This session provides an in-depth look at the Google infrastructure that powers our most demanding AI workloads. We’ll explore the journey from custom silicon, high-bandwidth networking and storage to the software frameworks that enable efficient, large-scale training and inference with industry-leading goodput and uptime across the largest GPUs and TPU clusters. Learn how Google’s unique approach to system design and deployment enables customers to effortlessly achieve Google-level performance and scale for their own applications.

Get the most out of your Google Cloud budget. This session covers cost-optimization strategies for Compute Engine and beyond, including Cloud Run, Vertex AI, and Autopilot in Google Kubernetes Engine. Learn how to effectively manage your capacity reservations and leverage consumption models like Spot VMs, Dynamic Workload Scheduler, and committed use discounts (CUDs) to achieve the optimum levels of capacity availability for your workloads while optimizing your cost.

Unlock the full potential of Compute Engine for all your applications. This session delivers actionable strategies and best practices to optimize cost, reliability, and management for cloud-first, AI, machine learning, high performance computing, enterprise, and stateful workloads. We’ll share recently released features within Compute Engine to maximize return on investment for each specific application type.

In today’s fast-paced market, data is key to innovation. This session explores how Apigee, combined with Google Distributed Cloud, enables organizations to unlock the value of their data, regardless of its location. Learn how to operationalize data across legacy systems, the cloud, and edge environments to build cutting-edge solutions like generative AI and advanced analytics. Discover how Apigee simplifies data accessibility and interoperability, accelerating your time to market and maximizing the potential of your data assets.

To achieve your business goals while staying within the budget, it’s crucial to have complete visibility into your cloud spending, down to the specific applications and workloads. You need to know exactly where your money is going and how efficiently resources are being used, as well as opportunities to optimize spending. In this session, we’ll show you how to gain such knowledge and insights about your applications. We’ll explore how to use product dashboards and Gemini Cloud Assist to identify optimization opportunities. Leave with actionable strategies to maximize your cloud return on investment (ROI) and achieve your business goals.

Managing apps in the cloud can be complex. With your app’s footprints in many places across the platform, simply staying informed can be challenging. How do you know if your app is meeting performance targets? How can you optimize costs or anticipate the impact of maintenance? Join this session to learn about a new user experience on Google Cloud that will greatly simplify cloud operations by centralizing essential information and insights so you can focus on what matters most. Speakers will share the story of how they built it and show you how to leverage it to boost the efficiency of your everyday job.

Join Woosuk Kwon, Founder of vLLM, Robert Shaw, Director of Engineering at Red Hat, and Brittany Rockwell, Product Manager for vLLM on TPU, to learn about how vLLM is helping Google Cloud customers serve state-of-the-art models with high performance and ease of use across TPUs and GPUs.

Join Aledade and Glean to discover how organizations can evolve from AI-curious to AI-centric. Learn how Aledade leveraged Glean's platform to navigate the AI maturity curve, moving beyond fragmented AI implementations to a cohesive strategy that drives measurable business outcomes. This session reveals practical steps for developing AI-centric employees, implementing centralized AI infrastructure, and maximizing ROI while avoiding the "AI tax" of disconnected solutions.

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Discover why Danfoss, a global leader in energy-efficient solutions, tackled the AI-driven demand forecasting challenge. Accurate forecasting is vital for optimizing supply chains, reducing costs, and enhancing customer satisfaction. Partnering with Google Cloud and Capgemini, Danfoss developed a system tailored to its needs. Understand the transformative impact of AI-driven demand forecasting and why solving this problem is crucial now for Danfoss to stay competitive and support global sustainability goals.

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The telecom industry has always been critical to advancing how we communicate, work, and play, whether through creation of our mobile world or streaming through high bandwidth connectivity. In this session we will explore how communication service providers from around the globe are leveraging AI agents across their workforce, customer experience, field operations, network operations, and more.

Discover how Google’s interconnected ecosystem of Google Cloud platform and specialty solutions can address the needs and challenges of resource-constrained IT teams. We’ll delve into practical use cases and demonstrate how Google Cloud’s specialized business intelligence platform (Looker) and security solutions (Google Security Operations, Mandiant) can help your business improve efficiency and reduce costs while improving your security posture.

Unlock the full potential of your Google Cloud investment. Learn how Shopify strategically uses committed use discounts (CUDs) to optimize their cloud costs. This session reveals practical techniques to proactively manage CUDs and minimize wasted spend. We’ll also show you how to integrate discounting into Google Cloud’s pricing calculator to help engineering teams make accurate, efficient cost estimates for projects.

Generative AI has revolutionized the business landscape, but many companies struggle to realize the full benefits of scaling from pilot to at-scale transformations. Discover how companies are partnering with Google Cloud Consulting to better quantify the business value, understand the total cost of ownership (TCO) of gen AI use cases, and prioritize their AI investments – key lessons that can we learn from the companies leading the AI transformation.

Ready to take your Day 2 operations to the next level? This session is your one-stop shop for mastering Day 2 ops in 2025. We’ll cover everything you need to know, such as leveraging observability and AI agents for DevOps use cases, building application-centric observability, and optimizing for cost and utilization on Google Cloud. This roundup session explores a variety of products and updates in the Day 2 space, giving you the tools and knowledge to supercharge your operational efficiency and drive innovation.

Learn how Lloyds Banking Group dramatically optimized their costs across Google Cloud using FinOps hub. Discover new features in FinOps hub 2.0 that are supercharged by Gemini Cloud Assist. And learn how you, too, can increase your Google Cloud FinOps score.

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.