Michigan DevFest + AI Hackathon 2026

The Detroit, Ann Arbor, Toledo, UofM Dearborn and Windsor GDGs are teaming up with Compass Detroit to bring you the 12th Michigan DevFest on November 13-14, 2026. Join us on Friday, November 13th for an AI Hackathon followed by Michigan DevFest sessions on Saturday, November 14th at Little Caesars HQ. With this year's DevFest, we aim to put together a great weekend of networking, innovation, and knowledge sharing for all involved. This years sponsors include Google, IBM, DTE Energy, Little Caesars, and Compass Detroit. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor for Michigan DevFest, email us at sponsors@midevfest.com You can view the Michigan DevFest + AI Hackathon 2025 Schedule (below) on midevfest.com. Workshops: Introduction to Gemini 2.5 Pro on Google Cloud: Google Developer Experts Building AI Agents with Vertex AI Agent Builder: JC Escalante, Ipsos, Google Developer Expert Multimodal Use Cases: Adonai Vera, Voxel51, Google Developer Expert Build With AI: The Agentic Shift: From Prompt to Action: Nilesh Patel, Google Gemini Nano on Android: Building with On-Device GenAI: Madona S. Wambua, Capital One, Google Developer Expert From Data Gaps to Data Gold: Adonai Vera, Voxel51, Google Developer Expert Practical AI: Within SRE, Delivery and Cloud Engineering: Joel Vasallo, TAG - The Aspen Group, Google Developer Expert The Universal Adapter: Building and Scaling MCP Servers: Stephen Wylie, OpenBrite, LLC, Google Developer Expert Building the Chain of Trust: A Google ADK Blueprint for Grounded Legal AI Agents: Boris-Wilfried Nyasse, Google Developer Expert Tech+Design: Beyond the Black Box - Designing for Trust and Transparency with Google Cloud: JC Escalante, Ipsos, Google Developer Expert Blood, Sweat & Code Reviews: David Giard, Microsoft Building Your First AI Tool Server with Firebase Auth & Cloud Functions: Alex Patterson, CodingCatDev, Google Developer Expert Know Your JS: SBOMs for Frontend Devs: Chris DeMars, TuxCare Iterating on Applic