Custom operators are the secret weapon for solving Airflow’s unique & challenging orchestration problems. This session will cover: When to build custom operators vs. using existing solutions Architecture patterns for creating maintainable, reusable operators Live coding demonstration: Building a custom operator from scratch Real-world examples: How custom operators solve specific business challenges Through practical code examples and architecture patterns, attendees will walk away with the knowledge to implement custom operators that enhance their Airflow deployments. This session is ideal for experienced Airflow users looking to extend functionality beyond out-of-the-box solutions.

The open-source AI agent landscape is thriving with innovation. This session is your definitive guide to building, deploying, and monitoring OSS agent frameworks. Learn patterns and best practices that combine the best of open-source frameworks with the AI platform built for production – Vertex AI. In this session, we'll cover techniques for multi-agent orchestration, working with diverse data sources, and building autonomous workflows. Join us on a journey from open-source agent frameworks to production-grade agent deployments and LLMOps on Vertex AI.

Dive deep into how governance, security, and sharing are innately integrated in BigQuery to power data and AI use cases across your organization. Learn about new innovations that further enhance data governance, security, and collaboration across data and AI assets, without you having to leave BigQuery. Find out how data governance leaders at Walmart and Box are using BigQuery to securely scale data and AI across their organizations.

Applications of the future require a database that transcends historical paradigms. They require advanced in-database capabilities like Graph RAG, vector and full-text search without compromising on critical database properties of compliance, scale, and availability. In this talk, you'll learn how Spanner's native search and interoperable multi-model capabilities enable your developers to build intelligent, global applications on a single, zero-ETL (extract, transform, and load) data platform.

Want large language models (LLMs) that are truly knowledgeable and context-aware? This session explores the latest advancements in grounding, expanding the knowledge frontier for LLMs. You’ll learn about recent launches that allow you to ground your models with data across Google Search, curated industry data, Google Maps, and much more.

BigQuery helps you build an autonomous data and AI platform from your organization. In this session, you’ll learn how BigQuery agentic intelligence is automating critical data workflows, including data preparation, analysis, predictions, model tuning, security, and governance. We’ll explore the BigQuery AI capabilities that all data practitioners can use to address data challenges in the AI era.

Drive the next wave of AI innovation with Google Cloud databases. This Spotlight session explores cutting-edge innovations that enable you to modernize your database estate to quickly build gen AI apps, unify transactional and analytical workloads for real-time insights, and simplify database management with assistive AI. Join us to witness the future of Google Cloud databases, exclusive product announcements, insightful demos, and inspiring customer stories.

According to IDC, 67% of AI technology spend in 2025 will be enterprises embedding AI capabilities into core business operations. Learn how AI-enabled customer engagements, from search to customer care operations and insights, are helping organizations improve customer experience and employee productivity while lowering costs. In this session, we’ll discuss specific use cases and the business results customers have achieved.

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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.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Walmart's data and AI platform. We'll dissect their use of BigQuery, Spark, and large language models to run complex multi-modal data pipelines. We will deep dive into the choices with various engines (SQL, pySPARK) and technologies along with the corresponding tradeoffs. Gain exclusive insights to implement into your own projects.

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Firewalls are essential for any network security architecture. As organizations embrace the cloud, they seek cloud-first firewall solutions that seamlessly adapt to their evolving workload protection requirements. This session explores how you can reach this goal with Google Cloud's next generation firewall (NGFW). Learn how to secure all network paths with advanced threat prevention, coupled with flexible and granular control to ensure a strong security posture in Google Cloud. Plus, you'll gain insights from shared customer experiences in safeguarding workloads with Cloud NGFW.

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Join Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and VP of Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels Kevin Ichhpurani for an insightful fireside chat on accelerating growth with the Google Cloud partner ecosystem. Discover game-changing customer success stories during our customer panel, and hear Colleen Kapase, Google Cloud VP of Channels and Partner Programs, reveal exciting new partner programs and announcements that will empower you to reach new heights.

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Drive the next wave of AI innovation with Google Cloud databases. This Spotlight session explores cutting-edge innovations that enable you to modernize your database estate to quickly build gen AI apps, unify transactional and analytical workloads for real-time insights, and simplify database management with assistive AI. Join us to witness the future of Google Cloud databases, exclusive product announcements, insightful demos, and inspiring customer stories.