Speakers • GDG DevFest Season 2014

Material design: Visual style and imagery

Language: en Complexity: Intermediate

This session will reveal the invisible structures behind the material design system. Designers will show how to use the new color systems, typographic strategies, and the underlying grids that hold it together. They will show how imagery and the new framework material rendering can make apps more interesting and communicate more quickly.

Dawid Ostrowski Developer Relations Program Manager, Google Poland

Dawid is true technology enthusiast, who loves to work in areas where humans and machines meet to create amazing new products and services. He is experienced program manager with strong technical background, who is able to establish priorities for complex projects and execute across multiple organizations, according to long-term objectives. Dawid has worked in Poland, USA, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands and truly values diversity of international working environment. His most visible characteristics are individualization (when dealing directly with people), ideation&intellection (inexhaustible source of new concepts) and strong communication (experienced trainer, community manager). He is also an activator constantly impatient for action.

Building Cloud-powered wearable Apps

Language: en Complexity: Beginner

Android wear extends the Android platform to a new generation of wearable devices. The user experience is designed specifically for wearables. In this session you’ll see how to use the Android Wear SDK to build a connected cloud-powered application. Using Android Studio and it’s cloud extensions, you’ll see how to build an app that ‘listens’ for changes in stock prices, and notifies a wearable device. You’ll also see how to use voice controls on the device to trigger interactions with the app, such as buying or selling the stock after a notification. Call to action: Get the SDK and start building apps today!

The world is your playground - go global with Google

Language: en Complexity: Expert

More than ever before, developing for global audience is a necessity than a luxury in today's world. Are you ready ... where to start? what does it entail? how do I do it? how to promote in local markets? This talk will address above questions for android, chrome and web developers. In our journey of the where, what and how, we will take an in-depth look at various internationalization and localization tools & strategies available to you.

Dmytro Danylyk Android Developer, Lemberg Solutions Limited

Developer. Nominated to apply for the Google Developer Expert Program. Finalist of Google Apps Developer Challenge 2012. Author of open source libraries 1000+ stars. Writer. When Dmytro has free time he is writing technical articles. Speaker. Always trying to share his knowledge & experience on different events. Big fan of android, flat design, stackoverflow, git, Intellij IDEA. Eclipse IDE hater.

Building Cloud-powered wearable Apps

Language: en Complexity: Beginner

Mateusz Herych Software Engineer, Base CRM, GDG Krakow

Google Developer Expert Google Developer Group

Mateusz is an Android GDE and GDG organizer. Works as Android Developer for Base CRM where he uses his android-abracadabras to make enterprise software users more productive.

Polymer: Interacting with Google Services using nothing but HTML

Language: uk Complexity: Beginner

Google has 1M APIs and services. Every API is different! Learn how you can interact with Google services without writing code! Designing your UI so it works across multiple screen sizes is no longer a nice to have, it is *the* way to build for the web. Using Polymer, we'll cover how to create robust, responsive elements that work across all platforms.

Roman Mazur Head of Android/Java Unit, Stanfy, GDG Kyiv

Google Developer Group

Roman started his way in Android 5 years ago and fall in love with this platform. Currently he is a head of Android unit in Stanfy LLC and a co-organizer of Kyiv Google Developers Group focusing on Android development. Roman is responsible for building a strong team of Android developers inside Stanfy as well as for organizing Android professionals community in Kyiv.

Test: Interacting with Google Services using nothing but HTML

Language: en Complexity: Expert

Valentyn Shybanov Software engineer/country manager, Twinfield, GDG Kyiv

Google Developer Group

Valentyn focuses on Polymer and Web Components. In previous roles he’s helped craft design systems for massive enterprise companies, user interfaces for console titles, and even built the occasional enchanted princess game. These days his mission is to fight for a better web and to help developers build great experiences.