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. We have a wait list! If you tried to register and were not able to because we sold out too quickly, please sign up here. Anyone who fills this form out will get priority for registration next year! https://t.co/BQEB3nT6wG— Concatenate (@ConcatenateConf) July 19, 2018 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: SPEAKERTOPICTIMESimona CotinBuilding Nodejs APIs using Serverless10:00am – 10:30amWilliam ImohStatic Sites on Steroids10:30am – 11:00amChristian NwambaGraphQL vs REST11:00am – 11:30amColin BendellService Workers – Improving Media Performance Beyond Coaching11:30am -12:00pmSarah DrasnerServerless Functions and Vue.js12:00pm – 12:30pmBREAKBurke HollandVS Code Can Do That?!?2:00pm – 2:30pmJem YoungHow Things Work2:30pm – 3:00pmZach LeathermanWeb Fonts Are Rocket Science3:00pm – 3:30pmJason GrigsbyDesigning Progressive Web Apps3:30pm – 4:00pmAaron GustafsonDesigning the Conversation4:00pm – 4:30pmShirley 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. SPEAKERTOPICTIMEEgwuenu GiftCrafting Rich Documentation with Vuepress10:00am – 10:30amJeremy KeithThe Layers of the Web10:30am – 11:00amEli FitchFunctional CSS at Scale: Clean & Composable UI on Massive Apps11:00am – 11:30amWes BosCSS Grid11:30am -12:00pmOmayeli ArenyekaFinding Unavailable Data12:00pm – 12:30pmBREAKChristopher SchmittImage Formats and Optimization2:00pm – 2:30pmDivya SasidharanA Reach point of Vue: Common Mistakes and Pitfalls...2:30pm – 3:00pmIre AderinokunWeb Accessibility: “It doesn’t have to be difficult or CSS”...3:00pm – 3:30pmSean LarkinUnderstanding Webpack Under the Hood!!3:30pm – 4:00pmEstelle WeylSimple. Fast. Accessible4:00pm – 4:30pmBrian Holttbd4:30pm – 5:00pmMina 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. Just got my #nigerian visa for attending @ConcatenateConf so exited thank you @codebeast @sarah_edo for making this happen— ♛ mohamed benhida π% (@simo_benhida) August 1, 2018 We are definitely as excited about this and we can't wait to see you there! Subscribe below to never miss key developer events!
