AI & Automation with Google Workspace

Gulf Infotech and Google Cloud hosted this afternoon at Google's Dubai office for CIOs, IT managers and IT professionals. Alina Rückert of Google Cloud joined Yahya Zakir Sait and Jojo Varghese on the agenda.

The session focused on automation that teams can build inside Google Workspace. Apps Script, Google's scripting language for Workspace, handles jobs such as generating documents from a Sheet or sending scheduled reports. AppSheet turns a spreadsheet into a no-code app for approvals, inspections or field data collection. The Gemini demos then showed AI drafting, summarising and organising inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets, and Google's team took questions in the interactive part.

The takeaway: automation and AI work best together. AI helps people write and decide faster, while Apps Script and AppSheet remove the repeat steps around that work. A good first project is a process that today runs on email and a shared spreadsheet, such as leave requests or purchase approvals. The afternoon closed with giveaways, a quiz, high tea and networking.