GDG Cloud Zürich - November 2025 Meetup (#28)

Google Office EURF - The Next Big Thing room, Europaallee 36, Zürich, 8004

GDG Cloud Zürich

Join us for the 25th GDG Cloud Zürich Meetup at Google Offices in Zürich! If you're interested in presenting/speaking, then please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUUqeMrb6KD1zanhJ8ve5ZB-v7Z-VRHkxWVjA0NUwLyWavLg/viewform

Nov 20, 4:30 – 8:00 PM (UTC)

98 RSVP'd

Key Themes

CloudDataDevOpsEnterprise/Business SolutionsNetworkingVertex AI

About this event

Important note: please sign up on the Google Developer Group platform to attend the meetup: https://gdg.community.dev/gdg-cloud-zurich/

Agenda:

⏰ 17:30: Doors open
⏰ 17:55: Doors close
⏰ 18:00: Welcome - Graham Polley, Thomas Hug, Filippo Broggini, Marcin Orlinski, and Erin La (organisers)
⏰ 18:05: Talk 1: Transaction Classification with Google BigQuery and Vertex AI for Personal Finance, Artur Fejklowicz, AXA Schweiz
⏰ 18:35: Talk 2: Google Cloud Multimedia Showcase, Darren Evans, Google
⏰ 19:05: Apéro - sponsored by Google Cloud, DoiT & Zencore

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Speaker form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUUqeMrb6KD1zanhJ8ve5ZB-v7Z-VRHkxWVjA0NUwLyWavLg/viewform

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Title: Transaction Classification with Google BigQuery and Vertex AI for Personal Finance

Speaker: Artur Fejklowicz, AXA Schweiz

Description: This session demonstrates a professional, end-to-end MLOps system built on Google Cloud to automatically classify personal financial transactions. We'll dive deep into a two-pipeline system orchestrated by Vertex AI: one for training and evaluating a "champion" model, and another for generating batch predictions. The core of the system is a custom Wide & Deep model built with the TensorFlow Keras functional API. We'll also cover how foundational infrastructure is managed with Terraform and how BigQuery serves as the central data warehouse, feeding into Google Sheets for human verification and Looker Studio for final visualization.

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Title: Google Cloud Multimedia Showcase

Speaker: Darren Evans, Google

Description: I’ll be showcasing computer vision with speech recognition, video generation with Veo3, and efficient video transcoding workflows. I’ll also demo the new Playwright-enabled computer-use model and, if time allows, the Nano Banana CLI tool. I’ll share how these tools connect through real-world use cases for AI-driven creativity and automation.

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Hosted by:

Graham Polley, Organizer
Thomas Hug, Organizer
Filippo Broggini, Organizer
Marcin Orlinski, Organizer
Erin La, Organizer

When

When

Thursday, November 20, 2025
4:30 PM – 8:00 PM (UTC)

Organizers

  • Graham Polley

    Organizer

  • Thomas Hug

    Nine Internet Solutions AG

    Founder & CEO

  • Filippo Broggini

    Organizer

  • Marcin Orlinski

    DoiT International

    Co-Organizer

  • Erin La

    Helsana Versicherungen AG

    Co-organiser

  • Alessandro Recca

    ABB Switzerland Ltd

    Organizer