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Google Next

Transforming the Google Next Experience

Nerdery CaseStudy GoogleNext Featured
Nerdery CaseStudy GoogleNext Featured

Expanding a global event experience

Google Cloud’s annual Next event brings the global Cloud community together. The goal has been simple: provide a seamless digital experience. Working in partnership with Google on the event since 2017, we delivered a holistic web and mobile experience for attendees, but in 2020, we had to get creative as we pivoted to virtual – including features such as track selections, user directories, and a notification center. Now, Google Next is a fully hybrid experience – delighting both virtual and in-person attendees.

33
33K App downloads across iOS and Android from the event’s 35,000 attendees
330
330K Next OnAir livestream views
2017
Start of Google Next partnership
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What we did together

Strategy + innovation
  • Event experience strategy
  • Digital consulting
Technology + engineering
  • Mobile design and development
  • Systems integration
  • Quality assurance
User experience
  • Interaction design
  • User experience design
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Overview of work

Google Cloud wanted to provide an immersive experience for Next.

To achieve a seamless and flexible event, Google needed robust session booking functionality, simple navigation for hundreds of speakers and sessions, a multi-channel livestream, and a mobile app. 

Our Experience Design and Software Engineering teams partnered closely with Google to ensure that the solution proposed was executed as envisioned by immersing themselves in Google Cloud’s brand, products, design, and code standards. Nerdery's commitment to Google’s standard for clean code as a baseline security measure helped us routinely pass security and accessibility tests.

A solution-orientated team, focused on doing what’s right and in perfect alignment with our project’s aspirations, standards and operational excellence.
- Next Digital Program Lead, Google Cloud

The result

Improved the attendee experience and increased attendance

By building a scalable digital experience that would delight users by showcasing personalized content, we helped assure a seamless, tailored attendee experience and even a rise in attendance. To get value over the long-term, our team ensured the product could be built upon every year to meet attendees' changing needs.