DevFest Kosova 2025 Agenda

14:00 - 15:00

Registration & Networking

15:00 - 15:15

Welcome & Opening Remarks

15:15 - 15:50

Keynote 1: Life at Google and What It Takes to Join

Kyle Bringmans, Software Engineer III (L4) at Google

15:50 - 16:25

Keynote 2: AI in SOC design and Functional Safety

Waqas S Jutt, Global Lead SOC Architect at Intel

16:00 - 17:00

Workshop Building an AI Game with Agent Development Kit

Yoyú Li, Google Developer Expert, Creative Technology Director at Infinite Whys Ltd

16:25 - 16:45

☕ Coffee Break / Networking

16:45 - 17:20

Talk:Speech • Beyond Coding – 10 Lessons You Won't Learn in School

Dajana Stojchevska • Senior Software Engineer at Google

17:20 - 17:40

☕ Coffee Break / Networking

17:40 - 18:40

Panel Discussion: From Hype to Production: Real-World AI Challenges

Speakers: Gentrit Gojani, Gentrit Fazlija, Seifeddin Mansri, Celik Nimani

18:40 - 19:30

Networking / Wrap-Up

09:00 - 10:00

Registration & Networking

10:00 - 10:15

Welcome & Opening Remarks

10:15 - 10:50

Keynote 1: Web Fragments: Micro-Frontends Done Right?

Igor Minar, Senior Director of Engineering at Cloudflare

Natalia Venditto, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft

10:50 - 11:25

Talk: Scaling Inference to Billions of Users and Agents

Federico Iezzi, Customer Engineer at Google

11:00 - 12:00

Workshop 2.1:AI Meets Chrome — DevTools MCP

Adrian Romański, Full stack Developer at PushBased

11:25 - 11:45

Short Break / Networking

11:45 - 12:20

Parallel Talk: Speech • FinOps: A New Hope

Seifeddîn Mansri • Cloud CTO @ SFEIR

12:20 - 13:30

🍕Lunch Break / Networking

13:30 - 14:05

Parallel Talk: Privacy: What Every Developer Needs to Know

Miraç Vuslat Başaran, Senior Software Engineer at Google

Parallel Talk:Building Intelligent Agents: AI Architectures and Vertex AI Landscape

Enes Turan, Platform Engineer at IBM

14:05 - 14:25

☕ Coffee Break / Networking

14:25 - 15:25

Panel Talk: The Tech Career Playbook

Bilal Cinarli , Yoyu Li, Dajana Stojchevska , Taulant Gashi

15:25 - 15:40

15 min Break

15:40 - 16:00

Talk:Internship Opportunities at Intel

Waqas S Jutt, Global Lead SOC Architect at Intel

Talk:From Startup to Scale-Up: Structuring the Tech Core & Team to Support Global Growth

Blendrit Elezaj, CEO & Co-Founder at Outsorcy

16:00 - 16:30

Networking / Wrap-Up

09:00 - 10:00

Registration & Networking

10:00 - 11:00

Workshop 1: Root Cause Thinking – Beyond the Bug

Vjollca Kastrati – Manager, Quality Assurance at Wasabi Technologies

11:00 - 12:30

Workshop 2: Frontend Efficiency & Scaling Teams

Bilal Çinarlı, Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian

11:15 - 12:15

Workshop 3: DAL: The Contract Between Your Code and Your Data

Hasan Cana – Senior Manager, Software at Wasabi Technologies

12:30 - 13:30

🍔 Lunch Break / Networking

13:30 - 15:00

Workshop 4: Building Agents in the Real World: From Idea to Workflow

Gentrit Fazlija, Co-Founder and CTO at AI Strategy Institute | AI Advisor & Deep Learning Instructor at Nvidia

Workshop 5: Scaling a Worldwide Storage Cloud with Reliability at Its Core

Faton Mustafa – Team Lead, DevOps at Wasabi Technologies

15:00 - 16:30

Workshop 6: Test-Driven Development for Beginners with Kotlin

Matthias Geisler, Senior Software Engineer at Airalo

16:00- 16:30

Networking / Wrap-Up