Unlock the power of lightning-fast vector search for your generative AI applications. This session dives deep into Memorystore vector search, demonstrating how to achieve single-digit millisecond latency on over a billion vectors. Explore cutting-edge gen AI application architectures that leverage vector search and other Google Cloud services to deliver exceptional user experiences.

Managing apps in the cloud can be complex. With your app’s footprints in many places across the platform, simply staying informed can be challenging. How do you know if your app is meeting performance targets? How can you optimize costs or anticipate the impact of maintenance? Join this session to learn about a new user experience on Google Cloud that will greatly simplify cloud operations by centralizing essential information and insights so you can focus on what matters most. Speakers will share the story of how they built it and show you how to leverage it to boost the efficiency of your everyday job.

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.

Discover real-world examples of how generative AI is delivering tangible success across key industries – and where this technology is headed next. Hear from two experienced Google Cloud partners, EPAM and Persistent, as they share their experiences of harnessing the broad power of gen AI to solve niche challenges within traditional organizations.

Even cloud security experts can struggle with application and data compliance. Discover how Security Command Center is simplifying cloud compliance by bringing together configuration, monitoring, and evidence generation. Learn how a unified cloud compliance solution can make it easy to apply prebuilt and custom compliance frameworks, check compliance status with a centralized dashboard, and automatically generate audit reports to prove compliance.

As organizations increasingly adopt cloud technologies, threat actors have adapted their tactics to exploit vulnerabilities within cloud environments. This threat briefing explores the methods employed by malicious actors to compromise cloud services, including the exploitation of misconfigurations, weaknesses in identity and access management, and shared resources. Attendees will learn how the threat landscape is shifting and how to be more proactive by understanding how the tactics, techniques, and procedures are evolving.

Learn how Database Migration Service can help you modernize your SQL Server databases to unleash the power of cloud databases and open source PostgreSQL! Convert your SQL Server schema and T-SQL code to PostgreSQL dialect with a click of a button in the DMS Conversion Workspace. Some objects could not be fully converted? Gemini can suggest a fix. Not yet familiar with PostgreSQL features? Ask Gemini to teach you how to convert SQL Server features to PostgreSQL equivalent ones. While Gemini is there - ask it to optimize the converted code or add some comments to explain the business logic. Once your database is fully converted and optimized you can migrate the data with minimal downtime using the change data capture powered migration job and complete your migration journey.

AI is revolutionizing observability. Learn about Cloud SQL AI-powered Database Insights and how it can help you optimize your queries and boost database performance. We’ll dive deep into the new Insights capabilities for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server, including the Gemini-powered chat agent. Learn how to troubleshoot those tricky database performance issues and get practical tips to improve the performance of your applications.

Audiences around the world have almost limitless access to content that’s only a click, swipe, or voice command away. Companies are embracing cloud capabilities to evolve from traditional media companies into media-tech and media-AI companies. Join us to discover how the cloud is maximizing personalization and monetization to enable the next generation of AI-powered streaming experiences for audiences everywhere.

This session dives into the latest advancements in securing and managing your Cloud Run workloads at enterprise scale. Join us to learn about new features and techniques to meet the highest security standards, strategies for managing large-scale deployments, and solutions to common issues like IP exhaustion. Plus, one of our customers will share their firsthand experience managing a massive fleet of Cloud Run workloads.

Get the inside story of Yahoo’s data lake transformation. As a Hadoop pioneer, Yahoo’s move to Google Cloud is a significant shift in data strategy. Explore the business drivers behind this transformation, technical hurdles encountered, and strategic partnership with Google Cloud that enabled a seamless migration. We’ll uncover key lessons, best practices for data lake modernization, and how Yahoo is using BigQuery, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, and other services to drive business value, enhance operational efficiency, and fuel their AI initiatives.

In this session, we’ll explore how you can manage human and nonhuman identities on Google Cloud. We’ll discuss how these identities are defined, managed, and used to secure access to resources, and we’ll cover topics such as cryptographic managed workload identities, identity federation, and flexible identity onboarding options on Google Cloud.

Join us for an interactive session where we’ll build, deploy, and scale inference apps. Imagine creating and launching generative AI apps that deliver personalized recommendations and stunning images, all with the unparalleled efficiency and scalability of serverless computing. You’ll learn how to build gen AI apps effortlessly using Gemini Code Assist; deploy gen AI apps in minutes on Cloud Run, using Vertex AI or on-demand, scale-to-zero serverless GPUs; and optimize the performance and cost of AI workloads by implementing best practices.

Learn how to evaluate and optimize the impact of AI-assisted software development with Gemini Code Assist. This session covers processes for measuring AI-assistance effectiveness, exploring quantitative and qualitative measures available with Gemini Code Assist, and integrating with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging. Discover how to leverage DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics to track productivity gains. Whether you’re a developer, team lead, architect, or IT manager, you’ll gain insights into measuring the impact of AI assistance.

Is your platform ready for the scale of rapidly evolving models and agents? In this session, we’ll explore strategies for scaling your cloud native AI platform - empowering teams to leverage an increasing variety of AI models and agent frameworks. We’ll dive into tools and practices for maintaining control and cost efficiency while enabling AI engineering teams to quickly iterate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). We’ll explore how NVIDIA NIM microservices deliver optimized inference with minimal tuning. 

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According to Andreessen Horowitz, 93% of Fortune 500 companies surveyed currently use three or more AI model providers, and now AI agents will proliferate and become standard. With the massive shift in enterprise AI adoption and the pace of change, enterprises need to modernize their network and security to unlock the value that AI generates and keep pace with rapid changes. Learn how to make your network and security AI-ready, plus discover new innovations to reduce infrastructure costs, improve user experience, enable faster developer velocity, and protect your AI infrastructure from new security threats.

This talk demonstrates a fashion app that leverages the power of AlloyDB, Google Cloud’s fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database, to provide users with intelligent recommendations for matching outfits. User-uploaded data of their clothes triggers a styling insight on how to pair the outfit with matching real-time fashion advice. This is enabled through an intuitive contextual search (vector search) powered by AlloyDB and Google’s ScaNN index to deliver faster vector search results, low-latency querying, and response times. While we’re at it, we’ll showcase the power of the AlloyDB columnar engine on joins required by the application to generate style recommendations. To complete the experience, we’ll engage the Vertex AI Gemini API package from Spring and LangChain4j integrations for generative recommendations and a visual representation of the personalized style. This entire application is built on a Java Spring Boot framework and deployed serverlessly on Cloud Run, ensuring scalability and cost efficiency. This talk explores how these technologies work together to create a dynamic and engaging fashion experience.

Join Woosuk Kwon, Founder of vLLM, Robert Shaw, Director of Engineering at Red Hat, and Brittany Rockwell, Product Manager for vLLM on TPU, to learn about how vLLM is helping Google Cloud customers serve state-of-the-art models with high performance and ease of use across TPUs and GPUs.

Join us as we explore the intersection of computer use capabilities and the broader challenge of building effective AI agents. We'll examine how these developments map to the core requirements of AI agents: the ability to plan through strong reasoning and contextual understanding, act via direct computer interaction and tool use, and reflect through learning from experience. We'll share insights from recent implementations, and explore how emerging capabilities in areas like computer use are shaping the development of more capable AI systems.

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Discover the power of Google Cloud instances running on the latest Intel Xeon processors. This course will introduce you to Intel’s optimization tools, designed to help you manage and optimize your infrastructure with unmatched efficiency and performance. Learn how to leverage these cutting-edge technologies to enhance your cloud computing capabilities and drive your business forward.​

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