Choose to attend one or multiple AI readiness roundup sessions during the afternoon breakout. 

Stage 1 

• 1:00PM - 1:55PM Fueling the Future: VC Insights on AI, Funding, and Startup Success
  Join startup founders and venture capitalists as they explore the essence of the Founder's Mindset, its role in shaping a company's mission and vision, and how AI is poised to transform the startup landscape.

   

• 2:00PM - 2:25PM Match My Mood: A Next Generation AI-Powered Retail Experience  
  Don't miss CloudWerx's AI demo of Match My Mood, a Google AI-powered tool that revolutionizes the way consumers shop. This groundbreaking technology instantly matches products to a user's mood or vibe, that is, the consumer may not even know what specific product they are looking for but do know how they want to feel. Learn how to turn browsers into buyers. Don't miss this opportunity to see the future of fashion shopping retail in action. 

   

• 2:30PM - 2:55PM A-LIGN and PwC: Unlocking the Future of Auditing? 
  In an era where trust is paramount, fast-growing companies turn to A-LIGN for unparalleled industry expertise and cutting-edge technology. Join us to discover how A-LIGN, in partnership with PwC, seamlessly integrated Google’s Vertex AI into their audit processes, improving customer experience and operational efficiency.
   

• 3:00PM - 3:25PM Beyond the hype: Driving real business value with Gemini at work
  Join us as we explore how Gemini for Workspace empowers organizations to do more at work - collaborating more efficiently and effectively wherever they are. Learn how customers are using AI-powered collaboration tools to streamline workflows, optimize processes, and ultimately deliver key outcomes. You’ll leave this session with actionable insights and best practices to doing your best work with Gemini for Workspace, driving transformative change from idea to impact. 
   

• 3:30PM - 3:55PM Changing power of data & AI: Lessons from sports and beyond
  Join technology leaders from Major League Baseball and the Golden State Warriors for a discussion on universal challenges as well as innovative solutions for maximizing the value of big data and AI across their businesses.    

• 4:00PM - 4:25PM From Data to Decisions: Reimagine Analytics with the Power of BigQuery and Anthropic’s Claude
  Join Anthropic and Google Cloud to explore the powerful integration of BigQuery and Anthropic's Claude models. This session demonstrates how combining BigQuery's robust data processing with Claude's advanced AI capabilities is transforming data-driven decision-making. Through practical examples, you'll discover how this combination can enhance your analytics and drive efficiencies.

Stage 2 

• 1:00PM - 1:25PM Accelerate your generative AI journey with Google Cloud Databases
  Dive into the world of Google Cloud databases and discover how to transform the way you build and deploy AI-powered applications. This session reveals cutting-edge innovations that will help you modernize your database estate to easily build enterprise generative AI apps. Expect exciting product announcements, insightful demos, and real-world customer success stories highlighting the transformative value of Google Cloud databases

   

• 1:30PM - 1:55PM Building AI Agents: From Prototype to Production
  The excitement of generative AI has captured the imagination of developers and business leaders all over the world. However, the complexity and fragmentation of generative AI capabilities can hinder development and business results. Learn how Vertex AI's fully integrated platform provides state of the art capabilities that can help you reach production faster, while controlling cost.

   

• 2:00PM - 2:25PM Turn your data into competitive advantage with an AI-ready Data Cloud
  As the fuel for AI, data's role in driving innovation is of the utmost importance. AI-ready data platforms are revolutionizing the way organizations handle information, leaving behind the legacy world of data warehouses and data lakes, and embracing all data regardless of format; in a unified environment, simplifying governance and helping ensure security. Join this session to learn more about the latest innovations for Google’s AI-ready Data Cloud.

   

• 2:30PM - 2:55PM  Cut costs for your CIO in 5-minutes or less
  This session presents actionable strategies to leverage Google Cloud Infrastructure services for significant cost reductions within IT departments. By optimizing resource allocation and streamlining operations, CIOs can unlock substantial savings in 5 minutes or less. These efficiencies empower organizations to reinvest in innovation and drive transformative advancements across any industry.

   

• 3:00PM - 3:25PM Applications & Platforms in the age of AI
  The AI era demands a revolution in how we build the right applications and platforms to create transformative experiences for our users. Learn how the right strategy can unleash the creativity of teams to start building the future now.

   

• 3:30PM - 3:55PM The Future of Software Delivery is AI-Powered
  AI is poised to improve many aspects of our jobs and lives, and perhaps none more so than the function that created it, software development. We will look at how AI is disrupting onboarding, coding, and the broader ecosystem of the software developer lifecycle. Explore what is possible today and Google Cloud's vision for the future.

   

• 4:00PM - 4:30PM Secure AI Adoption: Accelerating Innovation with Confidence
  Learn how to build and deploy AI solutions securely, addressing key concerns like data privacy, model robustness, and regulatory compliance. We'll explore Google Cloud's comprehensive tools and best practices for responsible AI adoption.

Stage 3

• 1:00PM - 1:25PM Generative AI and Security for Scaling Businesses
  Explore the intersection of Generative AI's transformative potential and the critical need for robust security measures, equipping your scaling business to harness innovation while safeguarding against emerging threats.

   

• 1:30PM - 1:55PM Vertex AI for Small and Medium-sized Businesses
  Unlock the power of Vertex AI's advanced machine learning capabilities, tailored specifically to empower small and medium-sized businesses to drive innovation, optimize operations, and achieve scalable growth.

   

• 2:30PM - 3:10PM Mistral on Vertex AI
  Demystify the world of LLMs and APIs with Mistral AI, and learn how to implement this model as a service into your AI workloads.
  

   

• 3:15PM - 3:35PM Live Demo on Mistral AI
  See the magic of Google Cloud and Mistral AI live and discover with actionable insights.
  

   

• 3:45PM - 4:30PM Customer Panel: The Human-AI Partnership
  Hear from Google Cloud customers using generative AI to innovate, streamline operations, and save costs for their small and medium-sized businesses.

Join us for a whirlwind tour of key Google Cloud Generative AI technologies led by some of Google's top trainers. In this session, you will get to know Gemini, a model built for multimodality, and learn how to use the Vertex AI API to explore its functionality and integrate it into your applications. Additionally, a hands-on lab will teach you how to use the Vertex AI Gemini API and SDK for Python to interact with the Gemini Pro model, with optional sections on Gemini Pro Vision and image handling.

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are software programs that can interact with their environment, gather data, and use that data to perform tasks to achieve goals. Agents promise to bring AI innovations to enterprises through tasks such as search, chat, and recommendation systems.  In this lab you will learn Google Cloud's Agent Builder, which allows you to define an authoritative source of information that you can then use to construct large language model-driven search, chat, and recommendation systems. This lab shows how to create and populate a Vertex AI Agent Builder datastore, how to create a search app connected to that datastore, and how to submit queries through the search engine.