Name: Become a Generative AI Leader (2 of 2)
Start: 2025-09-23T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-23T19:30:00-04:00

Get Google Cloud's newest certification: Generative AI Leader, aka GAIL.
The recording of part 1 of this series is here: https://youtu.be/tDH_NXRE-wQ
with a link to slides in the Youtube description
📢 Introduction to the Google Cloud Certification program and Google Cloud Skills Boost training platform

🌟 Led by a Google Developer Expert, a 7X Google Certified AI Engineer

👩‍🏫 Get free access to Skills Boost for 6 months (includes GAIL and several other learning paths) This new program is available to attendees of GDG events

💬 Access to a dedicated Slack channel for mutual support and Q&A between events

🌱 Grow your Skills: &nbsp;GAIL offers the greatest Gen AI knowledge boost for the smallest amount of effort

🌟 Great preparation for our more advanced Gen AI Hands-On workshops at DevFest (Oct. 4)

🤷‍♂️ We regret that we cannot provide exam fee vouchers with this program. If you choose to take the GAIL certification exam, the fee will be $99 USD.

📜 A Generative AI Leader is a visionary professional with comprehensive knowledge of how generative AI (gen AI) can transform businesses. They have business-level knowledge of Google Cloud's gen AI offerings and understand how Google's AI-first approach can lead organizations toward innovative and responsible AI adoption. They influence gen AI-powered initiatives and identify opportunities across business functions and industries, using Google Cloud's enterprise-ready offerings to accelerate innovation.

⚠️ See here for more info:&nbsp;https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification/generative-ai-leader

▶️ Check out this cool video: https://youtu.be/kRkty6a0__I?si=Wl9uLh8OUusSXdus

🎬 The session will be recorded and posted to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@gdgcloudboston

Agenda

6:00 PM: Introduction

6:15 PM: Taking the GAIL certification exam

6:30 PM: The GAIL learning path, content and questions

7:00 PM: Wrap-Up

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Speaker

Norbert Kremer - Analytics By Design (Data Warehouse and Data Lake Consultant, Google Developer Expert, Google Cloud Trainer)

Google Developer Expert (Data Cloud)
AI Engineer, Data EngineerTrustworthy AI (Data Quality, Agent security)AI GovernanceTrainer, Mentor

Hosted By

Lukas Karlsson, GDG Organizer

Lukas Karlsson is a the founder of Altissimo, a cloud consulting and services provider. He is a architect, developer advocate, public speaker, community organizer, and a certified Professional Cloud Architect. Previously, he spent twenty years supporting genomics research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Lukas is a Google Cloud Developer Expert in Cloud and leads the GDG Cloud Boston developer community and the Slack Boston community.

Roya Kandalan, Gen AI Research Scientist

Roya is a research scientist working on advancing artificial intelligence technologies. She has a PhD in Electrical Engineering, is a US patent holder, and has multiple publications in primary journals on electrical engineering, mathematics, and artificial intelligence. Her primary research interests are generative AI, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Roya has developed machine learning solutions for various applications, including healthcare, assistive technologies, and security.

She is enthusiastic about advancing science and passionate about women’s rights. She is a Google Developer Expert and Cloud Champion in AI/ML, a Google Woman’s Techmaker Ambassador, and a Google Developer Group co-organizer (Cloud Boston). She uses these platforms to enhance women’s confidence in the workplace and advocate for women's and non-binary individuals' rights.

Norbert Kremer, Cloud Solution Architect

Google Developer Expert (Data Cloud)
Cloud Solution Architect
Google Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Data Engineer and Database Engineer
Co-organizer at GDG Cloud Boston
Cloud data warehouse expert (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, Teradata, Oracle)
Agentic AI application developer with ADK, MCP, A2A
Google Cloud Authorized Trainer

Marianne Ray, Staff Software Engineer

Uyanga (Melody) Jung, Data Scientist

Marissa Fisher, Principal Software Engineer

I am a passionate cloud developer on the cutting edge of research in the genetics of disease. I've been in the Boston area since 2015 working as a software engineer and volunteering with educational organizations, GDG being one of them. I'm always happy to connect with others and empower them on their journey through the technology space, be it locally or globally.

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