DevFest Bucharest 2024

Novotel Bucharest City Centre, 37B Calea Victoriei, Bucharest, 010061

GDG Bucharest

We’re excited to announce DevFest Bucharest 2024! This is a community-run, one-day, in-person conference aimed to bring developers, students, tech-companies and awesome speakers together in one location, so they can learn about established or emerging technologies on topics such as Android, Flutter, Firebase, Mobile, Google Assistant, Kotlin and more.

Nov 13, 7:00 AM – 3:15 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

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About this event

We’re excited to announce DevFest Bucharest 2024! This is a community-run, one-day, in-person conference aimed to bring developers, students, tech-companies and awesome speakers together in one location, so they can learn about established or emerging technologies on topics such as Android, Flutter, Firebase, Mobile, Google Assistant, Kotlin, Cloud, AI, ML and more.

The presentations will be held on 3 different tracks

- Mobile Development

- Web

- Cloud Engineering

The event will take place in-person, on 13th of November 2024, at Novotel Hotel, down-town Bucharest and is part of the GDG DevFest series of events.

Communities of people who are passionate about a topic are a wonderful way to foster and drive innovation, creativity and opportunity. Plus it’s always fun to meet and socialize with like-minded people.

Your ticket includes:

- Access to all DevFest tracks

- Lunch & Coffee Breaks

- Networking


Agenda will be announced soon!

When

When

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
7:00 AM – 3:15 PM (UTC)

Agenda

7:00 AMRegistration
8:00 AMOpening & Keynote
8:30 AMCoffee break
8:45 AM[Mobile] - Alex Burdușel - 10 things we learned redesigning the Fitbit App
8:45 AM[Web] - Jasper Duizendstra - Building a DMS on top of Google Drive
8:45 AM[Cloud] - Gabriel Preda - Explore Gemma 2 features using Kaggle Models
9:30 AM[Mobile] - Ahmed Tikiwa - Channel me perfect: the importance of app notifications and delivering them via notification channels
9:30 AM[Web] - Paul Negoescu - Clean Code for Frontend AIs
9:30 AM[Cloud] - Natalie Godec - Balancing tight security with fluid devex, powered by GKE
10:15 AMLunch break
11:15 AM[Mobile] - Radu Radu Marin & Radu-Ioan Ciobanu - Watt’s Draining Your Battery?
11:15 AM[Web] - Alex Gatu - AI & Security Testing - A double edged sword (30 min)
11:15 AM[Cloud] - Alexandru Ionescu - How to move 2PB of data in 3 days
12:00 PM[Mobile] - Mangirdas Kazlauskas - Cat-like Development: Flutter for Efficiency
12:00 PM[Web] - Adina-Teodora Marcu - TypeScript and API Development with GraphQL
12:00 PM[Cloud] - Rustam Mehmandarov - Serverless Java Apps in the Cloud: MicroProfile, Quarkus, and Cloud Run
12:45 PMCoffee break
1:00 PM[Mobile] - Adrian Mărgineanu - Building a Virtual Keyboard in Flutter: From Kiosk Solutions to Community Contribution
1:00 PM[Web] - Bogdan Bindea - From Analog to Digital: The Power of Semantic Web and Java in Transforming Engineering
1:00 PM[Cloud] - Joshua Fox - Taking Machine Learning to production: Vertex MLOps for speed and efficiency
1:45 PM[Mobile] - TBA
1:45 PM[Web] - Bogdan Hobeanu - The Dart stack: why code twice when once is nice?
1:45 PM[Cloud] - Marton Kodok - Vector search and multimodal embeddings in BigQuery
2:30 PM[Mobile] - TBA
2:30 PM[Web] - Alex Bordei - Building a Full-Stack CRM with Flutter and Firebase: Architecture, Challenges, and Best Practices
2:30 PM[Cloud] - Lucian Gruia - Agentic Design Patterns: Bridging AI Agents and Microservices Architecture
3:15 PMClosing

Speakers

  • Adina-Teodora Marcu

    Microsoft

    Software Engineer

  • Adrian Mărgineanu

    Flutter Developer

  • Ahmed Tikiwa

    Bol.com

    Google Developer Expert: Android

  • Alex Bordei

    FlutterDev.io

    Flutter Developer 💙 & WordPress Expert

  • Alex Burdusel

    Staff Software Engineer

  • Alexandru Gatu

    Endava

    Performance & Security Test Consultant

  • Alexandru Ionescu

    Head of Infrastructure

  • Bogdan Bindea

    Bosch Romania

    Software Engineer

  • Bogdan Hobeanu

  • Gabriel Preda

    Endava

    Principal Data Scientist / Kaggle GDE

  • Jasper Duizendstra

    Freelance Google Cloud Architect | Google Workspace GDE

  • Joshua Fox

    DoiT International

    Senior Cloud Architect

  • Lucian Gruia

    Ciklum

    Principal Technology Lead ⬥ AI, BI, Data | Software Architecture

  • Mangirdas Kazlauskas

    Billo

    Google Developer Expert - Flutter & Dart

  • Márton Kodok

    Google Developer Expert, Reea

  • Natalie Godec

    Zencore

    GDE in Cloud Platform, Senior Cloud Architect

  • Paul Negoescu

    Nagarro

    People and Technology Enablement - Web Technologies, Managed Services, Mobile, and UI/UX

  • Radu Marin

    Timeworx.io

    Lecturer @ University Politehnica of Bucharest, Co-founder @ Timeworx.io

  • Radu-Ioan Ciobanu

    Professor @ University Politehnica of Bucharest

  • Rustam Mehmandarov

    GDG Cloud Oslo

Moderators

  • Bogdan Zurac

    Shortcut

    Senior Android Developer

  • Codrut Ciulacu

    Adobe

    Software Engineer Intern