Google Build With AI 2026
Biggest Tech Event at University of Toronto Scarborough -Build With AI 2026.
Take part in hands-on workshops, tech talks, and panel discussions led by AI professionals.
Meet tech enthusiasts and industry leaders during our networking session, and be part of our AI community.
Agenda:
9:00 – 10:00 AM (Check-in & Breakfast)
Atrium of the Instructional Centre Building, University of Toronto Scarborough
10:00 – 10:15 AM (Opening Remarks)
Welcoming participants to the event, Opening Ceremony
10:15 - 10:30 (Keynote)
Brian Harington, Professor, Computer Science & Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto
10:30 - 11:00 (Google Keynote)
Topic: Developer productivity with Google
Ugo Udokporo, Senior Customer Engineering | Startups, Google
11:00 – 11:30 AM (Manulife Keynote)
Topic: Hackathons Have Changed Forever: Winning in the Age of AI
Omar Bark, Platform Engineer, Manulife
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Hands-on Google Workshop)
Topic: GenMedia with Google, create without limits
Allan Alfonso, Customer Engineer, Google
12:30 – 1:30 PM (Panel Discussion: Microsoft, RBC, IBM, Meta )
Topic: Future of AI
Matthew Rodin, Cloud & AI Specialist, Microsoft
Arup Saha, Senior Director - TCJ - Generative AI, Royal Bank of Canada
Shannon MacDonald, Senior Managing Consultant, IBM
Apurba Pandey, Metric Lead, Meta
1:30 – 3:30 PM (Networking & Lunch)
3:30 – 4:00 PM (Google Keynote)
Topic: The Things About Hard Problems Masterclass
Emmanuel Pacheco, Vice President, Rezolve AI; ex-Head of Central Greenfield Acquisitions, Google
4:00 – 4:30 PM (Tech Talk, Interac)
Topic: Data & AI Risk Management
Nipun Sharma, Lead, Product Risk - Enterprise Risk Management Interac
4:30 - 5:30 PM (Google Hands-on Workshop)
Topic: Real-time Multi-model Streaming Agent Building
William McLean, Google Developer Expert. Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder Glitnir Ticketing,
5:30 – 6:00 PM (Closing ceremony)
Build With AI Badges redemption for all attendees, to be listed on the Google Developer Platform
Closing remarks