We are hosting an immersive, expert-led workshop designed to help participants move beyond theory into real-world implementation. The session will provide a clear understanding of the latest Google AI technologies while enabling attendees to actively build, experiment, and deploy solutions in a guided environment.

Whether you are beginning your AI journey or looking to strengthen your applied knowledge, Build with AI 2026 offers a structured and impactful hands-on learning experience. Come join us for a hands-on workshop curated for you!

Agenda:
* 5:00pm~5:30pm: Checkin, Food and Networking
* 5:30pm~7:30pm: Tech talks, Code Labs
* 7:00pm: Open discussion & Closing

Workshop: Getting started with MCP, ADK and A2A
Speaker: Lovee Jain (Prezzee, Googler Developer Experts)
Abstract: AI agents are rapidly growing in popularity, revolutionizing task automation and decision-making. This workshop will help you get started by showing you how to build a currency agent that can convert between different countries' currencies. With the goal of walking through the latest technologies to help you understand those acronyms that you may have seen floating around the internet (MCP, ADK, A2A).
Participants will learn how to:
- Build intelligent, task-oriented agents using the ADK framework
- Extend agent capabilities with the MCP server for secure, live data context integration
- Enable dynamic agent-to-agent communication and orchestration with the A2A protocol
- Develop and deploy multi-agent solutions on Google Cloud

Prerequisites:
- A Laptop – Because AI isn’t (yet) trained to work on telepathy.
- Bring your curiosity, and we’ll bring the tools to make it happen!
- GCP Credits will be provided for the workshop.

Topics/Speakers:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Venue:
Google Sydney - One Darling Island, 1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont, 2009

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 8,000+ AI developers in Sydney and 500K+ worldwide.

Local and Global AI Community on Discord
Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:
- Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
- Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
- Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
- Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers;