GDG Hobart: Build It, Guard It, Ship It – Building Secure AI Apps
A GDG Hobart double session at UTAS on putting AI into production and securing AI apps, with live prompt injection demos and career tips from a UTAS alumnus.
About this event
GDG Hobart hosted Build It, Guard It, Ship It: Building Secure AI Apps on 30 July 2026 at Room 132, Centenary Building, University of Tasmania (UTAS) Sandy Bay Campus, from 5:15 PM to 6:45 PM.
The event featured two sessions exploring real-world AI applications, secure software development, and the deployment of AI-powered systems.
In the first session, Brodie Farrell-Oates, a Web Developer at the Australian Antarctic Division and UTAS alumnus, shared how the Australian Antarctic Program uses AI to automate video captioning across more than 15 years of archived content and improve compliance with the Australian Government Style Manual. He also shared career insights and practical advice for students transitioning into the technology industry.
The second session was presented by Yuba Raj Panta, a Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer at PageUp and Google Developer Expert in Cloud technologies. The session demonstrated how to build an AI chat application using Gemini, identify security vulnerabilities such as prompt injection and system prompt hijacking, and protect applications using Google Cloud Model Armor. It also covered containerisation and deployment using Cloud Run.
For UTAS students, the event provided practical insights into AI development, cloud technologies, application security, and professional career pathways. It also offered opportunities to learn from experienced industry professionals and connect with Hobart's technology community.
References
- GDG Hobart – Official Event Listing gdg.community.dev
- Brodie Farrell-Oates – Event Announcement and Session Details (LinkedIn) www.linkedin.com
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GDG Hobart's recap of Build It, Guard It, Ship It: Building Secure AI Apps at the UTAS Centenary Building. Brodie Farrell-Oates showed how the Australian Antarctic Program uses AI in production, from captioning more than 15 years of video to checking style-guide compliance with AI agents, and Yuba Raj Panta demonstrated live prompt-injection attacks and how to defend against them on Google Cloud.
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