Google Cloud at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025: Unlock AI & Data Lake Potential

This is a collaborative post from Databricks and Google Cloud. We thank Nicole Daignault, Partner Marketing Manager - Cloud, and Marina Simonians, GTM Business Development Manager, Google Cloud Partner Ecosystem, for their contributions.

Data + AI Summit 2025: Register now to join this in-person and virtual event June 9-12 and learn from the global data community.

Google Cloud is a Legend Sponsor at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025, the world’s largest data, analytics, and AI conference. Join 20,000 of your peers in San Francisco and virtually to discover how the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform on Google Cloud helps organizations harness the power of data intelligence by unifying data, analytics, and AI on an open, scalable, and secure foundation—built to support the next generation of generative AI applications.

At Data + AI Summit, attendees will hear from Google Cloud leaders across a series of breakout sessions and lightning talks, highlighting how customers are driving innovation with Databricks on Google Cloud. Whether you’re building agentic AI ecosystems, modernizing your data lake architecture, or driving efficiency with breakthrough cloud infrastructure, you’ll find the insights you need at this year’s Summit.

Meet Google Cloud at Data + AI Summit 2025

Google Cloud's partnership with Databricks continues to deliver immense value for our customers especially now that Databricks and SAP are generally available on Google Cloud. What’s more, Google Cloud consistently pushes boundaries with its next-generation compute and AI infrastructure, designed to accelerate the most demanding AI/ML workloads and large-scale computing tasks. Recent enhancements to its storage offerings make data management more flexible, cost-effective, and powerful, helping organizations better store, access, and protect growing data volumes. Furthermore, navigating the multi-cloud world is now easier with Google Cloud's simplified hybrid and multi-cloud networking to secure your workloads, data, and users.

Visit the Google Cloud Booth #F526 on the Expo floor! Engage with product experts, experience live demos, and participate in exclusive activities, including a chance to print your own T-shirt right at the booth. To set up a meeting with a member of the Google Cloud team and receive a co-branded jacket at your meeting time, simply complete this form. Don’t miss the chance to network, learn, and explore how Databricks on Google Cloud can accelerate your data and AI strategy.

Attend the sessions listed below designed to guide anyone exploring Databricks on Google Cloud and cover various topics—from building agentic AI systems to optimizing open data lakes and maximizing price-performance with next-gen infrastructure. If you have questions about Databricks on Google Cloud or want to see live demos, visit the Google Cloud booth on the Expo floor at Booth #F526 to connect directly with our engineers and product experts.

Google Cloud Breakout Sessions

Building Powerful Agentic Ecosystems with Google Cloud’s A2A

Wednesday, June 11 | 12:40 PM - 1:20 PM PDT
Discover how Google Cloud’s Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol fosters seamless AI interoperability across diverse agents, data sources, and workflows. Learn how Databricks Model Serving and Unity Catalog extend this ecosystem to deliver secure, scalable AI-powered solutions across your enterprise.

Speakers:

• Moderator: Naveen Punjabi, Director, ISV Partnerships, Google Cloud
• Panelists: 
  • Sean Falconer AI Entrepreneur in Residence, Confluent
  • Matt Kixmoeller, CMO, Glean
  • Sivakumar N., Vice President Data, ML & GenAI, SAP

Powering AI & Analytics: Innovations in Google Cloud Storage for Data Lakes

Wednesday, June 11  |  4:30 PM - 4:50 PM  PDT
Explore how Google Cloud Storage supports open formats like Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Hudi to power modern data lakes. See how Unity Catalog enables centralized governance and secure access, helping you unlock the full value of your data for AI and analytics.

Speaker:

• Jason Wu, Director of PM, AI, GCS & Infra (AGI) Storage, Google Cloud

Unlock Price-Performance and Efficiency on Google Cloud: Databricks & Axion in Action

Wednesday, June 11 | 1:50 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
Learn how Google Cloud’s new Axion C4A VMs deliver breakthrough price-performance for Databricks Photon. Get practical strategies to optimize your workloads for efficiency, cost savings, and performance at scale.

Speakers:

• Mo Farhat, Group Product Manager, Google Compute, Google Cloud
• Abhishek Rai, Sr. Director, Engineering, Databricks
• Gairik Chakraborty, VP Databases, Epsilon

Unleash the Power of Gemini for Databricks

Tuesday, June 10 | 5:20 PM - 5:40 PM PDT
Discover how Google Cloud’s Gemini models bring advanced reasoning and developer tools to Databricks, enabling teams to build more intelligent, agentic AI applications. Learn how to integrate Gemini into your existing workflows to unlock new value from your data and accelerate AI development.

Speaker:

• Abhishek Bhagwat, ML Engineer, Applied AI, Google Cloud

What’s New: Product Innovations Driving Data Intelligence on Google Cloud

Databricks on Google Cloud continues to raise the bar for performance, governance, and enterprise data unification. With cross-cloud S3 data access now generally available, organizations can govern AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage together using Unity Catalog – eliminating the need for data migration while applying consistent policies across multi-cloud environments. The new SAP Databricks offering, integrated natively in SAP’s Business Data Cloud, allows customers to unlock AI-driven insights from SAP data alongside the rest of their enterprise data – all within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Additionally, support for Axion-based C4A VMs with Titanium SSDs brings up to 65% better price-performance and significantly lower latency, giving customers a robust new foundation for running high-throughput analytics and AI workloads efficiently at scale.

Join Google Cloud & SAP for a Reception at the Data + AI Summit!

Monday, June 10, 2025, from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM PST

The Harlequin in San Francisco

We invite you to the Customer Reception at Databricks DAIS, hosted by Google Cloud and SAP, to connect with your fellow Databricks Data + AI Summit attendees over expertly crafted cocktails, delicious New American cuisine, and meaningful conversations. Sign-up here to secure your spot!

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