Google I/O Extended 2024 Edinburgh: Expert Tech Talks

Google I/O Extended is the community led counterpart to Google I/O, our annual Google led conference where the world hears about Google’s latest developer solutions, products, and technology. Experience the developer content from I/O brought to life! Learn through technical talks, tap into the knowledge of Google Developer Experts. 

🗓️ Agenda

5:00 pm - Welcome and Google I/O Recap

5:15 pm - Straighten your Multi Factor Auth with Firebase and Vonage APIs - Amanda Cavallaro (GDE: Firebase/ML)

5:50 pm - Using Gen AI features powered by your app's data with Firebase - Laura Morinigo (GDE: Firebase) 

6:25 pm - UX+AI: Mastering the UX of AI-Powered Products - Adi Mazor Kario (GDE: AI/ML)

7:00 pm - Closing remarks 

Agenda

5:00 PM: Welcome and Google I/O Recap

5:15 PM: Straighten your Multi Factor Auth with Firebase and Vonage APIs

Amanda Cavallaro is a Google Developer Expert in Firebase and ML, and Developer Advocate Vonage.

Amanda will demonstrate the use of Firebase Cloud Functions to handle backend logic, Firestore for storing user data and verification requests, Firebase Emulators for testing, and Firebase Hosting to serve the web application.

5:50 PM: Using Gen AI features powered by your app's data with Firebase

Laura Morinigo is a Google Developer Expert for Firebase, and Developer Advocate at Samsung Electronics.

Laura is a software developer, advocate, and mentor. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and connecting with different tech communities around the world. Thanks to her contribution she has been recognized as a Google Developer Expert, Woman Techmakers Ambassador and a United Nations delegate for the UK. As a mentor, she helped startups participating in accelerator programs like Google Launchpad and the World Food Programme by the United Nations.

Laura will introduce us to the benefits of Generative AI applications with Firebase using the power of your application's data.

6:25 PM: UX+AI: Mastering the UX of AI-Powered Products

Adi Mazor Kario is a Google Developer Expert in AI/ML.
Adi empowers tech companies to lead the market with unbeatable products. With over two decades of expertise in Strategy, Product, Design, and AI, she has been a key contributor to the success of numerous startups and industry giants like IBM, Intel, Google, and Waze. Adi's academic credentials include a BA in Design, an MSc in Cognitive Science, and over a decade as a mentor at the Google Accelerator.

Adi will share key principles for designing intuitive, engaging, and delightful user experiences for AI-powered products, and will review key learnings from AI products’ UX use case examples.

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Speakers

Amanda Cavallaro - Vonage (Google Developers Expert, Firebase, Assistant and Cloud)

Amanda Cavallaro is an Italo-Brazilian developer advocate @ Vonage. She is a Google Developers Expert for the Firebase, Assistant and ML Cloud Conversational AI categories, who is passionate about cloud technologies, JavaScript, human-computer interactions and ambient computing and a love of learning. You can speak to her in Portuguese, English, Italian and a little Japanese.

Laura Morinigo - Samsung Internet (Web Developer Advocate / Principal Engineer)

Laura is a software developer, advocate, and mentor. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and connecting with different tech communities around the world. Thanks to her contribution she has been recognized as a Google Developer Expert, Woman Techmakers Ambassador and a United Nations delegate for the UK. As a mentor, she helped startups participating in accelerator programs like Googl…

Adi Mazor Kario

Adi Mazor Kario is an expert in strategy, design, and innovation and has helped hundreds of startups and established companies on their journey towards success. She is also an international speaker, and frequently conducts courses, workshops worldwide, and online programs called “Invincible Innovation.” Adi just finished her first book “Innovating Through Chaos” about turning a crisis into a b…

Hosted By

Leticia Arias-Diaz, GDG Organizer

I am software developer with +10 years of experience. I have diagnosticated 7 years ago that I was Dyslexic in UK, Edinburgh. Now! my life makes more sense. Despite of my learning and reading difficulties, I am keep dreaming high despite of my limits. Nothing is imposible!
I am spanish so my second language is English.

I love technology, animation, design 2D, 3D, UX, Data, Music, and art.
I love challenging myself learning new technologies to help others.

Dinara Izmaylova, Organizer

I’m a multilingual professional with 10+ years of experience in the travel industry and higher education.
Neurodiverse, linguist, passionate about problem solving, big data and ML.
Current obsession: Natural Language Processing applications for decision making.
Nerding about all things travel tech, UGC analytics and environmental intelligence for sustainable travel.

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