For years, mainframe modernization seemed out of reach. Generative AI breakthroughs, led by Google’s Gemini, offer automated assessments, code transformation, and risk mitigation for accelerated and cost-effective cloud migration. Learn from Ford and Intesa Sanpaolo about how they reduced costs, boosted performance, and embraced innovation by modernizing their core applications off the mainframe and onto Google Cloud. Learn how Google Cloud’s mainframe modernization solutions can work for your digital transformation journey.

Supercharge your development workflows with Google Cloud’s internal developer platform (IDP). In today’s world of microservices and multi-region deployments, building and maintaining your own IDP can be complex. This talk unveils Google Cloud IDP – a game-changing solution that offloads development and operational burdens to Google Cloud, freeing your platform engineers and empowering developers to focus on what matters most: building amazing applications. Experience it in action with live product demos.

Securing AI applications demands a full life cycle approach. Palo Alto Networks integrates AI Runtime Security and AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) to protect your workloads from development to runtime. Gain inline data protection, prevent model misuse, and stop zero-day threats with centralized security policies and real-time threat detection. Discover how to automate security, reduce risk, and safeguard sensitive data while enabling innovation in your AI ecosystems.

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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.

This session brings together leading product experts from Google Cloud, Anthropic, Oracle, Databricks, and SAP to explore the five essential strategies for enterprises to successfully leverage AI and data. Attendees will gain valuable insights from real-world AI implementations, learn from the successes and challenges faced by global customers, and receive practical guidance on how to translate these strategies into actionable plans for their own AI journeys.

Managing BigQuery costs can be challenging, especially when juggling the different pricing models. In this session, we’ll dive into the obstacles companies face when using BigQuery at scale and how to overcome them. Highlighting real-world use cases, I’ll share how organizations have successfully optimized their BigQuery expenses by addressing inefficiencies in reservations. Attendees will learn practical strategies to reduce costs by up to 35% and discover how automatically adjusting the max slot setting can be a game-changer.

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Discover the breakthrough AI capabilities transforming cloud operations and management. Join us for an overview of Gemini Cloud Assist and learn how it brings you an AI-based cloud management experience. Gemini Cloud Assist empowers you to design and deploy apps faster, troubleshoot issues with AI insights, and optimize performance and costs through intelligent recommendations. We’ll showcase its new capabilities and integrations in various Google Cloud products, and show you how it can completely reshape your cloud management experience.

AI agents are revolutionizing organizations by embedding AI into workflows, delivering autonomous outcomes. While this offers opportunities, it also introduces risks. To mitigate these, we must implement agent-specific controls. AI is a powerful security tool, enabling resilience & optimization at scale. Discover how Accenture’s Security AI Engineering practice is developing modular blueprints to rapidly integrate AI & agentic capabilities, accelerating security operations, bridging tooling gaps, & enhancing critical infrastructure resilience.

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In this spotlight, we will explore Google Cloud’s approach to getting started with generative AI and share examples of how organizations are putting generative AI into production with Google Cloud and creating AI Agent experiences for their customers, employees and partners. Join the session to learn about all our new announcements planned for the best foundation models, best agent building framework, and the most integrated agent space, come together to help you orchestrate a solid AI future for your organization.

Dive into the architecture of cutting-edge Conversational AI Agents built with Google's AI technology. Explore the integration of Dialogflow with custom APIs to enable your Agent to affect the real world. Learn about the challenges of accuracy measurement and strategies for optimization. This session provides a blueprint for building AI agents that seamlessly integrate with your existing systems.

Revolutionize your SAP operations on Google Cloud with AI. This talk explores AIOps and demonstrates how AI can proactively monitor your SAP systems, predict and automate responses to potential issues. Learn how AI-driven insights can reduce downtime, optimize resource utilization and enhance user experiences.

Organizations around the world are building with Google Cloud to drive growth and transform industries. Join Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at our Opening Keynote to get a front row seat to see all the new product innovations and latest trends and insights. And hear from customers on how they are building new solutions that make a real business impact.

Organizations around the world are building with Google Cloud to drive growth and transform industries. Join Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at our Opening Keynote to get a front row seat to see all the new product innovations and latest trends and insights. And hear from customers on how they are building new solutions that make a real business impact.

You’re invited to kick off Next at Moorea Beach Club! Join us Tuesday, April 8, 2025, as we raise a glass to the future of cloud. It’s the perfect spot to connect with fellow partners and Google Cloud leaders before the excitement of Next unfolds. Let’s celebrate the start of an unforgettable week under the Vegas lights.

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We look forward to having you join us at the rest of our Next 25 programming at Mandalay Bay Convention Center this week!.

Want to supercharge your earnings and maximize the full potential of your Google Cloud partnership? Google Cloud leaders and partners will share proven practices to optimize partner benefits and incentives, including programs that reward your success in driving customer cloud adoption. Learn how to effectively track your progress, amplify your rewards, and propel your growth with Google Cloud.

Discover how Google Cloud is transforming Delivery Excellence with cutting-edge tools and strategies. This session provides an overview of emerging offerings and best practices, featuring insights from Google Cloud leaders and partner experts. Learn about the latest updates to Delivery Navigator and the Delivery Readiness Portfolio, and gain actionable knowledge to accelerate your customers' cloud implementations and drive impactful business outcomes.

Discover how AI is transforming customer behavior in buying & using enterprise software, and what that means for Technology Partnerships. ISV partners are deepening their engagement with Google Cloud through advisory teams built to suppport partner success, managing co-opetition, and AI powered ISV solutions. Walk away with a playbook built by Google Cloud leaders and partners about engaging with an AI-first go-to-market model and generating Google originated opportunities.