>>
SAHNI: I'm going to do a slight, quick presentation. It's going to be a lot like what I started
and it's for the sake of time. We wanted to give--we wanted to start of by saying, you
know, there was this quiz we did and there's--"Know your Googler," and there was a bunch of people
who asked us, you know, "Can you give us the answers? It would be nice to have these answers."
So we thought we'll compile these. So, "Who is commonly known as spacevulture?" It's Juergen.
You can try and get the answer from him why he is called so. He does not look like a vulture
or a hawk but maybe there's a story there. "Who is Steve's Jobs whipping boy?" I think
we can now replace Steve with somebody else, and Brad continues to be that whipping boy.
There is that story. And by the way, Brad, if you want to be a part of a conference you
should apply. There was a open search for that. So we would love to have you back. The
other people did so and they were here. "Who likes writing books while enjoying a Kentucky
bourbon?" I think we'll add tons and tons of beer to it and that would be James Whittaker.
He was very active while at GTAC and probably that's one of the reasons he love India now,
so. "Who knows Kung-Fu?" Anthony was the answer that we had. Though I think there was somebody
else in the crowd that also had that. "Who is commonly known as moose?" And that's John.
He is here and--from New York, not loving India as much because cumin and coriander
seems to get his allergies fired up so he's been staying away from the food area. "Who
works in the Stockholm office?" I think there was a slight change in that question. I think
originally we had it "Who used to work at the Stockholm office?" But now, there is a
person who works in Stockholm office and that's Philip, he's here. And, "Who has a son who
could have four different nationalities?" That's a great one. It's a global world. Markus
has that that honor. Do we have an answer for that, or which one is he going to choose,
or how are you going to influence that? >> [INDISTINCT]
>> When he's 18. Okay, great. "Who is a non-engineer and has an important role in the GTAC?" I
think many people reached out to a few people that actually there were pretty agitated that
there were considered non-engineers. And if you did that, then I think you should have,
at least, tried to read a couple of these gender and profiles before reaching out to
people. It's Rajani. She's the planning organizer and was--has been an integral part of this
conference, so. This one is interesting. "Who has worked on a lisp compiler team in his
or her career?" That's Beryl. She actually shows up down a few notches again because
of, "The person who understands and speaks both Japanese and English." I think when we
started the quiz we're thinking about Daigo but then we actually went on realized that
Ted and Beryl both were qualified for this particular criteria. "Who's been part of the
Delhi state cricket team?" That was--that would be me. Though Joel probably does not
want to, you know, recognize that fact. That's the next one. "Who's country lost one day
in test cricket series from India?" And that was Joel. And, you know, it's part of the
commonwealth games so it was kind of same ship for that. That was a proud moment for
India. "Who is French?" That's Phil. And good thing he didn't drink any wine while he's
in India. At least, I don't know of any, so it'll be interesting, that nice to talk about.
"Who was working at Google Phoenix office and now is working in the city popularly known
as the Big Apple?" It's Chaitanya. I think he was talking about how he's lost a lot money
in real estate based on investments in these two spots. And, "He's popularly known by the
name of an endangered species." It's Antara, Antara Panda. And I hope you'll get which
is the endangered species. Is it Antara or the Panda part? I would leave that for your
imagination. So those were the answers. We have some winners, and...
>> [INDISTINCT] >> Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, I forgot about the
birthday. "Who had a birthday yesterday?" And that's Rajesh. We tried to sing to him
last night, he was embarrassed and ran away very quickly. And so we don't want to repeat
it afterwards this morning because it was still his birthday in the U.S. But anyway,
he didn't think about it. So we have some swags for winners. We first wanted to call
out the person who brought the entire full matrix, Syed Aslam Basha, please could you
come up and get your award. Now, we'll encourage the rest of the winners to come up for the
sake of time. Congratulations. Thank you for participating in the exercise. Do you have
anything to say? Did you find it fun and entertaining? >> BASHA: It was enlightening and it was [INDISTINCT]
through these sessions. >> SAHNI: Please repeat.
>> BASHA: [INDISTINCT] >> SAHNI: Okay, that's great.
>> BASHA: Yeah, it was good to see the speakers and then their work and the different technologies,
frameworks, like the twist; some of them were really interesting topics. Thanks.
>> SAHNI: Thank you. Yeah. I think one of the things we tried to show you was the diversity
that is present at Google and our engineering staff. So that would be a great way. And we
actually pay a lot of attention to that when we hire as part of the Googley element. Himanshu
Agrawal. This is, people, who actually were able to get through the rows and columns or
the diagonal aspect, so if you could come up. And Kunal, if you could come up for the
sake of time. Congratulations. >> AGRAWAL: Thank you.
>> SAHNI: Yeah. Get your t-shirt. >> AGRAWAL: Okay, thank you.
>> SAHNI: Thank you. >> AGRAWAL: Yeah.
>> SAHNI: Hello. >> BANERJEE: Thank you.
>> SAHNI: Thank you for being an active participant. >> BANERJEE: Thank you.
>> SAHNI: Thank you. Yeah. >> BANERJEE: All my pleasure.
>> SAHNI: Yeah. And then Raghunath. Congratulations. And then, Ramanath. He's not here? All right.
So, Murali, you're here. >> ALLURI: I want to say a word.
>> SAHNI: Sure, I think--there. He'd like to say a word.
>> ALLURI: I think I just want to say thanks to the all the Googlers who indirectly helped
me to win this event. [INDISTINCT] person where she said, "No, don't ask me the questions,"
and she signed a couple of matrix there, I think. Thanks to everyone.
>> SAHNI: Okay, great. Thank you for being part of this. Thanks for coming though on
that. And you are one of the persons, and there was some other people who approached
another person on the engineering, Google staff, that but awfully fun and interactive
and meaningful. So, I just want to talk about what you can expect. I think we have been
trying to push as more data as we can as fast as we can so that you have access to it. This
includes the photographs. We've upload the GTAC site with yesterday's pictures. As soon
as we get today's photographs, we will upload that on the gtac.biz site. We will keep it
fresh as much as we can with any new information about when the videos are being published;
is there any activity that could be related to GTAC announcements about the new and upcoming
GTAC sessions that we will set up. We've actually, also, enabled a LinkedIn and a Facebook group
so you could join in and then we will actively encourage you to participate in it. And also
we will keep the GTAC 2010 email group alive. So please post your thoughts and questions
and we encourage you to view the search, stay active in that network, and address some of
the questions you have and answer that. The Google Testing Blog will be another location
where we actively write to. And what we all want to say is, again, please keep the feedback
if you have not filled it out for today, make sure you'd take some time at the end of this
to do so. We will also be sending you out an online form to fill out the overall feedback
form. This might have some other dimensions like, you know, the logistical stuff, and
overall team, and the timing, and the agenda and so and so. Please take the time to fill
it out. It helps us make GTAC better and cater to your needs and success as well as it would
be more fun. I just wanted to take a few minutes to thank everyone, this includes everybody
in this room especially our keynote speakers. You know, Bob Binder is right here. He came
all the way and we appreciate your flying down to India. Dr. Jeff, I think he's--oh,
there he is, right there. Thank you for flying all the way to India again. It was a great
session. And, of course, the animated Mr. James Whittaker in keeping this all really,
really fun. I think there's an honorary keynote here and that goes to Alberto. And--and I
think if we could change the theme of this it would be probably about how not to write
books or papers. It would be maybe a topic for the future GTACs. I wanted to thank each
one of our speakers for taking the time to put themselves out to public voting and agreeing
to do so. You had--you worked a lot of iterations of abstracts and devoting that and really
being helpful for the committee to provide us that feedback. So, Vivek, Simon, Greg,
Esteban, Christian, Russ and Tracy or Tracy or Russ, Shin and Robert, Shreeshankar, and
of course, Matt Evans. So thank you so much for taking this time. Let's give them a round
of applause. And, of course, the committee. They have been working really, really hard
to make this event possible. I personally feel they've done a fabulous job of staying
involved, communicating with each one of you and making sure that you felt comfortable
through this entire process. So my thanks to Ankit who was actually a great emcee. And
by popular demand he stayed the emcee for two days until I decide to give him some relief
at the end of this. So thank you, Ankit, for--I heard lots of shouts about how they love Ankit
and perhaps there's a future for you in a different world, in or outside of Google that
we could tweak. And Antara Panda, she's been also an active part of the group. She has
been helping--Beryl Nelson, she's been really, really involved in working closely with the
keynote speakers, Lightning Talks and receiving some bizarre questions on the floor. So thank
you for answering them. Thank you, Beryl. John Thomas who couldn't be here for some
personal reasons but actually stayed very active from Mountain View. And Ankit and John
and Michael were all in Mountain View so we had a committee that was split up across time
zones and I think we did--we're able to get through all these challenges and still be
able to deliver. So, my thanks for everybody for staying late and up early to be able to
enable that. Michael Bachman, who, again, couldn't be here. He's the person on the far
right of the picture. And Rachit, who's been walking around tirelessly handling out the
mics and--thank you so much. And, of course, being part of the corporate proposals and
every other aspect of GTAC. So thank you, Rachit. Pankaj Jajoo. And he's been integral
part of the planning committee, logistics about this particular venue, how every aspect
of the audio and video, along with Thiru and Rajani, have done a fabulous job of making
sure that this goes seamlessly. And we've always expected kinks and there were few and
minimized. So my thanks to Pankaj, Rajani and Thiru for doing a great job of all the
logistics from--I especially wanted to thank Rajani she has been tirelessly working apart
from her full time job of helping the team through all the day-to-day needs and really
negotiated hard on the right venues, transportation, the hotels, and going out and making sure
that this was a smoothly run conference from that side. So thank you, Rajani. You've been
an integral part of this talk. Thiru, so I just want to--a second, just to recognize
Thiru, he's been also an active part of the committee, so. And the best part of this committee
was they changed roles, you know. Even though they had specified roles to play, they were
able to step in to each other and make through this entire process. And so my thanks to every
one of them. I don't want to forge the pre-GTAC speakers that basically came in and help us
have this session at Google where we had about 350 person turnout both in Hyderabad and VC
in Bangalore. And this is because we had to turn it off at some point. We didn't really
plan for that bigger logistics. So Brad Green, James, again, Nathan and Ted, thank you so
much for being a part of GTAC and the pre-GTAC aspect, as well. We received some great feedback
on that event. And, of course, you all. Thank you for taking the time to attend GTAC in
India, which I know for many of you, is very, very far away. And for all the people in India
who came in on the week before the Valley and all the holidays that are lining up to
be in Hyderabad. So thank you and thank you so much for taking the time to provide the
feedback, staying engaged, being interactive, and making this a very, very tight and meaningful
conference. So thank you. A round of applause for everyone of you. So, yo.
>> MEHTA: So, yeah, go back a few slides. Yeah, that's good. So, yeah, so except for
that one name from here, right? And that's himself and that would be kind of weird thanking
yourself, so. >> SAHNI: Or not.
>> MEHTA: And I'm going to try and summarize this for the rest of us. So it's been interesting.
I think while this appears like a lot of work and, you know, feels like it's a lot of work
logistically. I think it actually was fun for the last few months doing this. We actually
didn't feel we were working and I think and--some people are working.
>> SAHNI: The common was because they didn't feel Ankit was working but that...
>> MEHTA: But I think it was really because I think whenever, you know, whenever you have
a set of people working especially across time zones, it gets stopped. I mean, you know,
everyone has conflicting personalities, opinions and I think that's why it was really immensely
good to have Suhjay because Suhjay I think at times politely pointed us in the right
direction. He was never rude but at times strongly pointed us in the right direction
that, "This needs to get done, so let's go on." So, no, this was a sheer fun. I think
GTAC gets better every year. I think this one's a high bar for whoever else is organizing
next year, good luck. But thank you very much Suhjay.
>> SAHNI: Thank you for everything. And it's a great committee and, yeah, thank you. Thanks
everyone. It's really was a pleasure to work with each one of you and be on this committee.
It's been an honor and I appreciate you helping out for this. And by the way, this was on
their 20% time or free time. They actually contributed it to this conference as part
of their--beside their active day work. So, I really, really appreciate it. It's great
to have the conference in India and APAC for the first time. And I'm really happy to see
this great crowd showing up and being active of it, both Googlers and non-Googlers. And
especially the [INDISTINCT] staff that have taken the time to be in India at this point,
so thank you. So I left the slide empty because I didn't even want the committee to know what
and where it would be. Any guesses? I think James tried to blog about it. But any guesses?
>> Sydney. >> SAHNI: Sydney is one answer.
>> Mountain View. >> SAHNI: Mountain View is next answer.
>> New York. >> SAHNI: New York is the third answer.
>> Waterloo. >> SAHNI: Waterloo is the other answer.
>> Tokyo. >> SAHNI: Tokyo. We have Tokyo. I think I
heard Hawaii earlier. I think there was some discussion about that. But I think if you
look at it, we're pretty much gone around the globe but we've never had a GTAC in Mountain
View. So, we're going to have one next year in Mountain View and so--we will--it's a spiral
so we will evolve around it. So next year, we look forward to a GTAC first time in Mountain
View. And the dates and the committee and the agendas and the teams will evolve in the
coming months. So please keep a look out in our testing blog as well as gtac.biz because
we will start posting that on that. So we pass it on to Mountain View and I think the
closest representative we have here is Brad. I think that would be it. So, carried on from--oh,
Ankit. And Ankit, of course. Alberto is waiting there with anxiety and hopefully he'll get
through his anger management courses by then and I think we absolutely have to invite him
for that GTAC to speak. >> [INDISTINCT]
>> SAHNI: James would be a flight away, two-hour flight from Seattle, so. Hopefully, you will
step--be a part of this and we look forward to seeing some of you here. One thing I didn't
get to do, a chance, was to look through as to how many people here have been at previous
GTACs? GTAC alums are a very special part of this gathering. So, if you are a GTAC alum
please can you stand up and let's have a look and--great. Wow. I'm standing because I'm
being told so. Great. So this is a healthy crowd. This is good. We want to pass and continue
this tradition in the coming GTACs. So, thank you.