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JIMMY: Hi there.
Welcome to a special episode of the G Suite Show.
As you can tell, we're here at Next
'17, Google Cloud's premier conference
with over 200 breakout sessions focusing on things such as GCP,
G Suite, devices, and more.
DREA: And Next '17 is all about new ideas and innovation,
learning from the industry experts,
and connecting with peers to help
build the future of the cloud.
JIMMY: So Drea, we've heard a lot of announcements here
the past few days.
What's sort of been your favorite thus far?
DREA: Yeah.
So I'm super excited about Team Drives.
And you may have heard more about our early adopter
program, but it's now open and available
to our business and education users.
And we'll be talking more about this in an upcoming episode.
JIMMY: Totally.
So on Twitter, we asked our viewers
what they wanted to hear about the most.
And by far, without a doubt, the most popular answer
was product announcements.
So let's talk a little bit about what G Suite has introduced
the past few days.
Specifically, we have Meet and Chat now for Hangouts.
Meet is out of EAP, and will be launching very soon.
Chat, meanwhile, an intelligence communications platform,
is going into EAP soon.
So if you want to learn how to apply for that, click here.
DREA: And another big announcement
is the Gmail add-ons for third party tools such as QuickBooks,
Salesforce, and ProsperWorks.
So no need to switch in between those multiple applications
anymore.
And to learn more about these product announcements,
make sure you follow the link to the blog post.
JIMMY: So Drea, was that you I saw
on the live stream before the keynote session this morning?
DREA: You know, I might have made an appearance.
JIMMY: OK.
OK.
Tell me a little about that.
DREA: Yeah.
So the live stream was an opportunity
to introduce people into what's happening here at Next,
and for those that are joining remotely,
a little taste of what's happening
at the showcase, and a lot of the demo booths as well.
JIMMY: I see.
I didn't know you had obligations outside the G Suite
show.
DREA: You know, people love me.
JIMMY: That's true.
They do.
DREA: But Jimmy, you've been here as well helping out.
So what are some things you're doing at Next?
JIMMY: That's true.
So I've been walking around.
I attended a boot camp, Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals,
which is really cool.
And just talking to different customers to see how
they like the sessions thus far.
Let's actually check out some of that footage right now.
DREA: Let's do it.
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SPEAKER 1: As a product strategist, you just, you know,
you don't get that hands on into code.
JIMMY: It's usually just talking about it, right?
But now you're actually in there.
SPEAKER 1: Right now I'm actually
coding the each byte and line.
So that's pretty cool for me.
SPEAKER 2: We're hoping to utilize
some of the digital analytics data
that we're very comfortable with,
with some of their back end data using a lot of tools, BigQuery
of course, but maybe even branching further
into some machine learning, and et cetera.
SPEAKER 1: There's a lot of, sort of,
hype in the market about AI, and machine learning.
But when you actually do the course,
you really see the hands on part.
You know, how do you actually implement a model?
So I think that brings a lot of context
to what we talk from a marketing and product strategy
standpoint.
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SPEAKER 3: It's really great to kind of get
that additional insight, and really
dive deeper into a lot of the nitty gritty technical stuff
into Google Cloud Platform, and really the nuts
and bolts of what it is.
JIMMY: Did you have any sort of a-ha moments today
where somebody was talking about something and something
just kind of clicked in your brain
and said, yep, that's definitely what I'm going to use?
SPEAKER 4: Oh, sure.
Like this is the most [? interesting tools ?]
that right now actually exist on Google Cloud basically.
I think I didn't know much about what was happening,
especially the machine learning side of things.
But I think those definitely could
be leveraged for like great things in the future.
SPEAKER 5: It was a great learning experience,
and I definitely see a lot of use cases going back
into the health care space as well.
DREA: So that's a quick look into what
we've been doing here at Next.
JIMMY: Make sure to tune into our next episode next week.
DREA: We're full of puns here.
JIMMY: Yes, we are.
SPEAKER 6: Today we're going to be sitting down and talking
with Lauren Gallegos.
LAUREN GALLEGOS: Yeah, it's great to be here.
Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER 6: Absolutely.
Lauren manages our Google Cloud community,
and we're going to learn all a bit more about what she does,
and why it's important for you.