DevFest 2026

Calling all infrastructure ninjas, terminal dwellers, code craftspeople, and production heroes who never push directly to main on a Friday! 🚀
Clear your cache and mark your calendars: GDG Cloud Thessaloniki DevFest 2026 is landing right here in the heart of Thessaloniki—and it’s our biggest celebration of modern engineering yet! 🇬🇷
Wait, what exactly is DevFest?
Think of it as the ultimate sandbox for builders. No buzzword fluff, no boring corporate decks—just raw technical deep dives, live architectural debates, world-class keynotes, and the kind of hallway-track conversations where tomorrow’s projects are born.
What’s in it for your terminal & your brain?
💡 Zero-Day Knowledge: Level up with battle-tested cloud-native patterns, resilient distributed systems, next-gen AI workflows, and modern web architectures. Practical takeaways you can actually deploy on Monday morning.
💡 Production War Stories: Hear from core maintainers, seasoned architects, and tech leads who’ve broken things in production—and fixed them better. Real lessons from real-world scale, stripped of theory.
💡 Step Away from the Prompt: Close your IDE, step out of the dark mode bubble, and meet your local engineering tribe. Exchange ideas with sysadmins, developers, researchers, and tech enthusiasts. Who knows? You might just meet your next co-founder or open-source collaborator over coffee.
💡 High Energy, Zero Ego & Top-Tier Swag: Beyond the tech, it’s pure community energy. Expect legendary stickers, exclusive swag, delicious bites, ice-cold drinks, and laughs with people who speak your exact dialect of code.

Agenda (Preliminary)

10:00 - 10:45 | Doors Opening & Registration (Welcome Coffee & Morning Networking)
10:45 - 11:00 | Welcome Keynote – Opening remarks by the GDG Cloud Thessaloniki Team
11:00 - 11:45 | Speaker Name TBA
An Awesome Presentation About Cloud & Distributed Systems
11:45 - 12:30 | Speaker Name TBA
An Awesome Deep Dive into Modern Web Platforms & Frameworks
12:30 - 13:15 | ☕ Coffee Break & Hallway Track Networking
13:15 - 14:00 | Speaker Name TBA
An Awesome Session About Next-Gen AI & LLM Workflows
14:00 - 14:45 | Speaker Name TBA
An Awesome Case Study on DevOps, CI/CD & Automation
14:45 - 15:30 | Speaker Name TBA
An Awesome Guide to Mobile & On-Device Machine Learning
15:30 - 15:50 | Closing Remarks, Community Photo & Swag Giveaways
15:50 - 17:00 | 🍕 Networking, Pizza & Cold Beers 🍻

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