diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-automl/samples/snippets/vision_classification_create_dataset.py b/packages/google-cloud-automl/samples/snippets/vision_classification_create_dataset.py
index 3d4da1b9e7a3..67595c8238cc 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-automl/samples/snippets/vision_classification_create_dataset.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-automl/samples/snippets/vision_classification_create_dataset.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def create_dataset(project_id, display_name):
     )
 
     # Create a dataset with the dataset metadata in the region.
-    response = client.create_dataset(parent=project_location, dataset=dataset)
+    response = client.create_dataset(parent=project_location, dataset=dataset, timeout=300)
 
     created_dataset = response.result()