DevFest Scotland 2024! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

DevFests are global tech events run by Google Developer Groups (GDGs) that offer a mix of talks, hands-on sessions, workshops, and a deep dive into the latest from Google and the world of open source.

For this year's celebration, GDG Glasgow, GDG Edinburgh, GDSC Glasgow Uni and Strathclyde & Women Techmakers Scotland are teaming up for DevFest Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, aiming to bring together the brilliant Scottish tech community in Glasgow's vibrant center for a jam-packed day 🎉

Important message: To enter the JP Morgan offices, attendees must present a government-issued ID (such as a driver’s license, passport, etc.).

Agenda

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Speakers

Charles-Philippe Bernard - JP Morgan (Senior Manager of Software Engineering)

Daniel Roe - Nuxt JS (Core Team Lead)

Daniel is an open-source maintainer and founder, leading the Nuxt core team. Previously, he was CTO of a SaaS startup and founder of a creative agency focusing on clarity of vision and message.

Emmanuel DEMEY - GreenIT Accessibility and Elasticsearch (Consultant WEB)

Consultant specialized in Angular / TypeScript / Elasticsearch and Web Accessibility. Speaker in his spare time. Also likes beers (and yes when you come from Lille it's normal ...), traveling and Jazz. I am also Google Developer Expert, co-organizer of GDG Lille, Devfest Lille and Webstories and co-host of the Tech Ethic podcast. Author of the book Progressive Web App for ENI editions.

Fanny Demey - Freelance (Mobile Engineer)

Freelance mobile dev #tech4good #a11y / @GDGLille leader / @DevfestLille organizer / @TechEthicFR podcast host

Henry Lim

Henry is a Malaysian Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies. He is currently working as a front-end web developer in Bangkok, Thailand. He loves to learn, experiment and share all the cool stuffs like Chrome DevTools, Progressive Web Apps, Project Fugu (Web Capabilities), Firebase, and more. Furthermore, he is the creator of Remote for Slides, a Chrome Extension + Progressive Web Apps that t…

Kaiwen Wang - Jordanhill School (S6 student)

Avid computer science student who's always ready to learn new things
I am currently in S6 at Jordanhill School and am passionate in everything computer science related.

Lewis Shearer - Jordanhill School (S4 Student)

I am a 13 year old boy, who since a young age has enjoyed coding.

Markandey Pathak - J.P. Morgan Chase (Vice President)

Expert Engineer & Vice President @ JPMC | Fullstack Developer | Javascript Expert | DevOps Enthusiast | Organizer/Speaker @ GDG Glasgow

Nafiu Sofiat - Niyo Group (Brand designer)

I’m Sofiat Nafiu, a dedicated User Experience & Visual Designer with over 5 years of experience in branding and product design.
I'm currently, the Chief Driver & Funding designer at Moospire, an innovative tool designed to help creatives enhance and streamline their workflow by allowing them create, curate & customize moodboad from the web or with AI. Additionally, I work as …

Natalie Godec - Zencore (GDE in Cloud Platform, Senior Cloud Architect)

Google Developer Expert in Cloud Platform

Sasha Denisov - EPAM Systems (Google Developer Expert • Chief Software Engineer)

Sasha is an experienced software developer with a rich background, in IT for more than 20 years. He worked with different stacks in backend, frontend and mobile fields, but since 2018 his main interest is Flutter. Sasha also has deep expertise in Firebase and Generative AI area, enhancing his capabilities to create robust, intelligent, and scalable applications. Sasha is a Chief Software Engin…

Susanna Wong

Susanna works as a Senior Software Engineer at QuantumBlack. She is a Google Developer Expert and a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador.

Vasilika Klimova - Kadena (Developer Relations Engineer)

I am a Web Developer with over 13 years of experience, specializing in Frontend development. At my work, I have used TypeScript, React, Angular, and native JavaScript. I have experience with 3D graphics in browsers as well. In my career, I have worked as a Frontend Team Lead at Artec3D and as a Full-stack developer with PHP / JavaScript.
As a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, …

Xavier Portilla - GDG Madrid (Organizer)

Xavier se graduó en Ciencias de la Computación e ingeniería en la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Posteriormente realizó el máster en desarrollo de aplicaciones de software.Ha participado en varios projectos como Software Manager en Hyperloop UPV, arquitecto software en Ericsson e ingeniero de infrastructuras en Voiceflow Inc.Coautor del libro "La Revolución de Alexa / The Alexa Revolution" …

Hosted By

Patty O'Callaghan, Organizer

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Tech Lead at Charles River Laboratories.

In her free time, Patty is a dedicated mentor and educator, leading a Code Club for 10-15 year-olds at her local school. Additionally, she's an organiser at Google Developers Group Glasgow, serves as an Ambassador for Google's Women Techmakers, and is recognised as a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Machine Learning.

She is very passionate about AI and loves sharing her knowledge and expertise with others, frequently giving talks and technical workshops on various technologies and topics related to it, especially Web Machine Learning.

José Enrique Calderón Sanz, Organizer

JP Morgan Chase - VP - Lead Software Engineer

Cleyra Uzcategui, Organizer

Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lucy McIntosh, Organiser

Hi I'm Lucy, I'm studying Software Development at Glasgow Caledonian University. I'm a student mentor for GCU. Alongside my studies I teach a coding club twice a week in Glasgow for young people aged between 10-16, where they learn the fundamentals of programming varied from Python, HTML, CSS and SQL. From June 2024- September 2024 I'm an Epicor ERP Programmer Intern at Sivers Photonics.

Marzia Deodato, Software Developer - Organizer

Lewis Shearer, GDG Glasgow Youth Team Leader

S4 student at Jordanhill School 🏫 | Passionate coder 🧑🏻‍💻|

Kaiwen Wang, GDG Glasgow Youth Team member

Sophie McCartney, Team member

Hi I'm Sophie!

I'm currently a first year student at Strathclyde University studying a MEng in Computer Science. I'm a Google Women's Techmaker and an organiser of GDG Glasgow.
I'm currently the Vice President of Strathclydes Coding Society and a lead organiser of StrathHack 2023. I'm a volunteer with Impact Arts, helping older people learn how to use phones and iPads.

I'm passionate about UI/UX and web design and want to learn more about these areas.

Ishita Narsiker, Team member

Delia Paternina, Team member

Software Engineer with a background in Civil Engineering and video games testing

Prashanti Chikiley, Technical BA

I'm Prashanti, Business analyst with 12 years of IT experience. I'm confident, articulate, having experience in delivering complex projects

Vinamra Sharma, PGT Student

Vinamra Sharma is a technology enthusiast and hackathon person, recognised for his success in over 50 global hackathons, including events hosted by MIT, Harvard, and Duke University. He completed his master's degree in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow focusing the research on Tiny Machine Learning and its application in healthcare. Vinamra has published three research papers and received the best research award from IEEE and Springer conferences.

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Partners

Google

JP Morgan & Chase

Glasgow City Innovation District (https://www.glasgowcityinnovationdistrict.com/)
As a hub for entrepreneurship, innovation and collaboration Glasgow City Innovation District is building on Scotland's rich tradition of scientific excellence and industrial ingenuity. Located in the heart of Glasgow City Centre, the District is home to innovative companies and organisations.

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