Calling all Python developers using Google Cloud! Share your experiences, projects, and insights leveraging Python on Google Cloud. Whether you're exploring official libraries, automating tasks, or building innovative solutions, this meetup is for you. Let's discuss what's working well, challenges you've faced, and how Python + Google Cloud could be even better. Connect with fellow developers, get inspired, and help shape the future of Python on Google Cloud!

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.

Launching LLM-powered products is transformative but requires strategic execution. This session shares lessons from embedding AI solutions (built with Gemini on Google Cloud) into real use cases. Learn how we avoided pitfalls, tackled automation myths, and delivered real value. Gain insights on identifying high-impact AI opportunities, validating solutions, and iterating for successful product launches.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

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.

If you register for a Learning Center lab, please ensure that you sign up for a Google Cloud Skills Boost account for both your work domain and personal email address. You will need to authenticate your account as well (be sure to check your spam folder!). This will ensure you can arrive and access your labs quickly onsite. You can follow this link to sign up!

Explore how AI agents and assistants are transforming Software Logistics, bringing intelligence to cloud application delivery. This session demonstrates practical applications of AI in deployment automation, configuration management, and runtime optimization. Discover how Platform Engineers leverage AI to create more efficient delivery systems. Learn design strategies from automated security scanning to intelligent deployment decisions, and how to integrate these capabilities into your existing platform engineering practices.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Bad actors are sneaky, slippery, and getting smarter all the time. However, businesses now have a powerful new defense. Advances in AI offer opportunities to arm developers with information and tools to help mitigate risks. Join us as we share perspectives on design, considerations, and challenges when deploying AI to enhance security and improve efficiencies for developers.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Generative AI is revolutionizing app development, demanding a robust network architecture capable of supporting distributed, cross-cloud deployments. This session dives into the essential networking strategies for building and deploying these next-generation applications. Discover new technologies to establish secure, reliable, and high-performance connectivity spanning Google Cloud, multicloud, and hybrid networks. Explore how to seamlessly integrate service-centric architectures to accelerate developer velocity without compromising security.

Generative AI enables you to build amazing new apps, but you may also have concerns. Will it be too complex or too expensive, or will it create security risks? Fortunately, building good gen AI apps has become much easier in the past year, in large part due to updated capabilities within databases. We’ll learn how Google Cloud databases handle key AI technologies like vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration, helping you bridge the gap between general-purpose AI models and your business-specific data. We’ll dive into some fun application examples to see how they were built and how you can use the same techniques in your apps.

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.

Learn how to run high-throughput and low-latency inference on Google Cloud to maximize price-performance on TPUs and GPUs, leveraging JetStream and vLLM.

Join us for the Partner Summit Keynote as we chart the course for shared success in 2025 and beyond. Discover how Google Cloud is empowering partners with new programs, resources, and initiatives designed to drive customer value and unlock exponential growth.

Increased productivity and efficiency are baseline expectations. AI must drive business transformation by going beyond the bottom-line to reshape customer experiences, streamline operations, and achieve strategic goals. Join Dialpad’s Natala Menezes, VP of Product Marketing and Randstad's Ryan Henry, Director of Infrastructure Services for a conversation about how Randstad gets real ROI with smarter processes. 

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

We live in a different era – one where developers need access to larger tools, data and code need to be more secure, and ultimately still more work needs to get done. Learn about methods on Google Cloud to leverage remote development effectively for all your software development needs, from Day 1 to production. You’ll experience Cloud Shell in action, how Cloud Workstations powers your AI development needs, and container and developer tools that make deployment simple. Power to the devs.

Having difficulty translating desired outcomes into optimal cloud architecture for your apps? Join the session to learn about Application Design Center and its integration with Gemini Cloud Assist. We will showcase how it helps platform engineers and application architects translate ideas into deployable applications with unprecedented speed and simplicity. Explore with us its intuitive interface for designing, customizing, and deploying applications on Google Cloud with AI assistance, and leave with practical skills and tips for your next project.

Cox’s growth goals hinge on customer acquisition and retention to expand its market reach. Traditional customer service models, limited by inefficiencies and reactive support, hinder scalability. Next-generation customer service innovations – powered by AI, automation, and data-driven insights – enable proactive engagement, hyper-personalization, and seamless omnichannel experiences. Innovative strategies unlock new revenue streams, improve customer lifetime value, and enhance operational agility, turning every customer interaction into a growth opportunity.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

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..

Incidents occur across time and topology. Customers using multiple GCP services spend hours troubleshooting. Learn about Gemini Cloud Assist Investigations, which provides the full range of troubleshooting and support, including structured workflows, signal analysis, and ability to recommend solutions across your applications, services and workloads, as well as its components such as compute, networking, storage, databases and data processing pipelines. With Gemini Cloud Assist Investigations, you can understand your environmental data patterns better, perform root cause analysis on your applications faster, and improve efficiency with warm handoffs between Gemini Cloud Assist and Google Support.

Cloud infrastructure's scale makes backup challenging. Traditional methods, relying on manual tagging and costly snapshots, fall short. Eon, a next-gen backup platform, provides autonomous cloud backup posture management with instant data access. Join this session to learn how Eon continuously maps and classifies resources across multi-cloud environments, applying backup policies based on requirements—no tagging needed! See how Eon's globally searchable backups enable instant restoration without full restores, finally making backups useful.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Discover the power of Google Cloud’s fully managed, horizontally scalable relational database service—Cloud Spanner. In this hands-on lab, you'll gain practical experience in performing essential administrative tasks within a Cloud Spanner instance. Learn how to create instances and databases, design tables, insert and modify data, and leverage the Google Cloud CLI and automation tools for efficient management.

If you register for a Learning Center lab, please ensure that you sign up for a Google Cloud Skills Boost account for both your work domain and personal email address. You will need to authenticate your account as well (be sure to check your spam folder!). This will ensure you can arrive and access your labs quickly onsite. You can follow this link to sign up!