Discover how to transition from legacy, siloed systems to a unified, scalable, and insights-driven data platform on GCP. This session will cover best practices for data migration, overcoming common challenges, and integrating SaaS and third-party solutions using key Google Cloud services like BigQuery, Data Fusion, Cloud Storage, Application Integration, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, and Artifact Registry.

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SQL Server workloads powering mission-critical applications demand high availability and disaster recovery configurations from the get-go. Users can choose to leverage the business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) capabilities in Cloud SQL for SQL Server. In this session, we’ll cover the basics of BCDR with Cloud SQL for SQL Server. We’ll highlight the architectural patterns that are best suited for different types of workloads while leveraging the latest enterprise-ready Cloud SQL innovations.

Often, cloud risks fly under the radar because organizations don’t know they have sensitive data lurking in their environment. This creates a treasure trove for attackers, particularly when it comes to high-value AI training data. In this talk, we’ll discuss how sensitive data discovery and content understanding can help reduce security and privacy risks, safeguard AI development and deployment, and drive business momentum – especially in analytics and AI.

Learn how Oracle Multicloud enables enterprise customers with best practices and use cases to seamlessly integrate, build, and operate across clouds by running Oracle Database on Google Cloud. This session showcases how you can extend your Oracle Database and Google Cloud investments and gain insights into architecture patterns, database migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization techniques.

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Bigtable has been a core piece of application infrastructure for Google and companies such as Snap, Spotify, and many other massive platforms for over 20 years. In this session, we’ll discuss the fundamental changes to Bigtable processing capabilities made available via SQL that will let you bring more data transformations directly into Bigtable – enabling extract, load, and transform (ELT) capabilities taking advantage of Bigtable’s flexible schema to achieve increased data freshness – and that will reduce the time and costs of running other data processing services to prepare data for your real-time application.

Learn how you can use BigQuery and Earth Engine together for a variety of weather and climate resilience use cases including risk assessment, response, and recovery. You'll receive a real world step-by-step walkthrough, highlighting new geospatial features and AI-driven datasets, that make it easier for any professional to unlock insights that can contribute to greater climate resiliency.

UKG is revolutionizing workforce management with AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Join this session for a deep dive into how UKG, Google Cloud, and MongoDB collaborated to orchestrate enterprise data and put it to use powering intelligent, context-aware AI solutions that shape the future of work.

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Newt Global's DMAP revolutionizes Oracle/MS-SQL to PostgreSQL migrations. This automated solution streamlines the entire process, from initial planning to final production deployment. Key advantages are 1. Container-driven parallelization: Dramatically reduces migration timelines by harnessing powerful computing resources. 2. Unmatched speed: For medium complexity databases, DMAP achieves in 12 weeks what other tools take 12 months due to its advanced automation capabilities, including streamlined application and complex code translation.

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Applications of the future require a database that transcends historical paradigms. They require advanced in-database capabilities like Graph RAG, vector and full-text search without compromising on critical database properties of compliance, scale, and availability. In this talk, you'll learn how Spanner's native search and interoperable multi-model capabilities enable your developers to build intelligent, global applications on a single, zero-ETL (extract, transform, and load) data platform.

Business intelligence professionals and data practitioners, join us to share experiences and brainstorm solutions to your biggest data challenges. Whether you're tackling AI hallucinations, accelerating large queries, or defining data governance, this meetup provides a space for interactive discussion with peers and data experts. Bring your own topics to explore real-world scenarios and grow your network within our community.

Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is a serverless database service  designed to maximize scalability, high availability and performance without the hidden costs of capacity planning. This session demonstrates the new Firestore with MongoDB compatibility capabilities and discusses how Dialpad has built an Ai-powered customer communications platform leveraging Firestore over the last 14 years to grow a successful, performant, reliable business.

Integrating data from Oracle ERP to Google BigQuery? Join this session and discover how to enable seamless data integration, creating a robust data and integration fabric on Google Cloud. This capability enhances data accessibility and analytics, empowering informed business decisions. We also developed an abstraction layer to streamline integrations, fostering synergy across third-party platforms, accelerating time-to-value, and supporting a scalable, data-driven enterprise.

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PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open source databases for application development.  Furthermore, native support for vector search makes PostgreSQL an excellent choice for generative AI app development too. Learn why Google Cloud is the best place for your PostgreSQL workloads across Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and Spanner database offerings. Also hear from Salesloft about their journey to Google Cloud and how they chose which database service to select for their workloads.

Build modern applications with the power of Oracle Database 23ai, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI and Gemini Foundation models. Learn key strategies to integrate Google Cloud’s native development tools and services, including Kubernetes, Cloud Run, and BigQuery, with Oracle Database 23ai and Autonomous Database, seamlessly into modern application architectures. Cloud architects, Developers, or DB Administrators will gain actionable insight, best practices, and real-world examples to enhance performance and accelerate innovation with ODB@GC.

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AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is Google Cloud’s high-performance, PostgreSQL-compatible database service for your demanding online transaction processing (OLTP), hybrid transactional and analytical, and generative AI applications. In this session, we’ll cover what’s new with AlloyDB, including critical enterprise features across performance, availability, ease of use, and more. You’ll also learn how customers are quickly migrating to AlloyDB with Database Migration Service and how they’ve successfully scaled their workloads with AlloyDB, saving money while doing so.

This hands-on lab guides you through importing real-world data from CSV files into a Cloud SQL database. Using a flight dataset from the US Bureau of Transport Statistics, you'll gain hands-on experience with data ingestion and basic analysis. You'll learn to create a Cloud SQL instance and database, effectively import your data, and build a foundational data model using SQL queries.

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See how a small team can leverage Google Cloud to serve millions. As the former lead of Flutter and mobile-specialist, I started with little knowledge of Cloud. Using Google's Dart and Google Cloud, we've built a successful service across Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Big Query, Storage, CDN and more and here to share our learnings.

Join us to explore the future of databases and AI, two technologies driving the AI transformation era. Discover state-of-the-art capabilities and learn how to leverage multimodal models, vector search, natural language, and text search in your applications. We’ll share practical techniques for taking these cutting-edge technologies from concept to production. Customers will share their real-world experiences using AlloyDB AI and Vertex AI to accelerate innovation and transform their businesses. Gain insights into their journeys and learn how to unlock the full potential of AI and databases for your own organization.

Agentic workflows analyze vast amounts of data and generate insights in real-time, giving you a competitive advantage with your AI offering. But when should you use them and how do you get started? Join DataStax to learn what use cases are best for employing agentic workflows, best practices for assuring accuracy, and getting your agentic AI into production.

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Unlock the power of generative AI and data. Join experts from LlamaIndex and Google Cloud databases and learn how to seamlessly integrate LlamaIndex with AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, enabling your apps to reason, act on your data, and leverage the performance of Google Cloud. We’ll share real-world examples and code. Discover new possibilities for building advanced gen AI applications.

Tired of building the same old software as a service (SaaS) features? AI and data agents are revolutionizing the SaaS landscape, and developers are at the forefront of this exciting shift. Imagine building applications that can autonomously learn, adapt, and execute complex tasks, all while providing a personalized user experience. This session equips you with the knowledge and tools to build the next generation of intelligent SaaS applications. Learn how leading companies are leveraging AI agents to automate workflows, personalize user interactions, and boost operational efficiency. Discover the latest trends in agent development, best practices for building agent-first applications, and the secrets to successful implementation. And leave with practical insights and a clear roadmap for harnessing the power of agentic AI to create truly innovative SaaS products.

Migrate PostgreSQL to AlloyDB with Database Migration Service (DMS). This hands-on lab covers setting up Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering, configuring a continuous migration job, migrating data, and verifying the results. Learn to propagate live updates to your AlloyDB instance.

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Go under the hood to understand how the database features of Gemini Code Assist are giving application developers exciting new superpowers. Learn how Gemini powers the industry’s leading automated database querying, smarter application code wrangling in the integrated development environment (IDE), and entirely new agentic AI application features powered by enterprise data. Learn from Google Cloud engineers, and industry experts about how these features are having an impact today. And discover the secret sauce that makes these superpowers possible.

Spanner Graph provides graph database capabilities at virtually unlimited scale and allows you to seamlessly interoperate between relational and graph data models. Join this session to learn about the latest capabilities in Spanner Graph and how you can build intelligent applications with it.

NVIDIA GPUs accelerate batch ETL workloads at significant cost savings and performance. In this session, we will delve into optimizing Apache Spark on GCP Dataproc using the G2 accelerator-optimized series with L4 GPUs via RAPIDS Accelerator For Apache Spark, showcasing up to 14x speedups and 80% cost reductions for Spark applications. We will demonstrate this acceleration through a reference AI architecture on financial transaction fraud detection, and go through performance measurements.

Unstructured data makes up the majority of all new data; a trend that's been growing exponentially since 2018. At these volumes, vector embeddings require indexes to be trained so that nearest neighbors can be efficiently approximated, avoiding the need for exhaustive lookups. However, training these indexes puts intense demand on vector databases to maintain a high ingest throughput. In this session, we will explain how the NVIDIA cuVS library is turbo charging vector database ingest with GPUs, providing speedups from 5-20x and improving data readiness.

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