Hallway11:45–12:05Gandel Digital Future Lab

Build long running AI agents that pause resume and never lose context with ADK

Nakul Gowdra
AI/ML Architect · Google

How do you build AI agents that survive weeks of idle time, container restarts, and complex cross-team handoffs? Traditional stateless loops fail under context pollution, soaring token costs, and hallucinated progress.
This session dives deep into Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) to build robust, long-running agentic workflows. We’ll break down a production-ready, three-pillar architecture:
* Durable State Machines: Enforcing explicit state schemas instead of relying on raw chat history
* Event-Driven Resumption: Waking dormant agents via FastAPI webhooks, allowing scale-to-zero during idle time
* Multi-Agent Coordination: Delegating tasks to specialized, focused sub-agents to keep reasoning sharp
Walk away with a practical, code-first playbook to ship enterprise background agents