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.
Details
When: 26 Feb, 2026
Where: Zoom
Meeting ID: 935 4007 1453
Passcode: 084846
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Agenda
Morning session
8:45am-9am: Coffee and Networking
9am-9:05am: Welcome and Opening Remarks – Carasoft, DoIT, Google
9:05am-9:55am: Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Google Cloud for Research – Christopher Mende, Google
9:55am-10:05am: Break
10:05am -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 – 11:05am: Google Cloud TPUs for Research -Boone Severson, (Google, Madison Office)
11:05am-11:35am: 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
11:35am-noon: Getting Started with GCP – Access, Research Credits, Creating a Cost Estimate- Kendra Ramick, Google
Lunch break
noon–1pm: Lunch Break – Catered for in-person attendees
Afternoon session
1pm-1:30pm: From Manual to Multiplied: Automating the Path to Scale – Adam Huffman, UW–Madison
1:30pm-2pm: Gemini Enterprise for Research -Google – Kendra Ramick, Google
2pm–2:15pm: Break
2:15pm-4:15pm: GCP Hands On Labs – Kendra Ramick, Google
4:15pm–4:30pm: Closing remarks