DevFest St. John's 2026

Join us for the annual developer conference, featuring sessions, workshops, training, code labs, and much more by awesome speakers. 

With an amazing keynote, workshop, and demo, DevFest St. John's will advance your expertise in cloud and web. Master the tools and techniques required to design, architect, develop, scale, launch, integrate, and maintain today’s advanced technology solutions. 

This year's DevFest explores how we can build safe, secure, and scalable solutions with AI and Cloud.

Agenda

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Hosted By

AbdulKabir Sulaiman, Lead

AbdulKabir is an Innovative and award-winning Community Management Professional with multiple skills and experience across program management, communications (writing, speaking, presentation), product and relationship management.

He's also an experienced Software Engineering professional with over 4 years of experience delivering effective backend web applications that are fast, data-driven, and scalable, restful APIs, database integrations, deployments, and DevOps practices.

Afia Tiwaa Obeng, Marketing

As a marketing and events professional, my passion lies in building resourceful communities and creating meaningful experiences that connect people and ideas. I lead marketing strategy, manage communications, develop promotional campaigns, and coordinate events from concept to execution to ensure strong engagement and measurable impact.

I am particularly passionate about personal branding development for students and professionals in tech and entrepreneurship, helping them build a confident and authentic presence both online and offline.

Beyond my engagement in tech, I am also a bakery founder who loves baking and transforming creativity into tangible experiences.

frances utomi, Marketing

Frances Utomi is a creative marketing and events specialist with experience developing campaigns, managing social media content, and executing community-focused events. She has worked with companies like RPM Aerial Services and founded The Vibe Lab, a platform that connects people through innovative pop-up workshops and mixers. With a strong background in branding, partnerships, and event strategy, Frances is passionate about creating meaningful experiences that drive engagement and build community.

Prince Afari, Designer

Prince is a data scientist specializing in AI security, responsible AI, and software development, with a strong foundation in building trustworthy and scalable systems.

Beyond the technical side, he is a freelancer who specializes in helping brands build their identity through design, photography, and videography by crafting narrative-driven experiences that are both functional and engaging.

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Partners

Google (https://developers.google.com/)

Spellbook (https://www.spellbook.legal/)

CTS-NL (https://ctsnl.ca/)
The Computer Technology Society Newfoundland Labrador, generally known as CTS-NL, is a community group for people who work in or have an interest in software development, technology, and computing in Newfoundland and Labrador.

JetBrains (https://www.jetbrains.com/)
JetBrains is a cutting-edge software vendor specializing in the creation of intelligent development tools, including IntelliJ IDEA – the leading Java IDE PhpStorm, PyCharm, WebStorm, RustRover amongst other tools and plugins..

Kodeco (https://www.kodeco.com/)
The best investment for your mobile development career. Kodeco is a publisher of high-quality mobile development tutorials for iOS, Android, Flutter and other platforms.

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Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-st-johns-presents-devfest-st-johns-2026/.