Join Google and the Platform Engineering Community for a full day of building.
👷♀️ Who it's for: You, if you build, run, or architect the platforms your agents will live on. Platform and AI engineers, agent architects, and platform leaders.
📚 What you'll learn: How GKE handles core compute at scale, what's new in Day 2 operations and upgrades, and what it actually takes to run an Agentic Development Platform in production, the infrastructure that survives agent workloads, the harness that runs them, and the governance that makes it safe to turn untrusted, LLM-generated code loose.
🏗️ What you'll build: Your own agent harness on Gemini CLI, kubectl-ai, and GKE's managed MCP server, running inside gVisor-isolated sandboxes.
Agenda
9:00 - 9:45 am: Arrival, check-in & breakfast. Registration, breakfast bites, coffee, and welcome networking
9:45 - 10:30 am: Keynote, Core Compute at Scale & GKE's AI Vision. GKE's 250k node limits, 5k nodes/5min scaling, capacity buffers, CPU startup boost, pod
snapshots, and native custom metrics autoscaling API (5x faster reaction times)
10:30 - 10:45 am: Break
10:45 - 11:30 am: Deep Dive, Day 2 Operations & Upgrades. Advanced GKE upgrade operations including rollout sequencing with pause, resume, and cancel controls (GA June 2026), safer control plane minor upgrades with rollback safety, scheduled upgrade notifications integrated with Cloud Logging, and disruption controls for maintenance exclusions
11:30 - 11:45 am: Break
11:45 am - 12:30 pm: GKE Networking. A morning deep dive on IP address management via AutoIPAM, multi-subnets for node IPs, multi-pod CIDR, and ingress upgrades including GKE Gateway API with CDN support and L4 ILB subsetting
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Lunch & networking break
1:30 - 2:00 pm: Panel
2:00 - 4:00 pm: Hands-on workshop, Building the Agentic Development Platform on GKE
4:00 - 4:30 pm: Break and announcing the winner of the competition
4:30 pm onwards: Networking reception, drinks and delicacies
Bring your hardest questions. You'll leave with a working agent harness, a room full of people who've hit the same walls you have, and a drink in hand while you talk through what's next🍸
