LAURENCE MORONEY: Welcome to the Googleplex.
This is an incredible place with lots of great stuff being
worked on every single day.
Before I worked here, I always wondered
what it would be like to come to the Googleplex,
meet up with a Googler and have coffee with them,
and just chat about what they do, how they do it
and why they do it.
Today, we're going to do exactly that.
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Hi everybody, and welcome to this episode
of "Coffee With A Googler."
Today, I'm going to be meeting with Lauren Dale, who's
a product marketing manager here at Google.
Word is that she's responsible for a lot of Google I/O.
So Lauren, thanks for coming and meeting with me today.
How are you?
LAUREN DALE: Good.
Thanks so much for having me.
I'm excited to be here.
LAURENCE MORONEY: We're so happy to have you.
You're a product marketing manager at Google.
What does that involve?
What do you do?
LAUREN DALE: So I'm on our Developer Marketing team, which
means that we make sure developers know about all
of our latest and greatest products and APIs,
how to use them and where to find them.
A big part of that is planning Google I/O.
LAURENCE MORONEY: So now, I hear you
are one of the VIPs responsible for bringing the awesomeness
that is I/O to developers.
Can tell us a bit about it this year?
LAUREN DALE: Sure.
Well, to begin, I'm not the only VIP.
There are a lot of people who are involved
in bringing I/O to life.
LAURENCE MORONEY: But thanks for taking the time out
from planning to meet with us today.
LAUREN DALE: Sure, no problem.
I/Os going to be happening again in San Francisco at Moscone
West from May 28th through the 29th.
Developers can expect a lot of really inspirational sessions,
one to one time with Googlers to ask all their burning
questions, and a lot of interactive experiences
in our Sandbox base so they can actually touch and feel
and play with our products.
LAURENCE MORONEY: OK, so we talked about the Sandbox,
and I was at Google I/O last year,
and the Sandbox was awesome with things like pop-up talks
and with code labs.
Can you tell us like what's going to be in the Sandbox
this year?
LAUREN DALE: Yeah, so the Sandbox
is actually going to be bigger this year
than it was last year.
So it's the most popular part of I/O,
so we want to make sure that enough people can fit in
and we have enough room for everyone.
So we'll have even more pop-up talks than we had last year.
We'll have more code labs.
Code labs are very, very popular with developers.
So, in addition to more code labs,
we'll have more Googlers on hand so that everyone can
get their questions answered.
We'll have even more interactive experiences
available for developers.
So bigger, more experiences, more space, more fun.
LAURENCE MORONEY: So bigger, better, more fun?
LAUREN DALE: Yeah.
LAURENCE MORONEY: OK, that sounds really cool,
because last year was pretty big and pretty fun too.
Now, one of the things is that not everybody's lucky enough
to be able to go to I/O. There's only
a limited number of tickets, and they're sold out already.
So what can people who aren't able to go to I/O
and experience this for themselves-- what
options are available for them?
LAUREN DALE: Yeah, we have a couple different options
for people who aren't able to make it to San Francisco.
We understand that not everyone can travel,
and also, we have space constraints within Moscone--
we can't fit everyone.
But for those who can't make it, we
have one option, which is I/O Extended.
I/O Extended events happen throughout the world.
Some are hosted actually at Google offices,
and others are hosted by local developer
communities in local spaces.
Last year we had Extended events in over 91 countries,
so chances are, there's something happening near you.
If you're interested, you can go to google.com/io and find
a list of the events that are happening in your neighborhood.
If nothing is happening near you,
then you can actually host your own Extended event.
We have details listed on how to actually do that, as well.
LAURENCE MORONEY: So, I actually was lucky enough
to go to Google I/O Extended in Kirkland, Washington
a couple of years ago.
I have to say, it was an amazing experience to the fact
that I sat there and I watched the keynote
and I fell in love with Google, and now I work here.
It worked out well for me.
Hopefully it will work out well for Google.
Time will tell.
LAUREN DALE: I think so.
I think you're doing OK.
LAURENCE MORONEY: Thanks, I'm enjoying it.
So back to the conference at South in San Francisco.
I know there's lots of really cool, lots of innovative stuff.
You've spoken a little bit about the Sandbox.
What kind of other fun stuff should we expect to see?
LAUREN DALE: Yeah, well, we're really
trying to bring the magic of Google
here in Mountain View to San Francisco.
So think, lots of food, lots of fun spaces
to play and even comfy seating.
Our offices-- we have a lot of different features
that aren't your typical corporates.
LAURENCE MORONEY: This lovely quirkiness, right?
LAUREN DALE: Yes.
Yeah.
So we're really trying to bring that into San Francisco
and into Moscone.
LAURENCE MORONEY: Ah, I'm looking forward to seeing it.
LAUREN DALE: In terms of content--
I can't give away too much.
LAURENCE MORONEY: Can you give a little?
LAUREN DALE: No.
LAURENCE MORONEY: Aw!
LAUREN DALE: We don't want to spoil
the magic of what will actually happen when we're there.
But we will have a new format for sessions, so bigger session
rooms than we've had in years past.
So people shouldn't have to fight for space
to actually get into a session.
LAURENCE MORONEY: There were some long lines,
so we're trying to avoid that.
LAUREN DALE: Yeah.Yup.
Definitely trying to avoid that this year.
We'll also more inspirational content.
So we have a lot of really cool speakers lined up--
some women from our Women Techmakers team
to talk about some amazing products that they're building.
We'll explore what's new in Android.
That's always a big hefty topic, and so we
expect a lot of people to be interested in that.
Then, kind of highlighting some new fun things we're
doing in the gaming space and web platform space.
LAURENCE MORONEY: OK, cool.
I believe you brought a video showing some of the magic
that we had last year.
LAUREN DALE: I did.
LAURENCE MORONEY: OK.
Can we roll that video?
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MALE SPEAKER: It's great to see all of you.
Welcome to Google I/O.
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LAURENCE MORONEY: Great video.
It brings lots of great memories,
and hopefully in coming I/O, we're
going to be building lots of new memories.
So what was the website again where
people can go to find out more?
LAUREN DALE: Yes, google.com/io is our website.
People can find out all of the sessions and various content
aspects that we'll be having at the event this year.
We also have a pretty fun Chrome experiment
that developers can play with and check out the source
code as well.
LAURENCE MORONEY: OK, yeah.
I actually played with that Chrome experiment,
and it's a real hoot.
You can, like, stretch rubber bands across pegs
and then play them and play along with music.
It's a really nice little experiment
showing HTML5 can work, and maybe a little taste
of the kind of things developers can learn at I/O South.
LAUREN DALE: Yeah, and we definitely
encourage you to check it out on your phone.
It's even more fun.
LAURENCE MORONEY: [LAUGHS] I've got to try that.
I haven't done that.
I've only done it on my laptop.
So Google I/O 2015, end of May here in San Francisco
in the Moscone Center.
There's also going to be Google I/O Extended events all around,
so on google.com/io, you'll be able to find out all about
them.
So Laura, thank you so much for coming today.
It's been a whole lot of fun.
I've learned so much about I/O, and I'm really
looking forward to the event.
LAUREN DALE: Thanks so much for having me.
It's been great.
LAURENCE MORONEY: So everybody, thanks for watching this far.
We've got more episodes of "Coffee With A Googler"
on the Google developers channel.
You can learn all about the Google I/O on the website that
we mentioned, google.com/io.
If you've got any questions for me
or if you've got any questions for Lauren,
please just post them in the comments area
beneath this window.
Check out the rest of our videos, and also,
check out when-- if you're at I/O,
we're going to have a very special "Coffee With A Googler"
event there.
So thanks again, and see you soon.
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