No Surprise: Mark Zuckerberg to Keynote F8 Conference

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, April 4, 2013.

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By Kurt Wagner2014-04-03 01:00:58 UTC

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will keynote this year's F8 conference, the social network's major developer event slated for San Francisco at the end of March.

Facebook announced the keynote and an expanded conference agenda on Wednesday, which includes speakers from the company and its subsidiaries Instagram and Parse. The conference will be highly technical, with topics such as cross-platform apps and Facebook's server infrastructure on the schedule.

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Facebook will also have its Internet.org Innovation Lab at the conference, so attendees and press can preview some of the lab's new technology. The company announced the lab and a partnership with telecom giant Ericsson in February as part of its effort to bring Internet access to everyone in the world.

The Innovation Lab will allow Facebook and developers to test its products by simulating "different network environments from around the world." The lab is set to open at the company's Menlo Park, Calif. headquarters later this year.

This month's F8 will be Facebook's first since 2011, and the company expects more than 1,500 developers from around the world to attend. At the last F8, then-Saturday Night Live cast member Andy Samberg kicked off Zuckerberg's keynote by impersonating the CEO, complete with Zuckerberg's signature hoodie.

Zuckerberg's 2014 keynote is scheduled for 10 a.m. PT on April 30, and will be live-streamed for those not in attendance.

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