There are a lot of amazing AI features being announced at Google Cloud Next. In order to take full advantage of these, you need to make sure your data is being managed in a secure, centralized way. In this talk, you’ll learn how to set up your lakehouse to get your data ready for downstream workloads. You’ll view a demo involving an architecture of Google Cloud products that includes managing permissions on your data, configuring metadata management, and performing transformations using open source frameworks.

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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This hands-on lab empowers you to build a cutting-edge multimodal question answering system using Google's Vertex AI and the powerful Gemini family of models. By constructing this system from the ground up, you'll gain a deep understanding of its inner workings and the advantages of incorporating visual information into Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). This hands-on experience equips you with the knowledge to customize and optimize your own multimodal question answering systems, unlocking new possibilities for knowledge discovery and reasoning.

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Unlock the power of AI! Build your own intelligent agent with hands-on guidance from Google Cloud Consulting's leading AI experts. No experience needed, just a desire to innovate and build into the future with AI!

Building an assistant capable of answering complex, company-specific questions and executing workflows requires first building a powerful Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system. Founding engineer Eddie Zhou explains how Glean built its RAG system on Google Cloud— combining a domain-adapted search engine with dynamic prompts to harness the full capabilities of Gemini's reasoning engine. By attending this session, your contact information may be shared with the sponsor for relevant follow up for this event only.

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Use Google Cloud products to create architecture designs that are highly secure and robust. To protect your sensitive data and maintain trust with stakeholders, building a highly secure infrastructure is imperative to ensure the overall security and stability of an organization's digital presence. Attend the session to gain insights into the elements encompassed in a secure architectural framework with cloud native tools. By attending this session, your contact information may be shared with the sponsor for relevant follow up for this event only.

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Co-create your future with strategic, AI-powered business visioning! Join Google Cloud Consulting for interactive whiteboarding sessions designed to solve your biggest challenges and unlock new opportunities.

Join us as we explore an exciting collaboration between the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) and Google Cloud, bringing the power of open-source AI to the research community. This initiative provides researchers and developers with access to OLMo, Ai2's state-of-the-art open language model, leveraging Google Cloud's scalable infrastructure. By prioritizing data transparency and open access, this initiative is poised to transform how AI is developed and deployed, fueling a new era of innovation in science, healthcare, public sector, and other regulated industries.

This session will take a technical look across Google Cloud's operational databases portfolio and a deeper dive into the key patterns and scenarios mapping to each database. We’ll provide you with prescriptive guidance on choosing databases for workload migrations and what selection criteria to factor in to your decision making.

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Navigating the complex world of compliance can be daunting. Join us to discover how to simplify your compliance journey on Google Cloud, enabling you to build at scale while meeting stringent industry regulations with ease.

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Time-based; Implicit Coupling; Orchestration Engine (= e.g. GCP Workflows)

Build & deploy with Google Cloud Deploy! This hands-on lab equips you to create delivery pipelines, deploy container images to Artifact Registry, and promote applications across GKE environments.

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In this game you will create and manage permissions for Google Cloud resources, run structured queries on BigQuery and Cloud SQL, create several VPC networks and VM instances and test connectivity across networks, and monitor a Google Compute Engine VM instance with Cloud Monitoring.

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Experience the future of retail with Google Cloud's edge-to-cloud infrastructure, powering seamless store operations. Explore multi-modal AI for data insights and personalized experiences. Discover how connected solutions empower retailers to adapt and thrive in today's dynamic market, leveraging data for impactful business outcomes.

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create a cross-region HTTP(S) load balancer that intelligently distributes traffic to instances in multiple regions. By setting up four Compute Engine instances across two regions, you'll configure the load balancer to ensure seamless traffic routing to the right instance. This lab will help you optimize application performance, improve availability, and enhance fault tolerance across geographically distributed systems.

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Need precise data extraction from your documents?  This hands-on lab teaches you to build custom document extractors with Document AI Workbench. Learn to create, train, and evaluate a model tailored to your specific document types and achieve higher processing accuracy.

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Discover the secrets to real-world AI success! Hear directly from industry leaders using Google Cloud AI to transform their businesses. Learn how Google Cloud Consulting can accelerate your AI journey.

Catch up on what you missed Day 1

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Learn how to use Google Cloud Networking to protect your website from DDoS attacks. We'll cover a survey of easy-to-configure products, such as Cloud Armor, Load Balancing, and Cloud CDN, and demonstrate how to protect content anywhere on the web within just a few minutes! These services can help keep your content consistently online in the face of targeted attacks, and also during legitimate traffic surges. We'll also talk about Project Shield, which provides free protection to news, human rights, and elections organizations.

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Discover how Google Cloud and our partners are maximizing personalization and monetization to enable the next generation of AI-powered experiences for audiences everywhere.