As organizations shift to Entra ID–joined or hybrid environments, traditional Group Policy Preferences no longer apply. Tasks like drive mappings, printers, shortcuts, and registry settings often require complex scripting or limited Intune workarounds, creating gaps in consistency and user experience. Learn how to modernize user environment management and deliver scalable, policy-driven control across cloud workspaces.

Ready to lead in an AI-powered world? Microsoft Credentials drive your growth at every stage—validating role-based expertise with industry recognized Certifications and solution-specific proficiency with Applied Skills. Gain verified, in-demand skills to stand out and accelerate your career in AI and cloud. Plus, explore our NEW business-focused credentials designed to empower decision-makers and strategists.​

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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Discover the future of games, powered by AI. Explore interactive gameplay experiences leveraging the best of Google Cloud, including real-time generative AI, planet-scale game servers, and more.

Have to migrate your applications in a hurry? With Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, you can rapidly migrate critical applications to Google Cloud without refactoring. Find out how you can optimize costs by scaling compute and storage independently. Plus get built-in data protection to meet your compliance needs. Hear why enterprise customers choose Google Cloud NetApp Volumes for their mission-critical applications. By attending this session, your contact information may be shared with the sponsor for relevant follow up for this event only.

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Is your business ready to embrace the software as a service (SaaS) revolution? Discover how Google Cloud can fast-track your SaaS journey. This session reveals how Google Cloud empowers you to scale your SaaS offerings, reduce time to market, and deliver exceptional customer experiences using a comprehensive toolbox with per-tenant controls, feature rollout management, and insightful monitoring. You’ll also learn from Avathon’s success story: how they leveraged these capabilities to conquer the complexities of SaaS management, automate tenant onboarding, and centralize operations.

Cloud AI platforms introduce new business challenges for security teams: attackers exploit east-west traffic, encrypted communications, and limited visibility to move laterally and exfiltrate sensitive data undetected. These blind spots create long-term risk, eroding trust and threatening compliance. In this session, we will discuss the key security problems organizations must address in protecting AI workloads, share Check Point’s recommended approach to mitigating these risks.

Experience the transformation. Learn how Gemini for Google Cloud uses AI to effortlessly manage Google Cloud. Get help with design, deployment, troubleshooting, and optimization directly within Google Cloud Console. Accelerate complex tasks, boost productivity, and stay focused on core business value. Gemini for Google Cloud offers goal-driven design, guided operations, and tailored optimizations, all with enterprise-grade security and privacy.

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Generative AI can redefine the way people create, communicate, collaborate and get things done. When you leverage powerful AI tools right within the apps you use daily, it's like suddenly having access to a team of experts in research, writing, graphics and organization who can help you reach for goals you thought impossible. Join this session to hear from Google Workspace customers and learn how the new era of Generative AI can help you outdo yourself and thrive in a new era of work - whether you work in a small business, a startup or a major multinational corporation.

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Research indicates that organizations that absorb generative AI fastest will see disproportionate business success. Accelerate and equip your organization to leverage generative AI by understanding a practical and pragmatic framework to build organizational muscle to drive business value. This workshop covers business use cases accelerated by Google Cloud solutions, showcases training opportunities across functional roles, and will include real time brainstorming and identification of actions.

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This course provides a comprehensive overview of Databricks’ modern approach to data warehousing, highlighting how a data lakehouse architecture combines the strengths of traditional data warehouses with the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. You’ll learn about the AI-driven features that enhance data transformation and analysis on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Designed for data warehousing practitioners, this course provides you with the foundational information needed to begin building and managing high-performant, AI-powered data warehouses on Databricks. This course is designed for those starting out in data warehousing and those who would like to execute data warehousing workloads on Databricks. Participants may also include data warehousing practitioners who are familiar with traditional data warehousing techniques and concepts and are looking to expand their understanding of how data warehousing workloads are executed on Databricks.

Unleash the power of Gemini with Vertex AI Studio. This hands-on lab guides you through using Gemini for image analysis, prompt engineering, and conversational AI, all within a user-friendly interface. Learn to design prompts and generate content directly from the Google Cloud console.

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Are you ready to get hands-on with Google Cloud’s AI tools? In this 2 hour gHack, you will work in teams of 4. Together you will build a Formula E Race Analysis System from scratch using a variety of our AI and Data tools. Teams will work together to build the solution by searching, learning and collaborating together to find the answers needed. 3-2-1 lights out and away we go!

There's a lot involved in building modern software. How can you build something powerful and extensible, without drowning in complexity? Join Google and industry experts for demos and best practices around making modern software development easier with our AI. We'll talk about the bleeding-edge of technology, how you can adopt it, and how Google does it ourselves. This is a talk by developers, for developers, so buckle up.

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That's a wrap on #GoogleCloudNext 2024. Watch the recap to catch up on key announcements in AI, tech and more.

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Organizations around the world are driving change with innovative solutions, boosting efficiency, empowering employees, engaging customers, and fueling growth. Join Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in our opening keynote, for exclusive insights into breakthroughs in AI and inspiring success stories from customers and partners around the world. Leave equipped to tackle real-world challenges and build for the transformative AI era.

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Google Cloud is helping organizations create the new way forward. Next is where big thinking and technology converge to solve the challenges of today and tomorrow.

If dashboard sprawl and intricate query languages have you feeling overwhelmed, this talk is for you. Bryan will introduce Grafana Cloud Asserts—a tool designed for SREs and developers. With auto-correlation of data, contextual insights, and ready-to-use alerts based on the SAAFE (Saturation, Amend, Anomaly, Failure, and Error) model, it’s set to revolutionize your observability experience.

This demo showcases Finout’s ability to manage and optimize cloud spend across Azure and services like Kubernetes, Datadog, and OpenAI. It highlights Finout’s unified “MegaBill” view for exploring Azure resources, subscriptions, and tags. The session introduces Virtual Tags for dynamic, rules-based cost allocation and covers shared cost distribution, dashboards, anomaly detection, and alerting—empowering teams to improve Azure cost efficiency.

Don’t miss this fireside chat! Join Teradata, Google Cloud, and HSBC to discover how Teradata VantageCloud migrated HSBC’s UK data platform. Learn how Teradata’s Cloud Vantage EDW enabled scalable, secure solutions and improved decision-making. With over 4 billion queries, 2,500 applications, and 35 integrated systems, this hybrid cloud solution offers unparalleled resilience and cost-efficiency.