For partners looking to elevate their delivery game, experts will uncover the secrets to successful Google Cloud partner projects in this rapid-fire session. Learn how to navigate delivery governance with Google Cloud Consulting, tap into Google's deep technical expertise, and most importantly, keep customers delighted. We'll share real-world examples of how to optimize project preparation, ensure seamless collaboration, and ultimately drive exceptional customer satisfaction.

Unlock the potential of AI with high-performance, scalable lakehouses using BigQuery and Apache Iceberg. This session details how BigQuery leverages Google's infrastructure to supercharge Iceberg, delivering peak performance and resilience. Discover BigQuery's unified read/write path for rapid queries, superior storage management beyond simple compaction, and robust, high-throughput streaming pipelines. Learn how Spotify utilizes BigQuery's lakehouse architecture for a unified data source, driving analytics and AI innovation.

Redpanda, a leading Kafka API-compatible streaming platform, now supports storing topics in Apache Iceberg, seamlessly fusing low-latency streaming with data lakehouses using BigQuery and BigLake in GCP. Iceberg Topics eliminate complex & inefficient ETL between streams and tables, making real-time data instantly accessible for analysis in BigQuery This push-button integration eliminates the need for costly connectors or custom pipelines, enabling both simple and sophisticated SQL queries across streams and other datasets. By combining Redpanda and Iceberg, GCP customers gain a secure, scalable, and cost-effective solution that transforms their agility while reducing infrastructure and human capital costs.

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This session explores how cloud-native security, powered by Google Cloud, enables organizations to streamline operations, reduce complexity, and achieve better security outcomes with a lean team. Join us for a customer success story, partner insights, and a lively panel discussion featuring industry experts on building a future-proof Security Operations Center (SOC) with limited resources.

Startup developers, are you ready to build? In this hands-on workshop, you'll design and code a generative AI app using Gemini and Vertex AI. Through focused coding exercises, you'll master essential skills in prompt engineering, multimodal AI, and real-world implementation. Walk away with functional AI code—and the foundation to power your AI-driven future.

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Get a guided, hands-on experience with Google Cloud’s flagship cloud security solution. Learn how to detect cloud misconfigurations, find active threats, and use Security Command Center’s virtual red teaming to identify high-risk toxic combinations and attack paths that expose high-value cloud resources. Then see how to take action on security issues with built-in response capabilities. Learn why Security Command Center is the best security solution for Google Cloud environments.

Discover how AI-driven personalization and agentic architecture are helping revolutionize customer experiences and operations in financial services. In this insightful panel discussion with leadership from USAA and Deloitte, we'll explore the next generation of AI-enabled end-to-end data value chains and highlight some top trends that are reshaping today's technology organizations.

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Discover strategies for transforming your data and AI landscape by making governance a competitive advantage. Learn from industry executives on how to establish robust governance frameworks, ensuring confidence and control in your data and AI initiatives, and gain actionable insights to position your organization for successful AI-driven innovation.

Ready to build more accessible apps? Generative AI can help. This session provides practical strategies and real-world examples of using GenAI to: Design personalized assistance that guides users seamlessly. Generate image descriptions that make visual content accessible to all. Provide concise summaries that empower users to quickly grasp key information. Learn how to harness the power of Generative AI and create apps that are truly accessible.

Unleash the power of Gemini with Vertex AI Studio. This hands-on lab guides you through using Gemini for image analysis, prompt engineering, and conversational AI, all within a user-friendly interface. Learn to design prompts and generate content directly from the Google Cloud console.

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Ever wonder how Google Cloud supports billions of daily users worldwide? Dive into the world of Google’s cloud regions, global expansion, and data centers. This session unveils the innovative technology behind these modern marvels and the operational expertise that keeps them humming. Learn about our cutting-edge efficiency and state-of-the-art security. Discover how innovation and sustainability is key to our design and how you can apply Google’s best practices to your own infrastructure.

Hear from Kaggle Grandmasters from NVIDIA and beyond as they talk through how they approach competitions, current events in AI and answer your questions! We're inviting the folks who submit the best and most interesting questions to chat with the Grandmasters after in a small group setting. Sharpen your thinking cap and let us know what's really on your mind!

For years, mainframe modernization seemed out of reach. Generative AI breakthroughs, led by Google’s Gemini, offer automated assessments, code transformation, and risk mitigation for accelerated and cost-effective cloud migration. Learn from Ford and Intesa Sanpaolo about how they reduced costs, boosted performance, and embraced innovation by modernizing their core applications off the mainframe and onto Google Cloud. Learn how Google Cloud’s mainframe modernization solutions can work for your digital transformation journey.

Google Workspace customers are switching to Google Chat and Google Meet, AI-first collaboration tools that seamlessly integrate with the Workspace apps you use every day. Learn how they migrated from costly point solutions to enhance collaboration, improve data security, reduce costs, and unlock new levels of team productivity with Gemini.

Supercharge your development workflows with Google Cloud’s internal developer platform (IDP). In today’s world of microservices and multi-region deployments, building and maintaining your own IDP can be complex. This talk unveils Google Cloud IDP – a game-changing solution that offloads development and operational burdens to Google Cloud, freeing your platform engineers and empowering developers to focus on what matters most: building amazing applications. Experience it in action with live product demos.

Cluster Director is designed to deliver resilient AI systems at any scale, offering exceptional performance, efficiency, and ease of use. In this session, we’ll guide you through our NVIDIA GPU roadmap and showcase five Google innovations integrated into Cluster Director, illustrated with real-world examples of how they tackle the biggest challenges in distributed training to maximize performance throughput.

Securing AI applications demands a full life cycle approach. Palo Alto Networks integrates AI Runtime Security and AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) to protect your workloads from development to runtime. Gain inline data protection, prevent model misuse, and stop zero-day threats with centralized security policies and real-time threat detection. Discover how to automate security, reduce risk, and safeguard sensitive data while enabling innovation in your AI ecosystems.

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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.

This session brings together leading product experts from Google Cloud, Anthropic, Oracle, Databricks, and SAP to explore the five essential strategies for enterprises to successfully leverage AI and data. Attendees will gain valuable insights from real-world AI implementations, learn from the successes and challenges faced by global customers, and receive practical guidance on how to translate these strategies into actionable plans for their own AI journeys.

AI is revolutionizing the startup landscape, unlocking new possibilities for innovation, efficiency, and growth. Join industry leaders as they share bold predictions, critical challenges, and practical strategies to help you harness AI for your business in 2025 and beyond.

Managing BigQuery costs can be challenging, especially when juggling the different pricing models. In this session, we’ll dive into the obstacles companies face when using BigQuery at scale and how to overcome them. Highlighting real-world use cases, I’ll share how organizations have successfully optimized their BigQuery expenses by addressing inefficiencies in reservations. Attendees will learn practical strategies to reduce costs by up to 35% and discover how automatically adjusting the max slot setting can be a game-changer.

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Discover the breakthrough AI capabilities transforming cloud operations and management. Join us for an overview of Gemini Cloud Assist and learn how it brings you an AI-based cloud management experience. Gemini Cloud Assist empowers you to design and deploy apps faster, troubleshoot issues with AI insights, and optimize performance and costs through intelligent recommendations. We’ll showcase its new capabilities and integrations in various Google Cloud products, and show you how it can completely reshape your cloud management experience.

AI agents are revolutionizing organizations by embedding AI into workflows, delivering autonomous outcomes. While this offers opportunities, it also introduces risks. To mitigate these, we must implement agent-specific controls. AI is a powerful security tool, enabling resilience & optimization at scale. Discover how Accenture’s Security AI Engineering practice is developing modular blueprints to rapidly integrate AI & agentic capabilities, accelerating security operations, bridging tooling gaps, & enhancing critical infrastructure resilience.

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This session offers insight on diverse AI user journeys to help you visualize AI’s potential. Drawing on Google’s experience working with different clients, our experts will showcase impactful ways customers are driving their businesses forward with Google Workspace with Gemini. We’ll explore different use cases, demonstrating how AI can optimize operations, enhance experiences, and unlock new growth opportunities.