Wrap up the conference's first day at the GDG meetup. This will be a time for developer community organizers, and those interested in learning about Google Developer Groups (GDG) to network, exchange ideas, and share best practices on building and growing local technical communities.

In this exclusive look at transforming business operations with AI-powered solutions, discover how GenAI is reshaping industries, from transportation and on-demand services to healthcare and manufacturing. Gain insights from the leaders, drivers, and decisions that paved the way to AI-powered success, as our moderated panel shares lessons to apply when preparing for the next stage of an organization’s journey

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Discover the perfect spot for your next store. This session shows you how to leverage Google Maps data and BigQuery to find ideal locations. Learn how to analyze valuable location insights and make data-driven decisions to grow your business.

This talk will explore the vision and architecture of our ChaosLLaMa prototype through a demo. The prototype integrates various Google Cloud components, such as Asset inventory and VPC flow logs, and uses Gemini along with an agentic framework to enable customers to identify and address weaknesses in their Google Cloud applications. This is especially useful for enterprise customers modernizing from an on-prem infrastructure to Google Cloud, as it helps them build more robust applications.

Discover how Google Cloud PSO can help you execute a cloud-to-cloud migration of highly regulated workloads, and avoid business interruption. We'll explore common challenges like bridging organizational silos, managing legacy tech, and navigating complex approvals, as well as how Google Cloud can transform a factory's infrastructure to reduce operational risk, improve reliability, and seamlessly power your business.

Discover how TELUS centralized 14 petabytes of data in Google Cloud, creating a single source of truth for AI innovation. Join us to explore how they transformed hundreds of enterprise-grade pipelines and get insights into responsible AI practices and future plans.

This session explores how higher education organizations are leveraging AI to transform education, research, and student outcomes. Leaders from public sector and higher education institutions will share strategies for harnessing AI to educate the next generation of leaders, while addressing data privacy, security, and ethical considerations.

Go turns 15 this year! Join fellow developers for a discussion on the future of Go. We'll explore emerging trends, Go's role in the evolving tech landscape, and the challenges and opportunities facing the Go community. Come prepared to share your insights and help shape Go's future.

This workshop examines the critical lessons learned in deploying generative AI applications and explores how these insights can shape the future of the "AI Agents era." We'll delve into the practical challenges and solutions encountered in moving from initial answers to actionable implementations, prescribing how these learnings can be applied to build more sophisticated, autonomous, and impactful AI systems.

Join us for a lightning talk summarizing the Google x Kaggle Gen AI Intensive, a 5-day live course that empowered over 140,000 participants with a comprehensive understanding of generative AI. From foundational models and prompt engineering to MLOps and real-world applications, this series covered it all through a mix of theory, hands-on learning, and community engagement, with learning material created by experts across Google. Learn how you can leverage the resources from this ongoing series to upskill yourself and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI.

Learn how to unlock the power of AI and automation with new and enhanced capabilities in Google Workspace. We’ll explore our newest AI and workflow functionality and show how you can easily integrate with Workspace to improve efficiency, enhance collaboration, and achieve better results for your organization.

Innovating with AI and achieving digital sovereignty are not mutually exclusive. Google Workspace with Gemini is uniquely equipped to help customers leverage AI tools whilst keeping their IP private, meeting regulatory requirements and maintaining resilience against current and future attack vectors. Discover customer strategies for navigating the complexities of digital sovereignty and unlock the full potential of your organization.

Leveraging years of experience building internal platforms at Google, this session offers actionable insights for Google Cloud customers on creating effective development ecosystems. Learn how to prioritize safety, efficiency, and reliability through the interplay of platform engineering, feature development, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Whether you’re a seasoned Google Cloud user or new to platform engineering, this talk can help you optimize software delivery, operations, and achieve your business goals.

Learn how public sector organizations are using data and AI to protect our resources, monitor and address environmental challenges, and better understand the world around us. By leveraging AI, advanced analytics, demographic data, and satellite imagery, we’re able to build a safer and more sustainable future, together.

Application Factory unleashes developer productivity. Build and deploy apps quickly, without relying on other teams. Just write code, and watch your application come to life.

Join fellow Google Kubernetes Engine and ML engineers to share experiences building scalable, flexible, and resource-efficient machine learning platforms on GKE. Let's discuss strategies to best leverage GKE's features for serving open LLM models and orchestrating TPU/GPU’s at scale. Come prepared to share, ask questions, connect with others, and help each other succeed with GKE for ML.

 Learn how Drive Health is leveraging Google's AI and data analytics capabilities to transform healthcare access for Medicaid populations in Southern Illinois. By addressing critical barriers in prenatal care, chronic disease management, and mental health, this initiative is projected to achieve remarkable results, including a 20% reduction in preterm births and $5.2 million in annual cost savings. Learn how our innovative approach is creating a blueprint for equitable healthcare delivery and improving lives in under-served communities.

Generative AI enables you to build amazing new apps, but you may also have concerns. Will it be too complex or too expensive, or will it create security risks? Fortunately, building good gen AI apps has become much easier in the past year, in large part due to updated capabilities within databases. We’ll learn how Google Cloud databases handle key AI technologies like vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration, helping you bridge the gap between general-purpose AI models and your business-specific data. We’ll dive into some fun application examples to see how they were built and how you can use the same techniques in your apps.

Want to deploy generative AI across your organization but not sure how to keep your sensitive data secure and compliant? Join this session to hear from industry practitioners and Google experts about the best practices and lessons learned when embarking on this journey. We will demo how you can use built-in controls to identify sensitive data in your organization and restrict access to it and share insights, admin control recommendations, and lived customer experiences.

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.

Discover the groundbreaking automated pipeline, seamlessly integrating rapid evaluation with the nuanced judgment of an LLM. This innovative solution delivers precise auto-alignment scores for LLMs, eliminating the need for repetitive prompt tuning. Effortlessly adapt to your LLM evaluation and migration requirements while minimizing hallucinations, ensuring repeatable and accurate results.

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.

Datalakes and lakehouses are becoming more popular for storing sensitive data. This session will explore the challenges of implementing effective de-identification and potential Google Cloud based solutions.

Data de-identification is complex due to the diversity, scale, and variety of formats. Ensuring compliance and maintaining data utility are key challenges. Careful evaluation of techniques like tokenization and masking is essential, along with robust monitoring and auditing.

This talk explores IAM Deny's ability to enforce security at scale, drawing from hands-on experience with major enterprise customers. Learn to craft effective Deny policies, manage exceptions, and integrate Org Policies for a multi-layered security approach. Master the Policy Troubleshooter to efficiently resolve access issues. Move beyond simple "allow" rules, embrace the power of least privilege, and transform your Google Cloud security posture with IAM Deny.

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.