# Virtual DevFest-2020 Highlights Few years ago i had some weird questions to myself like * What would happen if the transportation gets stopped for a day/month * What would happen if all of us stays at home without going out * I need to attend all the events which take place all over the world but with a condition, I shouldn’t travel And yes all of my questions were answered by COVID and it’s cascading effects throughout 2020 and still waiting for more answers :) Let’s begin with the third point which i have mentioned earlier about the events. When the cascading effects of COVID start to roll out the first news which i have heard from the community was **Google I/O’20** was canceled. After hearing this news an idea struck my mind was **“Hey only physical events are canceled and there is no restriction for the Imaginary events why can’t you imagine about Google I/O’20 and write up an imaginary story which leads to** [**I/O’20 The Untold Story**](https://medium.com/@nidhinkumar/i-o20-the-untold-story-5c278c45651e)**”** (Luckily fewer people have read it :) On August end i thought about writing another imaginary story and this time it is about **DevFests** but my imagination was shattered on seeing the tweet that **DevFest2020** is coming with a lot of surprises. Now you might think Who are you to write stories or who asks you to write stories and by the way who are you at first ### Who am i? To be precise i am a Human at first who learns things from mistakes :) Okay, who cares about it My question was Why are you writing stories? I am coming to that point hold on. Well, I started my career as a Developer with many dreams and doubts with less network so it was hard for me to explore new things During that time i have heard about GDG Communities I started to attend DevFest events from 2018 and for the past two years i have learned many new things starting from Google Assistant and things like Angular, Firebase, AppsScript, Google Cloud, and many more(Still learning things day by day and contribute what i have learned through blogs and videos). All these explorations have started from DevFests and that’s one of the reasons why i write stories that would help the people to get some awareness that something is happening around them which makes them get benefitted. ### Let’s see the Highlights In September i came to know that the DevFest is happening all over the world and especially in India all the **GDG Communities** are joining together for a 3-day virtual event. Registrations are done schedules were updated on the website and crazy developers started to generate profile badges and start tweeting about **#DevFestIndia** It was a 3-day track starting from Oct16–18,2020 virtually with one theme **Code Concert** and **5** different tracks like 1. Mobile 2. Web 3. Cloud 4. Flutter 5. Machine Learning ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1698055450512/233914a0-f63a-4173-8871-260e0de13157.jpeg align="left") ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1698055451879/68358ee0-b30c-44d9-a0c2-ecebc6b49893.jpeg align="left") ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1698055453385/85a2c832-fc6b-41ad-91e7-b692f37c54fe.jpeg align="left") Once the schedules came up i am done with the plan for the list of sessions that i am going to attend. #### Day 1 — Highlights I just watched the Welcome keynote for a few minutes bcoz i have other tasks to be done for the day and of course my planned sessions were at last so i skipped the rest of the sessions. Unfortunately, i didn’t get a chance to watch the planned ones so i watched it later on that night and looked at the codes worked on it, and slept with happiness because i learned a new thing on that day. #### Day 2 — Highlights I was a little free for the day watched some live sessions clarified my doubts on the live chat and give a try for the quiz ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1698055454847/dc8fff03-e8db-4198-a852-90113f8bc296.png align="left") #### Day 3 — Highlights (This won’t cover the entire event) I learned some new concepts from Cloud which i have looking for and it was an awesome session. Some cool things which i have seen during the sessions are the moderators in the LiveChat you guys have done a nice job. #### Panel Discussion ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1698055456788/07962922-2cdb-4052-9165-002a3f1ab0e4.png align="left") ### Takeovers Events are conducted for learning new things and make yourself to the next level and not just for swags and pizzas. For every event, you are provided with 2 options * Short Term — Get Swags, Certificates * Long Term — Learn new stuff explore it and do great things And it’s in individuals hands to choose which option ### Thanks Giving Time Thanking all the Good hearts who worked together behind the screens for the awesome event :) ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1698055458388/930f0eaf-11ac-4447-8541-0034dd6ae162.jpeg align="left") ### Resources You can find all the resources for the event from this [link](https://devfestindia.com/resources) (Till the website exists) That’s the end of the **DevFest2020** See you at the next event.