05/20/2026
Here's the latest from Senior Web Developer, Jeremy Schroeder, at Google I/O:
I’m surrounded by Nvidia, Intel, Apple, and Cisco. Oh, and Google, of course. It’s quite a departure from life back in Toledo, but if you squint, it’s not that different. We’re building incredible things back home, too. Today, though, I took in what the Bay Area has to offer, knocked on a few palm trees, and fully immersed myself in the innovation and community at Google I/O—Day 1.
I’m accompanied by my fellow GDG Toledo organizer, Justin. Thanks to our commitment to building the developer community back home, Google gave us the opportunity to visit. We’re both avid web developers, hungry for the latest tech and tools. But we're also surrounded by a couple thousand other developers from around the world, all bringing just as many perspectives on our current landscape and where the future will take us.
That future is more unclear than ever—but exciting and promising. Unclear because the leaps we’ve taken in our industry over the past year were unexpected to most. It has brought refinement to how we use AI, something we’ve been trying to wrangle since OpenAI gave us ChatGPT a few years back. It has brought power to our industry, and the industries we serve, by enabling us to write tools for AI to comb through our data and let us visualize it in a more bespoke way.
Today, we’re able to do even more. With Google being a central player in AI and web tech in general, we take their lead and build upon it, superimposing their vision onto our own. There’s not only innovation in AI, but also in accessibility, security, and viability. Developing for the web is more powerful than ever, which is a clear win for our customers at Touchstone and MadAveGroup.
I’ll be sharing some of the nitty-gritty details with our team back in Toledo, ensuring that we’re building for the future and taking full advantage of the drops that Sundar Pichai gave us himself. Stay tuned—Google I/O Day 2 has in-depth talks and demos in store, creating a breeding ground for ideas and innovation that we’ll bring back to serve on a platter to the Midwest and beyond.