EDS - Vibe Coding: From Prompt to Production
🎤 Presentation: Vibe Coding - From Prompt to Production
AI agents can now plan, write, test and publish working software from a plain-language description. “Vibe coding,” Collins Dictionary’s 2025 Word of the Year, has gone from novelty to everyday practice, yet adoption has outpaced trust: developers use AI more each year while believing its output less.
This session explains what vibe coding is and how coding agents actually work, from the plan, act and verify loop to the harness of context, tools and guardrails that surrounds the model. It compares two leading tools, Claude Code and Replit, and introduces a layered approach in which Claude orchestrates Replit through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), pairing spec-driven development with built-in hosting.
Drawing on two real public-sector builds, a vibe-coded AI intake prototype and a production three-agent privacy-review platform, Connor shares the practices, limitations and guardrails that separate a working build from a pile of generated code.
👤 About the Speaker: Connor Guy, CBA, CDMP
Connor Guy is a Senior Consultant in KPMG’s Digital Government Solutions practice, where he designs and builds AI solutions for public- and private-sector clients. His work sits where business analysis, data and AI architecture meet: turning complex processes and regulatory requirements into agentic systems that people can trust.
Recent work includes helping architect a production multi-agent AI platform for a provincial health privacy office, vibe-coding an AI-enabled intake and prioritization prototype for a provincial health authority, and designing an enterprise AI Management Platform architecture for a North American energy distributor. Connor builds with Claude Code, Replit and the Microsoft data and AI stack, and is based in St. Albert, Alberta.
Date: Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
Location: Singhmar Centre for Learning (SCFL), Room TBA, 10215 108 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 1L6, Canada*
🕠 Schedule
Doors Open: 5:30 PM
Organizer’s Presentation: 6:00 PM - 6:05 PM
Main Presentation: 6:05 PM - 6:45 PM
Networking: 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM
🙏 Thank You to Our Sponsors
NorQuest College: A huge thank you to NorQuest College for hosting us at the Singhmar Centre for Learning. As one of Alberta’s largest community colleges, NorQuest is dedicated to accessible, career-focused education and workforce development, helping learners build the skills Alberta’s economy needs. Their continued support gives our community a welcoming home for learning and collaboration.
KPMG: Our sincere thanks to KPMG for supporting this event and for sharing the expertise of their team. KPMG is a global professional services firm providing audit, tax and advisory services, helping public- and private-sector organizations navigate complex challenges and adopt emerging technologies like AI responsibly. We’re grateful for their investment in Edmonton’s data and AI community.
📌 Special Notes
The room number is TBA. Please check back on this posting closer to the event date for the final room assignment. We'll send out an email & post in EDS discord server when we have the room number.