DevFest Pune 2024 by Google Developers Group Pune.

We're thrilled to share the highlights of DevFest 2024, Pune's largest tech event, held on November 30th! The event brought together some of the brightest minds in the industry to explore the latest advancements and discuss the future of technology.

A huge thank you to all the speakers, panelists, attendees, volunteers, and sponsors who made DevFest Pune 2024 a resounding success. We couldn't have done it without your support! Let's keep the innovation and collaboration going.

~900 participants

~80 volunteers

Total 27 speakers

10 Female leaders from speakers and panelists.

2 speakers at workshop

3 moderators

13 Panelists

30+ CXO's in business lounge activity.

5+ foreigners to attend events.

~ 100 out of Maharashtra attendees.

Keynote:

• Karthik Padmanabhan , Developers Relations Head at Google India, set the stage with a thought-provoking keynote address.

AI & Machine Learning Talks:

• Vishal Virani , Co-Founder & CEO (Chief Everything Officer), DhiWise : "The AI Catalyst: Transforming SDLC with Agent-driven Efficiency and Accuracy"
• Romin Irani :Developer Advocate, Google Cloud : Chrome Built-in AI : Powerful AI features directly in your browser.
• Yogesh Haribhau Kulkarni : AI Coach | Google Developer Experts, AI/ML: Introduction to Generative AI (Regional Language)
• Priyesh P. Director of Technology, PubMatic : From Concept to Impact: Scaling Generative AI for Modern Businesses
• Ashutosh S. Bhakare, CEO, Unnati Development and Training Centre Pvt Ltd and Google Developers Expert: "Safeguarding Your GKE Journey: Best Practices and Beyond"
• Mangesh Dabaki , Practice Lead, Google : "GenAI-Powered Cost Optimization: From Insights to Action"
• Jay Thakkar, Research Intern, SCAAI, Co-organizer, TFUG-SURAT: "Trust, but Verify: The Critical Battleground of AI Safety and Security"
• Jitendra Gupta , Manager - Cloud Engineering, Google Developers Expert: "Grounding generative AI in enterprise truth for real-world impact"
• Pranoti Nandurkar , Technical architect in a leading IT company. Organizer GDG Pune and Women Techmakers Ambassador: "Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Ethical Landscape of AI"

Flutter & Development Talks:

• Suraj Kulkarni , Android and Flutter Developer, Cornerstone OnDemand: "Crossing Boundaries: Mastering Platform Channels in Flutter"
• Srishti Tibrewal , Community Manager, Google, and Rajat Bhatia , Program Coordinator, Google: "Road to GDE Program"
• Snehal Shivankar, UX Designer | WTM Ambassador | Founder of UI UX Design School: "Leveraging Generative AI for Enhancing Accessibility"
• Sarang Kulkarni , Tech Principal and Lead Consultant, Thoughtworks: "Building an AI-Powered Research Assistant"
• Kavya Parag , Solutions Engineer, Couchbase: "Building AI powered applications with Couchbase"
• Ayush Shekhar , Enterprise Solutions Architect, FlutterFlow | Google Developer Experts, Flutter & Dart: "Product Engineering: A FlutterFlow Story"
• Bhavesh Wadhwani , Gen AI and Machine Learning Specialist, Google Cloud: "Unlocking the Power of Custom Data in LLMs: Exploring Vertex AI Agent Builder"

Other Talks:

• Dr Amit Andre , CEO, The DataTech Labs Inc (TDTL): "Unleashing the Future: Generative AI for All with Google Gemini"
• Saurabh Jha , AI Engineer, Autodesk, and Sankalp V. , Engineering Manager, Autodesk: "Overview of Analytics Data and ML Platform"
• Anand Agrawal , Founder and CEO at Technogise, and Vishal Prasad , Principal Consultant at Technogise: "Engineering Intelligence via Engineering Metrics"
• Parul Aggarwal , Senior Software Engineer, Principal | WTM Ambassador: "Software Craftsmanship: My Journey Through XP in Action"
• Pratik Kale , Software Engineer, Impulsive Web | Organizer,GDG Cloud Pune: "Uncomplicate Javascript with Demo"
• Akash Shukla , Contributor, Beckn Protocol | Mentor, Google for Startups Accelerator (EU & Africa): "Beckn Unveiled: Architecting the Internet’s Next Frontier with AI"
• Vrijraj Singh, Google Developers Expert for Web & Firebase: "GenAI with Firebase"
• Shubham Rane , Advanced App Engineering Analyst, Accenture: "The Building Blocks of Great Prompts"
• Amit Chaurasia : founder Dataneers Modern Storage Systems.

Panel Discussions:

The event also featured thought-provoking panel discussions on:

• Responsible AI
• Moderated by Karun Japhet , Solution Consultant, Sahaj Software

The panelists included:

• Divjot Nanda , Senior Executive Director JPMorgan Chase & Head of Engineering for Chase Travel
• (VJ) Vijaykumar Jangamashetti ?? , Cloud Consulting Architect, Google
• Poushali Jha , Practice Lead- APAC Technology, Leading Financial Institution
• Kedar Jedhe , Senior Director, GenAI & SDET, PubMatic

• Mistakes and Milestones: Lessons from the Startup World

Moderated by Mahaveer Muttha, Organizer GDG Pune and co-founder and IT Director, Birdvision

The panelists included:

• Paula McGlynn , CEO, Bharatiya Digital Party (BhaDiPa)
• Devyani Pawar , Founder & CEO DP House of Media
• Dr. Anupama Singh , CEO Sequoia Insilico Private Ltd.
• Nitish Rai , Founder and CEO, FreightFox
• Vijay Chhuttani hutani , CTO & Co-Founder ZOOP

• Product, Platform & AI

These discussions were moderated by Azhar Shaikh , VP, Platform Product, JPMorganChase

and palists were industry veterans like:

• Abhijit Devale , Head Of Development - Care Platform and Production Management, Tietoevry
• Hemalatha Sangwikar , Director - Google Cloud Consulting, Global Services Delivery
• Vikram Deshpande , Segment Head, Vice President, SIEMENS
• Himanshu Jain , Associate Director Engineering, Academian

Resume building and interview cracking activities by

(VJ) Vijaykumar Jangamashetti ?? and Shirish Padalkar

Don't miss out on future tech events! Follow GDG Pune on social media and stay tuned for updates on upcoming events and workshops.

A Heartfelt Thank You to Our DevFest 2024 Sponsors

We're incredibly grateful to our sponsors for making DevFest 2024 a resounding success. Your support made it possible to bring together a diverse community of tech enthusiasts and industry leaders.

Title Sponsor: Google for Developers

Diamond Sponsor: DhiWise

Platinum Sponsor: Phi Commerce

Gold Sponsors: PubMatic

Silver Sponsors: 思特沃克软件技术（中国）有限公司 , Couchbase , FlutterFlow , 欧特克

Bronze Sponsors: Rezoomex , Academian Inc

Booth Sponsors: Technogise , MSI gaming , Winjit Technologies Pvt Ltd , Contentstack , Swiq.ai

Communication Partner: Scale Sure

Knowledge Partner The DataTech Labs Inc (TDTL)

Ticketing platform: KonfHub

CFP partner: Sessionize.com

PodCast Parnter: BK3 Studios

And following are our community partners:

GDG Cloud Pune Flutter Pune PuneDAO JITO INCUBATION & INNOVATION FOUNDATION MongoDB User Group Pune FOSS United Pune FlutterFlow Developers Group Pune TechThrusters ML Community Pune APGI - Agile Practitioners Group of India Code Vipassana POSTMAN COMMUNITY PUNE Women Techmakers Pune.

Big thanks to Developers Relation team at Google India for supporting us Karthik Padmanabhan Harsh Dattani Arun Teja Godavarthi (ZeoSpec) Srishti Tibrewal Rajat Bhatia Vania Noreen Scott

Volunteering leads of GDG Pune Shubham Rane Kalyani Desai Gaurav Golecha (GG) Krishnan Raghavan Manasi Kulkarni Nikita Kumari Rohit Gawade Sagar Gajare Satish Sonwale Shashank Kumar Srivastava Shreya Kerur Snehal Shivankar Suraj Kulkarni Nidhish Malav ?? Devang Kamble Suraj Kulkarni

Other key supporters for the event:

Manoranjan Padhy Kapil Rana Jose Thattil Kalpesh Zalavadiya Shubham Zapate Nayna Banerjee Vishal Tiwary

Antrixsh Gupta, PhD Shrihriday Bhagwat Dnyanada Mahajan Shailesh C. Amey Nerkar Mahendra Raut Pratik Kale

Our organizing team Mahaveer Muttha Pranoti Nandurkar Swapnil Jathar Namrata More

And last but not the least, our volunteers, who's support was the most important part of the execution.

#DevFestPune2024 #DFPune2024 #DevFestPune24 #GDGPune #WTMPune

Thank you for your invaluable contributions!

Mahaveer Muttha

Organizer GDG Pune.