DevFest Umuahia 2025

Name: DevFest Umuahia 2025
Start: 2025-11-08T09:00:00+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!

Nov 8, 2025, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

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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! Sign up here: https://forms.gle/yaSCoWWmGuuKEFcY6 
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
Sign up for the Road-to-DevFest Series too!
25th October 2025: Intro to Vertex AI Studio. Sign up here https://gdg.community.dev/e/myzufv/ 
1st November: Gemini in WordPress. Sign up here: https://gdg.community.dev/e/m59ftu/ 

When

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

Where

Margaret Auditorium
Azikiwe Road
Umuahia 440236

Agenda

8:00 AM	Registration & Networking
8:15 AM	Opening Ceremony & Welcome Address
8:30 AM	Coding Our Future: The Government's Vision for a Digital Abia. (Keynote Speech)
9:00 AM	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.
9:45 AM	Sponsor Keynote
10:00 AM	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
10:00 AM	Designing Trust: Human-Centered UX for Safe, Secure and Scalable AI & Cloud Solutions	AI and cloud services now power everything from banking apps to workplace tools. They’re fast, automated, to a certain degree reliable, and handle massive amounts of sensitive data, but speed and scale mean nothing if users don’t trust them. This session demonstrates that trust isn’t just a backend issue; it’s a design problem. Every button, message, and flow either builds or erodes confidence. With that in mind, we must make the right decisions while building our products. Given that we are in a creator economy where AI has leveled the playing field for creating and building products globally, it's also important that we establish the right UX patterns that facilitate consumer trust and provide transparency, hence the need for a session like this. A key part of this session involves making a live comparison of products built with Artificial Intelligence, identifying patterns exhibited by these products, and reviewing them not only on performance but also on how users respond to their product interfaces. In summary, here is what I would like people to be able to do after this session: Recognise common trust pitfalls in AI/cloud apps. Use practical UX patterns to make products safer and more transparent. Scale trust signals across teams and features using design systems.
10:45 AM	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.
11:30 AM	Lunch Break & Networking
11:45 AM	Beyond Blue Links: Optimizing for Visibility in the Age of AI Answer Engines	This session would explore the shift from traditional SEO to a new paradigm where AI chatbots and generative search are the primary entry points to information. The speaker would cover practical strategies for content, structured data, and technical architecture to ensure web pages remain visible and are used as sources by AI models.
12:15 PM	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).
1:15 PM	Hackathon Finalist Presentations & Demos
2:00 PM	Panel Session: Practical AI: From Concept to Production
2:45 PM	Awards (Hackathon Winners)
3:00 PM	Closing Remarks & Group Photos

Speakers

Umar Faruq Zubairu

Founder/CEO & Google Developer Expert (Cloud)

Buchi Michelle Okonicha

Google Developer Expert

Mustapha Adekunle

GDE/Data Engineer

Adewumi Saheed Adewale

Google Developer Expert

GDE CLOUD & ML/AI

Munachi Okwudiri

UI/UX Designer

Chibuzor Elizabeth Chijioke

Abia State Government

Special Assistant on Digital Economy

Victor Obinna Irozuru

ECR Technologies

SEO Expert

Sodiq Akinjobi

Google

Developer Relations | Program Management

Panelists

ThankGod Maduka Kalu

Abia Tech Hub

CEO

Samuel Obinna Chimdi

ECR Technologies

Software Developer

Sophia Iroegbu

iCademics

Backend Engineer & Developer Advocate

Kelechi Ohulonu

Product Designer

Daniel Obiyo

AI Researcher & Data Scientist

Moderator

Winner Offor

GDGoC MOUAU

Organizer

Judges

ThankGod Maduka Kalu

CEO

AbiaTech Hub

Daniel Chinagozi

InnovationGrowth Hub Ltd

CEO

Sodiq Akinjobi

Google

Developer Relations | Program Management

Ugonna Oleh

WTM Umuahia

Organizer

Organizers

Ugonna Oleh

Co-organizer

See bio

Obinna Sunday

Doppo Branding Agency

Co-Organizer

See bio

Ofofonono Udom

Freelance

Student Developer

See bio

Winner Offor

Co - Organizer

See bio

Emmanuel Obioma

GDG Umuahia

Co-Organizer

See bio

Possible Benedict

Core Team Member

See bio

Iyke Chidera

Creative Designer

See bio

DevFest Umuahia 2025

Nov 8, 2025, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)

Key Themes

About this event

When

Where

Agenda

Speakers

Umar Faruq Zubairu

Buchi Michelle Okonicha

Mustapha Adekunle

Adewumi Saheed Adewale

Munachi Okwudiri

Chibuzor Elizabeth Chijioke

Victor Obinna Irozuru

Sodiq Akinjobi

Panelists

ThankGod Maduka Kalu

Samuel Obinna Chimdi

Sophia Iroegbu

Kelechi Ohulonu

Daniel Obiyo

Moderator

Winner Offor

Judges

ThankGod Maduka Kalu

Daniel Chinagozi

Sodiq Akinjobi

Ugonna Oleh

Partners

Doppo Africa

InnovationGrowth Hub Ltd

WTM Umuahia

Blaaiz

Speedrands Services

ECR Technologies

GDGoC MOUAU

Organizers

Ugonna Oleh

Obinna Sunday

Ofofonono Udom

Winner Offor

Emmanuel Obioma

Possible Benedict

Iyke Chidera

Nov 8, 2025, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)