CEO
Google and Alphabet
Sundar is the CEO of Google and Alphabet and serves on Alphabet’s Board of Directors.
He joined Google in 2004 and helped lead the development of Google Toolbar and then Google Chrome, which grew to become the world’s most popular internet browser. In 2014 he was appointed to lead product and engineering for all of Google’s products and platforms - including popular products such as Search, Maps, Play, Android, Chrome, Gmail and Google Apps (now Google Workspace). Sundar became Google’s CEO in August 2015. He joined the Board of Directors of Alphabet, Google's parent company, in July 2017.
Under his leadership as CEO, Google has been focused on developing products and services, powered by the latest advances in AI, that offer help in moments big and small. It has invested in new opportunities such as Google Cloud and YouTube and has continued to be a leader in advanced technologies, including machine learning and quantum computing.
In December 2019, in addition to his role as CEO of Google, Sundar became the CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
Sundar grew up in Chennai, India and studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology where he was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He holds a master's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.
Sunday Jan 11
9:45am - 10:15am
Vusion Theatre
The world is in the midst of a technology platform shift driven by AI, which will bring profound benefits for people, businesses, and society. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, will share how he sees AI as a fundamental rewiring of technology and an accelerant of human ingenuity. He’ll explain how AI is transforming every company in every industry, and go deeper on the opportunity for retail in the age of agentic AI. Following his remarks, Sundar and John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S., will sit down for a fireside chat to discuss how Google and Walmart are using AI to accelerate their missions and deliver business impact.