Google Cloud Next 2024
who it's for
software developers, machine learning engineers, data engineers, cloud architects, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, security engineers
topics
Gemini model deployments; Vertex AI APIs; semantic search with embeddings; document understanding with Document AI; LangChain apps on Cloud Run; fine-tuning on GKE with GCS; Cloud SQL with pgvector; access to GPUs for AI workloads; grounded generation with citations; Gemini Code Assist in IDEs; Cloud Workflows for automation; healthcare AI over FHIR
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Next 2024 at Las Vegas | Daryl Ducharme | 01m |
Short promo for Next 2024 announcing an in‑person event in Las Vegas on April 9–11 with keynote addresses, live sessions, innovation showcases, interactive… | ||
| Build your own LLM on Cloud | Ali Zaidi | 05m |
Architecture shows deployment of a base Gemma 7B model for text completion and a fine-tuned Gemma using the Databricks Dolly dataset (about 15k examples) to… | ||
| What is Gemini Code Assist? | Daryl Ducharme | 02m |
Gemini Code Assist completes your code as you write and generates whole blocks or functions on demand, and it runs inside IDEs like Visual Studio Code and… | ||
| Build generative apps faster with Vertex AI | Debi Cabrera, Dimitris Meretakis | 09m |
Announces six new Vertex APIs for production gen‑AI workflows: a Document Understanding API (DocAI‑based) that extracts sections, tables and structure; an… | ||
| Unlocking Document Automation with Vertex AI Platform | Rand Wrobel | 08m |
Demonstrates Gemini on Google Cloud with Document AI and Vertex AI Search to ingest and embed 8,500 prospectuses and user profiles, populate databases, and… | ||
| Building LLM Apps on App Engine | Debi Cabrera, Steren Giannini, Wietse Venema | 06m |
LangChain apps deploy to Cloud Run with a working demo that indexes release notes, calls Gemini on Vertex Endpoints, and returns grounded answers — the demo… | ||
| What is semantic search? | Jeff Nelson | 01m |
Semantic search replaces exact keyword matching with numeric representations so queries and documents compare by meaning not spelling It uses vector embeddings… | ||
| Thank you developers for a fun | Debi Cabrera | 01m |
A short wrap video that stitches together developer keynote highlights and demo clips with music, not a deep technical talk or hands‑on walkthrough. It calls… | ||
| Using Gemini AI workflows for productivity | Max Saltonstall | 02m |
Demo shows Gemini wired into GCP Workflows to do three concrete things: summarize a 26-email thread into high-priority answers, parse an unfamiliar codebase… | ||
| Use cases for Gemini Code Assist | Karl Weinmeister | 01m |
Gemini Code Assist claims to write tests, optimize performance, and detect bugs while also generating comments and code explanations. It appears in the Google… | ||
| approach to generative AI | Seth Vargo, Warren Barkley | 11m |
Google Cloud rolls out Gemini 1.5 Pro with a 1 million token context that ingests hour‑long video and audio for reasoning, plus Imagen outpainting and live… | ||
| How generative AI can support medical staff | Devi Sandireddy | 05m |
Demo shows a working nurse handoff flow that cuts manual note-sifting by auto-summarizing and chronologically organizing records, claiming to address 57%… | ||
| Build Generative AI Apps for Enterprises with Cloud | Debi Cabrera, Harish Jayakumar, Sean Rhee | 07m |
Recommends a concrete template: Cloud Run + AlloyDB as the quick-start stack, swapping in GKE or Cloud SQL when needed, and using Vertex AI for embeddings and… | ||
| Developer Keynote recap – Richard Seroter | Richard Seroter | 09m |
Gemini 1.5 Pro Vision claims it can ingest a 75‑minute keynote and extract who spoke when and demo times, not just a transcript, and BigQuery Studio now runs… | ||
| Welcome to Las Vegas | Debi Cabrera | 01m |
Three days of on‑site coverage distill the generative AI solutions for cloud announcements into short highlight segments, show deep dive demos that walk a… | ||
| Storage: managing billions of objects | Debi Cabrera, Manjul Sahay, Abhishek Lal | 09m |
Announces concrete tooling: a pipeline that exports object and bucket metadata into BigQuery as storage insights data sets so one config covers hundreds of… | ||
| How businesses can leverage Gemini AI | Candice Chen | 08m |
Demo shows a working Data Beans dashboard for Coffee on Wheels using BigQuery, AlloyDB, Vertex AI and Gemini in business to turn data into actions: event… | ||
| Accelerate AI adoption | Mohan Pichika | 03m |
Explains how a notebook connects to a GKE-managed TPU cluster to run large-model training end-to-end: create the GKE TPU cluster outside the notebook, start… | ||
| Generative AI app development with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL | Debi Cabrera, Shambhu Hegde, Bala Narasimhan | 08m |
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL converts to a vector DB with one command installs pgvector, runs on managed Cloud SQL with availability, backups and security, and the… | ||
| Using Gemini AI for managing infrastructure and apps | Debi Cabrera, John Murray | 07m |
Gemini for Google Cloud integrates Cloud Assist and Code Assist to convert natural‑language questions into queries, run them against Cloud Monitoring… | ||
| AI solutions for healthcare | Jim Hogan | 03m |
Demo shows a Calantic toolkit that combines multiple FDA-approved tools into one interface for radiologists, integrated on a Bayer three-tier architecture that… | ||
| Scaling your applications with Cloud SQL for MySQL | Debi Cabrera, Isabella Lubin | 06m |
Cloud SQL for MySQL Enterprise Plus now supports subsecond downtime for planned maintenance and live vCPU scaling, and data cache shows up to 3x read… | ||
| Connecting data sources with AI | Luka Fontanilla | 13m |
An immersive web app links Pub/Sub and Dataflow ingestion to BigQuery storage, Looker dashboards and Google Maps Platform 3D tiles, with Vertex AI/Gemini and… | ||
| Maximizing Cloud SQL database availability | Debi Cabrera, Rahul Deshmukh | 05m |
Cloud SQL claims a 99.99% SLA and now achieves subsecond downtime (less than one second, down from under 10 seconds) by building a shadow replica that catches… | ||
| Generative AI with Google Cloud for founders and startups | Debi Cabrera, Darren Mowry | 10m |
Google Cloud outlines concrete startup support: flexible use of Gemini, first‑party and open‑source models, custom model training on chips and infrastructure… | ||
| How does AI for sports work? | Hyunuk Lim | 01m |
Gemini combines three concrete inputs: a live video feed for visual context, per-frame tracking from OpenCV tracking ingested into BigQuery, and a predefined… | ||
| The UPS network of the future | Carly Hartwick, Jeff Winkelman | 04m |
UPS models its entire shipping environment as a digital twin on Google Cloud, ingesting large datasets into BigQuery, running simulations on Google Kubernetes… | ||
| Accelerating AI inference workloads | Debi Cabrera, Alex Spiridonov | 14m |
JetStream delivers an open‑source, XLA‑optimized inference engine for large language models with techniques like continuous batching and quantization to cut… | ||
| A guide to building Gemini API key | Debi Cabrera, Aditya MP, Pramodh Ramesh | 07m |
Gemini Code Assist is a built-in feature of Google Cloud’s application integration iPaaS that turns short prompts into runnable automations, demonstrated live… | ||
| Can AI analytics be used with sports other than golf? | Hyunuk Lim | 01m |
Demonstrates that Computer Vision and Gemini track fast-moving objects beyond golf, with a live prototype following a hockey puck or a basketball and producing… | ||
| Extract value with assisted analytics | Manoj Gunti, Kenny He | 07m |
A live demo shows Gemini calling BigQuery via Function Calling with Gemini to turn plain-English questions into SQL, run queries, and format answers; the team… | ||
| Elevate security with Gemini AI | Cruz Vargas | 04m |
Gemini plugs into Google Security Command Center, Threat Intelligence and SecOps to reduce hours of analyst work to minutes by using natural language queries… | ||
| Developer Keynote recap – Kaslin Fields | Kaslin Fields | 10m |
Demo shows a chat frontend paired with a microservices backend running on GKE Autopilot, using an image upload of a real dining room to surface catalog matches… | ||
| A guide to Gemini APIs and integrations in Apigee | Debi Cabrera, Aditya MP, Michael Vakoc | 07m |
Gemini Code Assist generates OpenAPI specs and Apigee API proxies inside VS Code and the Cloud Console, turning natural-language prompts into runnable mocks… | ||
| Distributed Cloud for retail and manufacturing | Cameron Peron, Nishant Kohli | 04m |
Demo shows an on‑prem inference stack built on Google Distributed Cloud using TPUs and a three-node managed environment that Google operates from firmware… | ||
| Developer Keynote recap – Chloe Condon | Chloe Condon | 10m |
Demo shows Gemini-powered travel apps that take a short video of a bookshelf and extract locations, then a Generative AI Studio → Vercel app returns flight… | ||
| Easy and affordable access to GPUs for AI/ML workloads | Debi Cabrera, Laura Ionita, Ari Liberman | 12m |
Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS) allocates GPU/TPU capacity on demand for short ML runs by letting users request a number of GPUs and a duration, then queuing… | ||
| Serverless: Accelerate your AI | Debi Cabrera, Sara Ford | 07m |
Overview of using Google Cloud serverless to run Generative AI with concrete demos: a Gemini-powered chatbot hosted on Cloud Run, a function-calling flow that… | ||
| Where can I find documentation? | Arti Prasad | 01m |
Documentation lives at cloud.google.com/docs and it is the canonical place for the Next announcements with product-organized technical deep dives. The site… | ||
| Gen AI for regulated industries | Antoine Hass | 09m |
Demonstrates a working on‑prem GenAI pipeline using Google Distributed Cloud for air‑gapped environments that extracts text from images, translates French to… | ||
| Gemini Enterprise AI | Emir Okan, Arini Balakrishnan | 05m |
AlloyDB adds a built-in Columnar Engine that stores data columnwise inside Postgres and claims up to 100x faster analytical queries; demoed a real query… | ||
| What's the idea behind Golf with Gemini? | Hyunuk Lim | 01m |
A mini golf setup at Cloud Next streams short clips to Gemini models that extract concrete metrics — swing angle and ball trajectory, club speed, contact point… | ||
| New posture and infrastructure as code protection | Debi Cabrera, Mukesh Marodia | 09m |
Security Command Center Enterprise adds targeted security posture controls and infrastructure as code scanning that surface and block misconfigurations before… | ||
| Security Operations & Threat Intelligence | Sandy Wenzel | 02m |
Demonstration shows Google Security Operations with Gemini in Vertex AI tying into SOAR playbooks to group alerts by causality, produce an AI summary, and… | ||
| Marketplace for deploying AI models faster | Debi Cabrera, Sakshi Goel | 09m |
Google Cloud Marketplace introduces a generative AI category that lists vetted model providers, SaaS products, and services validated through technical checks… | ||
| Protecting workloads with next generation firewall | Debi Cabrera, Tracy Jiang, Osvaldo Costa | 08m |
Google Cloud ships a fully distributed firewall engine that attaches to each workload, enforces hierarchical org/folder policies, and applies tag-based… | ||
| Scaling and innovating with databases | Debi Cabrera, Aalok Muley | 08m |
Palo Alto Networks migrates from self‑managed Cassandra to Bigtable and records 5x lower latency, roughly 50% fewer application incidents and about 50% lower… | ||
| security solutions | Debi Cabrera, Vinod D'Souza | 09m |
Automotive firms treat cars as connected IoT systems and move sensor and manufacturing data into Google Cloud to reduce risk of vehicle-targeted attacks; on… | ||
| cybersecurity solutions | Nicolas Bédard, Aleksandra Savic | 03m |
Covers concrete Google tools and recent Next 2024 announcements: using Cloud Identity to enforce least privilege, deploying Cloud Armor for DDoS and top‑10 web… | ||
| Multi-cloud security made easy for DevOps | Greg Kushmerek | 05m |
Security Command Center Enterprise extends GCP Premium to show risks across GCP and AWS, with Attack Path Simulation expanded to AWS visualizing how a… | ||
| AI generated trivia games on Cloud | Dennis Lu | 03m |
A live demo of a playable trivia app called Hypergame built on Google Cloud uses Gemini Ultra to generate questions on the fly, served from hypergame.cloud. A… | ||
| Modernization of manufacturing processes | Kiran Srirama, Imad Qureshi | 05m |
A generative AI assistant built on Google Cloud and Manufacturing Data Engine detects a locomotive running at 80% speed / 11% more fuel, diagnoses a fuel pump… | ||
| How CIOs can reduce cloud cost | Yang Liu | 05m |
Google Cloud announces a specific cost plan: N4 (Emerald Rapids + DRM) virtual machines let customers pick custom or predefined shapes and boost… | ||
| What do attendees think of when they hear "Gen AI"? | Paige Cruz, Patricia Fernández, Felix Iben, Angel Ibarra, Yujun Liang, Aditya Annavajjala, Guy Shafir, Mallik Pullela | 02m |
Attendees respond to "Gen AI" with quick concrete labels — emerging, inspiration, magical, opportunity — and tie it to real work: one attendee mentions 11… | ||
| What have attendees learned? | Aditya Annavajjala, Paige Cruz, Jason Cowdy, Felix Iben, Angel Ibarra, Yujun Liang | 02m |
Attendees report concrete takeaways: Cloud now has built-in support for managing a fleet of OpenTelemetry collectors so observability scales, and teams are… | ||
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