Burnout to Boardroom: Architecting Your AI C-Suite with Vertex AI

VENUE CHANGE: This workshop will now be at 48 Pirrama Road (opposite The Star). Sorry for the inconvenience

For the modern Small Business Owner, the path to growth is often blocked by a single bottleneck: Human Bandwidth. You are the CEO, the Marketing Lead, the Customer Support, and the Accountant. This is the "Burnout Loop", and if your business isn't running on auto-mode, it’s bound for operational doom.

Disclaimer
This workshop is designed for intermediate practitioners. You'll get the most out of it with some coding experience and a working knowledge of Google Cloud.

Bring your laptop – this is a hands-on session.

The workshop

Using Vertex AI Agent Builder on Google Cloud, you'll architect a "Digital C-Suite" for a Tutoring & Media business – stepping out of the solo operator role and into the leader of a high-functioning agentic board. This is a shift in paradigm: from "AI as a Chatbot" to "AI as an Organisational Structure."

Meet your instructor
Anupam Phoghat has spent his career doing what this workshop is all about: turning complex, high-stakes technology into practical systems that actually work.

A specialist in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes, Anupam holds multiple professional-level cloud certifications and has advised enterprise clients across Public Cloud, Data Analytics, and Infrastructure Modernisation. He knows what it takes to architect solutions in messy, real-world environments, and he's here to show you how to do the same with AI.

Agenda
5:00pm - Event doors open

5:45pm - Welcome by GDG Sydney

6:00pm - Workshop starts

6:45pm - Networking break with Pizza!

7:15pm - Workshop continues

8:00pm - Conclusion

8:30pm - Doors close

Key takeaways

The Architecture of Agency: How to move from single prompts to multi-agent orchestration.

Logical Workspaces: Using Vertex AI Data Stores to ground agents in specific business contexts (Business, Client, Staff).

The CEO Reasoning Engine: Building a "Supervisor" agent that vets opport