Learn how LG AI Research uses Google Cloud AI Hypercomputer to build their EXAONE family of LLMs and innovative Agentic AI experiences based the models. EXAONE 3.5, class of bilingual models that can learn and understand both Korean and English, recorded world-class performance in Korean. The collaboration between LG AI Research and Google Cloud enabled LG to significantly enhance model performance, reduce inference time, and improve resource efficiency through Google Cloud's easy-to-use scalable infrastructure

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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Experience what a real cyberattack is like in ThreatSpace, a digital training ground on Google Cloud. While the Mandiant red team tries to break into your system, the Mandiant incident response team guides you through the investigation. Use Google Security Operations and Threat Intelligence tools to uncover how the attackers got in and what they’ve done. Extra points if you can catch the bad guys!

Maximize the efficiency of your machine learning workloads on Google Cloud infrastructure. This session delivers actionable strategies for in-depth diagnostics on both TPUs and GPUs. Learn to visualize model architectures, analyze critical performance metrics, and pinpoint optimization opportunities. Empower your data-driven decision-making and achieve significant performance gains through practical diagnostic techniques.

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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Spoiler alert: you can’t! But, there are some new approaches to teaming, measurement tracking, and technology that modern data teams are applying, changing their reputation in the organization from a cost center to a strategic value-add. We’ll share how Hex customers are revolutionizing the data field, explore the evolving impact of AI on data, and provide honest, actionable insights for data leaders, practitioners, and executives.

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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 your application logs with Google Cloud Logging. This hands-on lab provides hands-on experience using Cloud Logging to gain deep insights into your applications, particularly on Google Kubernetes Engine. Learn to build effective queries and proactively address potential issues.

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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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Ready to advance your career in the cloud? This meetup is for anyone interested in earning a Google Cloud certification or adding to their certification portfolio. Get expert advice from certified professionals, connect with fellow learners, and discover the right certification path for you. Leave with helpful study tips and maybe even a few study partners!

Connect with other security professionals in our Birds of a Feather sessions. Dive into lively discussions with peers and Google Cloud experts on key security topics, including identity and access management, network security, multicloud monitoring, and more.

Experience the future of AI with Google Cloud! Speak with Agentspace experts to learn how it can provide conversational assistance and take actions based on your company’s unique information. See topic details for each time block here.

Experience the future of AI with Google Cloud! Speak with customers who are building innovative AI solutions and learn directly from them. This experience offers a real-world look into "how we built it" discussions, giving you the chance to explore the possibilities. See detailed schedule of each timeblock here.

Discover how to transition from legacy, siloed systems to a unified, scalable, and insights-driven data platform on GCP. This session will cover best practices for data migration, overcoming common challenges, and integrating SaaS and third-party solutions using key Google Cloud services like BigQuery, Data Fusion, Cloud Storage, Application Integration, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, and Artifact Registry.

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Deutsche Bank's Cloud Centre of Excellence is shaping the cloud strategy, advising, supporting, and governing the migration of hundreds of applications to Google Cloud. With EPAM's assistance, we've identified pain points and improved the migration process, making it faster, more cost-effective, more consistent, and of higher quality, achieving a 70% reduction in design duration. Join us to learn practical steps to accelerate your own cloud migration journey.

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This session provides a Google thought-leadership perspective on the importance of product-led growth for all organizations and how it can complement and accelerate sales-driven strategies. We’ll explain how we’ve scaled software-as-a-service (SaaS) product-led growth principles to Google Cloud, and we’ll illustrate how Google Cloud can be the ideal partner for creating, analyzing, and optimizing product-led growth efforts to drive incremental revenue without increasing sales head count.

Learn how to leverage Google Cloud's cutting-edge AI models to rapidly develop solutions for critical healthcare challenges. Gain practical skills and empower your startup to revolutionize diagnostics, drug discovery, and personalized treatment. This session provides the skills and confidence to build impactful AI solutions and tackle real-world biotech challenges.

Cross-Cloud Network, built on Google’s planet-scale network, has transformed how organizations connect and secure workloads, users, and data across hybrid and multicloud networks. It simplifies complexity, strengthens security, and helps deliver faster business outcomes. Join this session to learn about new innovations in 2025 with the Cross-Cloud Network that allow you to secure and optimize AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, connect global enterprises, expand network security to cover all threat vectors as you connect distributed multicloud apps, and deliver web and media workloads.

SQL Server workloads powering mission-critical applications demand high availability and disaster recovery configurations from the get-go. Users can choose to leverage the business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) capabilities in Cloud SQL for SQL Server. In this session, we’ll cover the basics of BCDR with Cloud SQL for SQL Server. We’ll highlight the architectural patterns that are best suited for different types of workloads while leveraging the latest enterprise-ready Cloud SQL innovations.

No marketing allowed! This session is FOR developers, BY developers. If you are a Developer, if you love AI, or just want to learn more about AI - this session is for you. Take a break from slides and hype, and learn tips, tricks, and shortcuts from Developer Advocates and Google Engineers in Cloud AI. Bring your laptop, an appetite for fun, and expect to see some actual code in this rapid fire session.