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DevFest Bhopal 2026
City of Lakes · Secret Venue Dropping Soon
A one-day, in-person conference for developers, students and builders — one talk track and one hands-on workshop track on AI, Google Cloud, Android, Web and DevOps. Run by the volunteers of GDG Cloud Bhopal, five years in.
What’s Coming.
DevFest on 22 November isn’t a one-day affair — it is the culmination of three months of community hacking, mentoring, civic builds, and unexpected surprises in Bhopal.
Code For Communities
Open Source & Civic Tech
Bringing student builders and engineers together to build open source solutions for Bhopal's local NGOs, educational initiatives, and public community tooling.
Code For Communities: Build Sprint
Prototyping with GDE Mentors
Taking civic prototypes from ideas to deployment. Real-time architecture reviews, cloud environments, and guidance from Google Developer Experts.
Something Big is Brewing
Surprise Pre-DevFest Drop
We're cooking up something special behind closed doors for Central India's developers. Secret tracks, special guest speakers, and exclusive community drops.
DevFest Bhopal 2026
Central India's Largest Tech Fest
The pinnacle of the 3-month runway. 1,000+ developers, dual tracks (Talks & Workshops), keynote demos, career networking, and unmatched Bhopal community energy.
One day, two tracks.
Spend the day in the talk track, the workshop track, or a bit of both.
Talk Track
Sessions from practitioners on what is changing in AI, Google Cloud, Android, Web and DevOps — and what it takes to ship it.
Workshop Track
Hands-on, guided sessions where you build as you go. Bring a laptop.
- AI
- Google Cloud
- Android
- Web
- DevOps
Who should attend?
Developers
Backend, frontend and mobile engineers looking for practical ideas they can use at work the next day.
Students
See what teams are actually building with, get hands-on in the workshops, and meet people already working in tech.
AI builders
Anyone prototyping with Gemini, agents or LLM APIs and working out how to take it further.
Cloud & DevOps engineers
People running infrastructure, pipelines and deployments on Google Cloud — or planning to.
Founders & builders
Startup teams and makers looking for tools, collaborators and Bhopal's developer community.
A global programme, run locally.
GDG Cloud Bhopal taps into Google’s worldwide Developer Groups programme for reach and technology — but like every GDG chapter, it’s organized and run by volunteers, not by Google.
Google
The company behind the platforms, programmes and technology the community builds with.
Google for Developers
Google's home for developer docs, tools, learning and community programmes.
Google Developer Groups
A global programme run by Google, connecting developer communities in cities worldwide around Google technology.
GDG Cloud Bhopal
Bhopal's local, community-run chapter since 2021 — organizing Cloud Community Days, study jams, and DevFest for developers across Madhya Pradesh.
Bhopal's builders
Students, professionals and founders across Madhya Pradesh — the people all of this exists for.
Bhopal's Builders in Action
Real community gatherings · Hover to expand, click to view full size
Cloud Community Days Bhopal 2025 — Stage, speakers & community leads
Cloud Community Days Bhopal 2025 — Amphitheater gathering of students and professionals
DevFest Bhopal 2025 — Organizing team & contributors celebrating another milestone
GDG Cloud Bhopal is an independent, community-run group. Activities and opinions expressed here are not linked to Google, the corporation.
Not five years of DevFest. Five years of a community.
पाँच साल, एक समुदाय
GDG Cloud Bhopal started small in 2021 — volunteer-run, no budget, no shortage of ambition. Drag the track, click a year, or use ← →. Tap a year to travel.
Chapter takes shape
📋 3 Events on Record📷 3 Community PhotosGDG Bhopal builds; GDG Cloud Bhopal takes shape
GDG Bhopal — the sibling chapter, running events in the city since 2020 — kept up a steady cadence through 2021. GDG Cloud Bhopal forms as a chapter around this time, though the first GDG Cloud Bhopal-specific events on record start in 2022.
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A year-round programme.
DevFest gets the spotlight, but it’s one stop on a calendar that runs all year — built for developers who show up more than once.
Agentic Premier League
> A competitive, prompt-based building programme around AI and vibe-coding — including a cricket-watchparty-style Vibe Coding & IPL Fiesta. The 2026 season ran its Grand Finale on May 31, 2026.
Cloud Community Days
An annual GDG Cloud Bhopal fixture since 2022, run every year through 2025 — hands-on Google Cloud learning, standard across GDG chapters worldwide.
- since
- 2022
- editions
- 4 (2022–2025)
- format
- Hands-on Google Cloud
- status
- standard
Study Jams
Structured, guided learning tracks for developers building new skills together — GDG Cloud Bhopal's first Android Study Jam ran in 2022, in partnership with GDSC Bhopal and WordPress Bhopal.
BUILD WITH
Build with AI, agents, Gemini, prompts and code.The Agentic Premier League turns AI building into a competition — prompts in, working software out — with its 2026 season running its Grand Finale on May 31, 2026. It builds on Build with AI, GDG Cloud Bhopal’s hands-on AI series running since 2024, including a 2025 hands-on session with the Gemini CLI.
Illustrative interaction — not a live AI tool.
No build started yet.
Four pillars, equal weight.
Google Cloud Platform, infrastructure, and the operational craft of running real systems in production.
- Google Cloud
- Firebase
- Infrastructure
- Scale
Generative AI and applied machine learning — from the Gemini API to agentic systems built and shipped by the community.
- Gemini
- Agents
- Vibe Coding
- Responsible AI
Android, web, and modern application development across the stack developers actually use day to day.
- Android
- Web
- Flutter
- Kotlin
Contribution, collaboration, and the open tooling that underlies the rest of what this community builds.
- Contribute
- Collaborate
- Review
- Share
भोपाल, हमारा घर
Bhopal is home. Heritage and tech, same city.
01Lakes
Upper Lake at dusk — Bhopal, the City of Lakes.
02Campuses
MITS Gwalior
GGITS
LNCTS
LNCTE
SOIT RGPV
SIRT
SISTec
VIT Bhopal
Campus developer chapters that partnered on DevFest Bhopal 2025.
03Developers
DevFest Bhopal 2024 — An unforgettable stage moment with hundreds of Bhopal developers cheering together
04Startups
2023 · GDG Bhopalevent on record
Central India Startup Summit
2024 · GDG Cloud Bhopalevent on record
Startup Success Days Bhopal
Partner: BNESTStartup-focused events on the community's record.
05Communities
- WordPress Bhopal
- ML Bhopal
- Bhopal DAO
- I am Startup
- AIESEC Bhopal
- Techhelp4u
CCD Bhopal 2022 — Community leads & student volunteers holding '#Developer' & 'I ❤️ Bhopal' placards
06Builders
Core Organizers
Aditya Shah
GDG Organizer & Lead
Mayur Rathi
Co-Organizer
Chandra Prakash Ojha
Core Team & Tech Lead
8,720 members across gdg cloud bhopal + gdg bhopal — organized and led by community volunteers.
Built by many.
Open source is how the community actually collaborates — ideas get written down, worked on in the open, reviewed by other people, and merged back for everyone.
- IDEA
Someone notices a problem worth solving.
- ISSUE
It gets written down so others can pick it up.
- PR
A branch of work — proposed, not imposed.
- REVIEW
Other eyes make it better, kinder and safer.
- MERGE
It lands in main, for everyone.
- COMMUNITY
The next person starts from here.
22 NOV 2026
DevFest Bhopal 2026
the fifth-year chapter.
One talk track, one workshop track, and a day with Bhopal’s developer community. Seats are limited — register your interest to hear first when passes open.
आओ, बनाएं साथ में
Five years in, we’re just getting started.
4,936+ developers across Madhya Pradesh are already building with Cloud, AI, Development, and Open Source. Come build with us.