Data-driven musings
Experiences while working for Google since 2019
Friends, this is another cross-post of an article that was originally published on the Google Cloud blog on February 24, 2025 by Will Grannis, VP and CTO of Google Cloud. I wrote one response to a question from the LinkedIn community, and several of my OCTO colleagues contributed other answers as well. Note that my response had very … Continue reading Ask OCTO: Gemini 2.0: What it means for you
Friends, this is another cross-post of an article that was originally published on the Google Cloud blog on November 21, 2024 by Will Grannis, VP and CTO of Google Cloud. I wrote one response to a question from the LinkedIn community, and several of my OCTO colleagues contributed other answers as well. Enjoy, and please submit questions … Continue reading Ask OCTO: Closing the AI skills gap
Friends, this is a cross-post of an article that was originally published on the Google Cloud blog on September 25, 2024 by Will Grannis, VP and CTO of Google Cloud. I wrote one response to a question from the LinkedIn community, and several of my OCTO colleagues contributed other answers as well. Enjoy, and please submit questions … Continue reading Ask OCTO: What to know about the data-AI virtuous cycle
I've had some fun times over the years with Cloudreach. I first met the folks at Cloudreach in 2018, when they were a Blackstone portfolio company and I was in the technology team at Blackstone. As believers in cloud transformation, we got along great! After joining Google in 2019, for one reason or another, I … Continue reading Cloudbusting: Google’s Sustainability Initiatives
This week I had the opportunity to discuss sustainability from a geospatial perspective with Nathan Eaton, Executive Director at NGIS in Australia. This session was recorded for the May 19, 2021 Spatial Data Science in CPG & Retail Summit hosted by CARTO, as part of their 2021 Spatial Data Science Conference. https://youtu.be/9TkQkZJa9ps This Spatial Data … Continue reading Geospatial Sustainability
This past week, I had another opportunity to do some public speaking (virtually) with my friends at Crux Informatics. This time we did a 1:1 video chat between me and Philip Brittan, Crux's CEO, about the partnership between his company and Google Cloud. Check out their blog post or watch the short video here! https://player.vimeo.com/video/513473964 … Continue reading Talking to the CEO of Crux About Google Cloud, Sustainability, and Getting Your Data Into the Cloud
I recently gave a talk, Harnessing the Power of AI, at the PwC Designed to Disrupt conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This was my first speaking event as a Googler, so that was both exciting and a bit nerve-wracking. I think I did well though! Some of the things I talked about: Quantum Supremacy Google … Continue reading Talking in Front of People About AI
I just completed my first week at Google. I joined Google Cloud's Office of the CTO (OCTO), our two-way innovation street connecting enterprise CTOs and CIOs with the magic of Google. I'm just beginning the journey, but so far, it's been pretty amazing. I've spent the last two years at Blackstone, working in the Blackstone Innovations … Continue reading First Week at Google
Jeff Sternberg 