Thursday, March 28th - Pre-summit Dinner Party

Intercontinental Miami Hotel 

Sevilla Room

Friday, March 29th - 1st Day of the Summit

Check-in & Breakfast

60 min

Welcome - Opening Talk

5 min - Kübra Zengin & Gaiatri Dasu

Developer Relations Program Manager

Google

Overview North America Developer Ecosystem

Learn what the North America team has in store for the community. What did we learn? What do we plan to do? How will it all be different? This session will be an interactive session to talk about the new changes to the program and how we plan to grow together.

60 min - Naveen Nigam

Head of Developer Ecosystems - North America, Google

Naveen leads the Dev Ecosystem North America team - responsible for the strategy and execution for all ecosystem programs running in North America. Previous to this role, Naveen was on the Google Play team working closely with developers and ensuring Google Play was a safe and inclusive platform. In Naveen's past life - before Google - he was the Director, App World Ecosystem at BlackBerry and a Program Manager at Microsoft. Based out of Toronto and an Engineer from the University of Waterloo, Naveen loves hockey and talking about smart home automation.  

The Leadership Secrets of Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Follow along with us as we explore community leadership lessons learned from Captain Picard by starting a brand new GDG, growing the leadership team & community, and holding their first DevFest!

30 min - Martin Omander & Kyle Paul

Cloud Developer Advocate & Program Manager, Google

Martin works for Google in Mountain View, California. His job in the Developer Relations team is to help developers build better software. Before that he supported the awesome GDGs in North America for five years. Before Google, Martin worked at string of startups in Silicon Valley as a software engineer.

Kyle works for Google in Mountain View, California. His job on the Developer Relations team is to support awesome developer communities, like the Google Developer Groups. In his spare time he enjoys building and hacking on the web, playing with his two cats, and photographing the outdoors. Before Google, Kyle was a startup founder, organizer for GDG Kansas City, and a Google Developer Expert (GDE).

Break

15 min

GDG: what's ahead

From DevFest to the Global Summit, let's talk about the exciting things in store for the GDG program. 

30 min - Jennifer Kohl 

Developer Relations Program Manager - Google

Jen is the global program manager for the GDG program and the team manager for developer community programs. Based in NYC, she has been at Google for 12 years where she has worked in digital ads, events, and SWE recruiting. Jen is an east coast native, born and raised in NJ. Outside of work, Jen is currently designing and building a new home with her husband in the NJ suburbs. In her remaining free time, Jen can be found watching TV shows with her husband (also a Googler, working on Waze) or taking her 2 kids (5 and 3) and 2 dogs (1 Westie and 1 mutt) to the park.

What's a WTM Ambassador?

Women Techmakers recently rebranded the Leads program to Ambassadors. This session will go over why we made the change, what this means for GDGs, and our plans for the future! 

30 min - Melissa Muñoz

Developer Relations Program Manager - Google

Melissa Muñoz is a Program Manager on the Women Techmakers team at Google leading community initiatives. She's a Bay Area Native, and in her free time enjoys exploring the local food scene, hiking new trails, rooting for Warriors, and attempting (but mostly failing) to win pub trivia with friends. 

Google Developer Experts Program

• What is the GDE Program?

• GDE Accomplishments & Stories Spotlight

• How to Become a GDE GDG and GDE Program Collaboration

30 min - Alina Rakhmatoullina 

Developer Relations Program Manager - Google

 Alina is a Program Manager on the Google Developer Experts team. She started her career in Tech Consulting getting to know companies and industries all over the country. She transitioned to Program Management, with the passion to provide fans of technology opportunities to feel part of a community all around the world.

Group Photo

 10 min

Lunch

 60 min

Panel with Google Dev Ecosystem

This is an opportunity for you to ask questions to the owners of the programs. 

60 min - Jennifer Kohl (GDG Program), Alina Rakhmatoullina (GDE Program), Melissa Muñoz (WTM  Program), Ronan Mandel (Cloud Communities), Naveen Nigam (North America Communities)

Jen is the global program manager for the GDG program and the team manager for developer community programs. Based in NYC, she has been at Google for 12 years where she has worked in digital ads, events, and SWE recruiting. Jen is an east coast native, born and raised in NJ. Outside of work, Jen is currently designing and building a new home with her husband in the NJ suburbs. In her remaining free time, Jen can be found watching TV shows with her husband (also a Googler, working on Waze) or taking her 2 kids (5 and 3) and 2 dogs (1 Westie and 1 mutt) to the park.

Alina is a Program Manager on the Google Developer Experts team. She started her career in Tech Consulting getting to know companies and industries all over the country. She transitioned to Program Management, with the passion to provide fans of technology opportunities to feel part of a community all around the world.

Melissa Muñoz is a Program Manager on the Women Techmakers team at Google leading community initiatives. She's a Bay Area Native, and in her free time enjoys exploring the local food scene, hiking new trails, rooting for Warriors, and attempting (but mostly failing) to win pub trivia with friends. 

Ronan Mandel is the global program lead for Cloud Communities, as well as the point of contact for the Cloud GDE Program. While relatively new to the DevRel Ecosystem team, he's been at Google for 4.75 years, previously having led the developer support program for Play. Ronan has been working with developer communities and providing developer support in one form or another for over 24 years. 

Public Speaking Workshop

Professional development is always a focus at Google, and we've decided to invest some time and dollars in helping you grow one of the most coveted, yet intimidating skills in business - public speaking! We have an awesome workshop happening on March 29th with the amazing public speaking coaching team at Speaker Labs. If you think that having awesome presentation skills is something that can help you take your career to the next level, join us! The workshop focuses on: Mastering delivery with body and voice Overcoming fears and self-imposed constraints Storytelling for captivating presentations For more information - check out www.speakerlabs.ca. Hope to see you all there!

30 min - Eli Gladstone & Eric Silverberg 

Hi! Eric and Eli, here! We started Speaker Labs in 2016 so that we could focus all of our time and effort around two of the things we value most: communication and teaching. We both began our careers as Faculty Members at the Ivey Business School, where we were fortunate enough to lecture packed classrooms every day. It was during that time when we fell in love...not with each other (although we are best friends) - but with teaching. Helping others develop became a life passion for us. After teaching, we took a few years to explore the world of tech start-ups (we are millennials after-all) and we saw how communication is pervasive, not only in the classroom, but in all areas of business. It was clear that expressing ideas confidently and clearly was a common challenge, and we gravitated towards helping other over that all-too-common hurdle. Then we took a leap. A leap that turned our passions into a company. Enter Speaker Labs.

Break

20 min

Public Speaking Workshop

Professional development is always a focus at Google, and we've decided to invest some time and dollars in helping you grow one of the most coveted, yet intimidating skills in business - public speaking! We have an awesome workshop happening on March 29th with the amazing public speaking coaching team at Speaker Labs. If you think that having awesome presentation skills is something that can help you take your career to the next level, join us! The workshop focuses on: Mastering delivery with body and voice Overcoming fears and self-imposed constraints Storytelling for captivating presentations For more information - check out www.speakerlabs.ca. Hope to see you all there!

120 min - Eli Gladstone & Eric Silverberg 

Hi! Eric and Eli, here! We started Speaker Labs in 2016 so that we could focus all of our time and effort around two of the things we value most: communication and teaching. We both began our careers as Faculty Members at the Ivey Business School, where we were fortunate enough to lecture packed classrooms every day. It was during that time when we fell in love...not with each other (although we are best friends) - but with teaching. Helping others develop became a life passion for us. After teaching, we took a few years to explore the world of tech start-ups (we are millennials after-all) and we saw how communication is pervasive, not only in the classroom, but in all areas of business. It was clear that expressing ideas confidently and clearly was a common challenge, and we gravitated towards helping other over that all-too-common hurdle. Then we took a leap. A leap that turned our passions into a company. Enter Speaker Labs.

Closing Remarks

Saturday, March 30th - 2nd Day of the Summit

Check-in & Breakfast

60 min

Welcome - Opening Talk

5 min - Kübra Zengin & Gaiatri Dasu

Developer Relations Program Manager

Google

Building a Community First Developer Relations Practice

In this talk Uttam will share his experience of what is takes to build Developer Relations practice and teams while keeping Communities First.

35 min - Uttam Tripathi

Head of Global Programs, DevRel Ecosystem, Google

Uttam leads Global Programs Team in Dev Ecosystem & North America Regional Ecosystem Team at Google. Prior to this Uttam led Launchpad Program at Google and was Country Head, Developer Relations for Google in India. In his pre-Google roles Uttam worked as a management consultant at Booz & Co. and Software Developer Engineer at Amazon India. Uttam holds a Bachelors & Masters degree in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from Indian School of Business.

Google supports our group with a big 👍👍, now what? Finding Sponsors/Speakers

We have all been to top notch, super high quality presentations by a Googler and been lavished by swag and food, all in a gorgeous space. This may be part of what we were dreaming when we signed up to be a GDG Organizer. When you are back home, with no budget, or space, or speaker available, with Google Corporate saying, "Yeah! Do that thing!" How do you move from your dream 5-star event to the reality of making _something_ happen? We will discuss best ideas of finding a sponsor for your events, and finding a good speaker as well. Maybe even what's the best food (Pizza or Hoagies or Lobster Rolls).

20 min - Lloyd Lentz

Director of Advancement Info Services, Macalester College

Co-organizer, GDG Twin Cities 

Building an Inclusive Community from the Ground Up

For GDG Cambridge, creating an inclusive community has been a priority from day one. We have learned many lessons on what helps foster an open and welcoming space for our members. We emphasize our shared interests, and values, while the ways we are unique drive engagement. Additionally, our Women TechMakers program has been an incredible success in helping close the gender gap at our events. We are just getting started and are looking forward to trading notes on what’s worked for us, and what’s next.

20 min - Amal Hussein

 Senior Open Web Engineer at Bocoup Organizer for GDG Cambridge, Women TechMakers Ambassador

Amal is a Senior Open Web Engineer at Bocoup, where she brings her background as a web application developer and passion for automated testing to bear on conformance testing browsers for web platform interoperability. She has built complex web applications, traversed back-end, front-end and infrastructure management. Amal loves community and is a WomanTechMakers Ambassador, organizer of GDG Cambridge and a co-host of the Web Platform Podcast. She also cares deeply about the open web platform and plans on using it to save the universe.

Break

 20 min

Focus on your code, not infrastructure

We will follow the story of the fictional startup "In Jest", publishers of an app that tells jokes. At first, the developers at "In Jest" need to get a minimum viable product up and running in an hour. As their business grows they will have to integrate with Google Sheets, SQL databases, analytics systems, marketing systems and so on. We will see the code used to make this happen, without having to worry the team about servers and data centers.

30 min - Martin Omander

Cloud Developer Advocate, Google

Martin works for Google in Mountain View, California. His job in the Developer Relations team is to help developers build better software. Before that he supported the awesome GDGs in North America for five years. Before Google, Martin worked at string of startups in Silicon Valley as a software engineer.

Introduction to TensorFlow 2.0

TensorFlow 2.0 has landed! During this session, you’ll learn all about TensorFlow 2.0’s new features, usability enhancements, and focus on developer productivity with high-level APIs like Keras. We’ll use the TF2.0 migration tool to transition a model from TensorFlow 1.x to 2.0 and deploy an end-to-end machine learning model to using Google Colab. If you’re interested in using TensorFlow for your deep learning experiments, you won't want to miss this talk! WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: – New features and functionality in TensorFlow 2.0 – How to upgrade a model from TF 1.x to TF 2.0 – How to deploy an end-to-end TensorFlow model on Google Colab PREREQUISITES – All of the course content will be on Google Colab! – Need a laptop with access to the internet, ideally running Google Chrome. 

30 min - Paige Bailey

Developer Advocate, TensorFlow, Google

Paige Bailey is a TensorFlow Developer Advocate at Google, based in Mountain View, CA. Prior to joining Google, Paige worked as a senior software engineer in the office of the Azure CTO; as a Cloud Developer Advocate for machine learning at Microsoft; and as a data scientist for Chevron in Houston, TX. Paige has over a decade of experience using Python for data analysis, five years of experience doing machine learning - and can't wait to show you about the new capabilities in TensorFlow 2.0. 

From Zero to ML on Google Cloud Platform

Today we’re seeing revolutionary changes in hardware and software that are democratizing machine learning (ML) and making it accessible to any developer or data scientist. Whether you’re new to ML or you’re already an expert, GCP has a variety of tools to help you. We'll start with the basics: how to use a pre-trained ML model with a single API call. Then you’ll learn how to customize a pre-trained model with AutoML. I’ll end by showing how to train and serve a custom TensorFlow model on GCP.

30 min - Sara Robinson

Developer Advocate, Google

Sara 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 bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University. Before Google, she was a Developer Advocate on the Firebase team. When she's not programming she can be found on a spin bike, listening to the Hamilton soundtrack, or eating froyo. 

Lunch

60 min

We'll Do It Live: Recording and Live Streaming Your Events

So you run monthly meetups, or you do this awesome year DevFest thing, and you have everything set up and ready to go. Have you ever wanted to record or livestream your events to reach out to a wider audience? In this talk, we will go over our experiences since adding video recording to our meetups; along with pros and cons. Also, we will cover things to consider when wanting to record such as waivers and requirements. Finally, we will wrap up with a live demo showing how to create a setup to record your talks like a Pro for under ~$200.00!

20 min - Joel Vasallo

Manager of Cloud DevOps, Redbox & Co-organizer, GDG Chicago

Joel is currently the Manager of Cloud DevOps at Redbox where he leads the Cloud DevOps team to architect highly available cloud environments, develop infrastructure and development tools, and empower developers through fully automated single click deployment pipelines. In his spare time, he loves support the Chicagoland tech community. He is a Google Developer Group Organizer from Chicago, running monthly meet ups and helps coordinate a yearly DevFest; Windy City DevFest. When he isn't working, he loves exploring Sweet Home Chicago!

Nailing the Tech Interview

Like most interviews, the technical interview begins with the resume, and ends with the post-interview follow up. However, the technical interview includes more than just reviewing your resume, going over your credentials, and discussing projects and achievements. The technical interview involves more than the behavioral portion and assuring your personality and style are a good fit. It also involves demonstrating that your problem solving skills are superior to those of other candidates. This talk will cover how to overcome the challenges of the technical interview, and impress your potential employer. It will also include tips and tricks from the initial screening phase through the in person interview as well as the post-interview follow up. 

20 min -  Eva Sofianos

Lecturer, Lehman College & Co-organizer, GDG Bronx

I’m passionate about technology, love teaching and strongly believe in community give back. I am currently a faculty member at Lehman College, CUNY with over 15 years in IT; most of those yearswere spent at IBM. I have also developed technical solutions for Weill Medical Center of Cornell University, as well as some startups, in addition to having done research and taught at the American Museum of Natural History in NY. Some career highlights include co-authoring an IBM Redbook for Private Clouds, co-founding a technical training program, and acquiring 2 grants last year for curriculum redesign and project-based learning.

Best Practices for Increasing Event Attendees

One of the main challenges of having a successful event/meetup series is how to get a good number of attendees show up time and time again. After being a part of the SF Android GDG meetup for 9 years, we have learned some best practices for getting great attendance on a regular (sometimes monthly) basis. Then suddenly with the flood of content on youtube and more meetups in San Francisco, attendance dropped. We went back to the drawing board, created new processes, and are back to an average 80 attendees per event. In this talk I will walk through what worked well for us... Getting venues/sponsors, booking A+ speakers, content, making your events more interactive, etc. 

20 min - Rooz Mohazzabi 

Director of Sales, Gradle Inc & Co-organizer, GDG San Francisco Android

Rooz has been working with Sales and Marketing at Gradle Inc, the company behind the Gradle open source project. He is the co-organizer of the San Francisco Java User group, the San Francisco Android GDG, and the Bay Area Gradle User Groups. Rooz is also on the Gradle Summit and Droidcon SF conference committee teams. In his spare time he also has founded a concert business that produces the largest house music festival in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Regional Group Workshop - Intro

 50 min

Northeast - Bayfront A Room

Canada - Bayfront B Room

Southern - Flagler Breakout Room

Midwest - Tuttle Breakout Room

Pacific - Dupont Breakout Room

Mountain  - Gusman Breakout Room

Break

20 min

Regional Group Workshop - Challenges and Discussion

120 min

Northeast - Bayfront A Room

Canada - Bayfront B Room

Southern - Flagler Breakout Room

Midwest - Tuttle Breakout Room

Pacific - Dupont Breakout Room

Mountain  - Gusman Breakout Room 

Regional Group Workshop - Presentation

30 min

Main Room 

Closing Remarks - Survey

10 min

Happy Hour