Decode the future of startup funding. Join top VC leaders for a dynamic discussion on key trends, emerging technologies, and winning investment strategies shaping the next year. Whether you’re seeking funding or planning your next move, this is a must-attend session to gain crucial insights to navigate the evolving startup landscape.

Scaling Agents with Agentspace isn’t just about building cool agents, it’s about how you integrate those into your business and how you set up the operational governance, the monitoring and the overall lifecycle management that creates a trusted digital workforce. Google Cloud becomes the Digital Office Space for your Agentic employees, and you’ll need an AI RM to manage them.

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Facing the challenges of scaling multimodal search for massive datasets? This session shows how leading retailers scaled their search infrastructure using Vertex AI Vector Search. Discover how the power of multimodal hybrid search of Vector Search 2.0 dramatically improves your search experience.

Want to build large language models (LLMs) that are truly knowledgeable and reliable? This session explores real-world use cases of grounding with diverse data sources, such as data from Google Search, Google Maps, or even your own enterprise data. Discover how Vertex AI helps you build trust in your AI outputs.

McDonald’s is advancing its AI capabilities and achieving transformative business outcomes with Collibra and Google Cloud Gemini. By integrating a multi-cloud, multi-data platform with unified data governance for AI, McDonald’s is reducing governance fragmentation, activating unused data, and addressing AI deployment risks. This session examines how McDonald's utilizes Collibra and Google Cloud's data and AI technologies to quickly implement innovative solutions and improve customer, restaurant team, and employee experiences.

Boost AI innovation in regulated industries! Use Red Hat OpenShift AI/IBM Watsonx and Vertex AI to split model lifecycles: train securely on isolated OpenShift AI/Watsonx, then deploy via Vertex AI's model registry. Explore use cases, deployment patterns, and the advantages of this approach. Ensure training on a trusted platform for sensitive data. Deploy models easily via Google Cloud's registry. Learn how this MLOps architecture helps meet regulations while leveraging cloud AI.

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Discover how machine learning (ML) engineers and app developers collaborate to build a viral AI app. This session takes you on a journey from a screenshot-to-calendar Python app running on a laptop to a globally scaled app. You’ll learn best practices for collaboration between ML engineers and app developers; how to build, refactor, and scale an AI app to millions of users with a modern architecture; and how to leverage the power of Gemini, Vertex AI, app hosting, and full-stack development. Find out how to build something greater than the sum of its parts!

Level up your Java apps with the power of Gemini. This session explores how Java developers can easily integrate generative AI features into their applications using LangChain4j. We’ll cover everything from building chatbots and implementing in-context learning to creating agentic workflows and using advanced techniques like unstructured data extraction. Learn best practices and build smart, AI-powered Java applications with ease. No Python experience required.

The future of transportation is intelligent, and AI is the driving force. This session features leaders from public sector agencies who will share how AI is being applied to improve our transportation systems and enhance overall public safety.

Learn how leading retailers accelerate business growth by transforming customer experiences with Google Cloud. Through in-depth enterprise case studies, discover proven strategies for unifying customer data, delivering personalized engagement at scale, and empowering teams with actionable insights. Join industry pioneers as they share their implementation journey, demonstrate measurable ROI across digital touchpoints, and reveal best practices for driving operational efficiency. Walk away with practical frameworks for accelerating your own digital commerce transformation.

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.

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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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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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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.

Unlock the Power of Fine-Tuning with Apps Script! Learn how to optimize pre-trained models for specific tasks using Google Apps Script. This session covers exporting data from Sheets to Cloud Storage as JSONL, building an Apps Script prompt explainer backend, and creating service accounts for secure access to Vertex AI and Cloud Storage. We'll also show how to collect, transform, and split data for training, launch the fine-tuning process, and test results in Vertex AI and a Google Chat bot. Master fine-tuning for practical AI applications.

Optimize AI training, & inference with TPUs and GPUs - the purpose built accelerators behind AI Hypercomputer.

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.

Discover how semiautonomous agents reduce manual effort and accelerate business outcomes with AI-powered experiences for data discovery, data preparation, analysis, and insight generation.

Seamlessly search your first and third party enterprise data with Google Agentspace. Discover its ready-to-use agents and other upcoming features, transforming how you work and access information.

Check out Google’s recommended architecture for bringing agents to your products, powered by Gemini, Firebase, Google Cloud, and Angular.

Enter our court and get pro-level jumpshot coaching from Google AI. Get instant feedback on your form, receive personalized tips, and find out exactly how to elevate your game.

Modernize your website and applications with Google’s specialized, AI-powered search products.

Build an AI-powered image detection game with Vertex AI in Firebase and Flutter. Begin to draw an object and watch Gemini analyze your doodle in real time and guess what you’re drawing. All in 20 seconds!

Build fully integrated streaming pipelines on Google Cloud and learn how to leverage AlloyDB, Datastream, BigQuery, Looker, and Vertex AI for real-time data analysis.

Did you know? You only need One API to Rule Them All! Google's Gen AI SDK provides a simple path to both the Gemini API and Vertex AI!