GDG Brisbane: Build With AI - AI & Mobile Streams

Join us for GDG Brisbane's Build With AI event on Friday, 2nd May, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. This event will feature two specialized streams: AI and Mobile. Attendees must choose one stream, as both will run in parallel.

📍 Location: Warrar Room & Launch Event Space at the Precinct

🕠 Schedule:

5:30 PM: Registration

5:45 PM: Catering (arrive early to enjoy the food!)

6:15 PM: Event starts

9:00 PM: Event ends

🎯 Choose Your Stream: AI or Mobile

🧠 AI Stream

1️⃣ Mini-Workshop: Predicting the Future in 30 Minutes

👨‍🏫 Speaker: Patrick FitzGerald – Founder & Managing Director, Universal Edge AI

Ever wondered how machine learning models predict outcomes like customer behavior or market trends? In this hands-on, 30-minute session, we’ll build a complete supervised learning model from scratch using Google Colab.

Work with a real-world dataset from Kaggle

Perform exploratory data analysis and model training

Understand key evaluation metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score)

Learn to choose the right metric based on real-world consequences

You’ll walk away with a working Colab notebook that you can adapt and explore further!

2️⃣ Workshop: Build Your Own Tech News TL;DR App

👩‍💻 Speaker: Lovee Jain – GDE Cloud

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll build a news summarization app using Gemini API with Google Search grounding.

Deploy it as a Cloud Run API

Use Google Cloud’s Application Integration for no-code/low-code email automation

Automate sending news summaries directly to your inbox

💡 Google Cloud credits will be provided to support the hands-on workshop experience!

📱 Mobile Stream

1️⃣ Talk: Exploring Agentic Apps with Flutter

👨‍🏫 Speaker: Brett Morgan – Google Developer Relations

Agentic apps are gaining momentum! Learn how to combine Flutter and Gemini API to create innovative, AI-driven applications. This talk will cover:

What agentic apps are

Real-world use cases

How to answer "What is our agentic strategy?"

2️⃣ Workshop: Introduction to Using Gemini API in Firebase

This hands-on session will guide you through using Google’s Gemini LLM in a Flutter app using Vertex AI in Firebase.

Start with a basic chat interface

Move to streaming responses

Finally, add tools for the LLM to enhance interactivity

Go from zero to agentic in one workshop!

ℹ️ Important Information

✅ Catering provided – come early to enjoy the food!

✅ Choose one stream (AI or Mobile) – workshops run in parallel

✅ Google Cloud credits will be provided for the AI workshop

🔥 Spaces are limited – Purchase your ticket now (only $10)!

See you there! 🚀