Build, secure, scale: developers and builders in the agentic era

DevFest Surrey 2026 is a hands-on, all-day technical event hosted by GDG Surrey, bringing together developers, builders, and AI-curious professionals to learn and build with Google's latest AI and cloud tools - Gemini, Agent Development Kit, BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Antigravity.

The day runs across three parallel tracks, so you can go as deep as you want:

• Beginner - get hands-on with Gemini on GKE, learn how to turn messy data into an AI-ready foundation, and build a conversational analytics experience from multimodal data. No prior AI experience needed.

• Intermediate - a connected, three-part journey through building, evaluating, and securing a real multi-agent system from the ground up.

• Advanced - push further with Gemma 4 and BigQuery MCP, end-to-end fraud-detection pipelines with Antigravity IDE, and secure agentic coding practices.

Every session is a hands-on codelab. Bring a laptop, pick your track, and leave with something you actually built.

Who should come: developers, data practitioners, product builders, and anyone curious about where AI development is headed - whatever your starting point.

Post-Event Networking Hour

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In one word, how does AI make you feel today? [Share your one-word response]

There’s no right or wrong answer. Whatever comes to mind first. We're taking a quick pulse of our community to better understand how people are experiencing this moment in AI.

Responses are anonymous and take just a few seconds.

We'll aggregate responses and share the results back with the community. The resulting word cloud and insights may be used across community events, social media, educational initiatives, presentations, workshops, conferences, research, and other activities that support AI awareness, literacy, and public dialogue.