NAVEEN NIGAM: All right.
Good morning.
My name is Naveen Nigam.
I lead up Developer Ecosystem in North America.
And I am super excited for today.
This is the first time we're launching the DSC
program in the US.
And from talking to some of you, from talking to the team that's
been engaging with you, this is an extremely energetic,
impactful group of students that we're
so excited to be working with.
And so before I go on to anything else,
the first thing I want to do is thank every single one of you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The reality is, all of you--
I know it's California.
You're spending a weekend in California.
That's great.
But you are taking time away from family and friends because
of a commitment to help not only learn more by yourselves,
but teach your peers, impact your communities,
impact your universities, your faculties, your colleges.
And so for that, thank you very much.
Now, with that, I also want to say, we're here to help you.
If you're making such a big commitment,
we want to make sure we're here for you as well.
So throughout these two days, throughout our entire journey
together, I want to make sure you all understand one thing.
We're here to help you solve your problems.
In order for us to help you, we need to know what those are.
So please, let's make sure this is a two way communication.
Share.
Provide feedback.
Provide feedback on how we're running things.
Provide feedback on what we can offer to support,
what we can offer to help you.
We're talking about feedback.
Provide feedback across the board.
You're working with Google technologies.
You're working with Google here as well.
Tell us about our products.
Let us know, this sucks.
This does not help me.
I need you guys to add new features.
The team-- you're going to learn a lot more about our team.
Our team is uniquely positioned to talk across Google,
across all our products.
So please take advantage of that.
Now, a few housekeeping items--
restrooms are outside.
There's restrooms out here, past the doors.
Also, upstairs, there's a red bar that says, Restrooms.
You follow the arrow, you'll get to where you need to go.
I know Danny spoke about this yesterday, our Code of Conduct.
It's simple.
Be excellent to each other.
Practice inclusivity.
We have a zero tolerance for harassment of any form.
Anyone with a red badge--
please reach out to them if you have any concerns whatsoever.
If someone said something, someone
did something, any concerns whatsoever, let us know.
We will address it immediately.
With that, OK, Google, what's our agenda?
If we find our agenda, we've been very intentional.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, everyone's phone going off right now?
Yes.
If we look at our agenda, we've been very intentional.
We wanted to make sure that what we're
talking about matters to you and actually means something.
So we're actually going to kick it off
with a very special speaker.
Surprise.
He's kind of a big deal.
So we're really excited to have him,
and it kind of speaks volumes to what we're doing here.
It's hard to get senior executives
to come in and speak to any group of community members
or community programs.
As soon as this individual heard about students, the impact
that you guys have done and all of you have done,
he has postponed time with this kids to make sure
he's here on a Saturday morning.
So we're going to really thank him for that.
We're going to learn more about the DSC program.
We're going to learn more about--
from people who are running the DSC program.
This is the first time we've launched this program in the US
and in Canada.
In Canada we were, I think, a month or two ahead because
of our application process.
So people who are running this right now-- what
are the challenges?
What are the barriers?
Working with the faculty--
problems with that.
Registering as a club.
Issues with that.
We're going to be addressing some of those.
And then one of the key pieces of feedback
we received from other regions was,
when students come in for a summit like this,
they want to get their hands dirty.
They want to learn.
Let's actually do some coding.
Let's learn about the technology.
Hey, we're at a Google office right now.
What are some of the technologies
that we can learn and be inspired by?
So we made sure that we actually have subject matter experts
from some of those key technologies
to come in and talk to you, and almost do a session.
And if you were thinking of getting away from class, sorry.
There will be classes.
And so we have workshops.
And then we're going to have some fun, too.
We're going to have a scavenger hunt, dinner, networking,
and we even have a public speaking workshop.
As leaders, you're up on stage a lot.
You're talking in front of a group of people.
We have a public speaking workshop
to help you improve that.
Day 2, we're going to have some more program overviews.
But what really is interesting is this workshop.
We have a DSC workshop.
And as part of the DSC workshop, how do you market?
How do you build strategy?
How do you promote your club?
Well, we want all of us to work together to figure that out.
So we're going to divide into groups.
We're going to spend time.
We're actually going to do presentations
of how we're solving some of the challenges
by running a DSC club.
Again, more lunch and networking.
We're going to have some thank-yous.
And then we're going to--
I like the [INAUDIBLE].
Return to your university, or not.
The choice is yours.
You can't stay here.
So as we're trying to be funny about it,
we are going to end halfway, so around 2 o'clock tomorrow.
And all the details, all the logistics and whatnot,
you will have with you.