GDG Dar es Salaam is a community for developers interested in Google's developer technologies, including Android, Flutter, Chrome, Drive, Google Cloud, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Kotlin, and more. We are here to celebrate, learn, and network with developers in the community.

The theme for DevFest 2025 is: Building Safe, Secure and Scalable Solutions with AI and Cloud.

This year, DevFest 2025 will empower developer communities worldwide to architect the future. We'll focus on driving the practical integration of AI and Google Cloud into their solutions. Our goal is to equip developers with the skills to build innovative, scalable, and ethically sound applications, acknowledging their pivotal role in shaping a technology-driven future that benefits everyone.

You can either submit a talk (~20/40 min) or a workshop (~2 hours). If you'd like to use a different format, mention that in the for,m and we can talk it over :)

You can also submit the form multiple times if you have multiple topics, and we will pick what suits the event best. You don't need to write your bio multiple times; just mention that it is not your first submission.

If you are not sure whether your topic is relevant or interesting enough, have a look at this year's areas of interest. You are doing this for a community; therefore, mind its interests.

There's no limit to how many submissions you can send.

We are looking for all kinds of topics for sessions, but they should fall within one of the following:

Tech talk: a session about strictly technical matters

Soft talk: a session about non-strictly technical matters (we especially enjoy soft skills, inclusion, and diversity, but feel free to submit anything)

Workshop: usually a hands-on lab in which the speaker teaches a technology, framework, or language to the audience who will be able to follow along and interactively ask questions to the speaker. We also accept "soft" workshops.

If you feel like your session doesn't fall within any of the above categories, please contact us!

We will accept talks in one of the following formats:

Lightning: 10+5 (Q&A) minutes session, for tech and soft talks

Short: 20+5 minutes session, for tech and soft talks

Full: 40+5 minutes session, for tech and soft talks

Long: 1, 2, or 3-hour session, only workshops

You will have someone in the room with you to help you stay on schedule, but we ask that you be mindful of the time and always leave 5 minutes at the end for Q&A, which we consider a very important part of the session.