My impressions of the community meet at Taj --
- This is mainly a networking event.
- Men can also be a part of the women techmakers group. Men who believe in diversity.
- Google engineers circulate around the room giving some glimpse into their area of expertise and the sessions/trainings they will be doing in the actual GDD. I remember the brief chat with Todd Burner the most. He was going to be part of the Live Coding session with Firebase on Day 2.
- During the brief talk by Sebastian it was mentioned there was no woman Google Developer Expert ! Surprising but something to note and aspire to.
- Some experiential areas - the photo booth, exercise bike competition.
- Free food and drinks. But of course - this is a google event after all !!!
- I met so many students I felt like I had walked into an alternate reality. It was flattering to be asked which college I was attending multiple times but I blame it on the mood lighting and the fact that about 70% of attendees seemed to be students (who were also founding startups) !!
- ENERGY !!! So many of the attendees are working on different ideas in different domains and have jumped into the foray of startups and are walking their talk. It was exhilarating listening and talking to them.
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