Google Festival Dev Tbilisi 2016 & Georgian in Unicode

On November 27 the Google festival Devfest was held in Tbilisi.

One of the biggest annual Google events, Devfest is held in more than 100 countries and hosts more than 30,000 people.

The festival in Tbilisi was organized by Google Developers Group (GDG) Tbilisi, Google Business Group (GBG) Tbilisi and GeoLab and hosted by Tech Park, a High Technology and Innovation Center that consists of small incubators, educational hubs and laboratories, large offices for companies, and rooms for co-work and recreation.

"Google Devfest 2016, unlike in previous years, saw a focus more on content, and we invited speakers from different fields to capture the interest of a higher number of people, those who are interested in technology or work in that field," Giorgi Vakhtangishvili, one of the festival organizers, told GEORGIA TODAY. "Each year Devfest takes on a key theme. Last year this was supporting innovations, and we invited hacker Aton to speak. This year our key theme was adding the Georgian alphabet to Unicode."

"We’ve been working on geeting the Georgian alphabet added to Unicodefor over a year already, and Microsoft, Google and IBM are involved. We're already at the final stage," Vakhtangishvili added.

Natia Liparteliani