Workshops

Dan Ndombe

Staff Developer Success Advocate · Docker

Wed 23 Sept · 10:45 – 12:45

SBX 101: Hands-on with Docker Sandboxes

Modern AI agents are useful because they take real actions in the real world and on your machine: read files, run commands, hit the web, build containers, write and publish code.

• Agents
• Agentic AI
• Docker
• Governance

Jason Stine

Fullstack Software Engineer · Centivo

Wed 23 Sept · 10:45 – 12:45

Local AI Workshop for Beginners: Private ChatGPT Experience on Your Own Computer

Ever feel uncomfortable about sharing too much personal info with ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude but still want AI’s help?

• AI Models
• Agents
• Agentic AI
• Open Source

Khaja Omer +1 more

Senior Software Engineer · Akamai Technologies

Wed 23 Sept · 10:45 – 12:45

Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs

Every production agent today is renting its intelligence.

• AI Models
• Agents
• Agentic AI
• Infrastructure

Annie Wang

AI Engineer & Developer Advocate · Google

Wed 23 Sept · 10:45 – 12:45

Architecting Multi-Agent Teams: Mastering the Orchestration Patterns of ADK 2

This hands-on workshop covers the primary orchestration patterns in ADK 2: graph workflows, collaborative agent teams, and dynamic (LLM-shaped) workflows.

• AI Models
• Agents
• Workflows

Michael Irwin

Principal Engineer, Developer Success · Docker

Wed 23 Sept · 13:15 – 15:15

The AI-Ready Developer Environment — Local Setup, Reproducibility, and Docker

Modern AI development adds a new layer of complexity to the development environment: agent harnesses, agent-specific developer tooling, MCP servers, external services, credentia…

• Agents
• Agentic AI
• Docker
• Governance

Apoorva Jaiswal +2 more

Applied AI/ML Lead · JPMorgan Chase

Wed 23 Sept · 13:15 – 15:15

DeepAgents: Build Multi-Agent AI Systems That Actually Work

We've taught LangChain and LangGraph multi-agent workshops at Grace Hopper two years running to 200+ developers each time.

• Agents
• Agentic AI
• Generative AI (GenAI)
• LangChain

Javier Garza

Staff Developer Advocate · Snyk

Wed 23 Sept · 13:15 – 15:15

AI Security Engineer Foundations

2-hour workshop on AI Security Engineer Foundations covering the following modules: - OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications - Addressing Shadow AI - AI Governance and Policy…

• AI Coding Assistants
• Claude
• DevSecOps
• Prompt Engineering

Phil Conway

Developer Advocate · Flint AI (SandboxAQ)

Wed 23 Sept · 13:15 – 15:15

Build a Human + AI Agent Team in tools like Slack, Teams and Discord.

AI agents are getting better at doing work, but most still work alone, separated from the people and other agents they need to collaborate with.

• Agents
• Agentic AI
• Best Practices
• Claude

Oleg Šelajev

AI and Developer Relations · Docker

Wed 23 Sept · 15:45 – 17:45

Docker's Agentic Platform: Sandboxes, MCP, and the Infrastructure of Autonomous Development

AI agents are only as capable as the environment they're allowed to act in.

• Agents
• Agentic AI
• Docker
• Governance

Ajeet Raina

Developer Advocate · Docker

Wed 23 Sept · 15:45 – 17:45

Securing the Agentic Stack: Docker Hardened Images and Supply Chain Security

As agentic workflows give AI systems more autonomy to pull dependencies, build environments, and invoke tools, the security of your container foundation has never mattered more.

• Agents
• Agentic AI
• Docker
• Governance

Aron Eidelman

Security Advocate · Google

Wed 23 Sept · 15:45 – 17:45

Vibe-code an App on Multimodal AI Analytics

Learn how to search through video, audio and flat files from SQL statements to equip your applications and agents with multimodal analysis.

Shir Meir Lador

AI leader · Google

Thu 24 Sept · 11:00 – 13:00

Build and deploy a personal agent on a Cloud Run instance

How do you run an autonomous AI agent in the cloud 24/7 without wasting a fortune or managing servers?

• AI Models
• DevOps
• Google Cloud (GCP)
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Baruch Sadogursky +1 more

Member of DevRel Staff · Tessl AI

Thu 24 Sept · 11:00 – 13:00

RoboCoders: Judgment Day: AI-Assisted Engineering Applied - The Battle of Agents

Agentic AI-assisted engineering tools promise cleaner code, faster development, and fewer late-night debugging sessions.

• AI Coding Assistants
• AI Models
• AI Standards

Srishti Agrawal +1 more

Senior Product Manager · PwC US

Thu 24 Sept · 11:00 – 13:00

The AI-Native Engineer: From Business Problem to Prototype

How well you scope a problem determines how well AI can help you solve it.

• AI Coding Assistants
• Agentic AI
• Career Development
• Code Generation

Pamela Fox

Principal Cloud Advocate · Microsoft

Thu 24 Sept · 11:00 – 13:00

Exploring MCP Servers with GitHub Copilot

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI agents like GitHub Copilot tap into external tools, services, and your own account data.

• Agentic AI
• Copilot
• GitHub

Maezza Romero

Community Manager · Romero Games

Thu 24 Sept · 11:00 – 13:00

Creating and Sustaining Positive Communities

Maezza Romero, Community Developer for Romero Games, has been shaping communities from the ground up for 6+ years.

• Accessibility
• Advocacy
• Communication
• Community

Brian McFadden

Staff Engineer, Developer Relations · Qualcomm

Thu 24 Sept · 11:00 – 13:00

Ducks, Sensors, and Agents

By the end of this workshop, attendees will be able to: 1.

• AI Coding Assistants
• Agentic AI
• Arduino
• Edge AI

Lizzie Siegle +1 more

Developer Advocate · Entire

Thu 24 Sept · 13:30 – 15:30

The Developer's Guide to an Agentic Git Forge

Coding agents help us write code quickly, but they’ve introduced a new challenge: ensuring developers can understand, trust, and maintain agent-generated code.

• Agentic AI
• Code Reviews
• Collaboration
• Data Pipelines

Abbe Piels

Member of Technical Staff · Blacksmith

Thu 24 Sept · 13:30 – 15:30

Hands-On CI Optimization Workshop

A tactical, hands-on session where attendees optimize a real build pipeline live with Blacksmith.

• CI/CD
• GitHub
• GitHub Actions
• Infrastructure

Austen Stone

Senior Field Actions Specialist · GitHub

Thu 24 Sept · 13:30 – 15:30

GitHub Actions

Build a complete CI/CD pipeline for a pet adoption application in this hands-on workshop.

• GitHub
• GitHub Actions

Ben Smith

Staff Developer Advocate · Stripe

Thu 24 Sept · 13:30 – 15:30

Build an agentic commerce solution

The way customers find and buy products is shifting from search to LLMs.

• Agents
• Agentic AI
• FinTech
• Integration

Raphael Manke +1 more

Senior Product engineer · Dash0

Thu 24 Sept · 13:30 – 15:30

From Signal to Action: Empowering Your AI SRE with OpenTelemetry Data

AI SRE agents are becoming the modern way to investigate alerts and incidents, but they are only as good as the telemetry they are fed.

• Agentic AI
• Distributed Systems
• Observability
• OpenTelemetry

Denise Kwan

Senior Developer Advocate · Google

Thu 24 Sept · 16:00 – 18:00

Come with an Idea, Leave with an App: Build and Launch Your Website with AI

In this hands-on session, you will actually build, launch, and go home with a live website of your own.

• DevRel & Advocacy
• Firebase
• Google Cloud (GCP)

Benni Mack

TYPO3 CMS Project Lead · TYPO3

Thu 24 Sept · 16:00 – 18:00

Reprompting the Wheel? Why AI Won’t Save Your Content Platform

Everyone’s convinced a few good prompts can build a real platform.

• Internal Platforms
• Open Source
• PHP

Gustavo Cordido

Cloud Advocate · GitHub

Thu 24 Sept · 16:00 – 18:00

Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot App

The GitHub Copilot app is an experience built from the ground up specifically for developing with AI.

• AI Coding Assistants
• Copilot
• GitHub

Mudassir Syed

Security Software Engineer · Autodesk

Thu 24 Sept · 16:00 – 18:00

Practical Threat Modeling for Software Developers

Security isn’t just about firewalls and patches, it starts long before the first line of code is deployed.

• AppSec
• Cloud Security

Elizabeth Fuentes Leone +1 more

Developer Advocate/SDE, GenAI · AWS

Thu 24 Sept · 16:00 – 18:00

Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship

One agent.

• AWS
• Agentic AI
• Code Generation
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Alan Torrance

Senior Executive Director of Engineering · JPMorganChase

Fri 25 Sept · 10:00 – 12:00

Insert Coin: Build Live with J.P. Morgan Payments APIs and AI

Insert coin to play.

• APIs
• Agentic AI
• Claude
• eCommerce

Greg Larkin

Senior Service Delivery Engineer · GitHub

Fri 25 Sept · 10:00 – 12:00

Intro to Agentic Workflows and an AI-enabled SDLC

In this workshop, we’ll build a practical AI-powered issue triage workflow using GitHub Agentic Workflows.

• AI Coding Assistants
• AI Standards
• Agentic AI
• CI/CD

Mirela Viersa

Customer Innovation Principal · SAP

Fri 25 Sept · 10:00 – 12:00

Human + AI: Who Should Be in Control?

Explore how to design autonomous solutions by deciding what AI should do independently—and where humans should stay in control.

• AI Standards

Rishab Kumar

Staff Developer Evangelist AI · Twilio

Fri 25 Sept · 12:30 – 14:30

Build a Voice AI Agent with Twilio Agent Connect and Gemini Flash

You will build a working voice AI agent from scratch in under 120 minutes.

• AI Models
• Agentic AI
• Gemini
• Generative AI (GenAI)

Elizabeth Fuentes Leone +1 more

Developer Advocate/SDE, GenAI · AWS

Fri 25 Sept · 12:30 – 14:30

Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship

One agent.

• AWS
• Agentic AI
• Code Generation
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Christopher Harrison

Senior Developer Advocate · GitHub

Fri 25 Sept · 12:30 – 14:30

Agentic coding with GitHub Copilot CLI

With Copilot CLI, you can work with Copilot natively in your terminal, where you're already working, to request updates, run tests, and perform tasks.

• Agentic AI
• Copilot
• GitHub

Kristiyan Velkov

Developer Relations Engineer · Zerops.io

Fri 25 Sept · 12:30 – 14:30

Docker sandboxes: protect your secrets, tokens, and personal data from AI agent mistakes

The number of cyber attacks and security risks related to Coding Agents has sky rocketed.

• AI Coding Assistants
• AI Models
• Cloud Security
• Docker

John Romero

Game Director · Romero Games

Fri 25 Sept · 12:30 – 14:30

Iron Designer Challenge with John Romero

How do great ideas survive contact with reality?

Meredith Eisen +1 more

Sr. Director of Product Management · Sonatype

Fri 25 Sept · 15:00 – 17:00

The AI Dependency Challenge: Your AI coding assistant is making dependency decisions. Who’s checking

AI coding assistants and agents are helping developers move faster, but they can also create more dependency work: outdated packages, poor upgrade paths, broken builds, and reme…

• AI Coding Assistants
• AI Models
• Anthropic
• AppSec

Sam Jarvinen

Senior Solutions Engineer · GitHub

Fri 25 Sept · 15:00 – 17:00

Secure development from pull request to production with GitHub

Security should accelerate development—not become a late-stage gate or a pile of disconnected tools.

• Copilot
• GitHub
• GitHub Actions
• Secure Coding

Aldan Creo

AI and NLP Researcher · UC San Diego

Fri 25 Sept · 15:00 – 17:00

Attacking LLM Detectors with Homoglyph-Based Attacks

This session explores an attack vector, homoglyph-based attacks, that effectively evades state-of-the-art AI-generated text detectors.

• AI Models
• Generative AI (GenAI)
• Safety
• Security