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DevFest Vancouver 2025

DevFest Vancouver is a community-driven tech conference annually hosted by Google Developer Groups. The event brings together professional developers and tech leaders for workshops, talks, and demos led by experts. The 2025 edition features a hands-on Google Cloud Labs workshop focused on building and governing intelligent agent ecosystems. It's an ultimate…

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49Speakers
4Sponsors
20On the bill · sessions
43Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at DevFest, in alphabetical order.
Alessandro Petri
CPO · QuantPi
Anastasia Barner
Founder & Author · FeMentor
Andreas Wixler
Co-Founder & CTO · FINN
Antoine Leboyer
Managing Director · TUM Venture Labs
Artjem Weissbeck
Founder · Charles
Cecilia Cong
Web Ecosystem Consultant · Google
Chintan Parikh
Product Manager · Google
Christoph Gerber
Founder & CEO · Talon.One
Christoph Hohenberger
Co-CEO · Retorio
Dara Tumenbayeva
Founder & CEO · Black Swan
Dr. Leif Nissen-Lundbaeck
CEO & Co-Founder · Xayn
Dr. Sievert Weiss
Investor · Amboss
Dr. Wolfgang Gründinger
Chief Evangelist · Enpal
Elisabeth L'Orange
Co-Founder & COO · Oxolo
Erick Wendell
Professional JS Instructor · EW Academy
Eva Spannagl
Co-Founder - Managing Director · Climatos
Gertrud Kolb
CPTO · eyeo
Gordon Williams
Founder & Lead Developer · Espruino
Hugo Zanini
Project Lead · Nubank
Hung Dang
CEO · Y42
James Hurley
Principal Software Engineer · Twitch / Amazon IVS
Janna Lipenkova
CEO · Anacode
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Google Cloud Labs
Google Developer Group (GDG) Burnaby
Google Developer Group (GDG) Surrey
Google Developer Group (GDG) Vancouver
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Agenda

Selected from 20 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:05 AM - 10:20 AM

    Web AI Leaps Forward on Intel AI PCs

    We will showcase the latest performance advancements in WebGPU and WebNN on Intel AI PCs. We will also offer a glimpse of Panther Lake, Intel’s next-generation client processor, de…

  • 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

    Don't let AI agents push your buttons - use webMCP instead!

    Browser agents are coming. In this talk, we'll cover a new way that web authors can integrate with these agents: webMCP. WebMCP is a new proposal in the webML working group that gi…

  • 10:20 AM - 10:35 AM

    Transformers.js: Building Next-Generation WebAI Applications

    Learn how to create stunning AI-powered web applications with Transformers.js, an innovative JavaScript library for running state-of-the-art machine learning models 100% locally in…

  • 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

    LiteRT.js, Google’s high performance WebAI runtime

    Harness the power of LiteRT on the web! This talk introduces LiteRT.js, Google's new WebAI runtime that runs your custom .tflite models with WebGPU. We'll cover features of the lib…

  • 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

    Accelerating Web AI on Arm

    Arm architecture is everywhere. Our technology powers 99% of smartphones (Apple and Android), Macs, iPads, Windows on Arm PCs, cars—nearly every computing platform. In this talk, w…

  • 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

    Running Google's Gemma LLMs in the browser with MediaPipe Web

    Google's Gemma 3 and Gemma 3n large language model (LLM) families offer some of the most powerful LLMs yet for their respective sizes. Moreover, they are multilingual and multimoda…

  • 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

    Building a VR Assistant and llms.txt widget

    Browsers are AI runtimes. In 15 minutes, I’ll demo Chrome’s built-in AI APIs to create a VR assistant that understands intent to schedule, cancel, and check barber bookings, and a …

  • 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM

    Wasm, WebGPU, & WebNN: How compute abstraction are enabling client side AI

    Wasm, WebGPU, and WebNN are the foundational compute abstractions that enable developers to build and deploy AI systems with almost limitless autonomy and control. In this talk we'…

  • 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

    InferenceJS: Real-Time Computer Vision in Your Browser

    Build AI that runs where your users are—directly in the browser. We’ll explore dataset curation, training, and deploying with InferenceJS, then showcase a live scavenger hunt game.…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 43 companies, parsed from the program.

43 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
4Sponsoringsponsor only
39Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

59% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1735%
  • Founder / Owner1020%
  • VP-level12%
  • Director / Head of12%
  • Manager / Lead714%
  • Product48%
  • Engineer · IC510%
  • Advisor / Investor12%
  • Other roles36%

Of 49 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Google11V
  2. 02Google Cloud LabsSp
  3. 03Google Developer Group (GDG) BurnabySp
  4. 04Google Developer Group (GDG) SurreySp
  5. 05Google Developer Group (GDG) VancouverSp
  6. 06AMBOSS1V
  7. 07Anacode1V
  8. 08arm1V
  9. 09AskUI1V
  10. 10Balderton Capital1V
  11. 11Black Swan1V
  12. 12Briink1V
  13. 13Charles1V
  14. 14Climatos1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified4
100% of 4