This hands-on lab empowers you to build a cutting-edge multimodal question answering system using Google's Vertex AI and the powerful Gemini family of models. By constructing this system from the ground up, you'll gain a deep understanding of its inner workings and the advantages of incorporating visual information into Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This hands-on experience equips you with the knowledge to customize and optimize your own multimodal question answering systems, unlocking new possibilities for knowledge discovery and reasoning.

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Unlock the power of AI! Build your own intelligent agent with hands-on guidance from Google Cloud Consulting's leading AI experts. No experience needed, just a desire to innovate and build into the future with AI!

Join us to discuss serverless computing and event-driven architectures with Cloud Run functions. Learn a quick and secure way to connect services and build event-driven architectures with multiple trigger types (HTTP, Pub/Sub, and Eventarc). And get introduced to Eventarc Advanced, centralized access control to your events with support for cross-project delivery.

Co-create your future with strategic, AI-powered business visioning! Join Google Cloud Consulting for interactive whiteboarding sessions designed to solve your biggest challenges and unlock new opportunities.

Join us as we explore an exciting collaboration between the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) and Google Cloud, bringing the power of open-source AI to the research community. This initiative provides researchers and developers with access to OLMo, Ai2's state-of-the-art open language model, leveraging Google Cloud's scalable infrastructure. By prioritizing data transparency and open access, this initiative is poised to transform how AI is developed and deployed, fueling a new era of innovation in science, healthcare, public sector, and other regulated industries.

Navigating the complex world of compliance can be daunting. Join us to discover how to simplify your compliance journey on Google Cloud, enabling you to build at scale while meeting stringent industry regulations with ease.

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Build & deploy with Google Cloud Deploy! This hands-on lab equips you to create delivery pipelines, deploy container images to Artifact Registry, and promote applications across GKE environments.

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Experience the future of retail with Google Cloud's edge-to-cloud infrastructure, powering seamless store operations. Explore multi-modal AI for data insights and personalized experiences. Discover how connected solutions empower retailers to adapt and thrive in today's dynamic market, leveraging data for impactful business outcomes.

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create a cross-region HTTP(S) load balancer that intelligently distributes traffic to instances in multiple regions. By setting up four Compute Engine instances across two regions, you'll configure the load balancer to ensure seamless traffic routing to the right instance. This lab will help you optimize application performance, improve availability, and enhance fault tolerance across geographically distributed systems.

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Need precise data extraction from your documents?  This hands-on lab teaches you to build custom document extractors with Document AI Workbench. Learn to create, train, and evaluate a model tailored to your specific document types and achieve higher processing accuracy.

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Discover the secrets to real-world AI success! Hear directly from industry leaders using Google Cloud AI to transform their businesses. Learn how Google Cloud Consulting can accelerate your AI journey.

Discover how Google Cloud and our partners are maximizing personalization and monetization to enable the next generation of AI-powered experiences for audiences everywhere.

Discover how Apigee and Advanced API Security can help you stay protected from OWASP Top 10 API Security risks, and how to adopt a layered API security approach using Apigee and Cloud Armor together. You’ll also see how Apigee can send API security incident information to Google SecOps for centralized triage and correlation, and serve as an enforcement point for Model Armor to sanitize prompts and responses for LLMs fronted by APIs.

Simplify your compliance journey on Google Cloud. This demo showcases how to build at scale while meeting stringent compliance and regulations. Explore tools and strategies that streamline compliance processes, reducing complexity and enabling you to focus on innovation.

This demo highlights the latest innovations in Cloud Network Security covering network threat protection, network security posture controls, DDoS, web application protection, network privacy, and new mechanisms to integrate 3rd party Network Security services.

Explore how Google Cloud provides built-in secure controls to help you maintain a strong cloud security posture. See in action how Google Cloud’s Security Foundation recommended products help address most common cloud adoption use cases, including infrastructure modernization, securing AI workloads, data analytics, and application modernization.

Protect your sensitive data in the cloud. This demo explores how to discover, classify, and redact sensitive information like PII and PHI across your cloud footprint using Google Sensitive Data Protection. See how to leverage encryption, key management, and confidential computing to further secure your data in transit, at rest, and in use.

Discover how our intelligence-driven and AI-powered security operations platform, Google SecOps, combines Google’s hyper-scale infrastructure along with unparalleled visibility and understanding of cyber adversaries to enable security teams to uncover the latest cyber threats in near real-time, and surface the right context to investigate, and respond with speed and precision.

Experience how you can get ahead of the latest threats with Google Threat Intelligence. Know who’s targeting you and focus on the most relevant threats to your organization by understanding the threat actors and their ever changing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Leverage these insights to proactively set your defenses, hunt efficiently, and respond to new and novel threats in minutes.

Cloud IAM is critical to your security infrastructure, and fundamental to cloud adoption. In this demo, you can learn how Google Cloud’s next generation IAM leverages AI across the full stack of IAM, policy management, and access to help you easily and correctly implement security controls that protect your users, infrastructure, data, and application.