Maruti, a partner engineering lead at Google Cloud, talks about the latest developments in BigQuery, Google Cloud's data analytics platform. He discusses the advantages of using multiple engines in BigQuery, BigQuery Studio, and Gemini AI assistance. He also touches on the integration of Vertex AI and BigQuery machine learning, AI governance with Plex, BigQuery's Big Lake, and open table formats. He mentions Popup and Dataflow for streaming analytics, Apache Kafka for BigQuery, and continuous queries.