GDG Melbourne October Meetup!


Details
RSVP on our Meetup event >> https://www.meetup.com/gdg-melbourne/events/303972743/
Get ready for our next in-person meetup!
This will be an in-person event at our new host location, Mantel Group Office, with the recording of the talks to be shared afterwards on YouTube if you can't make it.
There will be food, networking and some surprise swag!
Agenda:
6:20 - Intro
6:30 - Talks
8:00 till late - networking & chat (& drinks optional)
Speakers:
- Patrick Haralabidis
Google Developer Expert (GDE) AI - Machine Learning | GCP Champion Innovator in AI/ML | Melbourne TensorFlow User Group Organiser | Engineering Chapter Lead @ Flybuys
Demystifying Generative AI: From LLMs to Real World Applications
Gain a solid understanding of generative AI, LLMs, and related technologies. Discover practical tools, frameworks and techniques for building real-world applications. Learn how to address the ethical challenges of generative AI responsibly. Be inspired to explore the vast potential of generative AI in their projects.
- Yuba Raj (UV) Panta
SRE/DevOps Engineer @ PageUp
Fail-Safe to Fantastic: Leveraging Cloud Run to Turn User Feedback into Flawless ReleasesDiscover how to elevate your deployment process from fail-safe to fantastic using Cloud Run! In this practical session, we’ll explore powerful features like traffic splitting, gradual rollouts, and instant rollbacks. The highlight of the talk will be a live demo showcasing a real-world scenario, where we’ll demonstrate how to safely deploy updates, incorporate user feedback, and quickly respond to any issues. Join us to unlock the full potential of Cloud Run and transform your approach to application deployment!
How to find us:
Level 2/ 452 Flinders St, Melbourne.
Enter from Custom House Ln or Flinders Ln, and head up to Level 2 via the lifts. Message via Meetup or Slack if you are arriving after 6:00 as the lifts won't let you up.
If you have any issues, look out for our team members or message on meetup or on Slack, and we'll come to get you.
Agenda
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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, Women Techmaker ambassador, GDG Melbourne & Flutter Melbourne co-organiser.
In short: Flutter is love, and mobile is life.
Maksim Lin, Software Engineer
Senior Android Developer, Flutter GDE
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-october-meetup-1/.

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