Google Cloud Curated articles for developers

A remarkable number of things were announced, but I’m not here to talk about those. Innumerable customer stories were told. But I’m not here to talk about that either. What I AM here to talk about, is the incredible sessions that were presented by Googlers, users and customers. Decision makers and practitioners.
Did you know many of the sessions were recorded and are available on the website if you’re registered?
To help make that all a bit faster, I’ve also compiled a list of all the recorded sessions that touched on our data products (because, you know, I love data!). For your viewing pleasure, I give you…the data sessions from Google Cloud Next 2025! These first session sections are all the full length recorded sessions. Side note: There’s LOTS of crossover between the arbitrary categories I have below!
Spotlight sessions
The future of AI-powered data is autonomous and agent-driven — Data Analytics spotlight session. (short recap version)
What’s next for Google Cloud databases in the AI era — Databases spotlight session (short recap version)
Breakout sessions
Announcement specific sessions
Introducing Firestore with MongoDB compatibility. Dive-deep into its capabilities and use-cases.
Deep dive into the latest innovations in AlloyDB: The new way to PostgreSQL
A new era of AI for BI with Conversational Analytics for BigQuery and Looker
Redefine data and AI governance in the unified BigQuery platform
A new era of self-service and beautiful visualizations: Studio in Looker
Cool tech innovation sessions
Data fabric on BigQuery: An architect’s perspective of why and how to do it
Gemini in BigQuery: Your AI assistant for transforming your data workflows
Unlock the power of Looker: Performance secrets and modeling mastery
Use BigQuery ML to build gen AI and predictive ML applications
Unleashing the power of Apache Spark integrated with BigQuery
Data on Kubernetes: Run stateful apps and AI workloads on GKE
How BigQuery can help modernize your data platform for the AI era
How to accelerate AI app development and use AlloyDB Omni in any environment
Architecting the future: Spanner’s multimodel power and technological foundation
Simplify operational and AI data pipelines with SQL in Bigtable
Build production-grade gen AI apps with Cloud SQL for MySQL and PostgreSQL in less than 30 minutes
Maximize the availability and performance of your Cloud SQL workloads
Supercharge your Oracle databases and applications with Google Cloud
A new BigQuery capability: Integrated Earth data for better decision making
New geospatial analytics tools to drive business and sustainability impact
Support disaster resilience with integrated AI-driven geospatial analytics
Deep dive into multimodal embeddings and vector search in BigQuery
Innovate data workloads with AI-first data prep and BigQuery notebooks
Bring the power of BigQuery to your Apache Iceberg lakehouse
Save time and effort with Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka
Bridge the gap: Unify your data with BigQuery multimodal tables
Customer centric solution sessions
Mainframe modernization with AI and the cloud: Customer stories
The future of work: AI agents unleashed with UKG, Google Cloud, and MongoDB
Virgin Media O2 partners with TCS for cloud-first data strategy
Enhancing Definity’s customer and agent experience with proactive Agent Assist
Future-proof and modernize SAP business processes with Google Cloud
How Shopify and Palo Alto Networks use Dataflow bringingreal-time data to AI
Solve real-time AI challenges: Bigtable and BigQuery in Spotify’s music recommendation engine
Hadoop pioneer to cloud innovator: Yahoo’s data lake modernization journey
Industry specific sessions
Personalizing public health and human services: Stories of support and care
Protect our resources and invest in tomorrow with data and AI
The future of AI and databases: How Target transformed their retail experience with AlloyDB AI
The rest
The data-driven C-suite: Lead with insights in the age of disruption
Unlock value for your workloads: Microsoft, Oracle, OpenShift, and more
Empower growth: Data and security solutions for small and medium businesses
Beyond the hype: Real-world applications of gen AI and databases
Eliminate your weak spots: Discover and protect sensitive data
Why leading enterprises migrate to BigQuery and what they learned along the way
Why leading enterprises migrate to BigQuery and what they learned along the way
Data platform migrations: Perspectives from industry insiders
Then we have a slew of recaps. Some session recaps are just shorter versions of some of the above sessions, and some were net new!
Spotlight Recaps
The rest of the recaps
Cloud migration conquered: Strategies for small but mighty IT teams
Mainframe modernization with AI and the cloud: Customer stories
Building the tools for valuable business insights from sustainability data
Advanced analytics made easy: BigQuery and Looker for small teams
Oracle and Google Cloud: Design for the future with advanced analytics and AI
Under the Iceberg: Simple, unified Cloud Storage for analytics data lakes
How BigQuery can help modernize your data platform for the AI era
Build powerful gen AI agents with Google Cloud databases and LlamaIndex
Beyond basic monitoring: AI-powered observability for Cloud SQL
Supercharge your Oracle databases and applications with Google Cloud
Take multimodal data to gen AI with cloud databases and serverless runtimes
From data to action: Building causal AI systems with knowledge graphs
How a global bank transformed their data estate with Teradata + Google
Democratizing AI and ML: Building and scaling with BigQuery and Vertex AI
Innovation with speed: Journey of a large and complex data warehouse to Cloud
LangGraph and MCP Toolbox: Building generative AI agents on your databases
Gemini Code Assist: Superpowers for building apps on Google Cloud databases
Structure your unstructured content: Gemini for scaling business
I hope you enjoy sifting through all the amazing sessions from our data world at Google from our big show. Please let me know your favorites in the comments below!



