CVCC 2026
Presentation Materials:
See something you loved? Workshop and Presentation materials - slides, instructions, demo code:
- Teach Your AI to Code Like You: A Hands-On Setup Workshop
- AgentOps for Real: Evals, Tracing, and Regression Tests for AI Agents
- Build Your Own Private ChatGPT: Local AI with Docker, Ollama, Open WebUI, and ZImage Turbo
The Day in Pictures
Keynote
The day kicked off with a Keynote by the phenominal Brian P. Hogan
The Keynote was a deeply thoughtful take on how AI is affecting software engineering as a trade, and our role in industry as a whole. The takeaway? Those who provide value will always be valued.
Workshops
There’s no better way to learn than hands-on, from experts.
Lunch
Sandwhiches were served with help from our volunteers:
Presentations
The real meat of any tech conference is it’s presentations:
Pictured: Brandon, Charley, Brian, Aaron
Panel: IT Education DEATHMATCH
A feature of the conference was the IT Education DEATHMATCH panel, a head-to-head battle to determine the most ferocious IT educator.
Teaching is a noble art. These folks care a heck of a lot about their students!
After and Forward
At the end of a good day, we deserved a good beverage!
Going forward? It’s our community, and we’ll take care of it.
We’ll continue with our goal of provding a place for our community of folks who build cool things with computers.
Attendees
We had 89 registered attendees. Students and Staff from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire as well as Chippewa Valley Technical College attended, in addition to folks from:
- University Credit Union
- Paramount
- Jamf
- Royal Credit Union
- Wood County
- Menard Inc
- Ashley Furniture Industries
- Drywood Creek Consulting
- Prosper Marketplace
- eau.dev
- Lunatek LLC
- Marshfield Clinic Health System
- Regenix Research Institute
Thank you
We hope to see y’all next year!
