diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/storage/v1beta1/stub/BigQueryStorageStubSettings.java b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/storage/v1beta1/stub/BigQueryStorageStubSettings.java
index ee99b3fe07d5..dd11827098f8 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/storage/v1beta1/stub/BigQueryStorageStubSettings.java
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/storage/v1beta1/stub/BigQueryStorageStubSettings.java
@@ -246,6 +246,17 @@ public static class Builder extends StubSettings.Builder<BigQueryStorageStubSett
               .setTotalTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(600000L))
               .build();
       definitions.put("default", settings);
+      settings =
+          RetrySettings.newBuilder()
+              .setInitialRetryDelay(Duration.ofMillis(100L))
+              .setRetryDelayMultiplier(1.3)
+              .setMaxRetryDelay(Duration.ofMillis(60000L))
+              .setInitialRpcTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(120000L))
+              .setRpcTimeoutMultiplier(1.0)
+              .setMaxRpcTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(120000L))
+              .setTotalTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(600000L))
+              .build();
+      definitions.put("create_read_session", settings);
       RETRY_PARAM_DEFINITIONS = definitions.build();
     }
 
@@ -290,7 +301,7 @@ private static Builder initDefaults(Builder builder) {
       builder
           .createReadSessionSettings()
           .setRetryableCodes(RETRYABLE_CODE_DEFINITIONS.get("idempotent"))
-          .setRetrySettings(RETRY_PARAM_DEFINITIONS.get("default"));
+          .setRetrySettings(RETRY_PARAM_DEFINITIONS.get("create_read_session"));
 
       builder
           .readRowsSettings()
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/synth.metadata b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/synth.metadata
index 642d418b273a..a1aab7c06d33 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/synth.metadata
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-bigquerystorage/synth.metadata
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 {
-  "updateTime": "2019-04-02T07:35:11.912831Z",
+  "updateTime": "2019-04-04T07:35:31.563852Z",
   "sources": [
     {
       "generator": {
         "name": "artman",
-        "version": "0.16.22",
-        "dockerImage": "googleapis/artman@sha256:e7f9554322a8aa1416c122c918fdc4cdec8cfe816f027fc948dec0be7edef320"
+        "version": "0.16.23",
+        "dockerImage": "googleapis/artman@sha256:f3a3f88000dc1cd1b4826104c5574aa5c534f6793fbf66e888d11c0d7ef5762e"
       }
     },
     {
       "git": {
         "name": "googleapis",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis.git",
-        "sha": "6c48ab5aef47dc14e02e2dc718d232a28067129d",
-        "internalRef": "241437588"
+        "sha": "04193ea2f8121388c998ab49c382f2c03417dcce",
+        "internalRef": "241828309"
       }
     }
   ],