GDG Cloud Sydney & GDG University of Sydney are collaborating for a special International Women's Day hands-on workshop!
About the Event
Join us for Postcards from the Cloud - build a nostalgic AI agent that:
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Fetches live weather via coordinates
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Generates poetic summaries
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Creates postcard images with Imagen
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Delivers via email
👩💻 Workshop Details
You’ll learn how to design and deploy composable AI systems using MCP and Gemini ADK. We’ll build and deploy custom MCP servers, connect to remote tools like Google Maps, experiment with generative media tools such as Imagen, store outputs in Cloud Storage, and orchestrate everything inside a production-ready agent deployed on Cloud Run.
Rather than jumping straight to complexity, we’ll progressively layer features - starting simple and adding advanced capabilities like image generation and email delivery as optional extensions. This approach ensures you walk away with a working system, whether you stop at the core agent or build the full multi-service pipeline.
By the end, you won’t just have built a postcard agent - you’ll understand how to chain MCP servers, deploy polyglot tool services, and evolve an agent into a reusable backend service.
📢 About the Speaker
Lovee Jain
Lovee Jain is a Senior Software Engineer at Prezzee and Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud. As a GDG Melbourne Co-Organizer, AWS Community Builder, and Women Techmakers Ambassador, she actively speaks internationally on cloud, serverless, and AI topics - including recent Gemini API workshops at GDG events across Australia and Asia.
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📅 Event Details
Date: Friday, 13 March 2026
Time: 5:30 PM onwards
Venue: Google Sydney, 1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont NSW 2009
Bring your laptop - ideal for developers/AI enthusiasts (technical but accessible).
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🗓️ Agenda
(subject to change)
5:30pm - Event doors open
5:45pm - Welcome by GDG USYD & GDG Sydney Team
6:00pm - Workshop: Postcards from the Cloud by Lovee Jain (GDE Cloud)
7:30pm - Networking with Pizza!
8:00pm - Event end
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🌟 Why Attend?
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Deploy real AI pipeline: weather → poetry → image → email
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Master MCP chaining, polyglot tools, Cloud Run deployment
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Celebrate women in tech + local networking/hiring
🤝 Partners
Google - Hosting venue + exclusive Google merch (stickers, caps, pins & more)!
#GDGCloudSydney #IWD2026 #GeminiADK #MCP #BuildWithAI
Agenda
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Speaker
Lovee Jain - Senior Software Engineer @ Prezzee (Google Developer Expert - Cloud, WTM Ambassador & Organizer & GDG Melbourne)
Lovee is a Senior Software Engineer at Prezzee, an AWS Community Builder, a Google Developer Expert in GCP, GDG Melbourne Organiser, Women Techmakers Ambassador and an international speaker. 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 w…
Hosted By
Shital Shrestha, Community Organiser
Rohit Maharjan, Community Organiser
Hi, I’m Rohit, a dedicated software engineer with 2 years of experience and a
keen interest in transitioning to a DevOps role. I have a strong background in
building digital solutions using PHP, JavaScript (React.js), and MySQL. My
passion for cloud technologies and continuous integration/deployment
(CI/CD) drives me to further develop my skills in DevOps. I am eager to
leverage my development experience and cloud knowledge to contribute to
a dynamic DevOps team.
Sajan Shrestha, Community organiser
Shasanka Acharya, Community Organiser
Ryan Snowden, Community Organiser
Katharine Russell, Software Engineer
Kunal Ostwal, Community Organizer
Hi there!
I am a PhD Candidate at University of Sydney specialising in robotics, machine learning and its medical applications. Apart from that, I am a GDG organiser and I am an avid trekker. If any of these sound interesting to you, reach out!
Luke Moody, Founder
Russal Arya, Community organiser
Roshan Ghale, Community organiser
A passionate Software Engineer skilled in JavaScript, React, Node.js, as well as Salesforce Development. Currently I am working as a Software Engineer at Practifi.
Swapnil Chhatre, Student, University of Technology Sydney
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-sydney-presents-build-with-ai-x-iwd-postcards-from-the-cloud/.
