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What’s new with Google Agentspace

2025-04-11
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Vladimir Vuskovic (Google Cloud) , Matt Poremba (Gordon Food Service) , Brendan Stephen (Avery Dennison) , Matt Jansen (Gordon Food Service) , Kalyan Pamarthy (Google Cloud)

Ever wondered what your work interface with AI agents will look like? Join us to learn about the latest advancements in Google Agentspace – your launch point for enterprise-ready AI agents. In this session, we’ll cover the exciting new capabilities and ready-to-use agents in Agentspace, and the new use cases enabled by it.

World models: What lies ahead

2025-04-11
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Tim Brooks (Google DeepMind)

World models represent a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence, moving beyond passive data consumption to active, predictive understanding of environments. These models enable AI agents to simulate potential futures, plan strategically, and learn more efficiently in complex, dynamic scenarios.  In this session, Tim Brooks, Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, will explore the current state of world model research and illuminate the exciting frontiers that lie ahead.

 

Building Effective Agents

2025-04-11
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Barry Zhang (Anthropic)

Join us as we explore the intersection of computer use capabilities and the broader challenge of building effective AI agents. We'll examine how these developments map to the core requirements of AI agents: the ability to plan through strong reasoning and contextual understanding, act via direct computer interaction and tool use, and reflect through learning from experience. We'll share insights from recent implementations, and explore how emerging capabilities in areas like computer use are shaping the development of more capable AI systems.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
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Scale AI and business-critical workloads with Intel on Google Cloud​

2025-04-11
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Kartik Manocha (Intel) , Olivia Melendez (Google)

Discover the power of Google Cloud instances running on the latest Intel Xeon processors. This course will introduce you to Intel’s optimization tools, designed to help you manage and optimize your infrastructure with unmatched efficiency and performance. Learn how to leverage these cutting-edge technologies to enhance your cloud computing capabilities and drive your business forward.​

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
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Startup genAI: Proof of concept to production

2025-04-10
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Rajiv Shah (Contextual AI) , Sarmad Qadri (LastMile AI) , Ashwin Karuhatty (Google) , Soumya Mohan (Galileo)

Move your generative AI projects from proof of concept to production. In this interactive session, you’ll learn how to automate key AI lifecycle processes—evaluation, serving, and RAG—to accelerate your real-world impact. Get hands-on advice from innovative startups and gain practical strategies for streamlining workflows and boosting performance.

How LG AI Research uses AI Hypercomputer to build EXAONE Gen AI Models and experiences

2025-04-10
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Honglak Lee (LG AI Research) , Pramod Ramarao (Google Cloud)

Learn how LG AI Research uses Google Cloud AI Hypercomputer to build their EXAONE family of LLMs and innovative Agentic AI experiences based the models. EXAONE 3.5, class of bilingual models that can learn and understand both Korean and English, recorded world-class performance in Korean. The collaboration between LG AI Research and Google Cloud enabled LG to significantly enhance model performance, reduce inference time, and improve resource efficiency through Google Cloud's easy-to-use scalable infrastructure

Unlocking ML Performance Secrets: Actionable Diagnostics for TPUs and GPUs

2025-04-10
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Rajesh Anantharaman (Google Cloud) , Niranjan Hira (Google)

Maximize the efficiency of your machine learning workloads on Google Cloud infrastructure. This session delivers actionable strategies for in-depth diagnostics on both TPUs and GPUs. Learn to visualize model architectures, analyze critical performance metrics, and pinpoint optimization opportunities. Empower your data-driven decision-making and achieve significant performance gains through practical diagnostic techniques.

Adding Agentic Aware Security

2025-04-10
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John DeMartino (Google)

AI application growth brings security challenges, especially in multi-tenant environments. This talk explores access control issues in agentic workflows, using Google's Reasoning Engine. We'll cover limitations of current methods, user/agent identity interplay, data isolation, and secure delegation to LLMs. Future solutions include fine-grained access control and secure identity propagation. Learn to design secure, scalable AI workflows.

Building an AI-Centric Organization: Aledade's Practical Playbook

2025-04-10
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John Teuber (Glean) , Gabriel Phoenix (Aledade)

Join Aledade and Glean to discover how organizations can evolve from AI-curious to AI-centric. Learn how Aledade leveraged Glean's platform to navigate the AI maturity curve, moving beyond fragmented AI implementations to a cohesive strategy that drives measurable business outcomes. This session reveals practical steps for developing AI-centric employees, implementing centralized AI infrastructure, and maximizing ROI while avoiding the "AI tax" of disconnected solutions.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
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Consumer-Facing AI Chatbots: Insights on Agent Design, Scaling and Brand Safety

2025-04-10
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Building a GenAI chatbot for millions of users? This session reveals the secret sauce: best practices in LLM orchestration, advanced agentic patterns, and grounded responses, all while prioritizing brand safety. Learn key architectural decisions for balancing latency and quality, and discover strategies for scaling to production.

How to measure your data team’s ROI in the age of AI

2025-04-10
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Julia Slisz (Hex)

Spoiler alert: you can’t! But, there are some new approaches to teaming, measurement tracking, and technology that modern data teams are applying, changing their reputation in the organization from a cost center to a strategic value-add. We’ll share how Hex customers are revolutionizing the data field, explore the evolving impact of AI on data, and provide honest, actionable insights for data leaders, practitioners, and executives.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
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Intro to Gemini 2.0 Flash

2025-04-10
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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.

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!

Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) using the Vertex AI Gemini API

2025-04-10
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Build a multimodal search engine with Gemini and Vertex AI. This hands-on lab demonstrates Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to query documents containing text and images. Learn to extract metadata, generate embeddings, and search using text or image queries.

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!

Revolutionizing Manufacturing: The Journey to AI-Powered Productivity with Gemini

2025-04-10
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Bill Kempert (Zekelman Industries) , Luis Solano (Google Cloud)

Discover how leading manufacturing companies are leveraging AI to transform employee experience and drive productivity with AI-enabled workflows and assistants. Learn about the evolution of these tools, the positive user feedback they received, and further possibilities around image and code generation. This session will provide a compelling look at how AI can revolutionize large enterprises, with practical insights into implementation and future possibilities.

Solution Zone: Ask how to build with Agentspace

2025-04-10
expo-experience

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.

Solution Zone: Ask how we built it

2025-04-10
expo-experience

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.

SOC Arena

2025-04-10
expo-experience

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.

AI for everyone: Unlock employee productivity with Google Workspace and partners

2025-04-10
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Sumit Garg (Atlassian) , Mayank Gandhi (Wayfair) , Asal Elleuch (Salesforce) , Ava Malla (Google)

Generative AI is transforming every role in your organization. In this panel, Google and AI platform leaders Salesforce and Atlassian will share how Gemini for Google Workspace and partner integrations can transform how your organization works. And Wayfair will share how they’re using Gemini and Salesforce to drive their business. Discover how Workspace empowers the future of work with Gemini integrated into how every role gets work done, boosting productivity and unlocking growth.

Biotech innovation with AI for startups: From drug discovery to personalized medicine

2025-04-10
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Kenneth Philbrick PhD (Google) , Noura Daadaa (Google Cloud)

Learn how to leverage Google Cloud's cutting-edge AI models to rapidly develop solutions for critical healthcare challenges. Gain practical skills and empower your startup to revolutionize diagnostics, drug discovery, and personalized treatment. This session provides the skills and confidence to build impactful AI solutions and tackle real-world biotech challenges.

Connect, secure, and simplify with new Cross-Cloud Network innovations

2025-04-10
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Muninder Sambi (Google Cloud) , Anna Berenberg (Google Cloud)

Cross-Cloud Network, built on Google’s planet-scale network, has transformed how organizations connect and secure workloads, users, and data across hybrid and multicloud networks. It simplifies complexity, strengthens security, and helps deliver faster business outcomes. Join this session to learn about new innovations in 2025 with the Cross-Cloud Network that allow you to secure and optimize AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, connect global enterprises, expand network security to cover all threat vectors as you connect distributed multicloud apps, and deliver web and media workloads.

Data-driven decisions: Gemini and BigQuery for startups

2025-04-10
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Alon Talmor, PhD (Ask AI) , Aniket Arora (Google Cloud) , Seamus Abshere (Faraday) , Abhishek Agrawal (Material Security)

Unleash the power of AI-driven analytics with Gemini and BigQuery. Learn how to uncover trends, automate complex queries, and make smarter decisions. Explore real-world examples from industry leaders using AI to extract insights from unstructured data like text, images, and audio to streamline operations and unlock growth.

Developer's jumpstart guide to Vertex AI

2025-04-10
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Katie Nguyen (Google Cloud) , Dave Elliott (Google Cloud) , Kristopher Overholt (Google Cloud) , Holt Skinner (Google Cloud) , Zack Akil (Google Cloud)

No marketing allowed! This session is FOR developers, BY developers. If you are a Developer, if you love AI, or just want to learn more about AI - this session is for you. Take a break from slides and hype, and learn tips, tricks, and shortcuts from Developer Advocates and Google Engineers in Cloud AI. Bring your laptop, an appetite for fun, and expect to see some actual code in this rapid fire session. 

Eliminate your weak spots: Discover and protect sensitive data

2025-04-10
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Scott Ellis (Google Cloud) , Jordanna Chord (Google Cloud) , Nathaniel Kaufman (StrataPrime)

Often, cloud risks fly under the radar because organizations don’t know they have sensitive data lurking in their environment. This creates a treasure trove for attackers, particularly when it comes to high-value AI training data. In this talk, we’ll discuss how sensitive data discovery and content understanding can help reduce security and privacy risks, safeguard AI development and deployment, and drive business momentum – especially in analytics and AI.

Goodbye intranet. Hello AI.

2025-04-10
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Stuart Moncada (Google Cloud) , Fabio Jabur (Banco BV) , Sri Gari (Google Cloud)

Tired of outdated intranets? Join us to experience the magic of intelligent search agents for your enterprise. In this session, we’ll share compelling use cases of Google Agentspace, focusing on the tangible value it delivers in helping you make decisions quickly, flow through work, and simplify your day-to-day workflows.

How BigQuery can help modernize your data platform for the AI era

2025-04-10
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Usman Ali (Google Cloud) , Davide Corda (Intesa Sanpaolo) , Vaishali Walia (Paypal) , Mohit Virendra (Google Cloud)

Is your outdated data infrastructure hindering your ability to leverage the full potential of AI and machine learning? This session explores how migrating to BigQuery can empower you to modernize your data infrastructure and unlock new opportunities for innovation with all of your data. Hear how Paypal and Intesa Sanpaolo transformed their data platform with BigQuery to get the most value from their data lakes and warehouses and the lessons they learned along the way.