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The Google Cloud Next OnAir Cheat Sheet
I’ve attended every major Google Cloud event since I joined the company in 2014. These in-person events always featured extensive signage as well as visible staff members directing attendees and answering their questions. For obvious reasons, this year’s Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir event is online so guidance is limited to website navigation.

From 2019 Google Cloud Next. I miss you all!
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I frequently create cheat sheets and other quick reference content. The Next OnAir website has a LOT of content, making it easy to miss things. Hopefully this article will help to jumpstart your experience.
Here’s what you need to know:
The nine weeks of Next OnAir
Next OnAir is a nine-week event. Each week features content in a different category:
- Week 1 - Jul 14 - Industry Insights
- Week 2 - Jul 21 - Productivity and Collaboration
- Week 3 - Jul 28 - Infrastructure
- Week 4 - Aug 4 - Security
- Week 5 - Aug 11 - Data Analytics
- Week 6 - Aug 18 - Data Management and Databases
- Week 7 - Aug 25 - Application Modernization
- Week 8 - Sep 1 - Cloud AI
- Week 9 - Sep 8 - Business Application Platform
Every week of Next OnAir follows the same pattern
Monday
- Get your work done so you can free up time to binge this week’s content! :)
Tuesday
- All of the current week’s session videos go live at 9AM PDT and remain online.
- An online Q&A feature is available for each video from the time the video is published through Friday. Many Googlers are standing by to answer your questions.
- Several demos have a similar Q&A feature. All of the demos are already live, but the Q&A period for each demo is only available during the week in which it is featured. For example, the Q&A feature for the demos in the Infrastructure category are only available during week 3.
- Cloud Hero, our gamified hands-on labs, opens at 9AM and runs for 7 days.
- 1:1 appointments with Experts are available Tuesday through Friday of the corresponding week.
Wednesday
- Study Jams, our hands-on labs walk-throughs and certification webinars, start at 11:30AM PT
Thursday
- APAC-friendly Study Jams start at11:30AM Singapore time (GMT+8).
Friday
- Talks by DevRel (a series of technical talks by the developer relations team) start at 9AM PT and 11AM Singapore time (GMT+8). If you are in Japan, you’ll find more information here.
Demos
We have a lot of demos for you—all of which are already live. Demos are either interactive or video-based. :
- Industry Insights demos — 8 interactive and 11 video
- Productivity and Collaboration demos — 3 interactive and 2 video
- Infrastructure demos — 9 interactive and and 3 video
- Security demos — 3 interactive and 2 video
- Data Analytics demos — 3 interactive and 4 video
- Data Management and Databases demos — 4 interactive and 2 video
- Application Modernization demos — 3 interactive and 4 video
- Cloud AI demos — 6 interactive and 4 video
- Business Application Platform demos — 1 interactive and 3 video
Demo Q&As follow the Next OnAir schedule above.
Videos (keynotes, sessions, and breakouts)
As an online event, videos of our keynotes, sessions and breakouts are the heart and soul of Next OnAir. You can find a complete list of all the videos for each week below and on the Next OnAir website, where you can create a playlist, add reminders to your calendar, etc. We’ve also put together session packages that group sessions by various topics, industries and job titles. While attendance is not limited this year, we definitely encourage you to watch these videos during their launch week, so you can take advantage of the live Q&As and interactive features. On behalf of all the Google Cloud Developer Advocates, have a great Next OnAir!
Industry Insights July 14
- Opening Keynote
- Planning for Retail’s New Priorities
- Healthcare: Reimagining Healthcare in the Era of COVID-19
- Solving for the Future of Financial Services
- Simplifying Complexity in Gaming
- The Direct to Consumer Future of Media and Entertainment
- Reimagining Public Sector in the COVID-19 Era
- Industry Insights: Addressing the ‘New Normal’ In Manufacturing
- Accelerating Telecommunications Growth
- Google’s Diversity Strategy and How It Works
Productivity & Collaboration July 21
- Helpful and Human: G Suite’s Vision for Your Future Workspace – Keynote
- Equip Your Frontline Workers for Success with Android
- Enabling a Remote Workforce with Chrome Enterprise
- Redefining the Approach to Mobile Security
- Securing Remote Workers with Google and Chrome Enterprise
- Sneak Peek: What’s to Come in Chrome Browser for the Enterprise
- What’s New and Next in Android Enterprise
- Boosting Chrome OS Adoption with Effective Change Management
- Deep-Dive into Modern OS Architecture Built for the Cloud
- Deep Dive into Chrome Extension Management
- Advanced Update Management for Chrome
- How PwC Migrated 275,000+ Users to G Suite
- No User Left Behind: Empowering Collaboration with Security
- Respectful and Inclusive Code Reviews
- Communication in G Suite: The Future of Gmail, Chat, Meet, and More
- The Future of Meetings in G Suite: Vision and Roadmap
- Teamwork from Anywhere: G Suite’s Vision for Content Collaboration
- Power Your Business with Search & AI in G Suite
- G Suite for Developers: Build, Extend, and Grow Your Business with the G Suite Developer Platform
- Work Beyond Borders: How to Use G Suite with Microsoft and Your Favorite Third-Party Applications
- Introducing G Suite Essentials: The Simplest Way for Teams to Securely Work Together From Anywhere
- Public Sector: Enabling Continuity & Remote Work with G Suite
- Supercharge Productivity With No-Code Apps Using AppSheet
- Keep Hackers Out: A Use-Case-Led Approach to G Suite Security
- G Suite Accessibility Features To Empower Inclusion
Infrastructure July 28
- Accelerate Your Digital Transformation through a Modern Infrastructure - Keynote
- Do it live! Fitbit’s Zero-Downtime Migration to GCP
- Managing Change in an SAP World - Tips on How to Leverage the Cloud
- Accelerate Cloud Transformation with Google Cloud VMware Engine
- Set Sail in Google Cloud with Streamlined Retail Operations
- Modeling and Comparing Cloud Solutions, Costs, and Strategy
- Verily’s Journey to the Cloud
- Building an Efficient Large Scale, Migration Factory & How MEDITECH DID IT!
- How To Achieve Zero Downtime Migrations To GCP With Fastly
- How Harness’s Cloud Took 76 mins to Migrate to GCP & K8s
- Stratozone: the Only Way to Start Your Migration Journey
- Cloud is Complex. Managing It Shouldn’t Be.
- Anywhere-Productivity with Modern, Low-Latency Cloud PCs
- Choosing the Right Compute Engine Instance Type for Your Workload
- Managing Large Fleets of Compute Engine VM Fleets
- Google Compute Engine: Portfolio Overview and What’s New
- Transforming Computational Drug Design with Google Cloud
- Enabling TELUS International to Securely Work from Anywhere with itopia on Google Cloud
- Delivering Flawless UX on Black Friday/ Cyber Monday
- Solving Real-World High Performance Computing Problems with Google Cloud and Partners
- Running Your Windows Workloads on Google Cloud
- Cancer Treatment Technology Enhanced by Citrix, Google Cloud
- Best Practices for Block Storage on Google Cloud
- Unlocking Genomics Workloads on the Cloud
- Private Service Connect & Service Directory: A Revolution to Connect Your Application in Cloud
- Hybrid Networking for Millions of Users with GCP #TwitterEng
- Harnessing 5G and Edge: Enterprise Opportunity, 5G/Edge Solutions, Road Ahead
- Transform Your Business with Open, Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Google Enterprise Network
- Software-Defined Networking Meets HPC
- Proactive Network Operations: Network Intelligence Center
- Build an Enterprise-Grade Service Mesh with Traffic Director
- What’s New in Network Security on Google Cloud
- Modern Content Delivery at Scale
- Designing for Observability on Google Cloud
- Achieving Resiliency on Google Cloud
- Kubernetes Engine Infrastructure and Service Monitoring with Equifax
- Alerting Best Practices for Google Cloud Monitoring
- Mindful Testing: Balancing Test Coverage and Maintenance
- Monitoring as Code
- Where to Store Your Stuff: A Storage Overview
- Introduction and Best Practices for Cloud Storage
- Reviving Content: Content Migration Strategies to Cloud
- HA and Data Protection on Google Cloud
- Getting Beyond Data Gravity: Moving Your Data to Cloud
- Optimizing File Storage for Your Use Case
- File Storage for High-Performance Workloads
- A Peek Behind the VM at the Google Storage Infrastructure
- Ensure Privacy and Security for Your Data in Cloud Storage
- Dive-Deep on Compute Engine and Persistent Disk Data Protection Capabilities
- Equity Engineering - Impact & Opportunity
Security August 4
- A Better, Safer Normal - Keynote
- Master Security and Compliance in the Public Cloud
- Protect Your Customers from Phishing, Malware, Fraud, and Hijacking with Google Cloud User Protection Suite Powered by Google Safe Browsing and reCAPTCHA
- Mission Possible: Moving Your Most Sensitive Data to GCP
- The Next Frontier In Data Protection
- How You Can Protect Your Web Sites and Applications with Google Cloud Armor
- Managing Sensitive Data in Hybrid Environments
- Cloud HSM Deep Dive and Best Practices
- Take Control of Security with Cloud Security Command Center
- Minimizing Permissions Using IAM Recommender
- The New World of Controlling Your Data in the Cloud: Cloud External Key Manager and Key Access Justifications
- Security, Privacy, and Compliance Solutions for Healthcare
- Using Policy Intelligence to Achieve Least Privilege Access
- Getting Started With BeyondCorp: A Deeper Look into IAP
- Building Trust Through Customer Collaboration
- Scale-Up to Your Security Telemetry
- Advanced IAM: Hacks, Tips, and Tricks for Policy Management
- Deep-Dive Google Cloud’s Managed Microsoft AD and Applications
- Authentication for Anthos Clusters
- How to Lead a Data-Driven Digital Transformation - What Every Leader Should Know
- How Certification Impacted My Career
Data Analytics August 11
- What’s New and What’s Next in Smart Analytics - Keynote
- Building Data Lakes on Google Cloud
- Easy Access to Stream Analytics with Google Cloud
- Data Catalog for Data Discovery and Metadata Management
- Analytics in a Multi-Cloud World
- Accelerating Insights with the Health Analytics Platform
- GCP for Bioinformatics
- Lead Your Company Towards Data-Powered Innovation
- Scaling Data-Driven Insights Across a Complex Global Organization with Looker and BigQuery
- What’s New in BigQuery, Google Cloud’s Modern Data Warehouse
- Best Practices from Experts to Maximize BigQuery Performance (featuring Twitter)
- Looker & BigQuery - Enterprise Digital Transformation at Sunrun
- MLB’s Data Warehouse Modernization
- New Use Cases in Cloud Dataprep - Data Pipelines & New Connectors
- Real-Time AI: Bringing Together Dataflow, TensorFlow Extended, and Cloud AI
- Stream Work Makes the Dream Work: Streaming Analytics on Google Cloud
- Building a Hybrid Data Pipeline Using Kafka and Confluent
- Data QnA: How Veolia Democratizes Access to BigQuery
- Data Leaders At The Helm
- Real-World Data Integration Patterns on Google Cloud
- Building a Global Marketing Data Hub on Google Cloud
- The Future of Data Governance, at Scale, in Multi-Cloud
- Building an Internet-Scale Analytics Platform on Google Cloud
- Smart Analytics: Deep Dive on Roadmap
- Reinventing Geospatial Analytics As Only Google Can Do: Intelligent Platform
- Data vs. COVID-19: How Public Data is Helping Flatten the Curve
- Delivering Analysis-Ready Financial Data at Scale
- Don’t Sweat The Big Stuff. Make It Google’s Problem.
- Technical Deep Dive on Looker — The Enterprise BI Solution for Google Cloud
- Architecting and Building a Data Lake on GCP with Open Source Tools
- Data Driven Responses to COVID-19 Using Looker & BigQuery
- Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Health Through Biomedical Research Solutions
- Using Google Cloud to Serve 10,000s of Personalized Recs Per Second
- Looker’s Roadmap: 2020 & Beyond
- Awesome New Features to Help You Manage BigQuery
- What’s New in BigQuery ML, Featuring Demandbase
- What’s New in Open Source Data Processing on Google Cloud
- Cloud Composer: Good Development Practices
- Building a Streaming Anomaly Detection Solution at TELUS using Pub/Sub, Dataflow & BigQuery ML
- Always Fast and Fresh Dashboards: Inside BigQuery BI Engine
- Building a Petabyte Scale Reporting Pipeline on GCP
- The Case for Product Inclusion 2.0
Data Management/Databases August 18
- Make Modernization Approachable with Advanced Database Management - Keynote
- The New Era of Service Delivery: COVID-19 Digital Transformation
- What’s New With Cloud SQL
- Impacting Cloud: Data Policy and Global Regulatory & Political Trends
- Getting to Know Cloud SQL for SQL Server
- NYT: Building a Real-Time Collaborative Editor with Firestore
- Future-proof Your Business for Global Scale and Consistency with Cloud Spanner
- Modernize Your Gaming Applications for Scale and Player Engagement
- Switching from DynamoDB to Cloud Bigtable and Spanner
- Optimally Deploy an Application Cache with Memorystore
- Modernizing HBase Workloads with Cloud Bigtable
- Bare Metal Solution: Bring All Your Enterprise Workloads to GCP
- How to Choose the Right Database For Your Workloads
- Simplify Complex Application Development Using Cloud Firestore
- Migrating Cassandra Workloads to Cloud Bigtable
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery with Cloud SQL
- Connecting to Cloud SQL from Kubernetes
- Lessons Learned from Evaluating Cloud Spanner at Uber Scale (link coming soon)
- Data Modernization: McKesson Story
- Empowering Inclusion with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
Application Modernization August 25
- Developer Keynote (link coming soon)
- Keynote: Simple Operations Everywhere with Anthos
- Keynote: Accelerate App Development and Delivery the Modern Way
- Getting Started with Anthos
- Modernizing Texas’ Best Retail Chain with Anthos
- Mainframe Modernization: Accelerating Legacy Transformation
- Build, Deploy, Modernize and Manage Apps using Anthos
- Modernizing e-Commerce for 90M Active Users with Kubernetes & Istio
- Building Globally Scalable Services with Istio and ASM
- Integrating VM Workloads into Anthos Service Mesh
- Optimize Cost to Performance on Google Kubernetes Engine
- Making Black Friday and Cyber Monday Seem Easy: Lessons from Shopify (link coming soon)
- Modernize Legacy Java Apps Using Anthos
- Running Anthos
- Secrets in Serverless - 2
- GitOps Workflows with GitLab and Anthos for Hybrid Cloud
- An App Modernization Story with Cloud Run
- Enhance Your Security Posture and Run PCI Compliant Apps with Anthos
- Accelerating Application Development with Anthos
- Evolve to Zero Trust Security Model with Anthos Security
- Designing Google Kubernetes Clusters for Massive Scale and Performance
- Ensuring Business Continuity at Times of Uncertainty and Digital-only Business with GKE
- Anthos Deep Dive: Part One
- Anthos Deep Dive: Part Two
- Cost Optimization on Google Cloud
- What’s New in Google Cloud Cost Management
- Mastering Your Billing Data and Making It Useful
- Life After COVID-19: How Government Agencies Can Use Google Cloud to Prepare for Economic, Social, and Health Recovery Efforts
- Comparing Docker Build Methods: Buildpacks, Jib, and Docker
- Cloud-Native Development in the IDE with Cloud Code
- Solutions for Launching Massive Global Games in the Cloud
- Data-Driven App Growth with Firebase
- Lowe’s: Building a Centralized Price Management Solution
- Kotlin - A Better, More Cloud-Friendly Java
- CloudEvents with Google Cloud
- Managing Enterprise-scale Distributed Business & Operations on Google Cloud
- Best Practices for Custom Metric Telemetry on Google Cloud
- Creating a Better Developer Experience with Google Cloud’s Operations Suite of Products
- OpenTelemetry and Observability at Shopify, Splunk, and Google
- Cloud Operations Spotlight
- Analyzing Distributed Traces to Find Performance Bottlenecks
- Modern CI/CD with Anthos
- Building a Virtual Post Production Suite With Google Cloud
- Anthos Security: Modernize Your Security Posture for Cloud-Native Applications
- Serverless Workflows in Google Cloud
- Run (Almost) Anything Serverlessly
- Where Should I Run My Stuff? Choosing Compute Options
- Serverless Functions
- From Zero to Hero on Cloud Functions Java 11
- Develop for Cloud Run in the IDE with Cloud Code
- Event-Driven Microservices with Cloud Run
- Cloud Run: What’s New?
- Enhancing Collaboration with Sheets, Python, and Google Cloud Platform
- Develop Scalable Apps in Anthos
- Buildpacks
- Encoding Gender Into Technical Artifacts Such as Emoji 😎
Cloud AI September 1
- Generating Value with AI - Keynote
- Responsible AI: from Theory to Practice
- Driving Business Transformation in Retail Using AI
- CCAI State of the Union
- Driving Business Transformation in Manufacturing, Industrial, and Transportation Using Google Cloud and AI/ML
- How Google Cloud is Fortifying the Social Safety Net
- Driving Business Transformation in Financial Services Using Google Cloud and AI/ML
- Driving Business Transformation in Healthcare Using Google Cloud and AI/ML
- What’s Next for Personalization on Google Cloud
- Creating Value With the Breadth and Depth of AI Platform
- Becoming Future-Proof: AI-Powered Integrated Business Planning on Google Cloud
- How Visual Inspection AI Transforms Manufacturing Industry
- Predicting Treasury Settlement Failures with ML
- Signal Generation in the Investment Management Industry
- An Introduction to MLOps on Google Cloud
- Engage and Translate: Text and Audio Chat in 100+ Languages
- TensorFlow Enterprise
- Document AI
- Interpreting ML Models with Explainable AI
- Building Multi-Platform Multiplayer “I Spy” with Custom On-Device Object Detection
- Pytorch at Scale on Cloud TPUs
- Google Cloud’s AI Adoption Framework: Helping You Build a Transformative AI Capability
- Breakthrough Insights Across the Life Sciences Value Chain
- Measuring and Improving Speech-to-Text Accuracy
- Transitioning Kagglers to TPU with TF 2.x (link coming soon)
- AI Platform—Notebooks (link coming soon)
- New Normal with AI (link coming soon)
- Introducing the Accelerator Optimized VM Family for ML/HPC
- AI Infrastructure
- McDonald’s Ramps Up Analytics Capabilities with Google Cloud (link coming soon)
Business Application Platform September 8
- Closing Keynote: The Future of Computing (link coming soon)
- Powering Business Applications with APIs, Microservices, AI, and No-Code App Development
- From Siloed ML to ML Service Mesh Using API Management
- Enterprise: Digital Transformation via Developer Engagement
- How DTCC Powers the Global Financial Markets with APIs
- Delivering New Customer Experiences Using APIs
- Verified Calls Make Business Calls Safer and More Purposeful
- Delivering Enterprise Transformation with Google Cloud (link coming soon)
- Powering API Operations with AI and ML
- Balancing Security and Self-Service in a Retail API Program
- OAuth, JWT, HMAC, Oh My! API Security For Your Enterprise
- How To Unlock the Power of Your Existing Data Through APIs
- Empower Customer Connections with Business Messages APIs (link coming soon)
- T-Mobile’s Strategy for APIs, Microservices, and Service Mesh
- APIs in Your Modernization Journey-Migration to Microservice
- GraphQL: Building a Consistent Approach for the API Consumer
- How to Build and Manage Secure APIs for Anthos Workloads
- Building and Managing APIs for Serverless with Google Cloud
- Build AI-Powered Apps - Turn Business Employees Into Developers with AppSheet
- Digitize Your Deskless Workforce Without Coding Using AppSheet
Note: All of the sessions listed above are subject to change. The website is the source of truth.
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