Harness Engineering & Building a Software Factory

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-london-presents-harness-engineering-amp-building-a-software-factory/.

GDG Cloud London is thrilled to be partnering with EPAM for a deep dive into the world of Harness Engineering and AI Agents.

This meet-up is a unique opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts, industry practitioners, and researchers in a dynamic and interactive setting. We are going to have some pizza and networking at the end!

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18:00 - Doors Open & Check-ins

18:30 - Welcome & Intro

18:40 - Darren Lester - From Vibing Chaos to Reliable Agents: Harness Engineering and Spec-Driven Development in the Google Ecosystem
Vibe coding delivers rapid weekend prototypes, but unconstrained vibing inevitably collapses into hallucination, alert fatigue, purpose drift, and architectural tech-debt. Upgrading your model won’t fix structural flaws: the model is merely the driver, while the entire race car is the harness.

Guided by the maxim "If it's not the model, it's the harness" and the formula "Agent = Model + Harness", Google Developer Expert Darren "Dazbo" Lester unpacks Harness Engineering. Discover why the model is a commodity while your harness is your true intellectual property. You will learn how to shift developer interventions left by uniting Context Engineering, Autonomous Loop Engineering, and Spec-Driven Development (SDD), leveraging Google Antigravity.

Walk away with a repeatable, self-correcting playbook for shipping deterministic, production-ready AI agents.

19:15 - Nicolas Dehandschoewercker - Building a Software Factory with Autonomous Verification
How do you ship confidently when AI agents write the code? This talk shares MiniTap’s engineering practices for connecting autonomous development with verification: testing real user workflows, feeding failures back to agents, and keeping humans involved where judgment matters.

20:00 - Pizza & Networking

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Hosted By

Amanda Cavallaro, GDG Organizer

I'm an Aikidoka, Developer Advocate, Software Developer, Google Developers Expert, Linkedin Learning Author and a Full Stack Web Development Specialist.

Saverio Terracciano, GDG Organizer

Stefano Le Pera, GDG Organizer

Lorenzo Turrino, GDG Organizer

Kubra Harmankaya, Android Developer

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-london-presents-harness-engineering-amp-building-a-software-factory/.