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.

Step up to the plate and dive into the world of MLB player analytics! Build a data platform and app that introduces new fans to MLB's stars. You will combine structured and unstructured data like MLB player stats and videos, then visualize and ask your data questions. Take this opportunity to leverage the latest and best of Google Cloud's data tools, like BigQuery for storage and analysis, Looker for data modeling and visualization, and the new Conversational Analytics for natural language queries. What new MLB player insights will you uncover?

At Cardinal Health, we are strategically adopting an AI-First approach to product innovation, prioritizing artificial intelligence as the core foundation of our product development. This talk will explore how our products utilize AI to offer personalized experiences, automate tasks, and provide competitive advantages. AI serves as a key tool through the design and development lifecycle, accelerating time-to-market. We will examine the stages of this lifecycle where we are witnessing the greatest benefits. Additionally, the talk will address the challenges and opportunities associated with this innovative approach.

Join us for a lightning talk summarizing the Google x Kaggle Gen AI Intensive, a 5-day live course that empowered over 140,000 participants with a comprehensive understanding of generative AI. From foundational models and prompt engineering to MLOps and real-world applications, this series covered it all through a mix of theory, hands-on learning, and community engagement, with learning material created by experts across Google. Learn how you can leverage the resources from this ongoing series to upskill yourself and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI.

Tired of jumping from tool to tool to bring your organization's ambitious ideas to life? Seeking an AI-powered ecosystem where your team can thrive at every phase of the development journey? We’ve got you covered. Beyond the IDE, GitHub is your personalized end-to-end platform. Join us to learn how to streamline and accelerate your workflows, no matter the enterprise need.

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In this session, discover how you can use Anthropic's Claude models on Vertex AI to create innovative solutions. This session offers insights into the AI landscape, its impact on software development, and practical guidance on integrating AI technologies into your workflows. Learn how you can harness the power of AI to stay at the forefront of your industry, whether you’re optimizing existing applications or developing new AI-driven products. We will touch on applications for coding, search, and customer support in particular.

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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.

This session will examine the evolution of computing infrastructure, from its transformation for internet service delivery to the modern-day revolution driven by genAI. Google Fellow and VP of Engineering Amin Vahdat explores the design principles behind scale-out architectures and the shift towards specialized hardware, high-bandwidth networks, liquid cooling and advanced memory technologies necessitated by genAI. Taken together, these shifts promise to render next-generation unrecognizable relative to today’s conventional wisdom with orders of magnitude improvement in compute capacity, scalability, and power efficiency

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.

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.

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.

BigQuery helps you build an autonomous data and AI platform from your organization. In this session, you’ll learn how BigQuery agentic intelligence is automating critical data workflows, including data preparation, analysis, predictions, model tuning, security, and governance. We’ll explore the BigQuery AI capabilities that all data practitioners can use to address data challenges in the AI era.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Join leaders from Anthropic and Google Cloud for a fireside chat to explore the essential elements for enterprise AI success in production. We’ll explore real-world production use cases that are utilizing the powerful combination of Anthropic’s Claude models on Vertex AI for fast development and scalable deployments. And we’ll cover topics such as platform flexibility, enterprise readiness, governance, and agentic workflows. Leave with actionable insights to guide your AI strategy and navigate the changing world of intelligent agents.

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.

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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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Building and maintaining detection rules is the cornerstone of any high-performing security operations function, but it’s often easier said than done. Join us for an in-depth exploration of detections in Google Security Operations (Google SecOps) and learn how it empowers detection teams to stay ahead of threats – from curated detections delivered out of the box by Google SecOps to address the latest threats, to building custom rules using entity graphs, AI, and the wealth of functions and context provided by Google SecOps.

Physician burnout is a global crisis negatively impacting both healthcare professionals and the quality of care they provide. Artificial intelligence (AI) may offer a solution to this problem. AI-powered tools, such as intelligent assistants for clinical documentation, diagnostic support systems, and personalized patient care platforms, can streamline workflows, reduce administrative tasks, and enhance decision-making, thereby alleviating physician burden. By mitigating burnout risk factors and empowering physicians with innovative technologies, AI can pave the way toward a more sustainable and fulfilling healthcare future.

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.

App life cycles with Google Cloud databases and runtimes have gotten smarter. This session takes you through the life cycle of building and optimizing scalable, high-performance generative AI apps. We’ll use Google’s latest natural language and vector search technologies to build the “art of the possible” for AI-powered software. We’ll also cover various app design patterns using Gemini Code Assist, foundation models, agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration frameworks, and show you how it all comes together in a live demo.