Welcome to the Google Defense Roadshow: The AI Mission Advantage!

As geopolitical challenges grow more sophisticated and the digital landscape evolves, defense agencies are under increasing pressure to act faster, with greater precision and confidence. Building a future-ready defense enterprise requires more than just adopting new technologies; it demands a strategic approach to integrating cloud, edge, AI, and real-time data in support of mission-critical decision-making. This session will explore proven strategies and real-world examples of how defense organizations are turning information into timely, actionable intelligence—preserving decision advantage and mission superiority in a rapidly changing world.

How can artificial intelligence and machine learning enhance mission planning and rapid response? From building more reliable space weather forecasting models to accelerating the performance of research and development platforms to enhance defense capabilities, AI and ML tools can help agency leaders and practitioners collect, analyze and understand data more efficiently. During this conversation, we’ll examine how a full stack approach to AI and ML can be used in defense agencies to transform complex data into actionable insights.

AI has the power to transform defense and national security operations by efficiently finding and analyzing the information leaders need to make important decisions. During this session, you will hear from our experts on the importance of driving AI integration in real-world environments to enhance agility, streamline decision-making and usher in a new era of innovation.

For military and defense mission owners, gaining a decisive edge against emerging threats is paramount. During this session, we will share critical perspectives on today's evolving threat landscape, illuminating how adversaries are challenging our global networks and national defense. In addition, we will assess the current threat landscape and explore the tools agencies can incorporate for proactive threat intelligence.

In today's complex and rapidly evolving threat landscape, military and defense agencies require agile, secure, and resilient solutions in order to maintain decision advantage. During this partner spotlight, World Wide Technology and Google Public Sector will highlight the agility, security, and resilience needed to transform space operations, bringing the power of hyperscale, cloud computing and AI directly to their most demanding and sensitive mission environments through X. The session will conclude with a live demo. 

Network with government and industry professionals, dive into demos from our Google and partner experts

This hands-on lab explores key aspects of generative AI, focusing on model evaluation via Model Garden on Vertex AI and building multi-agent systems with the Agent Development Kit (ADK). You'll discover diverse AI models and design prompts in Vertex AI Studio. Then, learn to orchestrate hierarchical agents, manage conversational state, and implement advanced workflows using the ADK for complex automation.

*hands-on lab experience requires you to bring your own device

Explore Google Agentspace, a platform merging Gemini's reasoning, Google Search, and enterprise data to combat information silos. This lab deploys an Agentspace app, connecting to Cloud Storage, Drive, and Calendar. Learn to configure authentication, create data stores, and utilize the AI assistant for discovery. Build custom AI agents for business analysis and leverage NotebookLM for in-depth content analysis, ultimately boosting efficiency and decision-making.

*hands-on lab experience requires you to bring your own device

Dive into Agentspace, Google's innovative platform revolutionizing how enterprises leverage their data. This session explores how Agentspace empowers employees by providing a unified, company-branded search agent that acts as a central source of truth. Discover how it harnesses Gemini's advanced reasoning and Google-quality search to enable conversational assistance, answer complex questions, and automate actions across both structured and unstructured data. Learn how Agentspace streamlines workflows, enhances productivity, and ensures data security with enterprise-grade controls, all while integrating seamlessly with popular third-party applications.
 

This session focuses on operationalizing AI for DoD agencies, moving beyond the hype to practical, enterprise-ready Generative AI (GenAI) solutions. We will address key challenges in managing, securing, and scaling large language model (LLM) deployments, particularly concerning APIs. The discussion will cover how to ensure security and safety for LLM APIs, including protection against prompt attacks and sensitive data leakage, as well as cost optimization through token-based limits and semantic caching. Attendees will learn about implementing robust observability for usage patterns and compliance, and strategies for providing optimal user experiences through intelligent model routing and failover to ensure continuous availability. The session will demonstrate how an API management platform like Google Cloud's Apigee can serve as a central nervous system for AI investments, enabling rapid development, consistent experiences, and a governed ecosystem for AI models across the DoD.

This session demonstrates how customers can evaluate the impact of APT attacks in their production network using Mandiant Security Validation (MSV) and Google Threat Intelligence (GTI). Attendees will discover how GTI gathers intelligence, generates finished intelligence reports and helps customers identify who is targeting their organization and what their attack tactics, techniques and procedures are (TTPs), and the benefit of citing GTI reports to save operators time instead of declassifying government intel sources. They will also learn how MSV assists Cyber Missions in testing these attacks in their environment and improving their security controls. Use cases are: SIEM false positive reduction, technology optimization, speed to detect detection and reduced cost (doing more with the same).

Unleash the potential of your data with Google GenAI and the Vertex Suite, Google Cloud's end-to-end platform for generative AI development and deployment. This session delves into Vertex AI's capabilities, showcasing how it empowers organizations to build and scale custom AI models with enterprise-grade security and governance. See use cases around how Vertex AI supports the entire AI lifecycle, from experimentation to production, and how its features like Model Garden and multimodal processing enable you to tailor AI solutions to your specific needs and drive innovation across your enterprise.

The Department of Defense struggles with legacy mainframe applications that lock away critical data and resist modernization. Traditional approaches often recreate the same inflexibility in new systems. In this session, Game Plan will show how they use advanced GenAI - specifically Google's Gemini models - to automatically analyze legacy code, extract underlying business logic, and rebuild applications as modular, cloud-native solutions. This approach delivers faster, lower-risk modernization - critical for defense systems that can't afford downtime or failed deployments.