This week in Las Vegas, Google is hosting its annual Google Cloud Next ΚΌ24 conference, bringing together industry leaders to learn about and explore the newest innovations in and around the Google Cloud ecosystem. Confluent is sponsoring and attending Next and highlighting the capabilities of combining Google's world-class data, analytics, and GenAI technology stack with Confluent's industry-leading data streaming platform. The company has been named a 2024 Google Cloud Partner of the Year award winner for its dedication to revolutionizing data connectivity and enabling business innovation through seamless access to real-time data. Confluent's collaboration with Google Cloud represents a shared vision to drive innovation and deliver tangible results for customers, with a focus on driving innovation around customers' usage of real-time data. The partnership enables organizations to effortlessly stream data into leading services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, and more, creating cutting-edge, real-time AI applications. Confluent has also achieved the Cloud Ready designation for Google Distributed Cloud deployments, ensuring compatibility with edge or air-gapped use cases, and launched a fully managed BigQuery Sink V2 connector offering improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The company is also a launch partner for the Confluent Migration Accelerator and the Data Streaming for AI initiative, which leverages Google's extensive AI partnerships to expedite the creation of real-time AI applications.