GDG DevFest Nairobi 2023

Name: GDG DevFest Nairobi 2023
Start: 2023-11-04T09:00:00+03:00
End: 2023-11-04T16:30:00+03:00
Location: Shree Sthanakvasi Jain Sangh

Shree Sthanakvasi Jain Sangh, Road, Nairobi, 000

GDG Nairobi

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The pilgrimage is a time honored tradition - "The giants of Tech MUST assemble"!

Nov 4, 6:00 AM – 1:30 PM

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About this event

WAKANDA UNLEASHED!
It is official, GDG DevFest Nairobi 2023 is taking place physically on weekend of November 4th.
GDG DevFest Nairobi  (described by many as 'Google I/O of Africa'), brings together people who are shaping the future of Android, Web, IoT - Robotics, AI and Cloud technologies for days of sessions, workshops and networking.
GDG DevFest Nairobi  is a 100% community organized conference with 1500+ amazing engineers (embarking on a nomadic journey from all corners of the continent/world), carefully selected tech talks, the best industry experts presenting on the exciting topics and a world-class conference experience.
Be a part of this unique community moment in 2023, and join us as we journey to the heart of Wakanda, happening over one epic weekend.
Together, let's unearth the hidden treasures of African talent and intelligence as we pave way for a brighter, more connected future. 
The pilgrimage is a time honored tradition - "The giants of Tech MUST assemble"!

When

Saturday, November 4, 2023
6:00 AM – 1:30 PM UTC

Where

Shree Sthanakvasi Jain Sangh
Road
Nairobi, 000

Agenda

5:00 AM	Registration	Volunteers
5:30 AM	Welcome : DevFest Nairobi - Ngesa & Allela	Main Stage
5:45 AM	Community Keynote - Sigu Magwa, Team lead at Podii	Main Stage
6:00 AM	Andoid Keynote : Harun Wangereka, Senior Software Engineer, GDE Android	Main Stage
6:15 AM	Web Keynote - Prosper Otemuyiwa, Co-founder, Eden Life	Main Stage
6:30 AM	AI Keynote : Derrick Mwiti , Machine Learning Developer Advocate, GDE ML	Main Stage
6:45 AM	Cloud Keynote - Luis Cuellar, Customer Engineer Lead BAP & Matthew Feigal, Partner Engineering (Apigee) and Google Tulip Co-Founder	Main Stage
7:00 AM	Google Keynote : Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément, Senior program manager, head of Developer/Startup Relations teams – Africa \| Asia \| Accelerator · Google	Main Stage
7:15 AM	Google Diversity Keynote : Philip Bob Jusu, Africa Strategic Partnerships , Google	Main Stage
7:30 AM	GLEAC Partner Session: Hailey Yoon, CTO-in-residence at GLEAC	Main Stage
7:45 AM	Partner Session: Kushites ICP
8:00 AM	Cloud Technical Talk	Using Generative AI to design and run your APIs - Luis Cuellar, Customer Engineer Lead BAP & Matthew Feigal, Partner Engineering (Apigee) and Google Tulip Co-Founder
8:00 AM	Android Codelab	Android Modularization: Who Needs Structure Anyway? - Brian Mambo
8:00 AM	Web Codelab	Building Performant Websites for Users : Metrics and Testing Tooling - Maina Wycliffe
8:00 AM	Firebase Codelab	Utilizing Google Cloud Functions for transmission of firebase cloud messaging notifications - Joseph Mureithi
8:00 AM	AI/ML Codelab	Building LLM applications with PaLM API and LangChain - Derrick Mwiti
8:00 AM	Flutter Codelab	Efficient State Management in Flutter for Large Screen Devices using providers - Michael Olang
8:50 AM	Flutter Lightning talk 1	Why Flutter is Revolutionizing Application Development (From an Instructors Perspective) - Eric Muriithi
8:50 AM	Google Cloud Lightning talk 1	Conversational AI - Rodgers Ndocha
8:50 AM	Android Lightning talk 1	XML to Jetpack Compose: Seamless Transition - Jessica Hannah Randall
8:50 AM	Web Lightning talk 1	Customer validation: Adapting to a changing market - Udokanma Georgewill
8:50 AM	Firebase Lightning talk 1	Firebase: Development and Best Practices - Victoria Mutai
8:50 AM	AI/ML Lightning talk 1	Machine Unlearning: Decoding Responsible AI through Ethical Evolution - Atieno Ouma
9:00 AM	Google Cloud Technical talk	Getting started with Jumpstart on Google Cloud - Kenneth Kinyanjui
9:00 AM	Android Technical talk	Imperative, declarative, object oriented, functional: four of a Kotlin kind - Maia Grotepass
9:00 AM	Web Technical talk	Memory Leaks: Observables Management and New Features in Angular v16 & Beyond - Wayne Gakuo
9:00 AM	Firebase Technical talk	Firing Up Android Excellence: Crafting Dynamic Apps with Ionic and Firebase - Paul Chesa
9:00 AM	AI/ML Technical talk	How to get started with Large Language Models and Generative AI using Vertex AI on GCP - James Mwai
9:00 AM	Technical talk	Diversity Hiring - Bob Jusu, Program Manager - Africa Strategic Partnerships · Google && Ndiga Njeru - Snr. Technical Recruiter: Consumer & Compute
9:40 AM	Lunch /Photo session
11:00 AM	Google Cloud Lightning talk 2	Multicloud API Optimization - Antony Gakuru
11:00 AM	Android Lightning talk 2	Deal with process death like a pro in Mobile Apps - Benard Ngoda
11:00 AM	Web Lightning talk 2	Web Assembly: Beyond the Basics - Stanley Masinde
11:00 AM	Firebase Lightning talk 2	Let's build a container from scratch - Sammy Oina
11:00 AM	AI/ML Lightning talk 2	Impact of Transformer Architecture in Generative AI - Mercylyne Tuwei
11:00 AM	Flutter Lightning talk 2	End to End CI/CD Pipelines - Brian Tarno, DevSecOps engineer && Cosmas Nyairo, DevOps Engineer
11:15 AM	Android Workshop	Mastering Location Visualization: Integrating Google Maps Platform with Jetpack Compose - Amos Nyaburi
11:15 AM	Google Cloud Workshop	The Power of Generative AI with Google Cloud - Vaibhav Malpani
11:15 AM	Web Workshop	Harnessing Golang's Potential: Creating Enterprise Hybrid Desktop Apps - Marvin Hosea
11:15 AM	AI/ML Workshop	Text-to-Image Generation with Stable Diffusion v2 and OpenVINO - Marvin Ngesa & Baraskar Pooja (INTEL)
11:45 AM	Firebase Workshop	Logging sensor data to Firebase Realtime Database - Peter Kirumba
11:45 AM	Flutter Workshop	Internationalize Flutter Application - Paul Ogolla
12:30 PM	Closing Ceremony - Irene

Speakers

Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément

Google

Senior program manager, head of Developer/Startup Relations teams – Africa | Asia |

Eunice Allela

Google

Community Manager

John Kimani

Google

Developer Ecosystem Program Manager

Philip Bob Jusu

Google

Strategic Partnerships Manager for Africa

Matthew Feigal

Google

Partner Engineering Manager

Hailey Yoon

GLEAC

CTO

Ndiga Njeru

Google

Snr. Technical Recruiter: Consumer & Compute

Luis Cuellar

Google

Customer Engineer Lead Iberia

Prosper Otemuyiwa

Eden

Co-founder

Maia Grotepass

Luno

Staff Engineer: Android principal

Sigu Magwa

Podii Consultants Ltd.

Community lover, software writer, team builder

Derrick Mwiti

GDE Machine Learning

Layer AI, Data Scientist

Wayne Gakuo (GDE)

Sky.Garden

Frontend Engineer

Jessica Randall

GDG Cape Town

CO-Organizer

Wycliffe Maina

Skyhook Adventure

Full-stack Software Engineer

James Mwai

Sky.Garden

GDE and CTO

Ngesa Marvin

Founder, Nairobi AI | Arm AI Ambassador

Atieno Ouma

Juubix

Backend Developer

Marvin Hosea

AppsLab_KE

Founder and Managing Director

Paul Chesa

iTalanta

Software Engineer

Harun Wangereka

Apollo Agriculture

Sofware Engineer - Android

Udokanma Georgewill

Garage55

Partner

Brian Odhiambo

Baobab Circle Ltd

Android Engineer

Sammy Oina

Ultraviolet

SWE

Brian Tarno

Safaricom PLC

DevSecOps Engineer II

Mercylyne Tuwei

Developer Advocate | WTM Ambassador

Joseph Mureithi

Byon8

Software Engineer

Peter Kirumba

A Mechatronic engineer

Rodgers Ndocha

DeepAfrica Limited, Machine Learning Engineer

Cloud APIS with AI session

Victoria Mutai

Assent Inc

Software Developer

Antony Gakuru

Uamuzi Foundation

Tech lead

Cosmas Nyairo

Safaricom PLC

DevSecOps Engineer

Amos Nyaburi

Songa.app

Co-Founder

Paul Ogolla

Kito

Software Engineer