Meetups or Conferences?

[sundermannc]

Back in December of 2016, I was part of one of the many iterations of Google communities called Cloud Connect. They had a meetup in Sunnyvale, California at the Google Tech Corners campus.  I attended this, and was there with other K12 and Higher Ed Google Admins.  The networking was great, the sessions were informative...  And I stayed an extra day and rented a mountain bike, so that was pretty great too.

Does anyone know if anything like this exists these days?  This was obviously in the BC era (Before COVID), so I'm wondering what kinds of these things exist these days. I have some professional development money that I'd like to use to travel to a conference of some sort, and something like this could certainly be worth my time again.

Alternatively...  Do any of you know of any other worthwhile Google Meetups/Conferences that happen anywhere in the country?  Bonus points if it's somewhere south in the winter months. lol

[icrew]

Perhaps Cloud Next in Vegas next April would fit the bill? See https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next — and there’s some remarkably beautiful country just a few miles from Vegas if you stick around a bit. (Far nicer than time in awful casinos, IMNSHO.)

If you need something this year, it’s heavily Higher-Ed focused, but perhaps https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference would be of interest?