
About us
Welcome to GDG - West Sweden 🚀
👨💻👩💻 Who are we?
We are a community of curious coders, enthusiastic developers, and tech explorers 🧑💻👩💻 who love to tinker, experiment, and learn. Our mission? To create a welcoming space where tech enthusiasts, from beginners to experts, can come together and thrive. If you’re into algorithms, APIs, or anything Google-techy, this is the place to be! 😎💡
Website : https://developers.google.com/community/gdg
🌍 Location: Based in the amazing city of Gothenburg, but we are as flexible as your favorite programming language! Whether you live in the archipelagos or the landlocked plains, we’re here to code, connect, and collaborate across all corners of West Sweden!
🎉 What we do?
From coding marathons 🏃♂️ to cozy tech talks ☕, fun hackathons 💻, and meetups that sometimes involve pizza 🍕 (okay, most of the time!), we cover it all! Whether you’re in for serious learning or casual networking, you'll find your niche here. Expect some bad jokes about Python 🐍 and Java ☕ – no code-shaming allowed! 😜
💡 Why join us?
Because you're a tech geek at heart (just like us), and you love hanging out with other awesome geeks. Plus, it’s way more fun to debug your code when someone else is equally frustrated, right? 😆 Whether you're working on your first "Hello World" or architecting complex cloud solutions ☁️, we’ve got your back.
Our Values ❤️
- Inclusivity: All are welcome, whether you're a JavaScript Jedi 🧙♂️ or just starting to learn what HTML stands for. (Hint: It’s not How To Meet Ladies!)
- Learning Together: No question is too simple, no code too buggy. We grow by lifting each other up! 🚀
- Innovation: We embrace the bleeding edge of technology, even if it means occasionally bleeding from our keyboards! 🔧
Oh, and GDPR Stuff! 📜
Your privacy is important to us, like, really important. We collect your email (not for sending spam, promise 🤞), and the only data we care about is the one you're coding! Our GDPR promise:
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Your personal data is safe with us 🛡️.
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We won’t sell your info to third parties, not even if they offer us an infinite loop of donuts 🍩.
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If you ever want out, just let us know – we’ll delete your data faster than you can say "404."
For more details on how we handle your data, feel free to check out Meetup's GDPR policies (because we like transparency as much as we like open-source code!).
So what are you waiting for? Hit that Join button and become part of GDG - West Sweden. Your future tech tribe awaits! 🚀✨
Upcoming events
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FinOps for AI: Cost per Task, Not Cost per Token
Vallgatan 14, Vallgatan 14, 411 16 Göteborg, Sweden, Göteborg, SERegistration
Only registrations through the link, not on Meetup. Register here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-west-sweden-presents-finops-for-ai-cost-per-task-not-cost-per-token/Your CFO asks if the AI spending is paying off. “I think so” won’t cut it.
Gartner expects 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by 2027 because their return on investment can’t be defined. Most teams can see their token spend; far fewer can say which feature, team or customer caused it, or whether it paid off. This talk gives you a practical FinOps method for ML and GenAI on Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI).
We start with the classic ML pipeline and what drives the bill. Then we move to GenAI, covering serving modes, caching, model routing, and controls that cap runaway cost. Next comes attribution: labeling every call and job, where labels fall short, and how eBPF observes traffic at the kernel level with no code changes. We finish with budgets, anomaly detection, and the team habits that make cost reviews stick.
You will leave with a shift in metric, from cost per token to cost per completed task, and five things to do on Monday.
Schedule:
- 17:30 - Doors open
- 18:00 - Talk + Q&A with Google Developer Expert Joshua Fox
- 19:00–21:00 - Food, drinks & mingling
English. Light food and drinks provided.
Location: Devies offices (Vallgatan 14), Gothenburg.1 attendee
Past events
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