On September 30, two events are expected in St. Petersburg. There will be sunshine and the first Google technology conference for developers -
DevFest North . For one day it's just a combo.
Google Developers Groups of two northern cities,
St. Petersburg and
Petrozavodsk, became the organizers of
DevFest North . Therefore, the conference was called DevFest North 2017.

DevFest - what is it about?
This is a series of IT conferences for developers. Held around the world and organized by the community of Google Developer Groups.
What is Google Developer Groups?
This is a non-profit IT community based on Google’s technologies for developers — for Android, Maps, App Engine, Chrome, Web Toolkit, Google Plus, and others.
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What to expect from DevFest North?
A word to the organizers:
- We intend to gather the best developers of the north-west at the site in St. Petersburg.
- We are doing DevFest for the first time, so we invite the best speakers from Europe and Russia!
- We do 2 tracks of reports, so you can choose the most useful for yourself!
- We do afterparty so that you can communicate with experts and each other in an informal atmosphere, ask questions that you didn’t have time to ask during the session, or just relax in the company of your people.
We think that you already have enough reasons to buy a ticket to
DevFest North . You will get a lot of inspiration for creating your interesting projects after this day in the company of coders, hackers, geeks and just experts in the IT industry.
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Location
Congress Center "PetroCongress" in the historical center of St. Petersburg, Lodeynopolskaya ul, 5
Connection
Ask any question to the organizers (they love it when they talk to them): devfestnorth@gmail.com
Review reports:
Bob Van Luijt Google Developer Developer
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Creative Technologist, Kubrickology
Bob is a creative technologist and designer who works at the intersection of technology, design and art.
About the reportA Semantic Internet of ThingsThe mysterious Internet of things - how does it help us create a knowledge base to understand the environment? How can social networks, the cloud or graphic knowledge bases help expand our knowledge of the world? How can technology affect user perception? “I want to show what a creative technologist is doing, why I believe that creative aspects are important in software and what I'm working on right now.”
Royi Benyossef Google Developer Expert Samsung NEXT.
Tel-Aviv, Israel
About the reportDon't use it or you lose it!“I love Russia, Android and public speaking! In the report we will look at some aspects of UX. I will show how you can use the capabilities of your device (including its sensors) and some UX techniques in order to improve the performance and usability of your application. ”
Timur Akhmetgareyev GDG Moscow Android Lead, App in the Air Inc
Moscow, Russia
In the development of more than 4 years, two of them - the leadership of the creation of the travel application App in the Air for Android. Among the achievements is the title of Top Developer, the world feature, the category “The Best of Russia”. Were among the first to launch the Android Wear app. There is also a unique experience with Firebase - my team participated in beta testing and talked about our results on Google I / O.
About the reportAt DF North, Timur announced a report to the
Firebase Alpha toolBut the details so far left secret. The only thing we know is: “One of the Firebase solutions should be made publicly available by the time DF North, so I can share information about this tool in your conference.”
Mikhail Vaysman GDG Moscow CEO Trinity Digital
Michael, a passionate fan of VR technology. In addition to leading the mobile development studio, he actively studies recognition technologies and artificial intelligence. Misha's report will be devoted to Tensorflow, more precisely “Tensorflow: how to cook a working app for 30 minutes”
About the reportTensorflow: how to cook a working app for 30 minutesCreate a ready-made mobile application from scratch in 30 minutes? Easy! Add key-value features to the project in a short time without a staff of programmers? Super easy! We need only machine learning tools, hands and a little magic.
Konstantin Tskhovrebov GDG St. Petersburg
Senior Team Leader Android, RedMadRobot
About the reportToothpick: our salvation from Dagger 2I'll show you how to love DI again and how to set up dependencies in the application easily, beautifully and correctly with Toothpick. I complain about the pain of Dagger 2. And show you how to migrate to the bright side!
Artur Vasilov GDG St. Petersburg
Android Developer, Yandex
One of the leaders of the GDG SPB
“Now I am working on a search Android application of Yandex. For a long time he was engaged in the issues of application architecture, released a large and completely open course on the architecture of Android applications. Now, first of all, the questions of productivity and the development of a good UI and user interaction are of interest. ”
About the reportAndroid animation recipesHow to find the perfect balance between the imagination of designers and the sympathy of users when creating animation in Android? How to choose the right tool and when to use it, and when not? Understandable and interesting in the report “Animation Recipes in Android”.
Oksana Pokrovskaya and Andrey Khitry GDG Petrozavodsk
These guys are the leaders of GDG Petrozavodsk and they have developed one cool toy. But first things first:
Oksana PokrovskayaAndroid developer Trinity Digital
“In the development of just a couple of years, at first there was just Java, now Android. I find it difficult to single out the main thrust of my interests - the subject area is not important, the main thing is to have a rather interesting technical task in which you can learn something new along the way. ”
Andrei Sly , Android developer and Trinity Digital tmlid.

“I started with reverse engineering of games in 2006 and picking Linux in 2008. Now I am developing for Android and Ruby on Rails. I look at Go and Angular. I love the data. I don't like hot coffee. ”
About the reportFirebase iot game“Our project is a unique board game with“ smart ”components. It is assembled from Firebase, Android, NFC tags, ESP 8266, RFID-RC522. We will not only tell you about the features of working with Firebase from different devices and the Firebase-function, but also show how this game works. "
Alexander Denisov GDG Nizhny Novgorod
GDG leader Nizhny Novgorod
Lead Software Engineer in NetCracker
Alexander is a specialist in business logic and databases, professionally engaged in development for more than 10 years, he used to work with C ++ and C #, but for the last few years he switched to Java.
About the reportFirebase Cloud Functions: New opportunities of serverless backend.Think you are familiar with Firebase Cloud Functions? Then get ready to be surprised. Alexander Denisov will tell not only about the classic work with Cloud Functions, but also about their interaction with many other tools and resources.
Aleksey Buzdin GDG Riga
Riga, Latbia
Alexey is an experienced developer and trainer. She likes to discuss IT and technology. Leader of Google Developer Group Riga.
About the reportWriting a Plugin for Android StudioAlexey’s report will be devoted to writing a plugin for IntelliJ Idea or Android Studio. “Let's take a look at how we can make our own plugin for our favorite tool!”
Sergey RyabovMoscow
Android Engineer, Independent
About the reportUse the Force (of Kotlin Stdlib).Sergey is an independent Android developer with experience in the backend. He was the first to introduce the Kotlin language into his work. Calls himself Rx dependent. Guess what his report will be about? Of course - Kotlin and it will be called Use the Force (of Kotlin Stdlib).
Bogdan mukvichMoscow
Senior QA Automation Engineer at Tinkoff bank
About the reportAndroid Automation PathBogdan’s report will be called “Android Automation Path”. You are waiting for a conversation about the prospects of automation, experience and the future.
Schedule reports can be viewed at the
link.See you at DevFest North in St. Petersburg on September 30th!