International Women's Day 2025 Boston

Directions

Our venue is the Broad institute of MIT and Harvard Merkin Building located at 415 Main Street, Cambridge in Kendall Square. The entrance to the building is on Main Street, between Galileo Galilei Way and Ames Street, to the right of the Whitehead Institute. The event is taking place in the Auditorium, which is located on the first floor, to the left of the security desk near the main lobby.

The nearest MBTA subway station is Kendall/MIT stop on the Red Line.

If you are driving, parking is available in the Yellow Garage or the Green Garage ($48/day, $38/three hours). See the Broad Institute Parking Map for exact locations.

Agenda

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Hosted By

Lukas Karlsson, GDG Organizer

Lukas Karlsson is a the founder of Altissimo, a cloud consulting and services provider. He is a architect, developer advocate, public speaker, community organizer, and a certified Professional Cloud Architect. Previously, he spent twenty years supporting genomics research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Lukas is a Google Cloud Developer Expert in Cloud and leads the GDG Cloud Boston developer community and the Slack Boston community.

Norbert Kremer, Cloud Solution Architect

Google Champion Innovator (Data Analytics)
Cloud Solution Architect

• Google Certified Professional Database Engineer and Data Engineer
• Co-organizer at GDG Cloud Boston
• Cloud data warehouse expert (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, Azure Synapse)
• Multi-cloud architecture
• Cloud cost optimization, FOCP FinOps Certified Practitioner and FinOps Foundation Community member
  Google Cloud Trainer

Roya Kandalan, Gen AI Research Scientist

Roya is a research scientist working on advancing artificial intelligence technologies. She has a PhD in Electrical Engineering, is a US patent holder, and has multiple publications in primary journals on electrical engineering, mathematics, and artificial intelligence. Her primary research interests are generative AI, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Roya has developed machine learning solutions for various applications, including healthcare, assistive technologies, and security.

She is enthusiastic about advancing science and passionate about women’s rights. She is a Google Developer Expert and Cloud Champion in AI/ML, a Google Woman’s Techmaker Ambassador, and a Google Developer Group co-organizer (Cloud Boston). She uses these platforms to enhance women’s confidence in the workplace and advocate for women's and non-binary individuals' rights.

Uyanga (Melody) Jung, Data Scientist

Marissa Fisher, Principal Software Engineer

I am a passionate cloud developer on the cutting edge of research in the genetics of disease. I've been in the Boston area for 7+ years working as a software engineer and volunteering with educational organizations, GDG being one of them. I'm always happy to connect with others and empower them on their journey through the technology space, be it locally or globally.

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Partners

Google Cloud (https://cloud.google.com/docs/overview)
Our GDG exists to help people learn how to use Google Cloud to solve business problems. Although our GDG is independent of Google, they give us meeting space, swag, food and speakers.

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (https://broadinstitute.org)

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Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-boston-presents-international-womens-day-2025-boston/.