Google Cloud Labs: Accelerate AI with Cloud Run

Moving Beyond the Prototype

The AI landscape has shifted. While "vibe coding" with tools like Antigravity and AI Studio lets you build and deploy complex agents in minutes, the real work begins on "Day 2". Moving from a magical prototype to a hardened, production-grade application requires professional AI engineering. We’re excited to bring back the Accelerate AI with Cloud Run roadshow for 2026. This year, we’ve updated our curriculum to focus on the full AI agent lifecycle, giving you the keys to productionizing and scaling agentic workloads on Google Cloud’s serverless platform.

The Coffee Shop Journey: A Hands-On Experience

Experience the ease of building advanced AI agents on Cloud Run through 'The Coffee Shop Journey'. This interactive session is designed to guide you through the full lifecycle of an AI agent, moving beyond prototyping to focus on real business use cases. You will solve real-world business problems as you evolve from launching a simple cafe to building complex, intelligent assistants.

Our curriculum covers the core pillars of modern AI development:

• The Basics: Gain familiarity with Cloud Run by deploying a simple web app (a Coffee Shop launch scenario) to understand the platform fundamentals.
• Build a Coffee Recommendation Agent: Create a personalized AI assistant using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• Optimize Coffee Stand Locations: Use Gemma 4 and the BigQuery MCP server to identify the most profitable locations for new coffee stands by analyzing popular bike routes.
• Personal Productivity Assistant for Store Managers: Create a personal productivity assistant using Cloud Run to help a coffee shop manager with daily operational tasks and scheduling.
• Master Advanced Features with Antigravity 2.0: Learn how to use skills, context, rules, and hooks with Antigravity 2.0 to build new features for your Cloud Run applications.

Production-Grade AI on Cloud Run

Get first-hand experience with the platform innovations that make Cloud Run the ideal home for production-grade agentic workloads. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn to build, scale, and orchestrate long-running agents using Google's ADK and Antigravity 2.0. Additionally, you will utilize BigQuery MCP for automated, data-driven expansion strategies, and experience low-latency inference for frontier models using Cloud Run’s GPU offerings without the traditional overhead of cluster management.

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