GIDS 2026 - Asia-Pacific's Biggest Software Developer Summit

Get Inspired

Four days. 150+ carefully curated sessions across architecture, front-end, back-end, AI/ML, DevOps, data, and tech leadership. Real tools. Real techniques. Built for builders.

Meet Employer Brands & Culture

Connect with companies that care about engineering growth. Chat with dev advocates, explore their tech stack, and see how they build fast while thinking deep. Contact us to join.

Learn & Grow

Test-drive the latest tools, platforms, and frameworks from leading vendors. Learn what’s powering real-world innovation—and meet the teams behind it. Want in? Talk to us.

Find Community

Scan the 2026 schedule for talks that push your thinking, join conversations with peers, and meet mentors who’ve done the hard yards. Your next leap could start here.

< GIDS India, April 21-24 2026 />

Build Fast. Think Deep.

Join us at GIDS 2026 from April 21–24 for four days of deep dives, sharp thinking, and real-world tech insights. Learn how the best developers balance velocity with sound judgment, shipping faster without compromising clarity or craft. Explore the tools, patterns, and practices that power great software across architecture, AI, DevOps, front-end, back-end, data, and more. Hear from trailblazing engineers, architects, and leaders as they share lessons learned, decisions made, and ideas shaping what comes next. Be part of the in-person energy that makes GIDS a standout experience: where minds connect, ideas grow, and software gets smarter.

Buy Tickets

< soak_in_the_content />

Featured Talks at GIDS 2026

Sessions

Agentic RAG in Production: Orchestration, Evaluation, and ROI

Many RAG initiatives stall after early demos because they hallucinate, break under orchestration, or fail to show measurable busin...

Creating Architectures with the Aid of AI

The excitement around AI continues to grow, but can AI actually help us create software architectures? This session explores the o...

Agents in Action: Building Autonomous Java Systems That Don’t Break in Production

Agent frameworks promise reasoning and autonomy, but enterprise environments demand more than impressive demos, they require relia...

Your Users Are Not Just Human: Designing Systems for People and LLMs

Accessibility has often been treated as a usability feature or a compliance requirement, important but secondary. In AI-driven sys...

Extending Functional Pipelines with Gatherers

The Java Stream API offers a rich set of operations, filter, map, takeWhile, limit, and many others, to create expressive function...

Refactoring to Modernize Java Applications

Refactoring is essential for maintaining and modernizing Java applications, yet it often feels slow, risky, and time-consuming. Wh...

ALL SESSIONS

< learn_from_the_best />

Our 2026 Speakers

Speakers

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the Universi...

Mary is a Technical Advocate, Java Champion, and the Regional Director - East at the AI Collective, a non-profit, grassroots community and think tank in the AI ...

Scott Davis is a Web Architect and Digital Accessibility Advocate, focusing on the multisensory aspects of web development. In a world where half of all Google ...

Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at Thoughtworks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals, who thinks d...

Michael Carducci is a seasoned IT professional with over 25 years of experience, an author, and an internationally recognized speaker, blending expertise in sof...

Apurva Misra is an AI Consultant at Sentick, focusing on assisting startups with their AI strategy and building solutions. Apurva helps startups and mid-size co...

Tiankai is a data leader by day, a musician by night, and an optimist at heart. He is the author of "Humanizing AI Strategy", and is currently working as the Di...

Keren Fanan is the co-founder and CEO of Myop, a developer-first platform transforming how UI and UX are built, controlled and optimized in production. Keren h...

ALL SPEAKERS

< Swift Wing :: Agile. Aware. Almost Gone. >