This talk offers demonstrations and live discussions on how to rapidly deploy production-ready GKE or Slurm clusters using Cluster Toolkit and Terraform. Leverage the latest GPUs to accelerate machine learning workloads and optimize resource utilization with GKE's Kueue, autoscaling Slurm, and Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS). Explore storage solutions like Google Cloud Storage (GCS), GCSFuse, Filestore Zonal, and Parallelstore. Leave this session with the tools and knowledge you need to deploy a high-performance ML cluster in minutes.

 Everyone has parts of the software development process they find tedious or toilsome. With Gemini Code Assist agents, we can reduce that toil and boost your productivity by intelligently assisting you throughout the entire SDLC. By walking through an example with our unique, agent-driven approach to building and querying code documentation in the newly launched Firebase Studio, we’ll show you how AI agents can accelerate your development and allow you to focus on what you truly enjoy: coding.

Security is often referred to as a big data problem, and the growing volume, variety, and nuance of security telemetry requires more sophistication and control than ever before. This session dives into the new data pipeline management capabilities of Google Security Operations. We’ll show how you can improve the way you route, reduce, redact, enrich, and transform security data to manage scale, reduce costs, satisfy compliance mandates, and, most importantly, drive better security outcomes.

In this session, we'll delve into how AI is reshaping the landscape for leading brands. We'll examine the concrete ways AI is being used to enhance marketing effectiveness, drive operational efficiency, and build sophisticated agentic systems. We'll showcase how Google Cloud's AI solutions can enable brands to gain actionable insights from data, automate complex processes, and create seamless, personalized customer experiences. Learn how to unlock the power of AI to elevate your brand's performance and achieve sustainable growth.

Unlock the full potential of your website and app content through AI-powered personalized search, answers, and navigation. Learn how to quickly implement and create engaging experiences that increase user engagement, drive content consumption, improve monetization, and address customer requests. Discover how intelligent search, generative AI overviews, and personalized browse can transform your site into a dynamic content hub.

With great power comes great responsibility – and the need for confidentiality. This talk explores how confidential computing technology can act as a powerful shield for your AI deployments. We’ll show how Confidential Computing and confidential accelerators safeguard sensitive data and algorithms, even during processing, to ensure that your AI workloads remain protected throughout their life cycle.

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Transform your high performance computing (HPC) with Google Cloud. Join this session to learn how Parallelstore, advanced tools, and expert support accelerate performance, reduce costs, and boost innovation. Optimize your HPC environment for maximum efficiency and gain a competitive edge. Explore the future of HPC and transform your organization.

Want to spend less time debugging and more time innovating? GitHub’s developer-first platform provides cutting-edge features to revolutionize your workflow, allowing you to build smarter and faster with minimal effort and maximum impact. Dive into AI-native development and get a peek at our latest Copilot-powered tools, designed for agentic experiences and developer choice and  hear from Verily about how GitHub’s platform enhances innovation and productivity.

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Agentic AI systems offer interesting opportunities. These AI systems have the ability to reason, plan, and act autonomously to achieve their goals unlocking a vast array of possibilities including the automation of complex tasks and the creation of innovative AI-powered applications. This talk delves into three approaches for agentic AI: 1) Building on Agentspace 2) Using NotebookLM 3) 3rd Party Agentic AI on Google Participants will have a solid understanding of how to get started with agentic AI by the end of the session.

This session demonstrates several areas of how Cloud Assist can help to design, operate and optimize your Cloud applications via examples.

Running performance-intensive services at scale while meeting the rigorous security and compliance requirements of some of the most demanding public and private sector organizations presents many interesting challenges. In this talk, you will hear how Pexip, a leading video technology provider, works to build, operate, and protect their global technology platform with the help of Google Cloud security solutions.

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.

If you register for a Learning Center lab, please ensure that you sign up for a Google Cloud Skills Boost account for both your work domain and personal email address. You will need to authenticate your account as well (be sure to check your spam folder!). This will ensure you can arrive and access your labs quickly onsite. You can follow this link to sign up!

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!

This hands-on lab equips you with the practical skills to build and deploy a real-world AI-powered chat application leveraging the Gemini LLM APIs. You'll learn to containerize your application using Cloud Build, deploy it seamlessly to Cloud Run, and explore how to interact with the Gemini LLM to generate insightful responses. This hands-on experience will provide you with a solid foundation for developing engaging and interactive conversational applications.

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In this session, Fortinet and Google Cloud will jointly present on how Fortinet's AI-powered security solution integrated with Google Cloud's native security services can help organizations make better informed decisions, rapidly respond to threats, and save time on even the most complex tasks.

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As the volume and value of data in cloud surges, defending it is an ever increasing challenge. In 2022, 94% of cloud tenants were targeted every month, and 62% are successfully compromised. A focus on preventing breaches is no longer sufficient – data must be defensible, even after a compromise. This session explores how to expand your cybersecurity strategy, enabling you to control risk, recover quickly and safely in the event of an incident, and ensure your Google Cloud data and business stand resilient against cyberattacks.

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It’s Happy Hour time! Join us today from 4:30 PM to 6 PM in the Expo for drinks and networking. Don’t forget to stop by our sponsor “hot spots” for tasty treats: AMD, Ab Initio, Cribl, Incorta, Informatica, Rubrik, SADA, an Insight Company, SAP and Tenable.

Open to all! Join us in the Community Lounge and celebrate women in tech. This happy hour is about community building and networking to foster a more rich technology community. 

Gain unprecedented visibility into AI applications and threats with Palo Alto Networks AI-Runtime, now easily deployed with Google Packet Mirroring/Intercept. This session reveals how this powerful combination analyzes network traffic to discover both legitimate and malicious uses of AI, enabling proactive threat detection and rapid response. Learn how to simplify deployment, improve security posture, and stay ahead of the evolving AI threat landscape.

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Build robust ETL pipelines on Google Cloud! This hands-on lab teaches you to use Dataflow (Python) and BigQuery to ingest and transform public datasets. Learn design considerations and implementation details to create effective data pipelines for your needs.

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Learn, build, and grow! Explore how you can get more from Firebase and the Google developer ecosystem through Google’s Developer Program with more benefits and integrations.

Wrap up the conference's first day at the GDG meetup. This will be a time for developer community organizers, and those interested in learning about Google Developer Groups (GDG) to network, exchange ideas, and share best practices on building and growing local technical communities.

This session dives into how Google Workspace's AI-powered features can set you apart, drive customer success, and boost your bottom line. We'll explore how these innovative tools attract and retain customers, and how successful Gemini and Workspace deployments translate into service profitability. Discover the resources available to support your Workspace AI practice and walk away with actionable insights to elevate your customer experience and maximize revenue.

Meetup for Latin America developers, leaders and GDEs in our community. Join us for a debrief on what was presented on the morning keynote and know what to exect for the rest of the days at Next 25 for Latin Americans. The meetup will be held in Spanish, Portuguese and English. 

Connect with other security professionals in our Birds of a Feather sessions. Dive into lively discussions with peers and Google Cloud experts on key security topics, including identity and access management, network security, multicloud monitoring, and more.