Name: GDG DevFest Rift Valley 2026
Start: 2026-10-24T06:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-24T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Eldoret, Kenya

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GDG DevFest Rift Valley 2026 - October 2026 | Kure‑Cal

Schedule

25 events • 5 tracks • 4 concurrent events

Registration

3:30 AM

Badge Collection & Registration

Make sure to check in at the registration pods, collect your badge and get ready to rock!

Keynote

4:30 AM

Welcome Keynote <> Maye & Paula

Keynote

4:30 AM

Welcome Keynote

Kick-off welcome keynote from GDG Eldoret, learn about GDG Eldoret & all abour DevFest Rift Valley

Other

5:00 AM

General <> Material UI & AI: Designing the Future Together <> Reuben Kihiu

General session

5:00 AM

Material UI & AI: Designing the Future Together

Material Design has evolved—again. With Material You and the rise of AI-driven tools, the line between design and development is getting beautifully blurred. In this talk, we’ll explore how the next generation of Material Design is empowering teams to create more personalized, adaptive, and accessible experiences - faster than ever. From dynamic color systems to AI-assisted UI generation, I’ll share how designers and developers can collaborate better, prototype smarter, and build interfaces that

Break

5:45 AM

Breakout <> Web <> AI in Chrome <> Maye Edwin

Break

5:45 AM

AI in Chrome

This session highights key things you can do with AI by using AI in Chrome DevTools to boost productivity, new upcoming built in API APIs and best practices

Break

5:50 AM

Breakout <> AI <> From Prompt to Pixel: Get Creative with Nano Banana API <> Ronnie Atuhaire

Break

5:50 AM

From Prompt to Pixel: Get Creative with Nano Banana API

Ever wished you could bring your imagination to life with just a few words? The Nano Banana API (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) makes it possible. This powerful API lets developers and creatives generate images, edit visuals, and even maintain consistency across scenes — all from natural language prompts. In this talk, we’ll dive into how you can use the Nano Banana API to unlock creativity in your apps and projects. Through live demos, we’ll explore text-to-image generation, interactive editing, and m

Break

6:40 AM

Breakout <> Cloud <> Data Engineering on Google Cloud <> Rodges Ndocha

Break

6:40 AM

Breakout <> Product <> Building a Testing Culture: Lessons from Industry Leaders <> Monica Oyugi

Break

6:40 AM

Data Engineering on Google Cloud

Learn how to build a complete data engineering pipeline on Google Cloud—step by step. Including; Generating dummy employee data with Python (using the Faker library) and uploading it to Cloud Storage Performing data transformation and masking sensitive information (like PAN numbers) using Cloud Data Fusion Loading clean data into BigQuery, Google’s serverless data warehouse Orchestrating the entire process with Cloud Composer (Airflow) Creating visual reports in Looker Studio with charts and fil

Break

6:40 AM

Building a Testing Culture: Lessons from Industry Leaders

Testing for billions of users isn't about having Google's resources; it's about having Google's principles. Learn the testing strategies behind Search, Gmail, and Android, including the testing pyramid, production testing techniques, and why speed matters more than perfection. Walk away with practical lessons you can apply tomorrow, regardless of your team's size.

Networking

7:30 AM

Break <> Lunch <> Networking

Break

7:30 AM

Lunch & Networking

Let's bite, network and meet the speakers on the side

Break

8:35 AM

Breakout <> Building a Cloud-Native Booking System with GCP OAuth, Calendar & Meet APIs <> Bravin Kulei

Break

8:35 AM

Breakout <> Clinical Reasoning with MedGemma <> Victor Ashioya

Break

8:35 AM

Building a Cloud-Native Booking System with GCP OAuth, Calendar & Meet APIs

Modern booking tools like Cal.com and Calendly delight users by instantly adding confirmed meetings to Google Calendar and generating Google Meet links no manual steps required. In this session, we’ll demystify how to build the same frictionless experience into your own apps using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services together with Google OAuth and the Calendar & Meet APIs. You’ll learn how to: Configure a secure Google OAuth consent screen and request the correct incremental scopes (Calendar, Me

Break

8:35 AM

Clinical Reasoning with MedGemma

Break

9:25 AM

Breakout <> AI-Powered Personal Branding <> Mary Njoki Waweru

Break

9:25 AM

Breakout <> My Journey to Building My First AI Agent Using Google ADK - A Beginner's Guide <> Hidaya Vanessa

Break

9:25 AM

AI-Powered Personal Branding

Break

9:25 AM

My Journey to Building My First AI Agent Using Google ADK - A Beginner's Guide

Networking

10:00 AM

Tea <> Break <> Networking <> Good Bye

Break

10:00 AM

Tea, Break, Networking & Good Bye

Session

Badge Collection & Registration

3:30 AM

registration

Make sure to check in at the registration pods, collect your badge and get ready to rock!

GDG DevFest Rift Valley 2026

Overview

Details

Schedule

Badge Collection & Registration

Welcome Keynote <> Maye & Paula

Welcome Keynote

General <> Material UI & AI: Designing the Future Together <> Reuben Kihiu

Material UI & AI: Designing the Future Together

Breakout <> Web <> AI in Chrome <> Maye Edwin

AI in Chrome

Breakout <> AI <> From Prompt to Pixel: Get Creative with Nano Banana API <> Ronnie Atuhaire

From Prompt to Pixel: Get Creative with Nano Banana API

Breakout <> Cloud <> Data Engineering on Google Cloud <> Rodges Ndocha

Breakout <> Product <> Building a Testing Culture: Lessons from Industry Leaders <> Monica Oyugi

Data Engineering on Google Cloud

Building a Testing Culture: Lessons from Industry Leaders

Break <> Lunch <> Networking

Lunch & Networking

Breakout <> Building a Cloud-Native Booking System with GCP OAuth, Calendar & Meet APIs <> Bravin Kulei

Breakout <> Clinical Reasoning with MedGemma <> Victor Ashioya

Building a Cloud-Native Booking System with GCP OAuth, Calendar & Meet APIs

Clinical Reasoning with MedGemma

Breakout <> AI-Powered Personal Branding <> Mary Njoki Waweru

Breakout <> My Journey to Building My First AI Agent Using Google ADK - A Beginner's Guide <> Hidaya Vanessa

AI-Powered Personal Branding

My Journey to Building My First AI Agent Using Google ADK - A Beginner's Guide

Tea <> Break <> Networking <> Good Bye

Tea, Break, Networking & Good Bye

Badge Collection & Registration

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