Join us for DevFest Northeast 2021!

This year GDGs of the Northeast region will be joining forces to connect our local communities and learn together!

Free online event. Stay tuned for our agenda!

Saturday, November 13, 2021 from 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Brought to you by:

• GDG Capital Region
• GDG NYC
• GDG Lawrence
• GDG Cloud Boston
• GDG Bronx
• GDG Android Boston
• GDG Hudson Valley
• GDG Manchester, NH
• GDG New Haven

Agenda (EDT):

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Intro and Welcome

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM Samantha van der Merwe

Talk Title: Data Science in Production with Shiny

Speaker Bio: Samantha van der Merwe is a Data Science Tech Lead at Kantar. She has a strong technical background having a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering and a Masters in Statistics. Her expertise lies in helping Data Science and Analytics teams build and deploy their solutions at scale. In addition to this, Samantha provides career support and mentorship to women who are aspiring Data Scientists through her online platform and YouTube channel. She is passionate about using Machine Learning to solve some of the world's toughest social challenges.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Mark Díaz

Talk Title: Responsible AI Feedback Session - participate in an Ethical AI feedback session with Google's Responsible AI team. Enter a raffle to win a prize for sharing your feedback!

Speaker Bio: Mark Diaz is a Research Scientist, Ethical AI at Google. He focuses on social bias and the use of algorithmic technologies to analyze human behavior, particularly the behaviors of underrepresented social groups. Most recently, he's focused on values and biases embedded in natural language datasets.

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Break

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Dan Sullivan

Talk Title: From Certification to Dream Job: 10 Tips for Passing Google Cloud Certification Exams and Getting Real-World GCP Experience

Speaker Bio:

Dan Sullivan is a Principal Engineer with PEAK6 Technologies and a software architect with extensive experience in data architecture, data science, machine learning, stream processing, and cloud architecture. He is the author of the official Google Cloud study guides for the Professional Architect, Professional Data Engineer, and Associate Cloud Engineer. Dan has created a range of online courses for cloud computing, data science, data modeling, and data architecture. https://www.dansullivanlearning.com/publications

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Frank van Puffelen and Paul Ruiz

Talk Title: Firebase, Flutter, and Android Q&A with Paul and Puf

Speakers Bio:

Frank van Puffelen (or Puf) is an engineer for Firebase at Google. He helps developers build extraordinary apps that use Firebase as their back-end. If you've ever asked a Firebase question on StackOverflow, you've probably met Frank already.

Paul Ruiz is a Developer Programs Engineer with Android Partner DevRel out of Boulder, Colorado, in the US and has a background in Android and IoT development. Outside of work he is wrapping up an MBA, gardens, woodworks, makes movie props, and is a member of a Star Wars costuming charity where he volunteers at events as various movie characters including an Imperial Snowtrooper, X-Wing Pilot, or Tusken Raider.

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Raffle / Wrap-up / Closing Remarks

Prizes:

Google https://www.google.com/

Google offers 3 Google Nest Hub Max (value $229 each).

O’Reilly https://www.oreilly.com/

O’Reilly offers 5 ebooks/books for our raffle and to all attendees 30 days full access to their online learning platform (value $50 each).

Atria Institute of Technology https://atria.edu/home.php

Atria will offer the license to all our attendees. Atria Institute of Technology is partnered with Coursera - the leading online learning platform in the world. As a part of this program, you will have free, long-term (life-time) access to high-quality online learning on Coursera and you can enroll into Unlimited Guided Projects & 1 Course per year.

AICamp https://www.aicamp.ai/

AICamp offers two AICamp courses (value $299 each)

Instructions to join this meeting

RSVP: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-nyc-presents-devfest-northeast-2021/