Michigan DevFest + AI Hackathon 2026

About this event

**[Michigan DevFest + AI Hackathon 2026 Tickets](https://www.midevfest.com/)** 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](https://bit.ly/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](https://midevfest.com/)** 2025 Schedule (below) on **[midevfest.com](https://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,…