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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Don’t miss this fireside chat! Join Teradata, Google Cloud, and HSBC to discover how Teradata VantageCloud migrated HSBC’s UK data platform. Learn how Teradata’s Cloud Vantage EDW enabled scalable, secure solutions and improved decision-making. With over 4 billion queries, 2,500 applications, and 35 integrated systems, this hybrid cloud solution offers unparalleled resilience and cost-efficiency.

Is siloed data hindering your operations? Learn how Nuro consolidated their transactional, relational, and vector data sets on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, and how they’re now able to do operational analysis, real-time analytics, and business intelligence (BI) reports on the same platform. Join this panel session to discover best practices for unifying vector and relational data, and learn how Nuro is now able to satisfy their self-driven car analytics use cases in a cost-effective way.

Discover and learn about the service approach, which mean to expose capabilities through API for a company using Generative AI for content creation. 

Orchestration, scalability and micro services approach will be exposed during this session, to show how you can industrialize at scale the services to serve millions of users.

Success in startups isn’t just about ideas: it’s about mindset, strategy and having the right tools. This interactive session focuses on Google's 10X thinking and the founder's mindset, a powerful approach to innovation that aims for exponential impact in the age of AI. We'll explore how founders can best partner with Google for success and get an inside look at an exclusive Innovation Workshop designed to fuel creativity and prioritization. We'll wrap up with a Q&A, giving you the chance to ask questions and connect with like-minded founders.

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.

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.

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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Worried about learning how to access the latest AI models? Explore the expanding Model Garden ecosystem, including new first-party models, open-source contributions, and third-party offerings from partners like Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, and the Allen Institute. Learn how you can find and deploy the perfect models for your projects as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Join us as we reveal how the AURA AI Suite—AURA-SECURE, AURA-FLEX, and AURA-OMNI—is transforming enterprise AI. Experience bespoke conversational solutions for both structured and unstructured data. Discover how private GPT models secure sensitive information and dynamic insights boost productivity, decision-making, and customer engagement. Plus, see how Google Cloud services like Vertex AI, BigQuery, and Kubernetes ensure seamless integration, accelerated performance, and robust security.

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Decode the future of startup funding. Join top VC leaders for a dynamic discussion on key trends, emerging technologies, and winning investment strategies shaping the next year. Whether you’re seeking funding or planning your next move, this is a must-attend session to gain crucial insights to navigate the evolving startup landscape.

Scaling Agents with Agentspace isn’t just about building cool agents, it’s about how you integrate those into your business and how you set up the operational governance, the monitoring and the overall lifecycle management that creates a trusted digital workforce. Google Cloud becomes the Digital Office Space for your Agentic employees, and you’ll need an AI RM to manage them.

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Facing the challenges of scaling multimodal search for massive datasets? This session shows how leading retailers scaled their search infrastructure using Vertex AI Vector Search. Discover how the power of multimodal hybrid search of Vector Search 2.0 dramatically improves your search experience.

Want to build large language models (LLMs) that are truly knowledgeable and reliable? This session explores real-world use cases of grounding with diverse data sources, such as data from Google Search, Google Maps, or even your own enterprise data. Discover how Vertex AI helps you build trust in your AI outputs.

McDonald’s is advancing its AI capabilities and achieving transformative business outcomes with Collibra and Google Cloud Gemini. By integrating a multi-cloud, multi-data platform with unified data governance for AI, McDonald’s is reducing governance fragmentation, activating unused data, and addressing AI deployment risks. This session examines how McDonald's utilizes Collibra and Google Cloud's data and AI technologies to quickly implement innovative solutions and improve customer, restaurant team, and employee experiences.

Boost AI innovation in regulated industries! Use Red Hat OpenShift AI/IBM Watsonx and Vertex AI to split model lifecycles: train securely on isolated OpenShift AI/Watsonx, then deploy via Vertex AI's model registry. Explore use cases, deployment patterns, and the advantages of this approach. Ensure training on a trusted platform for sensitive data. Deploy models easily via Google Cloud's registry. Learn how this MLOps architecture helps meet regulations while leveraging cloud AI.

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Discover how machine learning (ML) engineers and app developers collaborate to build a viral AI app. This session takes you on a journey from a screenshot-to-calendar Python app running on a laptop to a globally scaled app. You’ll learn best practices for collaboration between ML engineers and app developers; how to build, refactor, and scale an AI app to millions of users with a modern architecture; and how to leverage the power of Gemini, Vertex AI, app hosting, and full-stack development. Find out how to build something greater than the sum of its parts!

Level up your Java apps with the power of Gemini. This session explores how Java developers can easily integrate generative AI features into their applications using LangChain4j. We’ll cover everything from building chatbots and implementing in-context learning to creating agentic workflows and using advanced techniques like unstructured data extraction. Learn best practices and build smart, AI-powered Java applications with ease. No Python experience required.

The future of transportation is intelligent, and AI is the driving force. This session features leaders from public sector agencies who will share how AI is being applied to improve our transportation systems and enhance overall public safety.

Learn how leading retailers accelerate business growth by transforming customer experiences with Google Cloud. Through in-depth enterprise case studies, discover proven strategies for unifying customer data, delivering personalized engagement at scale, and empowering teams with actionable insights. Join industry pioneers as they share their implementation journey, demonstrate measurable ROI across digital touchpoints, and reveal best practices for driving operational efficiency. Walk away with practical frameworks for accelerating your own digital commerce transformation.