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hello everyone welcome to google cloud
next
all right we've had a lot of great
content so far and i have to say i
learned a lot just now watching the data
cloud session i hope you're ready for
even more i'm javier soltero vice
president and general manager for google
workspace and i'm super excited to be
with you today though to be honest i
really was hoping we could all be in
person by now
since flexibility is one of the key
themes for today we'll embrace what we
have to work with even if we can't be
together
although the last 18 months have been
filled with uncertainty we continue to
be inspired by customers and users who
found new ways to create and stay
connected
driving innovation and embracing change
are always challenges for every business
whether you're 10 people or a hundred
thousand the goal seems simple empower
your teams to work effectively together
in part by ensuring that your technology
is an enabler not a blocker
as we've evolved google workspace we've
been focused on helping individuals
teams and entire organizations drive
innovation and greater impact with the
tools they use every day
and flexibility has been foundational to
our approach
it's why we decided to not only be cloud
first but cloud only it's why we've
always prioritized user choice it's why
we take a zero trust approach to
security and why we make sure any
product innovation we introduce is truly
built for everyone
and those principles are core to why our
customers choose us
millions of companies schools government
agencies and other organizations rely on
google workspace to help them navigate
whatever challenges they may face
they're also a big contributor to our
own continued success as a business
google has run on what is now google
workspace for the last 15 plus years and
it's part of why we have been able to
continue to innovate and adapt as we've
scaled
in that time we've grown to over 144 000
employees made 213 acquisitions added
dozens of offices around the world and
more than quadrupled the number of
annual searches we support
we've weathered changing market
conditions and user preferences and
competitive challenges just like any
business just like your business one
constant for us has always been our
tools which were designed to meet ever
shifting needs and circumstances today
we'll walk through some of the most
impactful innovations in our tool set
that help unlock the full potential of
individuals teams and organizations in a
flexible more effective hybrid workplace
first let's talk about collaboration
effective team collaboration powers
creativity and innovation it's how
people work towards shared goals build
team culture and are able to achieve
substantially more than they would on
their own
with everyone's time in such high demand
and the explosion of collaboration tools
giving us no shortage of ways to reach
one another and work together
collaboration can often feel fragmented
conversations and workflows scattered
across disparate channels
now more than ever the technology you
choose should work intelligently and
effectively across every medium to
enable collaboration wherever it happens
last month we introduced spaces the
central place for flexible team
collaboration in google workspace
spaces are built to be tightly
integrated with calendar drive docs
sheets slides meet and tasks to provide
a uniquely better way for people to
engage in topic-based discussions share
knowledge and ideas connect across
organizational boundaries and build team
culture
all in the service of moving projects
forward
in the same way that a group of people
can accomplish more by working together
our integrated experience is greater
than the sum of its parts
helping people better collaborate and
manage their time and attention
by thoughtfully bringing together
collaboration surfaces and channels the
goal is to help people stop thinking
about wear and focus instead on the what
to continue investing in this area we've
been working with customers to
understand their needs especially the
changing circumstances we've all been
facing
in line with feedback we've gotten we'll
be adding inline topic threading more
powerful search robust security and
admin tools for content moderation and
discoverable spaces we hope this makes
it even easier for organizations and
teams to both proactively share and find
the knowledge they need to deliver
greater impact those of us working
remotely realized early on how crucial
it is to cultivate a sense of human
connection with our colleagues
no matter where or how we work we all
need to be seen heard and understood
towards that end in the last 18 months
we've invested heavily in bringing
functionality to google meat that makes
connecting virtually almost as natural
and rewarding as connecting in person
this includes ai powered noise
cancellation low light mode and live
translated captions along with a new
intuitive user interface complete with
polls q a and breakout rooms that help
make meetings more productive inclusive
and immersive
with all of these improvements we're
seeing customers who previously opted to
use third party meeting solutions
reconsider moving to google me
we've also invested in making our tools
reflect the new ways people are working
to support hybrid and distributed teams
we've added the ability to set working
hours work location and recurring out of
office notifications from calendar
we also introduced the ability to rsvp
to a meeting with a virtual or in-person
location
all these investments are geared toward
helping people better manage their time
and ultimately protect their well-being
well-being has been a central focus for
us at google over the past year and for
countless organizations supporting their
employees during this long period of
remote work
two clear bright spots we've seen in
pivoting the remote work have been one
an increase in empathy for our
co-workers lives outside the office and
two an increased focus in collaboration
equity or the ability for everyone to
participate equally and fully
for more than a year we've all been
reduced to digital video tiles and it's
had a democratizing effect on meetings
we thought a lot about how we can
sustain this equity as more of us move
into a hybrid model
next month we're launching companion
mode which offers a unified experience
for people in the office and their
remote colleagues
those in the office can still use the
best of in-room audio and video from
google made hardware
but they can also join the meeting using
companion mode on their laptop this lets
them fully participate in the meeting
with access to chat whiteboarding q a
and polls along with the ability to
share content just as they would from
home
we think it's imperative to provide one
unified meeting experience regardless of
where and how people connect
and as more people head back into shared
physical spaces we're enhancing our
meetings hardware to give organizations
greater choice and flexibility
we have two new all-in-one video
conferencing devices the google meet
series 1 desk 27 and board 65
with new standards of audio video and
whiteboarding capabilities built in
these devices can turn any room or
shared space into a collaboration hub
we also have new third-party devices
coming to the google meat ecosystem
including this logitech rally bar and
this new raise rally pro speaker dock
that will automatically launch google
meet for video meetings and provide an
improved audio experience from a mobile
device
lastly we're partnering with cisco to
bring interoperability between our video
conferencing devices so you'll be able
to launch a google meet meeting on webex
devices and webex meetings on google
meet hardware
this sort of partnership is crucial in
delivering on our vision of google
workspace for everyone
last year our focus
was on introducing an integrated
experience across our first party
products this year we're prioritizing
strengthening the platform that supports
and extends them
this is so important because our success
is measured not only by how people use
and love our products but by the
ecosystem that thrives around them
and what we're seeing in the numbers
here is remarkable
google workspace has more than 3 billion
users and a stunning 4.8 billion apps
have been installed in google workspace
to date
there are more than 5 300 public apps
available in the google workspace
marketplace
plus thousands more private apps that
customers have built for themselves
it really shows what's possible when you
combine great ideas easy to use apis and
the ability to reach a user base that's
3 billion strong
while users and developers have been
able to build on apps like gmail drive
and docs for years we're now in the
process of making it just as easy to
integrate with chat spaces and meet
if google workspace is how it's done
then the google workspace platform is
how it's integrated
miro has already announced their plans
for integrating in google me
and today we're pleased to announce a
new integration for chat and spaces from
atlassian
joining me now to share more please
welcome atlassian's chief product
officer joff redfern
hey joff great to have you with us
thanks for having me i'm delighted to be
here you know for those that aren't
familiar with atlassian can you tell us
a little bit more about it
absolutely and atlassian our mission is
to unleash the potential of every team
our team collaboration and productivity
software helps teams organize discuss
and complete shared work
but at the same time we believe there is
no one tool to solve all of the
complexity of teamwork and collaboration
every team is unique each team has its
own snowflake and they should be able to
use the best tools for the job
we focus on building the best in class
collaboration solutions and then deeply
integrating it with all the other tools
that teams need to get things done you
know it's so true that the nature of
every role and team within an
organization and the challenges they
face are unique
can you tell us a little bit more about
the opportunity that atlassian sees in
building for google workspace and how
you got started yeah today atlassian
solutions already extend and connect
with thousands of tools from
collaboration chat security devops and a
whole lot more
and we're excited to continue to extend
our partnership with google workspace to
deliver for our joint customers
workers everywhere people's chat and
inboxes it's all flooded with work
and to help turn that clutter into
progress we believe in integrating
trello and jira and our other tools
everywhere work is
the better together integration helps
atlassian and google customers
make workflow across their organization
rich content and easy actions help move
work forward in fact we are workspace
customers and this is what led us to
dream up our initial integrations
one of our first launches together was
the trello integration in gmail and that
was back in 2017
today more than seven million people
have installed it which is really
impressive that's awesome
today we're so excited to announce the
new jira bot that connects to google
chat and to spaces and enables users to
create issues monitor them
all within the space that you're already
using for collaboration well workspace
is unique and it offers such a
significant opportunity to reach over 3
billion users
and today atlassian and google have
invested in a number of workspace
products to help users work better
together whether that's unfurling google
drive links across atlassian products
embedding an important google doc in
jira work management or creating new
trello cards from gmail but there's more
and we'll continue to listen to our
customers and then follow their needs
it's great to see the power of jira
built into chat and to spaces it's such
a powerful example of how developers can
build new experiences from across the
platform from gmail to chat to spaces to
drive thanks joff really excited to have
you here with us and i'm very excited to
continue to develop our partnership
thanks javier have a great show
as we work with atlassian and all our
partners to build and deliver new
experiences rest assured that every one
of them is designed with security in
mind
starting with a zero trust approach to
identity in google workspace
we also employ a rigorous vetting
process to ensure partner apps are
secure before becoming available in the
google workspace marketplace
finally we recognize that it's not
always developers but the person closest
to the problem who best understands how
to make work more efficient and
impactful
to better empower these users we're
providing them access to custom no code
app sheet apps right from gmail with
dynamic email
this lets users interact the data
directly and securely from their inbox
to get things done in powerful new ways
this new experience is available today
and you'll see it in action in the
upcoming demo in a few minutes
now we talked about the powerful new
experiences in google workspace and the
platform that surrounds it but neither
of those can transform the way your
organization works without a broader
foundation for security
we've seen too many headlines lately
about data and security breaches and
it's a powerful reminder that modern
collaboration requires modern security
legacy collaboration tools were built
for a bygone era and these headlines
make it clear that a band-aid approach
to the security problem with legacy
tools just doesn't cut it
we built google workspace with modern
collaboration and security in mind to
keep your people and your data safe
let's talk about what makes google's
approach unique
first because we're cloud only
we don't have the same vulnerabilities
that legacy collaboration tools and
infrastructure have
with google workspace there's no need
for thick client applications email
attachments or on-prem identity
directories
each of which provide bad actors with
too many opportunities for attack
and all our security protections are
included with google workspace which
means you don't need to spend money on
security add-ons and you're less
susceptible to supply chain attacks
second our entire platform is built on
the beyond corp security model which is
google's unique approach to xero trust
this lets employees work securely from
anywhere on any device without the need
for a clunky vpn
finally we're best in class at
automatically detecting and preventing
attacks from phishing to malware to
supply chain to ransomware every day we
block 15 billion spam messages 100
million phishing attempts and 3 million
deceitful urls from reaching our
customers
all of this comes together to provide
google workspace customers with the most
trusted way to connect create and
collaborate
all right
now how are we working to enhance that
security vision even further
well i'm excited to announce some new
capabilities that build on this unique
approach to security
first
we've already made client-side
encryption available in beta for drive
docs sheets and slides and now we're
bringing it to google meat as well
client-side encryption gives our
customers complete control over the
privacy and confidentiality of their
data
next we're introducing data loss
prevention for chat
you can think of this as part of our
promise to enable collaboration without
compromise when it comes to security
with data loss prevention and chat you
can support spontaneous conversation
while preventing sensitive and
confidential information from leaking
outside of your organization
admins can control what users share
inside and outside their domain on
google chat and they're alerted about
any violations
finally i'm excited to share that drive
labels is now generally available this
gives organizations the ability to
classify files stored in drive based on
their sensitivity level labels also
integrates with google vault and google
workspace data loss prevention to
prevent external sharing downloading and
printing of sensitive files
just another example of how google
workspace enables collaboration while
providing the right controls to manage
access and protect data
so we've talked you through a lot today
and the common thread is that we're
continuing to build a modern
productivity solution
one that seamlessly brings together the
right tools in the right way to help you
more effectively collaborate
that supports hybrid and distributed
work and that lets you extend and
customize solutions for your
organization and of course
one that's secure by design
it's a platform that helps you unlock
the full potential within your
organization so that you can innovate
even thrive amid the disruptions of
today and tomorrow
there will always be certain things that
are out of our control but with the
right people and tools in place as we've
seen firsthand with our customers we can
always be prepared to effectively adapt
no matter what comes next
though in this case it just so happens
that i actually know what's coming next
and it's our demo with erica troutman
director of product management for
google workspace
stay tuned to see what we just talked
about come to life
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