Google Developers Group Skopje

🚨 Espresso & Experts — Brew Ideas with GDG: that's a wrap. 🚨

What a day. What. A. Day. ☕💥

On June 6th, GDG Skopje turned 42.mk - Base42 into the most caffeinated dev hub in the Balkans, and honestly? We're still buzzing.

A full day. Four powerhouse workshops. Four Google Developer Experts flying into Skopje from across Europe. A room packed with builders, laptops open, code flying, questions firing, exactly the kind of energy we live for. 🔥

Here's what went down:

🤖 Tamas Piros cut through the AI agent hype and showed us how to actually build one from scratch with TypeScript, Google's ADK, and Gemini. The name was Agent. AI Agent.

🐛 Dominika Zając turned debugging from guesswork into superpower with Antigravity & Chrome DevTools MCP. The audience was hooked.

⚡ Andre Sara kicked off the day with Antigravity — Google's new agentic IDE and set the tone for what "building with AI" actually looks like in 2026.

📊 Ankur Roy dropped serious knowledge on why BigQuery is quietly one of the most powerful AI platforms in the world right now. Minds = blown.

To every single person who walked through those doors on a Saturday morning ready to build — thank you. This community is something special, and you proved it again. ❤️

To our speakers — thank you for crossing borders, sharing your expertise, and giving Skopje a day it won't forget. 🙌

To 42.mk - Base42 — thank you for being home for the day, we couldn't do this without your support! ❤️

And to Google Developers Group — thank you for making this possible.

Huge thanks to our organizers Jasmina Dimitrievska, Dimitar Mileski & Marko Paloski who turned a small idea to reality. 🚀 ❤️

This is what "Build with (AI)spresso" looks like. This is what GDG Skopje is about. And this is just the beginning. ☕

See you at the next one. 👀

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🚀 Gemini 2.5 & Gemma 3 are here!
Learn what makes these models tick, how to choose the right one for your project, and see live demos! From multimodal magic ✨ to open-source power 💻, we’ll cover it all!

🛩️ From piloting helicopters in the army (retired) to tinkering as a self-taught engineer 🛠️, Ilias Papachristos has always pursued the challenge of mastering new skills. Today, he leverages his experience as a community advocate to empower people to learn, share, and collaborate. 🤝

Partnering with other Google Cloud Champion Innovators to deliver high-quality events fuels his passion 🔥, extending well beyond his day job. As a Women Techmakers Greece ambassador and GDG Cloud Thessaloniki lead, Ilias is deeply committed to promoting diversity and inclusion 🌍, ensuring that everyone has a seat at the tech table. 🧩

📅 Join us at Netaville in Skopje on April 30 for “Gemini 2.5 & Gemma 3: What’s New, What’s Awesome, and What Can You Build?” — an exciting deep dive into Google’s latest AI models 🤖, packed with demos, practical insights, and everything you need to start building with the power of Gemini and Gemma! 🚀

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