AI in Healthcare: From Strategy to Real-World Impact
Explore the strategic considerations and practical applications of AI in the healthcare industry by the Ministry of Health and Prevention in United Arab Emirates.
Hamda AlMaazmi
Director of the Artificial Intelligence Office @ Ministry of Health and Prevention - UAE
Entrepreneurship for Engineers: How to Launch Your Own Company
You're a great engineer (or at least you think so), but where do you grow from here? Have you always wanted to create something of your own, but unsure what exactly or how to start? How do you find your blue ocean? What steps should you take first? Where do you find the time? Should you do everything solo or look for a co-founder? And if you're looking, who exactly should that be? Should you bootstrap everything yourself or seek investment? When you're tackling something radically new, you want at least some kind of roadmap. In this talk, we'll work together to draw that map, dispel doubts and fears, and take the first step into a world full of new opportunities.
Evgenii Matsiuk
Staff Software Engineer @ X
Silent Infrastructure: How Privacy-First SDKs Quietly Shape the Future of Global-Scale Mobile Apps
Mobile Software Developer Kits (SDKs / libraries) are the silent infrastructure powering billions of mobile experiences—from payments to AI—yet are often overlooked. This session reveals how to design privacy-first, performant, and developer-friendly mobile SDKs that scale globally. We will explore real-world engineering principles drawn from my years of hands-on experience in building mobile SDKs at some of the world’s leading tech companies (LinkedIn, Google, Snap, etc.), covering challenges like modularity, integration ease, and platform-specific constraints. Attendees will learn how to embed privacy at the core, optimize for scale without sacrificing speed, and build tools developers trust. Whether you build infrastructure or rely on it, this session unveils how thoughtful SDK design quietly shapes the future of mobile apps.
Ramanpreet Singh Khinda
Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Supercharging mobile GenAI with a low-code platform for backend knowledge agents
Building effective GenAI-powered mobile applications requires a microservices-based backend with collections of knowledge-driven agents tailored to specific tasks. For developers new to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), creating and deploying these agents can be complex. In this session, we will introduce Oracle AI Optimizer and Toolkit, an open-source, low-code platform designed to simplify agent development. The toolkit enables rapid experimentation with knowledge base agents, including document ingestion, vector embeddings, prompt design, and LLM completion. It also supports automated generation of large-scale Q&A test datasets for evaluation. Developers can easily export agents as Spring AI microservices or LangChain MCP servers, and deploy them seamlessly on Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI, an open, highly scalable Kubernetes-based platform. This session will demonstrate how the toolkit accelerates the journey from prototype to production for mobile GenAI applications.
John Lathouwers
Oracle, Developer Evangelist, Database Development Operations
From Hype to Hands-On: Building Smarter Apps with the Agent Development Kit
AI agents are more than hype — they’re a new way to design applications. In this talk, we’ll take a practical look at the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and how developers can use it to orchestrate multi-agent workflows. We’ll explore agent types, chaining strategies, and how to integrate tools and context effectively. The session includes a demo of a point-based buying agent that showcases how agents can interact, make decisions, and deliver value in a real-world scenario. Expect less buzzword, more code, and practical lessons you can apply in your own projects. Agenda: - Introduction: What is ADK? - Types of Agents & Patterns - Tools, Context, Authentication - Live Code: Create your own! How and where to start - Demo: Point-Based Buying Agent - Key learnings and takeaways
Lovee Jain
Senior Software Engineer @ Prezzee
Mobile-First Security: A Tale of a Greenhouse and a Bunker
TL;DR: A fresh look at IT security with smartphones, a "reverse of control" approach, and P2P at center stage. With the number of active smartphones approaching the size of the world population, many companies advocate a "mobile-first" approach—including in security-related use cases. However, due to factors such as developer inertia and incremental updates to legacy systems, server-centric architectures still dominate technology stack decisions. When it comes to security, mobile devices are often relegated to a mere "second factor". Despite significant progress in the field, including the shift towards "passwordless" security, this domain remains brimming with outdated clichés — from identity providers and firewalls to freely flowing access "tokens". As a result, security incidents and their economic implications continue to rise. This talk offers a fresh perspective on security, placing the user and their smartphone at the center. We will explore how modern smartphones—equipped with a variety of sensors and advanced security technologies—can help us weave a security network far more resilient than existing solutions. We’ll start by dissecting current security and identity management technologies, identifying their weaknesses and breaking points. Then, we will distill best practices and highlight common pitfalls to avoid. The core of this talk will focus on how to leverage proven smartphone security techniques—such as asymmetric cryptography, secure enclaves, and biometrics—and combine them with less commonly used elements (e.g., environmental data from sensors and P2P interactions) to form stronger security chains than those typically available today. We will cover practical use cases, including authentication, identity verification, mitigating common attacks, and handling exceptional situations—such as losing your smartphone or another critical component of your security chain. This discussion will dive into technical details, providing practical tips and sample code. This talk does not cover or promote any existing product. The ideas presented can be implemented in any programming language relevant to mobile and server development.
Pavel Lahoda
Founder, CBO @ Actiwerks, developer of ObjectForms, Netopeer frameworks
Building Android: A DIY journey to build your android app without the Android Gradle Plugin
What if you built your Android app… without the Android Gradle Plugin? In this talk, we’ll explore how to demystify the Android build process by replacing AGP with a custom, minimal Gradle plugin. From compiling Java/Kotlin sources to invoking AAPT2, D8, and signing your APK — we’ll peel back the layers and rebuild the pipeline from scratch. You’ll learn how Android’s build tools actually work under the hood, how to wire them together with plain Gradle tasks, and why doing it yourself might just be the best way to understand the system you use every day. If you're just used to copy pasting the android gradle plugin extension into your projects, come see what AGP really does for you. By understanding it more in depth you'll walk away being able to better debug and modify your builds, increase your productivity, and level up as an Android developer.
Rafa Moreno
Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Flutter for SwiftUI Developers
If you’ve been working with SwiftUI, you already think in terms of declarative UI, views, and state. Flutter follows a very similar mindset, but takes it beyond iOS to Android, web, and desktop. In this talk, I’ll walk through how common SwiftUI concepts like View, State, and modifiers map over to Flutter’s widget system. We’ll compare layout, navigation, and data flow in both frameworks, and highlight where the experience feels familiar and where it differs. The goal isn’t to replace SwiftUI, but to help SwiftUI developers get comfortable with Flutter quickly, so they can build cross-platform apps without starting from scratch. If you know SwiftUI, you’ll leave this session with a clear picture of how to approach Flutter and how your existing skills translate.
Habib Mohammed
Founder
The GitOps Maturity Model for Enterprise Applications
As organizations grow, traditional CI/CD pipelines begin to show their limits—struggling with environment drift, complex rollbacks, and the challenges of managing deployments across dozens or even hundreds of clusters. This is where GitOps steps in. In this session, we’ll explore how GitOps extends beyond conventional CI/CD to deliver declarative, scalable, and reliable application and infrastructure management. We’ll break down GitOps principles, examine real-world adoption patterns, and compare popular tools like ArgoCD, Flux, and GitHub Actions to understand their strengths at scale. You’ll leave with a clear view of how to: Apply GitOps workflows to multi-cluster and multi-team environments Automate rollbacks, compliance, and drift detection Choose the right GitOps tools and practices for your organization Build a foundation for self-service platforms and future-ready DevOps Whether you’re just starting with GitOps or looking to scale existing practices, this talk will equip you with practical insights and strategies to take your delivery pipelines beyond CI/CD.
Majd Jamaah
DevOps Manager at Beyond Limits & a Google Developer Expert in Cloud
SynthTRIPs: Creating Realistic Travel Queries using Gemini for Smarter, Greener Trip Recommendations
Imagine building a travel recommender system that truly understands a traveler’s unique needs — from budget and personal interests to walking distance preferences and even local air quality. Sounds great, right? The challenge is: the datasets we have today don’t capture all those nuances, especially for sustainable travel planning. In this talk, I’ll introduce SynthTRIPs, a project where we use LLMs (Gemini & Llama over VertexAI) grounded in real-world knowledge about European cities to generate realistic user queries — paired with rich personas and explicit travel constraints. These aren’t just random prompts; they’re fact-checked, diverse, and aligned with people’s real travel goals, including sustainability. I’ll walk you through how we designed the pipeline, the kinds of personas and queries we created, and what we learned from validating them with both humans and AI tools. Beyond tourism, you’ll see how this approach can improve personalization and benchmarking for recommender systems in many domains. If you’re interested in personalized AI, recommender systems, or just love the idea of smarter, greener travel tech — this session is for you. Based on our recently accepted paper: Ashmi Banerjee, Adithi Satish, Fitri Nur Aisyah, Wolfgang Wörndl, and Yashar Deldjoo, in Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’25), July 2025. [All the data, code & resources are open-sourced for this project]
Ashmi Banerjee
Doctoral Researcher @ Technical University of Munich
Code Faster, Code Smarter: Practical AI Assists with Gemini in Android Studio
The biggest drag on developer productivity isn't complex logic; it's the daily frictions of understanding legacy code, writing boilerplate, and fixing vague bugs. The new Gemini capabilities in Android Studio are more than just a chatbot; they're a powerful co-pilot for navigating these challenges. This session is my practical journey of integrating AI into a real-world development workflow. In this demo talk, we'll move beyond the hype to focus on concrete examples. I'll share my honest reflections on what works, what doesn't, and provide a framework for using AI to reclaim hours of your week. You'll leave with actionable techniques you can apply immediately to code faster, smarter, and with less friction. Key Takeaways: - Understand how to frame effective prompts for common development tasks. - Recognize the types of problems Gemini excels at solving (and where it still struggles). - Learn a repeatable workflow for using AI to accelerate debugging and development. - Gain confidence in using AI as a practical tool rather than just a novelty. Learning Points: - Generating robust Compose UI and unit tests from a text prompt. - Refactoring legacy Kotlin/Java code with AI-powered suggestions. - Using multimodal (screenshot) input to help debug tricky UI bugs. - Strategies for validating AI-generated code to ensure correctness and performance.
Ahmed Tikiwa
Senior Software Engineer @ Disney
36･15 Cash App
1400 modules. 60 developers. 40 million customers. This Android application, what does it look like? It looks like Cash App. We have the opportunity to discover, to inspect, to dive indeed into the internal current state of Cash App. No rug unturned, we will reveal it all: tech stack, open-source, APIs, architecture, development process, design system, testing, navigation, CI. Our Android application is modern, flexible, and reliable. We shall discover how it gets done.
Benoit Quenaudon
Cash App
Beyond Locators: Disrupting Mobile Automation with Vision Models
Traditional locator-based automation is brittle and breaks with every UI change, wasting valuable testing time and effort. This session unveils how AI-powered visual models combined with agentive platforms are revolutionizing mobile automation by eliminating dependency on developer-assigned locators. Attendees will learn how computer vision and AI-driven agents enable tests that perceive app elements visually and intelligently adapt to UI changes offering resilient, scalable, and maintainable automation solutions for Android and iOS. This talk covers the science behind these innovative approaches, practical demo scenarios, and best practices for adopting intelligent testing strategies that streamline automation and boost release confidence. Ideal for engineers, testers, and mobile automation leads looking to disrupt conventional QA workflows and embrace the future of smart mobile testing.
Ahmad Waqar
Lead Engineer, Platform and QA Automation @FYI.AI
From XML to Compose: Migrating a Large Codebase the Smart Way
Ready to adopt Jetpack Compose but stuck with thousands of lines of XML? You're not alone. In this session, we'll walk through the real-world process of migrating a production-scale Android app to Jetpack Compose as we've done at Wonolo. We'll cover hybrid UI patterns, interoperability tricks, testing strategies, and how to scale Compose adoption across teams without rewriting everything from scratch. Whether you're just starting or halfway in, this talk will give you the tools and confidence to migrate smart — not fast.
Oubai Alabbasi
Android Lead, BeyondONE
How Free zone can help the new IT and AI companies to grow fast
Free zones are redefining how IT and AI companies launch and scale in today’s competitive landscape. By removing traditional barriers—complex licensing, slow approvals, and heavy operational costs—free zones give tech startups a clean runway to grow at unmatched speed. With 100% foreign ownership, simplified regulations, and a business-ready environment, founders can focus on innovation instead of paperwork. But the real disruption lies in the ecosystem: access to world-class infrastructure, cloud-ready facilities, talent hubs, R&D spaces, and networks of investors and global partners. For AI-driven businesses, free zones provide the flexibility to test, develop, and deploy technology without regulatory bottlenecks, helping them reach the market fast and stay ahead of competition. In a world where speed defines success, free zones act as accelerators, turning early-stage ideas into scalable, investment-ready tech companies. They don’t just support growth—they amplify it.
Nabil Arnous
Executive Director | Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) in Innovation City Free Zone
The AI Bubble vs. Sustainable Transformation
AI is in the spotlight—massive investments, rapid adoption, and promises of world-changing potential. But are we living inside an AI bubble, or are we laying the foundations for sustainable transformation? In this keynote, Mohamed Saieed, Sales Director GCC at Datamellon and serial entrepreneur, unpacks the fine line between hype and reality in the AI era.
Mohamed Saieed
Ai Consultant
Yalla Group – Shaping the Future of Mobile Gaming in the MENA Region
Yalla Group, the largest MENA-based online social networking and gaming company, is redefining digital entertainment through localized innovation, immersive voice-based communities, and an expanding ecosystem of social and gaming experiences tailored to Middle Eastern users.
Salah Aljazzar
Yalla Group, Head of Technical Products- ME
Actionable Performance Wins for Android Apps
In the early stages of building Android apps, speed of delivery often takes priority over speed of the app itself. But as features grow, laggy scrolling, janky animations, and slow startups start hurting user experience. This talk focuses on practical and actionable performance improvements that developers can apply without heavy refactoring. I’ll walk through a systematic way to measure performance at the rendering and execution level, share common pitfalls that lead to UI lag, and highlight quick wins to make apps feel smoother and more responsive. Attendees will leave with a clear playbook of techniques to diagnose issues, optimize rendering paths, and apply lightweight fixes that deliver immediate improvements in real-world apps.
Muhammad Usama Yasin
Mobile Engineering Leader | Scaling Teams, Architecting High-Performance Apps, and Building the Future of Mobile