Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Discover our top contributors and conversations, explore new learning and certification opportunities, and more in our July roundup.
Top Google Cloud Community contributors in July
We love to see how many of you are eager to participate in the Community’s discussions. Let’s take a quick look at who contributed the most by replies authored and topics published in the month of July.
Cloud Forums top contributors
Learning Forums top contributors
Honorable mentions and shoutouts
@Abhishek_123 has facilitated over 2,800 students to support them on their cloud learning journey through the Google Cloud Arcade Facilitator Program. Wow! Amazing job!
@ms4446 thank you for going the extra mile to help answer questions in the Data Analytics and Databases forums. Your dedication to getting to a solution and helping others is inspiring - thank you!
@vsy - your reply to solution accepted rate is 100% (3 for 3)! Thanks for your help in theIntegration Services forum.
Thanks @Alex_S for your contributions to theInfrastructure forum. After only recently joining, you’ve already received an accepted solution!
Also thank you to @michael_li for your support in theInfrastructure forum. Great job - keep it up!
@ManjuMJ - thank you for contributing helpful cloud logging resources includingHow to create log-based alerts for monitoring persistent disk utilization and Root User Login Alerting in GCP
@RakeshTalanki thank you for adding relevant and practical resources to our Community Knowledge Base, including your article onAI Healthcare Chatbots Using GCP’s Med-Palm, Apigee, and Dialogflow
Big thanks to @loadedmind for answering your first question in the Infrastructure forum. Looking forward to many more! 
Thank you all - keep it up! 
Also, did you know? 
You can check out the leaderboards fortop solution authors here and kudos (likes) received here.
Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.
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Google Cloud Next ‘23: Your guide to learning, connecting, and finding your community
Google Cloud Next ’23 is almost here! Whether or not you’ve been to Google Cloud Next before, every year is new and we want to make sure your experience is as great as it can be.
That’s why we’ve put together this guide with a shortlist of ways to learn, connect, and find your community at Next ‘23. We can’t wait to see you there!
Congratulations to the Solution Challenge Demo Day winners and finalists
Every year, university students who are members of Google Developer Student Clubs around the world are invited to create innovative solutions for real-world problems as part of the Solution Challenge.
Participating students use Google products to build solutions for one or more of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which promote employment for all, economic growth, and climate action, to name a few.
Congratulations to the winners, finalists, and participants! Learn more about their innovations here.
Champion Innovator Spotlight
Google Cloud Champion Innovators are a global network of more than 500 non-Google professionals, who are technical experts in Google Cloud products and services.
In our ongoing interview series, we sit down with Champion Innovators across the world to learn more about their journeys, their technology focus, and what excites them. This month, we’re excited to share our conversation with David Cardoza, a Machine Learning Scientist, Kubeflow Community member and ML GDE.
Learn more about David ( @davidnet ), including his recommendations for learning new technologies and the exciting projects he has in the workshere.
Google Cloud tips, tricks, and resources
Discover recent tips, tricks, and resources from around the Google Cloud ecosystem. Thank you to the contributors!
Have a helpful resource to share? Please let us know in the comments!
- [Event] Conversational AI: How to create virtual assistants using Dialogflow CX with @xavidop and @koverholt
- [Blog] Summarize Audio Like a Maestro with Langchain, Chirp, and PaLM2 on Vertex AIby @ilnardo92
- [Blog] Deploying a Google Cloud Generative AI App in a Website with Cloud Run by @rubenszmm
- [Blog] A Comprehensive Guide about Google Cloud Generative AI Studio by @rubenszmm
- [Blog] Seven Key Configs to Look at for a Secure AI Foundation by Don Santos
- [Blog Series] Hidden Gems of BigQuery by @an2
- [Event] How Marsh McLennan streamlined API operations across a global, hybrid cloud environment with @sudheerg
- [Event] Learn how to deep dive into your logs using SQL with @Afrina and @summitt
- [Blog & Infographic] Navigating Google Cloud: a decision tree for data & analytics workloads by @pvergadia
- [Blog] Cloud Run / GKE & Istio: network latency comparison by @guillaume_blaqu
Upcoming Google Cloud events
Find an in-person event near you
C2C
C2C is a peer-to-peer community built to engage, support, connect, and educate the Google Cloud customer ecosystem across regions and industries so they can harness the power of cloud and each other to solve their biggest challenges and drive innovation. Discover some of the upcoming events below in a location near you and see them all here.
- August 29: 2Gather: Google Cloud Next ‘23 Watch Party Pariswith @tpanhard
- August 31: 2Gather: Google Cloud San Diego Community Meetup
Google Developer Groups
Google Developer Groups (GDGs) are community-led meetups where developers and cloud practitioners around the world can connect, learn, and grow together in their local communities.
See a sample of some upcoming GDG events below and explore them all here.
- August 12: Google I/O Extended 2023 Torontowith @RamArun_CA and others
- August 19: Google I/O Extended 2023 Ecuador
- August 19: Google I/O Extended Cloud Bangkok 2023
- August 25: Google I/O Extended Los Angeleswith @the1mattkaufman @mariamhussain and others
- August 30: Google Cloud Next 2023 Extended in Madridwith @xavidop and others
Join the global community online
Connect and grow your knowledge with the global community by joining one of our upcoming digital events. See what’s coming up next and sign up below!
- August 17: Innovators at Next: Know Before You Go exclusive
- August 16: AI in Cybersecurity: How Startups Are Using AI to Protect the Enterprise
- September 7: Google Cloud Startups and Gen AI: AMA
- September 20: Generative AI for Enterprises: Get started with Generative AI support on Vertex AI
- September 27: Data monetization best practices. Your data is your product - start making money from it!
Updates in Google Cloud learning, training, and certifications
Generative AI learning courses and badges to demonstrate your skills
Ready to start transforming content creation and discovery, research, customer service, and developer efficiency? Here are four GenerativeAI courses you should take right now:
- Introduction to Generative AI: Learn what generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods.
- Introduction to Large Language Models: Explore what large language models (LLMs) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance.
- Transformer Models and BERT Model: Get an introduction to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. Learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model.
- Introduction to Image Generation: Learn more about the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.
Learning Google Cloud for AWS and Azure professionals
With the increase in multicloud architectures and agile environments, coupled with the growing cloud skills gap, Google Cloud Learning has released new on-demand learning content and skills badges that support the AWS and Azure professional’s path to translating their knowledge and skills to Google Cloud. Get started today:
- Build Google Cloud Infrastructure for AWS Professionals [Google Cloud Skills Boost]
- Build Google Cloud Infrastructure for Azure Professionals [Google Cloud Skills Boost]
- How to grow your multicloud resume as a cloud architect [Google Cloud Blog]
We recently had the opportunity to hear from Google Cloud’s Infrastructure Modernization Learning Portfolio Manager, Anne Henmi ( @ahenmi ) and multicloud practitioners, @MarkJohnson , and Manjeet Dadyala, during a live discussion and Q&A.
They shared their perspective on the benefits of being multicloud certified and their recommendations for expanding your cloud resume with multicloud skills and certifications.
Check out the recording here.
Play the Google Cloud Arcade
Game on! Head to The Arcade to participate in games that feature hands-on learning labs. Complete labs and you’ll earn digital badges. These badges award you points that you can use to redeem great Google Cloud swag from the prize counter, including backpacks, t-shirts, mugs, and more. You can even choose charitable donations.
Congratulations to recent Google Cloud Certification achievers
Congratulations to these Community members who recently earned a Google Cloud Certification! 
Thank you for sharing your success and lessons learned preparing for the exams in the Learning & Certification Hub.
Multiple Google Cloud Certification earners
@VishalBulbule Wow! 
Congratulations on earning 11 certifications!
Also with 11 certifications - incredible work @CloudEngineer22 !
@narensharma congratulations on earning 3 certifications in a week!
Professional Data Engineer Certification
Way to go! @ikgonzal , @gopipilli10 , @ktzouvara , @ali_hamza , @Mausami , @loredanalenti , @Mausami , @jay_zilpilwar
Professional Cloud Architect Certification
Congratulations! @Sandeep_google , @Barnendra , @gopipilli10 , @KelvinSC , @DanielDG , @YaseenMohammed , @Sathyanarayana , @Luka-Devic , @saviopoulose , @gbalagumpi , @tisho
Professional Machine Learning Engineer Certification
Nice work! @jingqiang , @Rijoy02 , @franuzzo , @erenkiliclar , @Ragav-Murthy
Associate Cloud Engineer Certification
Amazing job! @moseti , @CarlosMarioMora , @DavidSol , @BalaT , @siri_lalitha , @Jaya2601 , @Viacheslav , @fatiiates , @rasbell , @Murugaanandh
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Thanks everyone. Until next time!
The Google Cloud Community Team
(just with the exception of Thomas Kurian’s keynote).