Google I/O 2025: What to Expect and How to Watch | PCMag
This year's developer conference starts with an Android-only virtual showcase on May 13, followed by what will likely be an AI-heavy in-person keynote on May 20. Here's how to tune in.
Google's annual I/O developer conference returns this month with a unique, two-part schedule. Before the big show on May 20, Google is hosting an Android-specific event on May 13. 
Android announcements are usually just one component of the main I/O conference, so the fact that Google is spinning off a separate event suggests it has a lot in store—or it wants AI to be the star of the show later in the month. We'll find out soon enough; the Android Show: I/O Edition will be livestreamed starting at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday.
Google I/O Event Details
Google I/O follows on May 20 from the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. It starts with a livestreamed keynote at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET, and a developer keynote at 1 p.m. PT / 4 p.m. ET.
Google says it will be sharing the latest on "Google’s newest products, technologies, and innovations in AI, Android, and more" in keynotes, breakout sessions, and workshops, more than a dozen of which will be livestreamed. You can learn more and register at io.google/2025.
Predictions for Google I/O 2025
Here are our predictions for what Google will show off this month.
Google hasn't said much about what's in store for "The Android Show," other than teasing details on "what’s new on Android." Typically, we get a first look at the latest version of Android at I/O with a formal launch in the fall. But Google is adopting an accelerated schedule for Android 16 "to better align" with the launch of popular Android smartphones.
These early versions of Android 16 tip the return of lock-screen widgets, AI-generated summaries of notifications from messaging apps, new tools to manage health data securely, and stricter security features.
Smart glasses are having a resurgence, at least in Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg is all-in on the tech, likely because his company's Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are leading the pack. But Apple is apparently prepping its own pair, so Google doesn't want to be left in the dust.
Though Google canceled its Project Iris glasses in 2023, it debuted a new operating system for VR headsets and smart glasses in December.
AI at Google I/O 2025
Expect AI to dominate most of the opening keynote. The company just debuted a Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview "I/O edition," which boasts "massively improved coding capabilities," according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who is scheduled to give a talk on the "frontiers of AI" at 3:30 p.m. ET on May 20.
Meanwhile, Google parent company Alphabet also owns autonomous car tech company Waymo. At I/O, Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO of Waymo, will discuss the "critical role of AI in this tech’s development and deployment, and the exciting possibilities that lie ahead" during an onsite I/O session.
Google usually uses I/O to show off new tricks, mostly to clue in developers on what's coming up, but there are nuggets in there for the average tech user, too. It's been working on a more conversational AI mode for search, essentially turning Google into ChatGPT.
A few other Google products are getting the I/O livestream treatment. Here are some of the sessions on tap and when you can watch.
- What's new in Chrome with Paul Kinlan, Chrome developer relations lead, at 3:30 p.m. PT
- What's new in Google Cloud with Fran Hinkelmann, developer relations engineering manager, and Richard Seroter, chief evangelist for Google Cloud, at 3:30 p.m. PT
- What’s new in Google Play with software engineer Jiahui Liu, Mekka Okereke, GM of Google Play Apps, and Raghavendra Hareesh Pottamsetty, Play Developer and Play Monetization lead, at 4:30 p.m. PT
- What's new in web features with Rachel Andrew, content lead for Chrome Developer Relations, at 4:30 p.m. PT
- What’s new in Android development tools with Jamal Eason, director of product management for Android Studio and Tor Norbye, engineering director, at 10 a.m. PT
- What's new in the Gemmaverse with Gus Martins, product manager for Gemma models, and Omar Sanseviero, staff developer relations engineer at 11 a.m. PT
