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2026

The Island's tech community week is back in Charlottetown — a week of talks, workshops, coworking nights, and community. Sessions are being announced now.

August 9–16, 2026 Charlottetown, PEIOrganized by PEI IT Alliance Add to calendar
The week at a glance

Eight days of connection

17
events
Aug 9–16
One week, one Island

A week of talks, pitch nights, coworking, and community across Charlottetown and beyond — most sessions free with RSVP.

Know someone who'd want in? Spread the word.

The line-up

The schedule

Here's what's locked in so far — day by day. More sessions are added as they're confirmed, so check back through the week.

Thursday (August 13, 2026)

PEI Tech Week - Selling my own startup
Free w/ RSVP40 spots

PEI Tech Week - Selling my own startup

In April 2025, James O'Halloran launched a daily puzzle game called Kinda Hard Golf. In the early days he hand-placed every tile by hand, every single day, no auto-tiling until day 100. A year and 400+ daily levels later, with players around the world hooked and streamers like Northernlion picking it up, he sold it to a team of daily-game veterans. In this talk, the Mighty Pebble Games founder walks through the whole arc: building a game solo, growing it into a real daily habit, turning a scrappy pipeline into something polished enough to hand off, and knowing when it's time to sell. If you've ever wondered what it actually takes to build something on your own and then let it go, this is a rare look from someone who just did it.

10:00 a.m.
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PEI Tech Week - Your Laptop Is A Data Centre
Free w/ RSVP40 spots

PEI Tech Week - Your Laptop Is A Data Centre

The most powerful computer in the world is whichever one is on the desk in front of you. In this session, Kyle McCullough — local-first technologist and fractional CTO, shows how to run modern AI where nothing leaves the room: images, music, speech, video, 3D models, and chat, all on a laptop with the Wi-Fi turned off. He'll dig into what's made this possible (unified memory, open model weights, quantization) and what it means for privacy, cost, and building products without the usual constraints. If the space shuttle taught us anything, it's that today's most powerful frontier models will be running on your wristwatch tomorrow.

12:00 p.m.
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PEI Tech Week - The AI ROI Trap
Free w/ RSVP40 spots

PEI Tech Week - The AI ROI Trap

Most SMBs either overspend chasing AI hype or avoid it out of fear, both cost money. CPA and fractional CFO Ryan Dunn shares the four-part framework he uses to evaluate any AI investment, runs it through three real cases, and sends you home with a scorecard you can use immediately after the event!

2:00 p.m.
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PEI Tech Week - The Night Shift (Thursday Edition)
Free w/ RSVP75 spots

PEI Tech Week - The Night Shift (Thursday Edition)

You asked for another coworking session, and we delivered! Come down to The Foundry for a relaxed evening of heads-down hustle, friendly motivation, and light snacks. The Night Shift is a popular after-hours coworking session happening weekly at The Foundry, curated specially for side-hustlers and early-stage creators. Whether you’re writing, coding, designing, or brainstorming, this is your space to make progress on your work alongside fellow creators. Learn more at https://peiitalliance.com/the-night-shift

6:00 p.m.
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Friday (August 14, 2026)

PEI Tech Week - Developing Software at Breakneck Speed in the Agentic Age
Free w/ RSVP50 spots

PEI Tech Week - Developing Software at Breakneck Speed in the Agentic Age

AI has changed how software gets built, and Brian Dunphy has a rare vantage point on it. He co-founded Radian6 (acquired by Salesforce for $326M) and OneLobby (acquired by Cvent), and today leads Cvent's Canadian operations and a team of more than 200 as Senior Director of Product Development. In this session, he'll share what shipping software at breakneck speed actually looks like in the agentic age, what his teams have changed, what holds up under real production pressure, and what it means for developers and technical leaders in PEI.

10:00 a.m.
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PEI Tech Week - Hackathon with UPEI
Free w/ RSVP100 spots

PEI Tech Week - Hackathon with UPEI

The PEI IT Alliance and the UPEI School of Mathematics and Computational Science Society are hosting a 24-hour hackathon as part of PEI Tech Week 2026. Doors at The Foundry open at 11am on Aug 14 - we kick off at noon. You have until noon the next day to build something and demo what you made. Everyone is welcome. Students, recent grads, people working full time, career changers, retirees, hobbyists. Technical and non-technical both. Teams need designers, writers, marketers, researchers, and people who have never written a line of code, alongside the developers. If you're wondering whether you might be a fit: you are. We would love to have you join.

12:00 p.m.
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The recap

Completed events

Already wrapped — here's what the community has been up to. Missed one? The event page still has the details.

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PEI Devs has brought Island builders together since 2012 — meetups, hack nights, and an active Slack. If Tech Week is your first hello, this is where the conversation keeps going year-round.

The home of PEI tech

Tech Week lives at The Foundry

The Foundry is where PEI's tech community comes together to work and grow — coworking, programming, mentorship, and the people who make things happen. Many of the sessions and gatherings during Tech Week happen right here, in the space built for exactly this kind of community.

Startups, founders, and tech teams call it home year-round. Tech Week is the week the whole Island gets to see why.

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The Tech Week line-up runs on Locarius

Every session, workshop, and coworking night you see here is published through Locarius — the platform we trust to run a full week of events without dropping a beat. Registrations, schedules, reminders, and day-of logistics all live in one place, so our organizers spend the week on the community instead of the spreadsheets and email.

Planning an event? Locarius is who we'd point you to.

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