Google’s first Ara Developers’ Conference coming April 15-16 alongside Ara Module Dev Kit

Project Ara, the modular phone project announced by Motorola’s ATAP team last year, will be getting its own developer conference this April. Google announced the event on the Project Ara website (via AndroidPolice) and noted that a live stream with “interactive Q&A capability” will be available online for those that can’t attend. The conference will take place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and Google says there will be a limited number of attendees. The event will focus heavily on a new Ara Module Developers’ Kit that will be released online in early April:

We plan a series of three Ara Developers’ Conferences throughout 2014. The first of these, scheduled for April 15-16, will focus on the alpha release of the Ara Module Developers’ Kit (MDK). The MDK is a free and open platform specification and reference implementation that contains everything you need to develop an Ara module. We expect that the MDK will be released online in early April.

While Google’s sale of Motorola to Lenovo will soon be completed, the Advanced Technology And Products (ATAP) team behind Project Ara is one part of the company that Google is holding on to. Earlier this month Google announced Project Tango, another ATAP effort that will see a prototype Android phone equipped with sensors for advanced motion and space tracking to a limited number of developers.

You can register for the Project Ara Developers’ Conference here. It cost $100 or $25 students. The event will be the first of three Ara Developer Conferences planned for 2014.