| Badge Collection & Registration | Make sure to check in at the registration pods, collect your badge and get ready to rock! |
| Welcome Keynote <> Maye & Paula | Kick-off welcome keynote from GDG Eldoret, learn about GDG Eldoret & all abour DevFest Rift Valley |
| General <> Material UI & AI: Designing the Future Together <> Reuben Kihiu | Material Design has evolved—again. With Material You and the rise of AI-driven tools, the line between design and development is getting beautifully blurred. In this talk, we’ll explore how the next generation of Material Design is empowering teams to create more personalized, adaptive, and accessible experiences - faster than ever.
From dynamic color systems to AI-assisted UI generation, I’ll share how designers and developers can collaborate better, prototype smarter, and build interfaces that feel more human. Whether you’re a designer refining your craft or a developer bringing pixels to life, this session will give you a fresh look at how Material and AI are shaping the next era of product design. |
| Breakout <> Web <> AI in Chrome <> Maye Edwin | This session highights key things you can do with AI by using AI in Chrome DevTools to boost productivity, new upcoming built in API APIs and best practices |
| Breakout <> AI <> From Prompt to Pixel: Get Creative with Nano Banana API <> Ronnie Atuhaire | Ever wished you could bring your imagination to life with just a few words? The Nano Banana API (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) makes it possible. This powerful API lets developers and creatives generate images, edit visuals, and even maintain consistency across scenes — all from natural language prompts.
In this talk, we’ll dive into how you can use the Nano Banana API to unlock creativity in your apps and projects. Through live demos, we’ll explore text-to-image generation, interactive editing, and multi-image composition. We’ll also look at practical ways to optimize for cost, latency, and user experience, ensuring your ideas can scale from hackathon experiments to production-ready solutions |
| Breakout <> Cloud <> Data Engineering on Google Cloud <> Rodges Ndocha | Learn how to build a complete data engineering pipeline on Google Cloud—step by step.
Including;
Generating dummy employee data with Python (using the Faker library) and uploading it to Cloud Storage
Performing data transformation and masking sensitive information (like PAN numbers) using Cloud Data Fusion
Loading clean data into BigQuery, Google’s serverless data warehouse
Orchestrating the entire process with Cloud Composer (Airflow)
Creating visual reports in Looker Studio with charts and filters for business insights
Please NOTE: This won’t be a lecture it’s a live, practical workshop. I’ll share architecture diagrams, talk through decision points, troubleshoot in real time, and even discuss cost considerations and optimization tips I’ve learned along the way.
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| Breakout <> Product <> Building a Testing Culture: Lessons from Industry Leaders <> Monica Oyugi | Testing for billions of users isn't about having Google's resources; it's about having Google's principles. Learn the testing strategies behind Search, Gmail, and Android, including the testing pyramid, production testing techniques, and why speed matters more than perfection. Walk away with practical lessons you can apply tomorrow, regardless of your team's size.
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| Break <> Lunch <> Networking | Let's bite, network and meet the speakers on the side |
| Breakout <> Building a Cloud-Native Booking System with GCP OAuth, Calendar & Meet APIs <> Bravin Kulei | Modern booking tools like Cal.com and Calendly delight users by instantly adding confirmed meetings to Google Calendar and generating Google Meet links no manual steps required. In this session, we’ll demystify how to build the same frictionless experience into your own apps using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services together with Google OAuth and the Calendar & Meet APIs.
You’ll learn how to:
Configure a secure Google OAuth consent screen and request the correct incremental scopes (Calendar, Meet, email/profile).
Exchange authorization codes for tokens and refresh them safely.
Programmatically create and update events, attach conferencing data to generate a Meet URL, and send invitations.
Handle edge cases such as token expiration, user revocation, and time-zone conflicts.
By the end, you’ll be able to implement a production-ready scheduling flow that respects user privacy while delivering the “one-click add to calendar & auto-meet” experience users expect whether you’re building a personal booking tool, a SaaS product, or enhancing internal workflows.
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| Breakout <> Clinical Reasoning with MedGemma <> Victor Ashioya | This presentation explores the evolution of AI-assisted clinical reasoning, starting with a practical workflow built on general-purpose generative models. Using a baseline Python notebook for clinical case analysis, we will demonstrate a standard approach for tasks such as differential diagnosis and clinical Q&A. We will then introduce MedGemma, Google's family of open, healthcare-specific foundation models. We will contrast the performance of the generalist approach with the enhanced capabilities of MedGemma, a model specifically trained on diverse medical data. The talk will showcase a proposed, upgraded workflow, highlighting MedGemma's superior ability in handling complex medical reasoning, interpreting clinical context, and its potential to accelerate the development of robust, reliable healthcare AI applications. |
| Breakout <> AI-Powered Personal Branding <> Mary Njoki Waweru | In a world where visibility is everything, your personal brand is your currency. This session explores how creatives, professionals, and entrepreneurs can harness Artificial Intelligence to build authentic, consistent, and influential personal brands online. From content creation and storytelling to design and engagement analytics — discover how AI tools can help you work smarter, not harder, while staying true to your unique voice. |
| Breakout <> My Journey to Building My First AI Agent Using Google ADK - A Beginner's Guide <> Hidaya Vanessa | Let's re-connEver dreamt of building your own AI agent? You don’t need an AI certification, we’ll do it together! In this session, we’ll walk through creating an AI agent step by step with zero experience.
We’ll explore how to design our agent’s workflow and add simple tools to make it smarter. To get our hands dirty, we’ll build a simple “Hello World” agent that answers general knowledge questions using Google ADK.
To show what’s possible beyond the basics, I’ll share my journey of building my first AI agent: a Social Media Content Generator that turns messy thoughts into polished captions for LinkedIn, X/Twitter, and Instagram.
By the end, attendees will understand the core ADK workflow and feel confident to experiment, customize, and have fun building their own AI agents.ect over a cup of tea, network and pick up some fresh air |
| Tea <> Break <> Networking <> Good Bye | Let's re-connect over a cup of tea, network and pick up some fresh air |
