Google for India 2023 Event: How to Watch Livestream, What to Expect

Google for India 2023 is ready to kick off on Thursday and the search big is predicted to point out off improvements to synthetic intelligence (AI) and Internet applied sciences at its annual occasion. The ninth version of Google for India might see the corporate announce particulars of its plans to enhance entry to Internet in India, in addition to new AI instruments and functions which are geared toward customers in India. Google additionally works with native non-public and public companions and the corporate might announce new initiatives associated to digitisation and bettering entry to info on-line this yr.

Google for India 2023 occasion date and the way to watch the livestream

The firm’s ninth Google for India occasion will start at 11am on October 19. The in-person occasion shall be streamed reside through the Google India YouTube channel. You can even watch the livestream of the occasion through the participant embedded beneath.

Google for India 2023: What to count on

In a put up on X (previously generally known as Twitter) the corporate has shared a picture of a golden mannequin of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander and the Pragyan rover, alongside textual content that asserts the date of the subsequent occasion. Google means that its bulletins will vary from “access to Internet, to success on the Internet”. 

While we’re prone to hear extra in regards to the firm’s plans — and new applied sciences it plans to introduce over the approaching yr — on the occasion on Thursday, it’s value looking at Google’s earlier bulletins over the previous couple of years.

Last yr, on the eighth version of Google for India, the search big unveiled a brand new ‘Multisearch’ characteristic that permits customers to mix a captured picture or a screenshot with a textual content question for much more refined outcomes. The search platform additionally acquired a brand new characteristic that allowed customers to look YouTube movies for particular moments. The firm additionally introduced a characteristic to digitise docs’ handwritten prescriptions on the occasion. 

Google additionally introduced a characteristic that may permit customers in India to securely entry their paperwork in Digilocker through the Google Files app on their smartphone — these information are saved in an remoted setting on the consumer’s system and customers have to offer authentication to entry their paperwork, in line with the corporate.

Meanwhile, on the Google for India 2021 occasion amid the pandemic, the corporate introduced a Google Assistant characteristic that may permit customers to guide a vaccination slot through the CoWIN portal in English,  Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.

During its seventh Google for India occasion, the corporate additionally introduced a brand new Hinglish language choice for Google Pay that was geared toward making interacting with the app extra intuitive. A brand new invoice break up choice was additionally launched alongside a brand new speech to textual content characteristic that permits customers to enter fee quantities and account numbers utilizing their voice.

New climate options have been additionally introduced through the firm’s 2021 occasion, together with the power to examine AQI ranges through Google search, getting climate alerts associated to excessive weather conditions, and forecasting floods — a part of the corporate’s Google Flood Forecasting Initiative.

We can count on the corporate to announce new methods to carry extra customers on-line and assist them get entry to the Internet through the Google for India 2023 occasion. These bulletins are anticipated to reach alongside the corporate’s AI options — focused at Indian customers — which are anticipated roll out to customers within the coming months.