Routine tasks such as data wrangling and pipeline maintenance often inhibit data teams from doing higher-value analysis and insights-led decision-making. This session showcases how intelligent data agents in BigQuery can help automate complex data engineering tasks. You’ll learn how to use natural language prompts to streamline data engineering tasks from ingestion and transformation, such as data cleaning, formatting, and loading results into BigQuery tables that accelerate the time to build and validate data pipelines.

Go 1.24 unlocks the power of WebAssembly (Wasm) with new tooling for building high-performance edge applications. In this session, we’ll show you how to leverage the speed, security, and portability of Go to create low-latency Wasm modules that run on Google Cloud’s Service Extensions. We’ll also show you how Shopify uses Go and Service Extensions to move more application logic to the edge to reliably serve millions of customers.

Discover the cutting edge of foundation model development with JAX on Google Cloud. This session will showcase the latest advancements in the JAX ecosystem, including optimized performance on TPUs and GPUs. Explore new, high-performance models powered by MaxText and MaxDiffusion, delve into enhanced JAX libraries and Stable Stack packages, and learn about advanced diagnostics tools. Gain insights into how leading customers and partners are leveraging JAX on Google Cloud to build and deploy next-generation foundation models at scale.

Time to make generative AI a reality for your application. This session is all about how to build high-performance gen AI applications fast with Cloud SQL for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Learn about Google Cloud’s innovative full-stack solutions that make gen AI app development, deployment, and operations simple and easy – even when deploying high-performance, production-grade applications. We’ll highlight best practices for getting started with Vertex AI, Cloud Run, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud SQL, so that you can focus on gen AI application development from the get-go.

Migrations can feel daunting, especially for small teams. This session offers practical tips, tools, and strategies to plan and execute migrations efficiently, minimizing downtime and maximizing your existing resources. You’ll view a live demo of Google’s migration tools and learn from TRIARQ Health about how they successfully navigated their own migration to Google Cloud.

Struggling with multicloud networking complexity? Equinix and Uber reveal the critical network architecture strategies to overcome today’s challenges. Discover proven adoption tactics and essential multicloud networking capabilities for seamless, cost-effective multicloud success. Learn how Uber, leveraging Equinix’s interconnected global data centers and Network-as-a-Service platform, achieved rapid, flexible, and efficient data migration to Google Cloud. Don’t let network limitations hold back your multicloud potential.

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Dive deep into the world of multimodal analytics with BigQuery. This session explores how to unlock insights from all data types in BigQuery using embeddings generation and vector search. We’ll demonstrate how BigQuery object tables combine text, documents, and images to unlock popular use cases like recommendation engines and retrieval-augmentation generation (RAG). Learn how to leverage BigQuery as a knowledge base to ground your cutting-edge AI application with your own enterprise data.

There are cases when you can’t use Google Cloud services but still want to get all benefits of AlloyDB integration with AI and serve a local model directly to the database. In such cases, AlloyDB Omni deployed in a Kubernetes cluster can be great solution, serving for edge cases and keeping all communications between database and AI model local.

Cloud environments can have hundreds or thousands of potential security issues. But which ones create the most risk? Security Command Center uses powerful virtual red team technology and a new security graph to continuously analyze your cloud resource configurations, software vulnerabilities, and identity and access policies – running at machine scale – to pinpoint the issues that could put your cloud workloads at risk.

This session shows how engineers can use Gemini Cloud Assist and Gemini Code Assist to speed up the software development life cycle (SDLC) and improve service quality. You’ll learn how to shorten release cycles; improve delivery quality with best practices and generated code, including tests and infrastructure as code (IaC); and gain end-to-end visibility into service setup, consumption, cost, and observability. In a live demo, we’ll showcase the integrated flow and highlight code generation with GitLab and Jira integration. And we’ll show how Gemini Cloud Assist provides deeper service-quality insights.

Maximize your Gen AI inference performance on GKE. This session dives into the latest Kubernetes and GKE advancements, revealing how to achieve significant cost savings, reduced latency, and increased throughput. Discover new inference features on GKE for optimizing load balancing, scaling, accelerator selection, and overall usability. Plus, hear directly from Snap Inc. about their journey re-architecting their inference platform for the demands of Gen AI.

Unlock AI's transformative potential with adaptive strategies for leveraging AI Agents and platform-thinking. From identifying high-impact use cases to rapid, trusted deployment, we'll cover value modeling, Trusted AI deployment, agent orchestration, and productionizing in an uncertain landscape. Explore real-world implementations, from enhancing customer experiences to streamlining workflows, and measure success quickly. Discover how steering, worker, conversational, transactional, and multimodal agents drive tangible business value.

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Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking unlocks a critical new reasoning step in the model execution process that is needed to continue hill climbing on the most difficult problems. Join Jack Rae for a deep dive on our latest thinking models, how to use them to their full capability as a developer, interesting use cases to explore with reasoning, and where we are going next with reasoning.

Join Google Cloud and Quantiphi for a workshop on how to build and deploy powerful conversational AI agents using the Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI. Learn best practices and leave with actionable strategies to improve your customer experience.

This session demonstrates how to integrate Gemini Code Assist into your development workflow to boost productivity and code quality. Learn specific techniques for using Gemini Code Assist and actionable strategies to incorporate it into your daily practice.

Traditional infrastructure-centric monitoring provides a limited view of your applications. This session explores the benefits of shifting to an application-centric approach, enabling you to proactively identify performance bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization, and reduce costs. Learn how Google Cloud’s out-of-band (OOB) application-centric observability tools like App Hub, distributed tracing, application-specific signals such as logs and metrics, and service level objective (SLO) monitoring, can help you achieve optimal performance and cost efficiency for your cloud-first applications.

Scams and phishing attacks are skyrocketing all around the world, and safeguarding your users and brand reputation requires proactive and intelligent solutions. In this session, we’ll delve into Google Cloud’s Web Risk, a powerful service that leverages AI and machine learning (ML) to protect users against unsafe websites. Learn how Web Risk scans over 10 billion URLs daily, identifying phishing sites, malware downloads, and other threats with over 99.99% accuracy.

Embark on a journey to enhance your Oracle applications by migrating and modernizing them on Google Cloud. This session delves into real-world customer success stories and showcases the latest advancements. Discover best practices for seamless migrations and explore how Google Cloud optimizes performance and scalability for your Oracle applications. Uncover valuable insights from your Oracle databases and app-powered integrations with Google advanced AI, analytics, and monitoring tools.

Unlock the full potential of your mission-critical workloads on Google Cloud. Discover how our platform is purpose-built for Microsoft, Oracle, OpenShift, and more, enabling you to optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerate modernization. Learn firsthand from customers who have successfully transformed their businesses by bringing their workloads to Google Cloud.

Discover how to integrate AI and Gen AI capabilities to unblock data quality issues, streamline the deployment processes of a data platform, and empower data teams to accelerate the development of customized data products. By automating data product and pipeline creation, infrastructure deployment, data quality, and PII controls, you can reduce engineering efforts by 30-40% and develop products three times faster. Learn how this approach has helped clients create data products faster and more cost-efficiently across various industries.

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Explore the future of data management with BigQuery multimodal tables. Discover how to integrate structured and unstructured data (such as text, images, and video) into a single table with full data manipulation language (DML) support. This session demonstrates how unified tables unlock the potential of unstructured data through easy extraction and merging, simplify Vertex AI integration for downstream workflows, and enable unified data discovery with search across all data.

Cloud Run is an ideal platform for hosting AI applications – for example, you can use Cloud Run with AI frameworks like LangChain or Firebase Genkit to orchestrate calls to AI models on Vertex AI, vector databases, and other APIs. In this session, we’ll dive deep into building AI agents on Cloud Run to solve complex tasks and explore several techniques, including tool calling, multi-agent systems, memory state management, and code execution. We’ll showcase interactive examples using popular frameworks.

Unlock the full potential of Compute Engine for all your applications. This session delivers actionable strategies and best practices to optimize cost, reliability, and management for cloud-first, AI, machine learning, high performance computing, enterprise, and stateful workloads. We’ll share recently released features within Compute Engine to maximize return on investment for each specific application type.

Harness the power of AI agents with rich conversational experiences. This session will cover the practical applications of AI agents and how your teams can use them in a low- to no-code development environment. Learn to build, test, and deploy AI-powered conversational agents that seamlessly integrate into your business workflows. Discover techniques for in-depth performance analysis and continuous optimization of your AI agents.

This talk explores a comprehensive key management strategy designed to safeguard your critical assets, now and in the future. We’ll focus on the foundation of modern key management, evolving cloud hardware security offerings, sovereign key management, and cloud key management. By combining the strengths of advanced hardware security module (HSM) technology, sovereign key management principles, and the flexibility of cloud environments, organizations can build a robust and future-proof security posture.