Google India has been organized their series of technology events with the name g|india, g|days. It started from Chennai on 19th July 2012 and will continue till Mumbai on 12th September 2012. One of these events were organized at Delhi which I attended and am reviewing in this post. g|day at Delhi, like all the other g|days was a two days event. The first day on 4th September 2012 was "Business day" which had the theme "Growing with a Digital Strategy" and the second day on 5th September 2012 was "Technology Day" which had the theme "Developer and Webmaster Deep Drive". In this post I am going to review the technology day.
At the time of registration I got a badge which had these three cards viz, my Delegate pass which mentioned my name, the event agenda and the venue map. Agenda of g|days has been explained in this agenda card quite simply.
I attended track 1 of the event which was about Android and Mobile technology. One of my friends and fellow bloggers, Mr. Chandan Mishra from Learn and Earn has reviewed the track 3, Google Cloud and APIs. Read:
The two days event was organized at Epicentre, at Apparel House in Gurgaon near Huda City Centre metro station at Delhi. The venue was a huge building which managed more than a thousand guests' event, refreshment and everything else very easily. The building was divided into four tracks in which different events were going on. As mentioned earlier, light and sound arrangements were great. There was gaming zone, learning zone, chill out zone and the tracks. A high speed wi-fi connection was active all over the event. The only complain about the venue was that at a certain point of time in the event, the air conditioners were put off and I noticed some guests waving their notebooks for cool air.
In the welcome address, the country head outreach programs, Google India, Mr. Sunil Rao showed some interesting statistics about how mobile technology and smartphones are taking over the digital market and the Internet. While he explained everything about the present scenario, he also described that how are things going to be in the future 2015. The rate of growing mobile technologies was interesting to see and was presented in a great manner. The audiences had a great time in this part of the event.
The most exciting part of the whole event was this. Mr. Neelesh Bodas, who is a software engineer in Google at Banglore showed the demos of certain Google products. Starting with Android JellyBeans, he showed the functionality of Google Now, an app which recognizes the question you ask it in your voice, and answers you. This app comes pre installed with Google Android. The crowd responded pretty well in this demo.
The second demo was of Google Drive. Mr. Bodas along with one of his colleagues, opened Google Drive: Document in two different Macbooks. The same document was opened in both the machines. The demo showed the real time sync of Google Drive. While Mr. Bodas was typing, the text was appearing on the other screen too.
The third and final demo was of the sync power of Google Chrome browser. This demo showed that the history of Google Chrome gets saved on a cloud based location and even if you close your browser in your PC and then open it in your mobile, your history will be accessible as it is with all the back visited pages and tabs which can be restored.
Some more overview demos were of Google plus hangouts.
After a tea/coffee break, I attended track 1 of the conference which was about Android Application Development. To show that how easy it is to develop an android application, Mr. Sunil Rao invited on the stage, Mr. Evan Luthra who is a 17 year old school going student. He developed the first ever app of Delhi Metro service. After this demo, the conference was led by Mr. Anirudh Dewani and Mr. Toni who were connected on a Google Plus hangout. They explained many things about Android application development. Some key points they included in their presentations were how to use the title bar in Android apps, when and how to show notifications in Android, how links work in Android notifications, how applications made for the Android platform should be, about their uniqueness and purity. They also answered a questions and answers session in which the audiences asked many questions to them and they responded very responsibly. After this session, we headed to lunch.
Lunch and refreshments were outstanding. The menu had a lot of mouth watering dishes of all kinds, vegetarian, non-vegetarian, starters, sweets etc. There was also a vendor kind of person who had a lot for free real JellyBeans, and that was the most entertaining part of the lunch area.
After the lunch, there was this great session named "Mobile Applications: How to quit your day job?". This presentation was led by Mr. Saurabh Adeeb who is Strategic Partner Development Manager at Google. In this presentation, he showed that how developing mobile applications can help you quit your day job and can prove as a great business for you. He showed different ways to monetize an Android app which includes advertisements, premium features, demo versions for apps, paid apps etc. He showed the examples of apps like paper toss and angry birds. He explained that after many failures, a developer gets success. He also explained the importance of ads in the monetization of an app.
Mr. Anushman Kumar who is an User experience designer on Enterprise apps at Google took the session of User Experience at Google which was creativity named, "Behind the scenes: User experience @ Google". This session explained what is user experience, what it is not and some do's and don'ts related to user experience. He explained that a user is kept at the first priority while developing anything in the technology world, whether it be an app or a website.
After all these sessions followed this super exciting session named "HTML5: More Magic Moments". This session was again taken by Mr. Neelesh Bodas. In this session, Mr. Bodas showed some great inbuilt features of HTML5 such as drag and drop, rotation, image and video integration, animation etc. He presented HTML as more of a magic language than a markup language. This session was very attractive to the audiences and at the same time, it was awesome. Mr. Bodas showed the demo with the code behind the simple programs he designed, and he explained in a very simple manner.
In addition to all these technical events, g|india had some more events such as explanations about the Google product forums, GDG, Google developers' group Delhi, Panel discussion on product development challenges and more. There were also some competitions which were held there such as the best photo etc. Every event attendee was given a complimentary g|india merchandise t-shirt.
The two complains which I had with the event were the switching off of air conditioners in between the event and the delayed schedule of the event. Everything else was outstanding. So a four star rating to g|india.
Overall, the first ever g|days event of Google India was a huge success. I had a great day there and will attend it next year too for sure. Thanks for reading.
g|india: Event Agenda
At the time of registration I got a badge which had these three cards viz, my Delegate pass which mentioned my name, the event agenda and the venue map. Agenda of g|days has been explained in this agenda card quite simply.
- Registration - Ofcourse everyone had to register to attend the event.
- Welcome Address - The country head of Google India, Mr. Sunil Rao welcomed the guests in a very entertaining manner. He explained everything which was going to happen in the day and what all there was for the guests.
- Keynote - The keynote was very impressing for the guests. The light and sound arrangements had been outstanding throughout the event.
- Tracks - The further event was divided into four tracks. Track 1 concentrated on Android and mobile computing, track 2 had everything about Google Maps, track 3 was about Google Cloud and Google APIs and track 4 was about education and career in technology.
I attended track 1 of the event which was about Android and Mobile technology. One of my friends and fellow bloggers, Mr. Chandan Mishra from Learn and Earn has reviewed the track 3, Google Cloud and APIs. Read:
Gindia/gday Review:Awesome event to learn something new with fullon fun
g|india: The Venue
The two days event was organized at Epicentre, at Apparel House in Gurgaon near Huda City Centre metro station at Delhi. The venue was a huge building which managed more than a thousand guests' event, refreshment and everything else very easily. The building was divided into four tracks in which different events were going on. As mentioned earlier, light and sound arrangements were great. There was gaming zone, learning zone, chill out zone and the tracks. A high speed wi-fi connection was active all over the event. The only complain about the venue was that at a certain point of time in the event, the air conditioners were put off and I noticed some guests waving their notebooks for cool air.
g|india: Welcome Address and Keynote
In the welcome address, the country head outreach programs, Google India, Mr. Sunil Rao showed some interesting statistics about how mobile technology and smartphones are taking over the digital market and the Internet. While he explained everything about the present scenario, he also described that how are things going to be in the future 2015. The rate of growing mobile technologies was interesting to see and was presented in a great manner. The audiences had a great time in this part of the event.
g|india: Demos
The most exciting part of the whole event was this. Mr. Neelesh Bodas, who is a software engineer in Google at Banglore showed the demos of certain Google products. Starting with Android JellyBeans, he showed the functionality of Google Now, an app which recognizes the question you ask it in your voice, and answers you. This app comes pre installed with Google Android. The crowd responded pretty well in this demo.
The second demo was of Google Drive. Mr. Bodas along with one of his colleagues, opened Google Drive: Document in two different Macbooks. The same document was opened in both the machines. The demo showed the real time sync of Google Drive. While Mr. Bodas was typing, the text was appearing on the other screen too.
The third and final demo was of the sync power of Google Chrome browser. This demo showed that the history of Google Chrome gets saved on a cloud based location and even if you close your browser in your PC and then open it in your mobile, your history will be accessible as it is with all the back visited pages and tabs which can be restored.
Some more overview demos were of Google plus hangouts.
g|india: Android Application Development
After a tea/coffee break, I attended track 1 of the conference which was about Android Application Development. To show that how easy it is to develop an android application, Mr. Sunil Rao invited on the stage, Mr. Evan Luthra who is a 17 year old school going student. He developed the first ever app of Delhi Metro service. After this demo, the conference was led by Mr. Anirudh Dewani and Mr. Toni who were connected on a Google Plus hangout. They explained many things about Android application development. Some key points they included in their presentations were how to use the title bar in Android apps, when and how to show notifications in Android, how links work in Android notifications, how applications made for the Android platform should be, about their uniqueness and purity. They also answered a questions and answers session in which the audiences asked many questions to them and they responded very responsibly. After this session, we headed to lunch.
g|india: Lunch and Refreshments
Lunch and refreshments were outstanding. The menu had a lot of mouth watering dishes of all kinds, vegetarian, non-vegetarian, starters, sweets etc. There was also a vendor kind of person who had a lot for free real JellyBeans, and that was the most entertaining part of the lunch area.
g|india: Mobile Application Business
After the lunch, there was this great session named "Mobile Applications: How to quit your day job?". This presentation was led by Mr. Saurabh Adeeb who is Strategic Partner Development Manager at Google. In this presentation, he showed that how developing mobile applications can help you quit your day job and can prove as a great business for you. He showed different ways to monetize an Android app which includes advertisements, premium features, demo versions for apps, paid apps etc. He showed the examples of apps like paper toss and angry birds. He explained that after many failures, a developer gets success. He also explained the importance of ads in the monetization of an app.
g|india: User Experience
Mr. Anushman Kumar who is an User experience designer on Enterprise apps at Google took the session of User Experience at Google which was creativity named, "Behind the scenes: User experience @ Google". This session explained what is user experience, what it is not and some do's and don'ts related to user experience. He explained that a user is kept at the first priority while developing anything in the technology world, whether it be an app or a website.
g|india: HTML5 Magic Moments
After all these sessions followed this super exciting session named "HTML5: More Magic Moments". This session was again taken by Mr. Neelesh Bodas. In this session, Mr. Bodas showed some great inbuilt features of HTML5 such as drag and drop, rotation, image and video integration, animation etc. He presented HTML as more of a magic language than a markup language. This session was very attractive to the audiences and at the same time, it was awesome. Mr. Bodas showed the demo with the code behind the simple programs he designed, and he explained in a very simple manner.
g|india: More...
In addition to all these technical events, g|india had some more events such as explanations about the Google product forums, GDG, Google developers' group Delhi, Panel discussion on product development challenges and more. There were also some competitions which were held there such as the best photo etc. Every event attendee was given a complimentary g|india merchandise t-shirt.
The two complains which I had with the event were the switching off of air conditioners in between the event and the delayed schedule of the event. Everything else was outstanding. So a four star rating to g|india.
Overall, the first ever g|days event of Google India was a huge success. I had a great day there and will attend it next year too for sure. Thanks for reading.
certainly one of the best event i attented and the fact that we all are attented together also made it more woderful.
ReplyDeleteTruly, this event taught a lot and built great friendships.
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