LA Tech Week 2026 — Google for Developers Codelabs & AI Workshops

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Workshop Overview

At LA Tech Week 2026, Google for Startups and Google for Developers hosted hands-on codelab tracks for enterprise founders, engineers, and technical leaders. Alongside fellow Google Developer Expert Kiruthika Subramani, I co-instructed two interactive technical workshops detailing how to build production-grade agentic architectures with Google Cloud and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Workshop 1: Location Intelligence ADK Agent with MCP Servers

Interactive Presentation & Teleprompter:
Official Google Codelab:
Core Technologies: Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), BigQuery Geospatial Data, Google Maps Grounding Lite MCP, Gemini 2.5 Flash

Architectural Focus

Agent Development Kit (ADK) Core: Structuring autonomous agents with schema-enforced tool interfaces, state persistence, and error-recovery loops.
BigQuery MCP Integration: Bridging spatial data warehouses with natural language queries—enabling dynamic SQL generation, bounding box filtering, and spatial joins over enterprise logistics tables without manual query plumbing.
Google Maps Grounding Lite MCP: Validating place details, computing multi-modal travel times, and grounding model answers against live physical coordinates.
Production Guardrails: Rate-limiting spatial queries, handling disconnected MCP sessions, and sanitizing agent reasoning steps.

Workshop 2: Command & Control: Gemini, MCP & Agentic CLI

Interactive Presentation & Teleprompter:
Official Google Codelab:
Core Technologies: Antigravity CLI (agy), Developer Knowledge MCP, Agent Skills, Nano Banana 2 Image Gen, Google Cloud Run

Architectural Focus

Headless Agent Orchestration: Driving terminal-first agentic developer loops with Antigravity CLI (agy), managing multi-step project scaffolding and debugging sessions.
Developer Knowledge MCP: Exposing local codebase indexing, symbol trees, and architecture specs to agent runtimes without manual context dumping.
Multimodal Generation & Deployment: Chaining multimodal synthesis via Nano Banana 2 for visual assets directly into automated container packaging and deployment to Google Cloud Run.
Composable Agent Skills: Packaging reusable capability modules across teams to enforce testing, security, and deployment standards across agent prompts.

Reception & Industry Feedback

“Google for Startups and Google for Developers take over #LATECHWEEK… Thanks to my GDEs Rabimba Karanjai and Kiruthika Subramani for providing such wonderful and thought driven codelabs.” — Marty Fortier, Google Developer Ecosystem / Startup Lead

“LA TECH WEEK by a16z was hands-on. We built small tools around real questions from our day-to-day, like which truck a load needs and how to read proof-of-delivery paperwork faster, and got a map agent running in the cloud in a guided codelab… Thank you to Rabimba Karanjai and Kiruthika Subramani, our instructors in the Google for Developers codelabs.” — Elizabeth Moscoso, Founder & Logistics Operator

Google Developer Experts | Rabimba Karanjai

LA Tech Week 2026 — Google for Developers Codelabs & AI Workshops

Workshop Overview

Workshop 1: Location Intelligence ADK Agent with MCP Servers

Architectural Focus

Workshop 2: Command & Control: Gemini, MCP & Agentic CLI

Architectural Focus

Reception & Industry Feedback