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Capgemini at Google Cloud Next 2026 

April 21–24, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas 

Intelligence made real

We are proud to return as a luminary sponsor to Google Cloud Next 2026. Join us in Las Vegas to discover how Capgemini and Google Cloud are leveraging agentic AI, generative AI, sovereign data, and cloud technologies to build the foundation for secure, modern business innovation and human-centric experiences.

Our presence and high ambitions as a luminary sponsor at Google Cloud Next 2026 will be strengthened by the Capgemini Client Experience at Orla restaurant, where attendees will experience thought leadership roundtables, industry-led panel discussions, immersive demos, live Realities Remixed podcasts, and more.

Visit us at Orla restaurant or on the expo floor at executive meeting suite #1701 to experience intelligence made real.

Highlights of Capgemini’s presence and client experiences at GCN’26.

  • Thought leadership panel discussions and executive roundtables
  • Live streaming of keynote
  • Client meetings and networking opportunities
  • Live recording of Realities Remixed podcast
  • Immersive, hands-on solution demos

If you’re interested in joining us at the Capgemini Client Experience Lounge at Orla restaurant to discover our sponsor sessions, panel discussions, and immersive demos, please drop an email to – googlecloud.global@capgemini.com

Stories that inspire

 Experience Intelligence made real with our clients

Learn how CenterPoint Energy built Helix, a platform that connects AI directly to existing business logic. 

Speaker :

  • Daniel Sumners, Head of Data Platforms & Engineering ,CenterPoint Energy
  • Casey McNamara, VP, Head of Data/AI, Capgemini Invent
  • Angie Goldszmit, Managing Consultant, Capgemini Invent 

Date: Thursday, April 23​ | Time: 8am-9:00am

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Cox shifted from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale impact by focusing on a few high‑value domains, starting with the contact center. Danielle Kimmel shares how targeted GenAI pilots, like knowledge management, proved quick value and evolved into a full Contact Center Transformation with Google Cloud. With Capgemini as a strategic partner, Cox aligned teams, scaled what worked, and turned AI innovation into measurable business outcomes.

Speaker :

  • Danielle Kimmel, Vice President of Data Strategy, Digital & Customer Experience Technologies, Cox Communication
  • Jennifer Marchand, Google Cloud Center of Excellence Go-To-Market Lead, Capgemini
  • Gabriel Tinti, VP, Head of Southeast Region, Capgemini

Date: Thursday, April 23​ | Time: 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM

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Learn how HSBC deployed the AI-powered HSBC ContentCraft and a set of agents that collaborate on key metrics and targeted messaging – unlocking new growth.

Speakers:

  • Jia Hao Teo, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, IWPB, HSBC Bank
  • James Taylor, Head of Data and MarTech Platforms, HSBC Bank
  • Arindam Choudhury, EVP & Global Head, Financial Services, Insights & Data, Capgemin
  • Chandramouli Venkatesan, Global Head of Digital Customer Experience, Financial Services, Capgemini

Date: Wednesday, April 22​ | Time: 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM

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What happens when a global restaurant brand stops thinking of the cloud as a destination and starts treating it as a distributed nervous system? Join McDonald’s, Google Cloud, and Capgemini as we unpack how edge computing is reshaping the operating model of one of the world’s most recognized brands and what that means for any enterprise running at physical scale.

Speakers:

  • Michael Nieves, EVP, Head of Cloud, Capgemini Americas
  • John O’Reilly, Director of Food, Drug, & CPG, Google Cloud

Date: Wednesday, April 22​ | Time: 3:45 PM – 4:30 PM

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Explore how Morgan Stanley’s cloud platform strategy removes friction and enables developers to quickly set up what they need through a self-service framework.

Speakers:

  • David Leach, Google Cloud Platform Engineering Lead, Morgan Stanley
  • Dan Wolff, Global Head of Google Cloud CoE, Financial Service, Capgemini

​Date: Thursday, April 23​ | Time: 1:15 PM – 1:35 PM

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Tropical Smoothie Café and Capgemini are building a new AI‑driven QSR operating system on Google Cloud—designed for simpler operations, faster support, and digital tools that help franchisees scale without adding headcount. Learn how emerging AI solutions empower crews, streamline multi‑store management, prevent issues, and elevate the guest experience across every café.​

​Speakers:

  • Ganjar Imansantosa, CISO, VP Technology Operations, Tropical Smoothie Café
  • Jennifer Marchand, Google Cloud Center of Excellence Go-To-Market Lead, Capgemini​​​

Date: Thursday, April 23​| Time: 10:00 – 10:20AM

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Experience Capgemini panel sessions at Orla at Google Cloud Next’26

Embracing a collaborative, people-centric approach is how companies succeed in a rapidly evolving landscape. At Capgemini, we want to help organizations transform technology potential into business impact.

We would like to extend an exclusive invitation to you for our panel sessions happening during Google Cloud Next’26. With a focus on how Capgemini and Google Cloud make intelligence real, we are covering a wide range of topics and how they deliver real outcomes.

Can Networks run themselves? The journey toward autonomous RAN

Today’s networks are incredibly powerful, but also incredibly complex. Using fragmented tools and manual processes to manage thousands of radio sites and equipment from various vendors is challenging and complex. This discussion will explore how telecom operators can move toward self-managing networks. A unified cloud-native platform can bring together network data, AI-powered applications, and real-time decision making to simplify operations. Learn how automation and intelligence can work together to improve telecom performance.

Speakers:

  • Arun Santhanam, EVP, Business Unit Head for Telco, Media and Entertainment , Capgemini
  • Shamik Mishra, CTO, Connectivity, Vice President. Capgemini Engineering

Date/Time: Tues, Apr 21 3-3:30 pm

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Who are the architects of the AI era? Generative AI is reshuffling what leadership means and redefining responsibilities. Systems thinking, ethical judgment and cross-functional orchestration are skills women actively cultivate, often without credit. Female leaders will discuss what responsible AI actually looks like, how complexity will define leadership, and how to move women into more architect roles in the AI era. Learn how to make the hard calls with real governance and how to thrive between technical, operational, and human systems together.

Why is orchestrating complexity the defining leadership skill of the next decade? AI doesn’t eliminate ambiguity, it multiplies it. The leaders who thrive will be those who can hold technical, operational, and human systems in tension simultaneously.

This panel will explore who is being prepared for that role and who is being overlooked.

Speakers:

  • Isabel Niu, VP, Enterprise Architecture & Innovation, Costco
  • Shivani Agarwal, Vice President, Infrastructure & Digital Workplace, McLane Company
  • Priyanka Chowdhary, Product Manager, Applied AI, Google Cloud
  • Meg Nair, CMO Global Financial Services, Capgemini
  • Host by: Jennifer Marchand, Google Cloud CoE GTM leader, Capgemini

Date/Time: Tues, Apr 21, 4-5:00 pm | Social 5:00 – 6:00 pm

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Software-defined vehicles promise simplicity but the reality is exploding complexity. Variant sprawl, OTA at scale, cybersecurity, compliance, and lifecycle governance are pushing engineering models to the limit. This session will challenge the assumption that software-defined mobility is just an architecture upgrade. Explore how software-first and software-defined networking principles are reshaping vehicle platforms.

Speakers:

  • Konstantin Kirsch, Vice President Automotive Industry at Capgemini Engineering
  • Khalid Sebti, Executive Vice President, Managing Director Americas at Capgemini Engineering

Date/Time: Wed, Apr 22, 3-3:30pm

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AI is moving faster than your defenses and attackers know it. With 71% of attacks leveraging automation and over 60% of enterprises deploying GenAI across security operations, the threat landscape has fundamentally shifted. Traditional tools report normal activity yet the breach is already underway. This session exposes how modern identity failures actually happen through real, pressure-tested scenarios. The panel will examine the decisions security leaders must make when conventional controls go blind and chart a practical path from reactive detection to secure-by-design operations that assume compromise from the start.

Speakers:

  • Tejveer Kalsi, Vice President, Americas & Strategic Accounts, Cloud4C
  • Sandeep Kalra, Executive Vice President, GCP Global Alliances, Cloud 4C

Date/Time: Wed, Apr 22, 4-4:30pm

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What happens when AI stops being a curiosity and becomes a movement? This session promises no jargon, just the playbook that worked. The discussion will cover the activation journey, role-based learning paths and the ambassador network shaping real behaviors. Learn how Gemini for Workspace empowered people and transformed workflow to lead a cultural shift.

Speakers:

  • Mathilde Crespin, Management Consultant, Capgemini Invent
  • Thibault ROY, Management Consultant, Capgemini Invent
  • Rhys Philipps, Change & Adoption Leader, Scientist, Airbus

Date/Time: Thu, Apr 23, 10-10:30am

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Everyone talks about how to move to the cloud.

What happens after?

What changes when the platform is live?

What breaks? What improves?

What surprises you?

Join McDonald’s and Capgemini for a direct conversation on the real work of cloud transformation: running a global business on a new platform while the journey is still in motion.

Speakers:

  • Mike Nieves, EVP, COE Leader Amers, Capgemini

Panelist:

  • Sandro Seminara, Head of Cloud Platforms, McDonald’s
  • KC Rakam, Sr Director, Data & AI and Operations, McDonald’s
  • Vamshi Komuravalli, Sr. Director of Engineering, Ordering, McDonald’s

Time: 11:00 – 11:30AM

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Verizon migrated more than 5,000 production APIs from E2E Apigee OPDK to Apigee Hybrid in just nine months. Even with 1.5-2 billion annual transactions supported by these APIs, there was zero business impact. This panel will discuss the design and implementation of the new Apigee Hybrid platform, building automated Python-based migration pipelines, and developing new Relic-enabled monitoring dashboards. Learn how a modern, cloud-ready foundation positions Verizon for deeper integration, accelerated delivery, and AI/ML-driven insights.

Speakers:

Date/Time: Thu, Apr 23, 2:30-3pm

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As enterprises move beyond isolated automation, the next frontier is agentic operations – AI systems that can decide, coordinate, and act across cloud, enterprise, and edge environments. This session explores how organizations can architect agentic ecosystems that balance autonomy with governance, leverage partnerships across the AI stack, and deliver real‑world outcomes at scale. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for designing resilient, interoperable agentic systems aligned to business impact.

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Experience our immersive demos

ODIN – Robotics​

Humanoid robot demonstrating autonomous object sorting, combining Natural Language Models and real‑time perception via computer vision with intelligent decision‑making and precise manipulation. The demo highlights how the robot identifies, classifies, and routes objects to different destinations, showcasing the convergence of AI, robotics, and spatial computing to enable adaptive and intelligent physical operations.​

Agentic Commerce ​

Commerce innovation needs to restructure the entire consumer journey. An agent doesn’t optimize the funnel: it fundamentally transforms it. This demo will show how intent turns into a complete AI-mediated purchase journey. The consumer never opens a browser. Never compares prices in a spreadsheet or reads a review site. They speak, and the Gemini agent manages the entire purchasing journey.

Orchestrate AI​

OrchestrateAI is an industry-first platform designed to accelerate financial services enterprise transformation through agentic AI. It enables the deployment of intelligent, autonomous agents that integrate seamlessly with business processes. From customer onboarding to risk, claims, and the software development lifecycle, OrchestrateAI empowers firms to reimagine what’s possible – reducing costs by 25-30%, improving productivity by 20-40%, and opening new pathways for innovation.​

​Warehouse Fulfilment​

This solution applies AI-powered computer vision to guide pallet picking in real time, preventing errors such as wrong items, incorrect quantities, ghost picks, and misloaded pallets before they occur. By combining advanced CV and ML, it embeds accuracy directly into the fulfilment workflow while creating an automated, auditable record of every pick. The result is higher order accuracy, faster validation, fewer claims, and a more reliable,scalable fulfillment operation.​

X-Verse​

X-Verse redefines how industries design, validate, and deploy complex cyber- physical systems by delivering a universal virtualization platform that integrates digital twins and enables shift-left development. It empowers organizations to simulate, test, and optimize systems early in the lifecycle, reducing reliance on costly physical prototypes and accelerating time-to-market.​​

Realities Remixed podcasts 

Join us at Google Cloud Next for live recordings of the Realities Remixed podcast. This exciting podcast attracts over 162,000 weekly subscribers, has been downloaded over 500,000 times, and is frequently the number one podcast on Apple and Castbox. We’ll explore the latest industry topics, trends, and what’s ahead in 2026 with industry experts from Google Cloud and Capgemini. 

Check out our podcasts from GCN’25 Cloud realities

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      Meet our experts

      Herschel Parikh

      Herschel Parikh

      Global Google Cloud Partner Executive
      Herschel is Capgemini’s Global Google Cloud Partner Executive. He has over 12 years’ experience in partner management, sales strategy & operations, and business transformation consulting.
      Geoffroy-Pajot

      Geoffroy Pajot

      Vice-President and Chief Technology and Capability leader for the global Google partnership
      Geoffroy brings over 20 years of distinguished experience in Business and Technology transformation, with a strategic emphasis on global partnership development to drive sustainable growth. Currently, he leads the cloud and custom app Google Cloud practice and oversees pivotal initiatives, including the Google Cloud Generative AI Center of Excellence. His expertise centers on advancing data & AI business transformation and innovation while enhancing group-wide Google Cloud capabilities. Beyond his professional commitments, Geoffroy is passionate about wellness and athletic pursuit.
      Franco Amalfi

      Franco Amalfi

      Director, Sustainability Strategic Initiatives and Partners – Americas
      Accomplished professional with extensive experience, spanning sustainability, strategy definition, value selling, management consulting, software development, software implementation, and business development. Experienced in multiple industries; have worked with consumer products, financial services, government, telecommunications, high-technology, pharmaceutical and retail companies.
      Jennifer Marchand

      Jennifer Marchand

      Enterprise Architect Director and GCP CoE Leader, Capgemini/Americas
      Jennifer leads the Google Cloud COE for Capgemini Americas, with a focus on solutions and investments for the CPRS, TMT, and MALS MUs, and supporting pre-sales across all MUs. She has been with Capgemini for 18 years focusing on cloud transformation since 2015. She works closely with accounts to bring solutions to our clients around GenAI, AI/ML on VertexAI and Cortex, Data Estate Modernization on Big Query, SAP on Google Cloud, Application Modernization & Edge, and Call Center Transformation and Conversational AI. She leverages the broader Capgemini ecosystem across AIE, Invent, ER&D, I&D, C&CA, and CIS to shape cloud and transformation programs focusing on business outcomes.
      Chris Corso

      Chris Corso

      Sr. Solution Architect
      Chris is a member of the Cloud and Custom Applications team for Capgemini with a focus on Google Cloud. He has more than 20 years of experience across a broad range of industries and functions, helping clients increase their IT agility and leverage technology to transform their business.
      DanielWolff

      Daniel Wolff

      Financial Services – Global Head Google Cloud CoE
      Daniel leads the Global Google Cloud Platform Center of Excellence. He is a senior technology executive known for accelerating sustainable company growth within financial services. He focuses on unlocking new opportunities for improved competitive advantage, cost containment, process re-engineering, and business agility.
      Hemank Lowe

      Hemank Lowe

      Senior Director – Global Google Cloud Sub Practice Leader for Cloud and Custom Applications
      Hemank is an experienced cloud expert with over 5 years in Google Cloud architecture, Generative AI, and data analytics, holding three Google certifications (Cloud Architect, Data Engineer, Cloud Digital Leader) and a Master’s in Computer Applications. With 22+ years of diverse industry experience, excels in delivering Enterprise architecture solutions on the Google Cloud Platform and advocating for technology in business transformations.
      Rob Kernahan

      Rob Kernahan

      Chief Architect for Cloud and a Global SME on Cloud Technology, Data and IT Operating Models
      Rob is a member of the Capgemini CTO group as UK Chief Architect for Cloud and a Global SME on Cloud Technology, Data and IT Operating Models. Rob has over 20 years’ experience in Architecture and Delivery across a variety of sectors. Over the years he has led large transformational initiatives and has combined technology and people to create powerful outcomes.
      Rachel Belmonte

      Rachel Belmonte

      Head of Google Cloud Uk
      Experienced Regional Head of Delivery with 13+ years extensive experience in IT Programme Delivery Management, primarily in Cloud and Digital Transformation. Led cross-functional teams of 80+ people. Proven record of operational excellence, customer and business relationship management, delivery management, employee development with strong commercial and business acumen.
      Lauren Kenner

      Lauren Kenner

      Google Partner Development Executive
      As a Google Partner Development Executive at Capgemini, I lead strategic growth and joint go-to-market efforts across the Google Cloud portfolio, aligning Google’s strengths with Capgemini’s expertise to drive client impact and market expansion. I work closely with Google teams and Capgemini stakeholders to enhance partner alignment, deepen client relationships, and create scalable solutions for measurable results. Holding a BFA from the University of Michigan, I apply a creative, human-centered approach to my work. Additionally, I’m committed to fostering culture and community through initiatives like Welcome Wednesdays and leading Capgemini’s HOLA ERG.

        FAQs

        Google Cloud Next is Google Cloud’s flagship global conference, bringing together cloud practitioners, business leaders, developers, and technology innovators. The event showcases Google Cloud’s latest product announcements, AI advancements, technical sessions, customer success stories, hands-on learning labs, and partner-led innovations. It’s where organizations come to explore how cloud, data, and AI technologies can drive meaningful business transformation.

        Google Cloud Next 2026 takes place April 22–24, 2026. The multi‑day conference features keynotes, breakout sessions, hands‑on labs, partner activations, networking events, and innovation showcases throughout the week,

        Capgemini will highlight intelligence made real through agentic AI, generative AI, sovereign-ready cloud platforms, and human‑centric data innovation — including demos, client stories, and live experiences.

        It refers to Capgemini’s ability to turn AI, data, and cloud capabilities into tangible outcomes — secure platforms, automated processes, data‑driven experiences, and solutions that scale across the enterprise.

        Orla is our dedicated off‑site experience space featuring roundtables, industry panels, immersive demos, and recordings of the Realities Remixed podcast — creating a premium environment to explore innovation.