Abdelrahman Omran

For the first time since ages, Google have launched event series in multiple Saudi Arabia and Bahrain cities in two consecutive weeks called “Google Developers Roadshow”, and I had the pleasure to be speaking at Riyadh, Taif, Jeddah, Medina, Khobar at Saudi Arabia, and Manama at Bahrain in a row, with over 2k attendees, covering six cities in total, in eight days (goo.gl/CwzhjV)

→ State of the Web ’18
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh → April 21st, 2018 (108 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Taif → April 22nd, 2018 (145 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Jeddah → April 24th, 2018 (390 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Medina → April 25th, 2018 (450 attendees)

→ Google Cloud Platform Introduction ’18
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh → April 21st, 2018 (108 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Khobar → April 28th, 2018 (541 attendees)

→ Building Conversational Experiences for Google Assistant ’18
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh → April 21st, 2018 (108 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Taif → April 22nd, 2018 (145 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Jeddah → April 24th, 2018 (390 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Medina → April 25th, 2018 (450 attendees)
Saudi Arabia, Khobar → April 28th, 2018 (541 attendees)
Bahrain, Manama → April 28th, 2018 (200 attendees)

→ State of the Web ’18 (20+ attendees)
Google Dubai Office, Dubai, Emirates / Apr. 16, 2018 (goo.gl/mt3Lrc)
In this small meetup organized by GDG Dubai at Google Dubai office, we talked about the importance of PWA, and the great changes happening to the web platform, and how that opens a lot of opportunities for all kinds and scales of applications. We discussed also the challenges facing web engineers, and how today’s open platform is evolving very fast.

→ Women Tech Makers (WTM) Helwan (20+ attendees)
Berisca Office, Cairo, Egypt / Mar. 30, 2018 (goo.gl/koQep8)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) Cairo #2 (50+ attendees)
Mushtarak coworking space, Cairo, Egypt / Mar. 24, 2018 (goo.gl/uj5KGd)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) Helwan (30+ attendees)
302 Labs coworking space, Cairo, Egypt / Mar. 09, 2018 (goo.gl/D7dBze)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) Alexandria (30+ attendees)
Alexandria Software and IT Association (ASITA), Alexandria, Egypt / Mar. 03, 2018 (goo.gl/cyLjbG)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) October #2 (44+ attendees)
Hashtags coworking space, October City, Egypt / Feb. 23, 2018 (goo.gl/jYN3QL)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) October #2 (34+ attendees)
Hashtags coworking space, October City, Egypt / Feb. 16, 2018 (goo.gl/xvzAmw)

→ Google Developer Groups (GDG) Cairo #1 (20+ attendees)
Mushtarak coworking space, Cairo, Egypt / Feb. 03, 2018 (goo.gl/XGH7u9)

Anyone can listen to sessions at many events, or watch such sessions even recorded on Youtube, but what’s better is to have an expert in certain topic guide and mentor students in hands-on code labs and step-by-step work-through study jam. In these Cloud Study Jams we’re thrilled to train bunch of enthusiastic developers on Google Cloud Platform and give them access to priceless training resources for free. Attendees learnt how to set up development and production environments in the Cloud. The Cloud Study Jam is one of the best events since it’s all about gaining new skills, and get hands-on experience with the help of QwikLabs.

Faculty of Commerce, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt / Speaker / Dec. 18, 2017 (goo.gl/sUcbaX | goo.gl/FBbKoG)
I’ve spoken to 85+ attendees about Google Assistant, and how to develop for it using Action on Google Console. In its 7th iteration, and during Alexandria University Platinum jubilee, the “ICT in Our Lives” international conference has been organized at faculty of commerce, and I gave a specialized session about Google Assistant, the voice commands and its importance in our lives, and how to develop for it using Actions on Google. I did a quick demo too on Google Home for more expressive and inclusive experience.

American University – Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon / Speaker / Nov. 25, 2017 (goo.gl/t9abZ8 | goo.gl/x4GQrb)
I’ve spoken to 365+ attendees about Progressive Web Apps and Google Assistant. For the first time in Lebanon, GDG Coast Lebanon held their first DevFest ever with elite group of speakers, and precisely selected topics that serve their audience best, and thank god they achieved a great success, and got amazing feedback. I gave two sessions that day, first about Progressive Web Apps, and the second about developing for Google Assistant which was really great.

THE GrEEK CAMPUS / Speaker / Nov. 11, 2017 (goo.gl/6m6o2w | photos)
I’ve spoken to 285+ attendees in two sessions about Dialogflow/Google Assistant, and Progressive Web Apps. For the first time ever, Cairo’s GDGs (Cairo / New Cairo / Shorouk) are teaming up to bring an extraordinary and a unique experience during the annual GDG DevFest Cairo 2017, making their fifth GDG DevFest exceptional at all levels.

Information Technology Institute (ITI) Smart Village, Cairo, Egypt / Speaker / Oct. 13, 2017 (goo.gl/zeMk5u | goo.gl/Z1oSnm)
I’ve spoken to 600+ attendees about Dialogflow, Google Assistant, Google Actions, ran a live demo on Google Home, and done a quick Dialogflow workshop. Google Developer Group and women techmakers 6 October city, organized GDG DevFest’17 for the third time in a row. GDG DevFest an annual event hosted by Google to highlight the latest in technology, product innovation and initiatives. The event had diversified talks by multiple speakers on a multi-track parallel sessions, about Google Assistant, Android, Kotlin, Machine Learning, UX, and few other supporting talks about startups, WTM initiatives.

Information Technology Institute (ITI) Smart Village, Cairo, Egypt / Speaker / Sep. 23/24, 2017 (goo.gl/y50lbG)
I’ve spoken to almost 1800+ attendees over two consecutive days. I talked about how Google Assistant gives users their own personal Google that helps them find, organize, and get things done in their world, and how easily we as developers can develop Apps that extends Google Assistant by building actions that let users get things done with our products and services. I gave two more sessions at the conference, one for quick web updates that give something like “State of the union” speech about web platform updates during the past year, and the other session was about the amazing experience of Progressive Web Apps, how we could leverage better user experience with reliability, speed, and engagement features in mind. PWA workshops also included, so total of three sessions, and two workshops.

Remote / Judge / 14 Sep. 2017 (tiec.gov.eg/ibtiecar2017)
Reviewed Mobile Track Applications of “IbTIECar2017” Competition, at its 6th round / phase one. I’ve supported the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC), by reviewing and evaluating submitted applications and gave them grades according to the judging criteria provided in order to select the most promising projects for the second and final phase of the competition. The competition was launched in cooperation with Multinationals and MCIT affiliated organizations, for university students in technical faculties in the graduation year, recognizing the best graduation projects in the year, covering these t