This session introduces a unified platform converging cloud and AI security built to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Azure. Move beyond fragmented tools that create friction and slow innovation. We will discuss key use cases and how this platform secures your entire cloud estate and AI lifecycle, plus the first steps to adoption. This session is for strategic IT Decision-Makers, Cloud Architects, and Security Leaders responsible for securing cloud transformation and AI initiatives.

Microsoft’s Trustworthy AI approach is grounded in three pillars: commitments, capabilities, and research. We are prioritizing security, sovereignty, sustainability, and safety as core areas of investment, ensuring that AI systems are built responsibly and deployed with confidence. In this session, we’ll show how these commitments translate into tangible product capabilities across Microsoft Foundry, Copilot, and the broader Microsoft AI ecosystem.

Unlock the power of lightning-fast vector search for your generative AI applications. This session dives deep into Memorystore vector search, demonstrating how to achieve single-digit millisecond latency on over a billion vectors. Explore cutting-edge gen AI application architectures that leverage vector search and other Google Cloud services to deliver exceptional user experiences.

Leveraging real-time data in AI and machine learning (ML) can give you a competitive edge. This session explores how Shopify and Palo Alto Networks leverage real-time data and AI with BigQuery and Dataflow ML to transform customer experiences and drive innovation. Discover how these companies collect, process, and analyze real-time data to achieve significant business outcomes, and learn how to apply similar strategies in your organization.

Navigating the complex world of compliance can be daunting. Join us to discover how to simplify your compliance journey on Google Cloud, enabling you to build at scale while meeting stringent industry regulations with ease.

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Build, deploy, and monetize AI agents on Google Cloud. This session covers the full lifecycle — development on Vertex AI, packaging, publishing, and commercialization on Google Cloud Marketplace, deployment on GKE etc., and customer access, including via Google Agentspace. We'll demonstrate leveraging the Google Cloud partner ecosystem to build enterprise-grade agents.

Transforming your cloud security means understanding that traditional application security (AppSec) almost never effectively prevents risk, cloud posture is too complex to manage, cloud runtime protection is sparsely deployed, and the security operations center (SOC) doesn’t have the visibility, AI, and automation for real-time response. Join us to learn how to remediate your cloud exposures in minutes, not weeks, using real-time AI-powered risk reduction, investigation, and response – all fueled by unified data and advanced automation. See the future of fast, intelligent, scalable cloud security.

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As government customers are evaluating ways to modernize legacy infrastructure and tools to address needs and challenges combined with a IT security threat landscape more intense than ever; technology partners combining AI and security solutions are becoming vitally important. Carahsoft, Google Public Sector and Palo Alto Networks partner to bring best of breed technology systems to public sector customers. Join us to learn more about how you can leverage better together solutions to drive positive outcomes within the public sector ecosystem.

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In a world where speed and innovation are paramount, bolting on security after deployment is no longer an option. In this Spotlight, experts from Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud will dive into the future of AI security through practical experiences faced by customers to address today and tomorrow's most pressing challenges in AI adoption—Shadow AI, data governance complexities, and the evolving threat landscape to AI applications. Discover how a Secure by Design approach, with security embedded across AI initiatives from inception, ensures resilience, scalability, and trust. Don't miss this opportunity to gain actionable insights for accelerating your AI journey securely.

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Gain unprecedented visibility into AI applications and threats with Palo Alto Networks AI-Runtime, now easily deployed with Google Packet Mirroring/Intercept. This session reveals how this powerful combination analyzes network traffic to discover both legitimate and malicious uses of AI, enabling proactive threat detection and rapid response. Learn how to simplify deployment, improve security posture, and stay ahead of the evolving AI threat landscape.

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Spanner isn't just a database, it's a globally distributed, strongly consistent and highly reliable database platform built for the complexities of modern AI-first applications. We'll explore how Spanner's multi-model capabilities, including advanced search and seamless integration with analytics, enable developers to build intelligent, globally accessible applications. We’ll dive into Spanner's underlying technology to simplify your database solutions and learn from real-world examples from Shopify and Palo Alto Networks.

Generative AI has revolutionized the business landscape, but many companies struggle to realize the full benefits of scaling from pilot to at-scale transformations. Discover how companies are partnering with Google Cloud Consulting to better quantify the business value, understand the total cost of ownership (TCO) of gen AI use cases, and prioritize their AI investments – key lessons that can we learn from the companies leading the AI transformation.

CNAPP has always been about protecting cloud applications, and with the rise in automation and AI-scaled attacks, incidents in the cloud are unfolding faster than ever. AI-powered Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) has emerged to help teams stop cloud attacks faster than ever. Join us to learn how Palo Alto Networks is transforming security operations with a unified platform built on a single agent for cloud and endpoint security,offering best in class runtime protection.Detect, investigate, and shut down cloud attacks faster with Precision AI.

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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.

Securing AI applications demands a full life cycle approach. Palo Alto Networks integrates AI Runtime Security and AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) to protect your workloads from development to runtime. Gain inline data protection, prevent model misuse, and stop zero-day threats with centralized security policies and real-time threat detection. Discover how to automate security, reduce risk, and safeguard sensitive data while enabling innovation in your AI ecosystems.

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Discover how AI is transforming customer behavior in buying & using enterprise software, and what that means for Technology Partnerships. ISV partners are deepening their engagement with Google Cloud through advisory teams built to suppport partner success, managing co-opetition, and AI powered ISV solutions. Walk away with a playbook built by Google Cloud leaders and partners about engaging with an AI-first go-to-market model and generating Google originated opportunities.

Cyberattacks are rising, and businesses need to protect themselves in the cloud. In this session, we’ll discuss the latest trends in cloud security and how businesses can integrate security services in the cloud to mitigate risks. We’ll also hear from a panel of cybersecurity experts from Exabeam and Palo Alto Networks whose expertise and services will optimize your security posture, drive business value, and keep you ahead of emerging threats. Tap into a wealth of cybersecurity knowledge to get the most out of your investment.

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Unlock the full potential of your cloud journey without sacrificing security. This session showcases the latest network security innovation from Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud, designed to elevate your cloud security posture with unmatched ease of use. Join us and discover the next generation of Google Cloud network firewall protection. Watch a solution overview and customer use-case discussion on an offering that provides a cloud-first, easy to deploy operation, powered by Palo Alto Networks’ threat prevention technologies. Please note: seating is limited and on a first-come, first served basis; standing areas are available. By attending this session, your contact information may be shared with the sponsor for relevant follow up for this event only.

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Learn from a panel of leading security companies about why they build customer SaaS on Google Cloud, and how they’re partnering with Google to use generative AI to drive transformational change in the industry.

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Vertex AI offers capabilities to customize and tune foundation models on your data for improved performance, as a unique offering to your customers. This includes techniques such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning from human feedback, and distillation. We will dive deep into SFT, learn how Vertex lets you customize Gemini models with hundreds of examples cost-effectively. We will also discuss distillation, a technique that uses a teacher model to train smaller student models to perform certain tasks better, at a lower cost and with lower latency. You will also get tips from Palo Alto Networks, based on their real-world experience.

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AppSec and Cloud teams have an opportunity to connect where they’re truly joined together and able to accelerate under a single, unified platform. This Palo Alto Networks cloud security session will show how to simultaneously enhance security and automation, reduce the attack surface, and lower both your team’s mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR) using Prisma Cloud best-of-breed capabilities in visibility, threat detection, compliance, and DevOps, from Code to Cloud.

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Google is driving incredible transformation in the Public Sector with Assured Workloads. In this session, you’ll learn about the benefits of running secure and compliant services on top of commercial Google Cloud products. NASA and Palo Alto Networks will share their experiences in reaching their compliance objectives using zero-trust and compliance-as-code technologies to create easily reproducible compliant environments. Join us to learn how to easily address 15+ compliance boundaries such as Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS), FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and the Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 2, 4, and 5.

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Any new technology brings potential new risks, and generative AI is no exception. In this session, we will cut through the FUD around gen AI deployments - helping you understand the real risks, both existing and novel, with deploying AI systems in the cloud. We’ll also provide a framework for how to support the safe use of AI in your organization, so that security, privacy, and risk concerns, real and imagined, can be addressed effectively without slowing business velocity.

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As digital landscapes expand, so do security threats. Conquer these challenges with Palo Alto Networks' AI-powered software firewalls and the latest network security innovation with Google Cloud. Join us as we explore security strategies for every step of your journey. Learn from real-world examples where organizations leverage AI-powered threat prevention and industry-leading network security to gain unmatched visibility and control.

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Data trapped in silos? Fear you're missing out on explosive growth and valuable insights? Learn how industry leaders Palo Alto Networks and Ocean Network Express have used Google Cloud Databases to solve their most complex business problems. They built near real-time insights, scaled effortlessly to handle data surges, and unleashed data-driven magic across their enterprises. Leave with more than just a blueprint – grab a detailed roadmap to implement these strategies, build your own data-driven growth engine, and unlock your data’s full potential.

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