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Are you ready to +”Concatenate”+ with Developers around the world in Nigeria?

Last month, we reported that Christian “Codebeast” Nwamba partnered with Microsoft’s Senior Developer, Sarah Drasner, and Cloud Developer Advocate, Brian Holt to bring Concatenate developer conference to Nigeria.
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Are you ready to +”Concatenate”+ with Developers around the world in Nigeria?

Last month, we reported that Christian “Codebeast” Nwamba partnered with Microsoft’s Senior Developer, Sarah Drasner, and Cloud Developer Advocate, Brian Holt to bring Concatenate developer conference to Nigeria. As far as we can remember, this is the first International Developers’ Conference to hold in Nigeria.

The event announced on July, 17, quickly sold out before July 19. This shows that Nigerian developers are continuously looking to acquire new knowledge and expand their network.

What to expect at the Conference

All roads leads to the newly-launched Zone Tech Park on Friday, August 10 to Saturday, August 11. You shouldn’t miss it if you’ve registered.

There will be 23 talks, each spanning 30 minutes over the course of two days and with the caliber of speakers, it promises to be a hit.

Please find the schedule by day broken down into 2 tables – Day 1 and 2:

SPEAKERTOPICTIME
Simona CotinBuilding Nodejs APIs using Serverless10:00am – 10:30am
William ImohStatic Sites on Steroids10:30am – 11:00am
Christian NwambaGraphQL vs REST11:00am – 11:30am
Colin BendellService Workers – Improving Media Performance Beyond Coaching11:30am -12:00pm
Sarah DrasnerServerless Functions and Vue.js12:00pm – 12:30pm
BREAK
Burke HollandVS Code Can Do That?!?2:00pm – 2:30pm
Jem YoungHow Things Work2:30pm – 3:00pm
Zach LeathermanWeb Fonts Are Rocket Science3:00pm – 3:30pm
Jason GrigsbyDesigning Progressive Web Apps3:30pm – 4:00pm
Aaron GustafsonDesigning the Conversation4:00pm – 4:30pm
Shirley WuData Visualization for Web Developers4:30pm – 5:00pm

Note, most of the speakers will be online from around the world. But, Prosper Otemuyiwa, the event MC will be live at the venue.

SPEAKERTOPICTIME
Egwuenu GiftCrafting Rich Documentation with Vuepress10:00am – 10:30am
Jeremy KeithThe Layers of the Web10:30am – 11:00am
Eli FitchFunctional CSS at Scale: Clean & Composable UI on Massive Apps11:00am – 11:30am
Wes BosCSS Grid11:30am -12:00pm
Omayeli ArenyekaFinding Unavailable Data12:00pm – 12:30pm
BREAK
Christopher SchmittImage Formats and Optimization2:00pm – 2:30pm
Divya SasidharanA Reach point of Vue: Common Mistakes and Pitfalls…2:30pm – 3:00pm
Ire AderinokunWeb Accessibility: “It doesn’t have to be difficult or CSS”…3:00pm – 3:30pm
Sean LarkinUnderstanding Webpack Under the Hood!!3:30pm – 4:00pm
Estelle WeylSimple. Fast. Accessible4:00pm – 4:30pm
Brian Holttbd4:30pm – 5:00pm
Mina MarkhamUsing CSS Grid Today5:00pm – 5:30pm

Commentary

This conference has the highest numbers of sponsors for any developer conference we have ever seen in Nigeria.

Currently, the conference boasts of fifteen sponsors and they are still looking for more. Classified into Gold (4), Silver (3) and Bronze (8) categories.

The Gold sponsors are: Microsoft, GatsbyJS, Egghead.io, and CodeSandbox. While the Silver sponsors are: Cloudinary, Twillio and Frontend Masters. And, the Bronze sponsors are: JSHeroes, Mozilla, Scotch.io, A Book Apart, Progress, GitLab, LINC, and Microsoft Edge.

Coming from an event management background, three Gold sponsors are enough to run a successful event and they have way more than that. They have gathered near a 1,500 followers on Twitter and they are not even one month old.

Some of the perks for attending include FREE subscriptions to hosting plans, tutorials, stickers and a wide array of networking opportunities.

We are definitely as excited about this and we can’t wait to see you there!

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