The Shoreline Amphitheatre, the new location of Google I/O 2016. It's right in Google's backyard. (credit: Shoreline Amphitheatre)
Google I/O is Google's annual launch party where the company shows off its biggest products and teaches developers how to be a part of the Google ecosystem. The event takes place from May 18-20 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.
Google I/O this year is definitely weird. It's in an all-new location, and the big news that we would expect to happen at I/O—a new version of Android—has already been released. As a result, there is really nothing that we would put at a 100 percent lock for I/O—we just aren't sure what Google is going to do. The schedule gives us some vague idea of what we can expect to see, but since Google likes to avoid spoiling its announcements, the schedule isn't always a comprehensive list until after the opening-day keynote. While we aren't making guaranteed predictions, we can at least offer a list of possibilities based on projects we know are in-the-works at Google HQ.
This is the first Google I/O since Google became a subsidiary under Alphabet, but we're going to assume most of the other Alphabet companies aren't going to join in on the fun. None of the divisions in Alphabet are really "new"—the groups have all been inside Google for some time. Even when they were part of Google, most groups didn't participate in Google I/O. Now that they're separated even further, we expect their non-participation in I/O to continue. The one exception is Google X (Now just "X"), which famously demoed Google Glass at the show in 2012.
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