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DevFest Pwani 2024

event date

23 Nov 2024

location

Mombasa, Kenya


DevFest Pwani brings together people who are shaping the future of Mobile, Web, IoT - Robotics, AI and Cloud technologies for a day of sessions, workshops and networking.

DevFest Pwani is a 100% community organized conference with 300+ amazing engineers (embarking on a nomadic journey from all corners of the continent/world), carefully selected tech talks, the best industry experts presenting on the exciting topics and a world-class conference experience.

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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

01 Oct 2024

Call closes at 11:59 PM

22 Oct 2024

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We're looking for experience-based talks, the information that can not be found in the documentation or easily googled. Share your story, your struggle, your research results, your experience with the frontier tool or technology. This event is IN-PERSON and we are looking for speakers who will speak at the event, physically. 


Kindly adhere to the topics below to maximize the chances of your talk being selected.

You can submit as many talks as you want. This year we accept submissions in one format:

40 minute technical talks or workshops/codelabs

There will be 3 tracks for the event with speakers in each track and keynotes on that day.


Listed below are the suggested themes which will be covered:


1. Mobile (Android, Flutter)

Android topics:

  • Android 15 / Premium experiences
  • Large screens
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Gemini on Android & Gemini in Android Studio

Firebase topics:

  • AI monitoring
  • App Config (Server Side Remote Config)
  • A/B Testing
  • Performance monitoring

Flutter topics:

  • Flutter on iOS
  • Building Games with Flutter


2. Web

Chrome/Web topics:

  • Build with Gemini Nano and custom AI models on the web
  • WebGPU and Wasm*
  • UI capabilities*
  •  Performance: INP and Core Web Vitals
  • Tooling: Chrome DevTools Console insights
  • Baseline

Firebase topics:

  • App Hosting
  • App Configuration (Server Side Remote Config)
  • A/B Testing

Angular topics:

  • Angular v18 and Angular v19
  • Reactivity
  • Angular Signals
  • Hydration
  • SSR
  • Deferrable views


3. Cloud/AI

Cloud topics:

  • Vertex AI & Agent Builder
  • Containers & Serverless
  • Data Cloud
  • Security & AI
  • Meet & Chat APIs
  • Apps Script & Gemini
  • Appsheet
  • Generative AI for Developers Productivity


AI/ML topics:

  • Secure AI Framework
  • Responsible AI
  • Gemini
  • Gemma
  • Keras, TensorFlow, JAX
  • Kaggle
  • Colab
  • On Device AI/ML
  • Gen C
  • Vertex AI
  • AI Studio

Firebase topics:

  • Gemini App
  • Google AI/Vertex SDKs
  • Genkit
  • Data Connect/Firestore
  •  App Config (Server Side Remote Config)
  • A/B Testing

Flutter topics:

  • Flutter + AI