Something for everyone at the next GDG North session in Manchester. 3 great speakers, including a Google Developer Expert, with talks on Big Query, AI in the browser, and WebAssembly with GoLang!

Note: You must register individually for this event, and include your full name that can be backed up with ID to be allowed in the venue.

Agenda

6:00 PM - Doors open. Food, drinks and chat.

6:30 PM - Reducing BigQuery bills with BI Engine capacity orchestration, Marton Kodok

This session will deliver best practices and recommendations for tuning BI Engine for your existing BigQuery workloads for cheaper and faster queries. Learn how we at REEA are orchestrating BI Engine reservations, on a 5TB dataset, with big cost savings and accelerated queries. We are going to address the top considerations when to turn on BI Engine, how to use cloud orchestration for making this an automatic process, and combined with BigQuery and Data Studio query complexity that might save precious development time, lower bills and speed up queries.

7:00 PM - The AI in Your Pocket: Building Offline Gemini Apps with the Browser, Olorunfemi Davis

This session covers the groundbreaking approach to running Gemini Nano directly in the browser. This enables a new class of offline-first, off-device web applications and Chrome Extensions, addressing critical needs for speed, privacy, and accessibility. I will demonstrate how to leverage the suite of built-in AI APIs, including the Prompt, Translator, Summarizer, and Writer APIs, to create high-performance, privacy-centric experiences.

7:30 PM - Build high-performance apps for the edge with Wasm in Go, Paul Gledhill

This session explores building high-performance edge applications with Go and WebAssembly (Wasm). Learn about new Wasm features in Go 1.24 and how to use Google Cloud Service Extensions to run custom logic at the edge for security, traffic management, and performance.

8:00 PM - Close

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Speakers

Marton Kodok - Senior Software Architect, REEA | Google Developer Expert

Led the implementation of complex and distributed systems serving millions of users for companies like LogoMix, WaterSmart, Ausschreibungsdienste and many more. He has extensive experience in building big data solutions for clients using the Google technology stack, and in particular with BigQuery to solve challenging and complex data processing business requirements. Among other things he is active in mentoring, talks at conferences, interested in Android, and open source solutions like ElasticSearch, Beanstalkd, Riak, Redis. When he is not coding he loves hiking, ballroom dances, gokart racing, also loves tango and speaks fluently English, Hungarian, Romanian.

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Olorunfemi Davis - Senior Software Engineer, XPRIZO

A Senior Software Engineer and proud GDG Co-Organiser, bringing a strategic, platform-focused mindset and a passion for computing, mathematics, and research to the developer community. A dedicated chess player with a comprehensive background, he specializes in architecting and optimizing secure, high-performance backend systems and web applications across Google Cloud.

With a certification as a Generative AI Leader from Google Cloud, he has a deep knowledge of the company's AI offerings and their practical application. He is skilled at identifying and implementing new opportunities to accelerate innovation.

Beyond his technical expertise, he is passionate about mentoring, fostering collaboration, and driving excellence by building the foundational platforms that empower teams to succeed consistently.

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Paul Gledhill - Lloyds Banking Group (Engineering Lead - Serverless)

Paul is passionate about empowering people through technology. As an organizer of cloud meet-ups in the North West for the past 6 years, He has seen firsthand how community and learning can unlock potential. He is a Lead DevOps Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group, where his focus is on enabling serverless applications – because he believes serverless gives everyone, from hobbyist to enterprise significant benefits!