DevFest George Town 2023

Name: DevFest George Town 2023
Start: 2023-12-09T09:00:00+08:00
End: 2023-12-09T18:00:00+08:00
Location: TAR UMT Penang Branch

TAR UMT Penang Branch, 77 Lorong Lembah Permai 3, Tanjung Bungah, 11200

GDG George Town

DevFests are local tech conferences hosted by Google Developer Groups (GDG) around the world. Each DevFest event is crafted by its local organizers to fit the needs and interests of its local developer community. There will be hands-on learning experiences, technical talks by experts, and chances to simply meet fellow local developers.

Dec 9, 2023, 1:00 – 10:00 AM (UTC)

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About this event

DevFest George Town 2023?Join us in celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Google Developer Groups George Town at DevFest George Town 2023. 

🌟 Brace yourself for an unforgettable experience as we bring you a turbocharged lineup of 16 talks and workshops that cater to beginner and intermediate difficulty levels delivered to you by Googlers, Google Developer Experts, and industry professionals. 

🌐 Immerse yourself in a world of innovation through the project exhibitions by the finalists of DevHack, an international hackathon. The top 10 finalist teams, selected out of the 155 teams in the preliminary round, are invited to deliver their final pitch at DevFest and exhibit their projects to inspire the community.

💼 Looking for more space to upskill and gain better working opportunities? Visit the booths by talent-seeking companies and enjoy the perks they bring to you! FOMO? You could also submit your resume here https://forms.gle/oL5ZUdvYwCJzHSDf8 to catch their attention.

🤝 Prepare for unparalleled networking opportunities!  Besides that, networking corners with themes like start-ups, women in tech, Google Developer Student Club, AI, and Web/ Mobile Dev, for you to easily find like-minded peers to talk with. 

🎉 We have nearly 30 lucky draw prizes worth more than RM5k waiting for you! There are multiple ways you could secure yourself more than one entry to stand a chance of winning them. 

Mark your calendars and be a part of history at the 10th Anniversary DevFest George Town 2023. 
This isn't just an event – it's a milestone in our journey of exploration and growth. Let's shape the future of tech, together!
Get ready to code, create, and celebrate at DevFest 2023! 🎊👩‍💻👨‍💻

When

Saturday, December 9, 2023
1:00 AM – 10:00 AM (UTC)

Where

TAR UMT Penang Branch
77 Lorong Lembah Permai 3
Tanjung Bungah, 11200

Agenda

1:00 AM	Registration & Walk-Ins
2:00 AM	Opening and Keynote Speeches
2:30 AM	[Hall 1] Modern Web Debugging by Jecelyn Yeen, Senior DevRel Engineer @ Google	Few developers enjoy debugging, and debugging can be complex for modern web apps because of the multiple frameworks, languages, and libraries used. But, developer tools have come a long way in making the process easier. In this talk, Jecelyn will dig into the modern state of debugging, improvements in DevTools, and how you can use them to reliably debug your apps.
2:30 AM	[Hall 2] Introduction to Keras Core: unlocking the power of JAX with Keras Core by Dr Poo, Senior Manager Data Science @ BAT	Find out more about the usage of Keras Core and JAX
2:30 AM	[Room 3] Women Developer Academy by Amrita Nambiar, Technical Project Manager @ Google	In the dynamic and ever-evolving tech industry, confidence is a crucial asset for success. This interactive session will delve into the art of cultivating self-belief and navigating the challenges faced by women in tech. Through a blend of empowering discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples, we'll explore how to: Cultivate confidence, create plans and strategies that work for you & walk away ready to take on new opportunities
3:30 AM	[Hall 1] Web AI in 2023 - What's new with Machine Learning in JavaScript? by Jason Mayes, Web AI Lead @ Google	Join Jason Mayes, Web ML Lead at Google, to learn about the latest updates around AI in the web browser using JavaScript in 2023 to be productive and bring your next business or creative idea to life. Learn through a live demo how to build next generation web apps powered by machine learning using Visual Blocks ML in minutes - a brand new low / no code visual framework you can use to implement ML powered ideas faster than ever before in a way everyone on your team can try, along with updates around TensorFlow.js and MediaPipe for performance improvements, improved tooling, and more - all accessible from within the browser enabling privacy, lower latency, and cost savings.
3:30 AM	[Hall 2] Using Keras NLP, Large Language Models, and Makersuite to build powerful and scalable NLP Applications by Esther Irawati Setiawan, Associate Professor Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu Surabaya	Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science that deals with the interaction between computers and human language. NLP has a wide range of applications, including machine translation, text summarization, sentiment analysis, and question answering.In this talk, I will discuss how to use Keras NLP, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Makersuite to build powerful and scalable NLP applications. Iwill start with an overview of Keras NLP and LLMs, and then discuss how to use them together to build NLP models. I will also discuss how to use Makersuite to deploy and manage NLP models in production with a case study on Stance Classification.
3:30 AM	[Room 3] (Online) The Future of Recruitment: Leveraging LLMs for Precision in Job-Talent Pricing by Darren Chiu, Product Director & Anthony Chiu, Head of Engineering @ TalentLabs	Recruitment has been largely relying on human on doing matchmaking between job opportunities and candidates’ skills and culture fit. LLM and AI bring a potential paradigm shift on recruitment process. By harnessing the power of LLMs, organizations can enhance precision in career coaching, job-talent pairing, improve candidate sourcing, and optimize hiring decisions.
5:30 AM	[Hall 1] How to Build an Instagram-Like App Using Android Media APIs by Hassan Abid, CTO @ BELIVE TECHNOLOGY	Jetpack Media3 is the new home for APIs that enable you to create rich audio and video experiences. It is a unified API for playback use cases, and it also expands to cover new use cases like video editing and transcoding. This talk is an extension of a talk I delivered at IO Extended Events, and it will provide a deep dive into the Media3 Transformer APIs. The talk will cover use cases for converting between formats (transcoding), applying changes like trimming a clip from a longer video, cropping a portion of the video frame, applying custom effects, and other editing operations. We will also give a demo and show how you can integrate with MediaPipe.
5:30 AM	[Hall 2] Beginners Guide to Chatting Your Firestore Data - Food Edition by Shang Yi Lim, Staff Software Engineer @ Hubble.Build	Learn the fundamentals on how to build document search with Firebase, PaLM 2 API and Chroma DB to build a Chat App that reads your data.
5:30 AM	[Room 3] Image-to-Image Generation with Stable Diffusion using KerasCV by Lai Fong Leong, AI Engineer @ Cognixus	Stable Diffusion is a powerful, open-source text-to-image generation model. Stable Diffusion isn't just an image model, though, it's also a natural language model. It has two latent spaces: the image representation space learned by the encoder used during training, and the prompt latent space which is learned using a combination of pretraining and training-time fine-tuning. Hence, the Stable Diffusion model can also be applied to image-to-image generation by passing a text prompt and an initial image to condition the generation of new images.In this workshop, you will learn: - High-performance image generation using Stable Diffusion in KerasCV - Prepare input datasets (preparing the prompt caption & image) - Generate new image using prompt caption and initial image
6:30 AM	[Hall 1] Managing a component library in Flutter by Yong Shean Chong, Senior Software Engineer @ Comerge Solutions	Managing a component library in Flutter can be a challenge, especially as your app grows and evolves. In this talk, we'll discuss how to create a component library as a package, localize your components, and integrate your component library with Widgetbook.
6:30 AM	[Hall 2] Making a call via the internet? Let's use Google Cloud and WebRTC! by Weiyuan, Engineering Manager II @ Grab	Have you used WebRTC to create an application for video calling? But Javascript/TypeScript/frontend tech is not enough! Here's how you can build a working internet telephone with frontend and backend in Javascript, containerized and deployed into the cloud!
6:30 AM	[Room 3] Datastream 101: An Introduction to Change Data Capture and Replication on Google Cloud by Asif, Head of Data and AI CoE @ Maxis Broadband	In this session, we will learn about a fancy term called change data capture (CDC) that helps us sync data in real time across different databases and apps. We will also explore Datastream, which is a super easy-to-use and serverless CDC and replication service on Google Cloud. With Datastream, you can stream data from Oracle and MySQL sources into Big Query, Cloud Storage, and other destinations without breaking a sweat. We'll see how Datastream takes care of schema changes, backfill, and data validation, and how we can keep an eye on our streams. We'll also get to build something cool with Datastream by following a simple tutorial. This tutorial will show us how to set up a stream from an Oracle database to a Cloud Storage bucket. By the end of this session, we'll have a good grasp of the features and benefits of Datastream. We'll know how to use it to power our real-time analytics and event-driven architectures. So, let's get started and become pros in CDC and Datastream!
7:30 AM	[Hall 2] Flutter + Firebase = Awesome! by Suesi Tran, Senior Flutter Developer @ Tabcorp	A live coding session to complete a simple Chat app (3 screens: Login, friend list, and chat screen) with Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore.
7:30 AM	[Room 3] Test Data and Mocking in Cypress Angular for Beginners by Louis Yoong, Frontend Developer@ miSoft	Join Louis Yoong, a seasoned software developer, for a 40-minute hands-on workshop. In this session, you'll learn how to test Angular applications with Cypress, focusing on test data management and effective mocking. Perfect for beginners, this workshop provides practical insights to boost your testing skills quickly. And also teach you how to leverage the Cypress Chrome Recorder extension. Learn how to use this powerful tool to simplify test case development and enhance your testing workflow. Don't miss out—elevate your test case development expertise in just 40 minutes!
8:30 AM	[Hall 1] Better UX on the Web with Core Web Vital by Vin Lim, Director @ Arteesan	The significance of UX in the success of any web application is universally acknowledged, but the methods to accurately measure it often were elusive. Core Web Vitals offers a clear framework, highlighting essential metrics such as LCP, FID, CLS, and the new INP. Join us as we unpack the importance of Core Web Vitals and provide actionable insights to elevate the UX as well as the additional benefits of SEO.
8:30 AM	[Room 3] Imagen-ing the Perfect Cafe Menu by Thu Ya Kyaw, Senior DevRel Engineer @ Google Cloud	While AI tools like image generation are popular on social media, people rarely combine different AI tools to create new and interesting content. This session will show you how to combine text generation and image generation to create real-world media content. Please bring your laptop for the hands-on portion of the session.
9:30 AM	Closing: DevHack Award Ceremony and Lucky Draw

Speakers

Lai Fong Leong

@Cognixus

Google Developer Expert (GCP, Machine Learning), AI Engineer

Louis Yoong

miSoft

Frontend Developer Lead

Jason Mayes

Google

Web AI Lead

Shang Yi Lim

Staff Software Engineer @ Hubble

Google Developer Expert - Firebase

Jecelyn Yeen

Google

Senior DevRel Engineer

Yong Shean Chong

Comerge Solutions

Google Developer Expert (Flutter), Senior Software Engineer

Kuan Hoong Poo

@BAT

Google Developer Expert Machine Learning, Senior Manager, Data Science

Esther Irawati Setiawan

Associate Professor @ Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu Surabaya

Google Developer Expert - Machine Learning

Weiyuan Liu

Ascenda

Senior Engineering Manager, GCP Google Developer Expert

Hassan Abid

BeLive Technology

CTO

Vin Lim

Director @ Arteesan

Google Developer Expert - Web Technologies

Suesi Tran

Google Developer Expert Flutter

Asif Muhammad Iqbal

Maxis Berhad

Head of Data & AI Center of Excellence

Amrita Nambiar

Google

Technical Project Manager, South East Asia

Darren Chiu

TalentLabs / TechJobAsia

Co-founder & Product Director

Anthony Chiu

TalentLabs / TechJobAsia

Head of Engineering

Thu Ya Kyaw

Google

Senior Developer Relations Engineer

Organizers

Ritchie Poh

Co-Lead

DevFest George Town 2023

Dec 9, 2023, 1:00 – 10:00 AM (UTC)

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