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Google Cloud Next session 2025-04-10 at 17:30

Under the Iceberg: Simple, unified Cloud Storage for analytics data lakes

Event: Google Cloud Next '25

Speakers

Vivek Saraswat

Group Product Manager · Google Cloud

Dave Stiver

Group Product Manager · Google Cloud

Edward Yang

Vice President · Two Sigma

Topics

AI/ML Cloud Storage Dataproc Iceberg Cloud Computing BigQuery Analytics Spark

Description

Modern analytics and AI workloads demand a unified storage layer for structured and unstructured data. Learn how Cloud Storage simplifies building data lakes based on Apache Iceberg. We’ll discuss storage best practices and new capabilities that enable high performance and cost efficiency. We’ll also guide you through real-world examples, including Iceberg data lakes with BigQuery or third-party solutions, data preparation for AI pipelines with Dataproc and Apache Spark, and how customers have built unified analytics and AI solutions on Cloud Storage.