DevFest 2023

Welcome to DevFest on Campus! 🎉 #DevFest23

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

• AOSP

• Cloud

• Kotlin

• Google Developer Communities

• Web

and more!

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

Agenda

8:00 AM: Registration

Settle in and have a chat over a cup of coffee. [Faculty of ICT - Auditorium]

8:45 AM: Welcome to DevFest on Campus

A welcome keynote by James Gatt. [Faculty of ICT - Auditorium]

9:00 AM: Introduction to Kotlin

Kotlin talk by Danny Preussler. [Faculty of ICT - Auditorium]

9:45 AM: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Google

Google Developer Communities talk by Katya Vinnichenko. [Faculty of ICT - Auditorium]

10:30 AM: Break

Short pause between talks to catch a breath of fresh air. [Faculty of ICT - Auditorium]

10:45 AM: Beyond the web of today

Web talk by Kenneth Christiansen. [Faculty of ICT - Auditorium]

11:30 AM: Entity extraction from medical reports in German with LLM on GCP

Google Cloud talk by Yingding Wang. [Faculty of ICT - Auditorium]

12:15 PM: Q&A

A Q&A Session with the speakers at the event. [Faculty of ICT - Auditorium]

12:30 PM: Networking

Let's discuss topics over some food and drinks in an informal networking event. [Faculty of ICT - Auditorium]

4:00 PM: Code AOSP: No time to EOL (die)

Android talk by James Gatt. [I.T. Services Building - VC101]

4:45 PM: A practical introduction to Kubernetes

Kubernetes talk by Simon Agius Muscat. [I.T. Services Building - VC101]

5:30 PM: Break

Short pause between talks to catch a breath of fresh air. [I.T. Services Building - VC101]

5:45 PM: Scheduling work on the main thread to improve INP

Web talk by Kevin Farrugia. [I.T. Services Building - VC101]

6:30 PM: Creating a General Intelligence using AI

AI talk by Joseph Trapani. [I.T. Services Building - VC101]

7:00 PM: Networking

Let's discuss topics over some food and drinks in an informal networking event. [I.T. Services Building - VC101]

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Speakers

Danny Preussler - SoundCloud (Android Platform Lead)

Danny is a developer by heart, living in Berlin and leading the Android team at SoundCloud. He worked for companies like Groupon, Viacom, eBay and Alcatel and started his mobile career long before any Android with Java ME and Blackberry applications.
Danny writes and talks about mobile development and testing regularly and is a Google Developer Expert for Android and Kotlin.

Katya Vinnichenko - Google (Program Manager)

Katya is a Program Manager at Google Developer Relations team.
Currently she is leading the Google Developer Groups (aka GDG) and Women Techmakers Ambassadors programs across Europe.

Kenneth Christiansen - Intel Corporation (Architect and Principal Engineer)

Google Developers Expert for Web

Yingding Wang

Motto:
Being rather moderate explorer than genius inventorResearch interests:• Large Language Model for Personalised Medicine• Machine Learning Pipeline and Operations• Federated Machine Learning• Computational Physiology• Human Computation and Behavioural Analytics• Information Retrieval and Text Mining

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.

Simon Agius Muscat - Hotjar (Senior Software Engineer)

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.

Kevin Farrugia

I am a front-end engineer focusing on web performance. I am available as a consultant and work with numerous brands, improving their website’s performance and delivering a better experience to their users.
I can help you understand why your website is slow, work on a collaborative solution, and transfer my knowledge to your team to create a performance culture and maintain a fast website…

Joseph Trapani - bet365 (Marketing Analyst)

Here is a little bit about me. I like getting my hands dirty with anything I don`t quite yet understand. I learn by doing and reading and I love learning, so I read and do a lot. I am interested in applied technology, the stuff that solves problems and makes me dream up new ones. An engineer by profession, I am self thought in programming and can make a mean bowl of Ramen. Feel free to get in …

Hosted By

Dylan Seychell, GDG Organizer

James Gatt, GDSC Rep

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

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Partners

University of Malta (https://www.um.edu.mt/ict/ai)

Google Developer Student Clubs - University of Malta (https://gdsc.community.dev/university-of-malta/)
Founded in 2023, we are student-based community, interested in learning more about developer technologies.

Our environment allows you to become a part of a community of like-minded people, with opportunity to learn and grow together as a group and as an individual.

We are excited to see you in our conference events, workshops, hackathons, TechJams and other interactive in-person activities for those interested in expanding their technical skills, soft skills to the next level!

IEEE Malta Section (https://www.ieeemalta.org/)
The key values of IEEE membership are technical innovation, access to cutting-edge information, networking opportunities, and exclusive member benefits. IEEE memberships support IEEE's mission to advance technology for humanity and the profession. At the same time, memberships build a platform to introduce technology careers to students around the world.

IEEE Computer Society (https://ieeemalta.org)
The key values of IEEE membership are technical innovation, access to cutting-edge information, networking opportunities, and exclusive member benefits. IEEE memberships support IEEE's mission to advance technology for humanity and the profession. At the same time, memberships build a platform to introduce technology careers to students around the world.

eSkills Malta Foundation (https://eskills.org.mt/)
The eSkills Malta Foundation falls under the Ministry for the Economy, European Funds and Lands. The Foundation is a National Coalition made up of various representatives from Government, industry and education, who can contribute to the increase in digital skills and the development of the IT profession.

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