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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See how a small team can leverage Google Cloud to serve millions. As the former lead of Flutter and mobile-specialist, I started with little knowledge of Cloud. Using Google's Dart and Google Cloud, we've built a successful service across Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Big Query, Storage, CDN and more and here to share our learnings.

Join us to explore the future of databases and AI, two technologies driving the AI transformation era. Discover state-of-the-art capabilities and learn how to leverage multimodal models, vector search, natural language, and text search in your applications. We’ll share practical techniques for taking these cutting-edge technologies from concept to production. Customers will share their real-world experiences using AlloyDB AI and Vertex AI to accelerate innovation and transform their businesses. Gain insights into their journeys and learn how to unlock the full potential of AI and databases for your own organization.

Agentic workflows analyze vast amounts of data and generate insights in real-time, giving you a competitive advantage with your AI offering. But when should you use them and how do you get started? Join DataStax to learn what use cases are best for employing agentic workflows, best practices for assuring accuracy, and getting your agentic AI into production.

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Unlock the power of generative AI and data. Join experts from LlamaIndex and Google Cloud databases and learn how to seamlessly integrate LlamaIndex with AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, enabling your apps to reason, act on your data, and leverage the performance of Google Cloud. We’ll share real-world examples and code. Discover new possibilities for building advanced gen AI applications.

Tired of building the same old software as a service (SaaS) features? AI and data agents are revolutionizing the SaaS landscape, and developers are at the forefront of this exciting shift. Imagine building applications that can autonomously learn, adapt, and execute complex tasks, all while providing a personalized user experience. This session equips you with the knowledge and tools to build the next generation of intelligent SaaS applications. Learn how leading companies are leveraging AI agents to automate workflows, personalize user interactions, and boost operational efficiency. Discover the latest trends in agent development, best practices for building agent-first applications, and the secrets to successful implementation. And leave with practical insights and a clear roadmap for harnessing the power of agentic AI to create truly innovative SaaS products.

Migrate PostgreSQL to AlloyDB with Database Migration Service (DMS). This hands-on lab covers setting up Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering, configuring a continuous migration job, migrating data, and verifying the results. Learn to propagate live updates to your AlloyDB instance.

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Go under the hood to understand how the database features of Gemini Code Assist are giving application developers exciting new superpowers. Learn how Gemini powers the industry’s leading automated database querying, smarter application code wrangling in the integrated development environment (IDE), and entirely new agentic AI application features powered by enterprise data. Learn from Google Cloud engineers, and industry experts about how these features are having an impact today. And discover the secret sauce that makes these superpowers possible.

Spanner Graph provides graph database capabilities at virtually unlimited scale and allows you to seamlessly interoperate between relational and graph data models. Join this session to learn about the latest capabilities in Spanner Graph and how you can build intelligent applications with it.

NVIDIA GPUs accelerate batch ETL workloads at significant cost savings and performance. In this session, we will delve into optimizing Apache Spark on GCP Dataproc using the G2 accelerator-optimized series with L4 GPUs via RAPIDS Accelerator For Apache Spark, showcasing up to 14x speedups and 80% cost reductions for Spark applications. We will demonstrate this acceleration through a reference AI architecture on financial transaction fraud detection, and go through performance measurements.

Unstructured data makes up the majority of all new data; a trend that's been growing exponentially since 2018. At these volumes, vector embeddings require indexes to be trained so that nearest neighbors can be efficiently approximated, avoiding the need for exhaustive lookups. However, training these indexes puts intense demand on vector databases to maintain a high ingest throughput. In this session, we will explain how the NVIDIA cuVS library is turbo charging vector database ingest with GPUs, providing speedups from 5-20x and improving data readiness.

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Modernize business processes and ignite innovation. Google Cloud infrastructure uniquely offers unmatched performance, scalability, and reliability for your mission-critical SAP workloads, especially for RISE with SAP. Learn how enterprises are future-proofing their SAP landscapes with Google Cloud, unlocking data and accelerating business outcomes. Discover best practices to transform your SAP deployments into a foundation for innovation. Don’t miss these real-world customer success stories.

Join us to learn how you can build on Google’s intelligent, open, and unified Data Cloud to accelerate your AI transformation. This session covers deep integrations between BigQuery and Google’s operational databases, such as Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, Cloud SQL. Mercado Libre will share how Spanner and Bigtable Data Boost enable near-zero impact analytics on their operational data. Plus, discover how Datastream and change streams simplify data movement to BigQuery, and how reverse ETL (extract, transform, and load) from BigQuery powers operational analytics.

Learn about the latest developments in our integrated geospatial analytics capabilities from Google Maps Platform, Google Earth Engine, and BigQuery. Discover how our rich geospatial data, powerful cloud computing, and built-in AI tools make it easier for any professional to unlock insights, leading to faster, better decisions that drive business growth and sustainability. Find out how our customers are currently using geospatial analytics and Google Cloud infrastructure to improve their business and sustainability outcomes.

Maximize your Google Cloud ROI with automation! This session explores strategies for rate optimization, specifically focusing on automating Committed Use Discount (CUD) management. Learn how to intelligently purchase CUDs to achieve optimal savings and dramatically reduce your cloud spend. Discover how to effectively distribute risk through commitment laddering and other strategies. Gain insight into how automation can free up your FinOps team’s time to focus on higher-value activities in the cloud.

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Discover how to combine generative AI with knowledge graphs to create AI systems that understand causation and drive actionable insights. Through live demos, DoiT will explore how Spanner Graph enables long-term reasoning capabilities, moving beyond descriptive analytics to prescriptive AI that generates and adapts action plans. Discover patterns and strategies to build AI systems that go beyond “What happened?” to guide organizations toward their goals. Join DoiT for an inspirational talk to create better and more trustworthy AI recommendations.

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Changes to Oracle’s long-standing licensing policies regarding Google Cloud have opened up a new avenue for customers to run their Oracle databases. Learn how Google’s infrastructure and network serve as the perfect foundation for maintaining performance and availability on your critical applications, while giving you a path to integrate those applications with industry-leading AI. Find out how customers are modernizing their workloads on Google Cloud as well as what’s next for their applications.

In this exclusive look at transforming business operations with AI-powered solutions, discover how GenAI is reshaping industries, from transportation and on-demand services to healthcare and manufacturing. Gain insights from the leaders, drivers, and decisions that paved the way to AI-powered success, as our moderated panel shares lessons to apply when preparing for the next stage of an organization’s journey

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Spanner isn't just a database, it's a globally distributed, strongly consistent and highly reliable database platform built for the complexities of modern AI-first applications. We'll explore how Spanner's multi-model capabilities, including advanced search and seamless integration with analytics, enable developers to build intelligent, globally accessible applications. We’ll dive into Spanner's underlying technology to simplify your database solutions and learn from real-world examples from Shopify and Palo Alto Networks.

To stay competitive against cloud-native disruptors, Carrefour Spain launched a cloud-first strategy with Google Cloud, transforming IT for agility, scalability, and cost-efficiency. In this session, learn how NTT DATA helped Carrefour leverage IaaS, PaaS, and serverless tools, migrating 382 workloads and deploying SAP Hana across 200+ hypermarkets. Discover how Carrefour's new e-commerce platform powered by Kubernetes accelerates innovation and drives online growth, helping them outpace competitors.

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Learn how the new agentic application stack combines evolved orchestration patterns, powerful semantic operators, and seamless interactions with Google Cloud databases. Join this breakout session to discover real-world use cases and gain insights into the future of software engineering, natural language interfaces, and multimodal applications.