Building and maintaining detection rules is the cornerstone of any high-performing security operations function, but it’s often easier said than done. Join us for an in-depth exploration of detections in Google Security Operations (Google SecOps) and learn how it empowers detection teams to stay ahead of threats – from curated detections delivered out of the box by Google SecOps to address the latest threats, to building custom rules using entity graphs, AI, and the wealth of functions and context provided by Google SecOps.

Physician burnout is a global crisis negatively impacting both healthcare professionals and the quality of care they provide. Artificial intelligence (AI) may offer a solution to this problem. AI-powered tools, such as intelligent assistants for clinical documentation, diagnostic support systems, and personalized patient care platforms, can streamline workflows, reduce administrative tasks, and enhance decision-making, thereby alleviating physician burden. By mitigating burnout risk factors and empowering physicians with innovative technologies, AI can pave the way toward a more sustainable and fulfilling healthcare future.

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.

App life cycles with Google Cloud databases and runtimes have gotten smarter. This session takes you through the life cycle of building and optimizing scalable, high-performance generative AI apps. We’ll use Google’s latest natural language and vector search technologies to build the “art of the possible” for AI-powered software. We’ll also cover various app design patterns using Gemini Code Assist, foundation models, agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration frameworks, and show you how it all comes together in a live demo.

Ready to take your Day 2 operations to the next level? This session is your one-stop shop for mastering Day 2 ops in 2025. We’ll cover everything you need to know, such as leveraging observability and AI agents for DevOps use cases, building application-centric observability, and optimizing for cost and utilization on Google Cloud. This roundup session explores a variety of products and updates in the Day 2 space, giving you the tools and knowledge to supercharge your operational efficiency and drive innovation.

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.

The world of data security and privacy is changing. Quantum computing threatens traditional encryption, but you can stay ahead. Learn how to protect your AI and machine learning (ML) models and your sensitive data with cutting-edge techniques and tools like Gemini. This session covers end-to-end privacy, confidential computing with Google Cloud, navigating the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) landscape, the challenges and opportunities of PQC, and how Google Cloud is preparing you for the future.

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.

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.

Take part in the new SOC Experience – a view into real-world attack scenarios. Learn about the latest hacker tactics and how Google equips cybersecurity teams with the data, AI, and scalable analytics to detect and remediate attacks.

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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The Google Launchpad program is tackling the cloud and AI skills gap head-on. This session dives into Google Launchpad's comprehensive approach to skilling - from building an early-career global talent pipeline to directly upskilling Cloud customer employees - all free of charge! Learn how the program is helping to address the skills gap and deliver impactful trainings that have benefited tens of thousands. Gain insights into upcoming initiatives and hear firsthand how Launchpad has transformed the careers and organizations of some of its graduates.

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.

Empower your teams to innovate and drive digital transformation with AppSheet, and discover how business users can easily create AI-enabled solutions that address their needs without coding skills. Learn how Gemini in AppSheet can accelerate AI adoption and the digitization of labor by empowering users to rapidly create apps that bring their ideas to life and automate complex tasks. Then join a fireside chat with customers to hear how they’re using Gemini in AppSheet to drive innovation and reduce risk in a secure environment.

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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Companies are improving customer experience and lowering costs with Google AI. Join this session to learn about our end-to-end customer engagement application that provides AI agents for self-service, agent assistance, and operational insights. Discover how you can achieve the same business impact our customers are realizing.

Generative AI is revolutionizing app development, demanding a robust network architecture capable of supporting distributed, cross-cloud deployments. This session dives into the essential networking strategies for building and deploying these next-generation applications. Discover new technologies to establish secure, reliable, and high-performance connectivity spanning Google Cloud, multicloud, and hybrid networks. Explore how to seamlessly integrate service-centric architectures to accelerate developer velocity without compromising security.