Software engineering has become increasingly complex, with an ever-expanding set of patterns, frameworks, and runtimes. But help is here! AI is revolutionizing the developer workflow, and Google Cloud is reimagining the journey from idea to production. This keynote features demos that showcase how AI can streamline software engineering, empowering you to build important apps, services, and agents faster than ever.

Software engineering has become increasingly complex, with an ever-expanding set of patterns, frameworks, and runtimes. But help is here! AI is revolutionizing the developer workflow, and Google Cloud is reimagining the journey from idea to production. This keynote features demos that showcase how AI can streamline software engineering, empowering you to build important apps, services, and agents faster than ever.

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The rise of AI-powered code generation tools presents a compelling alternative to traditional UI prototyping frameworks. This talk explores the question: Is it time to ditch the framework overhead and embrace core web technologies (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for faster, more flexible prototyping? We’ll examine the trade-offs between structured frameworks and the granular control offered by a “bare metal” approach, augmented by AI assistance. Learn when leveraging AI with core tech becomes the smarter choice, enabling rapid iteration and bespoke UI designs, and when frameworks still reign supreme.

This workshop examines the critical lessons learned in deploying generative AI applications and explores how these insights can shape the future of the "AI Agents era." We'll delve into the practical challenges and solutions encountered in moving from initial answers to actionable implementations, prescribing how these learnings can be applied to build more sophisticated, autonomous, and impactful AI systems.

Unleash the power of Gemini with Vertex AI Studio. This hands-on lab guides you through using Gemini for image analysis, prompt engineering, and conversational AI, all within a user-friendly interface. Learn to design prompts and generate content directly from the Google Cloud console.

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!

To improve how people work, AI needs to be intuitive, save time and help people get more done. AI in Google Workspace helps teams throughout the work day, by organizing and analyzing information, drafting and polishing content, improving the quality of meetings, and lightening the admin load. Businesses of all sizes are finding new ways to do better work, faster with Workspace. Join us to hear from customers transforming the way they collaborate, work, and innovate. Learn about our latest product news, and hear our vision for what’s next.

Build intelligent search with Vertex AI Embeddings. This hands-on lab explores text and multimodal embeddings (images & video), showing you how to transform data into numerical representations for enhanced search. Learn to create a simple e-commerce search system that finds products based on text, images, and videos.

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!

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!

Unlock the power of code execution with Gemini 2.0 Flash! This hands-on lab demonstrates how to generate and run Python code directly within the Gemini API. Learn to use this capability for tasks like solving equations, processing text, and building code-driven applications.

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!

Join an insightful fireside chat with Jeff Dean, a pioneering force behind Google’s AI leadership. As Google's Chief Scientist at DeepMind & Research, Jeff will share his vision on AI and specialized AI hardware, including Cloud TPUs seventh generation chip; Ironwood. What exciting things might we expect this to power? What drives Google’s innovation in specialized AI hardware? In this spotlight, we’ll also discuss how TPUs enable efficient large-scale training and optimal inference workloads including exclusive, never-before-revealed details of Ironwood, differentiated chip designs, data center infrastructure, and software stack co-designs that makes Google Cloud TPUs the most compelling choice for AI workloads.

Kayak through Seattle’s lakes with AI! Discover how Gemini can take you where you want to go, through rapid prototyping with its function calling, streaming, and multimodal APIs. Learn how you can build your own immersive AI experiences faster than ever.

Learn how to use Gemini Cloud Assist to manage applications, from infrastructure design and AI-powered troubleshooting to performance and cost optimization.

Build a multimodal search engine with Gemini and Vertex AI. This hands-on lab demonstrates Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to query documents containing text and images. Learn to extract metadata, generate embeddings, and search using text or image queries.

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!

Organizations around the world are building with Google Cloud to drive growth and transform industries. Join Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at our Opening Keynote to get a front row seat to see all the new product innovations and latest trends and insights. And hear from customers on how they are building new solutions that make a real business impact.

Organizations around the world are building with Google Cloud to drive growth and transform industries. Join Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at our Opening Keynote to get a front row seat to see all the new product innovations and latest trends and insights. And hear from customers on how they are building new solutions that make a real business impact.

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.

Race against others in a brick building challenge while Gemini provides live commentary. Part competition, part AI improv show.

Experience the future of AI with Google Cloud! Speak with customers who are building innovative AI solutions and learn directly from them. This experience offers a real-world look into "how we built it" discussions, giving you the chance to explore the possibilities. See detailed schedule of each timeblock here.

How are you progressing with your journey to realize business value from AI? Has the reality lived up to its hype? What obstacles to adoption are you facing and what adoption frameworks have led to success? This round-table workshop presents the opportunity for IT executives and leaders to share stories, learn from their peers, and discover approaches and strategies to accelerate AI adoption for business value.

Unlock the full potential of your data with Google's autonomous data and AI platform. This session explores how we're bringing the power of AI directly to your data, integrating multimodal data handling, an innovative AI Query Engine, and Gemini agents to enable seamless data integration, automated workflows, complex reasoning, and real-time insights. Join us to explore the latest advancements in BigQuery and Looker and build a data and AI strategy that drives your business forward.

Join us for an exciting session where experts from Salesforce and Google will discuss their innovative partnership aimed at transforming customer engagement. This collaboration focuses on integrating Salesforce Service Cloud with the Google Customer Engagement Suite to help organizations solve problems faster, improve customer satisfaction, and drive revenue with AI. Discover how Service Cloud, leveraging Google's technology, is building AI-powered contact centers to drive customer success by combining the strengths of humans and agents.

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Stop struggling to unlock the transformative power of AI. This session flips the script, revealing how your existing Kubernetes expertise is your greatest advantage. We'll demonstrate how Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides the foundation for building scalable, custom AI platforms - empowering you to take control of your AI strategy. Forget starting from scratch; leverage existing skills to architect and deploy AI solutions for your unique needs. Discover how industry leaders like Spotify are harnessing GKE to fuel responsible innovation, and gain the insights to transform your Kubernetes knowledge into your ultimate AI superpower.

Uncover data's hidden connections using graph analytics in BigQuery. This session shows how to use BigQuery's scalable infrastructure for graph analysis directly in your data warehouse. Identify patterns, connections, and influences for fraud detection, drug discovery, social network analysis, and recommendation engines. Join us to explore the latest innovations in graphs and see real-world examples. Transform your data into actionable insights with BigQuery's powerful graph capabilities.

AI is transforming software development, but not always for the better. The 2024 DORA report reveals that AI adoption resulted in a 7.2% regression of delivery stability for software, highlighting the industry's overemphasis on velocity. This session will explain how to flip the script on AI’s role in software development, and drive better development and delivery outcomes with new innovations from Google Cloud and beyond, freeing developers to focus on customer value.