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Important Note: To participate in the Codelab, it is required to bring your own laptop computer and power cable. The activities are designed for laptops and cannot be completed on a tablet or phone.
We'll take you on a technical journey through the creation of a knowledge-driven chat application designed to answer customer questions, guide product discovery, and tailor search results. This innovative solution combines the power of AlloyDB for data storage, an in-house analytics engine for contextual understanding, Gemini (Large Language Model) for relevance validation, and Google's Agent Builder for quickly bootstrapping an intelligent conversational assistant.
1:00pm - 1:30pm Check in and Networking
- Refreshments
- Opportunity to network with fellow developers and Google team members
1:30pm - 1:35pm Welcome & Kickoff
- Welcome and introduction
- Overview of the code lab objectives
- Introduction of facilitators and team members
1:35pm - 2:00pm Intro Presentation
2:00pm - 3:15pm Build a Smart Shopping Assistant with AlloyDB and Vertex AI Agent Builder - Part 1
During part one of this lab you will:
- Create an AlloyDB instance and load an ecommerce dataset
- Enable the pgvector and generative AI model extensions in AlloyDB
- Generate embeddings from the product description
- Perform real time Cosine similarity search for user search text
- Deploy the solution in serverless cloud run functions
3:15pm - 3:30pm Break
3:30pm - 4:30pm Build a Smart Shopping Assistant with AlloyDB and Vertex AI Agent Builder - Part 2
During part two of this lab you will:
- Build a Vertex AI Agent Builder agent
- Integrate the AlloyDB tool with the agent
4:30pm - 4:45pm Closing remarks
- Additional resources and references
- Closing remarks
4:45pm - 5:45pm Q&A / Refreshments / Networking
- Refreshments and snacks
- Opportunity to network with fellow developers and Google team members
Important Note: To participate in the Codelab, it is required to bring your own laptop computer and power cable. The activities are designed for laptops and cannot be completed on a tablet or phone.
