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Google Cloud Next 2026 — Insights

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1,035 of 1,146 sessions at Google Cloud Next 2026 are about AI — 90% of the whole conference. Security is the biggest single theme. The 111 non-AI sessions are where the rest of the cloud story holds out.

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1,146
Total sessions
Across all formats — keynotes, breakouts, workshops, and labs.
90% AI
Share of the conference
1,035 AI · 111 not AI
For every non-AI session, there are roughly 9 AI ones.
Security
Largest theme
234 sessions
Security runs through both AI and non-AI content — it's the one theme that shows up everywhere.
Leaders
Largest audience
276 sessions
Slightly ahead of Developers (244 sessions) — the conference leans executive.
514
Non-Google companies represented
Most appear once. A handful show up 10+ times and are part of the conference narrative.
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From 400+ slide decks and 300+ transcripts to a knowledge graph

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Top sessions by reservations at Google Cloud Next 2026

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How full the conference is getting

What the seat signals say
Where sessions are full

The shape of the conference

Each band flows left to right: total sessions → AI vs Not AI → theme → audience. Click any segment to explore that slice.

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What stands out
  • 90.3% of the entire catalog is AI — 1035 of 1146 sessions.
  • Security is the most common theme at 234 sessions, spanning both AI and non-AI content.
  • Inside AI, Security leads at 196 sessions — 1 in 5 AI sessions is about security; guardrails, IAM, and threat detection are baked into the AI stack.
  • Outside AI, Security takes the top spot with 38 sessions.
  • 276 sessions target Leaders, 244 target Developers — the conference tilts toward the buyer side.
  • 146 sessions target infrastructure and ops engineers, 103 target data practitioners. The platform comes before the pipeline.
  • The major consulting firms together account for 43 sessions — more than any single non-Google company on the list.
Quick pivots

How the agenda breaks down

Top themes
Top audiences
Top AI themes
Top Not AI themes

The words that keep showing up

Across all sessions
AI sessions only
Not AI sessions only

Top companies speaking

Non-Google companies
  • Palo Alto Networks leads all non-Google companies with 21 sessions — a persistent presence throughout the program.
  • The major consulting firms (Accenture, McKinsey & Company, Deloitte, PwC, Cognizant, HCLTech) add up to 43 sessions combined — more than any individual non-Google company. A big slice of the conference is about enterprise adoption, with consultants as the delivery vehicle.
  • NVIDIA at #2 (18 sessions) makes the AI hardware dependency explicit — the software story at this conference runs on their chips.
  • Anthropic appears 12 times — Google's AI model investment earns a recurring stage presence.
  • Wiz shows up 13 times, all in Security — Google acquired Wiz for ~$32B, yet the catalog still lists them as an external company.
  • Shopify (11) and Snap (5) are consumer brands, not enterprise software companies — Google is using them as scale proof points for what Cloud infrastructure can handle.

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