Google Technology User Groups: Dubai GTUG

Dubai GTUG

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Dubai Google Technology User Group meets on the 3rd Monday of the month. Dubai-GTUG's aim is to be a platform for sharing knowledge and experience, and to enrich the region with new ideas and innovation. We discuss different Google technologies such as Android, GWT and much more. Our discussions can take different forms such as: technical presentations, workshops or briefing of new Google technologies and APIs.

Please visit our website and hope to see you soon at Dubai-GTUG.

2012 Jun 27	Google I/O 2012 extended event more... A viewing party for Google I/O event
2012 May 11	GTUG Clinic in Dubai Startup Weekend Android, Google App Engine, Google Chrome Extensions, Google Web Toolkit more... This is a full day event, where the GTUG will have a stand in Dubai Startup weekend to provide technical support and cosulting for developers.
2012 Mar 14	Introduction to GTUG at University of Sharjah Android, Google App Engine, Google Web Toolkit 30 attendees more... It is an introductory event at the University of Sharjah to tell the university student about GTUG events and its different activities.
2011 Oct 18	Sixth Event (App engine Hackathon) Google App Engine 90 attendees more... This is our sixth event, where we had around 90 people and two paralled session. One is for beginners at App engine, and the second is for advnced people. We had one winner on the hackathon who got to present his work on g\|uae the next day
2011 Jul 14	GWT session Google Web Toolkit 30 attendees more... This event was given by Allahbaksh Assadulla, from Bangalore GTUG. the main topic was GWT, and also Google TV, Google I/O and Google+ were discussed.
2011 May 10	Google I/O extended event Android 90 attendees more... Dubai-GTUG joined more the 100+ locations all over the world in watching the live-stream of Google I/O -Google's biggest annual event-.On Tuesday May 10th, Dubai-GTUG and Dubai Tech Nights (DTN) had a joint event, where more than 80 techy people gathered together to benefit from DTN speakers and to enjoy watching the keynote speech of Google I/O. The audience showed high interest in the technologies presented in the event, also they expressed their excitement in having more GTUG-events and in taking more active roles in the GTUG.You can view the Keynote speech that was streamed at the event hereAlso you can view Google I/O key note speech of day two here.
2011 Mar 21	Dubai-GTUG Third Event (Hack 4 Japan) Android, Google App Engine 55 attendees more... We had a great event where we hosted three enginners from Google. Nicolas (Google Zurich), Adam (Google SV) and Vic (Google NY) were our speakers. They introduced to us mobile developmets, and how to integrate HTML5 in mobile development. Then they presented about App engine. Finally, we started the action, and we got our hands dirty by developing applications using uisng App engine and different Google APIs. The goal of the application was to contribute to the (Hack 4 Japan) intiative started by google.
2011 Feb 28	Dubai-GTUG second event Android, Google App Engine, Google Chrome Extensions, Google Web Toolkit 60 attendees more... 60 Google lover gathered together to discuss technology and showed their admire to the different technologies offered by Google. The event started with an introduction to Dubai-GTUG where Yasser Al-Jundi explained to the attendees the importance of having a GTUG in the region, and showed how they could participate and be part of GTUG global community. Then Osama Al-Koky shared with audience some useful tips on how Gmail can make the e-mail experience efficient and easy. After that, Osama over-viewed some Google technologies such as GWT, App Engine and Chrome extensions. The audience showed a lot of interest in these technologies, specially in the Q&A session after the presentation. After a small break, Saad Kayyali drove us through the evolution of Android OS, and stated the amazing features Android has, and how it made a revolution in the market of smartphones.
2010 Dec 20	Introduction to Dubai-GTUG Android, Introducing Dubai-GTUG 11 attendees more... We will have an Introductory Event, to learn more about Dubai GTUG, and to inform the GTUGers with our potential plans and hear what they would like to have at Dubai-GTUG.