Struggling with the cloud skills gap? Discover the Google Cloud Partner University Program – a powerful collaboration across France, UK, Africa - uniting Google Cloud, leading partners, and top universities. Learn how we provide students free access to cutting-edge Google Cloud learning content and clear pathways to subsidized, high-value certifications. See how 1000+ students are already gaining job-ready skills, and how participating partners connect directly with this emerging talent pool, ready to innovate and accelerate your cloud journey. Join us to explore how you can get involved.

Automation can help you migrate, coordinate and manage workloads in cloud environments in a simple and effective way, reducing complexity and operational costs. In this session we will cover: - How to increase speed and reduce errors as you migrate to Google Cloud - How Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform simplifies managing your Google Cloud infrastructure - Getting started automating Google Cloud cloud services with certified automation content for migration and management

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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.

Google Cloud and Rakuten Cloud are developing a joint solution empowered by AI to tame the stateful edge across several industries. Learn how our joint offering integrating Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage with GDC is transforming edge deployments where issues such as data sovereignty, network uptime, latency and compliance are paramount. We will also discuss a customer use case of integrating cloud-native storage with GDC Edge to meet the needs of mission-critical stateful applications across an organization with thousands of locations.

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This talk will outline key architectural best practices for building and deploying Google Cloud environments that leverage the latest, most powerful GPUs for AI model training and inference. We'll also examine potential obstacles tech leaders might encounter during this process and offer strategies to overcome them. The insights provided will equip you to rapidly establish scalable, reliable, and high-performance cloud infrastructure tailored to your AI training and inference requirements.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, modernizing mainframe systems is crucial for maintaining competitive advantage. This joint solution explores the transformative potential of migrating data warehouse extracts to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery. Utilizing the flexible framework built, organizations can achieve a flexible, integrated solution that accelerates time to market, ensures accurate and timely real-time data for reporting and advanced analytics, and provides self-service access. This digital transformation not only empowers stakeholders with enhanced capabilities but also significantly improves the overall customer experience.

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Newt Global's DMAP revolutionizes Oracle/MS-SQL to PostgreSQL migrations. This automated solution streamlines the entire process, from initial planning to final production deployment. Key advantages are 1. Container-driven parallelization: Dramatically reduces migration timelines by harnessing powerful computing resources. 2. Unmatched speed: For medium complexity databases, DMAP achieves in 12 weeks what other tools take 12 months due to its advanced automation capabilities, including streamlined application and complex code translation.

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How will you deliver store and factory floor analytics, shrink reduction, fast transactions, quality control, and staff empowerment? AI models, AI optimized cloud infrastructure, and edge hardware are unlocking new opportunities to build, deploy, and scale use cases that transform the way that customers experience your brand. Join the experts from Google Cloud as we explore the modern retail store and factory floor, engage with an interactive demo, and discuss the art of possible in a moderated panel.

Learn how leading startups build transformative AI solutions with Vertex AI. Gain behind-the-scenes insights, practical strategies, and actionable takeaways to fuel your innovation using Google Cloud’s open ecosystem of models and APIs.

Join us for an exclusive session where Cotality (CoreLogic) reveals its groundbreaking journey of cloud transformation with Cognizant and Google Cloud. Gain insights into the strategies that drove major achievements, including significant cost reductions, heightened security, and rapid innovation. Discover the pivotal roles of the Neuro Business Process Application and Google Geomatica in revolutionizing their operations. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how leading-edge technology can elevate your organization’s efficiency and success.

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Deliver, protect, and scale immersive web, media, generative AI and API experiences with the Google Cloud global frontend as part of our Cross-Cloud Network for backend infrastructure running in any cloud or on-premises. Learn about new innovations providing consistent global performance to improve user experience; advanced protection to help stop DDoS, web, API, and gen AI attacks; scalable traffic control for traffic spikes and scale; edge programmability to allow customizations and integrations; and automation to enable end-to-end deployment automation.

Hear how GigaOM, a leading technology analyst firm partnered with Pythian to leverage Google's Gemini AI model showcasing its transformative potential. Learn how GigaOM enabled advanced question-answering on GigaOM’s reports, enhancing user engagement and insight accessibility, while eliminating manual analysis. Howard and Paul will share the prompt engineering, data integration and rigorous testing techniques that led to contextually relevant and accurate responses, providing clients with rapid, self-serve access to valuable insights.

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Unlock the power of code execution with Gemini 2.0 Flash! This hands-on lab demonstrates how to generate and run Python code directly within the Gemini API. Learn to use this capability for tasks like solving equations, processing text, and building code-driven applications.

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Migration can be challenging, but Google Cloud Migration Center is here to help. From discovery and analysis of your applications to definitions and cost estimates of your desired future cloud state and migration execution, Google Cloud’s easy-to-use, self-service migration tools pave the way for a smooth, efficient, and low-risk cloud migration. Come view demos of the latest workload migration capabilities and learn how Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) leveraged them to migrate their complex application portfolio to Google Cloud.

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) is spearheading a groundbreaking digital transformation to enhance services for employers and job seekers. Through an innovative partnership with SADA and Google Cloud, the Wisconsin DWD is building a modern, secure, and user-friendly employer portal designed to streamline processes and increase accessibility. Join the Wisconsin DWD, SADA, and Google as they share insights into this transformation and explore key industry trends shaping the future of digital innovation in the public sector.

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Discover how organizations are transforming into AI-applied companies. Explore strategies for optimizing, improving, and innovating GCP operations. Learn from a holistic approach to integrating GenAI, ML, and DataOps and the capabilities enabled for GCP strategy. Explore enhancements in serverless tech, automation, and security. Don't miss out on this opportunity to be inspired and informed.

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Elevate your customer service and unlock new opportunities with Vertex AI agents. This session discusses the service opportunity and will walk through a live demo of Vertex AI Agent Builder. We'll provide insights and resources to identify and grow service opportunities using Vertex AI agents and other Google Cloud AI services.

As AI reshapes the way we think about trust and security, GitHub is leading the charge in transforming application security. Join Brittany O’Shea, GitHub Sr. Director of Product Management, as she showcases how AI-driven advancements are revolutionizing detection, prevention, and remediation. Discover how these innovations empower developers to build secure, high-quality software by embedding security as a default, dramatically improving the nature of application security for the better.

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Find out how leading customers have successfully done large-scale VMware migrations to Google Cloud. Join us in this exciting customer panel to learn directly from Google Cloud VMware Engine customers about how they’ve successfully completed their VMware transformation journeys.