Dr. Ali Arsanjani is the Director Applied AI Engineering at Google Cloud, and Head of GenAI Blackbelts and AI Center of Excellence, within the Google Cloud Product Engineering organization.Ali leads strategic pursuits for Cloud AI Partners and is the program manager for Google Cloud co-innovation and co-engineering programs that focus on adoption of Google AI for customers & partners through thought leadership, engagement, enablement and execution. Google's earliest adopters of GenAI have partnered closely with Dr.Arsanjani and his team on their use cases and adoption. He leads Generative and Agentic AI initiatives that enable customers and partners with the best-practices and tools that bring the capabilities of the Google Cloud AI platform to solve tactical and strategic challenges through best-practices and assets and achieving strong partnerships through strategic product co-innovation. Ali is an Adjunct Professor at San Jose State University and the University of California, San Diego, where he teaches and advises students in the Masters in Data program and the Data Science Institute, respectively. Prior to Google, Dr.Arsanjani was a Chief Principal Architect and WW Tech Lead at AWS, and previously CTO, Distinguished Engineer, Analytics and Machine Learning at IBM.