Learn how Equifax is driving productivity gains by adopting Gemini & Google Workspace. We’ll cover their strategic migration from Microsoft to Workspace, which set the foundation for seamless generative AI. This session highlights their Gemini pilot for 1,000 users, focusing on practical strategies for change management & maximizing user adoption. We’ll share how Equifax empowered employees with prompt engineering & tailored use case training, offering a replicable model for organizations.

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PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open source databases for application development.  Furthermore, native support for vector search makes PostgreSQL an excellent choice for generative AI app development too. Learn why Google Cloud is the best place for your PostgreSQL workloads across Cloud SQL, AlloyDB and Spanner database offerings. Also hear from Salesloft about their journey to Google Cloud and how they chose which database service to select for their workloads.

The future of AI is at the edge and edge inferencing is transforming industries. The power of an AI-ready data center, connected to Google Cloud, optimizes edge AI by bringing AI processing closer to all types of data sources for unprecedented speed and efficiency, enabling real-time insights. Success relies on low latency and high-performance physical infrastructure; Equinix's global network of 260+ AI-ready data centers in 73 metros securely connects clouds to customers, partners, and service providers to accelerate AI deployments.

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AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is Google Cloud’s high-performance, PostgreSQL-compatible database service for your demanding online transaction processing (OLTP), hybrid transactional and analytical, and generative AI applications. In this session, we’ll cover what’s new with AlloyDB, including critical enterprise features across performance, availability, ease of use, and more. You’ll also learn how customers are quickly migrating to AlloyDB with Database Migration Service and how they’ve successfully scaled their workloads with AlloyDB, saving money while doing so.

In this session, we’ll build a functional generative AI application designed to solve a common IT challenge for small teams. We’ll start by defining a problem and exploring how gen AI can offer a solution. Next, we’ll select a pretrained model from Model Garden and use it to build a simple application with intelligent automation. Throughout the process, we’ll demonstrate testing and refinement techniques. This session is ideal for visual learners who want to see the power of gen AI in action and gain the confidence to build their own AI-powered solutions.

Join Deutsche Bank and Deloitte as we show you how our GenAI-powered chatbot is enhancing customer engagement, driving efficiency, and changing the face of banking. In this fascinating session, we'll demonstrate how the chatbot, integrated into the Deutsche Bank customer-facing banking app, provides accurate product and service information, guides customers to the right transactions, and seamlessly connects to live agents as needed. We'll also review insights and best practices for implementing your own chatbot solutions on Google Cloud.

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Imagine a world where interacting with your data is as simple as chatting with a friend. Gemini in Looker makes this a reality, bringing the power of Google's most advanced AI models and agents directly to your BI workflows. This session explores how Gemini's genAI capabilities and Looker Agents are being integrated into Looker, empowering users to analyze data, build dashboards, and generate insights using natural language. Discover how this powerful combination unlocks new levels of productivity for BI professionals and business users alike.

This hands-on lab guides you through building a captivating generative AI application using the Gemini API in Vertex AI. You'll leverage the Streamlit framework to create an interactive interface for generating stories, providing a seamless user experience. After testing your application locally in Cloud Shell, you'll deploy it to Cloud Run for scalable and reliable serving. This hands-on experience equips you with the skills to integrate Gemini with user interfaces and efficiently deploy your AI applications.

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Unlock the power of generative AI and data. Join experts from LlamaIndex and Google Cloud databases and learn how to seamlessly integrate LlamaIndex with AlloyDB and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, enabling your apps to reason, act on your data, and leverage the performance of Google Cloud. We’ll share real-world examples and code. Discover new possibilities for building advanced gen AI applications.

This session provides strategies for maximizing business value with generative AI. We cut through the hype and offer actionable insights for building and deploying advanced gen AI business capabilities. We'll delve into strategies that our customers use to get the most out of their AI investment, explore the essential foundations for scaling up, and share a vision for the future of business operations transformed by agentic AI.

As the number of distributed and generative AI applications grows in your organization, so will the number of APIs – presenting management and governance challenges. This session introduces API Hub, a solution for unified API management. Learn how to gain centralized observability over your APIs, use the API Hub on-ramp framework to connect to any API gateway, help developers access shared components and standards to build compliant APIs faster, and discover and manage shadow APIs.

Creating a business case to modernize technology has always been challenging. Hear how McKinsey is using a multi agent architecture to automate complex software development flows efficiently and cost-effectively. See how gen AI agent squads are foundational for scaling workforce talent and enhancing organizational capabilities. Learn best practices and see real-world examples of how organizations are using a multi-agent gen AI approach to achieve faster, cheaper, and better results.

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AI is revolutionizing enterprise operations by transforming unstructured data into actionable intelligence, reducing manual effort, & converting data into powerful drivers of smarter, more connected operations. Explore the dynamic interplay of AI agents, collaborating seamlessly to orchestrate specialized tasks in real-time. Learn how connected intelligence breaks down silos, integrating data & systems to drive proactive, efficient operations. See this shift in action with Leah to learn how you can apply these best practices in your industry.

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This talk delves into the difficulties of managing AI costs, emphasizing cost estimation across various model deployments (closed foundation models, non-cloud provider APIs, and local models). Key areas of focus include strategies for projecting AI spend at both the workload and enterprise level, implementing cost showback mechanisms, optimizing AI spending, and developing business plans and forecasts using ML and GenAI.

This workshop examines the critical lessons learned in deploying generative AI applications and explores how these insights can shape the future of the "AI Agents era." We'll delve into the practical challenges and solutions encountered in moving from initial answers to actionable implementations, prescribing how these learnings can be applied to build more sophisticated, autonomous, and impactful AI systems.

Production-ready apps, including GenAI apps, demand robust telemetry. Explore the full lifecycle: from data generation to consumption. See how OpenTelemetry, scaled by BindPlane, delivers enterprise-grade observability within Google Cloud. Learn to centralize data, cut costs, and achieve proven customer success!

Are you a data scientist or developer using Python to build AI models and generative AI applications? Learn how BigQuery can supercharge Python data science workflows with capabilities that give you the productivity of Python and allow BigQuery to handle core processing. Offloading Python processing enables large-scale data analysis and seamless production deployments along the data-to-AI journey. Find out how Deutsche Telekom modernized their machine learning platform with a radically simplified infrastructure and increased developer productivity.

Commerzbank, the largest bank in Germany, is using Gemini to transform its financial advisory workflows. The company is seeing significant reductions in processing time of client documentation and increases in productivity with Vertex AI. Learn how Gemini's ability to understand multiple modalities and process long documentation along with the generative AI evaluation service on Vertex AI, played a key role in streamlining operations and enhancing the client experience.

Java developers, join us to connect with your peers and explore best practices for building robust GenAI Java applications. We'll walk through sample apps as we discuss topics including cost reduction, efficient embedding generation, entity management, and testing. Then we'll dive deeper into the topics most relevant to you.

Discover how Definity used GenAI-enabled Agent Assist to improve agent and customer experience while boosting call centre efficiency and accelerating agent onboarding. We'll showcase the key features of this powerful technology, such as automated transcript generation, real-time contextual call guidance, "ask me anything" capabilities for quick information retrieval, and efficient integration directly into existing Salesforce desktop and backend insurance policy systems.

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