SQL Server workloads powering mission-critical applications demand high availability and disaster recovery configurations from the get-go. Users can choose to leverage the business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) capabilities in Cloud SQL for SQL Server. In this session, we’ll cover the basics of BCDR with Cloud SQL for SQL Server. We’ll highlight the architectural patterns that are best suited for different types of workloads while leveraging the latest enterprise-ready Cloud SQL innovations.

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. 

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.

Tired of outdated intranets?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.

Is your outdated data infrastructure hindering your ability to leverage the full potential of AI and machine learning?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. 

The modern data landscape is exploding with complexity. This session explores AI-first capabilities in BigQuery to simplify the discovery, preparation, and management of data. Learn about BigQuery Studio, BigQuery data canvas, and BigQuery data preparation for data science workloads. Discover how to connect and unify data from various sources for deeper insights and better business outcomes, with examples from Standard Industries, and how to prepare data for analytics and insights with AI-first data tools

Struggling to monitor the performance and health of your large language model (LLM) deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)? This session unveils how the Google Cloud Observability suite provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring leading AI model servers like Ray, NVIDIA Triton, vLLM, TGI, and others. Learn how our one-click setup automatically configures dashboards, alerts, and critical metrics – including GPU and TPU utilization, latency, throughput, and error analysis – to enable faster troubleshooting and optimized performance. Discover how to gain complete visibility into your LLM infrastructure.

Discover groundbreaking AI innovations in our breakout session featuring experts from Cognizant, Google, Northumbrian Water, and Stena AB. Learn how AI models are revolutionizing the approach to addressing business challenges and environmental concerns. Examples will cover solutions to detect water health using satellite imagery and AI agents transforming the shipping industry's contract decisions to reduce idle time. Join us for an insightful discussion on how these cutting-edge advancements in AI technology are providing a competitive edge.

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As a cloud security professional, you are responsible for protecting your valuable cloud data. This technical session demonstrates how Security Command Center can help you automatically discover your cloud data assets, pinpoint which datasets may be at risk, define and implement the right posture controls to protect data and manage access, and provide your team with real-time alerting of data security violations. Get ready to prevent breaches, reduce insider risk, and meet compliance requirements.

Looking to rapidly migrate your VMware estate on-premises or elsewhere to a cloud-integrated, Google-operated VMware platform that delivers 99.99% (four nines) availability of cluster-level uptime, flexible node configurations, and deeply integrated networking, along with high-bandwidth and low-latency access to other Google Cloud services? Want all this with minimal disruption to your existing tools or team’s skill sets? Join this session to get a primer on Google Cloud VMware Engine and its latest, learn from a leading customer about their transformation journey, and get started today.

Even if your cloud infrastructure is configured securely, how can you make sure cloud applications do not introduce vulnerabilities? This technical session for cloud security professionals focuses on shift-left security practices, including the latest strategies for building secure applications, achieving code-to-cloud traceability of code-related issues, and getting AI-generated remediations that make it easy for application development teams to fix issues at the source.

Experience a live demo of Google Cloud’s approach to mainframe modernization using generative AI. This demo will showcase the modernization life cycle, from initial assessment to code rewrite to risk mitigation. We’ll illustrate how our agentic approach streamlines the modernization process, reducing time, budget, and resource requirements. And we’ll demonstrate how to minimize the risk of modernizing business-critical applications through testing and by enabling parallel execution of both original and modernized applications with Dual Run.

Facing challenges with the cost and performance of your AI inference workloads? This talk presents TPUs and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a solution for achieving both high throughput and low latency while optimizing costs with open source models and libraries. Learn how to leverage TPUs to scale massive inference workloads efficiently.

Bigtable has been a core piece of application infrastructure for Google and companies such as Snap, Spotify, and many other massive platforms for over 20 years. In this session, we’ll discuss the fundamental changes to Bigtable processing capabilities made available via SQL that will let you bring more data transformations directly into Bigtable – enabling extract, load, and transform (ELT) capabilities taking advantage of Bigtable’s flexible schema to achieve increased data freshness – and that will reduce the time and costs of running other data processing services to prepare data for your real-time application.

Learn how you can use BigQuery and Earth Engine together for a variety of weather and climate resilience use cases including risk assessment, response, and recovery. You'll receive a real world step-by-step walkthrough, highlighting new geospatial features and AI-driven datasets, that make it easier for any professional to unlock insights that can contribute to greater climate resiliency.

AI is revolutionizing contact centers, but the gap between AI leaders and laggards isn't just about technology—it's about a fundamental shift in customer loyalty. In this Spotlight, Dialpad and Google leadership will discuss the five AI adoption strategies separating industry champions from the rest. Top performers leverage industry-specific models and micro-data intelligence to advance business outcomes. But here's the twist: humans are the multiplier. Discover how leading organizations are rewriting the rules of human-AI collaboration, ensuring AI augments—not replaces—their workforce. Join us for an insightful discussion and live demo of market-shifting AI innovations.

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Discover how a neuroinclusive approach to Agile methodology can transform your team's innovation effectiveness. This session explores the benefits of integrating diverse knowledge systems and cognitive perspectives to drive impactful results.

Learn from Google's assistive technology expert, Dannie Lynn Fountain, how to effectively implement disability features using Google Workspace. This session provides valuable insights for creating a more accessible and innovative workplace.

AI is transforming software development, but not always for the better. The 2024 DORA report reveals that AI adoption resulted in a 7.2% regression of delivery stability for software, highlighting the industry's overemphasis on velocity. This session will explain how to flip the script on AI’s role in software development, and drive better development and delivery outcomes with new innovations from Google Cloud and beyond, freeing developers to focus on customer value.

This talk delves into the evolving data architectures that will drive the next generation of AI applications, exploring how Generative AI is transforming our interaction with data. We will examine the challenges and opportunities presented by constructing data systems that can support the distinctive requirements of GenAI, and envision the future of data architecture in a world where AI is omnipresent, we will work backward from real usecase together with Intesa bank team on how they are reinventing the risk management with Data and AI.

Up to 90% of organizations are building across cloud environments, from edge to to multiple clouds - and the scale and speed of AI is putting pressure on these architectures. In this spotlight discover how organizations are leveraging decades of our infrastructure expertise to build secure, sovereign AI solutions. Also, learn how industry leaders are using the latest advances in networking, storage, and distributed cloud solutions to accelerate AI solution deployment anywhere.

Want to control the output of your AI agents? This session explores essential Agent Ops practices, including metrics-driven development, large language model (LLM) evaluation with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and function calling, debugging with Cloud Trace, and learning from human feedback. Learn how to optimize agent performance and drive better business outcomes.

In this session, we’ll bust AI myths and showcase how easy it can be to implement AI solutions. Learn how Google Cloud’s generative AI solutions help small IT teams automate customer service tasks, personalize interactions, and improve overall efficiency. Learn from current Google Cloud partners and customers about how they approach building agents to empower growth and supercharge experiences for their customers.

Money laundering affects financial institutions and governments around the world. Join this session to explore the lessons learned in deploying a large-scale AI solution for anti-money laundering in retail and commercial banking. And learn about the challenges, triumphs, and best practices in harnessing the power of AI to combat financial crime.

Unlock the full potential of your data with the power of AI. This session explores how Google Cloud’s latest advancements in AI are transforming business intelligence, empowering you to gain deeper insights, make faster decisions, and drive innovation. We’ll dive into trusted insights with BigQuery and AI, the power of the Looker semantic layer, and how Google Cloud’s AI-powered business intelligence (BI) solutions can help you transform your data into actionable intelligence and drive business success.