DevFest Lagos 2026 · 13 & 14 November
Two days, start to finish
+1 the sessions you plan to attend so we can size rooms before doors open at 10:00. One session per time slot; adjacent slots (11:10 end, 11:10 start) never conflict.
- 08:00until 09:30Main ConcourseBreak
Scan the venue QR at the entrance, complete your profile if you haven't yet, and show your green pass to a volunteer for your wristband.
- 09:30until 10:25Main StageKeynote
How developers across Lagos and the continent are moving from consumers of foundation models to builders of autonomous, production-grade systems.
- Sodiq AkinjobiLead Organizer, GDG Lagos
- Femi TaiwoCTO & Google Developer Expert, INITS
- 10:30until 11:10Main StageTalk
The agentic AI landscape of 2026 has made one thing clear: shipping agents into production requires identity, guardrails, deterministic evaluation, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
- Shola JegedeDeveloper Relations Engineer, Kinde
- 10:30until 11:10Room 1 (Eko Hall)Talk
Building a high-frequency consumer product in Lagos is not a chapter in a product management textbook. Infrastructure assumptions, user behaviour, and failure modes all demand local engineering rigor.
- Precious LaminaHead of Product (Marketplace), Chowdeck
- 10:30until 11:10Room 2 (Lagoon View)Talk
Understand why traditional API documentation patterns fall short for AI agent consumption and identify the structural and semantic qualities that make docs agent-ready.
- Chisom UmaTechnical Writer, Independent
- 11:10until 11:50Main StageTalk
Adjacent to the 10:30 slot (starts at 11:10 when the previous ends at 11:10) — how we migrated a live core banking ledger across regions without dropping a single transfer.
- Tunde JinaduPrincipal Systems Architect, Moniepoint
- 11:10until 11:50Room 1 (Eko Hall)Talk
How service workers, Ed25519 signatures, and deterministic Firestore IDs let 4,000 attendees check in at the gate even when venue Wi-Fi drops completely.
- Moyinoluwa AdeyemiStaff Engineer, GDG Lagos
- 12:00until 13:00Courtyard & Exhibition HallBreak
Refuel, take the official Day 1 group photograph, and visit partner booths.
- 13:00until 14:00Room 3 (Workshop Lab A)Workshop
Traditional mobile integration tests are rigid and high-maintenance. Build autonomous agentic integration test suites for Flutter apps live.
- Sebastine OdehSenior Mobile Engineer, Snag
- 13:00until 14:00Room 4 (Security Arena)Workshop
Most teams deploy a WAF or EDR solution and consider themselves protected. Walk through real bypass techniques and concrete hardening playbooks.
- Kosisochukwu BenjaminApplication Security Engineer, Sterling Bank
- 13:35until 14:20Room 1 (Eko Hall)Talk
Why OAuth service accounts alone break down when autonomous agents delegate tasks across organizational boundaries, and how scoped delegation tokens solve it.
- Shola JegedeDeveloper Relations Engineer, Kinde
- 15:10until 16:10Room 3 (Workshop Lab A)Codelab
A hands-on codelab on horizontally scaling stateful multi-agent systems built with Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) on GKE.
- Claret IbeawuchiHead of Engineering, Dockie