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AI + Data 2026 Mid-Year Update: Trends, Tech & Priorities 

June 10, 2026

Free Half-Day Event

Spotlight Talk: Next-Gen Data & AI: Driving Performance with an Open Lakehouse

June 10, 2026

Prerequisite: None

Vinod Ramachandran

Product Manager

Google Cloud

As organizations scale agentic AI, evolve enterprise architectures, and operationalize multimodal data, infrastructure choice dictates success. This fast-paced session highlights how Google Cloud addresses these 2026 priorities through an open, unified data ecosystem. Learn how a cross-cloud lakehouse architecture eliminates data silos, allowing teams to analyze disparate data engines securely without costly data movement. By decoupling storage and compute across multi-cloud environments, this framework delivers the extreme performance and cost-efficiencies required to fuel resource-intensive LLMs and semantic layers.

Whether you are navigating AI governance, optimizing total cost of ownership, or building AI literacy, this briefing provides the actionable strategies data leaders need to execute with confidence in the second half of 2026.