Mission Briefing: Way Back Home – Identity Check

The Situation
You are a space explorer who has just crash-landed on an uncharted planet. Your ship is in pieces, and your rescue beacon is offline. To coordinate a rescue and find your way back home, you first need to establish your Explorer Identity.

The Mission
This is the official "pre-flight" check for the GDGYYC - Build with AI series. Before we dive into the deep end of multi-agent systems and drone swarms during our weekend workshop, we need to make sure every explorer is equipped and ready for deployment.

In this 90-minute session, we are completing Pre Flight Checklist: Identity.

What You’ll Accomplish

Establish Your Uplink: We will walk through the environment setup to ensure your local machine is fully synced with Google Cloud.

Deploy Gemini: You will use Gemini (Nano Banana) and multi-turn image generation to create your unique explorer avatar.

Light Up the Map: Once your identity is verified, your explorer will officially appear on our live 3D planetary map alongside your fellow survivors.

Requirements
To ensure you can successfully generate your identity, please bring a laptop.

Why Attend This First?
This first Level is our critical path. Completing this event ensures that your technical environment is flawless so that when we hit the 4-hour Weekend Sprint, we can focus entirely on building autonomous agents, MCP servers, and drone formations—without being slowed down by setup bugs.

Don't get left in the wreckage. Secure your identity and prepare for the mission.

This is a hybrid event. Join the event virtually at https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-calgary-presents-mission-briefing-way-back-home-identity-check/
or in person at

Platform - Classroom 2 - 407 9 Avenue Southeast Calgary, T2G 2K7

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Agenda

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Hosted By

Antarpreet Singh, Platforms

Ben Nakaska, Technical Expert, Activation ᐳᐅ!DEVFESTYYC

Greg Bennett, Chapter Founder

Founder GDGYYC and Producer of DevFestYYC.
President & CEO, AIRIA Cloud Corp.

Jocelyn Phu, GDG Organizer, People Experiences

Jocelyn specializes in AI governance, digital equity, and inclusive policy development. She's a committed community builder working on modernizing public sector processes to ensure that technology benefits everyone.

Working on internal consulting projects in the public sector, she has introduced automated strategies, UX/UI principles, and digital literacy initiatives to help teams and internal clients better navigate the complexities of increasingly virtual spaces and evolving community needs. She focuses on designing practical, user-friendly systems that ensure AI is an enabler not a barrier.

A passionate advocate for public service transformation, Jocelyn works to promote policies that foster digital literacy, intellectual freedom, and equitable access to technology. She's always looking for more ways to simplify information retrieval and enhance the user experience, making sure that individuals, regardless of their tech background, can fully benefit from AI advancements.

Outside of work, she volunteered for initiatives that helped bridge gaps in access to educational resources for Albertans. Her past roles included serving on the boards of The Calgary Public Library and Alberta Library Trustees and chairing the Bow Valley College Creative Technologies working group. Most recently, she contributed to the planning of the 2023 and 2024 Google technology conferences (ᐳᐅ!DEVFESTYYC) and the Calgary Chapter's 2025 Google Women Techmakers International Women's Day conference.

Renato Niro, Director, Production ᐳᐅ!DEVFESTYYC

Rebecca Sharpe, Director, Operations ᐳᐅ!DEVFESTYYC

Sherry Yang, GDG Organizer, Women Techmakers Ambassador

Engineering leader by day, tech champion by night, Sherry Yang spearheads high-performing engineering teams at The Adaptavist Group. With over a decade of code mastery, she builds killer crews and fights for intersectionality in tech as a Women Techmakers Ambassador and Google Developer Groups Organizer. In her downtime, you might find her conquering mountains, exploring worldly flavours, or seeking for a cup of coffee – all ways to fuel her fire for innovation.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-calgary-presents-mission-briefing-way-back-home-identity-check/.