GDG Cloud Sydney is back for a meetup this April! Join us for an evening of interesting technical talks.

Come Hire!

The meetup allocates 10 minutes to people seeking technical jobs or with open roles at their company.

This meetup is in the in-person format; there are no plans to stream the event*

Partners

This meetup is organised in partnership with Mantel Group. They harness technologies that transform business operations in the real world. With capabilities spanning Cloud, Data, Digital and Security, they merge emerging technologies with innovative design and industry expertise to enhance your business. With deep technical specialisation and as leading Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud partners, the depth and breadth our solutions offer is unparalleled. Mantel Group is your partner for end-to-end digital transformation.

Ranked in Australia's top 10 Best Workplaces by Great Place To Work Australia for four years in a row, we are people-focused and uphold strong values. Our culture champions trust, empowerment, and diversity with a lean structure emphasizing collaboration, direct communication, and equity.

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"Dented Code teaches coding skills that you need to become a full stack developer and help you advance your career, pursue your dream job, or enjoy the freedom of life as a freelancer." - Learn more on their website.

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We will also give out two licenses from JetBrains 1-year subscription to any of JetBrains' IDEs with a raffle. You can use the 100% discount code on CLion, DataGrip, DataSpell, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PhpStorm, PyCharm, ReSharper, ReSharper C++, Rider, RubyMine, WebStorm, or dotUltimate.

Talks

Talk 1: Beyond Chatbots: Next-Gen Customer Support - Prakash Ghimire

As customer expectations continue to evolve, businesses must move beyond traditional chatbots to provide more efficient, intelligent, and human-like support experiences. This talk explores the next generation of customer service solutions powered by LiveKit and Google Gemini, combining real-time communication with advanced AI-driven interactions. LiveKit, leveraging WebRTC technology, enables seamless, high-quality voice and video communication, ensuring instant, low-latency engagement between customers and support agents. 

Meanwhile, Google Gemini enhances chatbot capabilities with deep contextual understanding, adaptive responses, and natural language processing, allowing for more personalized and effective interactions. This discussion will explore how organizations can leverage these innovations to redefine customer support, optimize operational efficiency, and set new standards in service excellence, ensuring they stay ahead in an increasingly competitive digital landscape.

About the speaker - Prakash

Prakash is a Senior Software Engineer at Fireflies.ai with a passion for problem-solving and innovation. He enjoys diving into the nitty-gritty of systems, understanding their intricacies, and optimizing them for efficiency and scalability

Talk 2:  Building agentic AI workflows with Gemini and Google Cloud - Harini Janakiraman

In this talk, Harini Janakiraman, co-founder and CEO of BuildShip, will demo how to build agentic AI workflows for your business on Google Cloud using Gemini and other models. We will cover three examples: web scraping, lead qualification, and data transformation pipelines, all with a comprehensive toolkit to kickstart your production-grade AI workflow ideas and enable quick deployment on backend systems in Google Cloud.

About the speaker - Harini

Harini is the co-founder and CEO of Buildship, where they create a visual backend and AI workflow builder to power the next wave of developers, builders, makers, and creators. BuildShip gives the ease of no-code with the power of code and AI- to build any product idea with just plain english.

Event Schedule

5:30pm - Event doors open

5:45pm - Introduction and hiring connect for those hiring/wanting to be hired (5 mins for each group, and every individual gets 1 min max)

6:00pm - Beyond Chatbots: Next-Gen Customer Support - Prakash Ghimire

6:45pm - Building agentic AI workflows with Gemini and Google Cloud - Harini Janakiraman

7:30pm - Raffle for the 2 JetBrains IDE licenses

8:00pm - Event end