GDG DevFest is back again. We had an awesome DevFest last year and want to build on that success. DevFests are community-run events that offer speaker sessions across multiple product areas, workshops, hack-a-thons, code labs, and more. Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, SWAG, Raffles.
AGENDA - http://bit.ly/devfest18agenda
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Visiting Speakers & Special Guests Alphabetically by First Name:
http://bit.ly/devfest18speakers
Allen Firstenberg - Google Developer Expert on Google Assistant
Amal Hussein - Bocoup, Senior Open Web Engineer
Emily Bamsey - Software Engineer, Researcher, Educator
Giorgio Natili - Google Developer Expert, Amazon Engineering Lead
Hendrix Tavarez - Tech Entrepreneur & Advisor, Professor, GDG Organizer
Jinn Kim - Mental Machines, Software Engineer
Leigh Pember - Google Customer Engineer
Liz Dressler - Google Senior UX Researcher
Lupe Canaviri Maydana - Cultural Vistas, Software Engineer
Madusha Cooray - Google GDG Regional Lead
Martin Omander - Google Cloud Developer Advocate
Rainer Paskiewicz - Checkmate Digital, CTO
Reshama Shaikh - Data Scientist
Tessa Park - Front End Engineer

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Sessions Alphabetically by Speaker's First Name: http://bit.ly/devfest18sessions
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Allen Firstenberg - Google, Developer Expert on Google Assistant
Introduction to Google Assistant
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Amal Hussein - Senior Open Web Engineer
*Building Serverless Apps with Firebase Cloud Functions
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Emily Bamsey - Software Engineer, Researcher, Educator
*Circuits & Algorithms Everyday - hands on workshop for children
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Giorgio Natili - Google Developer Expert, Amazon Engineering Lead
Distributed Machine Learning services and Android
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Hendrix Tavarez - Tech Entrepreneur & Advisor, Professor, GDG Organizer
Prototyping with Flutter and Firebase
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Jinn Kim - Software Engineer at Mental Machines
Firebase ML Kit
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Leigh Pember - Google, Customer Engineer
A Day in the Life of a Packet in GKE
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Liz Dressler - Google Senior UX Researcher
UX Research - Best Practices
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Lupe Canaviri Maydana - Cultural Vistas, Software Engineer
Javascript is ART
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Martin Omander - Google Cloud Developer Advocate
Focus on Your Code, Not Your Infrastructure, with Google Cloud Functions
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Rainer Paskiewicz - Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Flutter: Data Flow with BLoC, Beyond the Firebase
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Reshama Shaikh - Data Scientist
*Intro to Git - hands on workshop
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Tessa Park - Software Engineer
Lil Piece of Vue

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A list of suggested codelabs will also be available.
Of course, there will be food and swag too.
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