Dear GDG Madurai Community,
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 session did not align with the published agenda and was substantially different from what was communicated beforehand. There was no hands-on workshop, practical deployment demonstration, or technical implementation walkthrough for deploying open-source AI models on GKE as advertised. 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:
* Deploying Open-Source AI Models on GKE
* Hands-on workshop
* Deploying AI workloads on GKE
* Practical deployment workflows
* Real-world deployment best practices
* Hosting and scaling open-source AI models
What was actually delivered:
Introductory Docker session
* What is Docker
* Docker images and containers
* Very basic Docker demonstration
Agentic AI / Vertex AI overview
* Agent architecture
* Conceptual and theoretical discussion
* No deployment walkthrough
General GKE overview
* Traditional vs. cloud applications
* DevOps and cloud concepts
* Introduction to GKE