The Go & Cloud Circuit: First Stop, Shoreditch

Welcome to the launch of our brand new GDG London circuit focused on Go & Cloud! 🚀 For our "First Stop: Shoreditch", we’re taking over The Drum Labs for an evening of Go engineering, linker mechanics, cloud architectures, and developer advocacy. Whether you're building high-throughput backends or exploring static binary compilation, join us for practical deep dives, community insights, and networking in the heart of Shoreditch. 📅 Agenda: 18:00 - Doors Open & Networking 18:30 - Welcome & Intro 18:35 - First session, Daniela Petruzalek 19:20 - Second session, Ainsley Clark 20:00 - Networking 👥 Speakers & Talks: 🎙️ Ainsley Clark - Go Developer Advocate at JetBrains 📌 //go:embed: From Comment to Binary - Linker Internals, Tradeoffs and Production Patterns Since its introduction in Go 1.16, the embed package has quietly reshaped static asset distribution, single-binary deployments and infrastructure tooling – and the community can’t get enough of it. This talk goes into what //go:embed is, but more importantly, how it works under the hood so you can make informed decisions when shipping embedded assets to production. Ainsley specialises in Go, scalable backend systems and modern front-end designs. He's a regular voice in the community and leads workshops that take engineers from fundamentals to production-ready code. With a background in full-stack development, Ainsley is passionate about using Go beyond traditional backends, including for frontends and web applications. He also runs ainsley.dev, a web development and design company where he builds bespoke websites and APIs. 🎙️ Daniela Petruzalek - Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google A Tale of 3 Agents: How to Build AI Agents in Go In this talk, we will explore three distinct approaches to building AI agents in Go: starting from scratch with low-level GenAI SDKs, leveraging Genkit for medium abstraction with flows and prompts, and using the high-level Agent Development Kit (ADK) for full-featured multi-agent systems. We will also cover setting up a local development environment and deploying agents to Google Cloud or other cloud platforms. By the end of this session, you will have the foundation to design and build your own custom AI agents. Daniela is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google based in London, specialising in Go, Cloud infrastructure, and AI engineering tools. With over two decades of experience across software engineering and system architecture, Daniela focuses on building reliable, high-performance backends and helping developers navigate modern cloud-native ecosystems. She is a former Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Go and GCP and an active open-source author and speaker in the global Go community. 📍 Location Details:The Drum Labs25-27 Curtain Rd, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3LT(Nearest stations: Shoreditch High Street / Old Street)Hosted by JetBrains See you there!