With great power comes great responsibility – and the need for confidentiality. This talk explores how confidential computing technology can act as a powerful shield for your AI deployments. We’ll show how Confidential Computing and confidential accelerators safeguard sensitive data and algorithms, even during processing, to ensure that your AI workloads remain protected throughout their life cycle.

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Transform your high performance computing (HPC) with Google Cloud. Join this session to learn how Parallelstore, advanced tools, and expert support accelerate performance, reduce costs, and boost innovation. Optimize your HPC environment for maximum efficiency and gain a competitive edge. Explore the future of HPC and transform your organization.

Want to spend less time debugging and more time innovating? GitHub’s developer-first platform provides cutting-edge features to revolutionize your workflow, allowing you to build smarter and faster with minimal effort and maximum impact. Dive into AI-native development and get a peek at our latest Copilot-powered tools, designed for agentic experiences and developer choice and  hear from Verily about how GitHub’s platform enhances innovation and productivity.

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Agentic AI systems offer interesting opportunities. These AI systems have the ability to reason, plan, and act autonomously to achieve their goals unlocking a vast array of possibilities including the automation of complex tasks and the creation of innovative AI-powered applications. This talk delves into three approaches for agentic AI: 1) Building on Agentspace 2) Using NotebookLM 3) 3rd Party Agentic AI on Google Participants will have a solid understanding of how to get started with agentic AI by the end of the session.

Running performance-intensive services at scale while meeting the rigorous security and compliance requirements of some of the most demanding public and private sector organizations presents many interesting challenges. In this talk, you will hear how Pexip, a leading video technology provider, works to build, operate, and protect their global technology platform with the help of Google Cloud security solutions.

Build intelligent search with Vertex AI Embeddings. This hands-on lab explores text and multimodal embeddings (images & video), showing you how to transform data into numerical representations for enhanced search. Learn to create a simple e-commerce search system that finds products based on text, images, and videos.

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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!

This hands-on lab equips you with the practical skills to build and deploy a real-world AI-powered chat application leveraging the Gemini LLM APIs. You'll learn to containerize your application using Cloud Build, deploy it seamlessly to Cloud Run, and explore how to interact with the Gemini LLM to generate insightful responses. This hands-on experience will provide you with a solid foundation for developing engaging and interactive conversational applications.

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In this session, Fortinet and Google Cloud will jointly present on how Fortinet's AI-powered security solution integrated with Google Cloud's native security services can help organizations make better informed decisions, rapidly respond to threats, and save time on even the most complex tasks.

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As the volume and value of data in cloud surges, defending it is an ever increasing challenge. In 2022, 94% of cloud tenants were targeted every month, and 62% are successfully compromised. A focus on preventing breaches is no longer sufficient – data must be defensible, even after a compromise. This session explores how to expand your cybersecurity strategy, enabling you to control risk, recover quickly and safely in the event of an incident, and ensure your Google Cloud data and business stand resilient against cyberattacks.

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Gain unprecedented visibility into AI applications and threats with Palo Alto Networks AI-Runtime, now easily deployed with Google Packet Mirroring/Intercept. This session reveals how this powerful combination analyzes network traffic to discover both legitimate and malicious uses of AI, enabling proactive threat detection and rapid response. Learn how to simplify deployment, improve security posture, and stay ahead of the evolving AI threat landscape.

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Build robust ETL pipelines on Google Cloud! This hands-on lab teaches you to use Dataflow (Python) and BigQuery to ingest and transform public datasets. Learn design considerations and implementation details to create effective data pipelines for your needs.

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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.

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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Managing petabytes of Google Cloud storage objects? Attend this session to learn how the new Storage Intelligence product simplifies managing billions of objects across thousands of buckets. Leverage AI-driven insights to analyze cost, performance, security, and compliance – all through intuitive natural language queries. Quickly act on insights with bucket relocation and batch operations. Join us to uncover practical tools and exciting new features that can transform you into a Cloud Storage superhero.

Discover how urban planners have harnessed the power of geospatial systems and AI Scenario Planning to enhance resiliency, optimize land use, and explore vast amounts of complex transportation data quickly, using simple natural language queries. In this session, we'll showcase how Broward MPO is using these powerful technologies to transform planning workflows and prioritize infrastructure improvements.

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This session will cover Claude’s advanced reasoning capabilities, prompt engineering techniques, and empirical evaluations. We’ll also delve into best practices for prompt engineering, and how to optimize agents to advance Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) within your Google Cloud environment. Whether you're an AI practitioner or an enterprise architect, this session will equip you with the knowledge to harness Claude’s full potential for enhanced AI workflows on Google Cloud.

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Join Linda Moss, Google Cloud Director of Cloud Learning Services; Travis Runty, Rackspace Head of Security; and Shefali Victors, Rackspace GCP CoE Lead Architect, for a no-holds-barred look at why credentials are the new currency in an AI-powered world. Whether you’re interested in career advancement or skilling up your team, certifications get past the hype and validate real-world readiness. In fact, 9 in 10 leaders from organizations using Google Cloud say that certifications increase their confidence in a candidates’ knowledge or ability.

Introducing Google’s next-generation global network that powers Google Cloud and our multibillion user apps like Search, YouTube, Google Maps, and more. Learn about the groundbreaking technologies and the design principles of "exponential scalability,” “beyond-NINEs reliability,” “fine-grained programmability”, and “from automation to autonomy” that have guided our next-generation architecture. Discover how you can leverage these innovations to transform your enterprise connectivity and respond to the dramatic demands of AI–powered services.

Cybersecurity threats are escalating rapidly. How can lean IT teams effectively defend against sophisticated attacks given the complex threat landscape? This session explores how Google Cloud empowers your team with advanced threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response capabilities, enabling you to protect your organization and stay ahead of the curve.