The theme for this year is “Building a more helpful Google for everyone”.

  • Google Lens
  • Duplex on the web
  • Google Assistant - 100 GB DL model to 0.5 GB
    • voice is faster than typing (tapping) your phone
  • AI and bias, fair for everyone
    • Zebra model + TCAV
  • Data Privacy & Security
    • Privacy
      • privacy controls
        • recent activities
        • auto delete control
      • 1-tap access to Google products
      • incognito mode in Maps (bringing to Chrome, YT, Search this year)
    • Security
      • Android phone as Security Key - launching today in Android 7.0+
  • Federated Learning
    • Global Model
      • E.g: Gboard
  • People with disabilities
    • Google Live Transcribe
      • Team: Dimitri Kanevsky & Chet Gnegy
    • Live Caption
      • TODO: checkout the Android sessions how they do it
    • Live Relay
    • Project Euphonia (https://g.co/euphonia)
      • Dimitri - speech stutter, ALS
      • The work of Shanqing Cai
  • Android 10.0 (Android Q)
    • What’s coming next:
      • Innovation
        • Foldables
          • Screen continuity
        • 5G
        • On-device Machine Learning
          • Live Caption
        • Dark Theme
      • Security & Privacy
        • Protections
          • Android 9.0
            • Kernel control flow integrity
            • StrongBox
            • Protected confirmation
            • DNS-over-TLS
            • MAC address randomization
            • TLSv3
          • All versions
            • Further investment in hardware based security
            • Sandbox/API hardening
            • Anti-exploitation
        • Google Play Protect
          • Gardner report - highest rating in 26 of 30 security categories
        • Almost 50 features focused on security & privacy
        • Faster security updates
          • Android OS Framework
            • Compatibility, security and privacy (OS modules) updateable directly over-the-air
            • Now this can be updated individually as soon as there are available and without a reboot of the device
      • Digital Wellbeing
        • Last year, they launched:
          • Dashboard
          • App timer
          • Flip to Shhh
          • Wind Down
        • A new mode for Android and it’s called, Focus mode
          • Coming to devices on P and Q this fall
        • Family
          • Parental Controls
    • Q Beta 3 is available on 21 devices that is 12 OEMs
  • Google continue to believe that the biggest breakthroughs are happening at the intersection of “AI + Software + Hardware”
    • Welcome to the helpful home.
    • Google Home Hub renamed to Nest Hub
      • Nest Hub Max
      • Smart home controller
      • Video calls with Google Duo
      • Kitchen TV with YouTubeTV
      • Digital photo frame
      • Indoor camera
    • Google Pixel
      • Introduce you to the newest members of the Pixel family, Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL designed to deliver premium features with high performance at the price people would love.
      • They start at just US$399, half the price of typical flagship phone.
      • Pixel 3a can take amazing photo in low light with Night Sight.
      • Portrait mode on both the front and rear cameras
      • Super Res Zoom
      • Access the Google Assistant with Active Edge
      • Call Screen using Google Speech Recognition and NLP to help you filtered out those unwanted calls.
      • Using AR on Google Maps
        • You’re going to see arrows in the real world to tell you where to turn next.
      • Battery life
        • Adaptive battery using Machine Learning to optimize based on how you use your phone.
        • You can get up to 30 hours on a single charge and 7 hours with 15 minutes of charge.
      • Strongest data protection
        • In a recent Gardner report, Pixel scored the highest for built-in security amongst smart phones.
      • Available starting today
        • You can also get it from the Google Store (https://googlestore.com)
        • In 13 markets - Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, India, Japan, Taiwan, France, Ireland, Singapore, UK.
  • Google AI
    • Jeff Dean talk about research
      • Speech recognition, RNN, BERT
      • All these ML momentum wouldn’t be possible without platform innovation.
      • TensorFlow is the software infrastructure that underlies Google’s work in ML and AI.
      • AI for Social Good
        • Research & engineering
          • Flood forecasting project
        • Building the ecosystem
          • Google AI Impact Challenge