Google Cloud Next 2027 — AI/cloud flagship watchlist

Google Cloud Next is Google Cloud's flagship conference and one of the most important enterprise AI events of the year. With its Gemini models, its TPUs and its Vertex AI platform, Google brings full-stack AI — from custom silicon to frontier models to developer tools — and Next is where it presents that stack to enterprises and developers.

On the programme

The programme spans Gemini and the Vertex AI model platform, AI agents and the Agentspace tooling, data and analytics with BigQuery, AI infrastructure and TPUs, security, and Workspace's AI features — through keynotes, hundreds of technical sessions, labs and an exhibition aimed at builders and IT decision-makers.

Where it sits in today's AI

Next is a key read on the frontier-lab-meets-cloud-provider contest that defines 2026: Google is one of very few companies that designs its own AI chips, trains frontier models and runs a global cloud, so its choices on Gemini's capabilities, agent tooling and inference pricing shape the market. The conference's agent-centric framing tracks the industry's shift from assistants to autonomous systems wired into enterprise data. For developers, architects and technology leaders, Google Cloud Next maps one of the three dominant AI platforms onto real deployment.