Looker is transforming business intelligence (BI) with the power of AI. This session explores the latest AI advancements in Looker, showcasing how these new features – combined with the power of its semantic modeling and self-service exploration capabilities – simplify data analysis and empower everyone to make data-driven decisions. We’ll cover Looker AI and BI strategies, demonstrate new capabilities, and share best practices for leveraging AI in your BI workflows.

Join Achilles Chalkiotis, North American Head of Digital Engagement at Grid Dynamics, to explore how AI is revolutionizing the retail customer journey. Learn how AI enhances shopping experiences with semantic search, personalized results, dynamic Q&A, and "view in my room" visualization. Discover the future of AI with image-based search, context-aware recommendations, and intelligent assistants. Understand the benefits for customers and retailers, from improved satisfaction to valuable insights.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Generative AI has revolutionized the business landscape, but many companies struggle to realize the full benefits of scaling from pilot to at-scale transformations. Discover how companies are partnering with Google Cloud Consulting to better quantify the business value, understand the total cost of ownership (TCO) of gen AI use cases, and prioritize their AI investments – key lessons that can we learn from the companies leading the AI transformation.

Europe is leading the way in data sovereignty, privacy, and sovereign AI. Learn how Google Sovereign Cloud products, including the Trusted Partner Cloud by S3NS, empower European organizations to innovate while upholding these values. Discover how these products provide a secure and compliant environment for businesses to leverage the full potential of cloud technology. We’ll explore how the Trusted Partner Cloud, built with S3NS, meets France’s SecNumCloud regulations.

Join this Cloud Talk to explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) can revolutionize your data workflows. Learn to automate SQL query generation and stream results into Confluent using Vertex AI for real-time analytics and decision-making. Dive into integrating advanced AI into data pipelines, simplifying SQL creation, enhancing workflows, and leveraging Vertex AI for scalable machine learning. Discover how to optimize your data infrastructure and drive insights with Confluent’s Data Streaming Platform and cutting-edge AI technology.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Join us for an insightful discussion with executives from leading companies, as they share their strategies for scaling Gen AI. Discover how these industry leaders are revolutionizing business processes, enhancing customer experiences, and driving innovation. Gain practical insights into Gen AI applications, scaling challenges, and solutions that have led to significant efficiency gains and competitive advantages. Explore future trends in Gen AI, including advancements in machine learning, data integration, and ethical considerations. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead and unlock new opportunities for your business.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Learn how public sector organizations are using data and AI to protect our resources, monitor and address environmental challenges, and better understand the world around us. By leveraging AI, advanced analytics, demographic data, and satellite imagery, we’re able to build a safer and more sustainable future, together.

Drive the next wave of AI innovation with Google Cloud databases. This Spotlight session explores cutting-edge innovations that enable you to modernize your database estate to quickly build gen AI apps, unify transactional and analytical workloads for real-time insights, and simplify database management with assistive AI. Join us to witness the future of Google Cloud databases, exclusive product announcements, insightful demos, and inspiring customer stories.

The world of data security and privacy is changing. Quantum computing threatens traditional encryption, but you can stay ahead. Learn how to protect your AI and machine learning (ML) models and your sensitive data with cutting-edge techniques and tools like Gemini. This session covers end-to-end privacy, confidential computing with Google Cloud, navigating the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) landscape, the challenges and opportunities of PQC, and how Google Cloud is preparing you for the future.

Calling all Python developers using Google Cloud! Share your experiences, projects, and insights leveraging Python on Google Cloud. Whether you're exploring official libraries, automating tasks, or building innovative solutions, this meetup is for you. Let's discuss what's working well, challenges you've faced, and how Python + Google Cloud could be even better. Connect with fellow developers, get inspired, and help shape the future of Python on Google Cloud!

Mayo Clinic Platform (MCP) will share their experience building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and how it has significantly accelerated developer onboarding and deployment to their network, including the Mayo Clinic Care Network (MCCN) when hosted. This platform has been a key driver in rapidly delivering innovation, which has historically been challenging in healthcare. Eviden played a crucial role as a key partner in the initial development, and MCP is progressively taking on more internal ownership to support future scaling and growth.

Google Workspace is essential to getting work done but many don’t realize they can extend Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides with Apps Script. This lightning talk will show how to get more out of Workspace with Apps Script and take it even further with Gemini. Master automation by generating code snippets, automating tedious tasks, all using AI to handle the busywork so focus stays on what truly matters. Whether beginning your journey or refining your skills, you will train in the ways of AI-driven automation and take your workflow to hyperspeed.

Launching LLM-powered products is transformative but requires strategic execution. This session shares lessons from embedding AI solutions (built with Gemini on Google Cloud) into real use cases. Learn how we avoided pitfalls, tackled automation myths, and delivered real value. Gain insights on identifying high-impact AI opportunities, validating solutions, and iterating for successful product launches.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

This hands-on lab introduces Gemini 2.0 Flash, the powerful new multimodal AI model from Google DeepMind, available through the Gemini API in Vertex AI. You'll explore its significantly improved speed, performance, and quality while learning to leverage its capabilities for tasks like text and code generation, multimodal data processing, and function calling. The lab also covers advanced features such as asynchronous methods, system instructions, controlled generation, safety settings, grounding with Google Search, and token counting.

If you register for a Learning Center lab, please ensure that you sign up for a Google Cloud Skills Boost account for both your work domain and personal email address. You will need to authenticate your account as well (be sure to check your spam folder!). This will ensure you can arrive and access your labs quickly onsite. You can follow this link to sign up!

Explore how AI agents and assistants are transforming Software Logistics, bringing intelligence to cloud application delivery. This session demonstrates practical applications of AI in deployment automation, configuration management, and runtime optimization. Discover how Platform Engineers leverage AI to create more efficient delivery systems. Learn design strategies from automated security scanning to intelligent deployment decisions, and how to integrate these capabilities into your existing platform engineering practices.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Learn how generative AI can enhance data workflows and analysis. This session demonstrates how to access and use Gen AI models in BigQuery, including new features like open source model support and structured output from Gemini. Accelerate your data analysis with the latest AI innovations available directly in BigQuery.

 Learn how Drive Health is leveraging Google's AI and data analytics capabilities to transform healthcare access for Medicaid populations in Southern Illinois. By addressing critical barriers in prenatal care, chronic disease management, and mental health, this initiative is projected to achieve remarkable results, including a 20% reduction in preterm births and $5.2 million in annual cost savings. Learn how our innovative approach is creating a blueprint for equitable healthcare delivery and improving lives in under-served communities.

Bad actors are sneaky, slippery, and getting smarter all the time. However, businesses now have a powerful new defense. Advances in AI offer opportunities to arm developers with information and tools to help mitigate risks. Join us as we share perspectives on design, considerations, and challenges when deploying AI to enhance security and improve efficiencies for developers.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Discover the transformative power of Gemini in BigQuery, which is revolutionizing data analytics with AI-driven innovations. This session showcases capabilities designed to enhance workflows – streamlining data preparation and migrations, enabling advanced code generation, facilitating conversational data exploration, and optimizing workloads intelligently. Learn how these advancements simplify complex tasks, elevate productivity, and empower teams to unlock the full potential of their data.

Increased productivity and efficiency are baseline expectations. AI must drive business transformation by going beyond the bottom-line to reshape customer experiences, streamline operations, and achieve strategic goals. Join Dialpad’s Natala Menezes, VP of Product Marketing and Randstad's Ryan Henry, Director of Infrastructure Services for a conversation about how Randstad gets real ROI with smarter processes. 

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

We live in a different era – one where developers need access to larger tools, data and code need to be more secure, and ultimately still more work needs to get done. Learn about methods on Google Cloud to leverage remote development effectively for all your software development needs, from Day 1 to production. You’ll experience Cloud Shell in action, how Cloud Workstations powers your AI development needs, and container and developer tools that make deployment simple. Power to the devs.

Cox’s growth goals hinge on customer acquisition and retention to expand its market reach. Traditional customer service models, limited by inefficiencies and reactive support, hinder scalability. Next-generation customer service innovations – powered by AI, automation, and data-driven insights – enable proactive engagement, hyper-personalization, and seamless omnichannel experiences. Innovative strategies unlock new revenue streams, improve customer lifetime value, and enhance operational agility, turning every customer interaction into a growth opportunity.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Is siloed data hindering your operations? Learn how Nuro consolidated their transactional, relational, and vector data sets on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, and how they’re now able to do operational analysis, real-time analytics, and business intelligence (BI) reports on the same platform. Join this panel session to discover best practices for unifying vector and relational data, and learn how Nuro is now able to satisfy their self-driven car analytics use cases in a cost-effective way.

Discover and learn about the service approach, which mean to expose capabilities through API for a company using Generative AI for content creation. 

Orchestration, scalability and micro services approach will be exposed during this session, to show how you can industrialize at scale the services to serve millions of users.

Success in startups isn’t just about ideas: it’s about mindset, strategy and having the right tools. This interactive session focuses on Google's 10X thinking and the founder's mindset, a powerful approach to innovation that aims for exponential impact in the age of AI. We'll explore how founders can best partner with Google for success and get an inside look at an exclusive Innovation Workshop designed to fuel creativity and prioritization. We'll wrap up with a Q&A, giving you the chance to ask questions and connect with like-minded founders.