Welcome Remarks

Fireside Chat with Trang Ho • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

Trang Ho started out on a path to be a medical doctor but wandered into the wrong lecture hall. Now, she’s a Vice President of Software Engineering at Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), with over 20 years of wrangling software at startups, game studios, and interactive entertainment companies. Her pandemic activities included fostering senior dogs, hiking, and launching software on browsers, mobile, and the PlayStation 5 console. She’s a self-professed introvert who plays an extrovert on video conference calls. Having earned a BSc in Biochemistry from UCLA and an Executive MBA from the London Business School, she is ready to pursue another degree that is seemingly unrelated to her career but might end up being useful in a surprising way.

What's New in CSS • 30 mins 

It's an exciting time to be a CSS developer. New features land with every browser update, and many more are in testing, being developed behind browser flags for you to try out. In this talk you'll discover what is ready now, and what is just around the corner. 

Speaker Bio

Rachel Andrew works for Google as a technical writer, working on web.dev and the Chrome Developers site. She is a front and back-end web developer, author and speaker, author or co-author of 22 books including The New CSS Layout and a regular contributor to a number of publications both on and offline. Rachel is a Member of the CSS Working Group, and can be found posting photos of her cats on Twitter as @rachelandrew.

Making Your Apps Private By Design  • 30 mins

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Meghan is a Developer Advocate at Google. Previously, she has worked at Disney, PwC, Yelp, Foursquare and Northrop Grumman. She is an inspiring leader who is committed to breaking the stereotypes of what an engineer looks like and is a strong advocate for women in technology.

Gradle and AGP APIs • 30 mins

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Murat is a Developer Advocate for Android at Google. Murat has been an Android Developer back to Froyo, worked on wearable and other form factor Android devices. He is a code geek, open source committer, Java Champion and the author of Expert Android Studio and Professional Java EE Design Patterns books.

Movement Break • 10 mins 

Android Study Jam | Hands-On Lab • 60 mins

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Madona is a software engineer and a mobile app developer.  She is a tech-savvy mom and develops computer programs and writes code for a living. Her passion lies in writing code and developing awesome stuff that impacts life. She find moments of brilliance when she creates a Mobile App or a Software that produces a good impact. Madona likes to imagine new ways technology can touch lives in a meaningful manner. With that in mind, she asks herself how she can be a part of the solution ~ using her knowledge, experience, and skills. It's pretty amazing when you think about it. In her world, she believe life runs on code. That's her perspective of life. She relishes the thrill of learning new coding languages and sharing with others her insights.

Panel | Android Experts • 30 mins 

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Panel | Flutter Experts • 30 mins 

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Closing Remarks

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Welcome Remarks & Fireside Chat with Trang Ho (VP of Software Engineering, PlayStation)

Intro to Jetpack Compose • 30 mins 

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Introduction to Flutter • 30 mins 

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Nilay is a Program Manager in the Flutter DevRel team. She used to be a GDG organizer and WTM Lead in Istanbul, her passion on the communities became her full time job. 

Grow with Google | Improve Your Resume with Practical Strategies • 45 mins 

Speaker Bio

Israel is a Grow with Google Trainer & Speaker and has spent the last 15 years working in various roles within the public and private sector, across various industries - including the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), the Specialty Coffee Association, Constant Contact and other eCommerce Software as a Service (SaaS) companies while serving several multicultural communities along the way. Israel takes pride in having the opportunity to organize and speak at hundreds of industry conferences on topics related to eCommerce, Social Media Marketing, Job Skill Trainings, and Resume Building.

Movement Break • 10 mins 

LinkedIn Crash Course • 25 mins 

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Grow with Google | Power Your Job Search with Google Tools • 45 mins 

Speaker Bio

Israel is a Grow with Google Trainer & Speaker and has spent the last 15 years working in various roles within the public and private sector, across various industries - including the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), the Specialty Coffee Association, Constant Contact and other eCommerce Software as a Service (SaaS) companies while serving several multicultural communities along the way. Israel takes pride in having the opportunity to organize and speak at hundreds of industry conferences on topics related to eCommerce, Social Media Marketing, Job Skill Trainings, and Resume Building.

Panel | Hiring Managers and Recruiters • 30 mins 

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Welcome Remarks

Opening Keynote • 20 mins 

Panel | Cloud Experts • 30 mins 

Speaker Bios

Lynn Langit is a cloud architect who works with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform who also specializes in big data projects. She has worked with AWS Athena, Aurora, Redshift, Kinesis, and the IoT. She has also done production work with Databricks for Apache Spark and Google Cloud Dataproc, Bigtable, BigQuery, and Cloud Spanner. Lynn is also the co-founder of Teaching Kids Programming. She has spoken on data and cloud technologies in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Victor has been building the "cloud" ever since starting his own dial-up BBS system in middle school. Since then, he's gone on to build software, cloud infrastructure, and even data-centers at organizations as diverse as early stage startup companies to the US DoD. As an advocate of Linux and Open Source Software, he routinely contributes to open source, gives talks at conferences and community meetups, as well as helps organize GDG Cloud Austin. He also helped start the Texas Linux Fest, Texas' largest community-run conference dedicated to Linux and OSS. Victor has a B.S. Electrical Engineering from Clemson University and is President of Cloudkite.io, a Google Cloud Platform Partner, founded in 2015. He is also a GCP certified Professional Cloud Architect and a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

Vikram Tiwari is Co-founder, Tech at Omni Labs and manages all the tech responsibilities. At Omni, Vikram and team are working on “Personalizing automation for the web”. Professionally Vikram’s work has been in web, cloud and machine learning technologies with a focus on making highly available, resilient and secure products. He is also a Google Cloud certified developer and architect. Vikram has a passion for contribution back to the community through public speaking and content publishing. He has reviewed several books, published multiple blog posts and spoken at over 50 conferences. He has been a Google Developers Expert for Cloud and Machine Learning since last 3 years. He also mentors other startups and nonprofits organizations through Google Launchpad program. Vikram also has a passion for community building. Over the years he has built many local tech communities globally. From New Delhi in India to Vancouver in Canada and now in San Francisco. He currently manages GDG Cloud San Francisco meetup group. He has impacted 30 companies and over 7000 audience members with his various community contributions.

Serverless Applications • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

Jason Lengstorf is a principal developer experience engineer at Netlify and the host of Learn With Jason, a live-streamed video show where he pairs with people in the community to learn something new in 90 minutes. He’s passionate about building healthy, efficient teams and systems, and he’s done his best to positively influence the community, leadership, and technical health of open source and companies including Gatsby and IBM. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Building Scalable ML pipelines with Vertex AI • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

Sara Robinson is a Developer Advocate on Google's Cloud Platform team, focusing on machine learning. She inspires developers and data scientists to integrate ML into their applications through demos, online content, and events. Sara has a bachelors degree from Brandeis University. Before Google, she was a Developer Advocate on the Firebase team.

Movement Break • 10 mins 

No-Code / Low-Code • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

Timothy is a consultant, engineering manager, software engineer, project manager, and educator in the Pittsburgh area for 20+ years. He's really passionate about helping people with career development, Computer Science education,  startups and small businesses,  improving opportunities for individuals, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Cloud computing is complicated -- how you can simplify it • 30 mins 

Building a cloud-based requires many skills: security, infrastructure configuration, database tuning, performance optimization, networking, etc. And that's before we even get to the business requirements. In this talk Martin will show you how to simplify your life as a developer by thinking about cloud applications differently and building them with the help of serverless technology.

Speaker Bio

Martin Omander works for Google in Mountain View, California. His job in the Developer Relations team is to help developers build better software, and improve Google's Cloud Platform to make it even better for that purpose. In his spare time he manages to sneak in some game programming. Before Google, Martin worked at string of startups in Silicon Valley as a software engineer.

Fine Tuning State Of The Art Models Using TPUs • 30 mins 

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Gus is a TensorFlow Developer Advocate at Google and has been working on the Machine Learning field for 5 years and is very interested in how to make ML more accessible to all developers.

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Serverless • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

Andrea spends much of each day coding and building pretty sweet features for Firebase at Google, and as she also really cares about diversifying the tech industry, she teaches and mentors for various education equity efforts across Google and for non-profits. When her brain can no longer process code, she escapes to adventure outdoors with a mirrorless camera, writes on personal blogs, and meets different people (hopefully you!) to broaden her perspectives and continuously learn!

How To Prepare For The Future Of App Stores • 30 mins 

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Bruce is the President and CEO of the Developers Alliance, the leading policy advocate for the global developer workforce and the companies that depend on them. Bruce was previously VP and head of the DC Policy office of Ericsson, a global information and communications technology company. He has held senior leadership positions in marketing and communications, strategy, and product management in the wireless, optical and enterprise technology sectors. His side gigs have included being co-owner of an artisan chocolate shop in Old Town Alexandria, VA, where he was sometimes seen serving up latte’s and not talking tech. Bruce holds a JD from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, an MBA from the University of Calgary in Canada, and a BS in Engineering from the University of Manitoba, also in Canada. Bruce is normally based in Washington DC, but spends more time on a mountain lake in the Canadian Rockies these days.

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Welcome Remarks & Opening Keynote with Jason Titus (VP of Engineering, Google)

Panel | Web Experts • 30 mins 

Speaker Bios

Shaundai is a Senior Software Engineer (Netflix) and educator based in Atlanta, GA, US. She is passionate about making programming interesting and approachable for all, and does that through her work as an Egghead instructor, a Co-Lead for React Robins, and a technical blogger. Find her on Twitter at @shaundai

Tracy Lee is the CEO and co-founder of This Dot Labs, a framework agnostic consulting firm specializing in JavaScript. Passionate about JavaScript and community building, she is the host of the Modern Web Podcast, organizes remote meetups for both frameworks and women in tech, and currently works on the RxJS Core Team. Tracy is also a proud Google Developer Expert, and Microsoft MVP.

Valerie is a Senior Software Engineer at Mastery Logistics Systems. She’s also the founder of Tech By Choice (since 2018

Flexbox vs. Grid • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

 Kevin is a CSS Evanglelist and he absolutely loves CSS. He wants to help new front-end devs enjoy learning it, and help seasoned vets see how great it really is. Most of his content is over on YouTube, but he also streams on Twitch, and writes articles every now and then as well, not to mention courses.

There's More To Console Than Log • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

Jesse is a full-stack, self-taught developer with a passion to educate others about all things coding related. He teaches aspiring developers through his YouTube channel codeSTACKr, blogs, and online courses. With over 20 years of web development experience, his favorite topics to teach are JavaScript, React, CSS, and of course MongoDB

Movement Break • 10 mins 

Javascript and Web Performance • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

Chander is an awarded Microsoft MVP and world-renowned technology leader in architecting and implementing solutions. He's not only rescued software development teams, but also implemented successful projects under tight deadlines and difficult business constraints. His company has a proven track record of not just saving the client millions of dollars, but also providing an expedited delivery time. Chander's team of experts are internationally-acclaimed speakers in top technical conferences in the world.As a Microsoft Azure Advisor, ASP.NET Insider, Web API Advisor, DocumentDB Advisor, and an MVP for Visual Studio and Development Technologies, Chander has insight into new releases on technologies used by millions of developers. His critical advice, impeccable vision, futuristic strategy backed with creating and establishing best practices in the industry are some of the reasons for his unparalleled success.At the same time, he's a voracious and highly-respected speaker. Chander is known to elucidate critical and complex concepts while making them easy to understand. He's one man who can talk to anyone from a junior developer, a senior architect all the way to an executive and knows how to speak their language. He has utilized his amazing business sense having started a company with zero funding and turned it into a multi-million-dollar company in less than two years.

Introduction to Cloud • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

Priyanka Vergadia is Developer Advocate at Google where she creates content for developers to learn Google Cloud! She has created over 300 videos, articles, podcasts, courses and tutorials that have helped developers learn Google Cloud fundamentals, solve their challenges and pass certifications! She is the writer and creator of the new #GCPSketchnote series that highlights her passion to combine art and technology by visual storytelling. She is always happy to connect and answer questions on LinkedIn and Twitter @pvergadia 

Building Next Generation Web Apps with TensorFlow.js • 30 mins 

Speaker Bio

Jason is the public face of TensorFlow.js, helping web engineers globally take their first steps with machine learning in JavaScript. He also combines his knowledge of the technical and creative worlds to develop innovative prototypes for Google's largest customers and internal teams with over 15 years experience working within web engineering and investigating emerging technologies. He holds an MEng in Computer Science, is a member of the British Computing Society, and is a certified information privacy technologist. Jason loves sharing knowledge online which has attracted a global following.

Cloud Study Jam | Hands-on Lab • 60 mins 

Derive Insights from Unstructured Text using Google Machine Learning 

Join us to learn how to use Cloud Natural Language API to Get insightful text analysis with machine learning that extracts, analyzes, and stores text within a document - including emails, chat, and social media—and then sentiment analysis to understand customer opinions to find actionable product and UX insights.

Speaker Bios

Tristan Li is a Customer Engineer at Google. He works with enterprise customers in the US, helping them adopt cloud technology to build innovative, scalable, and secure solutions on Google Cloud

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