Custom Agentic AI Will Be a Popular Google Next Topic

Clishe said he also expects a lot of discussion about custom-agentic AI at Google Next.

“What agentic AI does is add a bit of autonomy to your AI apps, so you can create agents that do things,” he said. “We can create agents to do anything. We can ask, ‘What was our total revenue in March of 2025?’”

If the agent has access to the data, it can answer that question. An AI agent can do just about anything that can be described in code, Clishe said. More businesses are using agents to communicate not only with customers, employees and other people via chatbots, but also with other technology systems. “Al can have a workflow of information; it can structure that information and use it as an input to tell another system what to do.”

In this way, he said, the AI needs little to no human oversight of what it’s doing. “We can have these multiphase agentic workflows that are all automated,” he said. “It’s AI acting autonomously.”

Using AI to improve cybersecurity will be another top discussion item for Next, especially after Google announced on March 18 its acquisition of the popular cloud-security platform Wiz. 

Finally, the use of AI to generate better data insights is a popular application of the technology for organizations of all sizes, so expect many discussions on that topic at Google Next as well, Clishe said.

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