Call for Speakers
DevFest Dar Es Salaam 2026
7 Nov 2026
TBC Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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.
DevFest Dar es Salaam is a one-day, community-led tech conference that brings together hundreds of developers, innovators, and learners from across the world. This event offers hands-on workshops, technical talks, hackathons, and networking opportunities—all centered on Google technologies, including Android, Flutter, Firebase, Google Cloud, AI & ML, and Responsible AI.
Why Submit a CFS?
- Share your expertise: Inspire and educate the local developer community with your knowledge and experience.
- Grow your reach: Showcase your work to a diverse audience, including tech professionals, students, and industry leaders.
- Network with peers: Connect with other speakers, Google Developer Experts, and community organizers.
- Make an impact: Help shape Tanzania’s tech ecosystem and encourage innovation in emerging technologies.
Whether your passion is mobile, cloud, AI, design, or community building, this is your opportunity to share, teach, and inspire at one of Tanzania’s biggest tech gatherings.
Call for Speakers
23 Sep 2026
10 Oct 2026
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 2026 is: Build, Secure, Scale in the Agentic Era.
This year, we want builders, teams with work worth showing, agentic tools and tips, and tech made in Tanzania. Show us how you build, secure, and scale real products as AI agents change the way we work.
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 form 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.
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