Hudson Valley's Tech Community Meet up - in Poughkeepsie

Join us for our June in-person meetup — a rich two-part evening covering the human side of tech collaboration and the latest breakthroughs straight from Google I/O 2025.
Part 1 · Talk Your Social Style Is Showing! Reframing Communication to Improve Collaboration Michael Ackerbauer, Managing Director & Principal, Change Catalyst — Ackerbauer Laboratories
If you work with teams, you already know that small behavioral cues can quietly derail even the best creative work — and that most people misread them, especially under pressure.
This session gives you a practical framework for understanding how people show up differently in collaborative settings. You'll learn to decode the signals of creative tension, build what Michael calls a "versatility bridge," and create the conditions for real participative safety and trust.
You'll leave with:

• A sharper ability to identify and reframe Social Style behavioral cues
• Tools to decode tension signals and navigate them more effectively
• Concrete strategies to reduce friction and strengthen inclusive teamwork

Part 2 · Google I/O Extended What Just Happened at Google I/O — and Why It Matters John Sturman, John Pole & Yulia Ovchinnikova
Fresh from attending Google I/O, John and Yulia will walk us through the summit's biggest AI and developer announcements — what caught their attention, what surprised them, and what it means for builders and technologists in the Hudson Valley.
🍕 Light refreshments | 🤝 Open networking from 5:45 PM
Free to attend — RSVP here
Questions? Join our community on Slack
We welcome you to give a lightning talk, or share your professional achievements, tips and tricks. We welcome AI enthusiasts showing their AI projects and following their live development. Ongoing 2026 call for speakers is available for your submission. Feel free to add as many talks as interested. These talks will be considered for our community meetups and can lead to your speakers engagement with our DevFest this Fall.
Join our chapter GDG Hudson: https://gdg.community.dev/gdg-hudson/
Join our community at HVTechFest slack channel
Local tech professionals get-together in person on a monthly basis, alternating local municipalities. All these smaller size meet ups culminate with the two-day professional developers conference, DevFest Troy on October 23-24th, 2026. We will provide more details about this event as we move forward.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.