Share your #DevFest18 story!
Posted by Erica Hanson, Developer Communities Program Manager
Over 80 countries are planning a DevFest this year!
Our GDG community is very excited as they aim to connect with 100,000 developers at 500
DevFests around the world to learn, share and build new things.
Most recently, GDG Nairobi hosted the largest developer festival in Kenya. On September 22nd,
DevFest Nairobi engaged 1,200+ developers, from 26+ African countries, with 37% women in
attendance! They had 44 sessions, 4 tracks and 11 codelabs facilitated by 5 GDEs (Google
Developer Experts) among other notable speakers. The energy was so great, #DevFestNairobi was
trending on Twitter that day!
GDG Tokyo held their third annual DevFest this year on September 1st, engaging with over 1,000
developers! GDG Tokyo hosted 42 sessions, 6 tracks and 35 codelabs by partnering with 14
communities specializing in technology including 3 women-led communities (DroidGirls, GTUG
Girls, and XR Jyoshibu).
Share your story!
Our community is interested in hearing about what you learned at DevFest. Use #DevFestStories
and #DevFest18 on social media. We would love to re-share some of your stories here on the
Google Developers blog and
Twitter
!
Check out a few great examples below.
Learn more about DevFest 2018
here
and find a DevFest event near you
here
.
GDGs are local groups of developers interested in Google products and APIs. Each GDG group can
host a variety of technical activities for developers - from just a few people getting
together to watch the latest Google Developers videos, to large gatherings with demos, tech
talks, or hackathons. Learn more about GDG
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.
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