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Ready to create with AI? Join our Build with AI in-person event on April 29th at Pace University.
Calling all developers! Join influencer Tiff in Tech as she dives into our 'Build with AI' event in NYC!
Tiff in Tech will be interviewing attendees throughout the day & explore how developers are revolutionizing their work with Google's AI tools.
Showcase your brilliant AI/ML work & get featured on Google channels!
Registration for our epic hackathon is open:
Team up & build incredible Gemini AI projects
Win prizes, get Google exposure, & maybe even a job
Network with top minds in the field
Secure your spot to compete now:https://build-with-ai.devpost.com/
Everyone at the event gets:
Hands-on AI training from experts
Mentor feedback (hackathon participants only)
Your chance to present, win $500 in gift cards & $500 in cloud credits, & get featured
Free breakfast, lunch & social hour in Pace University's awesome new building
All skill levels welcome! Let's build some cool AI solutions together.
AGENDA
9:00 AM: Doors Open
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM: Breakfast
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM: Google Dev Studio with Hannah Kupfer & Tiff in Tech
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM: Accessibility Champion with Gareth Ford Williams & Wendy Durica
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM: Build with AI Workshop with Shadab Hussain
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM: Accessibility & AI Fireside Chat with Joe Devon & Wendy Durica
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM: Responsible AI
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM: Meet our Judges
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM: Kantar x Google: Leverage LLM/AI to Make Processes More Efficient with Paige Epstein & Dean Manko
1:15 PM - 4:00 PM: Hackathon - perfect your Gemini AI solution with your team
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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Complete the Build with AI Code Labs
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Demos & Prizes - Show Your Work & Commencement
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Social Hour
#BuildWithAI #IWD24 #WTMImpactTheFuture #WomenInTech
Agenda
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Speakers
Joe Devon - Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Foundation (Chair & Co-Founder)
Joe Devon, a seasoned tech entrepreneur & AI speaker, has a history of corporate success, including one IPO & two acquisitions, Joe's contributions to the tech industry are substantial.
He is the co-founder & Chair of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Foundation, diligently promoting digital accessibility & inclusive design. His forthcoming podcast signifies his pass
Hannah Kupfer - Google (Product Marketing)
Gareth Ford Williams - A11yQuest (Director)
Gareth Ford Williams is a pioneer of digital accessibility. His substantial contributions to the BBC & the wider field have helped shape a more inclusive digital landscape for people with disabilities. His breadth of expertise, spanning standards, fonts, inclusive technologies, & advocacy speaks volumes about the positive impact he has had on countless lives.
Paige Epstein - Kantar (Senior Analytics Consultant)
Paige Epstein is a senior consultant on the Dx Analytics Team at Kantar leading digital analytics & consumer insight programs.
She has experience providing strategic guidance & social listening support, as well as managing the use of LLMs to streamline data collection.Prior to transitioning to digital analytics, Paige worked in government consulting & communications for 3+
Dean Manko - Kantar (Associate Analytics Consultant)
Dean Manko is an associate consultant on the Dx Analytics Team at Kantar, where he uses natural language processing techniques
and LLMs to analyze social listening data & help guide brand strategy.Prior to working at Kantar, Dean studied linguistics & psychology at Stanford,where his research looked at the relationship between social ideologies & linguistic processing
Antrixsh Gupta - Genzeon (Sr. Manager Data & AI Practice)
As a seasoned Data Scientist with a track record of transforming vast & complex datasets into strategic advantages, Antrixsh excels in providing holistic, timely insights across diverse business domains. With extensive experience in the Hadoop ecosystem, he has successfully architected, configured, & managed Hadoop components, empowering organizations to harness the power of Big Data.
Tiff in Tech
Tiffany is a software developer who started her career in the modeling & fashion industry. Tech can be very overwhelming for many at first as she experienced first hand entering into the industry. Tiff saw a gap to help ease people into what tech has to
Judges
Anu Srivastava - Google (Developer Relations Lead - Applied AI)
Anu Srivastava is tech leader at Google who specializes in advocating for solutions powered by AI. She focuses on applications of Natural Language, Translation & Speech in workflow automation. She began her career as a software engineer with a focus on reliability for developer tools & infrastructure. She now works cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales to make sure the highes
TeLisa Daughtry - FLYX ENTERPRISES (Founder)
TeLisa is an award-winning tech entrepreneur, STEM/DEI+B advocate, & author dedicated to creating inclusive technology solutions. Her expertise includes Web3, AI, Blockchain, & building diverse, equitable workforces. She has been recognized by organizations like the UN Women & serves as an international speaker & thought leader.
Diana Agu - Curain Healthcare Services (Managing Director)
Diana Agu studied Law & Criminology in London, UK but climbed the corporate ladder working in project & business management. She has held varied jobs such as Head of PMO, COO, Chief of staff & more recently Global Head of Strategy for Marketing, Communications & People with Financial Services Insights & Data at Capgemini, an organization with an annual revenue of about $500M
Christelle Scharff
Dr. Christelle Scharff is a Professor of Computer Science & Associate Dean at Pace University in NY. She has a Ph.D. in Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (Theorem Proving & Automated Deduction) from INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science & Technology. She published more than 30 papers in artificial intelligence, mobile for social change & global software en
Wendy Durica - Kantar (Lead Engineer)
Wendy works at Kantar as Release Manager/Escalation Lead & an Accessibility Frontline Worker. She is a speaker & mentor who enjoys networking with those who are passionate about User Experience (UX) & Universal Design. Wendy is a past member with Grace Hopper Celebration Software Executive Committee, past officer with Society Women Engineers (SWE)
She also co-founded Women in
Mira Zyra - Cloud Vertex (CEO)
Mira Violet is a software developer & UX designer. She is passionate about systems design & flutter. She is a WTM Ambassador & co-organizer of GDG Cloud Philly. She is an entrapanure who's founded & run several digital agencies & has over 13 years of industry experience.
Aida Issayeva - Toast (Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead)
Aida is an Android Developer & Google Developer Expert for Android with over 7 years of experience building android applications for various industries, ranging from cloud gaming services to satellite data communications to fintech. On a personal level, she's that friend, who has a to-do list for the day, plans everything out, & creates itineraries hour-by-hour for everyone.
Reshama Shaikh - Data Umbrella (Director)
Reshama is a statistician/data scientist based in New York City. She has an M.S. in statistics from Rutgers University & an M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business.
Reshama Shaikh is the Director of Data Umbrella & an organizer for NYC PyLadies. She is also on the Contributing Teams for scikit-learn & PyMC. She was awarded the Community Leadership Award from NumFOCUS in 2019 & i
Vidya More - Head of Engineering (Xero)
Vidya is a Head of Engineering at Xero & leadings teams in US & UK. Prior to Xero, she worked with Big 4 consulting firms EY, PwC, KPMG, CapGemini as well as financial firms like Bank of America (Merrill lynch) & Citibank. She has around 18+ years of experience in software development & held roles ranging from software engineer to solution architect to engineering leader.
Vidy
Antrixsh Gupta - Genzeon (Sr. Manager Data & AI Practice)
As a seasoned Data Scientist with a track record of transforming vast & complex datasets into strategic advantages, Antrixsh excels in providing holistic, timely insights across diverse business domains. With extensive experience in the Hadoop ecosystem, he has successfully architected, configured, & managed Hadoop components, empowering organizations to harness the power of Big Data.
Kartik Derasari - GCP (Google Developer Expert)
Kartik Derasari is a technical consultant with a passion for technology & innovation. As a 6X Google Cloud Certified Professional, he has extensive experience in application development & analytics projects as a full-stack engineer.
In addition to his professional work, Kartik is an advocate for the use of technology to drive business growth & innovation. He is the leader of the Go
Bhavik Chopra - MTA (Data Analyst)
Bhavik Chopra is a Graduate Student at Pace University & Data Analyst at MTA who is intrigued in Google Cloud & Data Science. He has been a fellow of the Google Developers Student Club for the past three years. He is well-versed in Python programming, SQL, Machine Learning principles, & Cloud Computing. He enjoys being in technological groups & lives by the mantra "Connect, Learn, &
Shadab Hussein - MathCo (Solution Architect)
Shadab is a Solution Architect with a proven track record in product development. He leverages his expertise on various Google Cloud services like Vertex AI, Big Query, Dataflow, GKE, etc to architect & deliver end-to-end ML solutions for different clients. His focus extends beyond implementation, actively exploring the disruptive potential of Generative AI. He actively cont
Gigi Enrienne
Gigi is a technology & accessibility strategist. Her mission is to make the digital world more accessible to people with disabilities. She strongly believes technology has an enormous potential to empower people with disabilities as long as it is done right. She has experience in building & running accessibility programs at tech companies & as an accessibility engineer & tester. She is
Hosted By
Ralph Yozzo, GDG Organizer
Google Developer Organizer since 2009.
Google developer group organizer, NYC Community Education Council Member, Computer Developer of Transparency applications, Dems committee former blue check.
Developer of open government information sites such as https://prop.tidalforce.org/
Ralph was born in the computer age & grew up with a computer keyboard attached to his fingers. Ralph wrote one video game using a Radio Shack & a cassette tape drive & never wrote another game. The reason is that games are simply random number generated worlds that are a waste of the player's time.
Ralph continued to love computer programming to this day, many decades later. After careers at IBM, Goldman Sachs (criminals), NYNEX / Verizon, Consolidated Edison, many small startup etc. & then some finance / computer companies & some non profit companies (some of the most wasteful companies are non profits).
If you want to hear the truth about the industry go to https://www.youtube.com/@RalphYozzo & contact me via twitter at https://twitter.com/fedex1
Ralph was blessed to be born near the Cuban Missile Crisis (when humanity was near the brink of self destruction) & then near Ralph's 50th year New York City was brought to it's knees when Hurricane Sandy showed New York City who is in control.
Anna Nerezova, GDG Organizer
Anna Nerezova is a Digital Marketing & Cloud Transformation Consultant with 15 years of experience in data, analytics & optimization.
She has built innovative solutions using Google Cloud to solve problems in the media & entertainment, tech, health & non-profit industries
Anna is a Google Cloud Engineer Scholar, & is on the 100 Women in Analytics list by Google Analytics. She is also a Google Developer Group NYC lead & a mentor for the Northeast, & a proud Women Techmakers Ambassador.
Anna is passionate about using the latest AI/ML technologies to provide solutions & bring growth & better experience for all users. She is a strong advocate for diversity & inclusion, & is committed to helping underrepresented groups become entrepreneurs & financially independent.
Bhavik Chopra, Computer Science Graduate Student
Hi, I am Bhavik, an aspiring data scientist by profession, & marketer by passion.
Ever since my childhood, I was surrounded by computers, software, & games. I took Science-Maths in my 12th grade. Then I understood, it's not that interesting as I thought!
Thereafter, I fell in love with software development, & since then I have started preparing myself for making good projects.
Currently, I am a student pursuing a Bachelor Of Engineering from Silver Oak University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. In my university, I've been working as Core Team Member at DSC Silver Oak University by Google Developers, Vice-Chair at IEEE SPS Silver Oak University Student Branch Chapter, & also the Marketing Committee Chair at IEEE SOU Student Branch.
I am an enthusiast tech person by heart & soul!!
Let's catch up!!
Shivika Arora, Executive Director, Product
I am currently responsible for driving modernization, innovation & engineer experience agenda in four strategic tech location for JP Morgan - Manhattan, Brooklyn, Silicon Valley & Seattle. Prior to this role, I was the Product & Solutions Lead for Trusts & Estates under Asset Wealth Management, where I was responsible for executing both brokerage op models as well lending framework for the ultra-high net worth clients.
Outside of work, I am Google's WomenTechmaker Ambassador for NYC as well as GDG NYC Organizer; Champion Coach for JPM's Women On The Move Network' & Fast Forward Small Business Mentor.
On a personal front, I love to read, dance to any good music & go on food tours around various cities.
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