AI Agents explained: When models learn to plan and act

Understanding AI Agents is crucial as we move beyond basic generative AI. Like humans using tools to enhance their capabilities, AI systems now leverage external resources - from databases to APIs - to perform complex tasks autonomously. In this session, we'll explore how AI agents combine reasoning, tool use, and decision-making to execute real-world actions. Discover the transformative potential of AI that can analyse, plan, and act on information beyond its training data, opening new possibilities for automation and augmentation across industries. We will discuss the recent white paper on Agents published by Google.

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Speaker

Patty O’Callaghan - Charles River Laboratories (Tech Director | AI/ML GDE)

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Technical Director at Charles River Laboratories.
In her free time, Patty is a dedicated mentor and educator, leading a Code Club for 10-15 year-olds at her local school. Additionally, she's an organiser at Goo…

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Patty O'Callaghan, Organizer

Patty is a Venezuelan living in Scotland. She has +20 years of experience in the tech industry and a background education in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. She is a Tech Lead at Charles River Laboratories.

In her free time, Patty is a dedicated mentor and educator, leading a Code Club for 10-15 year-olds at her local school. Additionally, she's an organiser at Google Developers Group Glasgow, serves as an Ambassador for Google's Women Techmakers, and is recognised as a Google Developer Expert (GDE) in Machine Learning.

She is very passionate about AI and loves sharing her knowledge and expertise with others, frequently giving talks and technical workshops on various technologies and topics related to it, especially Web Machine Learning.

José Enrique Calderón Sanz, Organizer

JP Morgan Chase - VP - Lead Software Engineer

Cleyra Uzcategui, Organizer

Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lucy McIntosh, Organiser

Hi I'm Lucy, I'm studying Software Development at Glasgow Caledonian University. I'm a student mentor for GCU. Alongside my studies I teach a coding club twice a week in Glasgow for young people aged between 10-16, where they learn the fundamentals of programming varied from Python, HTML, CSS and SQL. From June 2024- September 2024 I'm an Epicor ERP Programmer Intern at Sivers Photonics.

Marzia Deodato, Software Developer - Organizer

Lewis Shearer, GDG Glasgow Youth Team Leader

S4 student at Jordanhill School 🏫 | Passionate coder 🧑🏻‍💻|

Kaiwen Wang, GDG Glasgow Youth Team member

Sophie McCartney, Team member

Hi I'm Sophie!

I'm currently a first year student at Strathclyde University studying a MEng in Computer Science. I'm a Google Women's Techmaker and an organiser of GDG Glasgow.
I'm currently the Vice President of Strathclydes Coding Society and a lead organiser of StrathHack 2023. I'm a volunteer with Impact Arts, helping older people learn how to use phones and iPads.

I'm passionate about UI/UX and web design and want to learn more about these areas.

Ishita Narsiker, Team member

Delia Paternina, Team member

Software Engineer with a background in Civil Engineering and video games testing

Prashanti Chikiley, Technical BA

I'm Prashanti, Business analyst with 12 years of IT experience. I'm confident, articulate, having experience in delivering complex projects

Vinamra Sharma, PGT Student

Vinamra Sharma is a technology enthusiast and hackathon person, recognised for his success in over 50 global hackathons, including events hosted by MIT, Harvard, and Duke University. He completed his master's degree in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow focusing the research on Tiny Machine Learning and its application in healthcare. Vinamra has published three research papers and received the best research award from IEEE and Springer conferences.

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