Speakers

The people shaping GDG ANU 2026.

Engineers, architects, and practitioners from Google, Red Hat, and the AWS community — covering AI, cloud, open source, and the real skills that matter after graduation.

Harshill Siyani — Software Engineer at News Corp Australia
AI

Harshill Siyani

Software Engineer · News Corp Australia

Harshill is a software engineer at News Corp Australia and the founder of Siyani AI. He brought a practical, hands-on session on building multi-agent systems using Google's Agent Development Kit — breaking down how real-world agentic architectures are designed, wired together, and shipped.

Anupam Phogat — CEO & Co-Founder at CoreX
Career

Anupam Phogat

CEO & Co-Founder · CoreX

Anupam is the CEO and co-founder of CoreX, an AI company building tools for professionals. His talk tackled the gap between what universities teach and what industry actually rewards — making the case that the soft skills and mindset you build at uni are often the real differentiator in a career.

DH
Cloud

Dave Hall

Solutions Architect · Amazon Web Services

Dave is a solutions architect at AWS with deep experience across cloud infrastructure and AI systems. His talk was a refreshing counterpoint to the AI hype cycle — a practical guide to knowing when a large language model is the right tool, and when a simpler approach will do the job better and cheaper.

Lovee Jain — Google Developer Expert at GDE — AI / ML
AI

Lovee Jain

Google Developer Expert · GDE — AI / ML

Lovee is a Google Developer Expert in AI and ML, and one of the most active voices in the Gemini developer ecosystem. Her session went deep on chaining Model Context Protocol servers with the Gemini ADK — a practical walkthrough of how to wire up complex agentic pipelines without losing your mind.

Suesi Tran — Google Developer Expert at GDE — Flutter & Dart
AI

Suesi Tran

Google Developer Expert · GDE — Flutter & Dart

Suesi is a Google Developer Expert in Flutter and Dart, and a developer passionate about bringing AI capabilities into mobile experiences. Her session showed how to integrate agentic AI patterns directly into Flutter apps — with a deep dive on the architectural decisions that make these features feel native, not bolted on.

Sessions

What you'll hear on the day

Four focused sessions spanning AI systems, cloud pragmatism, industry realities, and the open source ecosystem.

  • 01

    Develop Multi-Agent Systems with Google ADK

    Harshill Siyani · News Corp Australia

    AI
  • 02

    The "Human API": Why Your University Degree is as Important as Your IDE

    Anupam Phogat · CoreX

    Career
  • 03

    Not Everything Needs an LLM

    Dave Hall · Amazon Web Services

    Cloud
  • 04

    Chaining MCP Servers with Gemini ADK

    Lovee Jain · GDE — AI / ML

    AI
  • 05

    Agentic AI in Your Flutter App

    Suesi Tran · GDE — Flutter & Dart

    AI
  • October 2026 · ANU Campus, Canberra

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