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.

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Build a multimodal search engine with Gemini and Vertex AI. This hands-on lab demonstrates Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to query documents containing text and images. Learn to extract metadata, generate embeddings, and search using text or image queries.

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Learn how to leverage Google Cloud's cutting-edge AI models to rapidly develop solutions for critical healthcare challenges. Gain practical skills and empower your startup to revolutionize diagnostics, drug discovery, and personalized treatment. This session provides the skills and confidence to build impactful AI solutions and tackle real-world biotech challenges.

Unleash the power of AI-driven analytics with Gemini and BigQuery. Learn how to uncover trends, automate complex queries, and make smarter decisions. Explore real-world examples from industry leaders using AI to extract insights from unstructured data like text, images, and audio to streamline operations and unlock growth.

No marketing allowed! This session is FOR developers, BY developers. If you are a Developer, if you love AI, or just want to learn more about AI - this session is for you. Take a break from slides and hype, and learn tips, tricks, and shortcuts from Developer Advocates and Google Engineers in Cloud AI. Bring your laptop, an appetite for fun, and expect to see some actual code in this rapid fire session. 

Tired of outdated intranets? Join us to experience the magic of intelligent search agents for your enterprise. In this session, we’ll share compelling use cases of Google Agentspace, focusing on the tangible value it delivers in helping you make decisions quickly, flow through work, and simplify your day-to-day workflows.

Whilst GenAI has brought conversational experiences to the forefront, the next generation of web interfaces will demand more than just chat interactions. Instead, delivering highly personalized experiences requires a powerful blend of search, dynamic multimodal visual elements, and conversational interactions. In this session, discover how Valtech, the experience innovation company, is leveraging Vertex AI Agent Builder and Gemini with React to redefine experiences on the web.

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Agentic AI is poised to revolutionize how marketing & data teams unite to fuel revenue growth in 2025 and beyond. Join this session to discover how marketers can leverage AI agents applied directly to Google Cloud BigQuery to suggest, build, and execute campaigns that compound over time. You’ll learn how GrowthLoop’s marketing activation solution, built on Google Cloud BigQuery, leverages Agentic AI to automate campaign launches, accelerate experimentation, and deliver hyper-personalized experiences at scale.

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As brands drive towards personalization and global outreach, it puts immense pressure on marketing operations. Learn how Publicis Sapient is leveraging Google Cloud’s Gen AI technologies to optimize our clients’ marketing operations and deliver growth through hyper personalization and efficient content creation. We will share a demo of how Retailers and Consumer Products companies can manage their full marketing ecosystem using Google Gen AI stack, including Gemini, Imagen and Vertex AI.

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Want to control the output of your AI agents? This session explores essential Agent Ops practices, including metrics-driven development, large language model (LLM) evaluation with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and function calling, debugging with Cloud Trace, and learning from human feedback. Learn how to optimize agent performance and drive better business outcomes.

In this session, we’ll bust AI myths and showcase how easy it can be to implement AI solutions. Learn how Google Cloud’s generative AI solutions help small IT teams automate customer service tasks, personalize interactions, and improve overall efficiency. Learn from current Google Cloud partners and customers about how they approach building agents to empower growth and supercharge experiences for their customers.

Go beyond the standard Google Workspace experience. Learn how to extend and integrate with the Workspace platform, and explore how Qodea and others have leveraged the Workspace platform to create custom solutions that have boosted efficiencies, driven productivity, and reduced user workloads.

Learn how AI is driving breakthroughs in biotech, from drug discovery to personalized medicine. Explore inspiring success stories from trailblazing biotech founders leveraging AI to accelerate research, improve diagnostics, and develop innovative treatments.

Software engineering has become increasingly complex, with an ever-expanding set of patterns, frameworks, and runtimes. But help is here! AI is revolutionizing the developer workflow, and Google Cloud is reimagining the journey from idea to production. This keynote features demos that showcase how AI can streamline software engineering,  empowering you to build important apps, services, and agents faster than ever.

Software engineering has become increasingly complex, with an ever-expanding set of patterns, frameworks, and runtimes. But help is here! AI is revolutionizing the developer workflow, and Google Cloud is reimagining the journey from idea to production. This keynote features demos that showcase how AI can streamline software engineering,  empowering you to build important apps, services, and agents faster than ever.

Discover how Elastic Cloud Serverless and Google Vertex AI empower the creation of AI-driven search applications with effortless scalability. This session explores Elastic's intuitive serverless architecture and dynamic scaling, integrating with Google Vertex AI to create world class search experiences. Learn how this powerful partnership simplifies deployments and accelerates innovation for modern search, observability, and security workloads.

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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.

How are you progressing with your journey to realize business value from AI? Has the reality lived up to its hype? What obstacles to adoption are you facing and what adoption frameworks have led to success? This round-table workshop presents the opportunity for IT executives and leaders to share stories, learn from their peers, and discover approaches and strategies to accelerate AI adoption for business value.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, modernizing mainframe systems is crucial for maintaining competitive advantage. This joint solution explores the transformative potential of migrating data warehouse extracts to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery. Utilizing the flexible framework built, organizations can achieve a flexible, integrated solution that accelerates time to market, ensures accurate and timely real-time data for reporting and advanced analytics, and provides self-service access. This digital transformation not only empowers stakeholders with enhanced capabilities but also significantly improves the overall customer experience.

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Need to extend the capabilities of Google Agentspace? This deep dive explores the details of building and deploying agents in Agentspace. Learn more about the easy-to-use tools in Agentspace, and how to use them to address your custom use cases.