Building Your First AI Agent: A Hands-On with Vertex AI

This hands-on session will guide you through the essentials of designing, building, and deploying your AI agent. Whether you’re new to AI or looking to leverage Vertex AI for intelligent applications, you’ll gain practical skills and a solid understanding of how to automate tasks and enhance user interactions with agentic AI.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to design and build a conversational AI agent from scratch.
• Hands-on skills using the low-code Vertex AI Agent Builder.
• How to connect your agent to data sources and APIs.
• The essential steps to deploy your AI agent.

Requirements:

• A fully charged laptop.
• A Google Cloud account with billing enabled. (Tutorial:https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/create-billing-account)
• Workshop Agenda:
• 10:00 AM | Welcome & Setup
• Get logged into Google Cloud and ready to build.

Agenda:

10:10 AM | AI Agent Fundamentals; understand how AI agents work and why ‘grounding’ is the key to preventing errors and providing reliable answers.

10:40 AM | Hands-On Lab: Build Your Agent. A guided, step-by-step session to build a conversational AI agent using Vertex AI. You will define a goal, connect data, and test your agent live.

11:55 AM | Wrap-Up & Q&A. Recap your success and ask any final questions.

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Speaker

Kiran Puthan – Bell Canada (Solution Consultant)

Hosted By

Ali El-Sharif, Professor

Ali El-Sharif works as a professor at St. Clair College in Windsor, where he teaches Data Analytics and Cybersecurity. Ali is currently co-authoring a book with Serg Masís and Nick Schmidt. The book title is “Building Responsible AI with Python – Identify, explain, and mitigate bias with hands-on code examples.” Ali enjoys volunteering for GDG Windsor and encourages everyone to stay connected with this amazing community of developers.

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