SPEAKER 2025

Guru Bala
Customer Engineering Manager, 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
Guru Bala, with 27Y of experience, is a strong technology leader, passionate about helping customers adopt technology for tangible business outcomes. Currently at Google Cloud India, he and his team work with digital native customers, helping them to innovate, build new products/services through use of Google Cloud AI services. Prior to Google, he worked in organizations like Amazon helping customers realize value from cloud services.
