Speaking and Community
Talks, keynotes, workshops and the communities I help run, in Nigeria and across Africa.
Talks
2026
30 to 31 October 2026
FlutterBytes Conference 2026, Zone Tech Park, Gbagada
Lagos, Nigeria
Organising committee. Upcoming
Evidence
Named on the event page
24 to 26 June 2026
Bitcoin Nairobi Conference 2026
Nairobi, Kenya
Attended for Cake Wallet
17 to 19 June 2026
bitcoin++ Nairobi, open source edition
Nairobi, Kenya
Attended for Cake Wallet
Evidence
5 to 11 May 2026
Blockfest Africa, South Africa edition
Cape Town, South Africa
Attended for Cake Wallet
17 to 19 April 2026
Two workshops: the Bitcoin privacy stack, and financial sovereignty in Africa
Conférence Bitcoin Afrique 2026. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Represented Cake Labs as a Silver sponsor, and ran two workshops
Evidence
A frame from my own video of the event
A frame from my own video of the workshop
2025
3 to 5 December 2025
Africa Bitcoin Conference 2025
Port Louis, Mauritius
Attended for Cake Wallet
Evidence
My own frame from the venue
2 December 2025
Btrust Developer Day 2025, Trianon Convention Centre
Port Louis, Mauritius
Attended for Cake Wallet
Evidence
My own frame from the venue
1 November 2025
The Daily-Driver Wallet: Multi-Chain, Private, and Built for Real Life
FlutterBytes Conference 2025, day two. Lagos, Nigeria
Speaker. 600+, per the conference
Evidence
31 October 2025
AI's Impact on the Next Generation of Mobile Apps
FlutterBytes Conference 2025, day one. Lagos, Nigeria
Co-founder, conference lead and keynote speaker. 600+, per the conference
Evidence
11 October 2025
Empowering Nigeria's Financial Future with Crypto
Blockfest Africa 2025. Lagos, Nigeria
Speaker. 12,000 participants, per BusinessDay
Evidence
Named in the speaker listing
11 October 2025
Clarity in Compliance
Blockfest Africa 2025. Lagos, Nigeria
Panellist. 12,000 participants, per BusinessDay
Evidence
Named in the press coverage
5 August 2025
Privacy by Design: Tools and Habits for Truly Private Crypto Use
ECX 5.0 Grand Finale. Lagos, Nigeria
Speaker
Evidence
5 August 2025
Where leadership starts: How Industry Collaboration Shapes the Next Generation of Tech Leaders
ECX 5.0 Grand Finale. Lagos, Nigeria
Panellist
Evidence
Named in the organiser's post
26 July 2025
Flutter Lagos: Build with AI workshop
Lagos, Nigeria
Organiser
Evidence
Named on the event page
11 January 2025
Flutter in Production Extended, Flutter Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria
Organiser
Evidence
Named on the event page
2024
2 November 2024
The Global Impact of African Flutter Engineers
FlutterBytes Conference 2024. Lagos, Nigeria
Co-founder, conference lead and keynote speaker. 500+, per the conference
Evidence
Recording shows me
22 June 2024
The Art of Debugging
Blazebrain Flutter Series, Google Meet workshop. Online
Host and speaker
Evidence
Named on the event page
19 May 2024
Deep dive into Vertex AI
Build with AI, FlutterBytes. Online
Organiser and host
Evidence
Recording shows me
18 May 2024
Deep dive into Gemini AI
Build with AI, FlutterBytes. Online
Organiser and host
Evidence
Recording shows me
17 May 2024
Introduction to AI with Flutter
Build with AI, FlutterBytes. Online
Organiser and host
Evidence
Recording shows me
4 May 2024
Mastering Asynchronous Data Fetching in Flutter with http and Dio
Blazebrain Flutter Series, Google Meet workshop. Online
Host and speaker
Evidence
Named on the event page
27 April 2024
Flutter Community Hangout (AMA), five Nigerian Flutter communities
Blazebrain Flutter Space Series, X Space. Online
Host and convenor
Evidence
Named on the event page
24 March 2024
Flutter Lagos: How to, Widget Testing
Lagos, Nigeria
Organiser
Evidence
Named on the event page
22 March 2024
Animation with Rive
Blazebrain Flutter Series, Google Meet workshop. Online
Host and speaker
Evidence
Named on the event page
27 January 2024
Mastering Flutter Animations: Necessity or Inessential?
Blazebrain Flutter Space Series, X Space. Online
Host and speaker
Evidence
Named on the event page
2023
4 November 2023
FlutterBytes Conference 2023, Africa Flutterverse
Lagos, Nigeria
Co-founder and conference lead. 400+, per the conference
Evidence
Recording shows me
30 September 2023
Integrating Bloc repositories and data sources
Blazebrain session. Online
Host and speaker
Evidence
Recording shows me
29 September 2023
Understanding the basics of the Bloc architecture
Blazebrain session. Online
Host and speaker
Evidence
Recording shows me
15 September 2023
A guide for developers to improve application UI
Blazebrain session. Online
Host and speaker
Evidence
Recording shows me
10 September 2023
Effective debugging with Dart DevTools
Blazebrain session. Online
Host and speaker
Evidence
Recording shows me
9 September 2023
Flutter Lagos: You Don't Need Get_It
Lagos, Nigeria
Organiser
Evidence
Named on the event page
9 September 2023
Environment Variables in Flutter, the Native Approach over Third Party Packages
Blazebrain session. Online
Host and speaker
Evidence
Recording shows me
26 August 2023
Flutter Lagos: Theming, Dressing Your Widgets with Theme Extensions
Lagos, Nigeria
Organiser
Evidence
Named on the event page
5 August 2023
Flutter Lagos: Isolates, the Concurrency Superheroes of Flutter
Lagos, Nigeria
Organiser
Evidence
Named on the event page
1 April 2023
Flutter Forward Extended, Flutter Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria
Co-organiser
Evidence
Named on the event page
31 March 2023
Securing Mobile Applications: Strategies and Tools for Protecting User Data in Flutter
Flutter Forward Extended, GDG Ado-Ekiti. Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
Speaker and workshop lead
Evidence
Named on the organiser's flyer
2022
5 November 2022
FlutterBytes Conference 2022
Lagos, Nigeria
Co-founder, conference lead and speaker. About 500, per the conference
Evidence
Recording shows me
19 March 2022
Integration testing in Flutter: the Robot pattern
Flutter Festival, GDG Ibadan. Online
Speaker
Across Africa
I am Cake's only team member in Africa, so I carry the wallet to the events Cake attends across the continent.
Open source, self-custody and the right to hold your own money are the reasons I go.
Nigeria, Lagos
2021 to 2026
Kenya, Nairobi
2023, 2026
Mauritius, Port Louis
2025
Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou
2026
South Africa, Cape Town
2026
Country by country
Nigeria, Lagos
FlutterBytes, Blockfest Africa, ECX, Flutter Lagos
Conference lead, keynote speaker, speaker, panellist and organiser
2021 to 2026
Kenya, Nairobi
Flutter Forward, bitcoin++, Bitcoin Nairobi Conference
Attended in person in 2023, and for Cake Wallet in 2026
2023, 2026
Mauritius, Port Louis
Africa Bitcoin Conference, Btrust Developer Day
Attended for Cake Wallet
2025
Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou
Conférence Bitcoin Afrique, two workshops
Represented Cake Labs as a Silver sponsor
2026
South Africa, Cape Town
Blockfest Africa, 5 to 11 May
Attended for Cake Wallet
2026
Communities
FlutterBytes
Co-founder and conference lead
Nigeria's Flutter conference, co-founded in 2022. Four editions so far, and the fifth is on 30 and 31 October 2026 in Lagos.
The conference site lists me as Co-Convener and Organizing Committee Lead.
Five conference editions from 2022 to 2026, plus the three Build with AI sessions I hosted online in May 2024.
Attendance per the conference: about 500 in 2022, 400+ in 2023, 500+ in 2024, 600+ in 2025.
Blazebrain
Founder
My own resource hub for Flutter developers in Nigeria. Five recorded online sessions in September 2023, then five live sessions through 2024: two X Spaces and three Google Meet workshops.
Flutter Lagos
One of seven leaders on meetup.com
The Lagos Flutter meetup group. I organise and speak at the meetups.
2,347 members and 11 past events on Meetup, as of 2026-09-15.
GDG Ado-Ekiti
Speaker
Spoke and ran the workshop at Flutter Forward Extended in Ado-Ekiti, 31 March 2023.
HNG
Flutter mentor
Mentored on the Flutter track for HNG10 in 2023 and HNG12 in 2025. I came through HNG myself as an intern in 2021.
Tech4Dev
Senior Technical Reviewer and Interview Panelist
Reviewed and sat on the interview panel for the Mobile App Learning Track in August 2025.
Photos
Blockfest Africa 2025, 11 October 2025
ECX 5.0 Grand Finale, 5 August 2025
FlutterBytes Conference 2025, 31 October 2025 to 1 November 2025
Africa Bitcoin Conference 2025, 3 December 2025
Btrust Developer Day 2025, 2 December 2025
Conférence Bitcoin Afrique 2026, 17 April 2026
Speaker kit
- Name
- David Adegoke
- Also known as
- Blazebrain
- Title
- Senior Mobile Engineer, Cake Labs
- Pronunciation
- DAY-vid ah-deh-GOH-keh
- Location
- Lagos, Nigeria (WAT, UTC+1)
Bios
Short
David Adegoke is a Senior Mobile Engineer at Cake Labs, where he builds Cake Wallet, an open-source, non-custodial wallet, in Flutter. He co-founded FlutterBytes, Nigeria's Flutter conference. He is based in Lagos.
Medium
David Adegoke (Blazebrain) is a Senior Mobile Engineer at Cake Labs in Lagos. Since 2023 he has added Solana, Tron, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum and BNB Smart Chain to Cake Wallet, an open-source, non-custodial wallet, and he owns its WalletConnect integration. He is Cake's only team member in Africa and represents Cake Wallet at events across the continent. He co-founded FlutterBytes Conference in 2022 and still leads its organising committee, and he has written for LogRocket and dev.to.
Long
David Adegoke (Blazebrain) is a Senior Mobile Engineer at Cake Labs, based in Lagos, Nigeria. He has written Flutter for six years and has worked on Cake Wallet, an open-source, non-custodial wallet, since April 2023. In that time he has added Solana, Tron, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum and BNB Smart Chain, owned WalletConnect across EVM and Solana, built the app's integration test suite, and shipped the pay-any-invoice flow. His work is public: he is one of the top contributors to the cake_wallet repository by merged pull requests. He is Cake's only team member in Africa and represents Cake Wallet at the events Cake attends across the continent, including Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritius, Burkina Faso and South Africa. Before Cake he built and then led mobile engineering at Raptures Entertainment, a comics platform, from 2021 to 2025. He co-founded FlutterBytes Conference in Lagos in 2022 and leads its organising committee, is one of the leaders of the Flutter Lagos meetup, and has mentored on two HNG internship cohorts. He has written for LogRocket and dev.to and given talks and keynotes at FlutterBytes, Blockfest Africa and ECX.
Topics
- Building a multi-chain wallet in Flutter: what changes when you add a chain
- WalletConnect from the wallet's side: sessions, signing and the requests you should refuse
- Integration testing a wallet with the Robot pattern
- Privacy by design in consumer crypto apps
- Why Nigerians embrace crypto, and what a wallet owes them
- Building a developer conference in Lagos
- How I work with AI without handing it the commit
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