We are meeting online every third week of the month: 8/21st, 9/18th, 10/16th

and in person every second week of the month, alternating small towns in the Hudson Valley, NY.

Are you interested to present your project? Give a lightning talk? Full talk or hands-on workshop? Fill out this Call For Speakers: bit.ly/HVTechC4S

This time we are going to introduce Cloud Skills Boost - a learning platform to try everything out, it has preselected learning paths for you. This platform empowers learners with in-demand skills through 700+ hands-on labs, role-based courses, skill badges, and certification resources. We will create a shared group to help each other. Once enrolled through your GDG chapter, you have a free access for one year., as well as $5 credit for your experiments.

After that we will use recommended lab sequence to learn how to build with AI. Some labs recommended:

1. Introduction to Gemini 2.5 Pro on Google Cloud: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/intro-gemini-25-pro-colab?hl=en#0

2. Yoga Pose Recommender https://codelabs.developers.google.com/yoga-pose-firestore-vectorsearch-python?hl=en#0

3. Build a YouTube Summarizer https://codelabs.developers.google.com/devsite/codelabs/build-youtube-summarizer?hl=en#1

4. Building AI Agents with Vertex AI Agent Builder https://codelabs.developers.google.com/devsite/codelabs/building-ai-agents-vertexai?hl=en#1

5. Google's Agent Stack in Action Lab to learn ADK Agent, A2A and much more. You'll learn to build AI-powered multi-agent systems on Google Cloud using Vertex A and explore the cutting edge of multi-agent AI and its transformative potential. If you're going to choose InstaVibe Lab https://codelabs.developers.google.com/instavibe-adk-multi-agents/instructions#0 - you get a great chance to receive $1,000 for cloud credits if you finish the lab - even at home

6. and much more

Register in advance for this and following virtual meetings (monthly, on the third Thursday of the month):