In this hands-on lab, you'll explore the power of Kubernetes and learn how to orchestrate cloud applications with ease. Using Google Kubernetes Engine, you’ll provision a fully managed Kubernetes cluster and deploy Docker containers using kubectl. Break down a monolithic application into microservices using Kubernetes Deployments and Services, and gain insights into the latest innovations in resource efficiency, developer productivity, and automated operations. By the end, you'll be ready to streamline application management in any environment.

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Experience what a real cyberattack is like in ThreatSpace, a digital training ground on Google Cloud. While the Mandiant red team tries to break into your system, the Mandiant incident response team guides you through the investigation. Use Google Security Operations and Threat Intelligence tools to uncover how the attackers got in and what they’ve done. Extra points if you can catch the bad guys!

This session showcases an end-to-end generative AI application on Google Cloud. We’ll demonstrate how to use Gemini 2.0 Flash to analyze user-uploaded images, extract features, and generate descriptions stored in AlloyDB. Then we’ll show you how to fine-tune Gemini 2.0 Flash with BigQuery and generate outfit recommendations with AlloyDB low-latency querying. Finally, we’ll use the output from Gemini 2.0 Flash and Imagen 3 to create visuals of the outfits and deploy the entire solution on Cloud Run.

In this session, we'll explore best practices for developing next-gen Agentic apps powered by Gen AI for consumer goods brand innovation teams. Learn about the technical architecture, essential frameworks, and tools for scalable solutions. Discover strategies for intuitive user interactions and review real-world case studies. Join us to gain valuable insights and practical strategies for creating innovative and impactful Agentic apps.

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McKinsey estimates that AI could add over $4 trillion of value annually, yet only 1 percent of companies consider themselves AI-mature despite widespread investment. Join us to learn where the highest-value opportunities for agentic AI are and how to overcome barriers to scale. Hear how McKinsey is innovating with industry leaders to build agentic AI-enabled solutions that drive sustainable growth, operational excellence, and productivity.

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Need precise data extraction from your documents?  This hands-on lab teaches you to build custom document extractors with Document AI Workbench. Learn to create, train, and evaluate a model tailored to your specific document types and achieve higher processing accuracy.

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Expand business value and boost employee productivity with generative AI. This session reveals how Gemini's advanced reasoning, Google-quality search, and your enterprise data can combine to streamline workflows and provide answers to complex queries. Through customer and partner use cases, you'll discover the Agentspace value proposition and best practices for building a successful generative AI practice on Google Cloud.

The rise of AI agents is poised to disrupt every industry, transforming the way we work and conduct business. This session will explore the transformative power of agentic workflows and provide a glimpse into what an agentic future might entail across industries. We'll discuss the strategic implications of this emerging technology and equip business leaders with the knowledge and insights needed to navigate the agentic frontier and capitalize on the opportunities it presents.

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Security Command Center is the must-have risk management solution for Google Cloud. In this session, you’ll learn how to use Security Command Center to proactively manage threats, posture, data, and identities, and how to respond to security events to protect your entire cloud footprint.

Join us as we reveal how the AURA AI Suite—AURA-SECURE, AURA-FLEX, and AURA-OMNI—is transforming enterprise AI. Experience bespoke conversational solutions for both structured and unstructured data. Discover how private GPT models secure sensitive information and dynamic insights boost productivity, decision-making, and customer engagement. Plus, see how Google Cloud services like Vertex AI, BigQuery, and Kubernetes ensure seamless integration, accelerated performance, and robust security.

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AI Hypercomputer is a revolutionary system designed to make implementing AI at scale easier and more efficient. In this session, we’ll explore the key benefits of AI Hypercomputer and how it simplifies complex AI infrastructure environments. Then, learn firsthand from industry leaders Shopify, Technology Innovation Institute, Moloco, and LG AI Research on how they leverage Google Cloud’s AI solutions to drive innovation and transform their businesses.

According to IDC, 67% of AI technology spend in 2025 will be enterprises embedding AI capabilities into core business operations. Learn how AI-enabled customer engagements, from search to customer care operations and insights, are helping organizations improve customer experience and employee productivity while lowering costs. In this session, we’ll discuss specific use cases and the business results customers have achieved.

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In this session, Andrew Sun, Director of Business Development for Retail Software and Cloud at NVIDIA will discuss the impact of GenAI on the retail market and its specific benefits its bringing to the clothing/sporting goods companies like Puma. In this session, we will also showcase some of the unique GenAI experiences Puma has built while leveraging GPUs on Google Cloud’s platform.

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Scaling Agents with Agentspace isn’t just about building cool agents, it’s about how you integrate those into your business and how you set up the operational governance, the monitoring and the overall lifecycle management that creates a trusted digital workforce. Google Cloud becomes the Digital Office Space for your Agentic employees, and you’ll need an AI RM to manage them.

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Automation enables engineering teams to reduce duplication of effort and build consistency around various processes, especially observability. Providing out-of-the-box solutions and using infrastructure as code are some of the ways to automate your systems so all of your teams can onboard and get all the right features. In this talk, we will discuss how Datadog and Project44 have created self-service platforms so their engineers can automatically obtain observability into their systems.

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Connect with other security professionals in our Birds of a Feather sessions. Dive into lively discussions with peers and Google Cloud experts on key security topics, including identity and access management, network security, multicloud monitoring, and more.

Experience the future of AI with Google Cloud! Speak with Agentspace experts to learn how it can provide conversational assistance and take actions based on your company’s unique information. See topic details for each time block here.

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.

Revolutionize your business with Intel and Google Cloud. Discover the power of Intel Xeon-based instances and Intel’s software optimizations for unparalleled efficiency and performance. Lower your total cost of ownership with Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) for secure computing.​ Unlock the potential of AI with Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and optimize your software stack. Transform your infrastructure, engage with industry leaders, and gain insights to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market.​

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Learn how Lloyds Banking Group dramatically optimized their costs across Google Cloud using FinOps hub. Discover new features in FinOps hub 2.0 that are supercharged by Gemini Cloud Assist. And learn how you, too, can increase your Google Cloud FinOps score.

IAM and cloud resource posture are at the core of your security infrastructure and fundamental to cloud adoption. Google Cloud's IAM and Org Policy are evolving, enabling frictionless experiences for admins, developers and security practitioners. Our innovative platform helps you implement robust and comprehensive security controls across the enterprise with AI-enabled features for agility in your operations. Join this demo-packed session to learn about the latest innovations in IAM, access risk, cloud governance, and Gemini-powered assistance.

Join this Solutions Talk to see Virgin Media O2's self-service data mesh on Google Cloud, built on data tooling and data platform engineering. We'll show their real-world architecture for discoverable, trusted data products, emphasizing data quality, contracts, and management. Hear VMO2's data mesh vision, why contracts and quality matter, and how Google Cloud enables automation, leaving you with actionable insights to unlock your data's potential.

This sessions demonstrates how to automate password and certificate rotation in Google Cloud, mitigating security risks associated with long-lived credentials and helping you achieve password rotation best practices by eliminating manual interventions.

Grupo Pavisa plans to revolutionize its business model by basing decisions on a single source of truth using RISE with SAP on the Google Cloud Platform. Learn how this transformation will reduce delivery times, improve production capabilities and enable the creation of better forecasting models. Join Luis Gabriel Martínez from Grupo Pavisa and Clay Caldwell from Kyndryl for a discussion of how a pragmatic approach to modernization and co-creation with Kyndryl, SAP and Google is enabling success.

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This session presents Schnucks’, a midwest grocer’s migration of their E-commerce application from Oracle Database to Cloud SQL PostgreSQL. It will cover challenges such as addressing the complexities of even "simple" schemas, testing data movement possibilities to minimize downtime, and transforming the database tier. Hear about the business impact, including cost savings, increased database-application proximity and the potential for similar future migrations, allowing for direct integration options from Google CloudSQL to Google Gemini AI.

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