Schedule
8:30-9:00
Registration
9:00-9:05
Welcome Message (David Roldan, Google Cloud)
9:05-9:50
Securing Serverless - by breaking in (Guy Podjarny, Snyk)
Serverless rocks the security boat. The fact we don’t need to manage servers or capacity rids us of certain security concerns, while the sheer number of functions and the security management they need raises others. Guy Podjarny demonstrates these security concerns live, as he breaks into a vulnerable Serverless application and exploits multiple weaknesses, helping you better understand the mistakes you can make, their implications, and how you can avoid them.
9:50-9:55
Q&A
9:55-10:25
Firebase as your go-to platform (Stefan Hogendoorn, Qlouder)
In this session Stefan will explain how Firebase can be your go-to platform. Whether you are building a mobile app or an extensive back-end application, Firebase can make your life a lot easier. Learn how to quickly connect front-end and back-end and use Firebase as a starting point to leverage the Google Cloud Platform.
10:25-10:30
Q&A
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
How we're building the future of finance (Lewis Tuff, Blockchain)
An overview of how Blockchain leverages GCP to scale on-demand, ship fast and support 30M+ user wallets - accounting for 25% of the global bitcoin network traffic.
11:30- 11:35
Q&A
11:35-12:05
Build real world applications with Google Cloud (Lee Boonstra, Google)
Kubernetes - Check! CI/CD Pipelines - Check! Machine Learning - Check! Compliant - Check! Data analytics - Check! Lee Boonstra shares an overview of various Google Cloud components, all implemented in a single application, and tells you how you can do too.
12:05-12:10
Q&A
12:10-12:55
BigQuery - One step beyond (Daniel Bergqvist, Google)
In this hands-on session we will see how we can use BigQuery to handle everything from geospatial data to training machine learning models, using nothing but SQL.
12:55-13:00
Q&A
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-14:20
The How of AI Ethics (Anat Elhalal, Digital Catapult)
There are a lot of AI ethics guidelines, but most lack comprehensive tools or processes for implementation, and those that do exist may still be at a research stage, or difficult to identify or access. How do we move from the 'what' of AI ethics to the' how'?
14:20-14:25
Q&A
14:25-15:10
Navigating the Product : Market Fit Rapids with GCP (Matthew Yeager, Google)
tl;dr Live demo heavy session to demonstrate the use of GCP to build a machine learning MVP and reduce your time to value whilst accelerating your route to product : market fit.
As a startup you have competing priorities which can change weekly, daily, and even hourly yet the march to product : market fit never ceases. We get that at Google, and at Google Cloud for Startups we spend pretty much all day every day thinking about how we can help you to manage and maximise the only truly finite resource we all have ... time. Using wine pricing prediction as our MVP, this session will take you from end to end of a machine learning pipeline with plenty of live demos.
15:10-15:15
Q&A
15:15-15:45
TensorFlow, basketball, and reflective tape - building transparent models (Zack Akil, Google)
Instead of building models that are used to predict the future, come see how I've used TensorFlow to analyse my basketball skills (or lack there of) by building a transparent model that can be inspected to reveal insights about the present.
15:45-15:50
Q&A
15:45-16:20
Coffee break
16:20-16:50
Establishing Peer to Peer Trust for Visual Content (Benjamin Huston, Serelay)
Benjamin will look to explore the challenges in promoting trust for visual content at a time of fake news, synthetic media and deep fakes. He will provide a demo showing Serelay’s solution - trusted media capture - which empowers users to prove the integrity of the content, time and location of any of their images and videos. Clearly such a solution requires significant thought with regard to security and scalability and he will share their experiences of using machine learning and secure architecture.
16:50-16:55
Q&A
16:55-17:25
Consumer Banking and the Blockchain (Mischa Tuffield, TokenCard)
The team at TokenCard are bringing a pre-paid card powered by a decentralised Ethereum wallet to the market. TokenCard’s vision would not have been possible without decentralised technologies and radically changes the dynamic between users and their assets. This talk aims to present some of the concepts core to the technological advances being made in the blockchain eco-system.
17:25-17:30
Q&A
17:30-18:00
Can AI pass the Exam for Human Pilots? (David Haber, Daedalean)
In this talk, David will give an overview of how Daedalean combines cutting-edge AI with robotics to develop an autopilot system that can pass the exam for human pilots and completely revolutionize urban air travel before 2025. He will showcase some recent prototypes and discuss challenges on the path to bring AI-based autonomy to the air.