Google IO 2021 starts May 18: Android 12, Pixel 6, Pixel Watch expected, and how to watch live stream

Google IO is the company's annual developer conference where it announces new devices and various software updates for its existing apps and services.

Google IO 2021 is scheduled to take place from May 18-20 this year. The event is happening after a year's break since Google cancelled 2020's IO event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual event is all set to take place from Tuesday, May 18, through Friday, May 21. We are likely to see Sundar Pichai and other Google executives in the first part of the show as a keynote, usually when the major news pops up. It is primarily geared towards developers. The event usually starts with a keynote from Google's CEO, where he makes some major product or feature announcements. As a part of the event, Google holds multiple consumer and developer sessions where it talks about various improvements to its products and highlights how it has improved its development tools to aid developers. It also holds AMA sessions with various teams inside Google, developer meet-ups, workshops, fireside chat sessions with key engineering teams, and more. The keynotes will be live-streamed for all to watch, but other sessions require prior registration before the event. Google IO 2021: Everything we can expect