• 6th October 2012 (Ashwin 20th 2069)
• Regn: 9:30-9:45AM, Event: 10AM-6PM
• Local Developement Training Academy
• Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
• Register

GDG DevFest Kathmandu

GDG DevFests are large scale community-run events that can offer speaker sessions across Google product areas, all-day hack-a-thons or both. DevFest Kathmandu is inspired by and uniquely tailored to the needs of our developer community. We are planning to cover Android, Google App Engine, Google Drive, Google Maps, GWT during devfest. Also, we are beginning "GDG Kathmandu - Barcamp" from this devfest which will continue as separate event afterwards. GDG DevFest at its core are powered by a shared belief that when developers come together to exchange ideas, amazing things can happen.
Many GDGs across the globe have been organizing DevFest. Our effort is to participate in global devfest celebration and acknowledge the theme behind DevFests - i.e - "Engage, Learn & Share with the Google Developers Community".
Expected Participants: ~250, Technology enthusiasts, developers, designers, entrepreneurs & companies
Registration fee: NPR. 100/-. (Free snacks, event kit/swags, internet available) Register Now
GDG Kathmandu T-shirt Price : NPR. 250/- (On the event day) Afterwards: NPR. 450/-
Join in our Google+ event. Remember to turn on party mode on October 6th

Agendas

• 9:30AM-9:45AM - Registration/Kit/Tea
• Conference Hall (A)
• 10:00AM-10:15AM - GDG Kathmandu Keynote & Barcamp Intro
• 10:30AM-1:30PM - Build your first Android App, Codelab/Training Session by Samrakchan Ghimire & friends, Gorato Works
• 1:30PM-2:30PM - Refreshment/Snacks
• 2:30PM-3:45PM - Android Developer Programs Engineer, Anirudh Dewani, Speaker Session over HoA (9am GMT)
• 3:45PM-5:45PM - GDG Kathmandu Barcamp (Oct, 2012)
• 5:45PM-6:00PM - Barcamp Wrapup
• Conference Hall (B)
• 10:30AM-12:00PM - Robotics with Android, Speaker Session by Robotics Association of Nepal
• 12:15PM-1:30PM - Android App Development : Google Map and Location, Codelab by Sudarshan Pant, Arihant Technologies
• 1:30PM-2:30PM - Refreshment/Snacks
• 2:45PM-3:45PM - Using Google Technologies for Product Development, Speaker Session by Manoj Ghimire, ImmuneSecurity
• 3:45PM-5:45PM - GDG Kathmandu Barcamp (Oct, 2012)
• Conference Hall (D)
• 10:30AM-11:30AM - Google I/O 2012 Keynote 1, Video Session
• 11:30AM-1:15PM - Community Speaker from GDG Bangalore, Chintan Shah, Google Drive - Enterprise / Developers perspective
• 1:30PM-2:30PM - Refreshment/Snacks
• 2:45PM-3:00PM - ChromeOS / ChromeBox Demonstration
• 3:00PM-3:45PM - Google I/O 2012 - Making Good Apps Great: More Advanced Topics for Expert Android Developers, Video Session
• 3:45PM-5:45PM - GDG Kathmandu Barcamp (Oct, 2012)
• GDG T-shirts will be available for sell through-out the event at registration desk.

 

Speakers

• Samrakchan Ghimire , Build your first Android App, Codelab/Training Session
  Samrakchhan have been developing android application since his college days (2010). Since than he have been working as an android application developer. Lately have been engaged in social event by providing android development training. What he thinks about mobile application development is that we can develop Nepal as a hub of mobile application development in Asia. For achieving it, we should increasingly provide numbers of trainings in colleges. His friend Prayag will be facilitating participants. They have been member in GDG Kathmandu as well.
• Anirudh Dewani , Speaker Session on Android, over HoA
  Anirudh is a Developer Programs Engineer for Android and helps developers build compelling apps for the Android platform. Before joining Google, he worked as an architecture consultant, designer, developer and performance engineer. Gaming consoles and Football matches keep him busy when he is not working.
• Suresh Ghimire & Pavitra Gautam , Robotics Association of Nepal
  Suresh & Pavitra will present about how we can control electronics devices / robots with our day to day handheld android phones. Suresh & Pavitra both are active in GDG Kathmandu since the beginning.
• Sudarshan Pant, Android App Development : Google Map and Location, Codelab
  Sudarshan Pant is Software Engineer at Arihant Technologies. Having over three years of experience in Android development, he has been working intensively in android app development. He actively blogs at : technoguff.com. On this session Sudarshan will talk about General Introduction to Android Google API, Sample Application, Debugging and Discussion. Sudarshan is active member at GDG Kathmandu and he's very interested to work on the field of Android development in community level.
• Manoj Ghimire,Using Google Technologies for Product Development
  Manoj Ghimire is Chief Application Architect at ImmuneSecurity. He is Co-founder of nLocate. He holds expertise in Log Analytics and Big Data. At times he enjoys diving into Python.
• Chintan Shah, Google Drive - Enterprise / Developers perspective
  Chintan Shah is co-organizer of GDG Bangalore. He is visiting Kathmandu all the way from Bangalore just to present/participate in our DevFest. He enjoys technology and hence working as evangelist. He works at Mahindra Satyam Computer Services as Technology Evangelist. Before that he worked at Nokia India.