Up to 90% of organizations are building across cloud environments, from edge to to multiple clouds - and the scale and speed of AI is putting pressure on these architectures. In this spotlight discover how organizations are leveraging decades of our infrastructure expertise to build secure, sovereign AI solutions. Also, learn how industry leaders are using the latest advances in networking, storage, and distributed cloud solutions to accelerate AI solution deployment anywhere.

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.

Money laundering affects financial institutions and governments around the world. Join this session to explore the lessons learned in deploying a large-scale AI solution for anti-money laundering in retail and commercial banking. And learn about the challenges, triumphs, and best practices in harnessing the power of AI to combat financial crime.

Unlock the full potential of your data with the power of AI. This session explores how Google Cloud’s latest advancements in AI are transforming business intelligence, empowering you to gain deeper insights, make faster decisions, and drive innovation. We’ll dive into trusted insights with BigQuery and AI, the power of the Looker semantic layer, and how Google Cloud’s AI-powered business intelligence (BI) solutions can help you transform your data into actionable intelligence and drive business success.

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.

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.

Gemini 2.0, the latest foundational model released by Google DeepMind, offers improved performance, real-time interactions support, text-to-image and text-to-audio generations, Google Search grounding, and reasoning – all under a unified SDK that allows you to flawlessly navigate from the Gemini API to Vertex AI. In this talk, you’ll learn about the newest Gemini 2.0 capabilities, how to accelerate your prototyping, and guidelines to deploy your solutions from a single API to more complex pipelines.

Lloyds Banking Group and TCS share their insights on the adoption of enterprise AI, while leveraging the power of cloud computing. Discover the key imperatives, risks, strategies, and challenges in scaling AI and navigating the future through this interactive discussion.

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Join us for a customer panel exploring how organizations have successfully used their migration to Google Workspace as a catalyst to achieve business-wide digital transformation to unlock innovation and collaboration. From implementing change management and adoption strategies to driving sustainable impact with Workspace, customers will share their migration stories – why they migrated, how they made the switch, and ultimately how they have built new ways to collaborate, get work done, and future-proof their business with Workspace.

This session dives into the world of on-demand Apache Spark on Google Cloud. We explore its native integration with BigQuery, its new capabilities and the benefits of using Spark for AI and machine learning (ML) workloads. We’ll discuss why Spark is a good choice for large-scale data processing, distributed training, and distributed inferencing. We’ll learn from Trivago about how they leveraged the Spark and BigQuery together to simplify their AI and ML workflows.

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.

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.

How will you deliver store and factory floor analytics, shrink reduction, fast transactions, quality control, and staff empowerment? AI models, AI optimized cloud infrastructure, and edge hardware are unlocking new opportunities to build, deploy, and scale use cases that transform the way that customers experience your brand. Join the experts from Google Cloud as we explore the modern retail store and factory floor, engage with an interactive demo, and discuss the art of possible in a moderated panel.

Learn how leading startups build transformative AI solutions with Vertex AI. Gain behind-the-scenes insights, practical strategies, and actionable takeaways to fuel your innovation using Google Cloud’s open ecosystem of models and APIs.

Join us for an exclusive session where Cotality (CoreLogic) reveals its groundbreaking journey of cloud transformation with Cognizant and Google Cloud. Gain insights into the strategies that drove major achievements, including significant cost reductions, heightened security, and rapid innovation. Discover the pivotal roles of the Neuro Business Process Application and Google Geomatica in revolutionizing their operations. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how leading-edge technology can elevate your organization’s efficiency and success.

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Double your output without doubling your workload. Learn how to build AI agents to automate repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and free up time so you can focus on strategic initiatives. Discover practical implementation strategies and gain insights from real-world success stories.

Leveraging real-time data in AI and machine learning (ML) can give you a competitive edge. This session explores how Shopify and Palo Alto Networks leverage real-time data and AI with BigQuery and Dataflow ML to transform customer experiences and drive innovation. Discover how these companies collect, process, and analyze real-time data to achieve significant business outcomes, and learn how to apply similar strategies in your organization.

Migration can be challenging, but Google Cloud Migration Center is here to help. From discovery and analysis of your applications to definitions and cost estimates of your desired future cloud state and migration execution, Google Cloud’s easy-to-use, self-service migration tools pave the way for a smooth, efficient, and low-risk cloud migration. Come view demos of the latest workload migration capabilities and learn how Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) leveraged them to migrate their complex application portfolio to Google Cloud.