Google Cloud Labs: Build an AI-Powered Motorsport Agent with McLaren Racing: Houston

Build an AI-powered motorsport analytics agent with McLaren Racing

When it comes to professional car racing, the difference between a podium finish and a participant is often determined by whether the right data insight reaches the right person at the right moment. The real challenge isn't just getting an AI to "chat"—it’s architecting a system that can move beyond simple retrieval to perform actual computation.

This workshop will tackle the specific constraints that developers and architects face when scaling production-grade AI agents. You'll get hands-on with three tiers of Google Cloud's GenAI stack to build a system that can answer questions, synthesize briefings, and run complex computations:

• Gemini Enterprise (The Strategy Team)
• Configure a retrieval layer grounded in regulations. Learn where document-grounded retrieval works—and where it hits a wall for analytical tasks.
• Agent Designer (The Race Engineer)
• Master multi-source orchestration for complex briefings. Build agents that synthesize disparate data sources without writing code.
• Agent Development Kit / ADK (The Data Science Team)
• The core of the lab. Build a programmatic agent that acts as a true data controller, executing SQL, triggering BigQuery ML models, and performing data-to-code transformations for visualization.

You’ll get behind the wheel and navigate the critical "data architecture boundary"—the threshold where simple retrieval fails and data-driven reasoning must take over. You’ll cross the finish line with a proven pattern for building agents that don't just "guess"—they compute.

• Who Should AttendAI Practitioners & Developers: If you are tired of demos that stop at "hello world" and are ready to build agents that actually understand your data foundation, this is for you.
• Data Scientists: Gain hands-on experience connecting GenAI to structured analytical pipelines (BigQuery, BQML).
• Architects: Learn how to design multi-tier agent systems that distinguish between retrieving knowledge and computing facts.

Attendee requirements

**Attendees should bring their own personal laptop  since corporate-issued devices may not allow access to all available tools. 

To get the most from this hands-on lab, participants should be comfortable reading Python code (all code is provided so you'll fill in short, given snippets), running commands at the command-line/terminal, exploring SQL queries, and navigating a cloud console. 

No prior experience with Gemini Enterprise, Agent Designer, ADK, or BigQuery is required.

Space is limited so register today!