GDG Sydney presents a Build with AI Hands-on Workshop to build an AI Agent.

Explore the land of Agentic AI, and experience the transformative potential of Generative AI in this hands-on workshop. Discover how to build an AI-powered timesheet agent that automates time sheet-related tasks.

Discover how to:

• Leverage pre-trained models and customize them to your needs with Gemini 2.0
• Deploy Generative AI solutions on Google Cloud for scalability.
• Create captivating user experiences with AI-powered features.
• Address ethical considerations in Generative AI applications.

Requirements:

• To follow along with the workshop, you must bring your laptop 💻

Talk by Leong Lai Fong (GDE - Cloud and ML, WTM Ambassador)

AI Agent with Gemini

As the AI landscape rapidly evolves, a particularly exciting development is the rise of AI agents. These aren't just simple chatbots; they are sophisticated systems where advanced language models actively manage their operations and use various tools to achieve specific goals, all under a developer’s direction and supervision. Gemini 2.0 Flash combines multimodal input, enhanced reasoning, and natural language understanding to create images. Gemini 2.0 Flash is creating new possibilities for developers to build AI agents.

In this session, you will learn about the key components of an AI agent: model, tools, and reasoning. Next, you will learn how to build and deploy an agent using the Gemini 2.0 Flash and Vertex AI SDK.

Lai Fong, a research and AI enthusiast, is particularly interested in 2D computer vision, 3D computer modeling, and artificial intelligence. She has 10 years of working experience in software engineering before advancing her career as an AI engineer. She is a Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer. Besides that, she is a Google Developer Expert in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning. Outside of R&D, she loves socializing and getting acquainted with new tech trends. She is the Women Techmakers Kuala Lumpur community lead, inspired as a woman in tech, and continues empowering the next generation of technologists and bringing diversity to the stages! 

Workshop by Lovee Jain (GDE Google Cloud, WTM Ambassador)

Build Your Own Tech News TL;DR App using Gemini

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll build a news summarization app using the Gemini API with Google Search grounding.

Deploy it as a Cloud Run API

Use Google Cloud’s Application Integration for no-code/low-code email automation

Automate sending news summaries directly to your inbox

💡 Google Cloud credits will be provided to support the hands-on workshop experience!