# Speaking at Google Developer Groups’ DevFest Salem 2026 as a guest from Japan

October 31, 2026

On October 31, 2026, I spoke as a guest from Japan at DevFest Salem 2026, a tech conference at Sona College of Technology in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. My talk was about how I use a personal AI agent in my private life and at work, and I gave it using a multilingual live translator I built myself.

On stage at DevFest Salem 2026

## About DevFest

DevFest is the tech conference series held every year around the world by Google Developer Groups (GDG), Google’s developer community. The Salem edition was hosted by GDG Salem and brought together developers, students and startups.

The day’s agenda

The venue was decorated in Google colors, with a photo frame at the entrance.

At the venue’s photo frame (I’m in the center)

## What I talked about

I hand much of my private life to a personal AI agent: my schedule, email, money, travel and paperwork (more in [Automating 80% of my life with an agent](https://yukiueda.com/en/blog/life-agent/)). In the talk, I explained how it works through three ideas.

The first slide: “Stateless model, stateful workspace”
Stateless model, stateful workspace

Every turn starts a fresh session that re-reads its role, a summary and a memory index. Everything it learns is saved as files in git, so I can trace what it learned and when.

Autonomous inside, gated at the boundary

It researches, decides and drafts on its own, but anything that leaves, like sending or paying, stops right before it runs and waits for my approval. The gate is enforced by the system, not by a prompt, so the model can’t talk its way past it.

Isolated memory, shared skills

Each role has its own agent and its own memory, but once a task is done, it becomes a workflow every agent can reuse. Learn once, reuse everywhere: that is what lets the system grow the more I use it.

## Speaking through my own live translator

I gave the talk using a multilingual live translator I built myself (the slides were made by my own agent, too). That translator was a lifesaver throughout my stay in India. Whether people spoke to me in English, Tamil or Kannada, it translated into Japanese on the spot, so I could get past the language barrier in the city and at the venue alike.

Thank you to GDG Salem for inviting me, and to everyone who listened.

A board collecting feedback at the venue

Event page: [DevFest Salem 2026](https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-salem-presents-devfest-salem-2026/)

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