Where is Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026 held?

Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026 was held at Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park in Winnipeg, Canada.

Who sponsors Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026?

ConferenceGrid lists 10 sponsors, including Carahsoft/Google, Conquest Planning, Improving, Laivly and New Media Manitoba.

AI & Machine Learning

Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026

Name: Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026
Start: 2026-09-21
End: 2026-09-22
Location: Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park

This edition has ended

Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026 ran Sep 21–22, 2026 at Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park in Winnipeg, Canada. It is an AI & Machine Learning conference. ConferenceGrid lists 56 speakers, 10 sponsors and 39 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Oct 15, 2026 · dates verified May 5, 2026

Prairie Dev Con is an annual software development conference bringing together developers, thought leaders, and industry experts to the Canadian prairies. Since 2010, the event aims to inspire learning, foster professional connections, and showcase the latest tools and practices. Attendees can look forward to multiple sessions, speaker presentations, and net…

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56Speakers

10Sponsors

39Sessions

47Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Prairie, in alphabetical order.

Adam Krieger

Principal Security Consultant · Online Business Systems

Adam L Barrett

JavaScript Consultant / Developer

Addison Rennick

Principal Developer

Alex Drenea

Solution Architect · Microsoft

Andy Barker

Ashleigh Lodge

Leader of the Product Team · Neovation Learning Solutions

Ben Goldstein

Owner, Evergold Consulting Group · Evergold Consulting Group

Borko Djurkovic

Member of Technical Staff · Cohere

Cameron McKay

Microsoft Azure Integration MVP · MNP LLP

Carey Payette

Chris Ayers

Senior Site Reliability Engineer · Microsoft

Christopher Usick

Northfield IT

Chris Woody Woodruff

Independent Consultant · Woody Technology Studio LLC

Conner Schiissler

Craig Shyjak

VP of Architecture · Laivly

Dale Birtch

Engineering Manager (SRE) · Axon

Darryl Shpak

Conquest Planning

Dave Rooney

Agile Coach, Speaker, Manager & Developer · Saphala Consulting

Dave White

Principal Consultant · Depth Consulting

David Paquette

Principal Software Engineer · Microsoft

David Wesst

Enterprise Software Architect · University of Manitoba

Derrick Persson

IcePanel.io

Agenda

Selected from 39 sessions.

Mon 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Building Secure and Scalable Cloud Native APIs for Modern Applications
Modern applications are increasingly powered by cloud native APIs that must handle massive scale, evolving security threats, and continuous delivery demands. As organizations trans…
Mon 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Multi-Agent Without the Bloat: Designing Lean AI Systems on Azure
Multi-agent systems get expensive and chaotic when every agent receives the full conversation, full tool history, and full memory state. In this session, we’ll look at how to desig…
Mon 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Practical GenAI (as of September 2026)
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly entering professional and academic workflows, yet many organizations struggle to use it reliably, safely, and responsibly. This session focuses on …
Mon 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
We Auto-Generated 2,743 E2E Tests Across 593 Endpoints. Here Is What We Learned.
Every team maintaining a legacy system knows the fear: touch one thing, break three others. You want to modernize, but you cannot ship what you cannot test. And nobody wrote tests …
Mon 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations
This talk presents a deep technical exploration of implementing zero-trust security principles to enable secure agentic AI workflows across both internal systems and external enter…
Mon 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Agentic AI Raises the Stakes for API Security
Learn why API protection and security must evolve in the age of AI, and how to elevate API security beyond traditional reliance on development teams. The session covers management,…
Mon 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Build an MCP Data Source
Model Context Protocol (MCP) offers a bridge between AI agents and legacy applications. Learn how to open up data and behaviour, enable meaningful agent interactions, and secure co…
Mon 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
From Bronze to Business Value Faster with Materialized Lakehouse Views
How much time are you spending to build notebooks and pipelines for Silver/Gold layers? Materialized Lakehouse Views in Microsoft Fabric can shift medallion transformations to a fa…
Mon 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
No Frameworks for Old Devs
What if you don’t actually need all that baggage? In this talk, see how modern browsers let you build rich, interactive web apps - no frameworks required!

Quick answers

When is Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026?: Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026 ran Sep 21–22, 2026 at Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park in Winnipeg, Canada.
Where is Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026 held?: Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026 was held at Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park in Winnipeg, Canada.
Who is speaking at Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 56 speakers, including Adam Krieger (Principal Security Consultant, Online Business Systems), Adam L Barrett (JavaScript Consultant / Developer) and Addison Rennick (Principal Developer).
Who sponsors Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026?: ConferenceGrid lists 10 sponsors, including Carahsoft/Google, Conquest Planning, Improving, Laivly and New Media Manitoba.

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 47 companies show up, and 4 bet on three roles at once?

47 companies. four are betting more than once.

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

4All threespeak · spons · exh

6Sponsoringsponsor only

37Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Improving·Conquest Planning·Laivly·WorkWranglers

Speakers by seniority

18% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

C-suite12%
Founder / Owner611%
VP-level12%
Director / Head of24%
Manager / Lead1425%
Product24%
Engineer · IC1221%
Other roles1832%

Of 56 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies

#	Company	Roles	Speakers
1	Improving	Sponsor	2
2	Conquest Planning	Sponsor	1
3	Laivly	Sponsor	1
4	Microsoft		4
5	WorkWranglers	Sponsor	1
6	Carahsoft/Google	Sponsor	-
7	New Media Manitoba	Sponsor · Community Partner	-
8	Payworks	Sponsor	-
9	Pollard Banknote	Sponsor	-
10	Richardson International	Sponsor	-
11	Skip	Sponsor	-
12	Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries		2
13	Accenture		1
14	Agile Magic		1

Sponsors by tier

community partner1

10% of 10

unspecified9

90% of 10

Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg 2026

Building Secure and Scalable Cloud Native APIs for Modern Applications

Multi-Agent Without the Bloat: Designing Lean AI Systems on Azure

Practical GenAI (as of September 2026)

We Auto-Generated 2,743 E2E Tests Across 593 Endpoints. Here Is What We Learned.

Zero-Trust Architecture for Agentic AI: Securing Multi-User Access and Third-Party Integrations

Agentic AI Raises the Stakes for API Security

Build an MCP Data Source

From Bronze to Business Value Faster with Materialized Lakehouse Views

No Frameworks for Old Devs

47 companies. four are betting more than once.