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title: "Why open matters: our talk at Google NEXT"
date: 2017-05-05T08:00:00+01:00
author: Gerry Carr
canonical_url: "https://www.ravelin.com/blog/why-open-matters-our-talk-at-google-next"
section: Blog
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# Why open matters: our talk at Google NEXT

Watch Ravelin CTO Leonard Austin's talk at Google NEXT EMEA about why open makes such a difference in protecting our clients from fraud attacks.

![Why open matters: our talk at Google NEXT](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_blogSmall/1804/google-next-10.webp)

We were thrilled to be asked to share our experiences of the Google Cloud Platform at the Google Next conference in London on May 4th 2017.

Start the video below at 1:46:00 to see Ravelin CTO explain how GCP allows us to protect our clients from fraud in a fast, globally, scalable way; and most critically allows us to operate completely securely. The variety of open source technologies running on top of GCP are key to us achieving these critical standards that allow us to serve our customers well.

You can watch the full video below. [**To learn more about machine learning visit our insights page.**](https://www.ravelin.com/insights/machine-learning-for-fraud-detection)

## Author

![Gerry Carr](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_avatarSmall/2005/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-16.25.38.webp)

Gerry CarrCMO (Ravelin alumnus)

Gerry Carr has previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer of Ravelin.

[More from this author](https://www.ravelin.com/author/gerry-carr)

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