Google Developer Day 2008 Bangalore

Posted on the October 18th, 2008 under Web by Suku

Today was the first time Google Developer Day was held in India. The venue was The Chancery Pavillion in Bangalore. The event was very well organized and executed as per the agenda even though there were some minor hiccups.

Google Developer Day or GDD as its called is an one day event with seminars and codelabs of various Google web technologies including Google Maps, OpenSocial, Android, Gears, Google Web Toolkit by the Google enginners who built them.

I reached there at 8:20 AM parked the bike and suddenly the atmosphere was all googly when I saw these.

After some verification, registering my name at the counter and getting some stuff that had the detailed agenda and the necessary SDK for codelabs, I headed to the grand ball room where they keynote was to be delivered.

The keynote speech for Google Developer Day 2008, Bangalore was delivered by

Prasad Ram, Engineering & Site Director – Google R&D Bangalore with the demos run by Jagjit Singh

Ram was CTO at Yahoo India’s R&D unit in Bangalore.

As the Center Head and Director of R&D for Google India, Prasad Ram is responsible for the development of Google Search, Ads, Community technologies, key search technologies and oversaw the launch the a number of internet consumer products.

The keynote addressed the main Google strategies in support and development of Open Web.

  • Client – Google Gears and Google Chrome
  • Cloud – App Engine
  • Connectivity – Android

I sure hope to see all of the these working in unification which will bring about a paradigm shift.