The Google Cloud VC AMA Series will host a special live edition from NEXT 25. In this interactive “ask me anything” session, you’ll hear directly from an investor about the trends shaping their investment decisions, then connect with a successful founder from their portfolio for insights into fundraising and product development.

Gemini models were built from the ground up to be multimodal, which has enabled a new frontier of applications that were not possible cost- and performance-wise. Join Jean-Baptiste Alayrac and Anirudh Baddepudi to explore how Gemini is enabling an entirely new computer vision ecosystem powered by large language models (LLMs), where the models show the strongest potential, and how to get the most out of Gemini for vision use cases.

Discover how Gemini can transform team collaboration in Google Chat and Google Meet. This session explores how Gemini can ignite brainstorming and help generate creative ideas; streamline meeting management with the effortless capture of notes and next steps; break down language barriers with real-time translation; unlock valuable insights, takeaways, and action items from conversations; and more. Learn how leading organizations are leveraging Gemini to help their teams do more, and how you can get started today.

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!

Learn how to write powerful, multi-turn AI prompts, and how our most capable AI model, Gemini, can help you do your best work. We’ll cover the advanced capabilities of Gemini for Google Workspace and share examples of effective prompts, whether you’re using apps like Gemini, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Vids, or NotebookLM. We’ll cover how large language models (LLMs)  work and how outputs are based on the quality of an input. You’ll leave this session empowered to prompt like a pro. 

In this hands-on lab, you’ll build a practical Gmail add-on powered by Gemini and Vertex AI that performs sentiment analysis on your emails. Learn how to integrate powerful Natural Language Processing capabilities to automatically classify emails as positive, neutral, or negative. This tool will help you prioritize customer service responses, flag potentially sensitive messages, and streamline your email workflow for improved productivity.

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!

Achieve compliant collaboration with Google Workspace and Gemini for Google Workspace. This session explores how Google's suite of tools can help regulated customers meet their compliance needs with rigorous industry certifications (HIPAA, SOC, ISO). In addition, customers will share how using Workspace helps them to meet new executive orders and regulatory requirements to retain government and defense customers at a lower cost and with ease.

Join us to explore the unique value exchange between Google Cloud and the independent software vendor (ISV) ecosystem, highlighting the programs, initiatives, and incentives that empower startups to scale faster and drive top-line growth. Featuring success stories from leading AI innovators, this session shows how startups can transform their go-to-market strategies by partnering with Google Cloud.

Curious about the future of media creation? Explore the latest announcements and capabilities for Imagen, Veo, and Lyria, Google’s suite of generative AI media tools. Witness demonstrations of new features and discover how they can revolutionize your creative workflows.

Transform your marketing with generative AI. Join Google Cloud, Helene Ambiana, and other experts to learn actionable strategies to elevate campaigns, supercharge content, and deepen customer engagement. Gain a competitive edge in today’s digital landscape.

This talk explores practical strategies for creating effective AI agents. Drawing insights from recent research, this talk focuses on enhancing LLMs with tools, memory, and control mechanisms, transitioning from static workflows to dynamic, goal-driven systems. Learn how simplicity, thoughtful augmentation, and robust frameworks can lead to smarter, more reliable agents ready for real-world challenges.

Discover how the platform approach of Vertex AI streamlines the entire process of experimenting with and productionizing models – from model selection and customization to deployment. Join this session for demonstrations and practical applications of the new SDK, including “Help me write” in Vertex AI Studio, Prompt Optimizer, evaluation tools, data connection, and search grounding capabilities.

AI adoption is most successful with a clear strategy and implementation plan to help everyone in your organization do better work. Join us to learn how to set up centers of excellence, share best practices, and establish policies to help your teams move up the AI-adoption curve. Learn from some of our customers about how they’ve navigated this journey and successfully leveraged these powerful new tools to make an impact in their organizations.

Unlock AI’s transformative power. Discover how Google Workspace with Gemini boosts creativity, innovation, and employee satisfaction. Join this session to learn ways to use AI day-to-day to drive positive impact on your organization and watch a fireside chat with Verizon, Docusign, and Revolut as they share their real-world success stories about Workspace with Gemini. Don’t miss this chance to explore tangible examples of workforce transformation in action.

Vertex AI offers a wide range of tools to train and tune large models. In this session, we'll guide you through power tools that Vertex AI offers to let you do everything from tune Gemini to build your own foundation model.

Uncover data's hidden connections using graph analytics in BigQuery. This session shows how to use BigQuery's scalable infrastructure for graph analysis directly in your data warehouse. Identify patterns, connections, and influences for fraud detection, drug discovery, social network analysis, and recommendation engines. Join us to explore the latest innovations in graphs and see real-world examples. Transform your data into actionable insights with BigQuery's powerful graph capabilities.

This panel discussion between Allen Media Group, Kärcher, and Transcom explores how they have successfully adopted generative AI in their organizations by leveraging Gemini for Google Workspace. Learn how they implemented Gemini across various lines of businesses to realize tangible benefits with the help of Workspace partners. Discover the keys to effectively driving AI adoption within your own organization, and unlock the potential of Gemini for your business.

Revolutionize your unit-testing process with Gemini Code Assist. This session showcases the AI-powered unit-testing agent that analyzes your code, identifies coverage gaps, and automatically generates new tests. Learn how this tool integrates with popular frameworks, adheres to your coding standards, and frees you from tedious tasks, allowing you to focus on building better software.

All are welcome! Join us to celebrate and support women in the startup tech industry, including our ongoing efforts with the Female Founders Cohort. Let's connect, share, inspire, and foster a strong sense of community.

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.

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

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!

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.

Discover how urban planners have harnessed the power of geospatial systems and AI Scenario Planning to enhance resiliency, optimize land use, and explore vast amounts of complex transportation data quickly, using simple natural language queries. In this session, we'll showcase how Broward MPO is using these powerful technologies to transform planning workflows and prioritize infrastructure improvements.

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