Build with AI x IWD: Postcards from the Cloud 📬
Details
GDG Sydney & GDG University of Sydney are collaborating for a special International Women's Day hands-on workshop!
About the Event
Join us for Postcards from the Cloud - build a nostalgic AI agent that:
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Fetches live weather via coordinates
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Generates poetic summaries
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Creates postcard images with Imagen
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Delivers via email
👩💻 Workshop Details
You’ll learn how to design and deploy composable AI systems using MCP and Gemini ADK. We’ll build and deploy custom MCP servers, connect to remote tools like Google Maps, experiment with generative media tools such as Imagen, store outputs in Cloud Storage, and orchestrate everything inside a production-ready agent deployed on Cloud Run.
Rather than jumping straight to complexity, we’ll progressively layer features - starting simple and adding advanced capabilities like image generation and email delivery as optional extensions. This approach ensures you walk away with a working system, whether you stop at the core agent or build the full multi-service pipeline.
By the end, you won’t just have built a postcard agent - you’ll understand how to chain MCP servers, deploy polyglot tool services, and evolve an agent into a reusable backend service.
📢 About the Speaker
Lovee Jain
Lovee Jain is a Senior Software Engineer at Prezzee and Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud. As a GDG Melbourne Co-Organizer, AWS Community Builder, and Women Techmakers Ambassador, she actively speaks internationally on cloud, serverless, and AI topics - including recent Gemini API workshops at GDG events across Australia and Asia.
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📅 Event Details
Date: Friday, 13 March 2026
Time: 5pm onwards
Venue: Google Sydney, 1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont NSW 2009
Bring your laptop - ideal for developers/AI enthusiasts (technical but accessible).
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🗓️ Agenda
5:00pm - Event doors open
5:30pm - Welcome by GDG USYD & GDG Sydney Team
5:45pm - Panel starts
6:30pm - Workshop: Postcards from the Cloud by Lovee Jain (GDE Cloud)
7:15pm - Networking break with Pizza!
7:45pm - Workshop continues
8:30pm - Event end
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🌟 Why Attend?
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Deploy real AI pipeline: weather → poetry → image → email
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Master MCP chaining, polyglot tools, Cloud Run deployment
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Celebrate women in tech + local networking/hiring
🤝 Partners
Google - Hosting venue + exclusive Google merch (stickers, caps, pins & more)!
#GDGCloudSydney #IWD2026 #GeminiADK #MCP #BuildWithAI
Agenda
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Speaker
Lovee Jain - Senior Software Engineer @ Prezzee (Google Developer Expert - Cloud, WTM Ambassador & Organizer & GDG Melbourne)
Lovee is a Senior Software Engineer at Prezzee, an AWS Community Builder, a Google Developer Expert in GCP, GDG Melbourne Organiser, Women Techmakers Ambassador and an international speaker. A tech inquisitive philomath, she loves problem solving and solution design. She has worked at a city council where she developed a lot of useful system integrations and while at Prezzee she develops and w…
Panelists
Shreya Rao - Sydney Precision Data Science Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney (PhD student)
Research Assistant at Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research
Fatima Leal - Swipejobs (AI Engineer)
Mohitha Mohan - Google (Software Engineer)
Jess Lowe - Google (Software Engineer)
Lovee Jain - Senior Software Engineer @ Prezzee (Google Developer Expert - Cloud, WTM Ambassador & Organizer & GDG Melbourne)
Lovee is a Senior Software Engineer at Prezzee, an AWS Community Builder, a Google Developer Expert in GCP, GDG Melbourne Organiser, Women Techmakers Ambassador and an international speaker. A tech inquisitive philomath, she loves problem solving and solution design. She has worked at a city council where she developed a lot of useful system integrations and while at Prezzee she develops and w…
Hosts
Vandanaa Sugumaran - GDG on Campus USYD (Organiser)
Vanisha Goyal - GDG on Campus USYD (Workshops Director)
Jeyasri Sundar - GDG on Campus USYD (Events Director)
Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-sydney-presents-build-with-ai-x-iwd-postcards-from-the-cloud/.