Join us to learn how Ocado Retail and Rentokil Initial are transforming their workflows with Gemini in Google Workspace. They'll share their journeys, including evaluation criteria, rollout strategies, and the impact of generative AI on productivity and employee satisfaction. Gain valuable insights into successful AI adoption and learn how to leverage these powerful tools within your own organization.are transforming their workflows with Google Workspace with Gemini. They'll share their journeys, including evaluation criteria, roll-out strategies, and the impact of generative AI on productivity and employee satisfaction. Gain valuable insights into successful AI adoption and learn how to leverage these powerful tools within your own organization.

Gemini 2.0, the latest foundational model released by Google DeepMind, offers improved performance, real-time interactions support, text-to-image and text-to-audio generations, Google Search grounding, and reasoning – all under a unified SDK that allows you to flawlessly navigate from the Gemini API to Vertex AI. In this talk, you’ll learn about the newest Gemini 2.0 capabilities, how to accelerate your prototyping, and guidelines to deploy your solutions from a single API to more complex pipelines.

Join us for a customer panel exploring how organizations have successfully used their migration to Google Workspace as a catalyst to achieve business-wide digital transformation to unlock innovation and collaboration. From implementing change management and adoption strategies to driving sustainable impact with Workspace, customers will share their migration stories – why they migrated, how they made the switch, and ultimately how they have built new ways to collaborate, get work done, and future-proof their business with Workspace.

Software engineering has become increasingly complex, with an ever-expanding set of patterns, frameworks, and runtimes. But help is here! AI is revolutionizing the developer workflow, and Google Cloud is reimagining the journey from idea to production. This keynote features demos that showcase how AI can streamline software engineering,  empowering you to build important apps, services, and agents faster than ever.

Software engineering has become increasingly complex, with an ever-expanding set of patterns, frameworks, and runtimes. But help is here! AI is revolutionizing the developer workflow, and Google Cloud is reimagining the journey from idea to production. This keynote features demos that showcase how AI can streamline software engineering,  empowering you to build important apps, services, and agents faster than ever.

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.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, modernizing mainframe systems is crucial for maintaining competitive advantage. This joint solution explores the transformative potential of migrating data warehouse extracts to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery. Utilizing the flexible framework built, organizations can achieve a flexible, integrated solution that accelerates time to market, ensures accurate and timely real-time data for reporting and advanced analytics, and provides self-service access. This digital transformation not only empowers stakeholders with enhanced capabilities but also significantly improves the overall customer experience.

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Need to extend the capabilities of Google Agentspace? This deep dive explores the details of building and deploying agents in Agentspace. Learn more about the easy-to-use tools in Agentspace, and how to use them to address your custom use cases.

Learn how leading startups build transformative AI solutions with Vertex AI. Gain behind-the-scenes insights, practical strategies, and actionable takeaways to fuel your innovation using Google Cloud’s open ecosystem of models and APIs.

Join us for an exclusive session where Cotality (CoreLogic) reveals its groundbreaking journey of cloud transformation with Cognizant and Google Cloud. Gain insights into the strategies that drove major achievements, including significant cost reductions, heightened security, and rapid innovation. Discover the pivotal roles of the Neuro Business Process Application and Google Geomatica in revolutionizing their operations. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how leading-edge technology can elevate your organization’s efficiency and success.

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Double your output without doubling your workload. Learn how to build AI agents to automate repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and free up time so you can focus on strategic initiatives. Discover practical implementation strategies and gain insights from real-world success stories.

Unlock the power of code execution with Gemini 2.0 Flash! This hands-on lab demonstrates how to generate and run Python code directly within the Gemini API. Learn to use this capability for tasks like solving equations, processing text, and building code-driven applications.

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Want to create a world-class search experience that drives sales? This session will reveal how to replicate Google’s search quality in your commerce platform. Join us to explore how VAIS:Commerce is going beyond its industry leading AI search and recommendations and ushering in a new era of AI-powered shopping experiences using cutting-edge conversational AI and agents to create personalized journeys, boost conversions, and redefine customer engagement.

This session delves into the practical applications of AI in transforming customer support within the travel and retail industries. We’ll examine how businesses are pairing real-time digital insights with AI-powered conversational servicing to enhance customer interactions and streamline support processes. Explore real-world examples of how these advancements are leading to significant improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction, and agent empowerment.

This session demonstrates how BigQuery ML connects all your data to cutting-edge AI using familiar SQL. Learn practical steps to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for predictive analytics directly in BigQuery while minimizing complexity and data movement. Discover ways to perform tasks such as sentiment analysis, audio transcription, and document classification with the latest models from Gemini, Claude, Llama, and others directly in BigQuery without the need for advanced Python or specialized ML skills.

Are you a DevOps engineer or site reliability engineer (SRE) tasked with keeping mission-critical applications running 24/7? What if AI could help you detect, diagnose, and resolve incidents faster than ever before? Join the session to learn how to use AI assistance to diagnose and troubleshoot incidences and improve the mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to repair (MTTR). Charles Schwab partnered with Google Cloud on exploring the capabilities of Gemini Cloud Assist. And in this session, they’ll share their firsthand experiences testing Gemini Cloud Assist to enhance the reliability of their login application that handles millions of logins daily. Get practical AI skills and tips that you can put into your job right away.

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.

Learn how Equifax is driving productivity gains by adopting Gemini & Google Workspace. We’ll cover their strategic migration from Microsoft to Workspace, which set the foundation for seamless generative AI. This session highlights their Gemini pilot for 1,000 users, focusing on practical strategies for change management & maximizing user adoption. We’ll share how Equifax empowered employees with prompt engineering & tailored use case training, offering a replicable model for organizations.

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Always wanted to get started with open source LLMs? Meta's Llama models are among the most popular and best performing in the world – and you can find them in Vertex Model Garden. In this session, we'll cover everything you need to know about working with Llama models on Vertex, from prompting best practices to choosing the best deployment method for your use case. With practical demos and real-world examples, discover how Llama can power your startup.

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Are you ready to get hands-on with Google Cloud’s AI tools? In this 2 hour gHack, you will work in teams of 4. Together you will build a Formula E Race Analysis System from scratch using a variety of our AI and Data tools. Teams will work together to build the solution by searching, learning and collaborating together to find the answers needed. 3-2-1 lights out and away we go!

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.

KPMG LLP is driving the AI-powered trend of software disintermediation using Google Vertex AI and Gemini. Together with a leading commercial banking system, KPMG developed an AI Advisor and Agent that interacts directly with the system of record, eliminating the need for employees to navigate complex screen chains. The concept, applicable across industries, can significantly reduce direct fees and employee costs. Join us to explore the implications of a future where AI Agents streamline system interactions and enhance operational efficiency.

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We will delve into the practical applications of AI-assisted coding within a large organization, highlighting the specific ways Ulta Beauty's developers are utilizing Gemini Code Assist to streamline workflows. Understand how Ulta successfully gained buy-in from both management and engineering teams by demonstrating the tool's value and addressing potential concerns. Learn about Ulta's thoughtful approach to integrating new AI technologies while prioritizing security, responsible usage, and alignment with existing development processes. 

The landscape of retail is rapidly evolving, and leading brands are embracing the power of AI to create more engaging and personalized customer experiences. This dynamic panel explores how leading retailers have deployed Google AI technologies to optimize search functionality, personalize product recommendations, streamline customer interactions, and ultimately drive increased revenue and satisfaction.

In this session, we’ll show how Vertex AI and BigQuery make the process of integrating data into AI models as easy as 1, 2, 3. You’ll learn how to seamlessly integrate your data estate at every stage of AI development, from exploration and feature engineering to model training and deployment. We’ll also introduce our Data Science Agent and Vertex AI Feature Store 2.0, and how you can accelerate your innovation velocity with AI.