| 2:45 PM | Welcome and Introduction | Josh Berman, President at C2C Global, will kick off the event with a warm welcome from Chris Lindsay, VP Customer Engineering at Google. |
| 2:55 PM | Data & AI Product Strategy Updates | Vamsi Bodepudi, Head of Data Practice at Google will share updates on Google Cloud’s Product Strategy. |
| 3:15 PM | VirginMedia O2 - Triangle of success in a Telco | Sobhan Afroosheh, Customer Engineer for Google Cloud & Gilles Comeau, Director of Data Science and AI for VirginMedia O2, will discuss how Personalization, Customer Experience and Smart investments in Networks are foundational to success in a Telco. |
| 3:45 PM | Datamesh at Scale: Federated Governance & Decentralised Data Quality Index | Ravi Bhatt, Data Analytics Specialist for Google Cloud and Artem Mishchenko, Lead Data Software Engineer for Revolut will talk about Revolut’s Datamesh built at scale. |
| 4:15 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 4:45 PM | AI Booster: Vodafone’s MLOps & GenOps Platform at Scale | In this session, Alan Olivares, Customer Engineer for Google Cloud, will be joined by Ashish Vijayvargia, Vodafone’s AI transformation Manager, to discuss how Vodafon uplifted their existing MLOps Platform, AI Booster to support Generative AI at scale. |
| 5:15 PM | Building Solid Data Foundations | In this session, Zuzana Loup, Data Analytics Lead for Google Cloud, will be joined by Natalie Jakomis, Righmove’s Director of Data & AI to discuss how their solid Data Foundations is enabling them to scale up their AI use cases. |
| 5:45 PM | Panel Discussion - GenAI in practice vs the Hype | Ulrike Gupta, Director of Customer Engineering, UK/I for Google, will be in discussion with a group of Customer practitioners on their journey of building valuable Generative AI applications. |
| 6:30 PM | Closing and Wrap-Up | Wrap the day up with closing remarks from Sobhan Afroosheh, Google Cloud. |
| 6:40 PM | Happy Hour & Networking & Demos | |
| 6:50 PM | Spanner Graph latest & Demo | Bei Li, Co-Founder of Spanner Graph, will provide an overview Spanner Graph & some of the use cases emerging. |
| 6:50 PM | Demo: Multimodal Embeddings | The demo will showcase Spanner Graph’s Multimodal embedding capabilities. |
| 7:15 PM | Demo: Embedding for Football Clubs | Joe Malone, Product Manager for BigQuery will provide an overview of BQ Vector Store. The demo will showcase how to visualize team dynamics and optimize strategies like substitutions to maintain balance on the field, but also driving trading decisions. |
| 7:30 PM | Demo: Innovating Through Multimodality | Learn how to rapidly adapt new research (like improved fatigue models) into real-world applications. By embedding new findings into an MLM and creating new endpoints to significantly shorten the time from discovery to experimentation and deployment. |
| 7:45 PM | Demo: Dynamic Semantic Layer & API Layer | How to dynamically generate semantic layers by leveraging BigQuery’s information_schema and Google Trends data. Using DLLMs to create and deploy SQL views in real-time through Cloud Functions or Cloud Run, allowing proactive SQL query optimisation. |
