KYLE PAUL: Looks like there's a few people still straggling in,
but thank all of you for coming out here today.
Welcome to Google office in Pittsburgh.
So excited to be here--
this is my first time at this office, so pretty
excited to see and meet all of you.
My name is Kyle Paul.
I am the North America regional lead for our Developer
Ecosystems team.
This is probably a team you probably
haven't heard much about at Google, but I hope to do--
hope to cover a little bit more about what we're doing
and get my Google Assistant to stop responding to me.
[LAUGHS]
But, yeah.
So I'm the North America regional lead
for our Developer Ecosystem programs
that we have at Google.
And obviously, this event is our Machine Learning Summit.
And all of us have probably heard the buzzwords, machine
learning, artificial intelligence.
What does all this mean?
What do we do?
All of you are experts in this field,
or you're studying in this field.
And so what we wanted to do is put together
an event for all of you to come together,
to network, to learn from each other,
to learn from other experts in the field.
And so that's the fun part of this event.
But to kick everything off, we wanted
to cover our code of conduct.
Every event has one of these, and we strictly
enforce this at all of our events that we do at Google.
But essentially, what it comes down
to is be respectful, be kind.
Everybody is here to learn.
Everybody's here to share their knowledge.
And we're all here to network with each other.
So that's a big important piece there.
The link is up there for if you want to read the full policy.
We also have it posted at various points
around the room and outside in the common area,
so if you want to follow up a little bit more about it.
The other big thing is if you happen
to have any concerns that arise during the event
today or any questions or anything like that,
you can find anybody with a Google badge,
and we will be more than happy to quickly address whatever
the issue is for all of you.
So there's that.
And we have some specific event goals today.
So this is goals that my team has put together
by putting these events together.
So we want to inform all of you, so bringing all of you
together to share on your experiences,
to share knowledge-- what is Google doing in this space,
for example.
And that leads into the education piece.
There are some projects that we're
working on at Google that are pretty new and exciting,
and we want to be able to share those with you
but also educate from each other because it's not all Googlers
that we have up here today.
But we want to share what other verticals are working on
in the machine learning space, in the artificial intelligence
space and inspire you to creative,
to design, to develop new things in these spaces as well.
And the most important piece--
how many of you here know the person seated two seats next
to you?
Not the person next to you, but two seats over--
two seats over?
Oh, so we've got a couple here.
All right, so I challenge you here today to meet somebody
that you have not met before, see
what they're doing in this space,
and learn a little bit more about what they're studying,
what their goals are in machine learning
and artificial intelligence.
So that's another huge goal in this event.
On social media-- so this is an event you can talk about.
So we are sharing things today here
that are either newly released or are
general public knowledge.
And so this is an event you can talk about,
and we ask you to share about the connections, what
has been inspiring you.
So this is the hashtag and the @ that you
can do on your Twitter or Instagram or Facebook,
whatever social media you're connected with.
But we'd love to see what inspires you and excites you
about this.
And then another quick thing to show off here--
in May, our Google Developers team went through a rebrand.
So this is just to kind of show whenever
you're looking at our Google Online Developer docs--
yes, please.
There's plenty of space.
[LAUGHS] So whenever you're looking at our Developer docs,
or you see events online--
so these are the two different logos that you'll see.
And whether it's our community programs,
our Developer documentation events--
you'll see it on your little name badges as well.
So this is just kind of showing you whenever you're out
in the world, this is the new Google identity
for all of you, the Google Developers.
With our team on the Developer Ecosystem,
we have this unique ability where
we are not tied to any specific product at Google.
We are for all products at Google.
So if something is really exciting to you,
and you want to give us a thumbs up,
let us know how you're using it, what
is really cool about this product, we'd love to hear it.
But we also, more importantly, want to hear about the bad.
How can we fix this for you?
What is going wrong?
What makes it to where you're not
able to do your job as well?
Another thing that we hear some of the times
because a lot of us use the cloud space--
AWS does this really, really well--
why don't you guys do it?
Let us know that too.
We want to be able to help serve in this space.
So where can we be better at for you in the cloud--
let us know this.
And this is throughout the day.
Some of the other things-- so more specifically what
we do on the Developer Ecosystem team
is we look at these community programs globally.
And so here in North America, we have our Google Developer
groups.
So you might see these around as GDGs.
Unfortunately, we don't have one here in Pittsburgh,
but we would like to get one going.
So if you are interested, please let us know.
We'd love to get one started here.
Another thing that we--
I'll be talking a little bit more about here
in a second is our Google Developer Experts program.
So this is a program where we highlight individuals who are
experts in Google product XYZ.
And we invite them to speak at events.
We invite them to--
they have special opportunities to speak at community events.
We publish them on our Google Developer Medium
blog posts-- things like that-- and invite them
to do YouTube videos with us.
So you might see these online already.
We actually have two Google Developer Experts speaking here
today.
So you'll have an opportunity to talk with them
and see more about, from their side,
on their experiences in the program.
And during all of the breaks, we have a booth
set up out in the common area there,
to learn more about the program as well.
Then we also have our Launchpad program
which is designed for those in the startup space,
where it's tied to accelerators and incubators
on basically leveling up your startup's knowledge
in using Google tools.
And then we have our Women in Technology--
Women Techmakers program, sorry--
Women Techmakers program which partners
with all of our different community groups
to highlight and empower women in technology
and provide them resources and education towards their goals
in the technology space.
And then we also recently launched, as of a couple months
ago here in North America, our Developer Student Clubs.
And this is providing university students
with these materials in their university space
to grow with Google technology and have these tools readily
accessible to them.
So these are some of the programs
that myself and my team at Google
look after for North America--
lots of communities, lots of fun stuff here.
But diving into the Google Developer Experts program
a little bit, they're experts and thought leaders
in the community.
So these are, again, individuals who
help provide Google with these feedback loops, to where like,
hey, you know, I'm an expert in this field--
here's something that isn't working.
And so they have that more closer, direct connection
to the different product areas, but then they also go and speak
about these technology product areas
out to the public and help share that knowledge out for us.
So we help empower them to be able to do this.
And they're just general developers.
They come from startups.
They come from enterprises.
They're hobbyists.
So it doesn't necessarily mean that you
have to only be in the enterprise space,
as some other programs are.
We empower you as an individual, as an expert in this space.
And so we'd love to talk to you about it,
love to learn more about your experience in this space.
Some eligibility things that we look
for in candidates as a GDE--
obviously, being an expert in the subject area.
That's kind of an easy one there.
But then we also want you to be active in the community,
so either speaking at events, publishing on blogs,
answering questions on Stack Overflow, YouTube vlogs--
these kind of things-- so being active,
sharing your knowledge out into the community already,
and then having the ability to communicate clearly
about this technology and about how you work in this space.
And some of the things that we provide as
benefits to this program--
acknowledgment by Google.
We do have a little badge that you
can add to your social media profile photos
and stuff like that.
Invitation to exclusive events--
some of you are familiar with Google Cloud Next, Google I/O--
these kind of big, marquee events.
We have some other marquee events
for the different product areas, like the TensorFlow Dev Summit,
the Firebase Dev Summit.
These type of events, GDEs get special invites to.
And then obviously, like I mentioned before,
access to the Google team-- so this
is where, as somebody as an expert in this space,
you can work more closely with the TensorFlow team.
You can work more closely with the Dialogflow team,
for example.
So you can work more closely with these teams
to provide product feedback and then
also get in on these early access invites
to new features that are rolling out
and give them feedback on these new features that may or may
not roll out to the public--
these kind of things.
And then obviously, an access to a global network
of professionals.
So it is a network of individuals,
but these individuals are a community.
So we do hold events where these GDEs can come together,
network with each other, share experiences and tips.
And resources on this-- so if you
want to learn more about the program, as I mentioned,
there's a booth during the breaks
that we will have people stationed
to answer more questions.
You can find me throughout the day.
But these are the channels that we either repromote
or have our GDEs publish things on, like I mentioned,
our Medium channel.
But I know the big question.
How do you apply?
So if you're interested, there is an application process.
It does go through an interview where
you go through a community interview
to make sure what you filled out on the application--
make sure to have your community contributions--
things like that.
So we go and review that.
We also review your expertise.
So you do go through an expert interview as part of it
with a Googler, to where they--
yeah, sure, they do have some knowledge in this space.
And I certify that they're an expert to move forward
in the interview process.
So it is-- it's not just a checkbox,
you're in kind of thing.
So do know that we are verifying and vetting
your expertise in this field.
Some other fun things as part of furthering your learning
journeys-- this is next year.
So we do have a partnership with Coursera
where we do have a lot more machine
learning and artificial intelligence courses
that we've partnered with Coursera on to do this.
So if you want to further your knowledge in this space,
we also have a partnership with Qwiklabs.
Google bought Qwiklabs about two years ago,
and so we've been developing a lot of our first-party Google
Cloud Platform learning materials there on Qwiklabs.
We do have a lot specific around machine learning space.
We do have some opportunities for free to cheaper
learning as part of our community program.
So if you want to join up through our either GDE
or Google Developer groups, we do
have some additional learning opportunities there.
And our agenda-- this might be a little-- it's tiny for me.
So hopefully all of you can read it.
We do have our full agenda.
This is almost up to date.
We do actually have a cancellation for our 2:15 slot.
We're working to adjust it.
Unfortunately, Hallie woke up sick this morning,
and she will not be able to be speaking today.
And so we're looking to cover that slot,
but this is kind of where we're at.
We do have a few breaks lined up for you.
And I will announce this again, but the lunch--
we will have a demo by one of our Google teams
on the What-If Tool.
We'll learn that a little bit more
after their talk, right before lunch.
But if you want to check out the schedule again,
we have a Bitly link here for you.
So it's bit.ly/ml-pittsburgh-19.
So it's a very easy link to where
you can go back and revisit the schedule anytime.
We also are doing something different.
We're requesting feedback before everything.
So I will have this link pop up throughout the day.
You can continually fill it out throughout the day--
ml-pit-feedback-- and basically provide us
that real-time feedback after each talk.
So that way, it's fresh in your mind and everything.
But the fun thing is we have a raffle at the end.
So-- [LAUGHS] so if you're providing feedback,
and you have that filled out and submitted by the end-- and so
this way, it makes it easier to condense your feedback
into where you're not rushing at the end.
So provide us that feedback.
We do have a raffle at the end for a Google Home Max--
so some pretty fun stuff.
And this way you don't have to carry it.
[MIC BOOMING]
Oh.
This way you don't have to carry it.
We have a nice, easy voucher that we'll ship it to you with.
Oh, and some other housekeeping items--
the restrooms, the main restroom lobby, is by the elevators.
There is a mother's room on the way
there if anybody needs to take part in that.
And then we do have a couple individual restrooms just past
where the food was, but it's only single person at a time.
So if there's a queue, there's more down
by the elevator lobby.
And I'm trying to remember if there's anything else as far
as housekeeping.
But yeah, all of our meals and everything
will be in this common area and all of our breaks.
So you don't need to wander or figure out
where you're going next.
All of the talks will be in this room.
And again, at anytime, pull aside one of us.
There's myself or [INAUDIBLE] who's at the back of the room,
giving me the one minute flag.
[LAUGHS]
And but most importantly, we hope all of you
enjoy the event today and looking forward
to your feedback.
And again, thank you all for coming out today.
I know it's Wednesday, middle of the week,
so it's a little rough.
I had to think about where I was for a second.
But yeah, so thank you, all of you.
Thank all of you for being here today.
I'm very excited to see how the event goes today
and hear all of your feedback and hopefully
get to meet with all of you, if not most of you.
So thank you all for being here today.
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