SoFlo DevCon 2025 | Celebrating 30 years of technology!

This event is a conference for software developers, designers, engineers, tech professionals, and all techies across the region. This year, we've added an outerspace theme celebrating the 30th anniversary of South Florida Tech Hub and the first ever feature film had created entirely through computer generated imagery (CGI) in 1995 - Toy Story! 🚀

In this galaxy, topics and workshops will include Machine Learning, Ai, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), IoT, .NET, DevOps, MVC Framework, JavaScript, JQuery, SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Software Testing, Xamarin/Mobile Development, Azure/Cloud, Business/Career Development, and more!

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👉🏽 Speaker Agenda can be found on the SoFloDevCon.org(opens in a new tab) website.

⭐ 8:00 AM | Check-In & Breakfast

⭐ 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Opening Remarks

⭐ 9:40 AM - 10:10 AM | SESSION 1

• "From Likes to Job Offers: Crafting Your Tech Persona Online" - Rebecca Bakels - Room 2061
• "AI Use Cases and Deployment in Hospitality Industry" - Pierre Donyegro - Room 2060
• "People Over Products: A Humans First Approach to AI" - Rick Tuttle - Room 2073
• "Prompt Engineering: Real-World Applications From Prototype to Production" - Hans Baceras - Room 3049
• "From C to Rust: An AI-Powered Path to Safer Code" - Vitalii Kostenko - Room 2057
• "Beyond Alignment to Integration" - Elizabeth Decker - SIM Leadership Track - Room 3000

⭐ 10:20 AM - 11:20 AM | SESSION 2

• "Let it sell itself! A Crash Course on Product Led Growth" - Reneida Leon - Room 1047
• "The Cost of Free: Rethinking Open Source Sustainability" - Shaun Walker - Room 1057
• "Digital Portfolio Framework to Navigate the Cybersecurity Maze" - Ysenia Yser - Room 1067
• "RAG to Riches: Building Chatbots with Company Knowledge" - Damian Montero - Room 3032
• "Power BI 101: A Guided Tour from Raw Data to Real Insights" - Cecilia Brusatori - Room 2073
• "AI in the Management of People, Processes, and Business" - Elizabeth Decker - SIM Leadership Track - Room 3000

⭐ 11:55 AM - 12:25 PM | SESSION 3

• "To Infinity & Beyond: Setting Yourself Up for Financial Success" - Kelly Boyle - Room 2056
• "Who is in your Meta? Empowering Your Business with Risk Assesstment & AI" - Valeria Ferrin - Room 2060
• "From Idea to Impact: Building a Startup That Truly Matter" - Matthew Tremellen - Room 3032

"Taming the Machine: How I Trained AI to Work My Way (and What It Taught Me About Being Human)" - AJ Silberman-Moffitt - Room 3049

⭐ 12:25 PM | Lunch Main Atrium | Leadership Lunch Room 3000

⭐ 1:25 PM - 2:25 PM | SESSION 4

• "Top Accessibility Pitfalls in Mobile & Native App Design" - Claudio Luis Vera - Room 1047
• "Empowering Work & Education with AI: Microsoft Copilot and Hatz.AI in Action" - Glen Benjamin - Room 2057
• "Million-Dollar MVP: Build & Launch Your App in 30 Days with AI" - Adrian Cole - Room 2067
• "Orchestrating Intelligence: Building Collaborative Multi-Agent Systems with Amazon Bedrock" - Jeremy Cianella - Room 3032
• "Building an Open-Source VR Multiplayer Framework" - Evgeniya Simmons - Room 3049
• "Querying the Bitcoin and Ethereum Blockchains" - Joe Homnick - Room
• "AI in the Management of People, Processes, and Business" - Elizabeth Decker - Room 3000 - SIM Leadership Track

⭐ 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | SESSION 5

• "Timing the Jump: When to Start Your Job Search (and How to Make It Count)" - Alex Funkhouser - Room 2056
• "Environmental Security and LLMs" - Sam Bermudez - Room 2057
• "From Greenwash to Green Code: Building the Buzz Lightyears
• of Climate Tech" - Yadira Diaz - Room 2073
• "Beyond Alignment to Integration" - Elizabeth Decker - Room 3032
• "Meshtastic & Building a Resilient, Off-Grid Communication Network in Florida" - Kay Anar - Room 3049
• "SIM DigiRisk SIG - Technically Human: Why AI Demands Better Leaders" - Elizabeth Decker - Room 3000

⭐ 3:40 PM - 4:40 PM | SESSION 6

• "Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with .NET MAUI & AI" - Robert Hellestrae - Room 1047
• "Decoding DeFi: Legal Risks and Compliance Realities in the Crypto Frontier" - Jennifer Newton - Room 1057
• "Gains & Guardrails: A Practical Guide to Secure AI for SMBs" - Ron Fulton - Room 2067
• "AI Unleashed: Build, Design, and Ship in Half an Hour with Vibe Coding" - Alejandro Sanchez - Room 3032
• "AI Callers + Visual Recognition: Driving SERP Results with Vanity Phone Numbers" - Drs. Avi & Sara Rushinek - Room 3049
• SIM Women Webinar - Johanna Jones, President & CEO of Information Technology Senior Management Forum on "The Power of Engaging Your Network" - Room 3000

⭐ 5:00 PM | Closing Remarks

⭐ 5:30 PM | Event Ends

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Thank you to our friends at Nova Southern University who kindly allow us to host this community-driven conference in their beautiful Carl DeSantis building.

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