Building Agentic Apps with Google ADK - Part 2 - Workflow Agents

Building on the fundamentals of creating basic agents in Part 1, this session dives into a more powerful and structured approach : Workflow Agents. While a basic agent excels at single, autonomous tasks, a workflow agent acts as a conductor, orchestrating a series of steps to accomplish more complex, multi-stage goals. We will explore how to design and implement these workflows within the ADK framework, enabling you to build sophisticated applications that can execute predefined sequences of tasks, manage state across different steps, and interact with various tools and other agents in a predictable and reliable manner. This session will bridge the gap between a single-purpose agent and a robust, process-oriented agentic application.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the concept of a Workflow Agent and identify use cases where it is more suitable than a basic agent.
• Learn how to define and structure a workflow, managing the state and passing data between different steps.
• Build a practical Workflow Agent that integrates multiple tools or other agents to complete a complex task.
• Gain insights into designing more reliable and predictable agentic systems by codifying a sequence of actions.

Prerequisites:

DataHour (26th May 2025): Building Agentic Apps with Google ADK - Part 1 - Basic Agentic Apps

A laptop with internet connection and a standard browser

Access to Google Colab :(https://colab.new/)

A Gemini API key :(https://aistudio.google.com/apikey)

With two decades of experience in the technology sector, Prashanth Subrahmanyam heads Developer Advocacy for APAC at Google Cloud. For over ten years, he has focused on cloud and web technologies, with a significant emphasis on AI/ML for the past five years.

Prashanth is a passionate advocate for the use of AI to increase developer productivity, build impactful products, and modernize existing applications. His expertise spans Big Data, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, AI/ML, DevOps, CI/CD, Serverless, and API platforms. In his free time he enjoys gardening and spending time with the plants, playing video games, and wonders how the fish in his aquarium spend their whole day without mobiles and social media.