Join GDG Melbourne this month to Build with AI (#BuildwithAI)?
💻 What do you need to bring?
- Make sure to bring your laptop (better if fully charged) for hands-on training. Also, check the workshop descriptions and pre-requisites to stay ahead of the game!
Join us for an evening of not 1 but 2 hands-on workshops, delicious food and awesome networking, and some surprise swag you won’t want to miss. 🎉
Whether you're a seasoned developer, a cloud enthusiast, or just dipping your toes into the world of AI and tech, this is the place to be.
📍 Where?
Mantel Group Office, Level 2/452 Flinders St, Melbourne
Doors open at 5:45 PM—message us on Meetup or Slack if you're arriving after 6:00 PM, as the lifts won’t let you up.
🎤 Agenda:
6:15 PM - Welcome & Intros
6:30 PM - Cloud credits setup
6:45 PM - Workshop 1: I build with AI and you can too
7:00 PM - Break
7:15 PM - Workshop 2: Build It, Guard It, Ship It: Building Secure AI Apps with Model Armor
8:00 PM - Closing and Networking, chats, and optional drinks 🍻
💻 Workshop 1: I build with AI and you can too
A workshop about how you can be build better with AI. The workshop will explore concepts that make LLM and agents more useful by integrating with your projects as first party agents.Pre-requisites:
An idea you want to work on
Antigravity or IntelliJ with Gemini Code Assist. Or Just Gemini CLI
💻 Workshop 2: Build It, Guard It, Ship It: Building Secure AI Apps with Model Armor
In this hands-on workshop, we'll build a real AI chat app and layer in enterprise-grade security using Google Cloud's Model Armor — before shipping it to production on Cloud Run. We'll explore real-world attack vectors like prompt injection and system prompt hijacking, see how modern LLMs handle them, and then add Model Armor as a dedicated security layer that screens every prompt and response — independent of the model. Finally, we'll containerise the whole thing and deploy it to Cloud Run. You'll walk away with a working, secured, production-ready AI app and a security pattern you can apply to any LLM project.
🎁 What’s in it for you?
⚡Workshop on AI from industry experts
🍕 Cloud-shaped snacks (okay, maybe not literally, but the food will be delicious!)
🤝 Networking that’s as smooth as a well-architected cloud solution
🎁 Surprise swag
💡 NOTES:
This is an in-person-only event, but if you have any accessibility requirements, reach out to us via Meetup or Slack, and we’ll do our best to accommodate you.
Doors open at 5:45 PM at our host, the Mantel Group, Level 2/452 Flinders S,t Melbourne. Message via Meetup or Slack if you are arriving after 6:00, as the lifts won't let you up.
Don’t miss this epic night of learning, networking, and fun! RSVP now and we’ll see you there! 👋
#gdgMelbourne #BuildwithAI #fluttermelbourne
Agenda
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Speakers
Yuba Raj Panta - PageUp (SRE/DevOps Engineer)
Yuba Raj (UV) Panta is a Melbourne-based SRE/DevOps Engineer at PageUp, with a strong focus on cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and AI integration. He is passionate about building scalable systems, streamlining developer workflows, and exploring the intersection of cloud and emerging technologies. A known face to Darwin, UV spent several years actively contributing to the local m…
Kartik Arora - Bilue (Android Engineer)
Android Engineer @ Bilue | Google Developer Expert Android
Hosted By
Katie Barnett, GDE Android / GDG Organiser
Katie is passionate about all things Android. She has taken on a wide variety of challenging projects including in the live event, media and travel space. Her favourite thing is to see someone having a delightful experience using something she has worked on. Katie is very active in the development community, she is a Google Developer Expert for Android, one of the organisers of GDG Melbourne and is a Women Techmakers Ambassador. She frequently runs events, speaks on technical and non-technical topics and enjoys writing blog posts to share her experience with others. Katie is based in Melbourne, Australia but loves to travel the world and outside of tech she enjoys boardgaming and attempting to finish many craft projects.
Suesi Tran, Senior Flutter Developer
Google Developer Expert in Dart, Flutter & Firebase, Women Techmaker Melbourne ambassador, GDG Melbourne & Flutter Melbourne co-organiser.
In short: Flutter is love, and mobile is life.
Poornima Sivakumar, GDG Organiser
Lovee Jain, GDG Organiser
Lovee is a Software Engineer at Prezzee, a GDG Melbourne Organiser and also a Women Techmakers Ambassador. A tech inquisitive philomath, she loves problem solving and solution design. She has worked at a city council where she developed a lot of useful system integrations and while at Prezzee she develops and works on multiple gift card solutions to cater the B2B2C market.
Zach Jensz, GDG Organiser
Passionate about the web, seamless UX and accessibility. I love attending meetups, find me and come say hi!
Ujjawal Raj, GDG Organiser
Bramley Turner-Jones, GDG Organiser
Yuba Raj (UV) Panta, GDG Cloud Organiser
Kartik Arora, Android Engineer
Google Developer Expert in Android
Android Engineer @ Bilue
Carolyn Ai Chi Wong,
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-melbourne-presents-gdg-melbourne-build-with-ai-event-march/.
