Build and deploy a personal agent on a Cloud Run instance · WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America

About This Session

How do you run an autonomous AI agent in the cloud 24/7 without wasting a fortune or managing servers? If you are building long-running agents, you know the hosting dilemma: standard serverless platforms scale to zero, which instantly kills your background loops and wipes your agent's active memory. Dedicated VMs keep the agent awake, but they cost more and leave you stuck managing the infrastructure. The fix is a new compute primitive: Cloud Run instances. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to deploy a single, always-on container to host a continuous background agent. Stepping into the role of a coffee shop manager, you will build an AI assistant using the Agent Development Kit (ADK) that continuously analyzes business data. You will also leverage Cloud Run sandboxes, enabling your agent to dynamically write, execute, and test code on the fly to solve complex problems safely. Stop managing infrastructure and start building agents that never sleep!

Speaker

Shir Meir Lador

AI leader · Google

AI leader @ Google

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Shir Meir Lador leads an Applied AI Engineering team at Google Cloud with the mission to accelerate the developer journey from code to secure AI workloads in production. She is also the co-host of "The agent factory" podcast that dives into building production-ready AI agents. Previously, she worked as the AI group Manager of the Document Understanding Group at Intuit, where she led teams in developing AI services that helps consumers and small businesses prosper. Prior to intuit, Shir worked at 2 Israeli startups as a data scientist and researcher. A recognized leader in AI and data science, Shir has served as WiDS Tel Aviv Ambassador, KDD workshop organizer, co-founder and organizer of PyData Tel Aviv, and the co-host of "Unsupervised" a podcast exploring the latest in data science in Israel. She frequently speaks at international AI and data science conferences, sharing insights on applied machine learning and AI innovation. Shir holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computers from Ben-Gurion University, specializing in machine learning.