We welcome speakers of all experience levels — from first-time speakers to experienced conference presenters. What matters most is the relevance of the topic and the value it can bring to the developer community.

Talk length: 20 min, including presentation and, if applicable, Q&A.

Submissions should follow these principles:

Talks must be technical, educational, or otherwise valuable to the technology community.

Product pitches, company advertisements, recruitment presentations, and sales-oriented talks are not accepted. Mentioning your company or product as context is fine, but the session itself should focus on knowledge and experience that is useful beyond a particular commercial offering.

Topics should have a reasonable connection to the Google developer ecosystem, technologies used alongside Google technologies, or the broader open-source developer ecosystem. Talks focused entirely on technologies unrelated to Google or open source may not be a good fit for DevFest.

Topics may include areas such as AI and Generative AI, software engineering, cloud, web, mobile, backend and distributed systems, DevOps, data, security, developer tooling, engineering leadership and management, and other relevant areas.

A talk does not need to be exclusively about a Google product. For example, sessions about AI architecture, security, engineering practices, open-source technologies, or technical leadership are welcome when they provide meaningful value to our audience.

Sessions should aim to share practical knowledge, lessons learned, technical insights, architecture decisions, research, engineering experience, or useful approaches rather than promotional messaging.

Speaker selection is based primarily on technical relevance, quality of the proposal, and potential value for the audience.

We encourage submissions from different backgrounds, companies, communities, and levels of speaking experience.