Google I/O Extended 2024

As part of Glasgow Tech Week, join us for an exciting in-person event and get ready to dive into the latest technologies and innovations from Google.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to network with like-minded individuals, attend informative sessions, and engage with industry experts. Whether you're a developer, designer, or tech enthusiast, there's something for everyone at Google I/O Extended 2024.

🗓️ Agenda 
1:00 pm - Registration and Welcome ( ⸝⸝•ᴗ•⸝⸝ )੭⁾⁾

1:20 pm - Building modern camera features in Android apps - Tom Colvin

2:20 pm - Cross-platform development explained: mastering Flutter for Android professionals - Vadym Pinchuk

2:50 pm - A brief introduction to reinforcement learning - Kaiwen Wang

3:10 pm - ☕︎ Coffee Break ☕︎

3:40 pm - Apps Script and Gemini: Build custom AI-powered Google Workspace solutions - Martin Hawksey

4:25 pm - Prompt Engineering: Concepts and Strategies - Patty O'Callaghan 

4:55 pm - Building Generative AI Apps w/ Firebase Databases - Sid Gupta

5:40 pm - Closing words + Raffle! ✺◟(＾∇＾)◞✺

Agenda

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Hosted By

Patty O'Callaghan, Organizer

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Tech Lead at Charles River Laboratories.

In her free time, Patty is a dedicated mentor and educator, leading a Code Club for 10-15 year-olds at her local school. Additionally, she's an organiser at Google Developers Group Glasgow, serves as an Ambassador for Google's Women Techmakers, and is recognised as a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Machine Learning.

She is very passionate about AI and loves sharing her knowledge and expertise with others, frequently giving talks and technical workshops on various technologies and topics related to it, especially Web Machine Learning.

José Enrique Calderón Sanz, Organizer

JP Morgan Chase - VP - Lead Software Engineer

Cleyra Uzcategui, Organizer

Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lewis Shearer, Team member

S2 student at Jordanhill School 🏫 | Passionate coder 🧑🏻‍💻|

Sophie McCartney, Team member

Hi I'm Sophie!

I'm currently a first year student at Strathclyde University studying a MEng in Computer Science. I'm a Google Women's Techmaker and an organiser of GDG Glasgow.
I'm currently the Vice President of Strathclydes Coding Society and a lead organiser of StrathHack 2023. I'm a volunteer with Impact Arts, helping older people learn how to use phones and iPads.

I'm passionate about UI/UX and web design and want to learn more about these areas.

Ishita Narsiker, Team member

Delia Paternina, Team member

Software Engineer with a background in Civil Engineering and video games testing

Prashanti Chikiley, Technical BA

I'm Prashanti, Business analyst with 12 years of IT experience. I'm confident, articulate, having experience in delivering complex projects

Habib Ogunsola, Team member

Frontend Developer experienced in building performant and scalable web apps.

Vinamra Sharma, PGT Student

Vinamra Sharma is a technology enthusiast and hackathon person, recognised for his success in over 50 global hackathons, including events hosted by MIT, Harvard, and Duke University. He completed his master's degree in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow focusing the research on Tiny Machine Learning and its application in healthcare. Vinamra has published three research papers and received the best research award from IEEE and Springer conferences.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-glasgow-presents-google-io-extended-2024/.