💻 Hands-on Workshops on DevFest ’23 with Abel Fikreyohannes

" I am Abel Fikreyohanes, Currently Product Designer at Safaricom Ethiopia Focusing on M-PESA. I've been in tech and Design
for more than 4.5 years, worked in different startups and enterprises as a UX/ Product Designer"

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

🎮 Afternoon filled with LAN Party

Join us for an adrenaline-fueled LAN Party where the excitement never stops!

🕹️ Level Up Your Experience, 👥 Connect & Compete, and 🏆 Claim Victory

An epic gaming adventure that promises excitement, challenges, and tons of fun awaits you

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

🔔 Explore the lineup of insightful sessions, keynotes, and workshops that await you. Peek at the agenda and gear up for an enlightening DevFest ’23 experience!

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

🛑 After cross checking your ticket, you will be presented with three colored labels for you to choose which track to attend for the morning session. To attend Track 2, ensure to get the green label 🏷️

✨ Introducing DevFest’23 Guest Speakers, Henock Negash

Henock is the founder and community lead of Yekolo Temari, a community of hackers, security professionals, security enthusiasts, and anyone with interest in cybersecurity.

He will be presenting his talk on: “Data protection law and it's impact on the current cybersecurity landscape of Ethiopia”

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

✨ RE-Introducing DevFest’23 Guest Speakers,

In addition to his role as CEO of QRB Labs and his passion for Bitcoin, he was co-founder and CTO of Gro Intelligence, where he led the science, engineering and product teams.

Prior to Gro, he worked for 8+ years in engineering at Google, where he first worked for several years in web search on ranking algorithms. He was then Tech Lead on Google’s Ad Exchange. He led the engineering team responsible for auction algorithms and mathematical optimization.

Most recently, he was Tech Lead for Contributor by Google, a product that he invented and led from research to launch. Contributor enables a post-ads business model for the web through market-based micropayments. Previously, Nemo was co-founder of Invisible Hand Networks, Inc. which provided real-time auction-based bandwidth exchanges for content providers and ISPs.

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/I

✨ Introducing DevFest’23 Guest Speakers, Kal Kassa

Kal Kassa is a Bitcoin Advocate leading open-source education initiatives at BitcoinBirr. His mission is to see Ethiopians learn
about Bitcoin and its various functions and features as a tool.

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

💻 Hands-on Workshops on DevFest ’23 with Henock Ademtew

"I'm a ML Researcher and Engineer. I work on natural language processing (NLP), text generation, and large language models. I currently work at EAII. I've also worked for various international clients."

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

💻 Hands-on Workshops on DevFest ’23 with Gemmechu & Milky Hassena

Gemmechu is a second-year computer science Ph.D. student at Cornell University, working at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and graphics. His research focuses on 3D computer vision, where he tries to answer the question "how to understand the 3D world from a collection of images." Prior to Cornell, he worked as a research intern at the University of Michigan and Ecole Polytechnique

Milky is an Electrical Engineering student at AASTU, with experience in 3D animation, game development, and UI/UX design. His journey in the gaming industry began during his first year as an intern at Qene Games, where he honed his skills in game development for three years. He also worked as a UI/UX designer for 6 companies on various projects

🎥 Check out the trailer video they made for the workshop: https://youtu.be/_qN9YauUSHo

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

🎙️ Afternoon filled with Gugut Podcast

Step into the world of fascinating conversations and insightful discussions at the Gugut Podcast's session!

Get ready to immerse yourself in captivating stories, thought-provoking ideas, and inspiring narratives brought to life by the one and only Gugut Podcast.

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

🗣️ Track 3's Agenda is here!

Discover the topics, speakers, and engaging sessions lined up for an impactful experience. Plan your sessions and get ready to elevate your knowledge!

📝 Agenda details here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

🛑 After cross checking your ticket, you will be presented with three colored labels for you to choose which track to attend for the morning session. To attend Track 3, ensure to get the red label 🏷️

✨This year’s event wouldn’t have been possible without the unwavering support of:

🚀 ALX Ethiopia, a leading technology training provider that offers fully sponsored programmes to young Ethiopians. The programmes are designed to accelerate the careers of learners and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in the digital economy.

🚀 Chapa Financial Technologies, an Ethiopian Financial Service and Data Engineering Company. Chapa empowers emerging companies and developers with a range of services, including Payment Gateways, Payment Applications and Equipment, APIs, and more.

💫 Big ups to the team behind these two brilliant establishments.

📝 Find more about DevFest ’23: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-devfest-addis-2023/

In partnership with ALX Ethiopia and Chapa Technologies, DevFest ‘23 has lined up 9 Parallel technical talks, 5+ parallel workshops, and an afternoon filled with LAN Party, networking and live podcast session with Gugut Podcast

🎉 Let’s celebrate the festivity of DevFest ’23, hosted by GDGAddis in partnership with ALX Ethiopia and Chapa, with this year’s theme is “Building For Everyone”.

🎟️ Registration starts at 9AM (3LT), so make sure to come early to have less queue at the door when cross-checking tickets.

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Important Notes:

📝 Anyone with no ticket won’t be allowed entry to the event.

🛑 You being on the waiting list DOESN’T mean you have been granted access to the event. You will need a ticket for that

👋 See you tomorrow

📝 Important Notes

🎟️ Anyone with no ticket won’t be allowed entry to the event.

🚫 You being on the waiting list DOESN’T mean you have been granted access to the event. You will need a ticket for that.

🏷️ When it comes to picking tracks, each track has 200 people, so first come first serve.

And the day has come!

DevFest ’23 hosted by GDGAddis in partnership with ALX Ethiopia and Chapa.

We are excited to bring over 15 parallel keynote speeches, 4+ simultaneous workshops, and packed afternoon (LAN Party, Networking and Gugt Podcast)

Ensure to choose your label to attend the track of your choice