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Google Cloud Research Day (virtual)  (back)
 
Description:
This workshop will highlight GCP services for managing infrastructure, machine learning, and Generative AI. Presenters from Google and UW-Madison will provide details about how these and similar tools are being used and how you can get started using them. You will also learn about two UW-Madison initiatives designed to help reduce the cost of cloud computing

Lunch and refreshments will be provided for in-person attendees. You are welcome to join via Zoom instead.

Zoom link: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93540071453?pwd=VgJn2lEHXnDJW4fYjfBK02bxxPA64I.1
Meeting ID: 935 4007 1453
Passcode: 084846

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If you need an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Laurel Belman at laurel.belman@wisc.edu.All accommodation requests should be made no less than two weeks before the event. We will attempt to fulfill requests made after this date, but cannot guarantee they will be met.

Date: Feb 26, 2026

Agenda

Morning Session

8:45 - 9:00 AM Coffee and Networking
9:00 - 9:05 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks - Carasoft, DoIT, Google
9:05- 9:55 AM- Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Google Cloud for Research - Christopher Mende, Google
9:55 - 10:05 AM Break
10:05 - 10:35 AM The Wisdom of Crowds Leaves a Trail: Capturing $27 Billion of Human Behavior from Prediction Markets - Ross Dahlke, UW-Madison, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
10:35 - 11:05 AM Google Cloud TPUs for Research -Boone Severson , (Google, Madison Office)
11:05 - 11:35 AM Understanding High-Stakes Human Behavior with Multimodal AI: From Divisive Dialogue to Protest Footage - Kaiping Chen, Faculty of Computational Communication Department of Life Sciences Communication, UW-Madison
11:35 - 12:00 PM Getting Started with GCP - Access, Research Credits, Creating a Cost Estimate- Kendra Ramick , Google

Lunch Break


12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch Break - Catered for in-person attendees

Afternoon Session


1:00 - 1:30 PM From Manual to Multiplied: Automating the Path to Scale - Adam Huffman, UW-Madison
1:30 - 2:00 PM Gemini Enterprise for Research -Google – Kendra Ramick , Google
2:00 – 2:15 PM Break
2:15 - 4:15 GCP Hands On Labs - Kendra Ramick, Google
4:15 – 4:30 Closing remarks

Bonus workshop (registration required):
For a deep dive walkthrough on how to get started in GCP for common ML/AI and GenAI tasks, please register for our Intro to GCP for ML/AI workshop on March 5th, 9am-1pm (in-person only, Discovery Building). https://go.wisc.edu/19n0yq
Contact Info:
Zekai Otles, otles2@wisc.edu
Chris Endemann, endemann@wisc.edu
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