DevFests are global tech events run by Google Developer Groups (GDGs) that offer a mix of talks, hands-on sessions, workshops, and a deep dive into the latest from Google and the world of open source. In 2022 alone, over 550 DevFests took place, reaching 320k+ tech enthusiasts. For this year's celebration, GDG Glasgow, GDG Edinburgh, GDSC Glasgow Uni and Strathclyde & Women Techmakers Scotland are teaming up for DevFest Scotland 🏴, aiming to bring together the brilliant Scottish tech community in Glasgow's vibrant center for a jam-packed day 🎉 ** AGENDA ** 09:00 - 09:15 - 🥳 * WELCOME * 🥳 Main Room 09:15 - 09:45 - 10 reasons you should care about the OWASP Top 10 - Carole Logan 09:45 - 10:15 - Build amazing web apps with WebAssembly - Önder Ceylan 10:15 - 10:45 - A love letter to long lines and other DX stories - Jo Franchetti 10:45 - 11:00 - Spaced repetition for engineers - Carlos Pérez 11:00 - 11:30 - Bringing the Cloud down to earth and making sense of the nebulous - a GCP perspective - Wiktor Jurek 11:30 - 12:00 - A journey of the text field API in Jetpack Compose - Anastasia Soboleva 12:00 - 13:00 - 🍔 * LUNCH BREAK * 🍔 13:00 - 13:30 - Into The Metaverse - Marzia Deodato 13:30 - 14:00 - Prompt Engineering with Vertex AI - Nishi Ajmera & Srivalsan Mannoor Sudhagar 14:00 - 14:30 - Android apps: be your own architect! - Slobodan Manojlović 14:30 - 15:00 - Supercharging Your Fitness with Wearables, Analytics, and the cloud with a pinch of PaLM - Steven Gray 15:00 - 16:00 - Revolutionizing Collaboration: AI and Architecture Decisions - Jose Calderón 16:00 - 16:30 - ☕️ * COFFEE BREAK * ☕️ 16:30 - 17:00 - Our future without passwords - Milica Mihajlija 17:00 - 18:00 - Beyond the Stage Lights: Freddie Mercury's Electric Encore as a Software Developer - Peter Aitken Room 1 09:15 - 09:30 - Code Your Future - Partners 09:30 - 09:45 - What can you do to become a greener technologist? - Anna Rasburn 09:45 - 10:00 - 10:00 - 10:15 - Coding in no-code: Extending AppSheet functionality ... with code - Martin Hawksey 10:15 - 10:30 - Data and Ethics - how applying ethical thinking can make handling data easy - Nicholas Shearer 10:30 - 11:30 - Langchain zero shot fired - Let AI agents interact with your APIs using plain English - Charles-Philippe Bernard 11:30 - 12:00 - What's new and What's next in Web UI - Cleyra Uzcátegui & Delia Paternina 12:00 - 13:00 - 🍔 * LUNCH BREAK * 🍔 13:00 - 13:30 - Extending the Web - getting more out of the web with WebExtensions - Oliver Dunk 13:30 - 14:00 - From big to small. Which path I choose and why? - Vadym Pinchuk 14:00 - 14:30 - Potential of opensource LLM - H2OGPT / Offline alternative for ChatGPT - Sudipto Ghosh 14:30 - 15:30 - Krakend: One Gateway to Rule Them All - Octavio Antonelli 15:30 - 16:00 - Should you pay down technical debt? - Arron Edwards 16:00 - 16:30 - ☕️ * COFFEE BREAK * ☕️ 16:30 - 17:30 - What comes after ChatGPT? Vector Databases - the Simple and powerful future of ML? - Erik Bamberg 17:30 - 18:00 - GDG Academy - Stefano Le Pera Students track 09:15 - 09:45 - Why you should learn Rust - Aidan Kelly 09:45 - 10:15 - The GenAI Revolution in Further Education - Beyond Classroom Boundaries, a case study - Lisa Carpenter 10:15 - 10:30 - From Code to Pixels: Understanding Web rendering Techniques - Habib Ogunsola 10:30- 11:30 - Location Lab: Build your own store locator using Google Maps Platform - Sophie McCartney 11:30 - 12:00 - My Journey Into Open Source ( and how I oversee 250 repositories! ) - Goudham Suresh 12:00 - 13:00 - 🍔 * LUNCH BREAK * 🍔 13:00 - 13:30 - The sustainability of developing and using AI systems - Akshay Srivats Venkataramana 13:30 - 14:00 - The Ultimate Way to Build Web Applications - Svelte - Piotr Kazała 14:00 - 14:15 - Edufem: Harnessing VR for women's safety awareness - Holly Hewitt and Joanna Gabrys 14:30 - 15:00 - Responsible AI: Prioritizing people, values, and ethics in a data-driven world - Patty O’Callaghan 15:00 - 15:30 - The Web in 2023: How Far We've Come - James Milner 15:30 - 15:45 - Navigating the Tech Ecosystem: The Power of Allyship, Sponsorship, and Mentorship - Deepali Narsiker 15:45 - 16:15 - ☕️ * COFFEE BREAK * ☕️ 16:15 - 17:00 - Introduction to PyGame with snake - Emma Petrie 17:00 - 17:30 - Year of 2023 - is argument to chose Flutter - Vadym Pinchuk 17:30 - 18:00 - Get PartyRock-ing! - How you can be a no code prompt engineer* SPONSORS *
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