Learn how to manage security controls and licenses for thousands of users, and tie it all together with APIs. We’ll show you ways to manage developer access more efficiently, build custom management integrations, and keep your CISO happy at the same time. We’ll also demo the new Gemini Code Assist integration with Apigee, which lets developers use Gemini Code Assist chat to generate context-aware OpenAPI specifications that reuse components from other APIs in their organization for efficiency and reference organizational security standards.

Join this session to learn best practices for optimizing your data and analytics costs. Discover new BigQuery capabilities that simplify workload management and provide greater cost controls and adherence to best practices. BigQuery customers Just Eat Takeaway and Trendyol will share their BigQuery migration journeys, scaling strategies, and how they used workload management and optimization tools to improve their return on investment (ROI).

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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Take part in the new SOC Experience – a view into real-world attack scenarios. Learn about the latest hacker tactics and how Google equips cybersecurity teams with the data, AI, and scalable analytics to detect and remediate attacks.

In this hands-on lab, you'll explore data with BigQuery's intuitive table explorer and data insight features, enabling you to gain valuable insights without writing SQL queries from scratch. Learn how to generate key insights from order item data, query location tables, and interact with your data seamlessly. By the end, you’ll be equipped to navigate complex datasets and uncover actionable insights quickly and efficiently.

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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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Tired of generic code suggestions? Learn how to customize Gemini Code Assist using your source code repositories. This session covers best practices for generating new code, and retrieving and reusing existing code, with Gemini Code Assist code-customization capabilities. Boost productivity, enforce consistency, and reduce cognitive load with a truly personalized AI coding assistant.

Gemini 2.0 was built for the agentic era – from native tool use to function calling to robust support for multimodal understanding, the new frontier of applications are agentic. Join this session to explore the frontier of agents, where the best opportunities are for developers to build, open research areas to scale to billions of agents, and how to best leverage Gemini.

Did you know that GitHub Copilot lets you use Google Gemini as an AI programming assistant? Learn tips and tricks of prompting, shaping the context space, injecting third-party knowledge sources, and other ways that GitHub developers maximize their (and their team's) use of Gemini in VS Code and other IDEs.

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The open-source AI agent landscape is thriving with innovation. This session is your definitive guide to building, deploying, and monitoring OSS agent frameworks. Learn patterns and best practices that combine the best of open-source frameworks with the AI platform built for production – Vertex AI. In this session, we'll cover techniques for multi-agent orchestration, working with diverse data sources, and building autonomous workflows. Join us on a journey from open-source agent frameworks to production-grade agent deployments and LLMOps on Vertex AI.

Are you a site reliability engineer (SRE) for an organization running generative AI workloads? If gen AI is transforming your workloads, are your SRE skills keeping pace? This session is a must for SREs facing the unique challenges of gen AI. Learn to adapt the four golden signals – tackling latency in multistage pipelines, user satisfaction in nondeterministic systems, and new error types like hallucinations. Discover how Google Cloud Observability and Firebase Genkit AI monitoring can help you master gen AI SRE.

Many organizations are scrambling to adopt Aritificial Intelligence tools across their teams, and like any new technology rollout, they are encountering challenges- both expected and unexpected. CME Group recently rolled out Gemini Code Assist to one of their large software development organizations and are excited to share takeaways around people, process, and tools. The topics include: compliance and information security considerations, 
managing rollout and adoption: starting small and scaling, and how these tools can help reshape the workday of your teams. No matter where you are in your AI adoption journey, you're sure to learn something new!

Are you ready to get hands-on with Google Cloud’s AI tools? In this 2 hour gHack, you will work in teams of 4. Together you will build a Formula E Race Analysis System from scratch using a variety of our AI and Data tools. Teams will work together to build the solution by searching, learning and collaborating together to find the answers needed. 3-2-1 lights out and away we go!

Discover how Snap and Google Cloud are redefining AI-powered engagement through cross-team collaboration with Google. This session will teach you how Snapchat leverages Google to enable their growth and platform advancement.  Gain insights into Snap’s holistic journey, the impact of a tailored Google approach and engagement model, and strategies for startups to integrate Google’s solutions to enable the growth of your platform.

Take part in the new SOC Experience – a view into real-world attack scenarios. Learn about the latest hacker tactics and how Google equips cybersecurity teams with the data, AI, and scalable analytics to detect and remediate attacks.

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.

If you register for a Learning Center lab, please ensure that you sign up for a Google Cloud Skills Boost account for both your work domain and personal email address. You will need to authenticate your account as well (be sure to check your spam folder!). This will ensure you can arrive and access your labs quickly onsite. You can follow this link to sign up!

This session explores building sensitive data protection directly into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures. We'll demonstrate how to leverage Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) and the Faker Library to anonymize sensitive data within the RAG pipeline. The session will cover techniques for reversible transformations using Memorystore and Firestore for data mapping, and discuss integrating these methods with Large Language Models (LLMs) like Gemini via LangChain and Vertex AI Search. Learn how to create secure and compliant AI solutions that protect sensitive data and adhere to regulations like the EU AI Act.

What if building an AI agent that thinks, reasons, and acts autonomously took less time than your coffee break? With Vertex AI, it’s not just possible. It’s easy. Join DoiT to see how to build, deploy, and scale a production-ready AI agent in 10 minutes using Google’s top services: Gemini 2 for language understanding, the RAG Engine for fetching information, and the Agent Engine for orchestration. To top it off, watch a live demo take an agent from concept to production-ready in real time.

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Dive into end-to-end Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI. Discover how to integrate data, models, and workflows to build scalable, reliable ML pipelines. Learn how Vertex AI automates key ML lifecycle stages like training, hyperparameter tuning, deployment, and monitoring. Whether you're starting out or optimizing workflows, this session covers best practices and real-world use cases to transform your approach to AI development. Perfect for data scientists and ML engineers!

Are you ready to get hands-on with Google Cloud’s AI tools? In this 2 hour gHack, you will work in teams of 4. Together you will build a Formula E Race Analysis System from scratch using a variety of our AI and Data tools. Teams will work together to build the solution by searching, learning and collaborating together to find the answers needed. 3-2-1 lights out and away we go!