Dr. Ali Arsanjani is the Director of Applied AI Engineering at Google Cloud, and Head of the Global AI Center of Excellence, leads GenAI strategic co-innovation, thought leadership & alliances. Previously, he led all GenAI initiatives in the Google Partner Ecosystem, developing strategic co-innovation assets & partnerships in the fields of Generative AI, Data/Analytics & Predictive AI/ML. His team specializes in co-innovation with ISV and GSI partners as they run, integrate and build on GCP across the ML Lifecycle. Ali also works closely with product management to shape the direction of Google's AI and analytics offerings from a cloud perspective. Ali's expertise includes NLP, LLMs, deep learning ensemble models, anomaly and outlier detection and training, customer segmentation and analysis for churn and upselling, and voice, video, and text analysis for conversational virtual assistant implementations. He has also served as a chair for standard bodies such as The Open Group, co-leading the development of standards for SOA Ref Arch, maturity model, and cloud computing architecture.