Cloud Run at Cloud Next 2025

Cloud Run is BIG at Cloud Next this year! Here’s an overview of all our team’s sessions, by date so you don’t miss anything.

DAY 1 - APR 9, 2025

• 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM: What’s new in Cloud Run
  • Location: Mandalay Bay Ballroom H
  • Speakers: Steren Giannini, John Gill (Wayfair), Scott Kennedy (Replit), Yunong Xiao
  • This session dives into the latest Cloud Run features, making application deployment and new workload types like AI inference simpler than ever. Learn how Cloud Run’s efficiency and flexibility can power your most demanding workloads.

DAY 2 - APR 10, 2025

• 08:15 AM - 09:00 AM: Run high-availability multi-region services with Cloud Run

  • Location: Mandalay Bay Ballroom H
  • Speakers: Seenuvasan Devasenan (Commerzbank), Taylor Money, Shane Ouchi
  • Discover how to use Cloud Run for high-availability applications resilient to regional outages without added costs or complexity. Learn to minimize service disruptions and ensure business continuity with fault-tolerant design and multi-region deployment.

• 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM The ultimate Cloud Run guide: From zero to production

  • Location: South Seas B
  • Speakers: Sara Ford, Wietse Venema
  • This demo-driven talk explores Cloud Run’s simplicity and flexibility for running code. It’s great if you’re not familiar with Cloud Run yet, because we cover features from basic concepts to VPC access to startup probes, and share codelabs with you.

• 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM: Unleash the power of serverless GPUs with Cloud Run

  • Location: Surf F
  • Speakers: Min Chen (vivo), Wenlei (Frank) He, Jeffrey Morgan (Ollama), Sagar Randive
  • Explore the world of serverless GPUs with Cloud Run and its on-demand capabilities with unparalleled flexibility and cost efficiency. Discover how they can help you build AI inference apps with open models, high-performance computing, and graphics rendering.

• 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM: Master serverless generative AI with Gemini and Cloud Run

  • Location: Mandalay Bay Ballroom L
  • Speakers: Oliver Chang (Cathay Financial Holding), Preston Holmes, Lisa Shen
  • Learn to effortlessly build, deploy, and scale generative AI apps delivering personalized recommendations and stunning images using Gemini Code Assist on Cloud Run. Discover how to optimize performance and cost of AI workloads by leveraging Vertex AI and on-demand, scale-to-zero serverless GPUs.

• 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM: Enterprise-grade security and scale for serverless workloads with Cloud Run

  • Location: Mandalay Bay Ballroom H
  • Speakers: Tejas Cherukara (ANZ Bank), Thomas Shafer, Xiaowen Xin
  • This session covers the latest advancements in securing and managing Cloud Run workloads at enterprise scale. Learn new techniques to meet security standards, manage deployments, and resolve IP exhaustion issues, plus hear firsthand experiences from customers managing large Cloud Run fleets.

DAY 3 - APR 11, 2025

• 08:30 AM - 09:15 AM: Build event-driven apps with Cloud Run and Eventarc Advanced

  • Location: Mandalay Bay Ballroom L
  • Speakers: Hamid Asaadi, Sara Ford, James Ma
  • Discuss serverless computing and event-driven architectures using Cloud Run functions. Learn to build event-driven architectures with multiple trigger types and get introduced to Eventarc Advanced for centralized event access control.

• 09:45 AM - 10:30 AM: Build AI agents on Cloud Run

  • Location: Oceanside B
  • Speakers: Harrison Chase (LangChain), Steren Giannini, Harjot Gill (CodeRabbit), Wietse Venema
  • Discover how Cloud Run is ideal for hosting AI applications by using AI frameworks like LangChain or Firebase Genkit to orchestrate calls to AI models on Vertex AI and other APIs. Dive deep into building AI agents on Cloud Run for complex tasks with tool calling, multi-agent systems, and code execution, with interactive examples.

• 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM: Autoscale Kafka consumers on Cloud Run

  • Location: South Seas D
  • Speakers: Adam Kane, Matt Larkin
  • Learn to leverage the flexibility of Cloud Run for your Apache Kafka workloads. Get introduced to Cloud Run worker pools, a new resource specifically designed for non-request-based workloads, and how to enable fast and flexible scaling of Kafka consumers.

• 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM: Cloud Run meetup

  • Location: Developer Meetup 1
  • Speaker: Martin Omander
  • Connect with fellow developers building applications on Cloud Run. Discuss the latest announcements, new features, and best practices for scaling and managing deployments.