SPEAKER 2025

Shalaka Verma
Head of Customer Engineering Google Cloud
About Talk
Open Ecosystem of Agentic AI
This keynote outlines Google’s vision for the next era of AI, moving beyond using models with prompts to a vibrant, open ecosystem where AI agents that collaborate seamlessly. The talk details Google’s open-source contributions across three core pillars: 1) Open Models in Model Garden, offering developers choice for any task; 2) An Agent Development Kit to standardize and accelerate robust agent creation; and 3) A universal Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol enabling agents to communicate and interoperate freely. This session provides a roadmap for developers to build the next generation of interconnected, agentic AI on an open foundation.
Key Takeaways:
– Overall Stack for developing Agents
– How to leverage Open source Models in Agent Development
– Key Concepts of building with ADK
– How to create multiagent workflows using A2A
TRACK: Keynote
5th Nov 2025 | HALL A | Time: 10:45-11:30
About Speaker
Shalaka is a passionate Global Tech Leader with 25 years of experience, She currently serves as Head of
Customer Engineering at Google India. Her core focus is ensuring net new workloads go-live on Google
Cloud swiftly and securely, maintaining optimal performance and reliability with the right deployment
architectures.
Shalaka has established strong technology and R&D thought leadership with three US patents filings, book publication on GenAI adoption in BFSI, served as Quantum Ambassador for IBM and Microsoft and acts as advisor for startups as well as community forums. She has eminent track record of delivering outcomes recognized with Gold Choice Award at Microsoft, 100% Club and Outstanding sales achievement award in IBM, MVP in Roamware and Homi Bhabha Award as computer scientist in BARC etc.