General

The event will take place online on July 20th, 2022. The webinar will take place from 9:00 AM PT – 10:30 AM PT and the Cloud Hero game will take place from 11:00 AM PT - 2:00 PM PT. Register here

Data engineers who are using or are interested in using data analytics offerings from Google Cloud, and any professionals who are looking for career progression/upskill in the data analytics space will benefit from attending this event.

Please email us at spotlightsupport@google.com, and we'll help answer your questions.

Technical

Definitely, we encourage you to share this event with your colleagues on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

The introduction and Q & A are live from Google Cloud studios!

You can see all back to back sessions on-demand at this event page 24 hours after the conclusion of the sessions.

Don’t worry! The recording of all sessions will be available on demand via this event page 24 hours after the event concludes.

Sorry, we are not able to share the slides, but please feel free to return to this page to watch the presentations on-demand.

Try clicking on the gear icon in the bottom right hand corner and change to HD (high definition).

If you are facing issues, please visit https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7354993?hl=en and https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/174084?hl=en

Please try refreshing your browser and double-check that you don't have any ad blockers or extensions on that may interfere with the video playback.

At the bottom right of the YouTube session, tap Settings, then tap the CC icon in the menu. From there, you'll be able to select a closed caption language.

If closed captions are available on the video, a CC icon will be visible on the bottom right of the player. To turn on closed captions, tap the CC icon. To turn off closed captions, tap the CC icon again. Please note that not all videos have burnt in captions available, and will instead be using YouTube auto captions. For information on managing closed captions settings, visit the YouTube Help page.

At the bottom right of the YouTube session, tap Settings, then tap the CC icon in the menu. From there, you'll be able to select a closed caption language.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but we only have closed captions in English, Spanish, and Japanese at this time.

Certification

This event is not a certification course. You can sign up for the skills challenges here to receive a variety of Skill Badges: https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/google-cloud-skills/register.html To learn more about becoming Google Cloud Certified and determining the right certification for you, visit this link https://cloud.google.com/certification/

You can learn more about becoming Google Cloud Certified and determining the right certification for you here https://cloud.google.com/certification/

Code of Conduct

Google is dedicated to providing a harassment-free, inclusive event experience for everyone regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disabilities, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, race, age, religion, or other protected categories. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. Google takes violations of our policy seriously and will respond appropriately. For more details, please review our Terms of Service.

There is a zero tolerance policy for harassment of any kind, including, but not limited to: 1) Stalking/following 2) Deliberate intimidation 3) Harassing photography or recording 4) Sustained disruption of talks or other events 5) Offensive verbal language 6) Verbal language that reinforces social structures of domination 7) Sexual imagery and language 8) Inappropriate physical contact 9) Unwelcome written and/or sexual attention Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. Our zero tolerance policy means we look into and review every allegation of violation of our Event Community Guidelines and Anti-Harassment Policy and respond appropriately. This policy extends to talks, forums, workshops, codelabs, social media, all attendees, partners, sponsors, customers, event staff, etc. For more details, please review our Terms of Service.

Question & Answer Session

As long as the live Q&A forum is enabled, anyone signed in can submit a question. To do this, scroll down below the live stream video. You’ll see the option to ‘ask a question.’ You can also up-vote other audience members’ questions, should you be interested in asking them as well. Note that you cannot down-vote anyone else’s questions, but you can remove your own vote.

The Google team will answer some questions either live during the event, or post-event to help provide more information. Other viewers may respond to your question as well.

Yes, questions are based off of your Google user profile. However, no other personal information will be shared.

Cloud Hero Game

Google Cloud Hero is a gamified three hour Google Cloud training experience using hands-on labs to gain skills through interactive learning in a fun and educational environment.

Anyone looking to learn the basics of BigQuery should tune into the game being hosted at the Data Engineer Spotlight.

You will need a laptop or desktop computer, an Internet Browser (updated versions of Chrome, Safari, or Edge), HTTP/HTTPS access, and access to Google Meet.

Create a Google Cloud Skills Boost account, which you will need on game day (if you don’t already have one). This was formerly known as a Qwiklabs account. Unsure how to create a Google Cloud Skills Boost account? Click here.

If you are not receiving my Google Cloud Skills Boost Account confirmation, keep in mind that it can take up to 10 minutes for the Google Cloud Skills Boost confirmation email to arrive in your inbox. Please check your spam/promotions folder. If you still don’t have it, write to support@qwiklabs.com and Support will check and confirm.

We will be hosting the Cloud Hero BigQuery Skills game.

The game will be held on a Google Meet, starting at 11 AM PT.

Yes, we will limit participation in the game to 500 people.

Updated Note as of 6/16: Registration for the Cloud Hero game is now closed, as we have met the player capacity limit of 500 people. Don’t worry, we may host another Cloud Hero game in the future!

Google Cloud Hero games aim to provide an engaging Google Cloud learning experience, deliver hands-on training, drive solution adoption, upskill accounts, spark excitement within accounts, increase the number of overall learners and learners in targeted accounts, and speed up digital transformation.

Stay tuned, you may be able to receive a prize if you are in the leaderboard after the game ends.