Deploying Open Models on GKE

Total event deviated from agenda and made me disappointed

Summary: m8253h expressed disappointment after attending an event that failed to deliver the hands-on workshop and technical sessions as promised in its agenda. Both m8253h and their sister invested significant time and resources, traveling from Chennai and Trichy respectively, expecting a practical demonstration on deploying open-source AI models on GKE, which was not provided. m8253h is seeking acknowledgment of the issue, clarification about the agenda changes, and remediation for the affected participants.
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I attended this event based on the published agenda, which promised a hands-on workshop on deploying open-source AI models on GKE. My sister traveled from Trichy and I traveled from Chennai, investing significant time, money, and effort to attend. Unfortunately, the entire agenda as advertised was not delivered, and the session conducted was substantially different from what was communicated beforehand. There was no hands-on workshop, practical deployment demonstration, or technical implementation walkthrough as promised. As a result, the time, money, and effort invested by attendees were wasted. I respectfully request an acknowledgment of this issue, clarification regarding the deviation from the published agenda, and consideration of appropriate remediation for affected participants.

What was advertised

  1. Deploying Open Models on GKE

  2. Hands-on workshop

  3. Deploying AI workloads on GKE

  4. Practical workflows

  5. Real-world deployment best practices

  6. Hosting and scaling open-source AI models

What was actually delivered

  1. Introductory Docker session

  2. What is Docker

  3. Images and containers

  4. Very basic Docker demo

  5. Agentic AI / Vertex AI overview

  6. Agent architecture

  7. Concepts and theory

  8. No deployment walkthrough

  9. General GKE overview

  10. Traditional vs cloud applications

  11. DevOps/cloud concepts

  12. GKE introduction

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Hariharan J
4 weeks ago