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https:\/\/gdg.community.dev\/events\/details\/google-gdg-lagos-presents-devfest-lagos-2021\/<\/a><\/p> Join us for the annual developer festival of sessions, workshops, training, codelabs, and much more by awesome speakers. With over 2,000 developers from across the South West Region of Nigeria in 2018, more than 2,200 from #DevFestLagos 2019, and also our virtual DevFestLagos event in 2020, DevFest 2021 promises to be bigger and better and is going to feature physical, in-person audiences.<\/p> This event will take place on Friday, December 3, 2021 and will feature sessions on Mental Health, Mobile, Design, Web, Cloud, DevOps, Machine Learning, and still more to come. The sessions are happening in parallel so you will get to choose and plan to attend the sessions that fit your profile or things you\u2019d like to learn about.<\/p> In case you are wondering, DevFests are large-scale community-run events that can offer speaker sessions across Google product areas, workshops, codelabs, or hackathons. This DevFest is organized by fellow developers who are organizers of several Google Developer Groups.<\/p> Agenda<\/p> ---<\/p> Speakers<\/p> Lola Shehu - Paystack (Senior Product Designer)<\/p> Lola Salehu is a Senior Product Designer, Writer and self-taught Front-end Developer from Lagos, Nigeria. She currently works at Paystack, a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses in Africa. She is an advocate for inclusion and intersectionality in the tech space, as well as content-first design. She contributes to the tech community by speaking at conferences, bu...<\/p> Robert John Thas<\/p> Robert has been a software developer for over a decade and recently transitioned into the field of data science. He currently works as a Data Engineer and spends his days working on TensorFlow and the Google Cloud Platform.Outside of work, Robert co-organizes Google Cloud Developer Community, Kaduna. He is also a Google Developer Expert for Machine Learning and for Google Cloud Platform.<\/p> Shulammite John - Femcode Africa (CEO)<\/p> Shulammite Joyful U. John is a Software Engineer and the Founder of FemCode Africa. In 2019, she Founded FemCode Africa and, also is the Founder of Shula\u2019s Table Talk Show. In February 2020, she created workshops that will help students identify their strengths and weaknesses technically. And also help them set achievable goals and purpose. She achieved this by organizing a mentorship class at...<\/p> Chiziaruhoma Ogbonda - Bottlepay (Mobile Engineer)<\/p> Chiziaruhoma Ogbonda is a Mobile Engineer and Flutter\/Dart Google Developer Expert with skills in Native Android\/iOS development, UI design, and Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Flutter.Besides code and work, he is also a music lover and enjoys playing the piano and writing about Flutter.<\/p> Rising Odegua - Philanthrolab (CTO)<\/p> Rising Odegua is a Software and Machine Learning Engineer with over 5 years of experience in building data-driven applications in languages like Java, Python, and JavaScript. He is a GDE in machine learning, a Github star, and a published technical author. Rising is actively engaged in building the developer ecosystem by giving talks, providing direct\/indirect mentorship, working on open source...<\/p> Kehinde Ladipo - Microsoft (Software Engineer)<\/p> Kehinde is a Software Engineer at Microsoft. She started her engineering career working at companies that built bespoke software and delivered consultancy services for clients across Retail, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, and the Health sector.Her technical interests lie in leadership, building high-quality software, and infrastructure engineering. Kehinde holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science with ...<\/p> Prosper Opara - Deimos Cloud (Software Engineer)<\/p> I'm an experienced full-stack engineer with over 3 years of experience building software solutions. My experience cuts across open source contributions, cloud-native application development, financial technology application development, logistics application development, and technical writing.<\/p> Shodipo Ayomide - Stack Overflow (Dev. Relations Manager)<\/p> Shodipo Ayomide is a Dev. Relations Manager at Stack Overflow with 9 years of experience in Technology and a track record in web & mobile applications engineering, community management, and product design on a global scale. Afam Daniel - Roar Nigeria Hub (Startup Incubation Manager)<\/p> My name is Afam Madu Daniel. I am a physicist and with an Msc in view in Electronics Engineering. Also, I am the Startup Incubation Manager in Roar Nigeria Hub, University of Nigeria Nsukka (the first University embedded startup incubator in West Africa). However, as a Quantum Computing Research Scientist with a focus on gate-based quantum computation, I was appointed as the President of OneQua...<\/p> Charles Njoku - Spire (CEO)<\/p> Charles is the Co-founder & CEO of Spire; a startup helping businesses collect and manage feedback from anywhere in one collaborative place.He is one of Nigeria\u2019s promising technology entrepreneurs with experience across several technology fields over the past 6years working with tech businesses and startups in Marketing and Communications, Branding, Strategy, Product & User Experience,...<\/p> Samuel Akinosho - Spydar Africa (CEO)<\/p> Tech and Business Leader focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Research, Internet of Things, Fullstack Development, and Redefining Businesses & Individuals. Experienced in both enterprise application development and Hardware development.In addition to Software Development, Computer Science, and UX, I am passionate about entertainment, Speaking, and Social Entrepreneurship.<\/p> Aregbe Ayomide - Community.com (Software Engineer)<\/p> Software Engineer, building distributed systems with Elixir at Community.com. Upcoming YouTuber helping techies build fulfilled careers. On weekends, rookie Tennis player.<\/p> Michael Bali - Sourcegraph (Application Engineer)<\/p> Michael is very passionate about helping those around him. He enjoys Soccer a lot and discussing politics most especially politics in Africa with friends. During his leisure, he enjoys playing console games, reading books (crime thrillers) and traveling. He is also enthusiastic about meeting new folks and open-minded to learning!<\/p> Subomi Oluwalana - Frain (CTO)<\/p> Trojan Okoh - CTO (ThePeer)<\/p> Host<\/p> GDG Lagos<\/p> The GDG Lagos is a community of (and for) developers, designers, and tech enthusiasts. Experts and Newbies alike. ---<\/p> Partners<\/p> Google (https:\/\/developers.google.com<\/a>)<\/p> Sourcegraph (https:\/\/sourcegraph.com<\/a>)<\/p> Sourcegraph offers a universal code search tool to find & fix things across all your code: any code host, any repo, any language. Easily construct complex queries to find & filter code in ways IDEs and code hosts can\u2019t.<\/p> Interswitch (https:\/\/interswitchgroup.com\/<\/a>)<\/p> Protocol Labs (https:\/\/filecoin.io\/<\/a>)<\/p> IPFS & Filecoin are projects developed under Protocol Labs - a research organization committed to building the next generation of the internet. IPFS powers the distributed web - D'Web - A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity's knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.<\/p> Filecoin is a decentralized storage network designed to store humanity's most important information.<\/p> Seerbit (https:\/\/seerbit.com<\/a>)<\/p> A Pan-African enterprise payment gateway developed for businesses, banks and other marketplace companies. We enable fast, seamless and secure payments for leading local & global companies present on the continent.<\/p> Gupshup (http:\/\/gupshup.io\/<\/a>)<\/p> Gupshup is the leading conversational messaging platform, powering over 6 billion messages per month. Across verticals, thousands of large and small businesses in emerging markets use Gupshup to build conversational experiences across marketing, sales and support. Gupshup\u2019s carrier-grade platform provides a single messaging API for 30+ channels, a rich conversational experience-building tool kit for any use case and a network of emerging market partnerships.<\/p> Frain Technologies (https:\/\/getconvoy.io\/<\/a>)<\/p> At Frain, we're passionate about building products that enhance the product delivery value chain, starting with Convoy: A cloud-native webhook service with out-of-the-box security, reliability, and scalability for your webhooks infrastructure.<\/p> Thepeer (https:\/\/thepeer.co<\/a>)<\/p> Thepeer is quick and secure way to send money across businesses<\/p> Nigeria Startup Bill (https:\/\/startupbill.ng\/<\/a>)<\/p> The Nigeria Startup Bill project is a joint initiative by Nigeria\u2019s tech ecosystem and the Presidency to harness the potential of our digital economy through co-created regulations. The bill will ensure that Nigeria's laws and regulations are friendly, clear, planned, and work for the tech ecosystem. This, we believe, will contribute to the creation of an enabling environment for growth, attraction, and protection of investment in tech startups.<\/p> Turing (https:\/\/www.turing.com\/jobs<\/a>)<\/p> Join a network of the world's best developers & get full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.<\/p> Africa's Talking (https:\/\/www.africastalking.com<\/a>)<\/p> Africa's Talking is a communications API provider with coverage in over 20 countries across the continent. Elarian is a customer engagement framework powering enabling developers to orchestrate communications and payments at a global scale.<\/p> Tek Experts (https:\/\/www.tek-experts.com<\/a>)<\/p> Tek Experts is a leading global provider of technical support and professional services on behalf of the world\u2019s largest technology enterprises. Our highly specialized technology focus is helping redefine an industry, making technology support a highly strategic, value creation engine, for today\u2019s digitally transformed enterprise.<\/p> Okhi (https:\/\/www.okhi.com?utm_source=devfest21&utm_medium=social&utm_id=DevFest<\/a>)<\/p> OkHi is creating the world\u2019s next-generation addressing system to tackle the lack of physical addressing that affects half the world and costs businesses $200 billion a year. Currently focused on solving address verification for financial services in Nigeria, OkHi has address products that make it easy for businesses to collect and verify customers\u2019 addresses through their smartphones, replacing the need for utility bills and in-person interactions.<\/p> Aboki Africa (https:\/\/aboki.africa<\/a>)<\/p> Aboki Africa provides foreign bank accounts for Africans to send and receive cross-border payments fast.<\/p> Tunga (https:\/\/tunga.io<\/a>)<\/p> Tunga is the go-to platform for hiring African software developers. Companies from all over the world use Tunga to hire African software developers to execute software projects, as full-time or part-time members of distributed software teams. Tunga\u2019s mission is to create tech jobs for African youths and has a community of over 650 software developers.<\/p> \u00c0\u1e63\u00e0 Coterie (https:\/\/www.asadsgn.com<\/a>)<\/p> \u00c0\u1e63\u00e0 Coterie is a cross-disciplinary design community that enables conversation and collaboration amongst designers to establish a culture of good design in Nigeria and Africa.<\/p>