Bright lights, tons of excitement and gobs of AI only start to scratch the surface of how to describe Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas last week. With companies across every industry doubling down on AI, this was the conference to attend for both Google Cloud customers and industry partners alike. Scores of new Gemini and Vertex capabilities, agentic AI to boost productivity and creativity, and new GPU breakthroughs all took center stage with everyone discussing the art of the possible for today and into the future. While these announcements and capabilities were showcased in Las Vegas, everyone will certainly be taking something away to help solve challenges, boost productivity, and create new experiences for customers and employees.
Why unified governance is the future of AI innovation
With data and AI use cases continuing to grow, the message at the event was clear – you need the right capabilities, with the right data, with the right governance. The theme was prevalent and it was wonderful to hear people expound on the need for solid foundations in data and data governance to ensure that AI behaves as expected. It’s why the partnership between Collibra and Google is so strong and important to our customers. Data landscapes are complicated with fragmented data, AI and governance solutions hidden in pockets across every organization. With Collibra and Google, organizations are able to take a unified, multi-cloud data and AI governance approach, providing the flexibility needed to scale and support any use case they have.
The organizations that will thrive in this new AI era are those that recognize a fundamental truth: unified governance isn’t just about control—it’s about balancing it along with acceleration and innovation. By implementing unified governance for data and AI across every system, source and user, you can create a foundation for rapid innovation while ensuring compliance and trust – we call that Data Confidence. Collibra plus Google will give you that confidence in spades.
Spotlight on McDonald’s: Real-world innovation with Collibra + Google Cloud
Speaking of organizations that are brimming with Data Confidence, we had the distinct pleasure of presenting with McDonald’s during a jam-packed breakout session. McDonald’s is a fantastic example of an organization that is advancing their AI capabilities and achieving transformative business outcomes with Collibra and Google Cloud Gemini. By integrating a multi-cloud, multi-data platform with unified data governance for AI, McDonald’s is reducing governance fragmentation, activating unused data and addressing AI deployment risks. McDonald’s Director of Enterprise Data Governance, John Tucker and Collibra’s Executive Vice President, Customer Solutions and Services, Stephen Gilderdale, had the crowd buzzing!
Bridging governance and AI: Collibra + Google Vertex AI
And of course, Collibra and Google also spoke together at the event too! Collibra Vice President of Product Management, Chandra Papudesu, and Google Group Product Manager, Lu Yang, provided the crowd exciting insights into how Collibra Platform integrates with Big Query Governance and Google Vertex AI to defrag the data landscape and enable teams from across an organization with trusted data and powerful AI.
Collibra named Google Cloud Partner of the Year, again!
Collibra was also excited and honored to be recognized for the fourth year in a row as a Google Partner of the year for our achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers unify governance for data and AI to accelerate and strengthen every use case across Google Cloud and non-Google Cloud platforms. You can read the full press release here. The partnership between our organizations continues to grow, with Collibra enhancing metadata ingestion from BigQuery and Vertex AI and introducing data quality pushdown for BigQuery. The future is as bright as the Las Vegas Sphere and we’re excited to continue to introduce new and innovative capabilities that our customers can take advantage of.
AI momentum that goes beyond Vegas
Google Cloud Next 2025 was a blast. We’re excited about the continued partnership and innovation with Google and even more excited to see how organizations are using the combined power of our platforms to reimagine their business.
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