Free Course: AI Agent Essentials on Google Cloud
Monday, November 23: 08:00 PM ET | 13:00 PM BST
Overview
Build Your AI Workforce with Google Cloud
Move beyond prompting AI and learn how to build, manage and scale AI agents that can support your team, streamline workflows and increase productivity.
Join this free instructor-led course and discover how Google Cloud's AI ecosystem, including Gemini and enterprise agent technologies, can help you transition from completing repetitive tasks yourself to managing a digital workforce that works alongside your team.
Why Attend?
AI agents represent the next evolution of workplace productivity. Rather than simply generating content, agents can execute processes, follow business rules and support teams with day-to-day operations.
By the end of the course, you'll be able to:
- Distinguish between “Librarian” and “Chief of Staff” AI agents
- Direct the construction of functional, grounded agents using the Agentic Build Loop
- Implement Human-in-the-Loop oversight models to manage risk
- Drive responsible agentic transformation and scale departmental capacity
Who Should Attend?
This free course is ideal for:
- Business leaders looking to increase team productivity
- Department heads seeking greater impact without growing headcount
- Transformation and change professionals responsible for process improvement
- Digital, innovation and AI leaders exploring agentic AI opportunities
- Anyone interested in understanding how AI agents can be applied within real business environments
Course Outline
Foundations of Agentic AI
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You already know agents
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What is an AI agent, really?
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The models behind the agents
Building & Deploying Agents
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The build spectrum
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Building an enterprise AI agent
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The decision framework
Security, Resilience & Oversight
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When agents go wrong
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Keeping agents in check
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Resilience & security
Governance & the Agentic Future
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Governing AI agents at scale
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Speaking the language
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Your 30-day action plan
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- A basic understanding of Generative AI: knowing the difference between a simple “one-off” prompt and a continuous conversation with AI
- Deep knowledge of your own business processes: being able to clearly describe the step-by-step path a task takes through your department
- Helpful to be familiar with identifying “Manual Toil”: spotting specific, repetitive tasks that act as bottlenecks in your team’s daily schedule
- The “director” mindset: a willingness to shift from doing the work yourself to defining the rules for a digital collaborator