GDG Melbourne Devfest 2025

Interested in Android, Kotlin, Flutter, Google Assistant, Firebase, AI/ML, VR/AR, other Google technologies or non technical topics?

DevFest 2025 is back for its 9th year! and we are bringing together inspiring voices from across the tech community to spark new ideas & energise our community; all as part of a fun & welcoming conference run by developers and led by GDG Melbourne.

Get your tickets here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1441890

Connection and Exchange are at the heart of DevFest and we believe that this is the catalyst to build a vibrant, diverse community where everyone can network, share knowledge, & enjoy the experience.

With your DevFest ticket you get:

Exciting talks across 2 tracks covering Android, Flutter, ML, AI, Design, Testing & Non-technical topics

World class speakers from Google, industry and community speakers

Full day conference and after party drinks

Special conference swag

Excellent lunch, morning and afternoon tea provided

Multiple door prize giveaways during the day

Networking opportunities throughout the day and at the after party with potential clients or colleagues

We also want to support our attendees who are experiencing hardship. If you need to access a reduced price ticket in order to attend please reach out to one of the GDG Melbourne organisers on the GDG Slack to obtain a discount code.

Note - exact session times are subject to change, we still have a few speakers we are yet to confirm, the schedule will be updated as we get these confirmations.
At GDG Melbourne, diversity and inclusion are central to everything we do. In partnership with Women Techmakers Melbourne, we strive to create an inclusive environment where all voices are heard and valued.A note about tickets:Get your tickets here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1441890

We have several ticket types this year:

2-for-1: For a limited time, bring a friend for free! If you get your ticket early, you get two for the price of one (number is limited - get in quick). So team up with a friend, split the cost, and enjoy double the fun for half the price!

Regular ticket: Standard ticket including all the above goodies.

Enterprise ticket: For attendees who’ll have their ticket price covered by their employer and are feeling generous - these tickets allow us to offer significantly discounted ticket prices for students and general attendees, as well as help fund our general events throughout the year. If this price is not for you, please feel free to select the regular ticket. There is no difference between the ticket types.

Additionally, if your company purchases enough enterprise tickets, we’ll offer you an equivalent sponsorship package for free (contact us for details)! Conditions apply.

Please note: this ticket doesn’t offer any additional benefits over our regularly priced ticket, besides our eternal gratitude and imbuing you with +10 to your coding skills!

Hardship ticket: If you need to access a reduced price ticket in order to attend please reach out to one of the GDG Melbourne organisers on the GDG Slack to obtain a discount code.

About GDG Melbourne

GDG Melbourne is a passionate, not-for-profit community group of developers interested in Android and other Google-related technologies, such as Kotlin, Flutter, Firebase, Assistant, ML/AI, VR/AR, Wearables, design and IoT. We aim to provide a friendly and welcoming environment for our event attendees regardless of their background.

About WTM Melbourne

Google’s Women Techmakers program provides visibility, community, and resources for women in technology. WTM Melbourne work in strong partnership with GDG Melbourne to support female and gender diverse people in technology.

What is Devfest?

DevFest are one day conferences are run all over the globe by GDG (Google Developer Group) communities every year. DevFest is focused on community building and learning about Google’s technologies.

GDG Melbourne has been running DevFest conferences in Melbourne since 2017.

Agenda

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Hosted By

Katie Barnett, GDE Android / GDG Organiser

Katie is passionate about all things Android. She has taken on a wide variety of challenging projects including in the live event, media and travel space. Her favourite thing is to see someone having a delightful experience using something she has worked on. Katie is very active in the development community, she is a Google Developer Expert for Android, one of the organisers of GDG Melbourne and is a Women Techmakers Ambassador. She frequently runs events, speaks on technical and non-technical topics and enjoys writing blog posts to share her experience with others. Katie is based in Melbourne, Australia but loves to travel the world and outside of tech she enjoys boardgaming and attempting to finish many craft projects.

Suesi Tran, Senior Flutter Developer

Google Developer Expert in Dart & Flutter, Women Techmaker ambassador, GDG Melbourne & Flutter Melbourne co-organiser.
In short: Flutter is love, and mobile is life.

Maksim Lin, Software Engineer

Senior Android Developer, Flutter GDE

Poornima Sivakumar, GDG Organiser

Lovee Jain, GDG Organiser

Lovee is a Software Engineer at Prezzee, a GDG Melbourne Organiser and also a Women Techmakers Ambassador. A tech inquisitive philomath, she loves problem solving and solution design. She has worked at a city council where she developed a lot of useful system integrations and while at Prezzee she develops and works on multiple gift card solutions to cater the B2B2C market.

Zach Jensz, GDG Organiser

Passionate about the web, seamless UX and accessibility. I love attending meetups, find me and come say hi!

Ujjawal Raj, GDG Organiser

Bramley Turner-Jones, GDG Organiser

Yuba Raj (UV) Panta, GDG Cloud Organiser

Kartik Arora, Android Engineer

Google Developer Expert in Android
Android Engineer @ Bilue

Carolyn Ai Chi Wong,

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