I/O 2025 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.

Tulsee Doshi, Senior Director, Product Management, Google DeepMind

Tulsee Doshi is the Sr Director & Head of Product for the Gemini Model at Google DeepMind. In this role, she leads the roadmap and product strategy for building Google’s foundational language model. Prior to this role, Tulsee spent 5 years as the head of product for Responsible AI at Google, developing more equitable, safe, and trustworthy products. Tulsee has been recognized as one of Forbes 30 under 30 leaders and one of the top women in AI Ethics. She holds a BS in Symbolic Systems and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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.

Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering, Google Search

Rajan is Vice President of Engineering for Google Search, making access to information effortless and delightful whether you’re searching through text, voice, or images and more. Previously, he helped start Lens, Gboard and Google Podcasts and led teams working on Google's Search algorithm and evaluation processes that are used today to continue enhancing Search.
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​He received a PhD from the Biostatistics department at Emory University, where he developed statistical methods to analyze the functional connectivity of the brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data.

Vidhya Srinivasan, VP/GM, Ads & Commerce

Vidhya Srinivasan is Vice President and General Manager of Ads and Commerce at Google. She leads Consumer Shopping, Merchant Shopping, and Payments, as well as advertising products for Search, Display, Shopping, Travel, Video, and Measurement.

People shop more than a billion times a day across Google, and under Vidhya’s leadership, her teams are transforming the shopping and selling experiences with innovative AI tools like Virtual Try On, Google Lens, and Product Studio. As a leader in AI-driven innovation, Vidhya has also been instrumental in transforming Google’s ads products, launching new ad formats for Search and automated tools to help businesses drive more growth with Google Ads. Prior to joining Google, Vidhya led engineering, product management, and operations teams at Amazon, and has held both technical and leadership roles at IBM.

Vidhya grew up in Chennai, India, and holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from IIT Madras and a Master’s in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. She is the proud mother of four children.

Josh Woodward, VP, Google Labs & Google Gemini

Josh currently leads Google Labs and the Gemini app. 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.

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 his entrepreneurial ventures, Izadi spent over a decade at Microsoft in Redmond, where he held the position of Partner R&D Director from May 2005 to May 2016. During his tenure, he led the Interactive 3D Technologies (I3D) group and was instrumental in shipping products such as HoloLens V1/V2, Kinect V1/V2, Surface Table, and the Microsoft Touch Mouse. He also spearheaded significant research initiatives like Holoportation and KinectFusion.

Izadi's significant contributions to the field are underscored by his extensive academic output, including over 170 research papers and numerous patents, which have garnered over 40,000 citations. His innovative work at Microsoft on natural user interfaces earned him recognition as a TR35 honoree by MIT Technology Review. Izadi delivered a TED Talk in April 2025 titled "The next computer? Your glasses," where he unveiled Google's new Android XR platform and discussed the potential of AI-powered smart glasses and headsets. His career reflects a deep commitment to advancing extended reality and interactive technologies.

Nishtha Bhatia, Product Manager, XR

Nishtha Bhatia is a Product Manager on the Android XR team, where she leads AI experiences and capabilities for a new form factor, glasses.

Nishtha is driven by an innate desire to deeply understand human behavior and psychology, and create a future that will fundamentally shift the way we interact with technology, our world, and each other. ​ In her role, Nishtha is building the foundation for new and 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.

Nishtha has always been drawn to early-stage products that touch on real human needs. 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.

A Bay Area native, Nishtha has spent her entire life in California, witnessing firsthand the ways in which technology has fundamentally influenced the region, and the broader world. She’s obsessed with understanding our shifting beliefs as a society, and feels lucky to be able to pair this passion with building the future of reality, with humans at the core.

Jason Baldridge, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Jason Baldridge is a research scientist at Google DeepMind, where he works on natural language understanding, generative AI, and responsibility and safety. He was previously an Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent work has focused on vision-and-language navigation, text-and-image representation learning, and generating images from language descriptions. Jason received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2002, where his doctoral dissertation on Multimodal Combinatory Categorial Grammar was awarded the 2003 Beth Dissertation Prize from the European Association for Logic, Language and Information.