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Public Sector Challenge Hacks

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10 July, 2025

10:45 AM—1:45 PM BST

Tobacco Quay, Wapping Lane, London E1W 2SF

Are you ready to code the Future of Public Services?


Calling all Public Sector developers and engineers! Come and join us for Public Sector Challenge Hacks. You will participate in an engaging 3 hour hands-on session with experiences in cutting-edge technologies. Explore Veo2, Imagen 3, NotebookLM, AgentSpace, BigQuery, Firebase Studio, VertexAI studio, Google Threat Intelligence and more.


Teams will work collaboratively on challenges, earning points through a variety of hands-on activities which are submitted to the AI Gemini model for evaluation. The team accumulating the most points will emerge as the victor of Public Sector Challenge Hacks.


A selection of potential challenges are below:

  • Using data preparation tools to clean and prepare data for ingestion to BigQuery
  • Using BigQuery Geospatial features to pick an ideal location for a new office location or building
  • Using BigQuery to analyse the carbon footprint of a Google Cloud organization
  • Creating a chat app with Vertex AI Studio
  • Exploring Google Cloud's Model Garden for prompt engineering
  • Using Gemini Code Assist to code and deploy an AI app, which includes a Genkit task
  • Deploying a Cloud Run function and configuring DialogFlow CX to point to it, followed by importing into Agentspace
  • Deploying reCAPTCHA enterprise to protect from bots
  • Discover threat actors and how they behave in a Capture the Flag competition with Google Threat Intelligence


As part of your attendance, you will be provided a voucher that will enable you to demonstrate your knowledge and skills with an industry-recognized Google Cloud certification, and additionally as part of your acceptance we would like to invite you to attend the Developer Day at Google Cloud Summit London. This is a full day event (around Public Sector Challenge Hacks) and will allow you to join a thriving community of developers and practitioners and dive straight into the technology shaping tomorrow. This learning experience is designed to help you up-skill, explore, network, and deepen your technical knowledge across Google Cloud technologies. You’ll experience product demos, keynotes from Google Cloud, and frontline wisdom from our customers. Discover state-of-the-art product advancements as we explore the latest in enterprise technology.