The annual developer conference will take place on May 20 and 21 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. The keynote event, when Google leaders take the stage to unveil the company's latest hardware and software, will take place on the first day of the conference at 10am PT / 1pm ET.

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Google will live stream the event for members of the public and press who cannot attend in person. Although the link is not live yet, you can visit the Google keynote landing page closer to the event date to view the livestream.

Developers can register for the event's digital experience on the Google I/O landing page for free to take advantage of perks such as receiving email updates and accessing on-demand sessions. If you do not register, you can still tune in to the keynotes and sessions, but you will miss out on the communications and recommendations.

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Google's keynote description is vague: "Discover how we're furthering our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

AI

However, given the announcements already made this year, we expect artificial intelligence to be the focal point of the event. At last year's I/O, AI was also the crown jewel of the event, with a slew of AI-related announcements, including Gemini 1.5 Flash, Veo, Imagen 3, and Google's mobile platform, Android.

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Android 16

Similarly, this year, you can expect to learn more about the new features on Android 16, which will likely feature a myriad of new AI capabilities, updates to Gemini, Google Workspace, Google Search, and maybe even a new large language model.

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Agents

AI agents have been the hottest topic in the AI space, and we can expect Google to add more to its current agent feature lineup. At the moment, this includes its Google Research feature, which can search the web for you and compile it into a detailed report, and Gems, Google's custom AI agents.

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XR headset

If Google follows last year's precedent, it will hold off on hardware announcements. However, the company may update us on its highly anticipated XR headset, which it is developing in partnership with Samsung. Google I/O is notorious for throwing surprises, so it is a good rule of thumb to expect something no one is talking about.

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If you want to get a better idea of what to expect, you can also look at the event schedule, which is already posted online. 

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However, Google has kept the descriptions and title names pretty vague, with the only real clues being that there will be announcements regarding Android, AI, Chrome, and Google Cloud, which we could have inferred.