Hudson Valley Tech Meetup

• Jon "GainSec" Gaines will give a talk: Bird Hunting Season: How I Hacked Flock Safety's License Plate Readers. Abstract: A compact crash course in hardware and embedded-system security framed around my recently published research into Flock Safety’s license plate readers. Begins with hardware/embedded/IoT penetration-testing methodology, prerequisites, and researcher mindset; then presents a high level attack surface analysis, observed firmware and bootloader weaknesses, root causes, and real world impact, concluding with practical, nonactionable mitigations and responsible disclosure guidance.

Local tech professionals get-together in person on a monthly basis, alternating local municipalities. All these smaller size meet ups culminate with the two days professional conference, DevFest at RPI in Troy on October 31st and November 1st. We will provide more details about this event as we move forward.

Ongoing 2025 call for speakers is available for your submission. Feel free to add as many talks as interested. These talks will be considered for our community meetups and can lead to your speakers engagement with our DevFest this Fall.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Speakers confirmed: Jyoti Shah, Director of Application Development and GenAI at ADP. She will talk about Data Leadership in HCM and BPO: Driving Transformation with Analytics and AI

Are you interested to present your project? Give a lightning talk? Full talk or hands-on workshop? Fill out this Call For Speakers!

You are welcome to show and tell your project, network, pitch your startup and give a lecture or a lightning talk.

This time we are going to introduce Cloud Skills Boost - a learning platform to try everything out, it has preselected learning paths for you. This platform empowers learners with in-demand skills through 700+ hands-on labs, role-based courses, skill badges, and certification resources. We will create a shared group to help each other. Once enrolled through your GDG chapter, you have a free access for one year, as well as $5 credit for your experiments.

After that we will use recommended lab sequence to learn how to build with AI. Some labs recommended:

1. Introduction to Gemini 2.5 Pro on Google Cloud: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/intro-gemini-25-pro-colab?hl=en#0
2. Yoga Pose Recommender https://codelabs.developers.google.com/yoga-pose-firestore-vectorsearch-python?hl=en#0
3. Build a YouTube Summarizer https://codelabs.developers.google.com/devsite/codelabs/build-youtube-summarizer?hl=en#1
4. Building AI Agents with Vertex AI Agent Builder https://codelabs.developers.google.com/devsite/codelabs/building-ai-agents-vertexai?hl=en#1
5. Google's Agent Stack in Action Lab to learn ADK Agent, A2A and much more. You'll learn to build AI-powered multi-agent systems on Google Cloud using Vertex A and explore the cutting edge of multi-agent AI and its transformative potential.
6. and much more

Register in advance for this and following virtual meetings (monthly, on the third Thursday of the month):
[https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YrVsZEK1Rpy73IhVMd9t-w ]
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Submit your talk / workshop to present: bit.ly/HVTechC4S
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Agenda:
FRIDAY 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10/31st - Friday Night - hands-on workshops "Build with AI" for three levels: total beginners, junior developers and professionals: Three workshops to be delivered simultaneously in three tracks: Building Agents with Google and LangChainJS, - by Allen Firstenberg; Exploring On-Device LLM with Gemma and Flutter, - by Omar Farouk;...
View More here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-hudson-presents-devfest-troy-25-multi-track-conference/cohost-gdg-hudson

SATURDAY - Full day conference 10 AM - 6 PM
with three tracks of coffee, talks, networking and raffle!
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Opening DevFest remarks and a keynote
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - three tracks filled with brilliant talks
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM- Lunch break (food and drinks provided)
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM - three tracks (continued)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Closing Remarks and Raffle

Get your Tickets here (Day 1 and Day 2 included):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devfest-2025-troy-ny-tickets-1564209947059

Submit your talk / workshop to present: bit.ly/HVTechC4S
Support our communities as Sponsor

Agenda:
FRIDAY 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10/31st - Friday Night - hands-on workshops "Build with AI" for three levels: total beginners, junior developers and professionals: Three workshops to be delivered simultaneously in three tracks: Building Agents with Google and LangChainJS, - by Allen Firstenberg; Exploring On-Device LLM with Gemma and Flutter, - by Omar Farouk;...
View More here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-hudson-presents-devfest-troy-25-multi-track-conference/cohost-gdg-hudson

SATURDAY - Full day conference 10 AM - 6 PM
with three tracks of coffee, talks, networking and raffle!
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Opening DevFest remarks and a keynote
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - three tracks filled with brilliant talks
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM- Lunch break (food and drinks provided)
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM - three tracks (continued)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Closing Remarks and Raffle

Get your Tickets here (Day 1 and Day 2 included):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devfest-2025-troy-ny-tickets-1564209947059