DevFest Modena 2026 Agenda

Name: DevFest Modena 2026
Start: 2026-10-03
End: 2026-10-04
Location: Fondazione San Carlo

Schedule and room overview to help you navigate through the event days.

📍 Rooms & Stages:

Church Theater Demontis Room Ancient Library Periodicals Room Room 40 Cardinals Room Chapel

Sessions Catalog

📅 Saturday 3 October 📅 Sunday 4 October

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Time	📍 Church	📍 Theater	📍 Demontis Room	📍 Ancient Library	📍 Periodicals Room	📍 Room 40
09:00 - 09:30	All Rooms 📍 Fondazione San Carlo Entrance Check-in & Welcome Attendee check-in, registration and badge pickup.
09:30 - 09:50	All Rooms 📍 Church Italiano DevFest 2026 Opening Maurizio Ipsale Mirko Gilioli
09:50 - 10:30	Keynote 📍 Church Web, Mobile & Dev Experience Italiano Keynote: The Day I Left My Linux Machine Running: A Love Story with OpenClaw & Hermes Riccardo Carlesso
10:45 - 11:15	Web, Mobile & Dev Experience English Building Rich Agentic UI Applications for Mobile and Web Ashita Prasad	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano The Hidden Side of Excellence Irene Scalisi	Cloud & Platform Engineering English From dev to Platform Engineer with Pulumi IaC Marcos Manuel Ortega González	AI & Machine Intelligence English ⏱️ 10:45-13:00 The name is Agent. AI Agent. Tamas Piros	Italiano ⏱️ 10:45-13:00 M&M Hackathon	—
11:30 - 12:00	AI & Machine Intelligence English Hardware is Hard, but AI is Smarter: The Robotics 'iPhone Moment' is Here Adi Mazor Kario	Cloud & Platform Engineering Italiano Put an LLM in Your Pocket: Offline Generative AI on Smartphones with Flutter Camillo Bucciarelli	AI & Machine Intelligence English AI Didn't Change What I Look For in Engineers — It Made It Obvious Nuno Rocha	⏳ Ongoing (10:45 - 13:00) The name is Agent. AI Agent.	⏳ Ongoing (10:45 - 13:00) M&M Hackathon	—
12:15 - 12:45	AI & Machine Intelligence English Trust by Design: Building Secure AI with Google Cloud Katya Vinnichenko Rustam Mehmandarov	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano OpenSpec: Spec-Driven Development in the Age of AI Agents Matteo Baccan	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Developer Experience 2.0: Designing Software in the Age of AI Agents Gianni Forlastro Francesco Pirrone	⏳ Ongoing (10:45 - 13:00) The name is Agent. AI Agent.	⏳ Ongoing (10:45 - 13:00) M&M Hackathon	—
13:00 - 14:00	All Rooms 📍 Courtyard Italiano Lunch Break Lunch break and networking time among attendees, speakers and sponsors.
14:00 - 14:30	AI & Machine Intelligence English Is the Specialist Dead? Being a software developer in the AI age Danny Preussler	Web, Mobile & Dev Experience English Chrome DevTools LIVE LIVE LIVE Henry Lim	Web, Mobile & Dev Experience English Coding for Inclusion: How Oppia Changed My ‘Why’ in Open Source Muhammad Patel	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano ⏱️ 14:00-16:00 Lego Serious Play	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano ⏱️ 14:00-16:00 Ask Me Anything About Your Career Eleonora Mistro	Italiano ⏱️ 14:00-17:45 Google for Education - for Educators
14:45 - 15:15	AI & Machine Intelligence English Outclassing Frontier LLMs at Document Extraction Etienne Bernard	Web, Mobile & Dev Experience Italiano AI in the Service of People with Intellectual Disabilities Giacomo Sergio Guido Marangoni	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano From Prompt to Loop: The Hidden Engineering Behind AI Agents Mattia Notari	⏳ Ongoing (14:00 - 16:00) Lego Serious Play	⏳ Ongoing (14:00 - 16:00) Ask Me Anything About Your Career	⏳ Ongoing (14:00 - 17:45) Google for Education - for Educators
15:30 - 16:00	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Things from Another World Francesco Sciuti	Web, Mobile & Dev Experience Italiano Reactive Apps without Frameworks Emiliano Pisu	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Context Engineering: Stateless by Default, Stateful by Design Giorgio Galassi	⏳ Ongoing (14:00 - 16:00) Lego Serious Play	⏳ Ongoing (14:00 - 16:00) Ask Me Anything About Your Career	⏳ Ongoing (14:00 - 17:45) Google for Education - for Educators
16:30 - 17:00	Cloud & Platform Engineering English Beyond the Prompt: Building Scalable Web Applications with AI Governance Matthew Christiansen	Web, Mobile & Dev Experience Italiano Web Apps with Superpowers: Unleashing the Browser's Potential with Project Fugu Davide Passafaro	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Of Vectors, Vector Databases, and Semantic Search Flavio Basile	Cloud & Platform Engineering Italiano ⏱️ 16:30-17:45 Cloud Quest Gianni Forlastro Maurizio Ipsale	—	⏳ Ongoing (14:00 - 17:45) Google for Education - for Educators
17:15 - 17:45	Cloud & Platform Engineering Italiano The Agentic Efficiency Paradox: Redesigning the Software Lifecycle Beyond Human Bottlenecks Gregorio Palamà	Web, Mobile & Dev Experience Italiano The Bug Bash Playbook: When Quality Stops Being a Silo Ludovico Besana	Web, Mobile & Dev Experience English Let the Agent Drive: QA on Android with Trailblaze and the Android CLI Julien Salvi	⏳ Ongoing (16:30 - 17:45) Cloud Quest	—	⏳ Ongoing (14:00 - 17:45) Google for Education - for Educators
18:00 - 19:55	All Rooms 📍 Church Italiano Concert & Social Live music concert and evening social closing the first day of DevFest.

Time	📍 Church	📍 Theater	📍 Demontis Room	📍 Ancient Library	📍 Periodicals Room	📍 Room 40
09:30 - 10:00	All Rooms 📍 Fondazione San Carlo Entrance Check-in & Welcome Attendee check-in, registration and badge pickup for the second day.
10:15 - 10:45	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Physical AI for Autonomous Car Racing at the limit Ayoub Raji	AI & Machine Intelligence English Antigravity CLI: Use your AI in CLI for maximum control and effectiveness Ankur Roy	Cloud & Platform Engineering Italiano The Era of Intelligences: AI Serving Human Capital in the Data Valley Stefano Carlini	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano From CEO to COSS: An Example of Ethics in Business Leadership Lisa Trigiante	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano A Nerd's Survival Guide for 2026 Luca Bonetti Marika Silvestri	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano ⏱️ 10:15-12:30 Carlesso Hands-on Workshop Riccardo Carlesso
11:00 - 11:30	Cloud & Platform Engineering Italiano When Automation Is No Longer Enough: Kubernetes as a State Reconciliation Engine Fabio Trigari	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano AI Design: Designing Relationships Between Diverse Intelligences Giorgia Gibellini	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Generative AI and Computer Vision in Assistive Robotics Federico Biagi	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Decoding cultural “bugs”: lessons from my remote Europe–India team Giulia Scalaberni	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano MCP: the silent colleague connecting your services to the AI Marco Pollacci	⏳ Ongoing (10:15 - 12:30) Carlesso Hands-on Workshop
12:00 - 12:30	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano The Code That Changes You: How AI Transforms Those Who Build It Isabella Flecchia Gaetano Castaldo	Cloud & Platform Engineering Italiano Compliance & Security Audit Platform - Automating Security Assessments Giada Salvatori	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano The New Assembly Line: Designing AI Agents That Work Like Ford's Factory Zelda Ailine Luconi	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Beyond the Mirror: Digital Twins and AI for Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems Marco Picone	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Data architectural sins Federico Marchesi	⏳ Ongoing (10:15 - 12:30) Carlesso Hands-on Workshop
12:45 - 13:15	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano def Judge(human, AI_model, bias=True): print('Welcome to the Age of Perfect Injustice') Celeste Andreano	Web, Mobile & Dev Experience Italiano The Superpowers of Terminal User Interfaces (TUI): Why Modern Tools Choose Them and How to Build Your Own Marco Breveglieri	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Developer, You Are Our Last Hope. Lara Lombardi	AI & Machine Intelligence Italiano Talk to Toborino: Controlling a Micro-Robot with Natural Language Soumaya Erradi	—	—
13:15 - 13:30	All Rooms 📍 Church Italiano Event Wrap Up Maurizio Ipsale Mirko Gilioli

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