Google I/O 2026 schedule hints at where the company is focusing next

Google has been teasing its annual I/O showcase since mid-February, and now we’re finally getting more hands-on details. The tech giant has published Livestream schedule for I/O 2026Confirming that the Google keynote will kick off the two-day event on May 19 at 10 a.m. PT, followed by a developer keynote at 1:30 p.m.

in one Android Developers Blog PostGoogle says this year’s event will bring updates to AI, Android, Chrome, and the cloud, with two days of live sessions straight from Mountain View, followed by on-demand sessions and codelabs on May 21.

The schedule for the first day after the keynote gives a better sense of how Google is structuring things. On May 19 at 3:30 pm, Google is holding four sessions: What’s New in Google AI, What’s New in Android, What’s New in Chrome, and Agent-First Workflows from Prompt to Production. Then, at 4:30 p.m., there will be four other sessions: Building Next Generation AI Experiences with Google AI Studio and Antigravity, What’s New in Google Play, Unlock Modern Web Capabilities in Your AI Coding Workflow, and What’s New in Firebase.

Clicking on individual session pages gives a little more context. For example, What’s New in Google AI is presented as a look at Google’s end-to-end AI stack, including multimodal tools, media generation, robotics, and intelligent agents. What’s new in Android will highlight Android 17’s performance improvements and new capabilities.

The schedule gives us a much clearer picture of the areas the company wants front and center this year, and naturally, it’s quite AI-heavy. In Google’s defense, this is a developer conference, and AI is where most of the development is happening in 2026.