Unpacking Google I/O 2025

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Google I/O 2025 took place in May. It's always a great opportunity to find out how Google is trying to shape the industry agenda, but this year the predominance of Gemini meant the event was a chance to get a better look at how Google will play its hand in the AI market in the months to come.

To dissect the headlines from this year's Google I/O and explore what we can learn about Google's strategic focus — and how the company is thinking about AI — host Ken Mugrage is joined by Andy Yates on the Technology Podcast. As Head of Ecosystems Development at Thoughtworks, Andy plays an important role in helping the organization and its clients undertstand, analyze and engage with the major platforms and vendors.

This edition of Google I/O, he explains, was significant and particularly useful for helping us understand how the world is going to be consuming AI products and services as the technology becomes more and more embedded in the mainstream.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast.
0:12.7	Special guest here today, to me at least, want everybody to meet Andy Yates.
0:17.2	Andy and I worked together in my early days at ThoughtWorks 15 or 16 years ago. I think he's
0:21.5	been here a little longer than me, though. So Andy, go ahead and introduce yourself if you would.
0:26.5	Hey, Ken. It's good to be here. Thanks for having me on the show. As you said, my name's Andy.
0:31.3	Andy Yates. I've been here for quite some time, about 20 years now, I am part of our global partnerships team, where I head
0:38.8	up what we call ecosystem development. I also have a seat within the global technology team,
0:43.6	supporting Rachel Lakeoka, CTO. A big part of that role is engaging with our larger partners,
0:48.7	particularly the cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud,
0:53.4	deepening our understanding of their respective offerings,
0:56.7	understanding what the strengths for those different offerings are,
0:59.2	identifying where those things are most applicable for our clients and the work that we do with them.
1:04.1	Cool. So last week there was a big Google event, Google I.O. And I'm sure folks have seen
1:09.3	press about this announcement and so forth.
1:11.6	And so, you know, I don't think we're going to go really in a depth to what every announcement is. But I would like to get your take because, you know, part of your background, I know when we worked together was with some of our technology products. And I know you worked in our internal IT operations for quite some time. And so really,
1:28.9	you know, how do these impact our end users, our practitioners? How do these impact the organization?
1:33.9	So, you know, first off, one thing that you, it was funny because you and I were talking about this
1:40.2	earlier and I've seen other things where they go to the Google I.O. And everything's Gemini this and Gemini that and, you know, where's the Gemini car and
1:48.1	airplane and what have you? And I went to the Microsoft event about six months ago and
1:52.7	everybody said the same thing about co-pilot. And so it's really hard for people understand,
1:56.9	you know, which other things are products? What are these are features? What are this? You know, what's your take on that?
2:01.5	There were a lot of announcements at this event. There were a lot of things where like the overall
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