GDG Cloud Sydney is back for a meetup this October!
Join us for an evening of exciting technical talks, community connections, and knowledge sharing.
Come Hire!
The meetup allocates 10 minutes to people seeking technical jobs or with open roles at their company. If you’re hiring or job hunting, this is your chance to connect with the community.
👉 This meetup is in-person only — there are no plans to stream the event.
Partners
This meetup is organised in partnership with Mantel Group. They harness technologies that transform business operations in the real world. With capabilities spanning Cloud, Data, Digital and Security, they merge emerging technologies with innovative design and industry expertise to enhance your business. With deep technical specialisation and as a leading Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud partner, the depth and breadth their solutions offer is unparalleled. Mantel Group is your partner for end-to-end digital transformation.
Ranked in Australia's top 10 Best Workplaces by Great Place To Work Australia for four years in a row, Mantel Group is people-focused and upholds strong values. Their culture champions trust, empowerment, and diversity with a lean structure emphasizing collaboration, direct communication, and equity.
Dented Code teaches coding skills that you need to become a full stack developer and help you advance your career, pursue your dream job, or enjoy the freedom of life as a freelancer. – Learn more on their website.
We will also give out two 1-year subscriptions from JetBrains to any of JetBrains' IDEs in a raffle. Winners can choose from tools like IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, and more.
Talks
Talk 1: Building a Trustworthy Multi-Agent Customer Support Insights Pipeline with Google Agents SDK
Customer support powered by AI is evolving rapidly — but how do we make it trustworthy, scalable, and efficient?
In this talk, Harshmeet will explore how to design a multi-agent customer support pipeline using the Google Agents SDK, with a strong emphasis on reliability, ethical AI, and seamless integration into real-world workflows.
Expect insights on:
Architecting multi-agent pipelines for customer support
Building with LLMs, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), and autonomous agent systems
Best practices for deployment and monitoring across cloud environments
Embedding AI ethics and trust into development
About the speaker — Harshmeet Singh
Harshmeet is an AI/ML Engineer with 5+ years of experience across academia and industry, including UTS Human Technology Institute, UNSW Sydney, London Stock Exchange Group, and OLA Electric. His expertise spans generative AI, MLOps, and multi-agent systems. A 4× AI hackathon winner, patent holder, and researcher, Harshmeet is passionate about building impactful, ethical AI systems.
Talk 2: Elevate Your Reporting: Build Automated Dashboards with Google Apps Script & Looker Studio
Manual reporting can waste valuable time and resources. What if you could automate the process and focus on driving business decisions instead?
In this session, Sudikshya will walk step by step through automating reporting workflows using Google Apps Script and visualizing insights with Looker Studio. Learn how automation can cut down repetitive tasks, ensure accurate data delivery, and empower organizations to make faster, data-driven decisions.
Expect practical takeaways on:
Automating data collection and transformations with Apps Script
Designing interactive dashboards in Looker Studio
Reducing manual reporting time by up to 40%
Enabling stakeholders with actionable insights
About the speaker — Sudikshya Shrestha
Sudikshya is a Business Analyst with 4+ years of experience in analytics and reporting. Skilled in Power BI, SQL, Tableau, and Google tools, she has a proven record of improving efficiency and driving ROI through automation. Her projects have included achieving a 25% increase in marketing ROI and cutting reporting time nearly in half.
Event Schedule
5:30pm - Event doors open
5:45pm - Introduction and hiring connect (5 mins for each group, every participant gets up to 1 min)
6:00pm - Talk 1: Building a Trustworthy Multi-Agent Customer Support Insights Pipeline with Google Agents SDK — Harshmeet Singh
6:45pm - Talk 2: Elevate Your Reporting: Build Automated Dashboards with Google Apps Script & Looker Studio — Sudikshya Shrestha
7:30pm - Raffle for 2 JetBrains IDE licenses
8:00pm - Event end
Agenda
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Speakers
Harshmeet Singh - University of Technology, Sydney (GenAI Researcher)
With around 5 years of experience in AI, ML, and DS, I bring a strong foundation in Machine Learning Engineering, Generative AI, and Multi-Agent Systems, with experience across UTS Human Technology Institute, UNSW Sydney, London Stock Exchange Group, OLA Electric, and KaviRam AI.
Core Strengths:
🔹Machine Learning Engineering: End-to-end ML pipeline design — from data processing and m…
Sudikshya Shrestha - Global Exchange Group (Business Analyst)
Business Analyst with 4+ years of experience leveraging Power BI, SQL, and Tableau to
drive data-based decisions and optimise business operations. Proven track record of
automating reporting, reducing manual processes, and enhancing efficiency, including a
25% increase in marketing ROI and a 40% reduction in reporting time. Highly skilled at
translating complex data into actionable…
Host
Shasanka Acharya
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-sydney-presents-gdg-sydney-meetup-october-2025/.
