DevFest Chennai 2025

Agenda & Schedule

November 8, 2025 • Chennai, India

Track 1

8:00 AM
Break

Registration

Speaker: GDG Chennai Team

Check-in, welcome kit distribution, and networking

⏱️ 75 min 🕐 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM
Keynote

Welcome to Devfest 2025

Speaker: GDG Chennai Organizers

Welcome & Opening Note

⏱️ 30 min 🕐 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
9:45 AM
Keynote

Devfest Keynote

Speaker: Muthuramakrishnan V.

Transformers and Beyond

⏱️ 30 min 🕐 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Keynote

The Journey from Startup Stack to AI-Powered Commerce

Speaker: Abhay Kumar, Aravind Ravi

Get ready to dive deep into the world of AI-Powered E-Commerce- Sponsor Talk (Poshmark)

⏱️ 30 min 🕐 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Break

Gear up for all the amazing talks

⏱️ 15 min 🕐 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM
Session

Supercharging Google Cloud Deployments with Gemini CLI: From Code to Cloud in Minutes

Speaker: Jitendra Gupta

From Code to Cloud in Minutes using Google's Gemini CLI tools

⏱️ 35 min 🕐 11:15 AM - 11:50 AM
11:50 AM
Session

AI Agent (and MCP) Vulnerabilities and Security

Speaker: Nikhilesh Tayal

Understanding security challenges in AI agents and Model Context Protocol implementations

⏱️ 35 min 🕐 11:50 AM - 12:25 PM
12:25 PM
Session

From Queries to Clusters: Building High-Performance Node.js Backends

Speaker: Hemant Gupta

Advanced techniques for scaling Node.js applications with clustering and performance optimization

⏱️ 35 min 🕐 12:25 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Break

Lunch & Networking

Speaker: GDG Chennai Team

Enjoy delicious food and connect with fellow developers

⏱️ 60 min 🕐 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Session

The Future is Spatial (XR): Building for Android XR with Gemini

Speaker: Aditya Shinde

Explore the intersection of Extended Reality and AI in Android development

⏱️ 35 min 🕐 2:00 PM - 2:35 PM
2:35 PM
Session

The Future is now: build smarter with autonomous AI

Speaker: Somasundaram Magesh

Join with soms to build smarter with Autonomous AI

⏱️ 35 min 🕐 2:35 PM - 3:10 PM
3:10 PM
Panel

What could possibly go wrong? Everything

Building products has never been easier or riskier. This panel brings together product leaders, designers, and technologists to unpack the chaos of innovation—from breakthrough ideas to epic failures, and why a little "wrong" often leads to the most interesting things.

⏱️ 40 min 🕐 3:10 PM - 3:45 PM
3:45 PM
Session

Build Super Fast web apps using Local First Approach

Speaker: Varun Raj Manoharan

Learn how to build lightning-fast web applications using local-first architecture patterns

⏱️ 35 min 🕐 3:45 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
4:45 PM
Panel

Staring Into the Void Until It Makes Sense

What really happens when AI meets enterprise deadlines? Our panel shares real stories, lessons, and laughs from turning AI chaos into clarity—one log, one prompt, and one crash at a time.

⏱️ 35 min 🕐 4:45 PM - 5:40 PM
5:40 PM
Keynote

Closing Note

Speaker: GDG Chennai Team

Thank you for joining us at DevFest Chennai 2025!

⏱️ 20 min 🕐 5:40 PM - 6:00 PM

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