Google Cloud Next

Next ‘18 will feature multiple breakout sessions across these themes:

Application Development

How can you design, deploy, and scale applications faster? What tools help you build compelling web and mobile experiences? Dive into sessions that will focus on our serverless application environments, cloud-native containerized applications, and frontends with Firebase. Whether you’re new to coding or a seasoned developer, there are sessions here for you.

Collaboration & Productivity

Learn how to drive workplace transformation by administering G Suite across organizations for better team collaboration and productivity. These sessions will address how Google protects information, show how machine intelligence helps you work smarter and faster, and introduce the broad array of partners who are building integrations for products across the G Suite portfolio. These sessions are targeted to technology business leaders, system administrators, and G Suite champions.

Data Analytics

Hear from Google engineers and leading enterprise customers how they are taking advantage of Google Cloud to build cutting-edge data analytics solutions. Learn how to build a serverless data warehouse that executes queries in seconds at any scale with BigQuery. Understand how to ingest and analyze millions of streaming data events for real-time business insights with Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Apache Beam. Get best practices on deriving value faster from data processing on Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark via easy-to-create, easy-to-run clusters with Cloud Dataproc. See how to bring predictive analytics into your apps by adopting machine learning and building advanced marketing analytics solutions. These sessions are geared toward analytics leaders, data analysts, data engineers, data science experts, as well as technology, marketing, and business professionals.

Infrastructure & Operations

Learn how you reduce costs, modernize infrastructure, and move faster with Google’s compute, networking, storage, security, DevOps, and cloud operations. Learn how to design a cloud migration strategy and understand how to manage multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. These sessions are ideal for technology leaders, system administrators, developers, architects, and anyone who makes the cloud go.

IoT

Building and managing networks of global devices networks securely and then extracting data for analysis can be complicated and time-consuming. Learn how our IoT platform accelerates digital transformation by helping you manage your globally dispersed devices and uncover actionable insights in real time. Session speakers in this theme will share tips and tricks on how to connect, manage, and capture IoT data from a few hundred to several millions of devices — and demonstrate how to analyze data in real time. These sessions will help architects, data engineers, developers, as well as other business and technology professionals.

Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

How are you turning data into intelligence? Organizations are using artificial intelligence to make smarter decisions, deliver better customer experiences, and build intelligent applications. Whether you’re a data scientist or a developer, learn how to inject AI into your applications by using our Cloud AI services. Sessions will also provide tips and tricks for using Cloud ML Engine and related products in our machine learning portfolio to help accelerate your AI journey.

Mobility & Devices

Learn how to better develop for, deploy, and manage the Google ecosystem of devices and platforms including Chrome OS, Android, and Chrome browser. Dedicated sessions will show you how to achieve the best experiences with these secure entry points to maximize your investment in the cloud. These sessions are targeted to technology leaders, solution developers, and systems administrators.

Security

How are you protecting your data and applications? Learn more about our approach to managing, deploying, and developing security models. Sessions will address how we approach regulations and how to use tools to help customers better manage compliance. The security curriculum will also feature sessions about Google Cloud Platform security products as well as managing security for G Suite. These sessions are targeted to security professionals, technology leaders, and system administrators.