejecutar inteligencia artificial de forma local y cuándo
  tiene sentido hacerlo en lugar de depender completamente de servicios en 
 la nube.\n\nAl terminar la charla podrán distinguir entre SLMs\, LLMs y f
 rontier models\, entender por qué no todas las tareas necesitan el modelo
  más grande disponible y conocer los factores principales que determinan 
 qué modelos pueden ejecutar en su propio hardware.\n\nTambién aprenderá
 n conceptos prácticos como RAM\, VRAM\, parámetros\, cuantización e inf
 erencia\, y verán cómo una computadora\, workstation o Home Lab puede co
 nvertirse en infraestructura para ejecutar modelos de IA\, aplicaciones y 
 agentes.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,DevOps
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-169ed48b-9c30-430d-ae0e-4bc28947e9b6@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T170000Z
DTEND:20261010T174000Z
SUMMARY:Engineering the Future: From Building Software to Shaping Outcomes 
 That Matter
DESCRIPTION:Wilson Reyes — Co-Founder: Caribium.ai & StriveUp.ai\n\nAI is
  not only changing the way we write code. It is also turning a growing sha
 re of “knowledge work” into a new surface for engineering. Processes t
 hat used to depend on tacit knowledge\, manual coordination and scattered 
 decisions can now be made explicit\, turned into systems and improved on t
 he basis of evidence.\n\nFor software engineers\, this is an inflection po
 int. The same capabilities we learned in order to build software\, such as
  decomposing problems\, modeling systems\, automating\, testing and learni
 ng\, can now be applied far beyond code.\n\nDrawing on experiences creatin
 g products\, automations and businesses with AI\, this talk explores what 
 it means to move from executing requirements to applying engineering to tu
 rn knowledge\, experience and ideas into outcomes. We will also talk about
  the opportunities and the limits of this transformation\, the role of hum
 an judgment\, and how software engineers can leverage what they already kn
 ow in order to create with greater autonomy.\n\nKey points:\nUnderstand wh
 y a growing share of “knowledge work” is becoming a new surface for en
 gineering.\; Recognize processes\, decisions and problems that can be made
  explicit\, turned into systems and improved from evidence.\; Distinguish 
 between writing code and designing a complete system capable of producing 
 real outcomes.\; Understand the role of human judgment and the limits we m
 ust consider when bringing AI into real processes.\; Apply software engine
 ering capabilities to create products\, automations and outcomes with grea
 ter autonomy.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:Career,Product & Startups
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-5a7d10b6-40a0-46c8-9f2f-ab398ed274a5@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T174500Z
DTEND:20261010T182500Z
SUMMARY:What to Test When We Can't Test Everything? Risk-Based Testing in t
 he Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:Victor Leonardo — Operations Director @ Smart Testing | Softw
 are Testing Specialist and Instructor\n\nIn a world where Artificial Intel
 ligence can generate and run more and more tests\, a fundamental question 
 arises: how do we decide what to test first?\n\nWe will explore how Risk-B
 ased Testing helps us identify what really matters\, prioritize our effort
 s and make better decisions that deliver business value\, beyond the numbe
 r of tests executed.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Laboratorio\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. Cé
 sar Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Workshops
CATEGORIES:Testing / QA,AI/ML
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-6ac59e2a-4361-4b54-bc40-5b5fcebe3d74@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T174500Z
DTEND:20261010T182500Z
SUMMARY:The Horse\, the Harness & the Hay: AI Agents in the Real World
DESCRIPTION:Hector Terrero — CEO & Co-Founder @ heva\n\nAI access isn't t
 he differentiator anymore. Everyone's renting the same "horse" (the model)
 . This talk breaks down where real advantage comes from instead: the Horse
  (the model itself\, how it reasons\, where it breaks\, how to push it)\, 
 the Harness (the agents\, tools\, workflows\, and guardrails you build and
  own)\, and the Hay (the proprietary data that keeps making both better ov
 er time).\n\nHéctor will walk through this using heva\, the AI native\, c
 ross-border healthcare platform he's building\, where agents have to work 
 across languages\, countries\, providers\, patients\, scheduling\, and pay
 ments in the real world. That approach took heva from about $100K to over 
 $1M in ARR in roughly five months\, while raising more than $10M in ventur
 e capital.\n\nThe talk ends on a question for developers and entrepreneurs
  in the Dominican Republic: once world class models are commoditized\, whe
 re does your edge actually come from? Understand the horse. Own the harnes
 s. Grow the hay.\n\nNo AI/ML background needed. This is framework first\, 
 built from real production lessons\, not theory.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsan
 todomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,Product & Startups
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DTSTART:20261010T174500Z
DTEND:20261010T182500Z
SUMMARY:Fast AI\, fluid UI
DESCRIPTION:Vanessa Marely Aristizabal Angel — Google Developer Expert in
  Angular and Web Technologies\n\nInterfaces generated dynamically by AI ma
 ke it possible to create personalized experiences\, but they can also caus
 e unexpected layout shifts\, heavy client-side load and rendering delays. 
 In this session we will explore how to optimize a generative UI through re
 ndering strategies\, streaming\, DOM reuse and efficient state handling\, 
 while keeping experiences fast\, fluid and accessible.\n\nKey points:\nIde
 ntify the performance challenges of generative UI.\; Reduce layout shifts 
 and client-side load.\; Keep dynamic interfaces fast and accessible.\n\nht
 tps://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,UI/UX,Web
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-fd46dbd8-1bf1-4224-a34e-82630b87257b@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T182500Z
DTEND:20261010T184000Z
SUMMARY:☕ BREAK
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-b85fec70-74de-4af1-afc8-699add24f082@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
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DTSTART:20261010T184000Z
DTEND:20261010T191000Z
SUMMARY:Secure by Design: Piensa como un Hacker\, Programa como un Ingenier
 o
DESCRIPTION:Inés María Montero Concepción — Ingeniera en Sistemas | Fu
 ll Stack Web Developer | Banking & Payment Systems\n\n¿Y si el problema d
 e seguridad de tu aplicación comienza antes de escribir una sola línea d
 e código?\n\nEn esta sesión vamos a cambiar la forma en que pensamos el 
 desarrollo de software: desde la definición del requerimiento hasta el c
 ódigo que finalmente llega a producción. Aprenderemos a identificar ries
 gos desde el inicio y a pensar como un atacante para descubrir cómo podr
 ía romperse una funcionalidad antes de que alguien más lo haga.\n\nA tra
 vés de ejemplos prácticos exploraremos vulnerabilidades como SQL Injecti
 on\, XSS\, problemas de autenticación y autorización\, validación de en
 tradas y seguridad en APIs. Veremos no solo cómo ocurren\, sino también 
 cómo podemos detectarlas y prevenirlas durante el desarrollo.\n\nPorque u
 n requerimiento también puede tener una vulnerabilidad\, y una línea de 
 código puede convertirse en una puerta de entrada. La pregunta es: ¿la e
 stamos viendo antes de que alguien más la encuentre?\n\nhttps://devfest.g
 dgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Laboratorio\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. Cé
 sar Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Workshops
CATEGORIES:Security,Web,DevOps
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-1046b6a0-bb77-4194-b2a3-dc39098345ad@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T184000Z
DTEND:20261010T191000Z
SUMMARY:Building Secure AI Agents: How to Keep Your LLM From Doing More Tha
 n It Should
DESCRIPTION:Angel Jose — Cybersecurity & AI Security\n\nLLMs stopped bein
 g simple conversational interfaces. Today we connect them to APIs\, databa
 ses\, files\, browsers\, repositories and external tools to build agents c
 apable of executing real actions. \n\nIn this talk we will explore what ha
 ppens when an LLM receives instructions from multiple sources\, uses tools
  through tool calling or MCP\, and on top of that has permissions to inter
 act with external systems. We will see how attacks such as prompt injectio
 n and indirect prompt injection can manipulate an agent's behavior and tri
 gger actions the developer never intended to authorize.\n\nWe will analyze
  a typical AI agent architecture and see where the main trust boundaries a
 ppear between the user\, the model\, the context\, the tools\, MCP servers
 \, APIs and external data.\n\nWe will also review controls that can be app
 lied from development onward: least privilege\, parameter validation\, too
 l allowlisting\, credential separation\, approval gates\, human-in-the-loo
 p\, logging and execution limits.\n\nThe goal is to understand that an age
 nt's security cannot rely on a system prompt alone. If an LLM can act\, we
  also have to control exactly what it can do\, with which data and under w
 hat conditions.\n\nKey points:\nHow the security model changes when an LLM
  goes from generating text to using APIs\, tools\, files and external serv
 ices.\; Understand the difference between direct prompt injection and indi
 rect prompt injection and how external content can influence an agent's de
 cisions.\; Identify where trust boundaries appear when agents use MCP serv
 ers\, tools\, resources and APIs.\; Limit permissions\, credentials\, tool
 s and actions to reduce the impact of a compromised or manipulated agent.\
 ; Apply validation\, allowlists\, approval gates\, logging\, sandboxing an
 d human-in-the-loop for sensitive operations.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantod
 omingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón B\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César
  Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 2
CATEGORIES:AI/ML,Security
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-19d33bca-858d-48ca-a159-f87b1f6c2d92@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T184000Z
DTEND:20261010T191000Z
SUMMARY:Your human stack: strategic networking to turn conversations into r
 eal opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Abel López — Founder @ Envision Innovation Labs | Strategy\,
  innovation and ecosystem building\n\nWhat if one of the most important pi
 eces of our professional stack were not a technological one?\n\nCareers\, 
 startups and projects rarely move forward on technical knowledge alone. Th
 ey also move forward because we find people to learn with\, collaborate wi
 th\, build with\, sell to\, hire\, connect ideas with or open new possibil
 ities with. Yet we frequently reduce networking to exchanging contacts\, a
 dding people on LinkedIn or attending events without a strategy for turnin
 g those encounters into lasting relationships.\n\nIn this talk we will exp
 lore networking as human infrastructure for growth\, not as a transactiona
 l practice. Drawing on real experiences from a career that has spanned adv
 ertising\, technology\, entrepreneurship\, public innovation and AI govern
 ance\, we will see how a conversation can become\, years later\, an opport
 unity\, a project or a new community.\n\nWe will present a practical frame
 work based on five elements —Context\, Curiosity\, Contribution\, Contin
 uity and Collaboration— for building professional relationships based on
  trust and mutual benefit.\n\nFinally\, we will build a small Relationship
  Stack with Google tools: Contacts to preserve context\, Calendar and Task
 s to follow up\, Gmail and Drive to maintain continuity\, Sheets as a ligh
 tweight tracker and Gemini to reduce the load of organizing and retrieving
  information.\n\nTechnology can help us remember and follow up. Trust is s
 till something we have to build ourselves.\n\nhttps://devfest.gdgsantodomi
 ngo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Salón Principal\, Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C
 . César Nicolás Penson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominica
 na
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-DEVFEST-TRACK:Track 1
CATEGORIES:Career,Community
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UID:talk-2114966f-c8f0-4a57-87e1-25249be17bc7@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T191500Z
DTEND:20261010T195500Z
SUMMARY:PANEL - AI
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
CATEGORIES:AI/ML
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:talk-876e530f-98f5-4462-b71e-8ae7399d3240@devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org
DTSTAMP:20261018T080211Z
DTSTART:20261010T200000Z
DTEND:20261010T210000Z
SUMMARY:CLOSING
DESCRIPTION:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
LOCATION:Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña\, C. César Nicolás P
 enson 91\, Gazcue\, Santo Domingo\, República Dominicana
URL:https://devfest.gdgsantodomingo.org/en/schedule
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
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