Each month, C2C shares the latest news from the team and the best highlights from all of you here in the community. Read on for the most essential C2C updates from February 2023.

C2C's in-person events returned with plenty of energy and excitement in February of 2023. Our 2Gather events in Sunnyvale, Munich, Zurich, and New York City brought together dozens of Google Cloud customers for the kinds of unique networking and collaboration opportunities that only a community like C2C can offer. Read on below to hear stories from each of these events.
Sunnyvale
For our first in-person event of the year, we returned to Silicon Valley, where Google was born, for another event in Sunnyvale, California. The event included a fireside chat with C2C partner NetApp and a customer panel featuring speakers from NetApp, Lytics (another partner), Exabeam, and Cisco Systems. Bruno Aziza, Senior Director, Outbound Product Management, Google Cloud, introduced and hosted the event - - one of many events Bruno will be joining in the coming months. According to Dylan Steeg (
Munich
2Gather: Munich was a customer-led event featuring sessions with Volkswagon, Soravia, and Nagarro. First, Kiran Francis (
Zurich
2Gather: Zurich was the second of three events C2C hosted in February featuring guests from our partners at NetApp. At this event, NetApp chatted with Dentsply Sirona about using Cloud Volumes ONTAP to manage a hybrid deployment. The event also included a conversation with ParaShift AG about using Google Vision AI for intelligent document recognition. Oliver Ruf, Head of Middleware at Coop, Switzerland, told C2C afterward, "The community meetup was an incredibly insightful and inspiring experience that also allowed me to meet new people. The diverse range of perspectives and ideas shared by attendees, combined with the opportunity to make new connections, left me feeling energized and motivated to continue exploring new ideas and expanding my network."
New York
Our most recent 2Gather event in New York City doubled as a formal launch party for the C2C Financial Services community. Michael Beal (
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We are excited to feature some special guest speakers from Google Cloud at our in-person events in March.
Bruno Aziza in Paris and London
Tuesday, March 14 and Thursday, March 16
Bruno Aziza, Head of Data and Analytics, specializes in high-growth SaaS, enterprise software, and everything data, analytics, data science, and artificial intelligence. Bruno, alongside customer speakers at both events, will host panel discussions about overcoming data challenges. Each event will also explore other unique challenges cited by speakers from the consumer packaged goods, retail, and financial services industries.
Kelsey Hightower at the Cloud Adoption Summit Toronto
Thursday, March 23
Kelsey Hightower, Principal Developer Advocate, has helped develop and refine many Google Cloud products, including Google's Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, and Apigees's API Gateway. Kelsey will be joining us for our first event in Canada where the agenda includes various perspectives on optimizing cloud adoption plans. Topics include a shift from "cloud first" to "cloud also," data center migration, cloud transformation, and cybersecurity.
You can also find Kelsey speaking in upcoming Let's Talk Tech events this April in Chicago and Atlanta. Find those and more by browsing our full events calendar.
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