DevFests are local tech conferences hosted by Google Developer Groups (GDGs) around the world, filled with talks, demos, and workshops about the latest in tech. This year, the GDG squads from Glasgow and Edinburgh are teaming up for DevFest Scotland 🏴 right in the heart of Glasgow. Dive into Google's newest stuff and more, learn from the experts, and network with the community!
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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
Saturday, November 25, 2023
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (UTC)
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