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The Rand

Tech & Builders

Geekdom's third floor, and the busiest room of the week. .NET and Google Developer Groups, AITX and Datanauts, AWS and Linux San Antonio run back to back — the groups DEVSA hosts all year, in one place for five days.

Sept 28 – Oct 2 · 110 E Houston St, 3rd Floor

Confirmed

What’s running here.

More lands as it’s locked. These are confirmed for The Rand.

Monday

Sep 28 · 9 sessions

  1. The Model
    1 – 6 PM

    1. 1:10PM

      The Next Era of the Creator Economy: What’s changing, where the opportunities are, and what to build next.

      Justin Johnson · Moderated by Maria Consuelo Gonima

    2. 1:45PM

      Storytelling & AI

      Joshua Collins, Michael Smith

    3. 2:20PM

      Beyond the Cloud: Building Offline AI Pipelines for High-Traffic Physical Spaces

      AJ Rose, Diego Chavez

    4. 2:45PM

      Let the Machines Win: Embracing Game Engines and AI to Accelerate Development and Content Creation

      Jonathan Perry

    5. 3:10PM

      Ship the Story, Not Just the Product

      Maria Consuelo Gonima

    6. 3:35PM

      Beyond the Prompt: Directing in the Age of AI

      Cynthia Gentry

    7. 4:00PM

      Putting Grok Bot and Agents to Work in a Real Business

      Leon Hitchens

    8. 4:25PM

      Big Work, Small Teams: The Future of Entertainment, Film, and Interactive Experiences

      Joe Guerra, Derek Alexander, Matthew Bell

    9. 5:30PM

      What happens when creative storytelling collides with startup strategy?

      Serena Hernandez, Daniel Gallegos

Tuesday

Sep 29 · 5 sessions

  1. 12:00PM

    Learn2AI
    Build a Startup, Live

    Mihir Shah, Mayank GohilAI & Applied Innovation

  2. 1:00PM

    San Antonio .NET User Group
    Herding Clankers into the Pit of Success

    Jon RobertsTech & Builders

  3. 2:00PM

    Google Developer Groups
    Behind the Answer: How LLMs and Google AI Search Work

    Hastimal JangidTech & Builders

  4. 3:00PM

    AITX Community
    AI and Startups

    Brenda Gentry, Unknown speaker, Jesus Rafael BurgoaAI & Applied Innovation

  5. 4:00PM

    College Night

    Every computing student in San Antonio, community college and university alike. Two hours, one room.

    Social

Wednesday

Sep 30 · 7 sessions

  1. Access Granted
    1 – 6 PM

    1. 1:10PM

      Trust Each Other, Not Technology

      Richard Davey

    2. 1:50PM

      The Hackers Left. Now What?

      Jacob Wellnitz

    3. 2:15PM

      Meow-ware: A Look at the Gayfemboy Malware

      Dante Moreno

    4. 2:50PM

      How to Prepare for Q-Day

      Keeban Villarreal

    5. 3:15PM

      The New Age of Data Battlefields

      Gabriel Green

    6. 3:50PM

      Glyph: A binary analysis tool powered by machine learning.

      Corey Hartman, Ph.D.

    7. 4:50PM

      AI-powered Bug Bounty Hunting

      Mike Bell

    8. 1 – 6 PM

      Lockpicking village

      Powered by Alamo City Locksport

Thursday

Oct 1 · 8 sessions

  1. 12:00PM

    Maybe That's Not the Problem. Look sideways. Pull it apart. Rebuild what you think you know, with LEGO®.

    Rachel DavisTech & Builders

  2. Datanauts
    1 – 2 PM

    1. 1:00PM

      Move Fast, Break Data: A Situationship With the Truth

      Ednalyn “Dd” De Dios

    2. 1:30PM

      Scaling Executive Vision: Automated C-Suite Insights with the Data Intelligence Hub Deck Generator

      Fouzan Aslam

  3. 2:00PM

    San Antonio AWS User Group
    The Autonomous Hacker: Zero-Trust AI Pentesting on AWS

    Daniel Felipe Morales YustyTech & Builders

  4. Linux San Antonio
    3 – 5 PM

    1. 3:10PM

      Linux for the Rest of Us: Freedom, Community, and the Power of FOSS

      Beck

    2. 3:50PM

      I Spy With My Kernel Eye (What your box is doing before you ever log in)

      Paul Christiansen

    3. 4:20PM

      How to manage your business with Free Software

      Adam Bark

  5. 5:00PM

    Open Circuit

    Five minutes, one screen, and whatever you actually built — an open-stage showcase across all five circuits, and the last word on the week’s Thursday.

    Social

Friday

Oct 2 · 6 sessions

  1. PySanAntonio II
    1 – 6 PM

    1. 1:10PM

      Adapting to the Evolution of Software Engineering

      Mason Egger

    2. 1:45PM

      Python, Test-Driven-Development, and AI

      Jay Jahns

    3. 2:20PM

      JOMO in the age of AI slop: the joy of missing out

      Jordana Naftali

    4. 2:50PM

      Experiments in Agentic Coding

      Edwin Jung

    5. 4:00PM

      AI Steering Wheel : Giving Humans Control of the Black Box

      Shayan Ali

    6. 4:30PM

      Python Jeopardy

To be confirmed

Slot to come · 1 session

  1. TBC

    Startup Bash

    Now Tuesday, Oct 6, 5 – 7 PM at Geekdom, 3rd floor of The Rand — moved for the weather. The whole ecosystem in one place, no badge scanning.

    Social

Hosting is open · Sept 28 – Oct 2

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