I/O 2026 Google speakers

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google and Alphabet

Sundar is the CEO of Google and Alphabet and serves on Alphabet’s Board of Directors.

He joined Google in 2004 and helped lead the development of Google Toolbar and then Google Chrome, which grew to become the world’s most popular internet browser. In 2014 he was appointed to lead product and engineering for all of Google’s products and platforms - including popular products such as Search, Maps, Play, Android, Chrome, Gmail and Google Apps (now Google Workspace). Sundar became Google’s CEO in August 2015. He joined the Board of Directors of Alphabet, Google's parent company, in July 2017.

Under his leadership as CEO, Google has been focused on developing products and services, powered by the latest advances in AI, that offer help in moments big and small. It has invested in new opportunities such as Google Cloud and YouTube and has continued to be a leader in advanced technologies, including machine learning and quantum computing.

In December 2019, in addition to his role as CEO of Google, Sundar became the CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet.

Sundar grew up in Chennai, India and studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology where he was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He holds a master's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.

Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind

Sir Demis Hassabis is an artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur, and Nobel Laureate.

Demis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind. DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI companies, was founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in January 2014, and is now central to Google’s AI efforts. DeepMind has achieved numerous landmark AI breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the game of Go, and AlphaFold, which solved the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction by accurately predicting the 3D shape of proteins, critical for disease understanding and drug discovery.

Demis has won many prestigious international awards for his research work including the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. His work has been cited over 200,000 times, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2024, Demis was awarded a knighthood for services to Artificial Intelligence, and in both 2017 and 2025 Demis was featured in the Time 100 list of most influential people.

Varun Mohan, GDM Director, Software Engineering

Varun Mohan leads the Antigravity team at Google DeepMind, where he is defining the next frontier of AI-driven development. His work centers on scaling AI agent capabilities to automate complex workflows across the organization. Prior to joining Google, Varun co-founded Windsurf.

Josh Woodward, VP, Google Labs, Gemini & AI Studio

Josh currently leads Google Labs, the Gemini app, and AI Studio. His teams are focused on discovering and delivering new AI products that advance Google’s mission. He's been an early stage leader during his time at Google, helping co-found Google's Next Billion Users effort and create Chromebooks. His work has focused on making technology more accessible to everyone.

He holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma and Oxford University. He and his wife make a mean batch of jambalaya and have four kids.

Liz Reid, VP, Head of Search, Google

Elizabeth (Liz) Reid leads the Search organization at Google. Liz joined Google in 2003 as the company’s first female engineer in its New York office and was part of the team that built Google Local, the foundation for much of the local information within Google Maps today. Since 2021, Liz has led teams reimagining the Search experience by helping people ask questions in entirely new ways, like with Lens and multisearch; making authentic, human voices more accessible; and transforming how people navigate and understand information with generative AI.

Robby Stein, VP of Product, Google Search

Robby Stein is Vice President of Product, Google Search, working on the development of generative AI products and experiences that help people search and access information effortlessly.

Robby started his career at Google in 2007 where he worked on new product launches for Gmail and ads. Today, Robby has over 17 years of experience as a product leader and entrepreneur, and several products Robby and his teams have built are now among the most widely used in the world. ​

Before rejoining Google in 2024, he was the Head of Product at Artifact, an AI-powered newsfeed. Robby also led consumer products at Instagram for 5 years – where he built and scaled the products and teams around Stories, Feed, Direct Messaging and Reels. Prior to these, Robby was the co-founder and CEO of Stamped, a social recommendations startup acquired by Yahoo in 2011.

Robby graduated from Northwestern University, and has been recognized on the Forbes 30 under 30 list (2014).

Vidhya Srinivasan, VP/GM, Ads & Commerce

Vidhya Srinivasan is Vice President and General Manager of Ads & Commerce at Google. In this role, she leads consumer shopping, merchant shopping, and payments, as well as Google's broad portfolio of advertising products. Since 2019, she has been at the forefront of Google’s AI transformation, leading the introduction of AI-powered advertising products like Performance Max and launching intelligent, agentic shopping features across Google products.

Vidhya holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from IIT-Madras and a Master's in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. When she’s not at work digging into complex product spaces, she enjoys spending time with her two boys and twin girls.

Suz Chambers, Director, Creative Lab

Suz Chambers is a Director at Google’s Creative Lab, where she leads multidisciplinary teams in exploring the boundaries of technology, design, and storytelling. Suz excels at transforming speculative ideas—from advanced AI integrations to new digital mediums—into groundbreaking products and cultural experiences. By bridging the gap between creativity and complex engineering, she champions a collaborative culture that redefines how humans interact with technology. Suz frequently speaks on creative leadership, AI-driven innovation, and managing high-performing teams in fast-paced tech environments.

Shahram Izadi, GM & VP, XR

Shahram Izadi is the General Manager and Vice President of XR at Google. He leads Google's Android XR efforts, overseeing the strategy, development, and execution of products and the underlying platform. His responsibilities encompass business, operations, product vision, design, and all engineering disciplines (SW/HW/AI) across various XR devices, including glasses, headsets, and phones. He also cultivates crucial partnerships with industry leaders like Samsung and Qualcomm.

Izadi's career demonstrates a consistent drive for innovation in human-computer interaction and augmented reality. Prior to his role at Google, he co-founded and served as CTO of perceptiveIO, Inc., a Bay Area startup specializing in 3D depth sensing and perception. Google acquired perceptiveIO in July 2017.Before that, he spent over a decade at Microsoft in Redmond, where he held the position of Partner R&D Director from May 2005 to May 2016.

Nishtha Bhatia, Product Manager, XR

Nishtha Bhatia is a Senior Product Manager on the Android XR team, where she leads AI experiences and capabilities for a new form factor - glasses. In her role, Nishtha is building the foundation for new & natural interactions, orchestrated by multimodal intelligence and the best of Google’s products and services...all on a form factor built to understand the world in the same way humans do.

Before her role in XR, she spent a few years in Google’s Office of the CEO, where she set, advised, and mobilized cross-company consumer strategy and product priorities. Prior to that, she was one of the earliest product managers on Google Lens, where she had the opportunity to ship features that brought early innovation in computer vision to the masses -- shifting the way users perceived and interacted with the world around them through visual search for the first time. Nishtha first began her career at Google as an Associate Product Manager, after graduating from Stanford University with both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science.