A Heartfelt Thank You: Celebrating Our DevFest Sponsors, Supporters, and Leaders

 


On behalf of our DevFestFlorida.org leadership team, I wanted to take a moment to thank our amazing community for their support.   We care about growing the next generation of software professionals.  We're excited to help our technology community to connect, learn, and grow.   We care about sparking local business opportunities and growing Florida startup culture.  




 The impact of DevFest Florida is made possible by our amazing community of GDGDevs and sponsors.

   



To all our community ambassadors who helped spread the word about DevFest Florida or contributed their time and effort to making this event possible, we thank you.

To our amazing speaker community for DevFest Florida, we thank you for your efforts to help our Florida community to grow, learn, and connect with each other.   The quality and quantity of learning in 2023 is amazing.  We recognize the craft, time and effort to share your insight and passion with us.  

To all our industrious volunteers, we appreciate all your efforts to promote a welcoming spirit and make the event happen.  When you're serving a 200-person tribe, there's a lot of setup, planning, tear down, staging, creativity and customer service.  Thank you for your care and effort!
  • Francisco Creque
  • Janil Carrion
  • Nilsa Carrion
  • Derek Marchese
  • Crystal Williams
  • Nichole Creque
  • Hendrix Tavarez

Finally, I wanted to offer my sincere thanks to our leadership team for DevFest Florida.  We can celebrate that we're growing one of the largest DevFests in the south.  I appreciate the team keep our "true north" with helping our tribe learn and grow together.   We admire your passion for growing people and fostering our ecosystem of learning across meetup and technology boundaries.   Your commitment and persistence are truly inspiring.   Thank you, team!


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  1. NilsangelOctober 27, 2023 at 10:57 AM

    Hi Michael, thank you so much for this heartfelt article. It was an honor and a pleasure to be part of this amazing event. Together, we can make the world a better place.

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