Kishore Gopalan’s Guide to #GoogleCloudNext 2021

Kishore Gopalan
4 min readOct 11, 2021

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New announcements, upcoming innovation, product overviews, developer deep dives, industry discussions, leaders circle — there’s something for everyone at #GoogleCloudNext 2021

If you have not registered for Google Cloud Next 2021, you are missing something. While the session catalog is up, not everyone has the time to explore it in full. So here are the ones I’d suggest you add to your playlist, as soon as you register. Click here to register.

The Opening Keynote

Our CEO Thomas Kurian shares insights on how businesses can leverage cloud technology to build for the future and adapt to complexities, challenges, and opportunities. I can’t reveal too much as yet, but expect to hear about our biggest launches, captivating customer stories, and Thomas’ view on what’s lined up in future at Google Cloud.

The Developer Keynote

Join us to celebrate how the innovations you see all around you today are co-created with our developer and partner ecosystem. We’ll hear from the developers who are bringing these innovations to life, how they originated, Google’s vision for the top three technologies trends to watch out for, and how cloud computing and other cutting edge technologies will evolve over the next decade. Together, with our developer community, we will bring the most compelling innovations to organizations and consumers around the world and we’re psyched to show you how.

Data Cloud: Simply transform with a universal data platform

The need to increase agility and reliability while lowering cost and risk has accelerated, yet it remains difficult to access, manage and trust data. Customers have to deal with complex and fragmented data with data sprawled across databases, data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts, in multiple clouds and on-premises. How can teams quickly access data to make better decisions, innovate faster, and improve customer experiences?

What’s new and what’s next with infrastructure for AI and ML

Learn about all the new cloud machine learning (ML) infrastructure and accelerator innovations this year. Learn about the realms of possibilities that open up with Google Cloud’s ML and GPU capabilities.

What’s new in serverless?

In this session, dive deep into the new features of Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and other serverless products, including enterprise security, support for more workloads, and extensibility. Learn how customers have launched new services with speed and ease.

How Goldman Sachs manages Google Cloud resources with Anthos Config Management

Presented by engineers from Goldman Sachs, this session will share how Goldman Sachs has helped their development teams build new services quickly, while enforcing standard configurations with security as code and shift-left security practices.

What’s next in Kubernetes

In the beginning, Kubernetes aimed to provide users around the world with the tools to run their applications at scale. Google and the Kubernetes community created a shared vision for a platform with the flexibility to grow and shift, serving the needs of many different business types. While our engineers work within the contributor community to develop new capabilities, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has grown accordingly in the areas of multicluster deployments, improvements to support batch or AI and machine learning workloads, and much more. Come learn about the latest features coming to the Kubernetes project that can help you scale your operations.

Geospatial innovations for a cloud-first world

Organizations across industries are rethinking how geospatial relationships and insights can help them realize a more prosperous and sustainable future. In this session, leaders from Unilever and Google will share perspectives on how to unlock and accelerate innovation with a uniquely powerful, full–platform solution built on category-leading Google products like BigQuery, Earth Engine, Google Maps, and more.

How risk transformation leads to aha moments in financial services

Financial institutions seek to drive growth, reduce costs, manage risk, and increase efficiency. But this past year brought one key theme into focus in the financial services industry — risk transformation. As risk mitigation bubbles to the top of priority lists and regulatory requirements have grown in volume and variety, savvy financial institutions have determined that re-architecting risk strategies and regulatory reporting are not merely necessary evils, but opportunities to transform overall data capabilities. When done correctly, such projects enable business stakeholders to enact strategies based on reliable insights. Join us to hear how Google Cloud has partnered with Goldman Sachs and ANZ Bank to innovate and transform front, middle, and back office operations to provide their teams with valuable insights instead of operational headaches.

Trust the cloud more by trusting it less

Many organizations have reservations about trusting sensitive workloads to the cloud. Technologies such as Cloud External Key Manager and Confidential Computing allow customers to trust Google Cloud more by reducing the amount of implicit trust that they place in their cloud provider. In this session, you’ll learn how we’re pushing the boundary even further, bringing services together in new ways to give customers even more independent control over their data at rest, in use, and in transit — and delivering ubiquitous data encryption.

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Kishore Gopalan

Enterprise Architect at Google. Talking about everything cloud and clear. Driving the next generation of innovation & digital transformation with Google Cloud.