DevFest 23 Pune.

Dear Community members,

On behalf of GDG Pune , I want to extend my deepest gratitude for your invaluable contribution to #DevFestPune23, our yearly flagship community event.

This year's DevFest was a resounding success, and it wouldn't have been possible without the dedication, expertise, and enthusiasm that each of you brought to the table. Our heartfelt thanks go out to:

Speakers: Your insights, knowledge-sharing, and engaging presentations added immense value to the event. Your willingness to share your expertise truly made DevFest 23 a standout experience.

The day started with our keynote speaker and Developer Relation head at 谷歌 India Manoranjan Padhy who brought attention around Responsible AI which involves the ethical and transparent development of artificial intelligence to ensure fairness, accountability, and societal benefit.

Followed by that we had our another keynote speaker Mr Vishal Virani Founder and CEO at DhiWise who shared insights on Building a Developer's Roadmap for Tomorrow. Talk covered practical applications of generative AI in software development, offering insights on leveraging this transformative technology to future-proof development strategies.

Followed by our two keynote full house speakers we had three breakout sessions and a community lounge where we held amazing talks and sessions mentioned below.

Vijay Bhaskar Reddy Datla and Saurabh Raut from EXL Clairvoyant on A Deep Dive into Migrating On-Premises Platforms to Google Cloud.

At the parallel track we had a fire side chat on Disruption across IT, Startup and Human Life- (AI and Start up) with Ajey Gore an operating partner and CTO at @PeakXV Partners and Sequoia Capital moderated by Gautam Rege Co-founder and director Josh Software, Inc.

At the third break out room we had Yogini Bende co-founder Peerlist who delivered a session on Building Products Users Love: From Idea to MVP

At the community lounge we had Amey Nerkar Senior Product Manager at Bajaj Finserv Health and Organizer at @GDG Nashik who shared insights on Scratching off the payment superstitions.

Followed by the first track at every breakout session we started the second session with

(VJ) Vijaykumar Jangamashetti ?? from 谷歌 who shared deep insights on Unlocking the power of Generative AI with Google Cloud GenAI.

Another break out we had Mathangi Sri Ramachandran from Yubi who discussed on Building Data Driven Decisions.

At the third room we had Dr. Sonal Sushil Modi (Ph.D., CPLP?- ATD Certified) from 萬事達卡 who motivated our audience specially female audience with her leadership skills and amazing topic of Women in Tech- Sky is a Limit.

At the same time on community lounge we had Anjali Kulkarni who helped help QA professionals learn Automating QA processes using PaLM APIs.

We started third session at room first with

Natasha Jain of 摩根大通 who helped attendees to understand Serverless application benchmarking.

Second track we had Rivu Chakraborty Android Architect (Senior Manager) at Viacom18 Media Private Limited who helped mobile app developers Creating SDKs in Kotlin Multiplatform.

Third track we had Palak Shivhare from Entrata India who spoke on Product Management Strategies for Success.

At the community lounge Aarshad Devani , Senior Software Development Engineer at Storable India who briefed about Creating Immersive AR Experiences for Web.

After the amazing food at Lunch we came back and started fourth session and the first track was with

Manik Kashikar Cloud Solution Architect at 思特沃克软件技术（中国）有限公司 who elaborated how to Cost Optimization/FinOps Strategy on Google Cloud.

At the second track Vinayak Joglekar founder at Rezoomex has briefed about Smart Contract driven Development.

At the third track we had Dhananjay Kumar founder at NomadCoder who explained Signals – a new way of Fine-Grained Reactivity in Angular

At community lounge Ashutosh S. Bhakare CEO at Unnati Development and Training Centre Pvt Ltd has talked on | Demystifying Google Kubernetes Engine and Use Cases.

Followed by we had next set of sessions at every track as follows.

First track we had Yogesh Haribhau Kulkarni who has explained and demonstrated | Implementing Generative AI FAQ Bot on own documents.

At the second hall we had Pawan Kumar a founder at Codepur who took us through | AI-Powered App Evolution: A Journey Through LLM Integration

At the third track we had Ayush Jain Founder at Mindbowser Inc who explained us how to Be a Project Management Hero.

At the community lounge Srishti Tibrewal has conducted a WTM (Women Techmakers) lounge for women in tech leaders.

Here we come at the last tech session track of the day.

On first hall we had Ayushi Gupta a lead Android Engineer at Zalando and Google Developer Expert of Flutter Dev . who explained Firebase, PaLM API: Elevate Android Apps with Chatbot Alchemy!

Next hall we had Shubham Londhe Senior python backend developer at Vamstar Who explained about Managing Multi Environment Deployments on GKE using Kustomize.

At the third hall we had Harsh Akshit from 新思科技 and Organizer GDG Ranchi explained importance of security in application develpoment journey in his talk Embarking on Application security journey.

Followed by Harsh we had Yugali Mohite Program Manager, Current and Future Technologists at Google Cloud 谷歌 . who briefed about Your Gateway to Gamified Learning, GenAI Mastery and Certification Success.

And towards the end of the event we had interesting panel discussions which has amazing panelists who shared their experience and knowledge with attendees.

Panel 1 : Responsible AI

Modererated by (VJ) Vijaykumar Jangamashetti ?? from 谷歌 and panelists were

1) Satish Patil Founder at Kanlet

2) Lalit Mohan Chandra Bhatt CTO at Entytle

3) Dr. Anand Kolharkar founder at Opine Group .

Who shared insights on how to make use of AI effectively and responsibly.

Panel 2: The Startup journey

Moderated by Mahaveer Muttha co-founder at Birdvision

And panelists were

1) Devyani Pawar Founder at DP House of Media

2) Sachin Sharma previous co-founder at Townscript

3) Jose Thattil CEO and Founder at Phi Commerce

4) Dhruva Rajan previous co-founder and CEO at GeoSpoc

5) Vishal Virani Co-Founder and CEO at DhiWise

Who put light on founders journeys, do's and don'ts of entrepreneurship journey.

Third and last panel we had was around women tech makers open house to discuss on challenges faced by women in tech in their tech career / journey.

Panel was moderated by Srishti Tibrewal community manager at 谷歌 .

Panelists were

1) Vandana Sharma Adjunct Professor Indian Institute of Management Kashipur . International Woman Icon, and a Military Veteran

2) Sukirti Bahirat COO at The DataTech Labs Inc (TDTL)

3) Pranoti Nandurkar assistant consultant at 塔塔咨询服务公司 and ambassador at WTM Pune.

4) Namrata More technical program manager at Razorpay and ambassador at WTM Pune

Sponsors: Your generous support not only made the event financially viable but also contributed to the overall positive experience for our attendees. Your commitment to fostering community engagement is deeply appreciated.

Google for Developers title sponsor at #DevFestPune23.

EXL ( Clairvoyant ) Gold sponsor at #DevFestPune23

DhiWise Diamond sponsor at #DevFestPune23

Rezoomex Bronze sponsor at #DevFestPune23

Entrata India Bronze sponsor at #DevFestPune23

Peerlist Bronze sponsor at #DevFestPune23

FlutterFlow Bronze sponsor at #DevFestPune23

Contributors: Whether behind the scenes or actively participating, your hard work and dedication did not go unnoticed. From logistics to content creation, your efforts were instrumental in making DevFest 23 a seamless and enjoyable experience for all.

NovelVista Learning Solutions Knowledge partners.

MSI Booth Partners

Technogise Booth partner

IIHT Technologies (Techadamy) Booth Partner.

SigScalr Booth partner

Razorpay Booth partner

KonfHub ticketing platform. ( Ganesh Samarthyam ↗? , Hari Kiran Kumar Grandhe )

Birdvision Communication partner. ( Kapil Rana )

Chechi Media Production partner ( Vishal Tiwary )

BlakBlu Production partner ( Harsh Gupta )

Community Partners:

GeeksforGeeks Community partner.

GDG Cloud Pune

@TFUG Pune

Flutter Pune

GDGoC Pune

Volunteers: Your selfless dedication and tireless efforts were the backbone of DevFest 23. Your commitment to ensuring a smooth and positive experience for all attendees did not go unnoticed, and we are truly grateful for your invaluable contributions.

Meet our content team:

Shubham Rane Kalyani Desai Kesar Tank Parth Shete Prathmesh Wadje Sanchayita Gaikwad Sanika Kotgire Snehal Nair Sneha Arvind Ojha Vaishnavi Aradhye

Meet our design team:

Ramsha Ashraf Snehal S Abhang Mandwale Aditi Ashok Jadhav Anushka Kulkarni Diksha Dhumal Nikita Kumari Prachi Kabra Rohit Gawade Swarali Deshpande Vaishnavi Joshi Vaibhavi Thakare Vishal Dhanwade Yash Gangan Yash Jadhav

Meet our development team:

Pranay Narang Akash Harale Hitesh sukhwani Mrudula Kulkarni Sagar Gajare Sanjivani Bodke Sayyam Gatagat Shivraj Bhapkar Tejas Korade Krishnan Raghavan Shrihriday Bhagwat

Meet our Social Media team:

Manasi Kulkarni Shashank Kumar Srivastava Harshada Chawla Mayur Patil Yash Londhe Manoranjan Rajguru

Meet our startup onboarding team:

Himanshu Jain Sunil Singh Shardul Inamdar Karan W. Shreya Kerur Shrawan Saproo Shubham Pawar Bhavesh Wadhwani

Meet our Anchoring team:

Anjali Upadhye Sam From Bharat Parth Shete Shreya Dhurde Faizan Akhtar Aman Mulani Snehal Nair @vishal kumavat Gaurav Golecha (GG)

Meet our Photography/ Videography team:

Prathmesh Wadje Satish Sonwale Rahul Sonawane Krushna Borse Pavan Kalaskar

Other volunteers who contributed in various tasks and execution: Rohit Lalwani Amey Nerkar Mahendra Raut

Our strong supporters Developers Relation team at 谷歌 : Karthik Padmanabhan Manoranjan Padhy Harsh Dattani Arun Teja Godavarthi (ZeoSpec) Srishti Tibrewal Vania Noreen Scott Prasad Seth

And finally Organizers of GDG Pune and WTM Pune

Mahaveer Muttha Swapnil Jathar Pranoti Nandurkar Namrata More

Attendees: Your active participation, curiosity, and eagerness to learn created a vibrant atmosphere that epitomizes the spirit of our community. Thank you for making DevFest 23 a gathering of like-minded individuals passionate about Technology and innovations.

To everyone who played a part, big or small, in making this event a success, please know that your contributions are genuinely valued. DevFest 23 was not just an event; it was a celebration of our shared commitment to community values.

As we reflect on the success of DevFest 23, we are inspired and energized for the future of our community. Your involvement has left a lasting impact, and we look forward to continuing this journey together.

GDG Pune and WTM Pune has launched the community excellence awards you can nominate yourself or someone else for the same. To kindly nominate here

To Join GDG Pune kindly visit here

#AI, #ML, #GenAI, #GenerativeAI, #ArtificialIntelligence, #Cloud, #Mobile, #Flutter, #Security, #Diversity.

Once again, thank you for being an essential part of #DevFestPune23. We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with such an exceptional group of individuals.

Warm regards,

Team GDG Pune and WTM Pune.