DevFest San Francisco 2016

DevFest is an annual community-run event that has speaker sessions, code labs and more. Its been more than 4 years since GDG (Google Developers Group) of San Fransico has hosted DevFest. This year is different, we decided to hosted DevFest with only a few weeks of planning time. Go big or go home!

The event was amazing! We were at the Newly Renovated Google Launchpad Accelerator Space at 301 Howard St., San Francisco. We had the whole floor to ourselves. The event start with breakfast and coffee while the over 150 attendees registered and settled in.

At 9:30 the event started with the DevFest Organizers, James Cha and myself, providing the welcoming which included our Code of Conduct, logistics and then we had our key note speakers, Joel Burton, who shared his thought on how this community can take action to increase inclusiveness in tech.

Joel Burton

The day was a “Choose Your Adventure” with 3 speaker tracks and a Firebase Code Lab as well as stations for Google Earth, Google Big Query and Google Cloud Spin:

The morning’s events:

U and I: Chet Haase and Romain Guy

Firebase Code Lab

Prototyping to Production using NodeJS and Google Cloud: Vikram Tiwari

Hands on with the Couchbase Mobile Stack: Hod Greeley

Building a simple spam filter using Python: Henry Chen

Serving 30,000,000 Requests an Hour in the Cloud: Terry Ryan

Why Pursuing Success Creates Failure (and Other Engineering Lessons Hangman): Chris Conley

Lunch Time:

After lunch events:

Level Up Your Public Speaking: Elizabeth Padilla and Martin Omander

Using Clover James Cha

Web Scraping with Node: Claire Bendersky

Web Scraping with Node: Claire Bendersky

The Smart Shiba’s Guide to Image Formats: Jessica Parsons

Android and the Seven Dwarfs: Murat Yener

Polymer and Web Components BEYOND: Justin Ribeiro

Using Firebase to Build a Webapp without Backend Code: Lauren Long

Magic in the Cloud with Node.js: Sandeep Dinesh

Why (not) build Progressive Web Apps?: Juniper Belmont

The Docs Are Amazing Using Sphinx: Meggie Mahnken

Deploying on AppEng Rock, Paper, Scissors: Jessica Earley and James Cha (photo source https://twitter.com/eileenconner/status/784865094102491137)

Google Earth (photo source https://twitter.com/tarzioo/status/784860309005623296)

Google Big Query

The event closed with James and Jessica sharing thanks yous to the attendees, sponsors, volunteers and organizers.

Being able to organize an event like this was an amazing experience.
We are going to start planning our next large event soon, so if you want to be part of
Google Developers Group or Women Techmakers
contact James or me. Thank you for your support!