McDonald’s is advancing its AI capabilities and achieving transformative business outcomes with Collibra and Google Cloud Gemini. By integrating a multi-cloud, multi-data platform with unified data governance for AI, McDonald’s is reducing governance fragmentation, activating unused data, and addressing AI deployment risks. This session examines how McDonald's utilizes Collibra and Google Cloud's data and AI technologies to quickly implement innovative solutions and improve customer, restaurant team, and employee experiences.

Discover how MasOrange together with Kyndryl is simplifying operations and reducing costs by migrating workloads to Google Cloud Platform . This session highlights key strategies, including leveraging enterprise agreements for savings, optimizing cloud costs through technical decision-making, and enabling self-service capabilities for developers. Learn how to enhance application performance, streamline infrastructure, and tackle challenges in a smooth, secure and transparent migration journey to Google Cloud.

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Boost AI innovation in regulated industries! Use Red Hat OpenShift AI/IBM Watsonx and Vertex AI to split model lifecycles: train securely on isolated OpenShift AI/Watsonx, then deploy via Vertex AI's model registry. Explore use cases, deployment patterns, and the advantages of this approach. Ensure training on a trusted platform for sensitive data. Deploy models easily via Google Cloud's registry. Learn how this MLOps architecture helps meet regulations while leveraging cloud AI.

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Introducing the reimagined partner portal: your key to a more efficient Google Cloud partnership. Explore new features like Co-Sell and Services registration, Earnings Hub updates, and learn how to navigate this intuitive platform. Discover how these enhancements streamline your experience and maximize your partnership value

In this hands-on lab, you'll explore data with BigQuery's intuitive table explorer and data insight features, enabling you to gain valuable insights without writing SQL queries from scratch. Learn how to generate key insights from order item data, query location tables, and interact with your data seamlessly. By the end, you’ll be equipped to navigate complex datasets and uncover actionable insights quickly and efficiently.

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Calling all developers, DevOps, and SRE engineers: Join us to discuss observability best practices for Gen AI apps on Google Cloud. We'll explore tracing, monitoring, and logging for Gen AI. Share insights on TPU/GPU monitoring, log correlation, regulatory alignment, and data-driven insights to enhance your Gen AI deployments.

Learn how leading retailers accelerate business growth by transforming customer experiences with Google Cloud. Through in-depth enterprise case studies, discover proven strategies for unifying customer data, delivering personalized engagement at scale, and empowering teams with actionable insights. Join industry pioneers as they share their implementation journey, demonstrate measurable ROI across digital touchpoints, and reveal best practices for driving operational efficiency. Walk away with practical frameworks for accelerating your own digital commerce transformation.

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.

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In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, data is no longer just a back-office function – it’s the lifeblood of informed decision-making and competitive advantage. This session is designed to empower business decision-makers with the knowledge and strategies to become truly data-driven leaders in the age of disruption.

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Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Network delivers powerful, AI-powered network security to protect your cloud infrastructure from a wide variety of network threats. This session showcases the latest innovations, including advanced malware protection, domain name system [DNS) security, data loss prevention, network security posture controls, DDoS protection, web application protection, and a cloud-first mechanism to easily integrate third-party network security services.

Learn how Dun & Bradstreet, a leading provider of business decisioning data and analytics, supercharged their business with Google Cloud. You’ll learn how Dun & Bradstreet achieved a 95% decrease in data onboarding time and a 50% reduction in data latency, and how they unlocked new revenue streams with AI. Learn how they built an enterprise-grade data cloud, and new and innovative AI solutions. Join us to find out how your organization can leverage Dun & Bradstreet’s experience and learnings to achieve similar success in your own data analytics and AI journey.

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, enterprises face significant hurdles in developing and implementing mission-critical AI applications such as agentic or physical AI. This session will explore how organizations can harness the power of NVIDIA DGX Cloud on Google Cloud, a high-performance, fully-managed AI platform, to accelerate the next era of AI. Learn how to drive innovation in an increasingly competitive landscape, and achieve lower TCO.

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For partners looking to elevate their delivery game, experts will uncover the secrets to successful Google Cloud partner projects in this rapid-fire session. Learn how to navigate delivery governance with Google Cloud Consulting, tap into Google's deep technical expertise, and most importantly, keep customers delighted. We'll share real-world examples of how to optimize project preparation, ensure seamless collaboration, and ultimately drive exceptional customer satisfaction.

Redpanda, a leading Kafka API-compatible streaming platform, now supports storing topics in Apache Iceberg, seamlessly fusing low-latency streaming with data lakehouses using BigQuery and BigLake in GCP. Iceberg Topics eliminate complex & inefficient ETL between streams and tables, making real-time data instantly accessible for analysis in BigQuery This push-button integration eliminates the need for costly connectors or custom pipelines, enabling both simple and sophisticated SQL queries across streams and other datasets. By combining Redpanda and Iceberg, GCP customers gain a secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution that transforms their agility while reducing infrastructure and human capital costs.

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This session explores how cloud-native security, powered by Google Cloud, enables organizations to streamline operations, reduce complexity, and achieve better security outcomes with a lean team. Join us for a customer success story, partner insights, and a lively panel discussion featuring industry experts on building a future-proof Security Operations Center (SOC) with limited resources.

Startup developers, are you ready to build? In this hands-on workshop, you'll design and code a generative AI app using Gemini and Vertex AI. Through focused coding exercises, you'll master essential skills in prompt engineering, multimodal AI, and real-world implementation. Walk away with functional AI code—and the foundation to power your AI-driven future.

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Get a guided, hands-on experience with Google Cloud’s flagship cloud security solution. Learn how to detect cloud misconfigurations, find active threats, and use Security Command Center’s virtual red teaming to identify high-risk toxic combinations and attack paths that expose high-value cloud resources. Then see how to take action on security issues with built-in response capabilities. Learn why Security Command Center is the best security solution for Google Cloud environments.

Discover how AI-driven personalization and agentic architecture are helping revolutionize customer experiences and operations in financial services. In this insightful panel discussion with leadership from USAA and Deloitte, we'll explore the next generation of AI-enabled end-to-end data value chains and highlight some top trends that are reshaping today's technology organizations.

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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.

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Ever wonder how Google Cloud supports billions of daily users worldwide? Dive into the world of Google’s cloud regions, global expansion, and data centers. This session unveils the innovative technology behind these modern marvels and the operational expertise that keeps them humming. Learn about our cutting-edge efficiency and state-of-the-art security. Discover how innovation and sustainability is key to our design and how you can apply Google’s best practices to your own infrastructure.

For years, mainframe modernization seemed out of reach. Generative AI breakthroughs, led by Google’s Gemini, offer automated assessments, code transformation, and risk mitigation for accelerated and cost-effective cloud migration. Learn from Ford and Intesa Sanpaolo about how they reduced costs, boosted performance, and embraced innovation by modernizing their core applications off the mainframe and onto Google Cloud. Learn how Google Cloud’s mainframe modernization solutions can work for your digital transformation journey.

Supercharge your development workflows with Google Cloud’s internal developer platform (IDP). In today’s world of microservices and multi-region deployments, building and maintaining your own IDP can be complex. This talk unveils Google Cloud IDP – a game-changing solution that offloads development and operational burdens to Google Cloud, freeing your platform engineers and empowering developers to focus on what matters most: building amazing applications. Experience it in action with live product demos.

Securing AI applications demands a full life cycle approach. Palo Alto Networks integrates AI Runtime Security and AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) to protect your workloads from development to runtime. Gain inline data protection, prevent model misuse, and stop zero-day threats with centralized security policies and real-time threat detection. Discover how to automate security, reduce risk, and safeguard sensitive data while enabling innovation in your AI ecosystems.

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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.