DevFest Paderborn - n8n Workshop
Most of us have chatted with an AI. Far fewer have built one that works on its own. In this hands-on session, you build your own AI agent with n8n and Gemini: a personal morning brief that runs every day without you.
🛠️ What you build A Personal Daily Brief: an agent that wakes up every morning at 7, checks the weather, reads the news on the topics you choose and writes you a short briefing with Gemini. You switch it on in the session, and your first brief arrives the next morning. Nothing to install: it runs in the browser on n8n Cloud.
Once it works, you make it your own with remix cards: a brief on demand, a newsletter-style email, a podcast version read aloud by Gemini, a Telegram bot you can talk back to, and more.
👋 Who it's for Anyone with a laptop. No code needed, and developers can drop in a Code node if they like. Pairs are welcome, so nobody builds alone. The session is in English, and questions in German are welcome too.
✅ Before you come (5 minutes)
A laptop and a Google account
A free Gemini API key from Google AI Studio: aistudio.google.com
An n8n Cloud account (free 14-day trial, no credit card): n8n.io Not done yet? No problem, we set it up together at the start.
🎁 What you leave with
A working agent you built yourself, in your own account
The finished workflow and all remix cards, so you can keep building at home
A first real look at AI agents and automation
People to build with: the session ends with an invitation to the n8n Paderborn community
ℹ️ Good to know
Small group: 25-30 seats. Sign up here; walk-ins are welcome if seats are free.
You build with your own account and your own key. The agent only reads public data (weather and news feeds), and your brief goes only to you. Follow-up only happens through an opt-in QR code.
This is a teaching session, not a sales pitch.
📅 When and where
🗓️ Saturday, 14 November 2026
DevFest Paderborn 2026
📍 Heinz Nixdorf Institut (HNI)
Fürstenallee 11, 33102 Paderborn
🎉 About DevFest Paderborn DevFest Paderborn 2026 is a full day of talks, workshops and good conversations for people who love tech, with around 190 developers, students, researchers and founders on site. It is organized by Google Developer Group Paderborn, a volunteer-run community with 200+ members.
🎟️ Tickets for DevFest Paderborn 2026: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-paderborn-presents-devfest-paderborn-2026/