DevFest Umuahia 2025

Name: DevFest Umuahia 2025
Start: 2025-11-08T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-08T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Margaret Auditorium

Margaret Auditorium, Azikiwe Road, Umuahia, 440236

GDG Umuahia

Join us for DevFest Umuahia 2025!Get ready for the largest community-driven tech conference in Umuahia! DevFest is an an...

Nov 8, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)

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About this event

Join us for DevFest Umuahia 2025!
Get ready for the largest community-driven tech conference in Umuahia! DevFest is an annual, globally distributed conference hosted by Google Developer Groups (GDGs) worldwide. It's a day dedicated to learning, building, and connecting with fellow developers, tech enthusiasts, and industry experts.
This year, we're thrilled to embrace the global theme: Building Safe, Secure, and Scalable Solutions with AI and Cloud.
DevFest Umuahia 2025 will empower you to architect the future. We'll dive deep into the practical integration of AI and Google Cloud, equipping you with the skills to build innovative, scalable, and ethically sound applications.
What to expect:
Expert-led Sessions: Learn from local heroes, Google Developer Experts (GDEs), and other industry leaders on cutting-edge topics in AI, Cloud, Mobile, and Web development.
Community Hackathon: Team up to build innovative solutions addressing real-world challenges using AI and Cloud technologies. Showcase your project and win amazing prizes!
Hands-on Workshops: Get your hands dirty with practical workshops designed to give you real-world experience with the latest developer tools.
Networking Opportunities: Connect with hundreds of passionate developers, designers, and tech professionals from Umuahia and beyond.
Community Fun: Enjoy a day filled with learning, exciting swag, and the vibrant energy of the GDG Umuahia community.
Whether you're a student, a seasoned professional, or just curious about technology, DevFest Umuahia is the place to be. Let's come together to shape a technology-driven future that benefits everyone.
Mark your calendars and get ready for an unforgettable experience. We can't wait to see you there!
#DevFest #DevFestUmuahia

When

Saturday, November 8, 2025
8:30 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)

Where

Margaret Auditorium
Azikiwe Road
Umuahia, 440236

Agenda

Registration & Networking
Opening Ceremony & Welcome Address
Become a GenAI Expert – Google’s Generative AI Intensive for Developers	From mastering foundational models and prompt engineering to exploring real-world use cases, this series blends theory, hands-on practice, and community collaboration. Featuring learning resources created by Google experts, it equips you to upskill and stay ahead in the fast-moving world of generative AI.
Sponsor Keynote
From Idea to App: Prototyping with the Firebase Studio Agent (Breakout Session)	Have an idea for an app but don't know where to start? This session will introduce you to the power of the prototyping agent in Firebase Studio. You'll learn how to use simple, natural language prompts to generate a working app blueprint and code in minutes. We will cover how to refine your app's core features and UI using an AI agent, giving you a collaborative, no-code way to jumpstart your development process
Object Detection with Google's Vision API (Breakout Session)	A workshop explaining computer vision and how Google's vision API works. Here, we will learn image segmentation and practically detect images.
Building Browser Extensions with AI (Breakout Session)	This talk explores the exciting frontier of integrating Artificial Intelligence into browser extensions.
Building at Scale using Firebase and Firebase Studio (Breakout Session)	This session explores how Firebase and Firebase Studio can be used to build and scale mobile applications efficiently, covering both backend strength and visual development. It begins with Firebase, highlighting its core services such as Firestore, Authentication, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, and Messaging, and explaining how its serverless architecture and flexible billing model support everything from small prototypes to full-scale production apps. Attendees will learn how Firebase enables rapid development without the burden of infrastructure management, while still offering the reliability and performance required for modern mobile apps. The session then shifts to Firebase Studio and Builder.io, showcasing how teams can visually build applications, connect to Firebase services, and even bring designs to life directly from Figma. By combining these tools, teams can move faster, collaborate more effectively, and deliver high-quality apps that scale. Whether you're building from code, from design, or a mix of both, this session will provide practical insights and real-world patterns for using Firebase and Firebase Studio to build applications that are flexible, cost-efficient, and production-ready.
Lunch Break & Networking
Orchestrating an end-to-end Data Engineering Workflow: Leveraging Python in Apache Beam and Airflow	Imagine you have registration data arriving as CSV files. You need a system that automatically picks up these files, processes them, extracts key information, adds a timestamp, loads the clean data into a data warehouse (BigQuery), and potentially performs follow-up actions. Manually running scripts is inefficient and error-prone. In this workshop, we'll build an automated, event-driven pipeline on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to solve this. We'll learn how different services work together: Cloud Storage: To receive and store the raw CSV files and hold pipeline staging data. Apache Beam / Cloud Dataflow: To define the data processing logic (read, validate, transform) in Python (Beam) and run it reliably at scale (Dataflow). BigQuery: The Data Warehouse to store the final, processed registration data in a structured table. Apache Airflow / Cloud Composer: To orchestrate the entire workflow – managing the sequence of tasks (moving files, running Dataflow, updating BigQuery, sending emails). Cloud Functions: To act as the trigger, automatically starting the Airflow workflow whenever a new CSV file lands in the designated storage bucket. Vertex AI & SendGrid: To add intelligence (generating fun facts) and notifications (sending emails).
Hackathon Finalist Presentations & Demos
Panel Session: Practical AI: From Concept to Production
Awards (Hackathon Winners), Closing Remarks & Group Photos

Speakers

Umar Faruq Zubairu

Founder/CEO & Google Developer Expert (Cloud)

Buchi Michelle Okonicha

Google Developer Expert

Mustapha Adekunle

Data Engineer

Ayooluwa Olosunde

Interswitch

Project implantation engineer

Obumuneme Nwabude

LokDon

Mobile Developer

Adewumi Saheed Adewale

Google Developer Expert

GDE CLOUD & ML/AI

Atuoha Anthony

Fit Company FZ-LLC

Google Developer Expert (Flutter/Dart) & Mobile Software Engineer

Organizers

Ugonna Oleh

Co-organizer

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Obinna Stanley

Doppo Branding Agency

Co-Organizer

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Ofofonono Udom

Freelance

Student Developer

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Winner Offor

Cowrywise

Co - Organizer

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Emmanuel Obioma

GDG Umuahia

Programs Coordinator

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DevFest Umuahia 2025

Nov 8, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)

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About this event

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Where

Agenda

Speakers

Umar Faruq Zubairu

Buchi Michelle Okonicha

Mustapha Adekunle

Ayooluwa Olosunde

Obumuneme Nwabude

Adewumi Saheed Adewale

Atuoha Anthony

Organizers

Ugonna Oleh

Obinna Stanley

Ofofonono Udom

Winner Offor

Emmanuel Obioma

Nov 8, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)