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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Unlock the power of code execution with Gemini 2.0 Flash! This hands-on lab demonstrates how to generate and run Python code directly within the Gemini API. Learn to use this capability for tasks like solving equations, processing text, and building code-driven applications.

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Join an insightful fireside chat with Jeff Dean, a pioneering force behind Google’s AI leadership. As Google's Chief Scientist at DeepMind & Research, Jeff will share his vision on AI and specialized AI hardware, including Cloud TPUs seventh generation chip; Ironwood. What exciting things might we expect this to power? What drives Google’s innovation in specialized AI hardware? In this spotlight, we’ll also discuss how TPUs enable efficient large-scale training and optimal inference workloads including exclusive, never-before-revealed details of Ironwood, differentiated chip designs, data center infrastructure, and software stack co-designs that makes Google Cloud TPUs the most compelling choice for AI workloads.

Explore the power of Google Cloud's Vertex AI Search for Healthcare in this demo. See how it transforms unstructured medical data into actionable insights, accelerating research and improving patient care. We'll demonstrate how this intelligent search solution unlocks critical information hidden within clinical notes, research papers, and patient records.

This hands-on lab guides you through importing real-world data from CSV files into a Cloud SQL database. Using a flight dataset from the US Bureau of Transport Statistics, you'll gain hands-on experience with data ingestion and basic analysis. You'll learn to create a Cloud SQL instance and database, effectively import your data, and build a foundational data model using SQL queries.

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For years, mainframe modernization seemed out of reach. Generative AI breakthroughs, led by Google’s Gemini, offer automated assessments, code transformation, and risk mitigation for accelerated and cost-effective cloud migration. Learn from Ford and Intesa Sanpaolo about how they reduced costs, boosted performance, and embraced innovation by modernizing their core applications off the mainframe and onto Google Cloud. Learn how Google Cloud’s mainframe modernization solutions can work for your digital transformation journey.

Learn how to use Gemini Cloud Assist to manage applications, from infrastructure design and AI-powered troubleshooting to performance and cost optimization.

Meet with a Google Cloud Security expert to discuss your specific security needs and discover how our solutions can help. Plus, you can grab a complimentary copy of the “Defenders Advantage” book and a cup of coffee while you’re there.

Join Google Cloud and Quantiphi for a workshop on how to build and deploy powerful conversational AI agents using the Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI. Learn best practices and leave with actionable strategies to improve your customer experience.

Learn how Google Cloud's workload-optimized infrastructure delivers leading reliability, cost and performance for your most important workloads.

Monitor generative AI workloads using Google Cloud Observability, including alerting and troubleshooting.

Build a multimodal search engine with Gemini and Vertex AI. This hands-on lab demonstrates Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to query documents containing text and images. Learn to extract metadata, generate embeddings, and search using text or image queries.

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In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn the fundamentals of networking in Google Cloud and how it differs from traditional on-premises setups. You'll build a network with three subnetworks and gain practical experience in creating firewall rules. Learn how to apply these rules using instance tags to control access across your environment. By the end of the session, you'll be equipped with the foundational knowledge to manage and secure Google Cloud networks effectively.

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Organizations around the world are building with Google Cloud to drive growth and transform industries. Join Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at our Opening Keynote to get a front row seat to see all the new product innovations and latest trends and insights. And hear from customers on how they are building new solutions that make a real business impact.

Organizations around the world are building with Google Cloud to drive growth and transform industries. Join Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at our Opening Keynote to get a front row seat to see all the new product innovations and latest trends and insights. And hear from customers on how they are building new solutions that make a real business impact.

Pedal your way to the right choice, smack that giant enter button to confirm, and pick the right deployment for your prompt. Peek behind the scenes at the Google Cloud console for the tooling to explore and analyze logs and metrics.

Optimize capacity allocation, workload performance, and cost of running applications with the help of AI.

In this hands-on lab, you'll explore the power of Kubernetes and learn how to orchestrate cloud applications with ease. Using Google Kubernetes Engine, you’ll provision a fully managed Kubernetes cluster and deploy Docker containers using kubectl. Break down a monolithic application into microservices using Kubernetes Deployments and Services, and gain insights into the latest innovations in resource efficiency, developer productivity, and automated operations. By the end, you'll be ready to streamline application management in any environment.

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In this session learn about performance optimizations for PyTorch on Google Cloud accelerators using OpenXLA. These models are powerful but can be disrupted by resource failures. This talk also explores strategies for achieving greater resiliency when running PyTorch on GPUs, focusing on fault tolerance, checkpointing, and distributed training. Learn how to leverage open source tools to minimize downtime and ensure your deep learning workloads run smoothly.

Measure and reduce your emissions on GCP. Get actionable insights for sustainable cloud operations.