Wieland Holfelder 🏳️‍🌈’s Post

Rückblick auf eine inspirierende #GoogleIOConnect in Berlin! 🚀 Über 1300 Entwickler*innen aus aller Welt kamen zusammen, um die neuesten Innovationen im Bereich #KI zu erleben und zu diskutieren. Mein Fazit: #GenerativeAI wird unsere technologische Zukunft prägen. Ich bin stolz darauf, dass Google kontinuierlich in offene #Zusammenarbeit, #Partnerschaften und #Forschung investiert, um das Potenzial dieser Technologie für alle zugänglich zu machen und vor allem verantwortungsvoll einzusetzen. Einige #Highlights 💡 der diesjährigen Konferenz: ➤ Beeindruckende Fortschritte in #Gemini, Googles multimodale KI-Modelle, die noch mehr Möglichkeiten für Entwickler*innen eröffnen (ai.google.dev/aistudio). Und der Launch von #Gemma2, Google's offenes state-of-the-art genAI Modell, das mit der selben Technologie entwickelt wird und basierend auf den selben Forschungsergebnissen ist, wie die Gemini Modelle (siehe https://lnkd.in/dtWxZW9m). Mein Tipp: Experimentiert und integriert die #GeminiAPI und #Gemma2 in eure Anwendungen! Kostenloser Udacity Kurs zur Gemini API auf: goo.gle/udacity. ➤ Im Gespräch mit Christina Decker (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz) über die wichtige Zusammenarbeit zwischen Politik, Wirtschaft und Entwickler*innen für einen verantwortungsvollen Einsatz von KI. Danke für diese spannende Diskussion! 💬 ➤ Auch für KI-Einsteiger*innen bietet Google regelmäßige Trainings an, zum Beispiel “Produktiver arbeiten mit KI”: https://lnkd.in/dkrMmN_w. ➤ Souveräne Google Cloud Lösungen erlauben es uns sicher und souverän auf Basis von state-of-the-art Cloud und AI Technologien die Digitale Transformation auch im Public Sector und in regulierten Industrien zu ermöglichen. So wichtig für die Zukunftssicherung des Standorts Deutschland! Ich sage immer: Wir stehen am Anfang einer neuen Ära! Ähnlich wie das #WorldWideWeb vor 30 Jahren - die Anfänge durfte ich damals 1993/1994 im Silicon Valley selbst erleben - wird #GenAI die Zukunft maßgeblich verändern! Bei Google setzen wir uns dafür ein, dass alle von den Möglichkeiten von KI profitieren und diese Zukunft auch selbst aktiv mitgestalten können. Die I/O Connect war eine großartige Gelegenheit zum Netzwerken und Austausch mit Google Developer Experts. Die Energie und der Innovationsgeist in Berlin zeigten: Die #EMEA-Region ist ein wichtiger Motor für KI-Innovation. Vielen Dank an alle, die dazu beigetragen haben. See you next year! 🦾 #GoogleIOConnect #GoogleAI #KI #Gemini #Innovation #Zukunftx`x

I am just coming back from a truly inspiring #GoogleIOConnect 🚀 where I had the pleasure to deliver our keynote together with Jeanine Banks, Christina Decker, Tim Messerschmidt, Paul Kinlan, and Abdelfettah SGHIOUAR. Over 1300 developers from over 100 countries came together in Berlin to experience and discuss the latest innovations in the field of #AI. My conclusion: #GenerativeAI will change the future of technology as we know it and I am proud that Google is continuously investing in open exchange, partnerships and research to further promote the potential of #GenerativeAI and, above all, to do this responsibly and to make it accessible to everyone. My highlights of this year's conference: ➤ Jeanine Banks's update on the progress in #Gemini, Google's multimodal AI models that open up even more possibilities for developers. My recommendation: Experiment with our most powerful Gemini models in #GoogleAIStudio (ai.google.dev/aistudio) and integrate the #GeminiAPI into your own applications. In collaboration with Udacity, you can also register for a free course on the Gemini API at goo.gle/udacity! Further training for AI beginners is also available here: https://lnkd.in/dkrMmN_w ➤ In a conversation with Christina Decker from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, it became clear: Cooperation between politics, companies and developers is more important than ever to ensure the responsible development of AI and to use new technologies for the benefit of society. Thank you Christina Decker for this exciting discussion! 💬 ➤ Now available: #Gemma2, the next generation of Google's open source AI models. All information about the launch can be found in the blog post 👉 https://lnkd.in/dXT4VRzY ➤ Digital Sovereignty is not nice to have, but something EMEA cares a lot about. We have solutions out there and we keep investing in the region in our Sovereign Cloud solutions and also in infrastructure, such as the new sub sea fiber-optic cable between Africa and Australia! ➤ And I can just repeat what I said in the keynote, I experienced the beginnings of the #WorldWideWeb in Silicon Valley and everyone at the time felt that something big is happening and it changed the world of technology as we know it. And here we are again, 30 years later and I have the same sense, something really big is happening with #genAI and it will yet again change the world of technology as we know it! I/O Connect was also a great opportunity to network and exchange ideas with the Google Developer Experts. The exciting discussions, workshops and demos in Berlin clearly show that the #EMEA region is an important driver for AI innovation. I am super inspired by the energy and spirit of innovation that was felt at the conference. Thanks everyone 🙏 for making this happen, and very special thanks to Leticia Lago de Lanzós Bunzl and Neta Dumai, you're rock stars! See you all next year! 🦾

Yesterday the Google Munich office buzzed with excitement as we hosted our Research@Google event for the first time in Google’s largest engineering office in Germany. The day was filled with insightful presentations and discussions on some of the most groundbreaking advancements in AI, climate, health, privacy and quantum computing. I believe AI has incredible, transformative potential that can improve all our lives. Research@Google is about building solutions together to local challenges that will not only help shape the future of Germany, but also play a role in shaping our broader world. Thanks to all our guests, speakers, researchers and everyone involved: John Platt, Mike Schäkermann Michał Januszewski, Yurii Sushko, Federico Tombari, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi (msajjadi.com), Tom OBrien, Dariush Wahdany from our partner Fraunhofer AISEC, Marco Lohse and many more! Thanks everyone for coming, I really enjoyed it! Read more in our blogpost from my colleague Marco Lohse here 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/dcafBd79 #Google #AI #KI #Research

We actually have an engineering team at Google Munich that works on #GarbageCollection for the #V8 JavaScript Engine in Google Chrome and if you use Google Chrome or a Chromium based browser, you all benefit from it every day...! But today, as part of our global initiative #GoogleServe 🍃, a team of more than 150 dedicated Munich Googlers (or #Mooglers) actually went out on the beautiful Flaucher beaches of the Isar river and the surrounding woods together with our partner rehab republic e.V. to collect #RealGarbage. Mostly #MicroTrash actually, which often gets overlooked by the typical garbage collection procedures and then it is in the ground for years or decades. So we equipped everyone with gloves and wooden tongs to pick up bottle caps and cigarette butts, etc. We also found and collected a number of other curious stuff, even an unopened bottle of beer 🤔 and a discarded electric scooter 🛴, so in addition to all the micro trash, we can really be proud of the team work effort 💚. And afterwards we went together to the #FlaucherBiergarten for a kühles Helles 🍻, almost as good as our own gBräu ;-) A huge thanks to everyone for joining and a very special thanks and huge kudos to our dream organizing team Julius Kammerl, Vangelis Parasidis, Zelda Burger and Harald Viehweger (also for the bridge photo). And of course big thanks to rehab republic e.V. for being a great partner again this year! #Sustainability #GoogleServe #GiveBack #Community #GoogleLife

🍃 It was a great pleasure to host the 𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗛 𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲: 𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗔𝗜𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 event in our IsarValley at Google Munich 🍃. I very much enjoyed the open and inspiring panel with Dr. Karin Thelen and Dominik Krause, moderated by Britta Tilsner and organised by Tina Höfinghoff, Vangelis Parasidis and Nicole Thorpe. Very well done 💚 The open and lively exchanged also with the audience showed, there is so much potential for AI in Urban SustAInability and so much potential to work even closer together between the Landeshauptstadt München, the Stadtwerke München GmbH, Google and many other player from the MUNICH INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM. Google already provides a lot of tools for consumers and businesses and we always say "every decision counts", you can find out more at sustainability.google. And our new campus at g.co/arnulfpost also makes sustainability a top goal, you can read more in the most recent newsletter (https://lnkd.in/dnYA2_c2). I came out full of inspiration and positive and sustainable energy (pun intended) seeing so many people and organizations passionately working on our sustainable urban future together.Thanks everyone for coming and we will keep figthting the good fight 🍃

#GenAI ist zumindest aus meinem Arbeitsalltag nicht mehr wegzudenken Gemini.google.com und NotebookLLM.google sind bei mir sozusagen auf "speed dial"! Wie ist das bei euch? Wie nutzt ihr Gemini und genAI? Ich werde auch oft gefragt, wie kann man noch mehr aus ✨ Gemini ✨ herausholen? Die Antwort ist: Mit den richtigen Prompts! 🚀 Prompting ist wie ein Dialog mit generativer KI. Man stellt eine Frage oder gibt eine Anweisung (den “Prompt”), um eine Aufgabe auszuführen. Je präziser der Prompt, desto besser das Ergebnis. Klingt einfach? Ist es auch! 😉 Warum ist gutes Prompting so wichtig? Es hilft Gemini, unsere Bedürfnisse besser zu verstehen und möglichst die Informationen zu liefern, die wir suchen. So spart man Zeit und arbeitet effizienter. Hier kommen meine persönlichen Top-Tipps für effektives Prompting: 🎯 Sei zielgerichtet: Sag Gemini genau, was du brauchst ("Fasse zusammen," "Schreibe," "Analysiere"). 💬 Gib Kontext: Je mehr Infos, desto besser versteht Gemini deine Anfrage. 🔄 Iteriere: Wenn das Ergebnis nicht passt, passe den Prompt an und probiere es erneut. Eine einfache Formel für einen präzisen Prompt: [Rolle] Wer bist du? + [Kontext] Worum geht's? + [Aufgabe] Was soll die KI tun? + [Format] Wie soll das Ergebnis aussehen? Beispiel: "Ich leite das Google Engineering Center in München und würde gerne ein Ranking der besten Informatik-Universitäten in Deutschland haben. Bitte generiere eine Tabelle mit den 5 besten Unis und 4 Spalten: 1. Name der Uni, 2. URL mit weiteren Informationen, 3. welche inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte die Uni hat, und 4. warum diese Uni für Google relevant ist.". Übrigens: Dein Prompt kann auch ein Foto, einen Link auf eine Webseite oder eine Datei enthalten! Am besten, du probierst es direkt selbst aus: gemini.google.com, ai.com, oder in der neuen Gemini App – hier geht's zum Download im Google Play Store: https://lnkd.in/dZf5paGu Mehr Tipps & Tricks für angehende Prompting-Profis gibt es auch im Blogpost 👉 https://lnkd.in/dGJjmjp2 #GenAI #KI #Google #Gemini #Produktivität #WorkHacks

Thanks so much Stefan Wagner, Christian Klein, Thomas Saueressig and the entire SAP team for inviting me to the opening of your beautiful new SAP Labs Munich Campus at the Technical University of Munich and welcome to the hood! It was another inspiring event with a lot of praise (of course all very much founded in facts and science) from the Bavarian Minister for Science and Arts Markus Blume, and Thomas F. Hofmann or was it #WolfgangHerrmann (sorry, insider joke) as well as many other distinct guests. I wish you all the very best, lots of innovation and creativity at your new wonderful, inspiring and open facility and I am very much looking forward to continue driving innovation and AI from Bavaria and for the world together. The high tech environment here could not be better!

On Monday evening, I had the honor to represent Google at the exclusive #WelcomeToBavaria reception for the high tech and science community in Bavaria. The reception was in the beautiful Munich Residence hosted by the Bavarian Minister President Dr. Markus Söder, Bayerische Staatskanzlei, and the Bavarian State Minister for Science and Arts Markus Blume. Thank you both for this great event and for bringing us together. We received exciting insights from Dr. Söder and Markus Blume about the importance of the tech scene here in the #IsarValley and it is truly impressive to see the investments of the Free State of Bavaria. Google very much feels #dahoim already for over 18 years, we are doing engineering and product development for our billions of users right out of our Munich Engineering Center at the "Hackerbridge" and we are also planning further investments e.g. with g.co/arnulfpost. At a panel discussion with other Munich tech representatives, we talked about the attractiveness of Munich and Bavaria as a tech location, and while we may not always agree, I think this time we all were aligned that Bavaria is the place to be when it comes to tech. Thanks Agnes Heftberger, Carlo Ruiz, Rocco Bräuniger, Tino Krause and Petra Bindl for this great panel. For Google, the environment created by the Bavarian #HightechAgenda and our close partnership as partner of excellence with the Technical University of Munich are some of the decisive factors of course together with a great quality of life. “Progress is part of Bavaria's DNA” is what Markus Blume said, and this is also very true for Google, Progress and innovation is what Google is build on. And as I said in the panel, the view of the Bavarian Alps right from our offices for me is "the real Mountain View" ;-) And a big shout out and a big thank you to all our Munich Googlers for joining and for cheering! #GoogleMunich #TechInBavaria #WelcomeToBavaria

Always good to be back at the mothership. I just came out of a three day Google Cloud Security strategy summit where we discussed our product plans and roadmaps for our #Cybersecurity, #Sovereignty and of course #AI products and I am uncomfortably excited about what we have coming and I am looking forward to working with our partners, customers, and our product and engineering teams to bring all this to life! On my way back now to Munich, right in time for the opening game of the #Euro24.