In this hands-on lab, you'll explore data with BigQuery's intuitive table explorer and data insight features, enabling you to gain valuable insights without writing SQL queries from scratch. Learn how to generate key insights from order item data, query location tables, and interact with your data seamlessly. By the end, you’ll be equipped to navigate complex datasets and uncover actionable insights quickly and efficiently.

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This session explores how Looker and Google Workspace work together to bring data-driven decisions right into your everyday workflow. Learn how to leverage Looker spreadsheet-based business intelligence (BI) capabilities with Connected Sheets, integrate Looker with other Workspace apps, automate slide generation, and use the advanced features of Looker Studio Pro. And view a live demo of Looker BI agents in Google Chat. Ideal for anyone looking to streamline their data workflow and enhance collaboration within their Workspace environment.

Abstract - AI is revolutionizing the underwriting process in the insurance industry. This session will explore how AI-driven models can streamline risk assessment, enhance decision-making, and improve customer experiences. We'll discuss the benefits of AI in underwriting, along with the challenges and ethical considerations of implementation. Attendees will gain insights into the latest AI tools and best practices for integrating AI into their underwriting workflows, driving efficiency and accuracy in risk management.

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Looker is evolving! Join us for a deep dive into the reimagined Looker experience, where data exploration, analysis, and reporting are more intuitive, collaborative, and powerful than ever before. In this session, we’ll explore how Studio in Looker combines the flexibility of Looker Studio visualizations and reporting with the governance and trustworthiness of the Looker semantic layer.

In this hands-on lab, you'll explore the power of BigQuery Machine Learning with remote models like Gemini Pro to analyze customer reviews. Learn to extract keywords, assess sentiment, and generate insightful reports using SQL queries. Discover how to integrate Gemini Pro Vision to summarize and extract keywords from review images. By the end, you’ll gain skills in setting up Cloud resources, creating datasets, and prompting Gemini models to drive actionable insights and automated responses to customer feedback.

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Supercharge your applications and drive revenue growth with Looker Embedded. This session reveals how to seamlessly integrate powerful data experiences and AI-driven insights directly into your products. Discover how to increase customer engagement, unlock new revenue streams, and gain a competitive advantage. Learn how to reduce development time and costs by leveraging the robust Looker platform. Join us to learn how Looker can help you transform your applications and deliver actionable intelligence to your customers.

Balancing developer agility with security compliance is a key challenge in AI-driven, cloud-native development. Learn how Docker and Google Cloud integrate security into every phase of the software lifecycle—enabling teams to build, test, and deploy AI features and applications with confidence. Embed security in developer workflows, enhance supply chain integrity with SLSA provenance and SBOM attestations, and leverage trusted content on seamless workflows with Google Cloud.

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Concerned about AI hallucinations? While AI can be a valuable resource, it sometimes generates inaccurate, outdated, or overly general responses - a phenomenon known as "hallucination." This hands-on lab teaches you how to implement a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to address this issue. RAG improves large language models (LLMs) like Gemini by grounding their output in contextually relevant information from a specific dataset. Learn to generate embeddings, search vector space, and augment answers for more reliable results.

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Unlock the power of natural language with Looker Agents! This technical deep dive will walk you through an agentic architecture in Looker Conversational Analytics and showcase how the Chief Product Officer of Zeotap is helping Zeotap customers “chat with their data” within the Zeotap platform using the new Conversational Analytics API. Learn how to build custom data agents, answer questions in Workspace, and create analytics applications with the power of conversational AI.

Join Aledade and Glean to discover how organizations can evolve from AI-curious to AI-centric. Learn how Aledade leveraged Glean's platform to navigate the AI maturity curve, moving beyond fragmented AI implementations to a cohesive strategy that drives measurable business outcomes. This session reveals practical steps for developing AI-centric employees, implementing centralized AI infrastructure, and maximizing ROI while avoiding the "AI tax" of disconnected solutions.

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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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UKG is revolutionizing workforce management with AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Join this session for a deep dive into how UKG, Google Cloud, and MongoDB collaborated to orchestrate enterprise data and put it to use powering intelligent, context-aware AI solutions that shape the future of work.

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In today’s data-centric landscape, organizations across industries are inundated with vast amounts of information. However, many grapple with the challenge of deriving actionable insights to maintain a competitive advantage. This session delves into strategies for harnessing data through modernization and migration, drawing from real-world examples provided by industry leaders. Our panel will address the obstacles posed by legacy systems and data silos, and discuss how transitioning to modern data platforms can revolutionize your organization.

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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.

Data intelligence rapidly transforms businesses, enabling them to make more informed decisions, streamline operations, and gain a competitive edge. At Google Cloud Next '25, we are excited to present a thought-provoking session on the power of data intelligence in partnership with Databricks on Google Cloud and Digital Turbine. Our speakers from Databricks and Digital Turbine will share their insights on how organizations can leverage data to drive innovation and growth. Join us for this engaging discussion and gain valuable insights on how data intelligence can help your organization thrive in the digital age.

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In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, modernizing mainframe systems is crucial for maintaining competitive advantage. This joint solution explores the transformative potential of migrating data warehouse extracts to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery. Utilizing the flexible framework built, organizations can achieve a flexible, integrated solution that accelerates time to market, ensures accurate and timely real-time data for reporting and advanced analytics, and provides self-service access. This digital transformation not only empowers stakeholders with enhanced capabilities but also significantly improves the overall customer experience.

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Business intelligence professionals and data practitioners, join us to share experiences and brainstorm solutions to your biggest data challenges. Whether you're tackling AI hallucinations, accelerating large queries, or defining data governance, this meetup provides a space for interactive discussion with peers and data experts. Bring your own topics to explore real-world scenarios and grow your network within our community.

See a live demo on how Dialpad streamlines communications and extracts real-time insights from business conversations. Our Ai-powered customer communications platform seamlessly combines contact center and sales-related functionality with voice, video, and messaging, empowering organizations to build stronger customer relationships. Come see how features, such as Ai CSAT, Ai Recaps, and Ai Playbooks, can transform your business outcomes.

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There are a lot of amazing AI features being announced at Google Cloud Next. In order to take full advantage of these, you need to make sure your data is being managed in a secure, centralized way. In this talk, you’ll learn how to set up your lakehouse to get your data ready for downstream workloads. You’ll view a demo involving an architecture of Google Cloud products that includes managing permissions on your data, configuring metadata management, and performing transformations using open source frameworks.

Imagine a world where interacting with your data is as simple as chatting with a friend. Gemini in Looker makes this a reality, bringing the power of Google's most advanced AI models and agents directly to your BI workflows. This session explores how Gemini's genAI capabilities and Looker Agents are being integrated into Looker, empowering users to analyze data, build dashboards, and generate insights using natural language. Discover how this powerful combination unlocks new levels of productivity for BI professionals and business users alike.