Google I/O is our annual 2-day developer conference we host in San Francisco. With more than 5500 developers in attendance and 722 Googlers presenting and demoing it’s the biggest event Google hosts and this year we extended the magic of I/O beyond the conference center to hundreds of thousands of developers across the globe. Keep reading to find out more...
Do you know what the “I/O” in “Google I/O” stands for? It’s actually a trick question. The I/O is a nod to the input and output of computer programming, the 1s and 0s of binary code, but doesn’t actually stand for any two words. It also represents the aspirational idea of “innovation in the open” which happens when you gather thousands of developers and hundreds of Googlers to have them work together on the next generation of exciting web technologies.
The Google I/O team wanted to redefine what it meant to host a conference at scale with Google I/O 2011. With I/O selling out in a mere 59 minutes, the team knew filling Moscone wouldn’t be a problem but also wanted to share the magic of I/O beyond the conference center. In years prior, we had streamed the keynotes but this year the I/O team created I/O Live which livestreamed two full days of content from concurrent sessions, complete with live captioning to the world. In total, Google I/O was streamed to 1,000,000 viewers. You can watch all the video content yourself here.
But I/O is so much more than simply watching the presentations on a screen. It’s about the developer community. It’s about meeting fellow developers and the input and output of ideas, technology and passions. There were more than 100 viewing parties in 50 countries all over the world where developers gathered to share the I/O experience as part of Google I/O Extended.
And to make sure our friends and fans close to home could share in the experience, the Industry Programs team opened the doors of our North American offices and hosted 11 events at our offices from coast to coast. Students, developers, and professionals from Waterloo, Ontario to Santa Monica, California and from Seattle, Washington to Cambridge, Massachusetts and more were all connected to the excitement coming out of San Francisco on day 1 of I/O. Check out the map below to see all the locations as well as pictures from the offices.
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Nearly 1,000 Google I/O Extended participants came to our offices to watch the keynotes, see live demos from Googlers and share their own work fellow developers. Attendees got a tour of the local office, a free lunch, plenty of snacks, a goodie bag to take home and an invitation to come back and visit us for lunch some time. We hope to see some of them soon and look forward to hosting more folks at Google I/O Extended 2012!
Do you know what the “I/O” in “Google I/O” stands for? It’s actually a trick question. The I/O is a nod to the input and output of computer programming, the 1s and 0s of binary code, but doesn’t actually stand for any two words. It also represents the aspirational idea of “innovation in the open” which happens when you gather thousands of developers and hundreds of Googlers to have them work together on the next generation of exciting web technologies.
The Google I/O team wanted to redefine what it meant to host a conference at scale with Google I/O 2011. With I/O selling out in a mere 59 minutes, the team knew filling Moscone wouldn’t be a problem but also wanted to share the magic of I/O beyond the conference center. In years prior, we had streamed the keynotes but this year the I/O team created I/O Live which livestreamed two full days of content from concurrent sessions, complete with live captioning to the world. In total, Google I/O was streamed to 1,000,000 viewers. You can watch all the video content yourself here.
But I/O is so much more than simply watching the presentations on a screen. It’s about the developer community. It’s about meeting fellow developers and the input and output of ideas, technology and passions. There were more than 100 viewing parties in 50 countries all over the world where developers gathered to share the I/O experience as part of Google I/O Extended.
And to make sure our friends and fans close to home could share in the experience, the Industry Programs team opened the doors of our North American offices and hosted 11 events at our offices from coast to coast. Students, developers, and professionals from Waterloo, Ontario to Santa Monica, California and from Seattle, Washington to Cambridge, Massachusetts and more were all connected to the excitement coming out of San Francisco on day 1 of I/O. Check out the map below to see all the locations as well as pictures from the offices.
View Google I/O Extended in a larger map
Nearly 1,000 Google I/O Extended participants came to our offices to watch the keynotes, see live demos from Googlers and share their own work fellow developers. Attendees got a tour of the local office, a free lunch, plenty of snacks, a goodie bag to take home and an invitation to come back and visit us for lunch some time. We hope to see some of them soon and look forward to hosting more folks at Google I/O Extended 2012!
Posted by Craig Rubens, People Operations Communications team
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