Google Workspace is essential to getting work done but many don’t realize they can extend Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides with Apps Script. This lightning talk will show how to get more out of Workspace with Apps Script and take it even further with Gemini. Master automation by generating code snippets, automating tedious tasks, all using AI to handle the busywork so focus stays on what truly matters. Whether beginning your journey or refining your skills, you will train in the ways of AI-driven automation and take your workflow to hyperspeed.

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.

Launching LLM-powered products is transformative but requires strategic execution. This session shares lessons from embedding AI solutions (built with Gemini on Google Cloud) into real use cases. Learn how we avoided pitfalls, tackled automation myths, and delivered real value. Gain insights on identifying high-impact AI opportunities, validating solutions, and iterating for successful product launches.

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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.

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Learn how generative AI can enhance data workflows and analysis. This session demonstrates how to access and use Gen AI models in BigQuery, including new features like open source model support and structured output from Gemini. Accelerate your data analysis with the latest AI innovations available directly in BigQuery.

Empower your teams to innovate and drive digital transformation with AppSheet, and discover how business users can easily create AI-enabled solutions that address their needs without coding skills. Learn how Gemini in AppSheet can accelerate AI adoption and the digitization of labor by empowering users to rapidly create apps that bring their ideas to life and automate complex tasks. Then join a fireside chat with customers to hear how they’re using Gemini in AppSheet to drive innovation and reduce risk in a secure environment.

Discover the transformative power of Gemini in BigQuery, which is revolutionizing data analytics with AI-driven innovations. This session showcases capabilities designed to enhance workflows – streamlining data preparation and migrations, enabling advanced code generation, facilitating conversational data exploration, and optimizing workloads intelligently. Learn how these advancements simplify complex tasks, elevate productivity, and empower teams to unlock the full potential of their data.

Don’t miss this fireside chat! Join Teradata, Google Cloud, and HSBC to discover how Teradata VantageCloud migrated HSBC’s UK data platform. Learn how Teradata’s Cloud Vantage EDW enabled scalable, secure solutions and improved decision-making. With over 4 billion queries, 2,500 applications, and 35 integrated systems, this hybrid cloud solution offers unparalleled resilience and cost-efficiency.

Having difficulty translating desired outcomes into optimal cloud architecture for your apps? Join the session to learn about Application Design Center and its integration with Gemini Cloud Assist. We will showcase how it helps platform engineers and application architects translate ideas into deployable applications with unprecedented speed and simplicity. Explore with us its intuitive interface for designing, customizing, and deploying applications on Google Cloud with AI assistance, and leave with practical skills and tips for your next project.

Incidents occur across time and topology. Customers using multiple GCP services spend hours troubleshooting. Learn about Gemini Cloud Assist Investigations, which provides the full range of troubleshooting and support, including structured workflows, signal analysis, and ability to recommend solutions across your applications, services and workloads, as well as its components such as compute, networking, storage, databases and data processing pipelines. With Gemini Cloud Assist Investigations, you can understand your environmental data patterns better, perform root cause analysis on your applications faster, and improve efficiency with warm handoffs between Gemini Cloud Assist and Google Support.

Is siloed data hindering your operations? Learn how Nuro consolidated their transactional, relational, and vector data sets on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, and how they’re now able to do operational analysis, real-time analytics, and business intelligence (BI) reports on the same platform. Join this panel session to discover best practices for unifying vector and relational data, and learn how Nuro is now able to satisfy their self-driven car analytics use cases in a cost-effective way.

BigQuery is unifying data management, analytics, governance, and AI. Join this session to learn about the latest innovations in BigQuery to help you get actionable insights from your multimodal data and accelerate AI innovation with a secure data foundation and new-gen AI-powered experiences. Hear how Mattel utilized BigQuery to create a no-code, shareable template for data processing, analytics, and AI modeling, leveraging their existing data and streamlining the entire workflow from ETL to AI implementation within a single platform.

Hear from nonprofit Google Workspace customers Erika's Lighthouse and Climate Ride, as they share their experiences and best practices for successfully deploying and using Gemini across their teams. They'll discuss their evaluation criteria, rollout strategies, and key success metrics, offering valuable insights for other nonprofits considering AI adoption. Discover how these nonprofits are leveraging AI to drive productivity and efficiency to supercharge their social impact.

Discover and learn about the service approach, which mean to expose capabilities through API for a company using Generative AI for content creation. 

Orchestration, scalability and micro services approach will be exposed during this session, to show how you can industrialize at scale the services to serve millions of users.

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.

Success in startups isn’t just about ideas: it’s about mindset, strategy and having the right tools. This interactive session focuses on Google's 10X thinking and the founder's mindset, a powerful approach to innovation that aims for exponential impact in the age of AI. We'll explore how founders can best partner with Google for success and get an inside look at an exclusive Innovation Workshop designed to fuel creativity and prioritization. We'll wrap up with a Q&A, giving you the chance to ask questions and connect with like-minded founders.

Explore how to design a customer service chatbot that prioritizes privacy and security using a multi-agent system and Gemini. We’ll cover the benefits of multi-agent architecture and share 10 best practices to safeguard user data and privacy. Experience a live demo that illustrates agent collaboration and external tool integration in action. Don’t miss this session to see how Gemini can help you deliver a secure, customer-friendly chatbot solution.

Generative AI is revolutionizing mainframe modernization, enabling organizations like the Air Force to achieve unprecedented speed and efficiency. Google's Mainframe Modernization tool leverages AI to analyze legacy code, identify modernization pathways, and accelerate the transition to modern architectures. This allows the Air Force to reduce costs, improve security, and maintain a competitive edge. Join this session to learn how Gen AI can help future-proof your own organization.

Simplify database management with Database Center. This generative AI-powered solution provides a centralized view of your entire database fleet, helping you monitor availability, security, compliance, and data protection. In this session, you’ll learn how to easily detect performance issues, visualize granular metrics, and get AI-powered recommendations for optimization. You’ll also discover how customers are streamlining their database operations and boosting efficiency with Database Center.

Need precise data extraction from your documents?  This hands-on lab teaches you to build custom document extractors with Document AI Workbench. Learn to create, train, and evaluate a model tailored to your specific document types and achieve higher processing accuracy.

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!

Worried about learning how to access the latest AI models? Explore the expanding Model Garden ecosystem, including new first-party models, open-source contributions, and third-party offerings from partners like Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, and the Allen Institute. Learn how you can find and deploy the perfect models for your projects as easy as 1, 2, 3.

The convergence of high performance computing (HPC) and generative AI is revolutionizing research. By analyzing vast datasets and generating novel hypotheses, researchers can accelerate innovation and breakthroughs. This session explores the exciting possibilities of gen AI in research, from climate modeling to drug discovery and beyond.

AI is reshaping software engineering. Learn how Google’s engineering team prioritizes transformative AI investments for both immediate and long-term value.

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.

Data silos are costing you time and money. Discover how Google Workspace, combined with Google Agentspace, can serve as your central hub for work with a single, searchable source of truth for business data. We’ll demonstrate how to eliminate data silos and speed up AI adoption while integrating relevant information into employees’ daily Workspace experience. This session is ideal for IT leaders and developers seeking to maximize the value of their data.