Build with AI George Town 2026

Name: Build with AI George Town 2026
Start: 2026-04-18T14:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-04-18T18:00:00+08:00
Location: Digital Penang

Digital Penang, Pengkalan Weld, George Town, 10300

GDG George Town

Build with AI 2026 is coming!This event aims to help developers of all levels acquire and apply skills to prototype, bui...

Apr 18, 6:00 – 10:00 AM (UTC)

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AIAI - GeminiBuild with AIWorkshop / hands-on session

About this event

Build with AI 2026 is coming!This event aims to help developers of all levels acquire and apply skills to prototype, build and deploy applications using the latest Google AI technologies and models, including Gemini, Vertex AI, AI Studio and Antigravity. Now is the time when the world needs the Next-Gen Builders more than ever. Build with AI is crafted to serve the purpose of empowering everyone to bring the greatest ideas to a live, deployable, and scalable solution.
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When

Saturday, April 18, 2026
6:00 AM – 10:00 AM (UTC)

Where

Digital Penang
Pengkalan Weld
George Town, Pulau Pinang 10300

Agenda

6:00 AM	Registration
6:30 AM	Opening
6:40 AM	Building for the Evergreen, AI Studio in 2026 @Weiyuan Liu	Learn how to build fast and effective applications with AI Studio. We'll run through how you can kickstart your journey with creating applications with AI Studio, enhancing it with multiplayer features, database and auth features, and even look at deploying an application to Google Cloud Run in record time! Join us in a fun afternoon of engaging demos created with AI Studio.
7:40 AM	Skills: The New Superpower for Vibe Coding with Google Antigravity and Gemini CLI @Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong	AI-assisted development is unlocking a new style of building software—often called vibe coding—where ideas flow quickly from thought to implementation. But while tools like Google Antigravity accelerate generation, the real multiplier of performance isn’t just better prompts or faster models. It’s skills. In this talk, we explore how structured skills become the new superpower for developers working with AI systems. Instead of relying on ad-hoc prompting, we show how codifying reusable capabilities—such as reasoning patterns, domain knowledge, debugging strategies, and tool orchestration—can dramatically improve the quality, reliability, and speed of vibe coding workflows. Using practical demonstrations with Google Antigravity, we will show how skill-based approaches enable developers to guide AI systems more effectively, reduce iteration cycles, and move from “vibes” to repeatable, high-performance development. Attendees will learn how to design, organize, and deploy skills that transform AI from a reactive assistant into a powerful collaborative engineer. The future of AI coding isn’t just about better models—it’s about developers who know how to wield skills as their new superpower.
8:40 AM	Tea Break & Networking
9:00 AM	Agentverse - The Shadowblade's Codex - Vibecoding with Gemini CLI @Esther Irawati	This workshop is the definitive enterprise playbook for mastering the agentic future on Google Cloud. We provide an end-to-end roadmap that guides you from the first vibe of an idea to a full-scale, operational reality. Across these four interconnected labs, you will learn how the specialized skills of a developer, architect, data engineer, and SRE must converge to create, manage, and scale a powerful Agentverse.
10:00 AM	Closing

Speakers

Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong

Data Engineering Lead @ Roche

Google Developer Expert - AI/ML

Weiyuan Liu

Ascenda

Google Developer Expert GCP | Senior Engineering Manager

Prof.Dr.Ir. Esther Irawati Setiawan, S.Kom., M.Kom.

Google Developer Expert Ai

Organizers

Ming Wei Lee

GDG Lead

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Ming Jia Lee

Co-lead

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YI HAN LOH

Design Team Lead

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Chien Loong Kang

Co-lead

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Chew Jun Liang

Sponsorship Team Lead

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Ashley Chew

Video Production Team

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Zavier Lee

Sponsorship Team Member

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Jing yi Lim

Public Relation Team Member

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En Xuan

Video Production Team Member

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Jack Lim

Design Team Member

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Alex Yeo

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Public Relation Team Member

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Build with AI George Town 2026

Apr 18, 6:00 – 10:00 AM (UTC)

Key Themes

About this event

Build with AI 2026 is coming!

How to Join the Event

Attention to Attendees:

Terms and conditions:

When

Where

Agenda

Speakers

Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong

Weiyuan Liu

Prof.Dr.Ir. Esther Irawati Setiawan, S.Kom., M.Kom.

Organizers

Ming Wei Lee

Ming Jia Lee

YI HAN LOH

Chien Loong Kang

Chew Jun Liang

Ashley Chew

Zavier Lee

Jing yi Lim

En Xuan

Jack Lim

Alex Yeo

Apr 18, 6:00 – 10:00 AM (UTC)