Google Cloud
Next 2026
Wednesday April 22, 2026
10:30
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
11:00
ACCELERATE CLOUD TRANSFORMATION: FREE DATA MIGRATION WITH NETAPP DATA MIGRATOR AND SNAPMIRROR
Diane Patton | NetApp
Unlock rapid migration and cost-effective modernization for your enterprise with NetApp Data Migrator and SnapMirror. Discover how you can effortlessly move NFS, SMB, and iSCSI workloads to Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and Cloud Volumes ONTAP, minimizing risk and accelerating time-to-value. Attend this session to learn how advanced features like discovery reporting and chain-of-custody validation empower you to drive business agility and realize cloud benefits faster.
11:30
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
12:00
REDUCE RISK AND ACCELERATE LEGACY TRANSFORMATION: PERSISTENT STORAGE FOR OPENSHIFT VIRTUALIZATION USING GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Mohamed Tleilia | RedHat
Diane Patton | NetApp
PARTNER SESSION
Running stateful virtual machines with OpenShift Virtualization demands enterprise-grade persistent storage. This session demonstrates how to integrate Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, a fully managed Google Cloud 1st party storage service, to solve this challenge. Learn how the Trident CSI driver delivers high-performance, NFS storage to your VMs and containers alike while delivering capabilities like snapshots and clones directly through Openshift, accelerating legacy application migration.
12:30
NEXT GENERATION CLOUD VOLUMES ONTAP IN GOOGLE CLOUD
David Hawkins | Avi Shitrit | NetApp
Discover how Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) for Google Cloud helps enterprises modernize critical workloads. Built on a modern, cloud‑optimized architecture, this release delivers gains in performance and scalability, stronger built‑in data protection, and up to 70% reduction in TCO. This session will show how customers are simplifying operations, improving resiliency against ransomware, and creating an AI‑ready, hybrid cloud data foundation—without costly application rewrites or added complexity.
1:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
1:30
SUPERCHARGE INNOVATION: SCALABLE FILE STORAGE FOR EDA, HPC, AND ML WORKLOADS
Wyatt Gorman | Google
Oliver Krause | NetApp
Drive breakthrough results for your most demanding data-intensive workloads with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Unlock massive scalability—up to 3 PiB volumes—while streamlining operations and accelerating access to compute resources. Join this session to discover how hybrid architectures and global caching can fuel faster innovation, improve agility, and deliver cost-efficient performance for your enterprise.
2:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
2:30
FROM DATA TO ADVANTAGE: NVIDIA FOUNDATIONAL RAG ON GCNV
Arvind Ramakrishnan | NetApp
Discover how to accelerate AI innovation by using NVIDIA’s Foundational RAG Blueprint to build AI data pipelines with your proprietary data stored on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV). Learn how this combination delivers a foundation to build GenAI initiavies and propel Agentic AI workloads while enabling secure, high‑performance access to enterprise data, improving research accuracy, and speeds time‑to‑insight, without complex data movement. See how organizations turn their trusted datasets into competitive advantage by powering deeper, faster, and more reliable GenAI research workflows.
3:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
3:30
VERTEX AI ON GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Deepak Jain| CGI
Ken Hoge | NetApp
PARTNER SESSION
As organizations modernize their IT infrastructure and leverage cloud capabilities,
migrating VMware workloads to Google Cloud presents a compelling opportunity. Attend this session to learn how CGI works with NetApp and Google Cloud to provide seamless migration pathways to Google Cloud with Vertex Al and GCNV, enhanced scalability and flexibility, and improved disaster recovery and business
continuity along with Vertex Al capabilities tied with GCNV.
4:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
Thursday April 23, 2026
9:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
9:30
OPTIMIZE ENTERPRISE STORAGE: FLEX UNIFIED ONTAP-MODE FOR BUSINESS ADVANTAGE
Oliver Krause | NetApp
Gain a strategic edge by leveraging Flex Unified ONTAP-mode to optimize cost, resilience, and performance. Learn how flexible service levels and deployment options empower you to align storage strategies with your business needs, minimize risk, and improve operational efficiency. This session provides practical guidance to help you make informed decisions and realize tangible business outcomes from your cloud investments.
10:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
10:30
SIMPLIFY OPERATIONS WHILE MAXIMIZING VMWARE VALUE: FLEX UNIFIED SERVICE LEVEL FOR GCVE STORAGE
Sajith Sathiadevan | NetApp
Scaling AI from experiment to production demands a new model: the AI Factory. Explore how years of NetApp and NVIDIA co-engineering have produced validated, full-stack AI infrastructure and new modular reference architectures that help enterprises achieve repeatable AI at scale.
11:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
11:30
STRONGER RESILIENCE WITH LOWER OPERATIONAL OVERHEAD: GOOGLE CLOUD BACKUP AND DR FOR NETAPP VOLUMES
Arvind Ramakrishnan | NetApp
Cohavit Almagor | Google
Strengthen resilience and cut operational overhead by protecting Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) with Google Cloud Backup and DR (GCBDR). See how to achieve tighter RPO/RTOs, automate policy‑based backups, and accelerate recovery, all without refactoring apps. Learn how this integrated approach reduces risk (including ransomware recovery with immutable backups), simplifies compliance, and optimizes costs while ensuring business continuity for file and block workloads.
12:00
ACHIEVE MISSION-CRITICAL UPTIME: SQL SERVER MIGRATION WITH ALWAYS ON HA/DR
Dinesh Gajendran | NetApp
Modernize your SQL Server workloads without compromise using Always On Availability Groups on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Experience resilient high-availability and disaster recovery architectures that deliver predictable performance and seamless failover. Attend this session to learn how to protect vital business applications, reduce risk, and ensure business continuity—empowering your enterprise to thrive in the cloud.
12:30
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
1:00
SUPERCHARGE INNOVATION: SCALABLE FILE STORAGE FOR EDA, HPC, AND ML WORKLOADS
Wyatt Gorman | Google
Oliver Krause | NetApp
Drive breakthrough results for your most demanding data-intensive workloads with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Unlock massive scalability—up to 3 PiB volumes—while streamlining operations and accelerating access to compute resources. Join this session to discover how hybrid architectures and global caching can fuel faster innovation, improve agility, and deliver cost-efficient performance for your enterprise.
1:30
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Olivier Rivard | Diskover
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
2:00
ACCELERATE DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY: SEE HOW NETAPP VOLUMES INTEGRATES WITH VS CODE AND AI
Chahat Gill | NetApp
Developers! Accelerate innovation using Google Cloud NetApp Volumes as a high‑performance, cloud‑native storage foundation. This session shows how teams boost productivity with seamless VS Code integration, streamline workflows for AI‑driven development, and eliminate bottlenecks when working with large datasets or stateful applications. Discover how organizations use NetApp Volumes to speed up iteration cycles, improve reliability, and deliver better software, faster.
2:30
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
3:00
NEXT GENERATION CLOUD VOLUMES ONTAP IN GOOGLE CLOUD
David Hawkins | Avi Shitrit | NetApp
Discover how Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) for Google Cloud helps enterprises modernize critical workloads. Built on a modern, cloud‑optimized architecture, this release delivers gains in performance and scalability, stronger built‑in data protection, and up to 70% reduction in TCO. This session will show how customers are simplifying operations, improving resiliency against ransomware, and creating an AI‑ready, hybrid cloud data foundation—without costly application rewrites or added complexity.
3:30
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
4:00
UNLEASHING THE POWER OF OPEN SOURCE WITH NETAPP INSTACLUSTR
Steve Richardson |
Cloud Solution Architect | NetApp Instaclustr
NetApp Instaclustr delivers a managed service that empowers organizations to harness the full potential of open source data and infrastructure for technologies such as Cassandra, Kafka, OpenSearch, and ClickHouse on the Google Cloud Platform. In this session, we will provide an overview of Instaclustr capabilities that deliver a production-ready, enterprise open source experience, enabling organizations to spend more time innovating, and less time worrying about managing data and infrastructure.
4:30
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
5:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
Friday April 24, 2026
9:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
9:30
MAXIMIZE CLOUD ROI: STREAMLINED VMWARE MIGRATION WITH NETAPP WORKLOAD FACTORY
Chahat Gill | Cliff Oberholtzer | NetApp
Transform your VMware environment and accelerate cloud adoption with NetApp Workload Factory Migration Advisor for GCVE and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. See how automated assessments and intelligent right-sizing slash migration planning from days to hours, reducing risk and eliminating costly errors. Join this session to gain actionable insights that enable faster, first-time-right migrations and drive measurable improvements in cost and architecture for your business.
10:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
10:30
ACCELERATE KUBERNETES SUCCESS: HIGH PERFORMANCE STORAGE FOR CLOUD-NATIVE WORKLOADS
Diane Patton | NetApp
Empower your application teams with high performance, intelligent storage for Kubernetes using Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and NetApp Trident. Discover how automatic provisioning, flexible storage types, and auto-tiering deliver enterprise-grade performance and cost optimization. Attend this session to learn how you can drive greater agility, reliability, and efficiency for stateful workloads, unlocking new business value through cloud-native innovation.
11:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
11:30
PREVENT DATA TAMPERING AND REGULATORY EXPOSURE: WORM-BASED IMMUTABILITY AND RECOVERY ON GOOGLE CLOUD NETAPP VOLUMES
Karl Konnerth | NetApp
Souparno Bhattacharyya | NetApp
Protect your most critical data with a comprehensive, cloud‑native defense strategy in Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Combine intelligent anti‑ransomware capabilities—such as real‑time anomaly detection, immutable snapshots, and rapid recovery with Write Once, Read Many protection to achieve true data immutability. Prevent tampering, meet strict compliance mandates, and maintain business continuity at scale. Obtain practical guidance to build a resilient, low‑overhead data protection posture that safeguards workloads from ransomware and regulatory risk.
12:00
NEXT GENERATION CLOUD VOLUMES ONTAP IN GOOGLE CLOUD
David Hawkins | Avi Shitrit | NetApp
Discover how Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) for Google Cloud helps enterprises modernize critical workloads. Built on a modern, cloud‑optimized architecture, this release delivers gains in performance and scalability, stronger built‑in data protection, and up to 70% reduction in TCO. This session will show how customers are simplifying operations, improving resiliency against ransomware, and creating an AI‑ready, hybrid cloud data foundation—without costly application rewrites or added complexity.
12:30
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
1:00
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
1:30
BUILT FOR AI. TRUSTED FOR ENTERPRISE. TAKE THE NETAPP TOP 3 CHALLENGE!
Paul Traynor | NetApp
This brief presentation combines a fun quiz with a quick overview of the many benefits your company will realize when you put NetApp And Google Cloud together. Discover unmatched features and performance for your data in Google Cloud— and compete for bragging rights and prizes!
SPEAKER SESSIONS
SUPERCHARGE YOUR ENTERPRISE APPS: HIGH PERFORMANCE UNIFIED STORAGE
Date Wednesday, April 22nd | Time 12:30pm-12:50pm | Expo Theater 2
Is your data infrastructure keeping up with the demands of your business? Join us to see how Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is removing barriers for UKG, a workforce management and human resource management services company. We will discuss how UKG is accelerating their database deployments while achieving high performance and resiliency. Learn how to utilize unified storage to optimize your enterprise applications and unleash the next generation of cloud computing.
Hrishi Keremane | Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
LIGHTNING TALK
MODERNIZE ENTERPRISE FILE STORAGE FOR THE AI JOURNEY
Date Thursday, April 23rd | Time 4:00pm-4:45pm | BRK2-191
Unlock AI innovation by modernizing your file data. Discover how Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) enables no-code migration of ONTAP workloads with unified file and block support. Find out how to connect data in GCNV or Filestore to AI workloads on Gemini Enterprise or Google Kubernetes Engine for retrieval-augmented generation and inferencing, plus how to automate operations with Gemini Cloud Assist. Whether lifting and shifting or building agents, this session will offer the blueprint for a unified, AI-ready file strategy.
Wilson Chan | Electronic Arts
Randall Mawhinnie | Bentley Systems
Rukmani Gopalan | Google Cloud
Micha Waldman | Google Cloud
BREAKOUT SESSION
GOOGLE CLOUD NEXT 2026
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