​✨ Dev Days is a global, in-person community-led initiative bringing developers, students, and local tech communities together to explore the power of GitHub Copilot through practical, hands-on experiences.

​As part of the Dev Days Mangaluru College Series, join Augustine Correa (GitHub Star, 9x Microsoft MVP, Docker Community Leader) for a deep dive into modern AI-assisted and agent-driven software development with GitHub Copilot.

​This session combines a technical talk and hands-on workshop designed to help students move beyond AI-assisted coding and explore how modern developers collaborate with AI agents to build real-world applications.

​🎤 Session: GitHub Copilot App - From Issue to Merge with AI Agents

​GitHub Copilot is evolving from a coding assistant into a development teammate.

​In this interactive session, Augustine will demonstrate how developers can use GitHub Copilot App to move from GitHub issues and backlog items to implementation, testing, review, and pull requests using AI agents.

​Drawing from real-world experience building and maintaining open-source projects and community platforms, attendees will learn how modern development workflows are being transformed by agent-driven development.

​Key Topics

​✅ Agent-driven software development

​✅ GitHub Copilot App workflows

​✅ Context engineering and task delegation

​✅ Reviewing AI-generated code

​✅ Best practices for working with coding agents

​💻 Hands-On Workshop: Building Software with GitHub Copilot

​The workshop provides an opportunity to put these ideas into practice through guided exercises with GitHub Copilot.

​Participants will learn how to:

​✅ Understand unfamiliar codebases using AI

​✅ Break down features and backlog items

​✅ Generate code, tests, and documentation

​✅ Refine implementations through iterative collaboration

​✅ Review and validate AI-generated changes

​✅ Work effectively with GitHub Copilot across the software development lifecycle

​Drawing on lessons learned from building production applications and open-source software, Augustine will demonstrate practical workflows that developers can immediately apply to their own projects.

​👨‍💻 Speaker

​Augustine Correa

• ​GitHub Star

• ​9x Microsoft MVP (AI & Developer Technologies)

• ​Docker Community Leader

​Augustine has delivered workshops and sessions on AI assisted development, AI agents, open source, distributed apps, and security at conferences, developer communities, and colleges worldwide.

​🎯 Who Should Attend?

• ​Students interested in software development

• ​Open source contributors

• ​Future software engineers

• ​Developers curious about AI-powered development workflows

• ​Anyone interested in GitHub Copilot and agentic development

​💻 Prerequisites

• ​Laptop (mandatory)

• ​GitHub account

• ​Visual Studio Code installed

• ​GitHub Copilot access (Free or Paid)

• ​Basic familiarity with software development and Git

​⚠️ This workshop consumes GitHub Copilot AI credits. While GitHub Copilot Free is sufficient for participation, attendees should be mindful of available credits before the event.

​📌 Registration & Entry

​Registration does not guarantee admission to the event.

​Entry is solely at the discretion of the host college and its authorities. Due to venue capacity and institutional requirements, attendance may be restricted to students of the host institution or approved guests.

​Please await confirmation from the organizers before making travel arrangements.

​Bring your laptop, curiosity, and willingness to experiment. By the end of the session, you'll have firsthand experience using GitHub Copilot as part of a modern AI-powered development workflow.

​Disclaimer: this event utilizes AI credits. While the workshops can be completed with Copilot Free, it will take up a large amount of those credits, so ensure you're preserving where makes sense knowing you'll be attending this event.

​Code of Conduct

​We are committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all participants. Please review the event Code of Conduct before attending.

​👉 Event Code of Conduct: https://github.com/github/dev-days/blob/main/EVENT_CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md