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.

Google Workspace is essential to getting work done but many don’t realize they can extend Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides with Apps Script. This lightning talk will show how to get more out of Workspace with Apps Script and take it even further with Gemini. Master automation by generating code snippets, automating tedious tasks, all using AI to handle the busywork so focus stays on what truly matters. Whether beginning your journey or refining your skills, you will train in the ways of AI-driven automation and take your workflow to hyperspeed.

Take part in the new SOC Experience – a view into real-world attack scenarios. Learn about the latest hacker tactics and how Google equips cybersecurity teams with the data, AI, and scalable analytics to detect and remediate attacks.

Launching LLM-powered products is transformative but requires strategic execution. This session shares lessons from embedding AI solutions (built with Gemini on Google Cloud) into real use cases. Learn how we avoided pitfalls, tackled automation myths, and delivered real value. Gain insights on identifying high-impact AI opportunities, validating solutions, and iterating for successful product launches.

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The Google Launchpad program is tackling the cloud and AI skills gap head-on. This session dives into Google Launchpad's comprehensive approach to skilling - from building an early-career global talent pipeline to directly upskilling Cloud customer employees - all free of charge! Learn how the program is helping to address the skills gap and deliver impactful trainings that have benefited tens of thousands. Gain insights into upcoming initiatives and hear firsthand how Launchpad has transformed the careers and organizations of some of its graduates.

This hands-on lab introduces Gemini 2.0 Flash, the powerful new multimodal AI model from Google DeepMind, available through the Gemini API in Vertex AI. You'll explore its significantly improved speed, performance, and quality while learning to leverage its capabilities for tasks like text and code generation, multimodal data processing, and function calling. The lab also covers advanced features such as asynchronous methods, system instructions, controlled generation, safety settings, grounding with Google Search, and token counting.

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Explore how AI agents and assistants are transforming Software Logistics, bringing intelligence to cloud application delivery. This session demonstrates practical applications of AI in deployment automation, configuration management, and runtime optimization. Discover how Platform Engineers leverage AI to create more efficient delivery systems. Learn design strategies from automated security scanning to intelligent deployment decisions, and how to integrate these capabilities into your existing platform engineering practices.

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Learn how generative AI can enhance data workflows and analysis. This session demonstrates how to access and use Gen AI models in BigQuery, including new features like open source model support and structured output from Gemini. Accelerate your data analysis with the latest AI innovations available directly in BigQuery.

Google Threat Intelligence’s Capture the Flag game uses real-world data, including Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advisories, ransom notes, and information from the dark web, to simulate a threat hunt. Test your cybersecurity skills by navigating clues, analyzing evidence, and solving puzzles to capture the flags with Google Threat Intelligence.

 Learn how Drive Health is leveraging Google's AI and data analytics capabilities to transform healthcare access for Medicaid populations in Southern Illinois. By addressing critical barriers in prenatal care, chronic disease management, and mental health, this initiative is projected to achieve remarkable results, including a 20% reduction in preterm births and $5.2 million in annual cost savings. Learn how our innovative approach is creating a blueprint for equitable healthcare delivery and improving lives in under-served communities.

Empower your teams to innovate and drive digital transformation with AppSheet, and discover how business users can easily create AI-enabled solutions that address their needs without coding skills. Learn how Gemini in AppSheet can accelerate AI adoption and the digitization of labor by empowering users to rapidly create apps that bring their ideas to life and automate complex tasks. Then join a fireside chat with customers to hear how they’re using Gemini in AppSheet to drive innovation and reduce risk in a secure environment.

Bad actors are sneaky, slippery, and getting smarter all the time. However, businesses now have a powerful new defense. Advances in AI offer opportunities to arm developers with information and tools to help mitigate risks. Join us as we share perspectives on design, considerations, and challenges when deploying AI to enhance security and improve efficiencies for developers.

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Companies are improving customer experience and lowering costs with Google AI. Join this session to learn about our end-to-end customer engagement application that provides AI agents for self-service, agent assistance, and operational insights. Discover how you can achieve the same business impact our customers are realizing.

Generative AI is revolutionizing app development, demanding a robust network architecture capable of supporting distributed, cross-cloud deployments. This session dives into the essential networking strategies for building and deploying these next-generation applications. Discover new technologies to establish secure, reliable, and high-performance connectivity spanning Google Cloud, multicloud, and hybrid networks. Explore how to seamlessly integrate service-centric architectures to accelerate developer velocity without compromising security.

Generative AI enables you to build amazing new apps, but you may also have concerns. Will it be too complex or too expensive, or will it create security risks? Fortunately, building good gen AI apps has become much easier in the past year, in large part due to updated capabilities within databases. We’ll learn how Google Cloud databases handle key AI technologies like vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration, helping you bridge the gap between general-purpose AI models and your business-specific data. We’ll dive into some fun application examples to see how they were built and how you can use the same techniques in your apps.

Discover the transformative power of Gemini in BigQuery, which is revolutionizing data analytics with AI-driven innovations. This session showcases capabilities designed to enhance workflows – streamlining data preparation and migrations, enabling advanced code generation, facilitating conversational data exploration, and optimizing workloads intelligently. Learn how these advancements simplify complex tasks, elevate productivity, and empower teams to unlock the full potential of their data.

Don’t miss this fireside chat! Join Teradata, Google Cloud, and HSBC to discover how Teradata VantageCloud migrated HSBC’s UK data platform. Learn how Teradata’s Cloud Vantage EDW enabled scalable, secure solutions and improved decision-making. With over 4 billion queries, 2,500 applications, and 35 integrated systems, this hybrid cloud solution offers unparalleled resilience and cost-efficiency.

Learn how to run high-throughput and low-latency inference on Google Cloud to maximize price-performance on TPUs and GPUs, leveraging JetStream and vLLM.

Debugging modern applications demands a new level of observability expertise. Traditional monitoring struggles with these complex distributed environments. This session goes beyond dashboards, exploring expert observability strategies tailored for the generative AI era. We’ll cover essential instrumentation with OpenTelemetry and eBPF, system health overviews using Metrics Explorer and Trace Explorer, and in-depth data analysis with SQL queries in Observability Analytics.

Generative AI offers incredible potential, but how do we ensure it's used effectively? Join our expert panel for a data-driven discussion on identifying and mitigating bias in AI-generated content.

Join us for the Partner Summit Keynote as we chart the course for shared success in 2025 and beyond. Discover how Google Cloud is empowering partners with new programs, resources, and initiatives designed to drive customer value and unlock exponential growth.

Increased productivity and efficiency are baseline expectations. AI must drive business transformation by going beyond the bottom-line to reshape customer experiences, streamline operations, and achieve strategic goals. Join Dialpad’s Natala Menezes, VP of Product Marketing and Randstad's Ryan Henry, Director of Infrastructure Services for a conversation about how Randstad gets real ROI with smarter processes. 

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We live in a different era – one where developers need access to larger tools, data and code need to be more secure, and ultimately still more work needs to get done. Learn about methods on Google Cloud to leverage remote development effectively for all your software development needs, from Day 1 to production. You’ll experience Cloud Shell in action, how Cloud Workstations powers your AI development needs, and container and developer tools that make deployment simple. Power to the devs.

Having difficulty translating desired outcomes into optimal cloud architecture for your apps? Join the session to learn about Application Design Center and its integration with Gemini Cloud Assist. We will showcase how it helps platform engineers and application architects translate ideas into deployable applications with unprecedented speed and simplicity. Explore with us its intuitive interface for designing, customizing, and deploying applications on Google Cloud with AI assistance, and leave with practical skills and tips for your next project.

Cox’s growth goals hinge on customer acquisition and retention to expand its market reach. Traditional customer service models, limited by inefficiencies and reactive support, hinder scalability. Next-generation customer service innovations – powered by AI, automation, and data-driven insights – enable proactive engagement, hyper-personalization, and seamless omnichannel experiences. Innovative strategies unlock new revenue streams, improve customer lifetime value, and enhance operational agility, turning every customer interaction into a growth opportunity.

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