Google CEO Sundar Pichai is about to seem at Vox Media’s annual Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California for a wide-ranging interview with Kara Swisher.

As at all times, there’s a lot to debate. As the pinnacle of each Google and its guardian firm Alphabet, Pichai oversees one of the vital expansive firms on this planet. Google is a participant in practically each space of tech, from shopper {hardware} to driverless automobiles and the cloud. There can be, in fact, its core search enterprise, which stays as wildly worthwhile as ever however is seeing rising competitors from TikTok and startups like Neeva.

Pichai can be in the course of navigating one other problem: his personal staff. He lately instructed them that they should function with “greater urgency” and that “we need to simplify the company and manage the complexity as we scale.” Even as governments wish to crack down on Google’s dominance, Pichai has to additionally handle the problem of main one of many world’s most necessary firms by way of a fast-changing, unsure economic system.

The Verge workers is within the room at Code and live-blogging Pichai’s interview beneath: