Two days, start to finish

Times are provisional until the week of the event. Every ticket covers the after party.

  1. 8:00until 9:00

    RegistrationOpen

    Outside

  2. 9:30until 9:45

    Welcome to DevFest Lagos, Ground Rules and SafetyOpen

    Room 1

  3. 9:30until 9:45

    Broadcast: Welcome to DevFest LagosOpen

    Room 2

  4. 9:50until 10:30

    Key Note 1Keynote

    Room 1

  5. 10:35until 11:15

    Panel Session 1: Managing Compliance Debt in the Age of AIPanel

    Room 1

    • Christian Jacob - Financial Crime and AI Governance Specialist
  6. 10:35until 11:15

    Panel Session 2: Learning to Code When the Machine Writes the First Draft?Panel

    Room 2

  7. 11:15until 11:25

    WALK TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHBreak

    Outside

  8. 11:25until 12:00

    Group PhotographBreak

    General

  9. 12:00until 12:40

    LunchBreak

    General

  10. 12:40until 13:00

    Walk to venue/CleanupBreak

    General

  11. 13:00until 13:30

    Designing API Documentation for AI Agent Friendliness: A New Standard for the Agentic EraTalk

    Room 1

    Understand why traditional API documentation patterns fall short for AI agent consumption. Identify the key structural and semantic qualities that make documentation "agent-friendly".

    • Chisom UmaTechnical Writer
  12. 13:00until 13:30

    Impossible to Ignore: Building a Design Practice That Gets Noticed in a Noisy WorldTalk

    Room 2

    In a world where everyone has a portfolio and every brand has a designer, visibility is no longer guaranteed by talent alone.

    • Obasola AkintolaSenior Brand Designer, Chowdeck
  13. 13:00until 14:00

    The Agentic Shift: Building Zero-Code Flutter Integration Tests with Gherkin and MarionetteWorkshop

    Room 3

    Traditional mobile integration tests are notoriously rigid, requiring extensive code and constant maintenance. This session introduces a groundbreaking shift: truly agentic integration testing for Flutter applications.

    • Sebastine OdehSenior Mobile Engineer, Snag
  14. 13:00until 14:00

    Your WAF Is Lying to You: How Cloudflare & EDR Get Bypassed and How to Actually Harden ThemWorkshop

    Room 4

    Most teams deploy Cloudflare or an EDR solution and consider themselves protected. Attackers know otherwise.

    • Kosisochukwu BenjaminApplication Security Engineer, Sterling Bank
  15. 13:35until 14:05

    Authenticating AI Agents: Why Your Agents Need Their Own IdentityTalk

    Room 1

    The agentic AI landscape of 2026 has made one thing painfully clear. Most teams are shipping AI agents into production without an authentication model that actually fits them.

    • Shola JegedeDeveloper Relations Engineer, Kinde
  16. 14:05until 15:05

    MCP Superheroes: Shielding AI Agents with Open Source Security ToolsWorkshop

    Room 3

    Model Context Protocol (MCP) is giving AI agents a new kind of superpower: the ability to connect with tools, data, APIs, and systems.

    • Harmony ElenduTechnical Product Manager, Dantown
  17. 14:05until 15:05

    Speaking "Engineer": The Beginner TPM’s Guide to the SDLC & API IntegrationWorkshop

    Room 4

    The biggest bottleneck to scaling a tech product isn't the code; it’s the communication between Product and Engineering.

    • Oluwapelumi KehindeTechnical Product Manager, PalmPay
  18. 14:10until 14:40

    AI Won't Save Bad UXTalk

    Room 1

    AI Won’t Save Bad UX explores the growing misconception that adding AI automatically creates better products.

    • Anna ErimSenior Product Designer, Interswitch
  19. 14:45until 15:15

    When AI Becomes the Vulnerability: Securing LLMs Against Prompt Injection and Model PoisoningTalk

    Room 1

    Every company is now building with AI chatbots, internal copilots, RAG-powered search, automated workflows.

    • Olusegun FajobiCybersecurity Engineer, Digiss MSSP
  20. 14:45until 15:15

    Under 800ms: Engineering Real-Time Voice AI for ProductionTalk

    Room 2

    A voice AI demo that takes two seconds to respond feels broken. A production voice AI platform has roughly an 800-millisecond budget from the moment a user stops speaking to the moment they hear a reply — and inside…

    • Valentine OffiahCofounder/CTO @ Keble | Voice AI & Fintech Engineer
  21. 15:10until 16:10

    Horizontally Scaling Agentic Systems with Google ADK on KubernetesWorkshop

    Room 3

    A practical workshop on how to horizontally scale agentic systems built with Google ADK on Kubernetes.

    • Claret IbeawuchiHead of Engineering, Dockie
  22. 15:20until 15:50

    Inclusive by Design: Scaling Accessibility Tech for the Next Billion UsersTalk

    Room 1

    Accessibility is often misunderstood as a niche requirement for a small group of users. In reality, inclusive design creates better products for everyone.

    • Charles AyereFounder, EyeGuide Vision
  23. 15:20until 15:50

    Talk to Your Database: Build an AI-Powered Data AssistantTalk

    Room 2

    What if you could query your database using plain English instead of writing SQL? In this hands-on workshop, you'll build a simple AI-powered assistant that turns natural-language questions into database queries and…

    • Motunrayo KoyejoSoftware Engineer
  24. 17:15until 18:00

    NetworkingOpen

    General