DevFest George Town 2024

Name: DevFest George Town 2024
Start: 2024-12-14T13:00:00+08:00
End: 2024-12-14T19:00:00+08:00
Location: The Ship Campus

The Ship Campus, No.1, Education Boulevard Batu Kawan Industrial Park, Batu Kawan, 14110

GDG George Town

DevFest is a global developer conference hosted by Google Developer Groups (GDGs) worldwide. These community-organized events focus on learning, building, and connecting with fellow developers and tech practitioners. They offer a variety of activities, including technical talks, workshops, and networking opportunities.

Dec 14, 5:00 – 11:00 AM (UTC)

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Admission is FREE! The ticket sales have been launched, grab it while it lasts. 

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Agenda is releasedPlease find the tentative agenda listed below. It is subjected to minor changes.

Frequently Asked Questions1.  Do we provide the participants with lunch? 
Ans: No, the event is scheduled to start at 1 pm so that you have time for lunch beforehand! However, light refreshments will be served throughout the event. Grab something to eat while you meet new friends.
2.  We have 3 ticket types, the free one and the 2 that come with swag. Do the free ticket holders have any limitation to access any sessions of the event?
Ans: All ticket holders have the same access to the entire event. The sole difference in the ticket types is the swag that you'll be getting.

When

Saturday, December 14, 2024
5:00 AM – 11:00 AM (UTC)

Where

The Ship Campus
No.1, Education Boulevard Batu Kawan Industrial Park
Batu Kawan, 14110

Agenda

5:00 AM	Registration	Visit our sponsor booths and network with fellow developers. Light refreshments will be available! Do come early to grab your swag (first-come-first-serve) and fuel yourself with snacks and coffee.
5:30 AM	[Main Hall] Opening and Keynote Speeches
6:00 AM	[Main Hall] Bandwidth Ballet: Optimizing Video Performance for Web Maestros by Tamas Piros, Director of Developer Advocacy @ Cloudinary && Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies	In the captivating realm of the digital stage, where web developers orchestrate experiences that dance across screens, "Bandwidth Ballet: Optimizing Video Performance for Web Maestros" takes center stage. This engaging talk is a symphony of insights tailored for web developers who aspire to choreograph impeccable video performances on the grand canvas of the internet. Step into the spotlight as we delve into the details of encoding and transcoding, demystifying the technical intricacies that underpin seamless video delivery. Explore the nuanced world of adaptive bitstream, where videos gracefully pirouette through varying network conditions, ensuring a mesmerizing user experience without missing a beat. Unveil the secrets behind weaving engaging visual narratives through video formats that harmonize across devices and browsers. Discover how the judicious choice of codecs can lend a unique texture to your content, enriching the audience's immersion. Led by a seasoned virtuoso speaker, you'll traverse the landscape of benefits that video brings to the digital stage. From enhancing user engagement to conveying intricate concepts with flair, the transformative power of video is explored in depth, offering web developers a fresh perspective on crafting unforgettable online performances. With practical insights and actionable takeaways by the end of the talk you will have elevated your web development game, ensuring that adding a video to any webpage will be as easy as adding just a simple paragraph.
6:00 AM	[Room 1] Use LangChain, VertexAI, and Flutter to create product image description generator app by Ibnu S Wardy, Founder @ GITS.ID && Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud Platform	In this session, we will explore the creation of a mobile application capable of generating descriptive text for product images. By leveraging the capabilities of LangChain, VertexAI, and Flutter, we can build an app that automates a time-consuming task for e-commerce businesses. For this session, we will use FlutterFlow to speed up the process of mobile app development so that everyone can create the mobile app easily.
6:00 AM	[Room 2] Building your application with Gen AI? Let's start with Function Calling by Weiyuan Liu, Senior Engineering Manager @ Ascenda && Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud Platform: Serverless App Development	Building an application with features powered by Gen AI? How do you add more value here? In comes Function Calling - with this functionality of Gemini, you can utilise the RAG concept to augment data into your AI agent's responses, creating more personalised output for your users' queries. Let's learn how Function Calling works, and implement a simple script embodying your AI agent to add value to your application's output! This knowledge can then be extended to your live backend applications in a production setup
7:00 AM	[Main Hall] Using SQL and Gen AI with Firebase Data Connect by Shang Yi Lim, Staff Software Engineer @ Hubble.Build && Google Developer Expert in Firebase	Building an application with features powered by Gen AI? How do you add more value here? In comes Function Calling - with this functionality of Gemini, you can utilise the RAG concept to augment data into your AI agent's responses, creating more personalised output for your users' queries. Let's learn how Function Calling works, and implement a simple script embodying your AI agent to add value to your application's output! This knowledge can then be extended to your live backend applications in a production setup
7:00 AM	[Room 1] AI-Driven Image Creation: Hands-On with Imagen 3 in Google Colab by Kuan Hoong Poo, Section Lead: Data Analytics - Data Engineering @ Roche && Google Developer Expert Machine Learning	Find out more about Imagen 3 with Google Colab
7:00 AM	[Room 2] Advancing Responsible AI with ShieldGemma by Lai Fong Leong, AI Engineer @ BASF && Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning and Google Cloud Platform	ShieldGemma is a set of instruction tuned models for evaluating the safety of text prompt input and text output responses against a set of defined safety policies. In this session, you will learn how to use this model as part of a larger implementation of a generative AI application to help evaluate and prevent generative AI applications from violating safety policies.
8:00 AM	Break
8:30 AM	[Main Hall] Serverless Real-time Data Applications: Leveraging Pub/Sub and BigQuery by Kamolphan Liwprasert, MLOps Consultant @ AIMET && Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud Platform	Ever wondered how to make Pub/Sub and BigQuery work together in a real app? They're great for streaming analytics, but there's so much more we can do. In this talk, we'll explore how to use BigQuery's streaming inserts and Pub/Sub to BigQuery subscriptions to build cool, real-time data applications. Let’s see how easy it is to integrate them into an application!
8:30 AM	[Room 1] Building and Deploying AI Agent Bot with RAG, Langchain and Google Reasoning Engine In Minutes by Imre Nagi, Cloud Platform Engineer @ GoTo Financial && Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud Platform	In this session, I will be talking about my experience using Gemini and Langchain to build AI assistant to do QnA and to sell my online courses at https://courses.imrenagi.com. I will discuss how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Vertex AI Search enhances the agent's ability to answer questions about the courses. To add capabilities to sells the course, I will demonstrate how I use Langchain function calls to interact with third-party REST APIs so that users can get details about the products and make purchase with a real payment gateway/provider. Ultimately, while making a production ready AI Agent is not trivial, I will also demonstrate how I use Vertex AI Reasoning Engine to deploy the AI Agent to production in a really short time.
8:30 AM	[Room 2] #IAmRemarkable Workshop by Jastine Joy Dela Paz, UI/UX Designer @ DXC Technology && GDG Manila Lead & Women Techmaker Ambassador	#IAmRemarkable is a global movement that empowers everyone, including underrepresented groups, to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond, while challenging the social perception around self-promotion. Learn more at g.co/iamremarkable In this interactive session, you will participate in group discussions and exercises to increase your comfort and confidence in self-promotion. During this 90 minute workshop we will: ● reflect on our own limiting beliefs on self-promotion. ● share data and research regarding self-promotion and bias. ● go through the main exercise to help you identify and share your achievements. ● wrap up with discussion and take home exercises.
9:00 AM	[Main Hall] Mastering the fundamentals of Flutter: Async and reactive programming in Dart by Chong Yong Shean, Senior Software Engineer, Comerge Solutions	Are you new to Dart and Flutter and suddenly overwhelmed with a number of APIs that appear to do similar things? This session will dive into the most useful APIs and techniques to perform async operations in your Flutter project. You will learn how to use Futures, Completers and Streams, and how they work with FutureBuilder and StreamBuilder to make your asynchronous programming life easier.
10:30 AM	[Main Hall] Closing

Speakers

Kuan Hoong Poo

@BAT

Google Developer Expert Machine Learning, Senior Manager, Data Science

Weiyuan Liu

Ascenda

Senior Engineering Manager

Ibnu Sina Wardy

Founder @ GITS.ID

Google Cloud Developer Expert

Jastine Joy Dela Paz

Google Developer Groups Manila

Creatives Lead & Women Techmakers Ambassador

Kamolphan Liwprasert (Fon)

Google Developer Experts Cloud

MLOps Consultant, AIMET.

Shang Yi Lim

@Hubble

GDE Firebase, Staff Software Engineer

Lai Fong Leong

@Cognixus

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

Tamas Piros

Cloudinary

Senior Developer Experience Engineer

Imre Nagi

Cloud Platform Engineer @ GoTo Financial

Google Cloud Developer Expert

Yong Shean Chong

Comerge Solutions

Google Developer Expert (Flutter), Senior Software Engineer

Organizers

Ritchie Poh

Co-Lead

DevFest George Town 2024

Dec 14, 5:00 – 11:00 AM (UTC)

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About this event

Admission is FREE!

Claim Your Event Swag and Perks While It Lasts

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Frequently Asked Questions

When

Where

Agenda

Speakers

Kuan Hoong Poo

Weiyuan Liu

Ibnu Sina Wardy

Jastine Joy Dela Paz

Kamolphan Liwprasert (Fon)

Shang Yi Lim

Lai Fong Leong

Tamas Piros

Imre Nagi

Yong Shean Chong

Partners

JetBrains

TalentLabs

Lighthouse Coffee Roastery &amp; Academy

Peninsula College

Yierming

Organizers

Ritchie Poh

Zhi Yi Ho

Ming Wei Lee

Racheal Ooi

YI HAN LOH

Louis Yoong

Ka Chun Chan

Chien Loong Kang

Wayne Liew

Chuah Jing Quan

Pranesh Krishnan Ragunathan

Chentille Wong Wei Ze

Harish Kumaran

Ming Jia Lee

Lu Hou Yang

LIM JIA CHYUEN

Jack Lim

Chong Xin Hui

Di Dian Yew

Chew Jun Liang

Desmond Ong

Ashley Chew

Anson Cheng

JIA QUAN KHOR

Kalichandran Kangeyan

Ng Yuit Xian

Catherine Lee

Dec 14, 5:00 – 11:00 AM (UTC)

Lighthouse Coffee Roastery & Academy