Google Developer Group Cloud Southlake DFW

Join us for an interactive webinar on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming Business Intelligence (BI), helping organizations achieve faster, smarter insights. As AI continues to evolve, it’s set to automate data analysis, enable real-time decision-making, and make predictive analytics more accessible to organizations of all sizes.

Chiru Bhavansikar is a highly respected technology leader, recognized as one of the most impactful Chief AI Officers of 2024 by AIM Research. With over two decades of experience, he has been instrumental in conceptualizing, strategizing, and commercializing Cloud, Data, and AI solutions.

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Speaker

Chiru Bhavansikar - Arhasi (Founder)

Chiru Bhavansikar is a highly respected technology leader, recognized as one of the most impactful Chief AI Officers of 2024 by AIM Research. With over two decades of experience, he has been instrumental in conceptualizing, strategizing, and commercializing Cloud, Data, and AI solutions. He pioneered Australia's first cloud-computing platform, developed Deloitte's AI Financial Forecasting plat…

Hosted By

Jim Anderson, GDG Cloud Southlake Chief Organizer

The past six years I have focused on Cloud and Container technologies and how to use them to modernize the travel industry's technology stack. Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes.

Kenny Kon, Director Reliability Engineering

Technical leader in both retail and travel with a focus on Site Reliability Engineering. Experienced in cloud migrations, mainframe service modernization, service compliance (PCI, GDPR) and service management.

Ramji Balasubramanian, Sr Director - Data Analytics & Engineering

Diwakar Pandrangi, Director SRE

Yujun Liang, Cloud Architect

Mike Shirk, GDG Organizer Regional Director Central USA Balbix

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Let's get together and connect! GDG Cloud Southlake DFW Social Club @ Flying Saucer Cypress Waters Coppell/Dallas. We have space inside. Just come inside and get a name tag and something to eat and drink! Plenty of Non-Alcoholic options if you don't drink.  Veg and non-veg appetizers served.  Arhasi is sponsoring. Thank you!        

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James Anderson - Sabre (Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture)

AWS and Google Cloud Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and Azure certified. Sr. Director of Enterprise Architecture @ Sabre helping lead the company and the travel industry into the future. Cloud instructor helping tech newbies transition careers.

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Partner

Arhasi (https://www.arhasi.com/)
Driving Speed and Integrity in Gen AI Solutions

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All models are wrong but some are useful - we will go over some of the useful models that all platform engineering leaders should know  

Jacek Ostrowski

Sabre

Sr Director Platform Engineering

In 1998 Jacek received MS in Computer Science from Jagiellonian University, Poland and started a developer career.

From 2001 to 2007 he honed his java and architecture skills while building systems supporting data warehouses with Asseco Poland.

In 2007 joined Sabre as a senior java engineer, and a few years later moved to enterprise architecture. After a few years as an EA, he started championing platform product management and took the platform product manager position. In 2018 took a leadership position over a team of platform product managers.

From 2020 Jacek leads Platform Engineering and uses his developer experience and product mindset to make Sabre's developers happier and more productive.

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4:30 PM: Welcome

4:35 PM: Speaker + Q&A

5:30 PM: (Optional) Networking with attendees

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Speaker

Jacek Ostrowski - Sabre (Sr Director Platform Engineering)

In 1998 Jacek received MS in Computer Science from Jagiellonian University, Poland and started a developer career.
From 2001 to 2007 he honed his java and architecture skills while building systems supporting data warehouses with Asseco Poland.In 2007 joined Sabre as a senior java engineer, and a few years later moved to enterprise architecture. After a few years as an EA, he star…

Host

James Anderson - Sabre (Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture)

AWS and Google Cloud Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and Azure certified. Sr. Director of Enterprise Architecture @ Sabre helping lead the company and the travel industry into the future. Cloud instructor helping tech newbies transition careers.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-southlake-presents-gdg-cloud-southlake-39-jacek-ostrowski-platform-engineering-useful-models/.

How to Build a Great Product

Being a tech entrepreneur is about providing a remarkable product or service that serves the needs of its customers better, faster, and cheaper than anything else. The goal is to "make something people want" which we call, product market fit.

But how do we get there? We'll explore the process of taking an idea to product market fit (PMF), how you know you have true PMF, and how your product strategies differ pre-PMF from post-PMF.

Brandon is a 3x founder, 1x exit, ex-banker & corporate strategist, car dealership owner, and alumnus of Techstars & Y Combinator. He enjoys building products and services that impact people for the better.

Brandon has had 3 different careers (banking, corporate finance & strategy, technology) in 7 different industries; Investment Banking, CPG, Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer application, Automotive, & Fintech/Insuretech.

He's an idea to revenue leader and entrepreneur that helps organizations build products and processes, hire talent, test & iterate quickly, collect feedback, and grow in unregulated and heavily regulated industries.

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4:30 PM: Welcome to GDG Cloud Southlake

4:35 PM: Speaker + Q&A

5:30 PM: (Optional) Break

5:35 PM: (Optional) Stick around for networking

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Speaker

Brandon Stokes - Buyable (Founder)

Brandon is a 3x founder, 1x exit, ex-banker & corporate strategist, car dealership owner, and alumnus of Techstars & Y Combinator. He enjoys building products and services that impact people for the better.
Brandon has had 3 different careers (banking, corporate finance & strategy, technology) in 7 different industries; Investment Banking, CPG, Media & Entertainment, Tele…

Host

James Anderson - Sabre (Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture)

AWS and Google Cloud Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and Azure certified. Sr. Director of Enterprise Architecture @ Sabre helping lead the company and the travel industry into the future. Cloud instructor helping tech newbies transition careers.

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-southlake-presents-gdg-cloud-southlake-40-brandon-stokes-how-to-build-a-great-product/.