Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ielbouchikhi">Brahim Elbouchikhi</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/skotwani">Sachin Kotwani</a> talk with <a href="https://twitter.com/nyghtowl">Melanie</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Neurotic">Mark</a> about Firebase’s ML Kit and how it enables machine learning on mobile and cloud apps. We delve into why ML Kit was developed, how it makes machine learning easier, what it’s used for now and plans for the future.</p> <h5 id="sachin-kotwani">Sachin Kotwani</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/skotwani">Sachin Kotwani</a> is a product manager with a special passion for making software development easy and fun. He has worked on several teams at Google, including Google Cloud, Play, and now Firebase. Before joining product management he worked worked as a strategy & ops manager in Google’s Sales organization, and prior to Google, he worked in finance at Amazon.</p> <p>He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and dual bachelor’s degrees in Business Management and Computer Science from the University of Missouri - Columbia.</p> <p>His hobbies include traveling with his family, chasing his daughter around the house, and tinkering with mobile apps and backends.</p> <h5 id="brahim-elbouchikhi">Brahim Elbouchikhi</h5> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/ielbouchikhi">Brahim Elbouchikhi</a> is a Group Product Manager on the Android team. On Android, Brahim is responsible for developer and consumer facing ML products, including Camera and developer SDKs. Prior to Android, Brahim led Daydream’s software team. Brahim was also a founding PM of the Google Play store where he led monetization, search, and discovery. Brahim holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA. Brahim has also worked at Amazon and Deloitte in addition to starting a company in the past.</p> <h5 id="cool-things-of-the-week">Cool things of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Our 10th Doodle 4 Google winner is dino-mite <a href="https://blog.google/inside-google/doodles/our-10th-doodle-4-google-winner-dino-mite/"> blog</a></li> <li>Google Podcasts now on Android <a href="https://blog.google/products/android/listen-google-podcasts-now-android/"> blog</a></li> <li>Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Specialization <a href="https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-tensorflow-gcp"> site</a></li> <li>Introducing Cloud Dataflow’s new Streaming Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2018/06/introducing-cloud-dataflows-new-streaming-engine"> blog</a></li> <li>ML Explorer: talking and listening with Google Cloud <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2018/06/ml-explorer-talking-and-listening-with-google-cloud-using-cloud-speech-and-text-to-speech"> blog</a> <ul> <li>#131 Actions on Google with Mandy Chan <a href="https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-131-actions-on-google-with-mandy-chan/"> podcast</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li>ML Kit for Firebase <a href="https://firebase.google.com/products/ml-kit/">site</a></li> <li>TensorFlow Hub <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org/hub/">site</a></li> <li>TensorFlow Lite <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org/mobile/tflite/">site</a></li> <li>Federated Learning <a href="https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45648">document</a> and <a href="https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collaborative.html"> blog</a></li> <li>TensorFlow.js <a href="https://js.tensorflow.org">site</a></li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://firebase.google.com/products/ml-kit/"><img src="https://googlecloudpodcast.libsyn.com/images/post/ML-Kit-for-Firebase.png" style="margin: auto;" /></a></div> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <p>What is a Developer Programs Engineer?</p> <ul> <li>Developer Programs Engineer — Say What!? <a href="https://medium.com/google-cloud/developer-programs-engineer-say-what-b12829729693"> blog</a></li> <li>Franziska Hinkelmann <a href="https://twitter.com/fhinkel">twitter</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <p>Mark is going to the <a href="https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/06/22/hackweek-2018-the-unity-way/"> Unity Hackweek</a>. Read how Google Cloud is teaming up with Unity for gaming <a href="https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/powering-up-connected-game-development-through-our-alliance-with-unity/"> blog</a></p> <p>Melanie is speaking at <a href="http://ai-4-all.org/">Stanford AI4ALL</a> on June 28th.</p> <p>We’ll both be at <a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/sf/">Cloud NEXT</a>!</p>
