Mayo Clinic Platform (MCP) will share their experience building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and how it has significantly accelerated developer onboarding and deployment to their network, including the Mayo Clinic Care Network (MCCN) when hosted. This platform has been a key driver in rapidly delivering innovation, which has historically been challenging in healthcare. Eviden played a crucial role as a key partner in the initial development, and MCP is progressively taking on more internal ownership to support future scaling and growth.

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.

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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Explore how AI agents and assistants are transforming Software Logistics, bringing intelligence to cloud application delivery. This session demonstrates practical applications of AI in deployment automation, configuration management, and runtime optimization. Discover how Platform Engineers leverage AI to create more efficient delivery systems. Learn design strategies from automated security scanning to intelligent deployment decisions, and how to integrate these capabilities into your existing platform engineering practices.

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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.

 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.

Bad actors are sneaky, slippery, and getting smarter all the time. However, businesses now have a powerful new defense. Advances in AI offer opportunities to arm developers with information and tools to help mitigate risks. Join us as we share perspectives on design, considerations, and challenges when deploying AI to enhance security and improve efficiencies for developers.

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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.

Increased productivity and efficiency are baseline expectations. AI must drive business transformation by going beyond the bottom-line to reshape customer experiences, streamline operations, and achieve strategic goals. Join Dialpad’s Natala Menezes, VP of Product Marketing and Randstad's Ryan Henry, Director of Infrastructure Services for a conversation about how Randstad gets real ROI with smarter processes. 

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We live in a different era – one where developers need access to larger tools, data and code need to be more secure, and ultimately still more work needs to get done. Learn about methods on Google Cloud to leverage remote development effectively for all your software development needs, from Day 1 to production. You’ll experience Cloud Shell in action, how Cloud Workstations powers your AI development needs, and container and developer tools that make deployment simple. Power to the devs.

Cox’s growth goals hinge on customer acquisition and retention to expand its market reach. Traditional customer service models, limited by inefficiencies and reactive support, hinder scalability. Next-generation customer service innovations – powered by AI, automation, and data-driven insights – enable proactive engagement, hyper-personalization, and seamless omnichannel experiences. Innovative strategies unlock new revenue streams, improve customer lifetime value, and enhance operational agility, turning every customer interaction into a growth opportunity.

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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 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.

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.

Learn how to speed up popular data science libraries such as pandas and scikit-learn by up to 50x in Google Colab using pre-installed NVIDIA RAPIDS Python libraries. Boost both speed and scale for your workflows by simply selecting a GPU runtime in Colab – no code changes required. In addition, Gemini helps Colab users incorporate GPUs and generate pandas code from simple natural language prompts.

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How are you progressing with your journey to realize business value from AI? Has the reality lived up to its hype? What obstacles to adoption are you facing and what adoption frameworks have led to success? This round-table workshop presents the opportunity for IT executives and leaders to share stories, learn from their peers, and discover approaches and strategies to accelerate AI adoption for business value.

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.

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.

In this session, we'll explore best practices for developing next-gen Agentic apps powered by Gen AI for consumer goods brand innovation teams. Learn about the technical architecture, essential frameworks, and tools for scalable solutions. Discover strategies for intuitive user interactions and review real-world case studies. Join us to gain valuable insights and practical strategies for creating innovative and impactful Agentic apps.

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