BigTable API - Error connecting to BigTable Emulator

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Can you please help me identify why BigTable API fails to connect with BigTable emulator running on Docker?

Environment details

1. Specify the API at the beginning of the title - BigTable
2. OS type and version: Mac
3. Java version: 17
4. bigtable version(s): Docker BigTable

Steps to reproduce

1. Start gcloud BigTable emulator in local Docker.
2. Run the basic Read example - https://github.com/googleapis/java-bigtable/blob/main/samples/snippets/src/main/java/com/example/bigtable/Reads.java

Code example

    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
           <dependency>
                <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
                <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
                <version>26.37.0</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
         ......
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>
.....
<dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>google-cloud-bigtable</artifactId>
        </dependency>

try (BigtableTableAdminClient adminClient =
                 BigtableTableAdminClient.create(projectId, instanceId)) {
            CreateTableRequest createTableRequest =
                CreateTableRequest.of(tableId)
                                  .addFamily(COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME_STATS)
                                  .addFamily(COLUMN_FAMILY_NAME_PLAN);
            adminClient.createTable(createTableRequest);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Error during createTable: \n" + e.toString());
            throw (e);
        }

Stack trace

INFO: Connecting to the Bigtable emulator at localhost:8086
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/common/base/Verify
	at com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.BigtableTableAdminSettings.<init>(BigtableTableAdminSettings.java:66)
	at com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.BigtableTableAdminSettings.<init>(BigtableTableAdminSettings.java:53)
	at com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.BigtableTableAdminSettings$Builder.build(BigtableTableAdminSettings.java:265)
	at com.google.cloud.bigtable.admin.v2.BigtableTableAdminClient.create(BigtableTableAdminClient.java:151)
	at com.thinknear.venice.dao.gcp.BigTableClientTest.createTable(BigTableClientTest.java:63)
	at com.thinknear.venice.dao.gcp.BigTableClientTest.main(BigTableClientTest.java:39)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.common.base.Verify
	at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)
	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520)
	... 6 more

External references such as API reference guides

• https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/emulator#client-libraries
• https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/samples-java-hello-world
• https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/samples-java-hello-world#reading-single-row