Are you interested in learning generative AI? Join us for this 5-session online study series with Google Cloud, where we take you onto the journey learning generative AI. You’ll explore the dynamic landscape of Generative AI, gaining both theoretical insights and practical know-how of Google Cloud GenAI tools such as Gemini, Vertex AI and Imagen 3.

You will get free access to Google Cloud Skills Boost and engage in practical exercises to earn the Google Cloud Skills Boost badge, demonstrating your ability to craft effective prompts, guide AI outputs, and deploy Gemini models in real-world marketing scenarios. In addition, you will learn from expert speakers from Google and the community.

In this third session, you will learn about Gemini, Gemma and Agents. 

Talk: Deploy Gemma on Vertex AI

Speaker: Hannes Hapke

In this session, we'll explore the practical implementation of Google's Gemma model on Vertex AI, providing a comprehensive walkthrough of the deployment process. We'll dive into techniques for creating private LLM instances, ensuring your sensitive information remains protected throughout the inference pipeline. Whether you're new to LLM deployments or looking to optimize existing implementations, you'll walk away with actionable insights for deploying Gemma in production environments.

The event series are organized by GDG Seattle and GDG Surrey, co-hosted by GDG Vancouver and GDG Burnaby.

The five sessions of the study series are:

• 1/22/2025 - Session #1 - Intro to GenAI on Google Cloud (RSVP here)
• 2/5/2025 - Session #2 - Deep Dive: Image Generation, Vector Search, Embeddings, RAG (RSVP here)
• 2/19/2025 - Session #3 - Building Apps: Gemini, GenAI Agents 
• 3/5/2025 - Session #4 - Data: BigQuery & Gemini (RSVP here)
• 3/19/2025 - Session #5 - Deployment: Model Garden, MLOps, Responsible AI (RSVP here)

Preferably you join all 5 sessions; however, you are welcome to join any session even if you missed the previous ones.

Please make sure to sign up for an account on Google Cloud Skills Boost in order to get the free access. Make sure to use the same email (that you used for RSVP here) to sign up for the account.

Questions? Please join GDG Surrey's discord server here: discord.com/invite/uJvdNgXXNS and post your questions to channel gen_ai_gcp