GDE summit 2019 🚀 🤓 🎉

Lesly Zerna
Nov 6 · 4 min read

Last weekend of October, the Google Developer Experts program met most of its tech experts from all around the globe into one place: Silicon Valley to strength the community, share best practices, highlight individual/group projects and have a great time together getting to know more each other!

Opening Keynote

There were two days of full activities!

Saturday:

The opening keynote was in charge of the astronaut 👨‍🚀 Garrett Reisman. Full of energy and with a great motivational story inspired us to go for the impossible, do not be afraid to fail and be determined to reach a goal! 🚀

During the rest of the day, we had different talks and workshops for the different tech categories that the GDE program has! In my case, as GDE in Machine Learning (ML), it was delightful to hang out with other ML GDEs and Googlers that work on TensorFlow 🤓

Left: most ML GDE from around the globe. Right: ladies ML GDE

Also that afternoon, I attended to the Technical Writing course! I love the idea to share our tech expertise with all audiences!

That Saturday night we had the party at the Tech Interactive Museum in San Jose, California. So much fun, nice chatting and dancing!

Sunday:

We started the morning with the “light talks” from 5 GDEs. I was thankful with the opportunity to be part of these talks! I was nervous and excited at the same time because of talking in front of such amazing and smart people. My presentation was about a local project we are running in Bolivia to teach more girls about technology, mainly Artificial Intelligence! Thanks GDE Summit 2019 organizer for this amazing chance.

The rest of the day we had different sessions to learn more about new technology and releases coming up! My ML GDE team took this opportunity to talk and organize ourselves better. We are a global community and it is not too easy to meet all or follow up different great projects everyone is developing, so what a good chance to keep connecting!


I am really thankful with Google and our global community for this amazing opportunity to be part of such awesome professionals network!

My takes aways:

  • Do not be afraid to fail when you are doing something you love

My special thanks

More pics!

GDE experts coming from Latin America
Got to meet Aurelien (ML GDE) author of “Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow”
group pic!

Google has different programs to involve community, check out here https://developers.google.com/community


Cheers!

Lesly Zerna

Written by

🤖 enthusiastic explorer (life lessons + tech + travels). Coordinator School of AI & City.AI in LatAm, University Professor and Google Dev Expert ML

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