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.

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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!

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.

Tired of generic code suggestions? Learn how to customize Gemini Code Assist using your source code repositories. This session covers best practices for generating new code, and retrieving and reusing existing code, with Gemini Code Assist code-customization capabilities. Boost productivity, enforce consistency, and reduce cognitive load with a truly personalized AI coding assistant.

Gemini 2.0 was built for the agentic era – from native tool use to function calling to robust support for multimodal understanding, the new frontier of applications are agentic. Join this session to explore the frontier of agents, where the best opportunities are for developers to build, open research areas to scale to billions of agents, and how to best leverage Gemini.

Unlock the power of generative AI with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) on Google Cloud. In this session, we’ll navigate key architectural decisions to deploy and run RAG apps: from model and app hosting to data ingestion and vector store choice. We’ll cover reference architecture options – from an easy-to-deploy approach with Vertex AI RAG Engine, to a fully managed solution on Vertex AI, to a flexible DIY topology with Google Kubernetes Engine and open source tools – and compare trade-offs between operational simplicity and granular control.

Considering Google Workspace? This panel features enterprise leaders who made the leap. Learn how they navigated the transition, addressed key challenges, and achieved impactful results. Get insights to ensure a successful deployment for your organization.

Explore how distributed cloud solutions solve for computing in sensitive on-premises, harsh, and remote environments with stringent regulatory and sovereignty requirements. Learn how these solutions enable secure access to advanced cloud capabilities like data analytics and AI within completely isolated environments, ensuring strict compliance and data residency. Key implementation and management considerations will be discussed.

Discover how some of the world’s most innovative companies modernized and transformed their applications with the power of Firestore, Firebase, and cutting-edge generative AI. Learn how they leveraged the latest technologies, such as edge computing and AI, to enhance customer experiences at every stage of the customer journey. Explore their innovative architecture and gain insights into building modern, engaging applications that deliver exceptional customer experiences.

This session explores the evolution of data management on Kubernetes for AI and machine learning (ML) workloads and modern databases, including Google’s leadership in this space. We’ll discuss key challenges and solutions, including persistent storage with solutions like checkpointing and Cloud Storage FUSE, and accelerating data access with caching. Customers Qdrant and Codeway will share how they’ve successfully leveraged these technologies to improve their AI, ML, and database performance on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Delivering data products across cloud and on-prem environments delivers critical competitive advantage. Ab Initio’s innovative architecture connects two of your most important assets - your people and your data. Discover a platform that delivers the fastest and most cost-effective solution for Data Product delivery by leveraging a unique combination of AI, semantic knowledge, and a metadata-driven compute fabric. By harnessing the elasticity of cloud compute, your organization will scale seamlessly, and securely, and meet growing data demands.

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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.

Did you know that GitHub Copilot lets you use Google Gemini as an AI programming assistant? Learn tips and tricks of prompting, shaping the context space, injecting third-party knowledge sources, and other ways that GitHub developers maximize their (and their team's) use of Gemini in VS Code and other IDEs.

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Running AI workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) presents unique challenges, especially for securing the right hardware. Whether you’re dealing with unpredictable demand and varying job durations or simply looking to control costs, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to make informed decisions about your GKE AI infrastructure. We’ll explore recent advancements in Dynamic Workload Scheduler, custom compute classes, and Kueue, demonstrating how these technologies can help you effectively access and manage diverse hardware resources.

Experience the power of AlloyDB Omni, a cutting-edge PostgreSQL-compatible database designed for multicloud and hybrid cloud environments. This session explores how AlloyDB Omni accelerates the development of modern applications, enabling generative AI experiences, efficient vector search, real-time operational analytics, and scalable transactional performance. We’ll also showcase how to run your applications on multiple clouds using Aiven’s seamless managed service, and how to supercharge hybrid cloud deployments with cloud-ready partners.

Unleash the full potential of large language models (LLMs) on your edge devices, even when there’s spotty internet. This session explores a hybrid approach that combines the power of cloud-based LLMs with the efficiency of on-device models. Learn how to intelligently route queries, enabling laptops and mobile phones to perform complex tasks while maintaining snappy performance. View demos of efficient task routing that optimizes for quality and cost to ensure your apps run smoothly, even during network disruptions.

Discover how Google Distributed Cloud empowers partners to deliver AI solutions for edge and on-premises environments. Learn how the GDC Partner Initiative can help you drive innovation with customers, expand service offerings, and grow revenue. Hear directly from one of our pioneering partners about their journey leveraging GDC to capitalize on market demand while creating new business opportunities in a rapidly evolving market.

The open-source AI agent landscape is thriving with innovation. This session is your definitive guide to building, deploying, and monitoring OSS agent frameworks. Learn patterns and best practices that combine the best of open-source frameworks with the AI platform built for production – Vertex AI. In this session, we'll cover techniques for multi-agent orchestration, working with diverse data sources, and building autonomous workflows. Join us on a journey from open-source agent frameworks to production-grade agent deployments and LLMOps on Vertex AI.

Dive deep into how governance, security, and sharing are innately integrated in BigQuery to power data and AI use cases across your organization. Learn about new innovations that further enhance data governance, security, and collaboration across data and AI assets, without you having to leave BigQuery. Find out how data governance leaders at Walmart and Box are using BigQuery to securely scale data and AI across their organizations.

If you’re responsible for website security and looking to protect against automated bot attacks, account takeovers, authentication fraud, and you’re also looking to reduce the costs of SMS fraud, stolen credit cards, and other transaction fraud mechanisms, this session is for you. We’ll cover the most recent advancements in reCAPTCHA, explore use cases in several large deployments across different industry verticals, learn from an actual customer using reCAPTCHA to protect their website, and dive into the technical details with reCAPTCHA engineering.

Are you a site reliability engineer (SRE) for an organization running generative AI workloads? If gen AI is transforming your workloads, are your SRE skills keeping pace? This session is a must for SREs facing the unique challenges of gen AI. Learn to adapt the four golden signals – tackling latency in multistage pipelines, user satisfaction in nondeterministic systems, and new error types like hallucinations. Discover how Google Cloud Observability and Firebase Genkit AI monitoring can help you master gen AI SRE.

Grappling with scaling your AI and machine learning (ML) platforms to meet demand and ensuring rapid recovery from failures? This session dives into strategies for optimizing end-to-end startup latency for AI and ML workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). We’ll explore how image and pod preloading techniques can significantly reduce startup times, enabling faster scaling and improved reliability. Real-world examples will show how this has led to dramatic improvements in application performance, including a 95% reduction in pod startup time and 1.2x–2x speedup.

This session explores how Looker and Google Workspace work together to bring data-driven decisions right into your everyday workflow. Learn how to leverage Looker spreadsheet-based business intelligence (BI) capabilities with Connected Sheets, integrate Looker with other Workspace apps, automate slide generation, and use the advanced features of Looker Studio Pro. And view a live demo of Looker BI agents in Google Chat. Ideal for anyone looking to streamline their data workflow and enhance collaboration within their Workspace environment.

Operational technology (OT) systems are the backbone of critical industries, yet they’re increasingly targeted by sophisticated adversaries. In this session, threat intelligence experts from Honeywell and Google explore the evolving OT threat landscape, highlighting real-world attack scenarios and future potential risks. Learn how advanced threat intelligence enables organizations to move from reactive to proactive defense strategies.