This session offers a technical deep dive of the state-of-art AlloyDB AI capabilities for building highly accurate and relevant generative AI applications using real-time data. We’ll cover vector search using Google Research’s ScaNN index technology and cover how you can utilize Gemini from AlloyDB operators to seamlessly integrate into your application. Discover AlloyDB AI natural language feature, a new way to interact with databases and how it accurately and securely answers your questions. Also learn about the latest research between Google and NVIDIA on GPU-accelerated vector index builds in databases.

Visionaries from Virgin Media O2, TCS and Google Cloud share insights on their data modernization journey. Explore how a cloud-first data strategy enabled Virgin Media O2 to reimagine their business by enhancing agility, speed and scalability, automating operations, optimizing costs, and driving AI-readiness.

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Learn how Google Distributed Cloud is bringing the power of cloud infrastructure and AI models to on-premise computing to unlock new opportunities for decision makers and developers without compromising on data residency, connectivity, regulatory compliance, or local data processing. Explore the future of distributed cloud computing with experts from Google Cloud and customers. Finally, we will dive deep into the latest generative AI, enterprise search, and configurations available in Google Distributed Cloud.

Balancing developer agility with security compliance is a key challenge in AI-driven, cloud-native development. Learn how Docker and Google Cloud integrate security into every phase of the software lifecycle—enabling teams to build, test, and deploy AI features and applications with confidence. Embed security in developer workflows, enhance supply chain integrity with SLSA provenance and SBOM attestations, and leverage trusted content on seamless workflows with Google Cloud.

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You are sitting on a goldmine of behavioral data that can be used to enhance customer and employee experiences, empower smarter AI agents, and train better models. Every click, scroll, and interaction holds invaluable insights—yet many businesses overlook this data’s potential. Join Fullstory’s Chief Product Officer to learn how the world’s largest brands are using AI-ready, first-party behavioral data to uncover & eliminate friction–gaining the context needed to build exceptional digital experiences to stay competitive and drive revenue.

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Modernize your Oracle workloads on Google Cloud. Experience seamless migration, robust infrastructure, and familiar tools for mission-critical workloads. Unlock your data's potential with BigQuery and Vertex AI, driving business differentiation and cost reduction. Learn how the Google Cloud & Oracle partnership, combined with your expertise, can accelerate digital transformation, reduce costs and grow your customers' potential. 

Deploy and scale containerized AI models with NVIDIA NIMs on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). In this interactive session, you’ll gain hands-on experience deploying pre-built NIMs, managing deployments with kubectl, and autoscaling inference workloads. Ideal for startup developers, technical founders, and tech leads.

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"Talk-to-Manuals" leverages Google Cloud's Vertex AI Search and Conversation, along with a multi-turn GenAI agent, to provide customers with easy access to vehicle information. The solution integrates and indexes diverse data sources—including unstructured PDFs and structured data from FAQs—for efficient retrieval. Semantic search, powered by LLMs, understands user intent, delivering highly relevant results beyond keyword matching. The interactive multi-turn conversation guides users towards precise information, refining queries and increasing accuracy. Data filtering based on vehicle attributes (model, year, engine type) combined with sophisticated GenAI-powered post-processing ensures tailored results. The successful implementation of "Talk-to-Manuals" significantly improved customer service by providing a more accessible and intuitive way for customers to find information.

Unlock the true potential of your e-commerce platform by delivering exceptional product discovery experiences. This session delves into the nuances of transitioning to intelligent search with Vertex AI Search for Commerce. Discover how to architect robust and scalable data pipelines for catalog and event ingestion, the very foundation for personalized product discovery and delighted users. We'll explore the anatomy of critical data like search events and demonstrate how a thoughtful approach to data ingestion, which directly fuels the quality of your search results. More than just search, we'll unveil how combining these APIs unlocks opportunities for implementing creative and engaging features, paving the way for innovative experiences like conversational commerce. Join us to learn how to transform your search into a revenue-driving engine.

Join GXO's SVP of Data/AI/ML, Ramin Rastin, and Senior Director of Data, Americo, as they share their remarkable journey of implementing Generative AI and Vertex AI within their organization. Discover how GXO leveraged Google Cloud's cutting-edge technology to achieve significant scalability and efficiency gains, enhance business operations, and improve user experience. In this session, you'll learn how GXO: Scaled rapidly: Deployed 15-20 AI-powered assistants within the first six months of 2025, each reducing workloads by 40-60%. Enhanced flexibility: Developed a Generic Chat Assistant mid-project to adapt to evolving business needs. Improved accessibility: Created an intuitive user interface for all users, regardless of technical expertise. Centralized control: Implemented an Admin Page with role-based access control for enhanced security and governance.

AI applications that use the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architecture can be a lot more accurate than those built with just the AI model’s built-in knowledge. But RAG introduces additional processing steps which need to be monitored. We’ll show you how.

This meetup is a space for developers actively working with any open-source AI libraries, frameworks, or tools, to share their projects, challenges, and solutions. Whether you're building with LangChain, Haystack, Transformers, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or any other open-source AI tool, we want to hear from you. This meetup will provide an opportunity to connect with other developers, share practical tips, and get inspired to build even more with open-source AI on Google Cloud. Come ready to contribute, and let's learn from each other!

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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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!

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.

Concerned about AI hallucinations? While AI can be a valuable resource, it sometimes generates inaccurate, outdated, or overly general responses - a phenomenon known as "hallucination." This hands-on lab teaches you how to implement a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to address this issue. RAG improves large language models (LLMs) like Gemini by grounding their output in contextually relevant information from a specific dataset. Learn to generate embeddings, search vector space, and augment answers for more reliable results.

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Faster AI innovation cycles often require MLOps – a critical, but complex, undertaking. Join us in this session to discover how a platform approach to MLOps on Vertex AI simplifies and accelerates the entire AI life cycle. Learn how to streamline development, deployment, and management of your AI models. We’ll also share real-world success stories from customers like GSK.

Scale your AI training and achieve peak performance with AI Hypercomputer. Gain actionable insights into optimizing your AI workloads for maximum goodput. Learn how to leverage our robust infrastructure for diverse models, including dense, Mixture of Experts, and diffusion. Discover how to customize your workflows with custom kernels and developer tools, facilitating seamless interactive development. You'll learn firsthand how Pathways, developed by Google Deepmind, enables large scale training resiliency, flexibility to express architecture.

AI offers the opportunity to transform manufacturing. In this session, we’ll share Google Cloud’s perspective and specific use cases that can boost productivity and operational efficiency, including new research findings. The session features customers at the forefront of the AI revolution and the foundational pillars that manufacturers need to innovate at scale.

Unlock the power of natural language with Looker Agents! This technical deep dive will walk you through an agentic architecture in Looker Conversational Analytics and showcase how the Chief Product Officer of Zeotap is helping Zeotap customers “chat with their data” within the Zeotap platform using the new Conversational Analytics API. Learn how to build custom data agents, answer questions in Workspace, and create analytics applications with the power of conversational AI.

Ready to build production-grade AI agents to solve real-world challenges? Join us for a deep dive on the Vertex AI Agent Builder. Learn how to create sophisticated, multi-agent applications that combine generative AI with deterministic workflows. We'll cover key features including the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), the Vertex AI Agent Garden, and the Vertex AI Agent Engine. We’ll show you how to build, deploy and monitor agents in production. You will also learn directly from customers about their agents built on Vertex AI.

Want to create a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system perfectly tailored to your data and use case? This session dives into building custom RAG pipelines on Vertex AI. Learn how to combine Vertex AI services like document processing, vector search, and grounding to build powerful, context-aware AI applications.

Learn how "Project SEALD" – a collaboration between Google and AI Singapore – is building LLMs for the region. Discover why cultural context matters and how you can implement similar solutions.

Generative AI and machine learning (ML) are transforming industries, but many smaller organizations believe these technologies are out of reach due to limited resources and specialized skills. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how BigQuery is changing the game, making gen AI and ML accessible to teams of all sizes. Learn how BigQuery – with its serverless architecture, built-in ML capabilities, and integration with Vertex AI – empowers smaller teams to unlock the power of AI, drive innovation, and gain a competitive edge.