Majd Bakar

Majd Bakar is Vice President and head of Engineering for Fitbit at Google. Majd joined Google in 2011 to look at the interaction model for consumer devices in the home. He started and launched Chromecast as part of this effort, bridging the Phone and the TV to build a simple and intuitive user experience leveraging the touch screen interface of smart phones. Later on, he led the engineering teams responsible for Google WiFi and Google Home, which launched in 2016. His work eventually moved to launch Project Stream in 2018, which was the public Beta trial of what is now known as Stadia. Majd is a native of Syria and grew up in Montreal, Canada. He earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, both from McGill University in Montreal.