GDG DevFest: Innovate. Elevate. Take Flight.

Join us at DevFest organized by GDG San Francisco x GDG Fremont. It's the ultimate gathering of developers, creators, and tech-enthusiasts. We’re bringing together visionary minds with hands-on experiences, creative challenges, and plenty of fun to fuel your next big idea.

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📅 What’s Happening

Build with AI Workshop:
Guided by Google Developer Experts, you’ll explore real-world applications, prototype tools using cutting-edge APIs, and leave with a working AI project — no matter your experience level.

Speaker: Taha Bouhsine, Co-Founder @Azetta.ai

Title: Agentic Air Traffic Control

Description: Air Traffic Control (ATC) is a high-stakes operation where immense cognitive load from synthesizing disconnected radar, weather, and voice data can lead to delays and safety risks. This session demonstrates how to build an AI-assisted decision-support agent using Google Cloud and Vertex AI to address this challenge. We will show how to architect a system that ingests, fuses, and analyzes these multi-modal streams in real-time, leveraging Google's powerful AI models on Vertex AI to summarize complex situations and provide a natural language interface for controllers. The goal is not to replace the human but to equip them with a powerful co-pilot that manages data, highlights risks, and instantly answers critical questions like, "Summarize active conflicts in Sector 7" or "Predict the weather impact on SFO arrivals."

Aviation Hackathon: “The Future of Flight Intelligence”

Your mission: Transform real flight data into smart systems that help pilots fly safer, instructors train better, and aircraft operate more efficiently.

We’ll supply you with:

• Real flight & cockpit data (civil + defense training missions)

• Audio, telemetry, weather, and FAA documentation

• Mentorship from engineers and pilots at Navi AI & GDG

Challenges:

• Analyze live avionics to see if maneuvers meet FAA standards

• Detect pilot actions from cockpit video feeds

• Predict flight risk based on pilot, weather, and aircraft context

• Identify ATC miscommunications from radio transcripts

• Build an AI copilot that handles second-in-command tasks

No aviation experience needed, just curiosity, creativity, and a laptop.

Top 10 Teams Take the Stage

At the end of the day, the top 10 teams will present their creations to a panel of judges from Google, Navi AI, and the U.S. Air Force. You’ll have 5 minutes to pitch, 5 minutes to impress, and a chance to make your mark on the future of aviation tech.

Prizes

1st Place: Take Flight

Win a private flight lesson in a Cirrus SR22 with a certified instructor — your chance to see your ideas take literal flight.

2nd Place: Push the Envelope

Experience an aerobatic flight lesson, where you’ll pull G’s and learn precision flying from a pro.

3rd Place: Build More, Fly More

Receive developer credits and gear (TBA) to fuel your next AI project or aviation adventure.

All Top 10 Teams

• Recognition in press and social channels

• Networking access with judges, mentors, and sponsors
  

Who’s Invited

Open to anyone excited by tech: developers, data scientists, UX/product designers, aviation-enthusiasts, and students. Bring your laptop, bring your curiosity, and find your team on-site. No previous aviation or AI experience required. Just a willingness to build, experiment, and collaborate.

Tentative Agenda (subject to change)

• 9:00-9:20: Check in & breakfast

  9:20 - 9:30: Welcome

  9:30 - 9:40: Keynote 1 - Googler

  9:40 - 9:50: Keynote 2 - Aviation

  9:50 - 10:00: talk - Aviation

  10:00 - 10:30: Team forming and ideation

  10:30 - 11:30: BwAI workshop - Taha (Google Developer Expert)

  11:30: Hackathon Kickoff and lunch

  7:00 Submission Deadline

  7 - 7:30: Judging starts + Dinner

  8:00-8:30 Giveaways (raffle prize) + Top 10 Presentations

  9:00 Wrap up

What to bring: Laptop, enthusiasm, and optionally your idea (for hackathon)

Let’s innovate together, build something extraordinary, and have a blast along the way. Can’t wait to see you at GDG DevFest!

Please note: You must be approved to attend the event.

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• ​GDG San Francisco: https://gdg.community.dev/gdg-san-francisco/

• ​GDG Fremont: https://gdg.community.dev/gdg-fremont/