GDG DevFests are large, community-run events that can offer speaker sessions across multiple product areas, all-day hack-a-thons, code labs, and more.
GDG Kisumu and GDG MMUST is once again happy to announce the third annual GDG DevFest 2016 the largest Google related event in Kisumu. The event will be held on 26th November at planet media cinema.
This year we are doing it bigger and better by partnering with three GDGs(GDGMoi,Kericho and MMUST)
Overall objective of the event:
- Android: new features in Nougat, tools, best practices, frameworks & libraries for building native mobile apps. Kotlin, RxJava, Data Binding, testing, architecture best practices.
- Web: Web frameworks, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, best practices, libraries & tools to build web apps, Polymer, RAIL, Node Js, React JS
- Cloud & BigData: Firebase, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud, PaaS, TensorFlow, Vision API, Speech API, best practices, NoSQL, Spark, Hadoop, Drill, Machine learning
- IoT: raspberry Pi, Arduino , Picaxe, Low energy Bluetooth Beacons,Smart Devices
Target Audience:
Designers, Developers, and Technology entrepreneurs, both men and women,
We are expecting about 300 people to attend most of whom are doing computer related degrees.From all the GDGs
- Mercy Orangi - Google Community manager for developers in Africa. She will be talking about the startup eco system and the various opportunities and support that google has for start ups especially in a growing tech ecosystem like Kisumu.
- Eugene Mutai- Google Developers Expert.
- Esther Monchari - Board Member GIT Software developer
- Waithera Kunene - Software developer
- Dorcas Owino - Wometechmakers Lead Kisumu
