The first Google Axion virtual machine (VM), C4A, provides the best price performance for general purpose workloads in the industry, but don’t take it from us. We’ll share how Axion benchmarks for key workloads. Then, we’ll take a deeper look at leading customers using Google Axion VMs. They’ll discuss their use cases and how they architected their stack to run on Arm VMs, providing valuable tips for other customers considering a similar transition.

There are a lot of amazing AI features being announced at Google Cloud Next. In order to take full advantage of these, you need to make sure your data is being managed in a secure, centralized way. In this talk, you’ll learn how to set up your lakehouse to get your data ready for downstream workloads. You’ll view a demo involving an architecture of Google Cloud products that includes managing permissions on your data, configuring metadata management, and performing transformations using open source frameworks.

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.

Join us to discuss serverless computing and event-driven architectures with Cloud Run functions. Learn a quick and secure way to connect services and build event-driven architectures with multiple trigger types (HTTP, Pub/Sub, and Eventarc). And get introduced to Eventarc Advanced, centralized access control to your events with support for cross-project delivery.

Join us as we explore an exciting collaboration between the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) and Google Cloud, bringing the power of open-source AI to the research community. This initiative provides researchers and developers with access to OLMo, Ai2's state-of-the-art open language model, leveraging Google Cloud's scalable infrastructure. By prioritizing data transparency and open access, this initiative is poised to transform how AI is developed and deployed, fueling a new era of innovation in science, healthcare, public sector, and other regulated industries.

Navigating the complex world of compliance can be daunting. Join us to discover how to simplify your compliance journey on Google Cloud, enabling you to build at scale while meeting stringent industry regulations with ease.

This Session is hosted by a Google Cloud Next Sponsor.Visit your registration profile at g.co/cloudnext to opt out of sharing your contact information with the sponsor hosting this session.

Planning to build AI agents, but unsure where to start? This session provides a practical guide to agent design for both developers and non-coders. We’ll discuss key design tradeoffs, best practices, and how to match your use case, data, and team with the right tools and techniques.

Companies are improving customer experience and lowering costs with Google AI. Join this session to learn about our end-to-end customer engagement application that provides AI agents for self-service, agent assistance, and operational insights. Discover how you can achieve the same business impact our customers are realizing.

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.

There are cases when you can’t use Google Cloud services but still want to get all benefits of AlloyDB integration with AI and serve a local model directly to the database. In such cases, AlloyDB Omni deployed in a Kubernetes cluster can be great solution, serving for edge cases and keeping all communications between database and AI model local.

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.

Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is a serverless database service  designed to maximize scalability, high availability and performance without the hidden costs of capacity planning. This session demonstrates the new Firestore with MongoDB compatibility capabilities and discusses how Dialpad has built an Ai-powered customer communications platform leveraging Firestore over the last 14 years to grow a successful, performant, reliable business.

Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is a serverless database service  designed to maximize scalability, high availability and performance without the hidden costs of capacity planning. This session demonstrates the new Firestore with MongoDB compatibility capabilities and discusses how Dialpad has built an Ai-powered customer communications platform leveraging Firestore over the last 14 years to grow a successful, performant, reliable business.

The rise of AI-powered code generation tools presents a compelling alternative to traditional UI prototyping frameworks. This talk explores the question: Is it time to ditch the framework overhead and embrace core web technologies (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for faster, more flexible prototyping? We’ll examine the trade-offs between structured frameworks and the granular control offered by a “bare metal” approach, augmented by AI assistance. Learn when leveraging AI with core tech becomes the smarter choice, enabling rapid iteration and bespoke UI designs, and when frameworks still reign supreme.

Is your business ready to embrace the software as a service (SaaS) revolution? Discover how Google Cloud can fast-track your SaaS journey. This session reveals how Google Cloud empowers you to scale your SaaS offerings, reduce time to market, and deliver exceptional customer experiences using a comprehensive toolbox with per-tenant controls, feature rollout management, and insightful monitoring. You’ll also learn from Avathon’s success story: how they leveraged these capabilities to conquer the complexities of SaaS management, automate tenant onboarding, and centralize operations.

This technical deep dive explores how small IT teams can leverage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and AI Hypercomputer to build, refine, and optimize a cutting-edge, scalable, and secure container platform for AI workloads.

Google Cloud is helping organizations create the new way forward. Next is where big thinking and technology converge to solve the challenges of today and tomorrow.

To improve how people work, AI needs to be intuitive, save time and help people get more done. AI in Google Workspace helps teams throughout the work day, by organizing and analyzing information, drafting and polishing content, improving the quality of meetings, and lightening the admin load. Businesses of all sizes are finding new ways to do better work, faster with Workspace. Join us to hear from customers transforming the way they collaborate, work, and innovate. Learn about our latest product news, and hear our vision for what’s next.

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.