If you’re responsible for website security and looking to protect against automated bot attacks, account takeovers, authentication fraud, and you’re also looking to reduce the costs of SMS fraud, stolen credit cards, and other transaction fraud mechanisms, this session is for you. We’ll cover the most recent advancements in reCAPTCHA, explore use cases in several large deployments across different industry verticals, learn from an actual customer using reCAPTCHA to protect their website, and dive into the technical details with reCAPTCHA engineering.

Struggling with multicloud networking complexity? Equinix and Uber reveal the critical network architecture strategies to overcome today’s challenges. Discover proven adoption tactics and essential multicloud networking capabilities for seamless, cost-effective multicloud success. Learn how Uber, leveraging Equinix’s interconnected global data centers and Network-as-a-Service platform, achieved rapid, flexible, and efficient data migration to Google Cloud. Don’t let network limitations hold back your multicloud potential.

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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.

Architect and deploy secure cross-cloud networks with confidence. This session delivers expert guidance on designing and deploying Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Network security solutions to help protect against a wide range of network threats, including exploits, malware, DDoS, data exfiltration, and more. Discover best practices for configuring Cloud NGFW, Cloud Armor, and Secure Web Proxy (Cloud SWP) to address critical security concerns and build a resilient cloud infrastructure.

In this session, we’ll explore Google’s latest developments in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that enable unprecedented scale and performance for AI workloads. We’ll dive into how Anthropic leverages these capabilities to manage mega-scale Kubernetes clusters, orchestrate diverse workloads, and achieve breakthrough efficiency optimizations.

According to Andreessen Horowitz, 93% of Fortune 500 companies surveyed currently use three or more AI model providers, and now AI agents will proliferate and become standard. With the massive shift in enterprise AI adoption and the pace of change, enterprises need to modernize their network and security to unlock the value that AI generates and keep pace with rapid changes. Learn how to make your network and security AI-ready, plus discover new innovations to reduce infrastructure costs, improve user experience, enable faster developer velocity, and protect your AI infrastructure from new security threats.

In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn the fundamentals of networking in Google Cloud and how it differs from traditional on-premises setups. You'll build a network with three subnetworks and gain practical experience in creating firewall rules. Learn how to apply these rules using instance tags to control access across your environment. By the end of the session, you'll be equipped with the foundational knowledge to manage and secure Google Cloud networks effectively.

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!

Cross-Cloud Network, built on Google’s planet-scale network, has transformed how organizations connect and secure workloads, users, and data across hybrid and multicloud networks. It simplifies complexity, strengthens security, and helps deliver faster business outcomes. Join this session to learn about new innovations in 2025 with the Cross-Cloud Network that allow you to secure and optimize AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, connect global enterprises, expand network security to cover all threat vectors as you connect distributed multicloud apps, and deliver web and media workloads.

Deliver, protect, and scale immersive web, media, generative AI and API experiences with the Google Cloud global frontend as part of our Cross-Cloud Network for backend infrastructure running in any cloud or on-premises. Learn about new innovations providing consistent global performance to improve user experience; advanced protection to help stop DDoS, web, API, and gen AI attacks; scalable traffic control for traffic spikes and scale; edge programmability to allow customizations and integrations; and automation to enable end-to-end deployment automation.

The size and volume of internet-based attacks continues to grow exponentially. From DDoS, bad bots, and fraud to data exfiltration and infrastructure vulnerabilities to new generative AI-specific attacks, having strong defense in depth for your internet-facing workloads is critical to keep services running and protect sensitive data. Come learn about the latest innovations from Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Network to protect workloads hosted in any cloud, on-premises, or colocation facility. Updates will cover Google Cloud Armor, reCAPTCHA Enterprise, Model Armor, and Apigee.

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create a cross-region HTTP(S) load balancer that intelligently distributes traffic to instances in multiple regions. By setting up four Compute Engine instances across two regions, you'll configure the load balancer to ensure seamless traffic routing to the right instance. This lab will help you optimize application performance, improve availability, and enhance fault tolerance across geographically distributed systems.

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!

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.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
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In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn the fundamentals of networking in Google Cloud and how it differs from traditional on-premises setups. You'll build a network with three subnetworks and gain practical experience in creating firewall rules. Learn how to apply these rules using instance tags to control access across your environment. By the end of the session, you'll be equipped with the foundational knowledge to manage and secure Google Cloud networks effectively.

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 hands-on lab equips you with the practical skills to create and optimize secure, high-throughput VPN connections within the Google Cloud environment. You'll learn to establish secure IPsec Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnels between Google Cloud and external networks, including techniques for distributing traffic across multiple tunnels to maximize bandwidth. Through hands-on exercises, including VPN creation, configuration, and performance testing using iperf, you'll gain the confidence to design and implement robust and scalable VPN solutions for your specific needs.

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!

Migrate PostgreSQL to AlloyDB with Database Migration Service (DMS). This hands-on lab covers setting up Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering, configuring a continuous migration job, migrating data, and verifying the results. Learn to propagate live updates to your AlloyDB instance.

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!

Priceline is on a path to take their cloud network to the next level. Architects from Priceline will share their drivers, objectives and practical experience of taking a phased approach to a Northstar architecture based on Google's Cross-cloud Network. Learn how Priceline is migrating their entire network security stack to Google Cloud, evolving their VPC networking to a policy-centric model and streamlining connectivity to other Cloud Service Providers while gaining operational efficiencies, higher reliability and a favorable TCO.

Mars Wrigley shares how Google Cloud Cortex Framework, in partnership with EPAM Systems, accelerated their marketing measurement strategies. By using pre-built data connectors and models, Mars quickly ingested media data into the cloud, merging it with sales data from a key retailer. This enabled real-time insights into how media investments drove sales lifts. The solution created a foundation for cloud-based innovation, helping assign value to marketing strategies that drive tangible business results.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.
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In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create a cross-region HTTP(S) load balancer that intelligently distributes traffic to instances in multiple regions. By setting up four Compute Engine instances across two regions, you'll configure the load balancer to ensure seamless traffic routing to the right instance. This lab will help you optimize application performance, improve availability, and enhance fault tolerance across geographically distributed systems.

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!

Presenting “one network,” a novel approach to simplify service integration and increase compliance across heterogeneous environments. Learn how using open source proxies provides a policy-oriented network architecture for consistent policy enforcement, service assembly, and secure-by-default deployments. One network also provides role separation across DevOps, SecOps, site reliability engineers, and app developers, streamlining operations and increasing efficiency. Attend this session to discover how one network can transform your approach to service delivery.

Introducing Google’s next-generation global network that powers Google Cloud and our multibillion user apps like Search, YouTube, Google Maps, and more. Learn about the groundbreaking technologies and the design principles of "exponential scalability,” “beyond-NINEs reliability,” “fine-grained programmability”, and “from automation to autonomy” that have guided our next-generation architecture. Discover how you can leverage these innovations to transform your enterprise connectivity and respond to the dramatic demands of AI–powered services.