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Nick Boylan

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Gold League

25650 points
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned Jun 29, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned Jun 29, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned Jun 25, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned Jun 25, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned Jun 25, 2025 EDT
Data Storage Quiz: Store and manage my data efficiently Earned Apr 9, 2025 EDT
Scalability Quiz: Make my application scalable and reliable Earned Apr 9, 2025 EDT
Modernization Quiz: Modernize my existing applications Earned Apr 9, 2025 EDT
Automation Quiz: Automate my development workflow Earned Apr 9, 2025 EDT
Data Defense Quiz: Secure my application and data Earned Apr 9, 2025 EDT
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations Earned Jul 18, 2024 EDT
Understanding LookML in Looker Earned Jul 15, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned Jul 15, 2024 EDT
Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs Earned Jul 15, 2024 EDT
Modernizing Retail and Ecommerce Solutions with Google Cloud Earned Jul 11, 2024 EDT
Level 3: GenAIus Travels Earned Jun 24, 2024 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI Earned Jun 3, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned May 23, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned May 22, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Data Analytics on Google Cloud Earned May 20, 2024 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud Earned May 16, 2024 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned Apr 22, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned Apr 19, 2024 EDT
AI & ML Developer Quizathon Earned Apr 11, 2024 EDT
Workspace Developer Quizathon Earned Apr 11, 2024 EDT
Security Professional Quizathon Earned Apr 10, 2024 EDT
Data Practitioner Quizathon Earned Apr 9, 2024 EDT
Trust and Security with Google Cloud Earned Apr 4, 2024 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned Apr 4, 2024 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Earned Apr 3, 2024 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Apr 3, 2024 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Apr 1, 2024 EDT

Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools.

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Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and NotebookLM. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.

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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape s the third course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. Gen AI is changing how we work and interact with the world around us. But as a leader, how can you harness its power to drive real business outcomes? In this course, you explore the different layers of building gen AI solutions, Google Cloud’s offerings, and the factors to consider when selecting a solution.

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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts is the second course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. In this course, you unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI, and understanding how various data types enable generative AI to address business challenges. You also gain insights into Google Cloud strategies to address the limitations of foundation models and the key challenges for responsible and secure AI development and deployment.

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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.

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Utilize Google's diverse storage and database options to handle various data types and workloads effectively.

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Ensure your application can handle fluctuating traffic and remain available with Google''s robust infrastructure and auto-scaling features.

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Transition your legacy applications to modern architectures using Google Cloud's containerization, serverless, and managed Kubernetes solution.

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Streamline your development process by using automated CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and serverless functions.

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Protect your applications and data with Google''s comprehensive security tools, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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This course is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.

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In this quest, you will get hands-on experience with LookML in Looker. You will learn how to write LookML code to create new dimensions and measures, create derived tables and join them to Explores, filter Explores, and define caching policies in LookML.

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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs quest, where you learn how to use the Natural Language and Speech APIs in real-world settings.

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In this course, you will learn about the various services Google Cloud offers for modernizing retail applications and infrastructure. Through a series of lecture content and hands-on labs, you will gain practical experience deploying cutting-edge retail and ecommerce solutions on Google Cloud.

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Excited to follow your favorite soccer/football stars on their next quest? Use GenAIus Travel Guides to learn how to interact with chat applications, master prompt engineering, understand the importance of context in AI, and work with Generative AI. Earn an exclusive Google Cloud Generative AI Credential and showcase your new skills! No prior experience needed!

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Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are today’s hot computing topics, but these fields are quite specialized and introductory material is hard to come by. Fortunately, Google Cloud provides user-friendly services in these areas, and with this introductory-level quest, so you can take your first steps with tools like Big Query, Cloud Speech API and Video Intelligence. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.

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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.

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In this beginner-level course, you will learn about the Data Analytics workflow on Google Cloud and the tools you can use to explore, analyze, and visualize data and share your findings with stakeholders. Using a case study along with hands-on labs, lectures, and quizzes/demos, the course will demonstrate how to go from raw datasets to clean data to impactful visualizations and dashboards. Whether you already work with data and want to learn how to be successful on Google Cloud, or you’re looking to progress in your career, this course will help you get started. Almost anyone who performs or uses data analysis in their work can benefit from this course.

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This course introduces Google Cloud's AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities, with a focus on developing both generative and predictive AI projects. It explores the various technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI lifecycle, empowering data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers to enhance their expertise through interactive exercises.

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Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. Scaling with Google Cloud Operations explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Vertex AI. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios.

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Welcome to the Quizathon! Check your AI & ML expertise in Google Cloud.

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Welcome to the Quizathon! Check your Workspace expertise.

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Welcome to the Quizathon! Check your Security expertise.

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Welcome to the Quizathon! Check your data expertise in Google Cloud.

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As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address new security challenges. The Trust and Security with Google Cloud course explores the basics of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud's multilayered approach to infrastructure security, and how Google earns and maintains customer trust in the cloud. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and applications that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems or investing in new products and services. "Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud" explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. “Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence” explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Cloud technology can bring great value to an organization, and combining the power of cloud technology with data has the potential to unlock even more value and create new customer experiences. “Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud” explores the value data can bring to an organization and ways Google Cloud can make data useful and accessible. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions. For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin? If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.

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