Three tracks:

  1. Room 308: Allen Firstenberg - Google's Modern Models (and when to use them)
  2. Room 318: John Pole - Stitching the Future of Coding: Autonomous AI Agents & Spec-Driven Development with Google Antigravity, Gemma, and Gemini
  3. Room 324: Lauren Byers  - The Automation Trap: Are You Actually Ready for AI?
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Darrin Communications Center (DCC)
Saturday, October 24, 2026 - 3:30pm to 4:15pm

Speakers

Allen S. Firstenberg
Objective Consulting
Project Guru

y day, Allen is a Senior Project Engineer at http://spiders.com/ where he’s been instrumental in creating websites and mobile apps for companies and organizations… More

John Pole
Consultant
Senior Software Engineer | Full stack lead Engineer

John Pole lives in Schenectady, NY and is a Lead Full-Stack Developer with extensive experience in Java and Angular. He recently certified in Google Cloud Generative AI and have been actively… More

Lauren Byers
The Byers Method
founder

Lauren Byers is the organizational Architect and the founder of The Byers Method. Her focus is on AI readiness for Business, because AI does not fix disorganized systems. It amplifies them! She… More