To stay competitive against cloud-native disruptors, Carrefour Spain launched a cloud-first strategy with Google Cloud, transforming IT for agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. In this session, learn how NTT DATA helped Carrefour leverage IaaS, PaaS, and serverless tools, migrating 382 workloads and deploying SAP Hana across 200+ hypermarkets. Discover how Carrefour's new e-commerce platform powered by Kubernetes accelerates innovation and drives online growth, helping them outpace competitors.

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Explore how running RISE with SAP on Google Cloud empowers businesses to transform operations and drive innovation. We'll showcase how our partnership is leading in data & analytics and how to gain real-time insights from your SAP data. With AI at the core of our solutions, you can automate processes, personalize experiences, and optimize resource allocation like never before. Learn how connecting everything with SAP enables you to achieve anything in today's dynamic business environment.

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Join CDW for an inspiring discussion on the journey from mainframe to cloud. Learn how our cloud leaders helped Jeff Thurston from Jim’s Formalwear Inc. tackle legacy system migration, simplify data processes, and unlock their full cloud potential through automated data updates, streamlined reporting, and a foundation for cloud-native innovation. Don’t miss insights from CDW Google experts on transforming today’s challenges into tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

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Learn how Google Cloud is transforming data and AI governance with the latest governance and catalog innovations built directly into BigQuery. Unify metadata across platforms, boost discoverability, and accelerate insights with robust governance and security features. Discover how AI-powered insights, centralized governance, and integrated policy management can help improve data quality, track lineage, and manage access control, fostering trust and transparency in your data and AI initiatives.

Learn how the new agentic application stack combines evolved orchestration patterns, powerful semantic operators, and seamless interactions with Google Cloud databases. Join this breakout session to discover real-world use cases and gain insights into the future of software engineering, natural language interfaces, and multimodal applications.

This talk will explore the vision and architecture of our ChaosLLaMa prototype through a demo. The prototype integrates various Google Cloud components, such as Asset inventory and VPC flow logs, and uses Gemini along with an agentic framework to enable customers to identify and address weaknesses in their Google Cloud applications. This is especially useful for enterprise customers modernizing from an on-prem infrastructure to Google Cloud, as it helps them build more robust applications.

Discover how Google Cloud PSO can help you execute a cloud-to-cloud migration of highly regulated workloads, and avoid business interruption. We'll explore common challenges like bridging organizational silos, managing legacy tech, and navigating complex approvals, as well as how Google Cloud can transform a factory's infrastructure to reduce operational risk, improve reliability, and seamlessly power your business.

Looking to turn the potential of Gen AI into tangible impact? Learn from AI leadership at Cox Communications and Capgemini as they share practical lessons on how to make generative AI genuinely valuable for businesses. Based on recent and real-world experiences, they'll cover everything from big wins and hard stumbles, to the critical lessons learned in between. Join this spotlight for a candid perspective on what it takes to progress from the AI hype cycle to head-turning achievements.

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Discover how TELUS centralized 14 petabytes of data in Google Cloud, creating a single source of truth for AI innovation. Join us to explore how they transformed hundreds of enterprise-grade pipelines and get insights into responsible AI practices and future plans.

Google Cloud helps you build a strong layered defense with a robust set of access controls and policies. In this session you will learn how you can effectively use Google Cloud security guardrails specifically Organization Policies to achieve a strong security posture, leverage Google Cloud Policy Intelligence capabilities to effectively scale this posture across your organization. We’ll also share how Google Cloud makes it easy for you to start securely in the cloud with our security baseline capabilities. 

The key to maintaining a strong cloud security posture is to build from the start on a robust foundation of baseline security controls. This session delves into how Google Cloud’s Security Foundation and shared fate operating model provide prescriptive guidance for securing your infrastructure, applications, and data across various cloud adoption journeys. We’ll explore how Google Cloud’s Risk Protection Program helps you ensure your business remains resilient in the face of ever-evolving cyber risks.

Generative AI is transforming the fashion industry! We explore how to use Google’s cutting edge tools: Imagen 3, multimodal Gemini, and BigQuery to enhance our creativity throughout the design process. From design inspiration, fabric print design, garment design, to branding. We discuss how developers can rapidly prototype and bring AI-powered visions to life with Google Cloud Vertex AI. Whether you are a developer, a designer or an industry leader, you will find valuable insights on how to integrate generative AI into your creative workflow.

Maximize your GTM impact by leveraging Google Cloud's market momentum. Discover key industry trends, high-growth solutions, and proven sales plays designed to win more deals. Access exclusive resources, essential assets, training, and strategies for effective collaboration with Google Cloud sellers to maximize customer impact and drive your revenue. This is your roadmap to winning together.

This hands-on lab provides a foundational understanding of Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks. You'll learn to create and manage VPC networks, configure subnets, and implement robust firewall rules. By exploring these core networking concepts, you'll gain the practical skills to build secure and scalable network architectures within the Google Cloud environment.

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Developers love Cloud Run, Google Cloud’s serverless runtime. Join this session for a deep dive into new Cloud Run capabilities that make it even simpler to deploy your applications and enable you to deploy new types of workloads, including AI inference. Discover how Cloud Run can power your most demanding workloads with unparalleled efficiency and flexibility.

Enhance your data ingestion architecture's resilience with Google Cloud's serverless solutions. Gain end-to-end visibility into your data's lineage—track each data point's transformation journey, including timestamps, user actions, and process outcomes. Implement real-time streaming and daily batch processes for Vertex AI Retail Search to deliver near real-time search capabilities while maintaining a daily backup for contingencies. Adopt best practices for data management, lineage tracking, and forensic capabilities to streamline issue diagnosis. This talk presents a scalable and fault-tolerant design that optimizes data quality and search performance while ensuring forensic-level traceability for every data movement.

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.

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Discover how to transform your unstructured data into a strategic advantage by embedding GenAI into the core of your business operations. In this live demo from Hyperscience and Google, learn how to convert your back office information assets into LLM and RAG-ready data, with unprecedented accuracy, governance, and relevance. Combining the Hyperscience enterprise AI platform with Google Vertex and Big Query, organizations can now power GenAI initiatives that deliver smarter decision making, operational agility, and competitive advantage.

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Delve into Wayfair's integration of Google's generative AI solutions to revolutionize their e-commerce platform and enhance employee collaboration. Discover how Wayfair leveraged Google Cloud's Gemini models on Vertex AI to automate and improve their product catalog enrichment for faster time-to-market, cost savings, better customer experience and responsible content management. Learn how Wayfair implemented Gemini for Google Workspace to boost employee productivity and collaboration to foster a more efficient and creative work environment.

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Elevate your marketing plan with strategies to maxmizie partner marketing benefits. Leverage key tools and techniques, like Partner Marketing Studio, to enhance campaigns and optimize resources. You'll walk away from this session as a Google marketing pro with practical tips to drive results.

Witness the magical intersection of classical music and AI in this unique session featuring live violin performance. Experience how Vertex AI and Gemini transform musical emotions into insights through real-time audio processing and mood detection. Through live demonstrations, discover how to implement AI for content understanding and automated analysis. See how Google Cloud's AI tools open new possibilities in creative industries. Perfect for developers and ML engineers interested in audio AI.

This hands-on lab empowers you to build a cutting-edge multimodal question answering system using Google's Vertex AI and the powerful Gemini family of models. By constructing this system from the ground up, you'll gain a deep understanding of its inner workings and the advantages of incorporating visual information into Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This hands-on experience equips you with the knowledge to customize and optimize your own multimodal question answering systems, unlocking new possibilities for knowledge discovery and reasoning.

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Gaining visibility and reducing risks across multi-cloud environments has historically meant sifting through an increasing number of disjointed tools across DevOps, Cloud Security, and the SOC. A scalable, unified approach is needed for visibility across multi-cloud environments, including where AI is being used, and which data AI can access. Join Wiz as we discuss how Google Cloud and Wiz are better together to meet these challenges through the adoption of a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).

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Ready to launch your generative AI app? This session equips you with the essential skills to deploy and scale AI applications on Google Cloud. Learn practical strategies for building robust infrastructure, automating deployments, optimizing performance, and managing costs. With live demos and expert insights, you’ll walk away with actionable techniques to take your AI app to the next level.

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Meet with a Google Cloud Security expert to discuss your specific security needs and discover how our solutions can help. Plus, you can grab a complimentary copy of the “Defenders Advantage” book and a cup of coffee while you’re there.