There’s an old saying: “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” This is true when it comes to migrating workloads to the cloud. Attempting a move without insights into your apps is setting the stage for disaster. How can you ensure your migration to Google Cloud is secure and meets your customers’ expectations? We’ll discuss the role Datadog plays in a migration to Google Cloud. We’ll explore best practices and guide you through the steps to achieve a seamless and successful migration.

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This session explores Yahoo Mail’s successful implementation of OpenTelemetry within their globally distributed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment on Google Cloud. Discover how they achieved seamless integration with Google Cloud Observability and established a centralized observability platform for multiple teams. Learn best practices and gain their top tips and tricks for building enterprise-level observability.

Introducing Cloud WAN, a managed global WAN solution unifying enterprise backbone, metro, and SDWANs into a single network with built-in ecosystem and Google Cloud security and connectivity services that offer choice, higher performance, improved security posture, plus global scale while reducing TCO. Learn how to modernize your network with Google Cloud WAN and leverage Google’s global network, leading security portfolio, and comprehensive network services to connect all your offices, workloads, and data efficiently. 

Learn how to unlock the power of AI and automation with new and enhanced capabilities in Google Workspace. We’ll explore our newest AI and workflow functionality and show how you can easily integrate with Workspace to improve efficiency, enhance collaboration, and achieve better results for your organization.

Innovating with AI and achieving digital sovereignty are not mutually exclusive. Google Workspace with Gemini is uniquely equipped to help customers leverage AI tools whilst keeping their IP private, meeting regulatory requirements and maintaining resilience against current and future attack vectors. Discover customer strategies for navigating the complexities of digital sovereignty and unlock the full potential of your organization.

In this session learn about performance optimizations for PyTorch on Google Cloud accelerators using OpenXLA. These models are powerful but can be disrupted by resource failures. This talk also explores strategies for achieving greater resiliency when running PyTorch on GPUs, focusing on fault tolerance, checkpointing, and distributed training. Learn how to leverage open source tools to minimize downtime and ensure your deep learning workloads run smoothly.

Leveraging years of experience building internal platforms at Google, this session offers actionable insights for Google Cloud customers on creating effective development ecosystems. Learn how to prioritize safety, efficiency, and reliability through the interplay of platform engineering, feature development, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Whether you’re a seasoned Google Cloud user or new to platform engineering, this talk can help you optimize software delivery, operations, and achieve your business goals.

Lean teams often struggle to manage the overwhelming volume of unstructured content. This session explores how Gemini, Google’s cutting-edge AI, can help you easily structure and analyze this data. Learn how Box AI is utilizing Gemini with their customer solutions, and examine a real-world use case from Fundwell. Get insights on how to automate data extraction, enhance customer interactions, streamline operations, and gain a significant competitive edge. Discover how AI can empower your team to unlock the true value within your data.

Essential for Looker developers and administrators responsible for high-performing deployments, this session dives deep into the latest Looker performance and modeling advancements, equipping you with the knowledge and tools to build robust and scalable data experiences. Explore the latest platform optimizations, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) with Spectacles, key metrics for monitoring, and advanced LookML modeling techniques. Plus, a Looker customer will share their journey to optimize performance and achieve greater scalability.

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.

It’s never a dull day in the world of models. Join us in this session to learn about the latest advancements in Gemini 2.5. We’ll explore its breakthrough capabilities and performance, and the new use cases enabled by our flagship model.

Tired of juggling disparate tools and processes in your software development life cycle (SDLC)? This session explores how a multi-agent platform powered by AI can streamline your workflow and boost productivity. We’ll dive into how specialized agents for code review, testing, documentation, and modernization work together to enhance code quality, accelerate delivery, and free your developers to focus on what matters: creativity and innovation. Discover how this approach can transform your SDLC for the better.

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 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.

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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.

Ready to take your Day 2 operations to the next level? This session is your one-stop shop for mastering Day 2 ops in 2025. We’ll cover everything you need to know, such as leveraging observability and AI agents for DevOps use cases, building application-centric observability, and optimizing for cost and utilization on Google Cloud. This roundup session explores a variety of products and updates in the Day 2 space, giving you the tools and knowledge to supercharge your operational efficiency and drive innovation.

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.

Empower your teams to innovate and drive digital transformation with AppSheet, and discover how business users can easily create AI-enabled solutions that address their needs without coding skills. Learn how Gemini in AppSheet can accelerate AI adoption and the digitization of labor by empowering users to rapidly create apps that bring their ideas to life and automate complex tasks. Then join a fireside chat with customers to hear how they’re using Gemini in AppSheet to drive innovation and reduce risk in a secure environment.

Companies are improving customer experience and lowering costs with Google AI. Join this session to learn about our end-to-end customer engagement application that provides AI agents for self-service, agent assistance, and operational insights. Discover how you can achieve the same business impact our customers are realizing.

Generative AI is revolutionizing app development, demanding a robust network architecture capable of supporting distributed, cross-cloud deployments. This session dives into the essential networking strategies for building and deploying these next-generation applications. Discover new technologies to establish secure, reliable, and high-performance connectivity spanning Google Cloud, multicloud, and hybrid networks. Explore how to seamlessly integrate service-centric architectures to accelerate developer velocity without compromising security.

Generative AI enables you to build amazing new apps, but you may also have concerns. Will it be too complex or too expensive, or will it create security risks? Fortunately, building good gen AI apps has become much easier in the past year, in large part due to updated capabilities within databases. We’ll learn how Google Cloud databases handle key AI technologies like vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration, helping you bridge the gap between general-purpose AI models and your business-specific data. We’ll dive into some fun application examples to see how they were built and how you can use the same techniques in your apps.

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.

Don’t miss this fireside chat! Join Teradata, Google Cloud, and HSBC to discover how Teradata VantageCloud migrated HSBC’s UK data platform. Learn how Teradata’s Cloud Vantage EDW enabled scalable, secure solutions and improved decision-making. With over 4 billion queries, 2,500 applications, and 35 integrated systems, this hybrid cloud solution offers unparalleled resilience and cost-efficiency.