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November 12, 2024 9:30 AM–5:30 PM

Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh At Kingdom Center

Get ready for the Cloud experience
Join us in celebrating a major milestone – the 1st anniversary of Google Cloud in Saudi Arabia!

It's been one year since we launched our cloud region here, bringing innovation and scalability to the region! On this occasion you are invited to celebrate with us, and get together with the cloud community to experience the new way to cloud. Network with peers, connect with Google Cloud leaders, and explore technology trends across AI, application modernization, collaboration, data cloud, open infrastructure, and security – all to help you innovate faster and drive more impactful business outcomes.

With all the breakthroughs in AI, this is one event you don’t want to miss.

We’ll share the latest announcements, showcase live demos, hold hands-on skills challenges, and a lot more.

Be sure to visit this page regularly for updates on our inspiring speakers and sessions.

Seats are limited, don't miss this opportunity to connect with your peers and experience the future of cloud firsthand!

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Speakers

Bader Almadi

Country Manager KSA,

Google Cloud

Abdul Rahman
Al Thehaiban

Managing Director, Turkey,
Middle East & Africa,

Google Cloud

Abdul Rahman Al Thehaiban

Managing Director, Turkey, Middle East & Africa,

Google Cloud

Khalid Alohali

Customer Engineering Manager,

Google Cloud

Khadija Toubi

Head of Data Analytics Sales Specialist

Google Cloud

Ghada Alhader

Customer Engineer, Application Modernization,

Google Cloud

Hassan Ahmad

Customer Engineer, Data Analytics,

Google Cloud

Ibrahim Alothman

Customer Engineer, Infrastructure Modernization,

Google Cloud

Jithin S L

Customer Engineer, Smart Analytics,

Google Cloud

Zahra Al-Kaf

Customer Engineer,

Google Cloud

Mohammed Abutheraa

Security and Compliance Specialist,

Google Cloud

Nizar AlToraif

Cloud Partner Engineer,

Google Cloud

Ayman Abdulqader

Apigee Specialist,

Google Cloud

Anthony Cirot

VP, EMEA South,

Google Cloud

Reem AlSuliman

Enterprise Field Sales Representative,

Google Cloud

Saud Albazei

Principal Architect,

Google Cloud

Pratibha Suryadevara

VP, Engineering Tech Infra and Databases,

Google Cloud

Bader Almadi

Country Manager KSA,

Google Cloud

Tara Brady

President, EMEA,

Google Cloud

Thomas Remy

Managing Director, Data and AI Sales

Google Cloud

ALL DAY TRACKS

Day 1 Agenda

8:30 AM–09:30 AM

Registrations
9:30 AM–09:40 AM

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Pushing the limits of BigQuery with Kabam

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Fast analytics at scale with Google BigQuery

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11:00 AM–11:20 AM

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Lunch
12:40 PM–01:00 PM

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8:30 AM–09:30 AM

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Firstname Lastname, Position, Company XYZ
9:40 AM–10:00 AM

Pushing the limits of BigQuery with Kabam

Firstname Lastname, Position, Company XYZ
10:00 AM–10:40 AM

Fast analytics at scale with Google BigQuery

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Pushing the limits of BigQuery with Kabam

Firstname Lastname, Position, Company XYZ
10:00 AM–10:40 AM

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10:40 AM–11:00 AM

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11:00 AM–11:20 AM

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11:40 AM–12:40 PM

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12:40 PM–01:00 PM

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9:30 AM–10:30 AM

Registrations, Google Cloud Booths and Partner Expo
10:30 AM–12:00 PM

Keynote
12:00 PM–1:00 PM

LUNCH (PRAYER BREAK)

IMPACT ROOM

INSIGHTS ROOM

1:00 PM–1:05 PM

WELCOME NOTE

WELCOME NOTE
1:05 PM–1:30 PM

She leads: Navigate the path to leadership for women in tech

Women in tech. Talented. Underrepresented. This session empowers you to flip the script. We tackle invisible barriers then equip you with actionable strategies to smash them. Discover how inclusive cultures, championing sponsorship, and diverse pipelines unlock female talent's full potential. Leave with concrete steps to champion women's leadership. Learn from experts and inspiring women who've soared. Share experiences, build connections with advocates. Be a champion. Nominate a woman, challenge bias, advocate.

Data governance in the AI era

As AI adoption continues to grow at a rapid pace, data governance will become critical to ensure high-quality data powers AI models and large language models. Learn about the newest data governance innovations for Dataplex, including new integrations with Vertex AI, to help enterprises centrally discover, manage, monitor, and govern data across all data types to power analytics and AI at scale. Learn from leaders at Orange and Ford on how they are leveraging Dataplex to securely manage and govern their data in the AI era.
1:35 PM–2:00 PM

What’s new in AI: Explore Google Cloud’s latest tools for generative AI

Discover the latest innovations within Google's machine learning ecosystem to help you navigate technology to bring ML to any device, website, or app. Uncover the power of generative AI with Gemini. From ideas to accelerated workflows, learn how to leverage Gemini’s capabilities for creative text formats, code generation, and more.

How Belk Ecommerce is paving the way for retailer efficiency with generative AI

In the world of retail, crafting product descriptions is a necessary yet time-consuming task, often done manually and, let's face it, not ideal for the wrists. In this session you will learn how Belk ECommerce worked with Google Cloud to solve this cumbersome process using innovative generative AI. You will gain technical insights for leveraging image captioning and Vertex AI, and examine the practical steps to a successful production journey.
2:05 PM–2:30 PM

Reimagine the future of connectivity with light

Learn about Alphabet's moonshot thinking and Taara, its connectivity moonshot. How can beams of light be used to quickly expand global access to fast, affordable broadband? Discover use cases to solve the unique connectivity challenges in the Middle East and Africa.

Transform your cloud operations and design capability with Gemini Cloud Assist

Cloud infrastructure management demands constant attention to ensure high availability, efficiency, and security. Gemini, a powerful large language model assistant, streamlines these critical tasks for compute, storage, and networking on Google Cloud. Imagine describing infrastructure needs in plain language and receiving best-practices configurations – or proactively analyzing your environment to identify troubleshooting root causes. Join this session to see how Gemini automates routine tasks, suggests optimizations, and provides infrastructure insights.
2:30 PM–3:00 PM

COFFEE BREAK

COFFEE BREAK
3:00 PM–3:25 PM

Supercharge your API and Integration landscapes with AI-powered Apigee platform

The Adoption of GEN AI needs a robust protection and seamless API led integrations. The challenge of having a connected and protected API led models requires several considerations on hw to effectivily design, manage, secure and integrate different interactions through APIs.

Join this session to learn new features in Apigee and Application Integration and gain insights on the AI capabilities of a complete "AI Powered platform"

Take large scale AI from research to production with Google Cloud's AI Hypercomputer

Deploying AI to production can be bafflingly complex. Learn how Google Cloud is bringing its over two decades of expertise in productionizing planet scale AI to our cloud customers with the AI Hypercomputer architecture. It’s a groundbreaking supercomputing architecture built on performance-optimized hardware (TPUs, GPUs), open software (PyTorch, Jax, Kubernetes), and tailored consumption models that optimize efficiency and productivity across AI training, tuning, and serving. Plus, gain valuable insights from our customers Kakao Brain and Nuro on their journey to deploying large scale AI on Google Cloud.
3:30 PM–3:55 PM

How AI can transform your approach to security

We’ve only just begun to realize the power of applying generative AI to security, but organizations using Gemini are already seeing improvement in how they manage complex security incidents. Learn how generative AI from Google Cloud can help seasoned security professionals quickly discover, investigate, and respond to threats, and help newcomers boost their skills to get more things done, faster. Join this session to learn about new features, hear from customers, and gain insights on how to address common security challenges with AI.

Apps take flight: Migrating to Google Cloud

Discover modern cloud migration strategies. Learn to leverage Google Cloud for cost optimization and easy transitions from on-premise infrastructure or competing cloud providers. Get real demos of top migration methods to Google Cloud environments like, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Run. Learn to migrate an application across Google Cloud infrastructure levels, fine-tuning for cost and performance. Plus, get insights from Global Payments, with a real-world Google Cloud migration success story.
4:00 PM–4:25 PM

Putting AI to work in sustainability

This session brings together leading climate tech companies, perspectives from venture finance and Google Cloud to explore how we can put AI to work in sustainability. Businesses are seeking new sources of durable growth, new ways to drive down costs, and navigating a tightening regulatory environment. AI and the smarter use of data can help unlock value and drive impact for your business.

The future of databases and generative AI

Join us for an insightful session that explores the exciting future of Google Cloud‘s managed databases, including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and Spanner. Vector search capabilities deeply integrated into operational databases enable powerful enterprise generative AI apps. Additionally, learn how AI has the potential to revolutionize the way applications interact with databases. We will delve into exciting frontiers: Natural language processing in databases, and app migration with large language model-powered code migration.
4:30 PM–4:55 PM

Unleash the power of data and generative AI with RISE with SAP on Google Cloud

"An embodiment of the enduring partnership between Google and SAP is RISE with SAP on Google Cloud. It enables companies to grow, scale, innovate, and sustain by unleashing the power of data and generative AI.
Attend this session to get an understanding of the DNA of RISE, how customers can use it as a springboard for business process excellence, superior decision-making through advanced data and analytics capabilities, and innovation through generative AI. Google Cloud customers will share their RISE success stories."

What’s next for security professionals

Organizations need powerful security solutions to their most sensitive assets. But the familiar approach of bolting on more security products is unsustainable. Instead, the convergence of key capabilities can reduce complexity, increase productivity, and deliver stronger security outcomes. In this spotlight, leaders from Google and Mandiant will share our insight into the threat landscape and our latest innovations that make Google part of your security team. We’ll demonstrate new Gen AI-driven security capabilities that help prevent threats, eliminate toil, and empower talent. And you’ll hear from leaders who have adopted our solutions to transform their security programs.
5:00 PM–5:25 PM

Level-up your sales, marketing, and customer service with Gemini for Google Workspace

Gemini is a contextual real-time assistant baked right into Workspace, one that lets you become a better writer, visual designer, data analyst, and project manager. In this session, discover how Gemini for Google Workspace empowers your teams to build more creative campaigns, maximize follow-through with prospects, and accelerate business opportunities. See real-world use cases showcasing how Gemini automates tasks, boosts efficiency, and frees time to focus on higher value work – driving greater impact, revenue, and returns on investment.

How to optimize IT costs

Although cloud computing has the potential to save you money, many organizations face growing IT costs and struggle to keep their spending within budget. As one of the leading SaaS observability platforms, Datadog uses a massive amount of cloud resources and has worked diligently to keep our IT spending constrained. In this session, we’ll share the practices that we use to optimize costs and how you can apply them to reduce your spend, increase performance, and meet your business goals.
5:30 PM–6:30 PM

Networking

Networking

INNOVATION TRACK

INSIGHTS TRACK

1:00 PM–1:05 PM

WELCOME NOTE

WELCOME NOTE
1:05 PM–1:30 PM

She leads: Navigate the path to leadership for women in tech

Women in tech. Talented. Underrepresented. This session empowers you to flip the script. We tackle invisible barriers then equip you with actionable strategies to smash them. Discover how inclusive cultures, championing sponsorship, and diverse pipelines unlock female talent's full potential. Leave with concrete steps to champion women's leadership. Learn from experts and inspiring women who've soared. Share experiences, build connections with advocates. Be a champion. Nominate a woman, challenge bias, advocate.

How Belk Ecommerce is paving the way for retailer efficiency with generative AI

In the world of retail, crafting product descriptions is a necessary yet time-consuming task, often done manually and, let's face it, not ideal for the wrists. In this session you will learn how Belk ECommerce worked with Google Cloud to solve this cumbersome process using innovative generative AI. You will gain technical insights for leveraging image captioning and Vertex AI, and examine the practical steps to a successful production journey.
1:35 PM–2:00 PM

What’s new in AI: Explore Google Cloud’s latest tools for generative AI

Discover the latest innovations within Google's machine learning ecosystem to help you navigate technology to bring ML to any device, website, or app. Uncover the power of generative AI with Gemini. From ideas to accelerated workflows, learn how to leverage Gemini’s capabilities for creative text formats, code generation, and more.

Transform your cloud operations and design capability with Gemini Cloud Assist

Cloud infrastructure management demands constant attention to ensure high availability, efficiency, and security. Gemini, a powerful large language model assistant, streamlines these critical tasks for compute, storage, and networking on Google Cloud. Imagine describing infrastructure needs in plain language and receiving best-practices configurations – or proactively analyzing your environment to identify troubleshooting root causes. Join this session to see how Gemini automates routine tasks, suggests optimizations, and provides infrastructure insights.
2:05 PM–2:30 PM

Reimagine the future of connectivity with light

Learn about Alphabet's moonshot thinking and Taara, its connectivity moonshot. How can beams of light be used to quickly expand global access to fast, affordable broadband? Discover use cases to solve the unique connectivity challenges in the Middle East and Africa.

The future of databases and generative AI

Join us for an insightful session that explores the exciting future of Google Cloud‘s managed databases, including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and Spanner. Vector search capabilities deeply integrated into operational databases enable powerful enterprise generative AI apps. Additionally, learn how AI has the potential to revolutionize the way applications interact with databases. We will delve into exciting frontiers: Natural language processing in databases, and app migration with large language model-powered code migration.
2:30 PM–3:00 PM

COFFEE BREAK

COFFEE BREAK
3:00 PM–3:25 PM

Supercharge your API and Integration landscapes with AI-powered Apigee platform

The Adoption of GEN AI needs a robust protection and seamless API led integrations. The challenge of having a connected and protected API led models requires several considerations on hw to effectivily design, manage, secure and integrate different interactions through APIs.

Join this session to learn new features in Apigee and Application Integration and gain insights on the AI capabilities of a complete "AI Powered platform"

Take large scale AI from research to production with Google Cloud's AI Hypercomputer

Deploying AI to production can be bafflingly complex. Learn how Google Cloud is bringing its over two decades of expertise in productionizing planet scale AI to our cloud customers with the AI Hypercomputer architecture. It’s a groundbreaking supercomputing architecture built on performance-optimized hardware (TPUs, GPUs), open software (PyTorch, Jax, Kubernetes), and tailored consumption models that optimize efficiency and productivity across AI training, tuning, and serving. Plus, gain valuable insights from our customers Kakao Brain and Nuro on their journey to deploying large scale AI on Google Cloud.
3:30 PM–3:55 PM

How AI can transform your approach to security

We’ve only just begun to realize the power of applying generative AI to security, but organizations using Gemini are already seeing improvement in how they manage complex security incidents. Learn how generative AI from Google Cloud can help seasoned security professionals quickly discover, investigate, and respond to threats, and help newcomers boost their skills to get more things done, faster. Join this session to learn about new features, hear from customers, and gain insights on how to address common security challenges with AI.

Apps take flight: Migrating to Google Cloud

Discover modern cloud migration strategies. Learn to leverage Google Cloud for cost optimization and easy transitions from on-premise infrastructure or competing cloud providers. Get real demos of top migration methods to Google Cloud environments like, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Run. Learn to migrate an application across Google Cloud infrastructure levels, fine-tuning for cost and performance. Plus, get insights from Global Payments, with a real-world Google Cloud migration success story.
4:00 PM–4:25 PM

Putting AI to work in sustainability

This session brings together leading climate tech companies, perspectives from venture finance and Google Cloud to explore how we can put AI to work in sustainability. Businesses are seeking new sources of durable growth, new ways to drive down costs, and navigating a tightening regulatory environment. AI and the smarter use of data can help unlock value and drive impact for your business.

What’s next for security professionals

Organizations need powerful security solutions to their most sensitive assets. But the familiar approach of bolting on more security products is unsustainable. Instead, the convergence of key capabilities can reduce complexity, increase productivity, and deliver stronger security outcomes. In this spotlight, leaders from Google and Mandiant will share our insight into the threat landscape and our latest innovations that make Google part of your security team. We’ll demonstrate new Gen AI-driven security capabilities that help prevent threats, eliminate toil, and empower talent. And you’ll hear from leaders who have adopted our solutions to transform their security programs.
4:30 PM–4:55 PM

Unleash the power of data and generative AI with RISE with SAP on Google Cloud

"An embodiment of the enduring partnership between Google and SAP is RISE with SAP on Google Cloud. It enables companies to grow, scale, innovate, and sustain by unleashing the power of data and generative AI.

Attend this session to get an understanding of the DNA of RISE, how customers can use it as a springboard for business process excellence, superior decision-making through advanced data and analytics capabilities, and innovation through generative AI. Google Cloud customers will share their RISE success stories."

How to optimize IT costs

Although cloud computing has the potential to save you money, many organizations face growing IT costs and struggle to keep their spending within budget. As one of the leading SaaS observability platforms, Datadog uses a massive amount of cloud resources and has worked diligently to keep our IT spending constrained. In this session, we’ll share the practices that we use to optimize costs and how you can apply them to reduce your spend, increase performance, and meet your business goals.
5:00 PM–5:25 PM

Level-up your sales, marketing, and customer service with Gemini for Google Workspace

Gemini is a contextual real-time assistant baked right into Workspace, one that lets you become a better writer, visual designer, data analyst, and project manager. In this session, discover how Gemini for Google Workspace empowers your teams to build more creative campaigns, maximize follow-through with prospects, and accelerate business opportunities. See real-world use cases showcasing how Gemini automates tasks, boosts efficiency, and frees time to focus on higher value work – driving greater impact, revenue, and returns on investment.

Data governance in the AI era

As AI adoption continues to grow at a rapid pace, data governance will become critical to ensure high-quality data powers AI models and large language models. Learn about the newest data governance innovations for Dataplex, including new integrations with Vertex AI, to help enterprises centrally discover, manage, monitor, and govern data across all data types to power analytics and AI at scale. Learn from leaders at Orange and Ford on how they are leveraging Dataplex to securely manage and govern their data in the AI era.
5:30 PM–6:30 PM

Networking

Networking