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Get ready for Google I/O: Livestream schedule revealed

Google I/O 2026: Livestream Schedule Revealed

Posted by The Google I/O team

The Google I/O schedule is here! Tune in May 19–20 as we unveil Google’s biggest updates across AI, Android, Chrome, and Cloud. Discover new tools and features designed to unlock the future of development with agentic coding.

We’re kicking things off with the Google keynote at 10:00 am PT on May 19, followed by the Developer keynote at 1:30 pm PT. Block your calendars for two days of live sessions, straight from Mountain View, full of announcements, live demos, and new professional development sessions.

Here’s a sneak peak at what we’ll cover:

  • The agentic era of development: Discover how the next evolution of our developer tools is transforming the way you write software. Learn how to seamlessly transition from rapid ideation to orchestrating powerful, autonomous workflows, allowing AI to handle the heavy lifting while you focus on the big picture.
  • Enabling Android development anywhere: Learn how we are making AI even more helpful for your app workflows. From initial prototyping to final native polish, explore the latest ways we’re making it easier and faster to build high quality Android experiences.
  • Building powerful, agentic web applications: The web is accelerating faster than ever, and we are equipping you for what's next. Discover new tools to build agent-ready web applications, automate complex debugging workflows, and ship highly interactive UI directly in the browser.

Join us online May 19–20, followed by a fresh drop of on-demand sessions and codelabs on May 21. Register today to explore the full program and catch all the latest developer updates, featuring sessions like:

Additional BYOD peripheral switchers certified for Google Meet in ChromeOS touch controller rooms

We have certified additional Lightware peripheral switchers, so that you and your team can bring your own devices (BYOD) to Google Meet on ChromeOS touch controller rooms. The new devices bring improvements for video processing, networking, connectivity and security.

Plug your laptop into a Meet room with a single USB-C cable and easily use the room's display, speaker, microphone, and camera—along with your laptop—for video conferencing.

The integration is extended with the following peripheral switchers:

  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC60
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC60
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC60D
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC60 BD

This offers the following benefits:

  • Seamless transition: Rooms will automatically enter BYOD mode as soon as a user connects their laptop via a certified cable, enabling immediate use of the room's display and high-quality audio and video equipment.
  • Meeting continuity: If a Google Meet call is already in progress, connecting a laptop will not interrupt the call or activate BYOD mode. The same cable for BYOD mode can be used during a Google Meet meeting for sharing your screen to the meeting, ensuring a unified meeting experience.
  • Enhanced admin control: Administrators will gain new visibility within the Google admin console, allowing them to see when BYOD mode is active in a room and preventing erroneous missing peripheral alerts when a third-party device is in control.

Getting started

  • Admins: Visit the Lightware website to learn more.
  • End users: Once the integration is installed, use a USB-C cable to use the room displays, audio devices, and camera.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet ChromeOS hardware devices

Resources

Additional BYOD peripheral switchers certified for Google Meet in ChromeOS touch controller rooms

We have certified additional Lightware peripheral switchers, so that you and your team can bring your own devices (BYOD) to Google Meet on ChromeOS touch controller rooms. The new devices bring improvements for video processing, networking, connectivity and security.

Plug your laptop into a Meet room with a single USB-C cable and easily use the room's display, speaker, microphone, and camera—along with your laptop—for video conferencing.

The integration is extended with the following peripheral switchers:

  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC60
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC60
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x2 HC60D
  • Lightware Taurus UCX 4x3 HC60 BD

This offers the following benefits:

  • Seamless transition: Rooms will automatically enter BYOD mode as soon as a user connects their laptop via a certified cable, enabling immediate use of the room's display and high-quality audio and video equipment.
  • Meeting continuity: If a Google Meet call is already in progress, connecting a laptop will not interrupt the call or activate BYOD mode. The same cable for BYOD mode can be used during a Google Meet meeting for sharing your screen to the meeting, ensuring a unified meeting experience.
  • Enhanced admin control: Administrators will gain new visibility within the Google admin console, allowing them to see when BYOD mode is active in a room and preventing erroneous missing peripheral alerts when a third-party device is in control.

Getting started

  • Admins: Visit the Lightware website to learn more.
  • End users: Once the integration is installed, use a USB-C cable to use the room displays, audio devices, and camera.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet ChromeOS hardware devices

Resources

Prepare for the NEET UG with practice tests in Gemini

We recently launched full-length, no-cost practice tests in Gemini, starting with the SAT and JEE Main. Today, we’re expanding practice tests to support the NEET UG.

We have grounded practice tests in rigorously vetted content from leading education companies like Physics Wallah and Careers360, to build a best in class experience for learners coming to Gemini. This helps ensure that you’re not just practicing — you’re preparing with material that more closely resembles what you’ll see on test day.

To try it out, just tell Gemini “I want to take a NEET mock exam.”


Note: This feature is currently available in English only.

Getting started

  • Admins: The Gemini app and related in-app tools are controlled by the Generative AI settings in the Workspace Admin console. Practice tests in Gemini are subject to these existing controls. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning the Gemini app on or off.
  • End users: End users of all ages who have access to the Gemini app will receive access to practice tests automatically. To get started, tell Gemini which practice test you want to take.

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts who are signed in to the Gemini app

Resources