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Introducing Milka Hailu

Due to the lack of women in technology, she started her business, "Phenom Technologies," in 2021. This company offers a variety of software advancements to various businesses in Ethiopia and elsewhere. founded the business recently with the goal of empowering and involving young women in technology.

Milka will be presenting her keynote speech, titled “Involving Women in Tech”, at DevFest’22 in the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum on December 10.

Choose your tech-stack’s ተራ(በረንዳ) and get to network with local and international peers, while showcase your previous work/projects to over 1,000 attendees, and demonstrate a next level set of skills you have by registering in The Merkato Session, a newly introduced section at the annual, largest meetup of software developers & tech enthusiasts happenining at the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum on December 10!

🎟️ Register Now before December 02!

#Announcement

We’re looking for a bilingual (Amharic & English) sign language translator for the annual Developer Festival, DevFest’22.

If you know anyone, kindly reply/comment to this message with your preferred candidate.

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Introducing Biruk Yohannes

He is a game developer and 3D character artist. He has been working on these two fields for the past 5 years. He has recently ventured into VR and AR games.

Biruk will be presenting his workshop, titled “Chewatacon: Building Games”, at DevFest’22 in the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum on December 10.

Attending DevFest’22?

With ONLY 11 days to go, make sure you have the following:
- Digital ticket that was sent to your email when RSVP’ing, which can be found in your email that you used when registering for the event. Tickets will also be re-shared to your email address few days prior the event.
- Laptop with your personal charger + electrical divider, if you’re attending the parallel sessions (technical workshops)
- Follow our Community Code of Conduct Guidelines

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Introducing Auwal

Auwal MS is software engineer with broad experience in software development covering multiple platforms. He currently works as a Program Manager in Google Developer Relations team overseeing the activities of Developer Student Clubs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Auwal will be presenting his keynote speech, titled “Building Skills and Growing with Google Developer Community”, at DevFest’22 in the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum on December 10.

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Introducing Robert John

Robert has worked with databases and developed enterprise software for over a decade.

He currently works with all things data, from engineering to visualization and Machine Learning.

He recently started working with embedded systems and TinyML and is eager to see the widespread adoption of embedded systems in Africa.

In the past, Robert worked as a software engineer building systems for finance, telecommunications, and utilities/energy vending.

He is a mentor at the Google for Startups Africa Accelerator programme, and is a co-organizer of the GDG Cloud developer community in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Robert is part of the following programmes:
- Google Developer Experts
- Arm Innovators
- Edge Impulse Experts

Robert will be presenting his workshop, titled “Machine Learning on Edge Devices”, at DevFest’22 in the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum on December 10.

#Announcement

Although we received a staggering 95+ applicatins, only 15 Participants were selected and sent official emails of their participation in the DevFest’22 UI/UX Case Study.

Good luck everyone!

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Introducing Kaleab Tefera
Kaleab Tefera is a person who is enthusiastic about everything: psychology, quantum physics, astronomy, economics, philosophy, programming, and so on. He is fascinated by the interaction of mathematics and computer science, and he is a quick learner and team player. Never stop learning and growing.

Kaleab will be presenting his keynote speech, titled “A2SV: Milestones and Future Goals”, at DevFest’22 in the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum on December 10.

Less than few hours to go,

The Merkato Session for individuals to showcase previous works/projects:

🔗 https://tripetto.app/run/VUXQ9012G2

The newly inaugurated Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum is to hold its first event by embracing GDGAddis’ biggest Developer Festival, DevFest’22, which includes various Keynote speeches, UI/UX Case Study Demo, Parallel Technical Workshops, Panel Discussion, Hackathon, CTF and more.

Experience DevFest’22 like never before and celebrate with over 1,000 tech enthusiasts attending the event, by joining the waitlist NOW!

ONLY one week to go for the largest Developer Festival, DevFest’22, to kick off.

With the line of activities we are holding for you, it is with so much excitement that we are waiting for December 10 at the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum

With our Platinum sponsors EthioTelecom / Telebirr, we are excited to have DevFest’22 happening at the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum on December 10.

🔗 Check out the teaser video: https://youtu.be/bUkomBSVfhU

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Introducing Mearaf Tadeows

Mearaf Tadewos is a Software Engineer at Fairway.

She graduated in 2016 with Computer Science degree.
She has 6 years of Experience in Web Application development.
Mearaf works on more focus on the Backend development, as well as with several tech companies both local and international as a Full stack developer and UI/UX designer.

Beginning from recent times, her career is more inclined to blockchain backed and AI utilizing web applications.

She developed smart contracts and DApps on Ethereum, have been working with Cardano’s Atala Prism, and a little bit of Algorand.

Mearaf will be presenting her keynote speech, titled “How to thrive in exponentially growing and diversifying world of technology”, at DevFest’22 in the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum on December 10.

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We are excited to welcome our Platinum Sponsors for the DevFest’22 happening at Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum 🎉

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Introducing Tabitha Kavyu

Tabitha is Google Crouwdsource Community Coordinator and a talent sourcer at TalentQL. She is also an organizer at GDG Nairobi and OSCA Nairobi, an ambassador at Moringa School and a Lead Alumni at DSC UON.

Tabitha will be presenting her keynote speech, titled “Google Crowdsource: Diversity in Machine Learning”, at DevFest’22 in the Ethiopia Science and Technology Museum on December 10.