DevCon 2026

AGENDA

The full schedule of talks across every track and day.

Educator 1

Educator 2

Accelerator

09:30

09:30 – 10:00 Educator 1 & Educator 2

Opening Sesion

10:00

10:00 – 11:00 Educator 1 & Educator 2

Keynote: SWAN

11:00

11:00 – 12:00

Building a Blast Radius Skill - Where Dev, QA and ClaudeAI Collide

Dylan Harbour

11:00 – 12:00

Tailoring LLMs for specific domains

Roshan Summun

Praveer Rampersand

Praveer Rampersand

11:00 – 12:00

Building a Product from Scratch: From Idea to Launch

Arbaaz Mowlabucus

Arbaaz Mowlabucus

12:00

12:00 – 13:00

Measuring the Internet with Python

Dr. Amreesh Phokeer

Dr. Amreesh Phokeer

12:00 – 13:00

The Safe and Fast Future of Programming: Introducing Rust

Alex Bissessur

12:00 – 13:00

Deploying OpenClaw on a Personal VPS — Private, Secure, Yours

Tarounen .

13:00

13:00 – 14:00

Essential Linux Skills for Google Cloud Platform

Ish Sookun

13:00 – 14:00

Let’s Make a WordPress Plugin!

Nathan Mangar

13:00 – 14:00

Suárez bite it, Let's Automate SOC to Fight It!

Namita Sham

14:00

14:00 – 15:00

Digital Engagement: The Cost/Return of Global Neurological Debt.

Chittesh Sham

14:00 – 15:00

Software Development Lifecycle: From Code to Testing in the Age of AI

Hema Tahadil

Asgar Fakira

14:00 – 15:00

Making an API for building APIs

Kishan Takoordyal

Kishan Takoordyal

15:00

15:00 – 16:00

Hackers Don’t Miss Like Ronaldo. Defend Your Pipeline Before They Score.

Namita Sham

15:00 – 16:00

WebAI - Exploring agentic capabilities within the browser

Sandeep Ramgolam

Sandeep Ramgolam

15:00 – 16:00

Bend it like Beckham using computer vision

Noor Yadallee

16:00

16:00 – 17:00

Suffering from htmlophobia? Remedy: PugJS!

Nayar Joolfoo

16:00 – 17:00

Engineering Challenges of Paying People Across 160+ Countries

Avish Cheetaram

Avish Cheetaram

16:00 – 17:00

Triathlon performance dashboard implementation in Clojure

Marius Rabenarivo

Marius Rabenarivo

Educator 1

Educator 2

Accelerator

09:00

09:00 – 10:00

From CRUD to Cognitive Pipelines: Designing AI-Aware Backends in .NET

Henintsoa Rajaonarivelo

Henintsoa Rajaonarivelo

09:00 – 10:00

Disaster. Stories. A tale by DevOps.

Medhavi Pareanen

Medhavi Pareanen

09:00 – 10:00

Digital Systems in Physical Infrastructure: Observations from an Electrical Perspective

Marie Alexia Issanhora Jolicoeur

Marie Alexia Issanhora Jolicoeur

10:00

10:00 – 11:00 Educator 1 & Educator 2

Keynote: Mauritius Telecom

11:00

11:00 – 13:00 Educator 1 & Educator 2

Panel Discussion: Open Source in Africa and the Indian Ocean — Community, Contribution, and Career

Ish Sookun

13:00

13:00 – 14:00

Onboarding AI: How to Recruit, Train & Manage Your AI Workforce

Naveesh Doolhur

Naveesh Doolhur

13:00 – 14:00

Scaling a mobile app to 4.5M+ Users with Clean Architecture & .NET

Hansa Jugnarain

Hansa Jugnarain

13:00 – 14:00

.NET Blazor: Building static sites (without SSR)

Vidush H. Namah

Vidush H. Namah

14:00

14:00 – 15:00

Anatomy of an AI Assistant

Matthew Hood

14:00 – 15:00

Bridging the Screen Reader UX Gap in Web Forms Using AI-Assisted Step-by-Step Interaction

Kushul Soomaree

Kushul Soomaree

14:00 – 15:00

The Execution Gap: Why Your AI Strategy Will Fail (And How to Build One That Won't)

Vincent Chu

Ketika Jhingoor

Ketika Jhingoor

15:00

15:00 – 16:00

Claude Better: Months of Learnings in Minutes

Dylan Harbour

15:00 – 16:00

L’architecture : le coût qu’on découvre trop tard

Vanessa V.Chellen

Vanessa V.Chellen

15:00 – 16:00

a11y in Mobile Applications: Best practices, Technical Implementation & Real-world Challenges

Teitiksh Beebakhy

Teitiksh Beebakhy

16:00

16:00 – 17:00

AI on a dime: Local use instead of Cloud

Jochen Kirstätter

Jochen Kirstätter

16:00 – 17:00

The RPI Framework: How to Actually Build Software with Claude Code

Jain Ramchurn

Samanta Luchoo

16:00 – 17:00

Architecting AI-Powered Enterprise Systems in .NET

Yash Busawon

Educator 1

Educator 2

Accelerator

09:00

09:00 – 10:05

Data Fabric vs. Data Mesh: What Developers Need to Know

Kavish Seechurn

Kavish Seechurn

09:00 – 10:00

Everything as Code - Manual Complexities to Automated Efficiency

Farhaan Iqbal

09:00 – 10:00

Modeling User Behaviour for Better Systems

Dryshtee Woozir-Manilall

Dryshtee Woozir-Manilall

10:00

10:00 – 11:00 Educator 1 & Educator 2

Keynote: Google

11:00

11:00 – 12:00

A Declarative Approach to Building Scalable Applications

Wayne Gakuo

11:00 – 12:00

Juicing up Digital Payments

Loic Forget

11:00 – 12:00

Accelerating Development the Practical Way

Mervyn Manilall

Mervyn Manilall

12:00

12:00 – 13:00

From Alert to Action: Automated Threat Response with Wazuh

Girish Mahabir

12:00 – 13:00

Beyond Docker: Mastering Container Workflows with Podman, Skopeo & Buildah

Om Gokhool

Neervesh Gokhool

Neervesh Gokhool

12:00 – 13:00

2 game jams, 15+ games developed, now what?

Cedric Sookahet

Cedric Sookahet

13:00

13:00 – 14:00

Preemptive Strike: Killing Your Systems Before They Kill You

Purdaseea Dhaneshwursingh

Purdaseea Dhaneshwursingh

13:00 – 14:00

How (And Why) To Build a Cloud Service Provider From Scratch

Alex Bissessur

13:00 – 14:00

From Fixed to Growth: The Mindset IT Pro Need in the AI Era

Keleena Moorghen

Keleena Moorghen

Rachel Rajiah

14:00

14:00 – 15:00

Mastering Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Gemini API's File Search Tool

Wayne Gakuo

14:00 – 15:00

Ansible Without the Anxiety: Automation That Actually Works for Developers

Clifford Weinmann

Clifford Weinmann

14:00 – 15:00

Powering Modern Warfare — Palantir Foundry

Aditya Bholah

15:00

15:00 – 16:00 Educator 1 & Educator 2

Campsite Fire Chat

16:00

16:00 – 17:00 Educator 1 & Educator 2

Closing Session