Two days, start to finish
Times are provisional until the week of the event. Every ticket covers the after party.
8:00until 9:00
RegistrationOpen
Outside
9:30until 9:45
Welcome to DevFest Lagos, Ground Rules and SafetyOpen
Room 1
9:30until 9:45
Broadcast: Welcome to DevFest LagosOpen
Room 2
9:50until 10:30
Key Note 1Keynote
Room 1
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
10:35until 11:15
Panel Session 2: Learning to Code When the Machine Writes the First Draft?Panel
Room 2
11:15until 11:25
WALK TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHBreak
Outside
11:25until 12:00
Group PhotographBreak
General
12:00until 12:40
LunchBreak
General
12:40until 13:00
Walk to venue/CleanupBreak
General
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
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
13:00until 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
17:15until 18:00
NetworkingOpen
General