Code Smarter, Not Harder: How to Build AI-driven Apps with Gemini

 Learn how to easily build AI-powered apps using the Gemini API! In this hands-on session, we'll walk through coding a smart note-taking app that automates meeting summaries and extracts key action items. You'll see how Gemini simplifies AI integration, turning raw text into structured insights with minimal code. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this talk will equip you with practical skills to build AI-enhanced productivity tools effortlessly.

*This talk is part of the educational workshop series for the IWD Edmonton 2025: Redefine Possible Hackathon

Agenda

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Speaker

Naz Zareen Oishie - Siemens (Software Engineer)

Naz is a Software Engineer working on Electronic Design Automation as part of the R&D team at Siemens. Along with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, she has research experience in the field of Machien Learning and have published multiple papers. She loves using AI to build things and being a Women Techmaker Ambassador as well as a GDG lead, is keen o…

Host

Vannia Hnatiuk - GDG Cloud Edmonton | WTM Ambassador (Data Analyst)

Vannia is a promising data scientist, based in Edmonton, Canada. She has work on projects which combines time series analysis and machine learning. Her passion for coding took her to the Data Science field and Web Development. She is leads GDG Cloud Edmonton, where she loves to help their community upgrade their skills as she did in her beginnings. She enjoys…

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Partner

Aleo (https://aleo.org/)
The Aleo network is devoted to educating the public on the potential of applied cryptography and specifically zero-knowledge proofs in the context of decentralized technologies like the internet.

Its mission is to encourage an educational sandbox in which to explore this new but important design space, and to inspire and educate a diverse generation of developers (and aspiring developers) to explore the promise and potential of these technologies for promoting the public good.

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