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.

Learn how Oracle Multicloud enables enterprise customers with best practices and use cases to seamlessly integrate, build, and operate across clouds by running Oracle Database on Google Cloud. This session showcases how you can extend your Oracle Database and Google Cloud investments and gain insights into architecture patterns, database migration strategies, performance tuning, and cost optimization techniques.

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Struggling to monitor the performance and health of your large language model (LLM) deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)? This session unveils how the Google Cloud Observability suite provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring leading AI model servers like Ray, NVIDIA Triton, vLLM, TGI, and others. Learn how our one-click setup automatically configures dashboards, alerts, and critical metrics – including GPU and TPU utilization, latency, throughput, and error analysis – to enable faster troubleshooting and optimized performance. Discover how to gain complete visibility into your LLM infrastructure.

Discover groundbreaking AI innovations in our breakout session featuring experts from Cognizant, Google, Northumbrian Water, and Stena AB. Learn how AI models are revolutionizing the approach to addressing business challenges and environmental concerns. Examples will cover solutions to detect water health using satellite imagery and AI agents transforming the shipping industry's contract decisions to reduce idle time. Join us for an insightful discussion on how these cutting-edge advancements in AI technology are providing a competitive edge.

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Looking to rapidly migrate your VMware estate on-premises or elsewhere to a cloud-integrated, Google-operated VMware platform that delivers 99.99% (four nines) availability of cluster-level uptime, flexible node configurations, and deeply integrated networking, along with high-bandwidth and low-latency access to other Google Cloud services? Want all this with minimal disruption to your existing tools or team’s skill sets? Join this session to get a primer on Google Cloud VMware Engine and its latest, learn from a leading customer about their transformation journey, and get started today.

Experience a live demo of Google Cloud’s approach to mainframe modernization using generative AI. This demo will showcase the modernization life cycle, from initial assessment to code rewrite to risk mitigation. We’ll illustrate how our agentic approach streamlines the modernization process, reducing time, budget, and resource requirements. And we’ll demonstrate how to minimize the risk of modernizing business-critical applications through testing and by enabling parallel execution of both original and modernized applications with Dual Run.