DevFest 2025

Welcome to DevFest 2025 in partnership with St. James Cavalier! 🎉 #DevFest25 #GDG-Malta

DevFest hosts a vibrant community of developers from different countries to help you network, learn, and grow!

Explore developer tools from Google and connect with different developers at the University of Malta.

Get ready for a full day of interesting talks, networking, food and drinks.

Come and join us for a packed agenda for the following topics:

AI

Android

Web Development

AOSP

Cloud

Google Developer Communities

and more!

Tickets are free!, so what are you waiting for?

Agenda

2:45 PM: Registration

Settle in and get comfortable at the venue.

2:55 PM: Welcome Address

Quick introduction and formal opening to the event.

3:00 PM: Let me convince you about Kubernetes

Talk delivered by Simon Agius Muscat.

4:00 PM: Break

A quick break, to get some snacks and drinks.

4:15 PM: Beyond the Prompt: An Anatomy of an AI-powered Game using Agent Development Kit

Talk delivered by Yoyu Li.

4:45 PM: PWAs vs Native Apps - The Future of App Development

Talk delivered by Nicholas Masini.

5:45 PM: Break

A longer break, for networking and refreshments.

6:15 PM: Code AOSP: No time to EOL (die)

Talk delivered by James Gatt.

6:45 PM: How my Android App Learned to Talk to Plants

Talk delivered by James Gatt.

7:15 PM: Baseline: which features are safe to use on the web today?

Talk delivered by Niels Leenheer.

7:45 PM: Break

Short break before our conclusion.

8:00 PM: The AI PC and the era of the modern web

Talk delivered by Kenneth Rohde Christiansen.

9:00 PM: Closing Address & Announcements

Closing off of the events, and announcements for giveways and upcoming events.

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Speakers

Simon Agius Muscat

Particularly interested in scaling products and teams, DevEx, and AI.
Technologies I use include Python, Typescript, React, NodeJS, Go, Flutter, Dart, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, GCP, AWS, Jenkins, Jira, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and more.

Yoyu Li - Infinite Whys Ltd (Creative Technology Director)

Nicholas Masini - 3BIT (Co-Founder & Co-CTO)

I am a software engineer with experience in both front-end and back-end and I have B.S.C in Information Technology in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Malta. I co-founded 3BIT, a Software & Web-Development Agency based in Gozo, where we provide digital solutions for businesses at an affordable price, attracting both Gozitan and Maltese organizations with the incentive to digita…

James Gatt - Paradox Cat GmbH (Android Platform Engineer)

James Gatt is an AOSP Engineer based in Malta.
He is currently undertaking Bsc. Computer Engineering in the University of Malta, whilst progressing his Android Engineering expertise in his free time.James' journey started from a curiousity at a young age from which sparked interest in building AOSP, using the C programming language, Ubuntu and any related self-taught knowledge.

Niels Leenheer - Salonhub (Co-Founder & CTO)

Niels is a self-professed browser geek. He has been hooked on browsers ever since somebody showed him the original Nexus browser on a NeXT Cube back in the dark ages of the internet. Niels is the creator of HTML5test.com and runs one of the largest Open Device Labs in the world. He loves procrastinating, collecting weird devices with even stranger browsers, drawing pixel art monsters, procrast…

Kenneth Christiansen - Intel Corporation (Architect and Principal Engineer)

Google Developers Expert for Web

Hosted By

James Gatt, Organizer

AOSP Enthusiast
Recognized Developer on XDA Developers
Experienced with both AOSP and Device Engineering

Simon Agius Muscat, Team Member

Matthias Bartolo,

Matthias Bartolo (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc.IT degree (Hons.) in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Malta with First Class Honours. He is also currently pursuing an M.Sc. degree at the University of Malta. His main research areas are in computer vision, specifically focusing on object detection and saliency ranking, as well as image processing. He is actively involved in various projects related to these areas, contributing to advancements in computer vision techniques and applications where he also co-authored a number of peer reviewed papers. He was also chosen as a member of the Google Developers Group in Malta and contributes to various projects and initiatives within the group and the university. In 2024, he was honoured with the Dean's List Award from the Faculty of ICT, recognising his outstanding academic achievements.

Dylan Seychell,

Jonathan Attard, Organizer

Joseph Grech, Organizer

Matthew Mangion, Organizer

Andrea Filiberto Lucas, Organizer

I am a Research Support Officer I within the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Malta and a Master of Science student specialising in AI. My work focuses on applied computer vision, intelligent systems, and dataset-driven research. I contribute to active research projects within the Faculty of ICT, with responsibilities ranging from model development and evaluation to data processing, automation, and system integration.

I am particularly interested in bridging academic research with real-world applications through practical AI solutions and collaborative development.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-malta-presents-devfest-2025/.