Table of contents
Schedule
Week 1, July 14: Industry Insights
Week 2, July 21: Productivity & Collaboration
Week 3, July 28: Infrastructure
Week 4, August 4: Security
Week 5, August 11: Data Analytics
Week 6, August 18: Data Management & Databases
Week 7, August 25: Application Modernization
Week 8, September 1: Cloud AI
Week 9, September 8: Business Application Platform (API Management & No-Code App Development)
Announcements (not a comprehensive list)
Confidential Computing
- Always have your data encrypted even when in-use
- Enables new use cases such as training models „together“ in the cloud across organizational and regulatory boundaries requiring strict data protection
- Build on 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs and Google’s Shielded VMs
BigQuery Omni
- Query your data in AWS and Azure from within the BigQuery console in GCP
- Let your big data data stay in AWS and Azure and avoid egress charges
- BQ Omni is deployed on Anthos and VMware in AWS and Azure
Anthos
- Anthos is Google’s approach for a hybrid and multi-cloud footprint
- The service was introduced at Google Cloud Next ’19 and has seen numerous improvements since
- Automatically migrate and modernize VM workloads to containers in Anthos and GKE
- NEW: Bare metal (does not require VMware any more)
- NEW: Not only GKE attached clusters, but also 3rd party attached Kubernetes clusters
- NEW: Hybrid AI, first AI service: Speech-to-Text On-Prem
- NEW: Anthos Identity Service with support for OpenID Connect
Cloud Application Modernization Program (CAMP)
- Reflects learnings gained via six years of research by DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
- 1/ Data-driven assessment and benchmarking
- Full assessment
- Quick assessment
- 2/ Extensible tools such as Cloud Code, Cloud Build, Container Registry, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, and Anthos
- 3/ Proven practices, solutions, and recommendations: technical, process, measurement, and cultural

AppSheet – the no-code / low-code platform
- AppSheet was acquired by Google in January 2020
- Part of the Google Business Application Platform (BAP)
- Connectors for BigQuery and Google Sheets are available
Data QnA
- API for asking natural language questions
- Directly available from the BigQuery UI
- Integration with Google Sheets

API Gateway
- Based on Envoy proxy
- Supports Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, App Engine, Compute Engine, and GKE