Symposium 2025
Keeping code relevant as we look to future developments in an ever changing environment
Melbourne, Australia and Online
Marco takes you behind the scenes of two game-changing programming languages that made software development accessible and efficient. You’ll hear untold stories from the pioneers themselves – about how they the academic Pascal into Borland’s Turbo Pascal, creating the first true integrated development environment.
Macro gives a talk on how Delphi evolved over the years while respecting its pillars: Easy and powerful language, native compilation, RAD and fast development. The session will touch on some of these areas over the years, focusing in particular at where Delphi is today.
Understanding algorithm complexity can be tough when it’s mostly theoretical. But we can show its real impact on program performance. Primoz will explore how algorithms affect program speed more than code optimizations, especially with large data sets.
Brian and Richard show automated software testing transformed the quality of their software.
What is the ADUG Symposium?
ADUG Symposium is a day of learning, sharing and socialising run by ADUG Delphi users.
Typically, there are 4 presentations on a variety of topics of interest. For many years, the symposium was held in two cities in Australia, on consecutive days. Now it is on one day in Melbourne and streamed online.
Topics can range from programming techniques, debugging, security, third party commercial and open source components and libraries to strategies for business and tools for making the life cycle of development reliable and smooth.
After the presentations, we have a prize draw where lucky attendees can win some fantastic prizes from our generous supporters.
Why not join us this year and participate in a friendly get together with like minded programmers.
ADUG
The home of Delphi professionals
(and hobbyists)
Benefits of Membership
Networking
Meet other Delphi programmers from hobbyists right up to industry leaders. Our meetings, symposium and forum provide the chance to make new friends and discover you are not alone!
Answers
Ever had that stupid problem that has you stuck? Our forum is a great place to turn to help, or come along to a meeting and have the group brainstorm it for you.
Free stuff
Members are eligible for symposium prizes. We can almost guarantee that a prize will far exceed the cost of membership. In fact, some prizes are worth 20 years of membership!!!
What we offer
Monthly meetings
We run a monthly meeting in most capital cities. With most meetings streaming online, you can actually join multiple meetings each month.
Meetings typically have one or two presentations and a general discussion. They are a great opportunity to learn new things and to ask questions.
Symposium
Forum
The ADUG forum (previously a mailing list) is a great place to look for answers or to raise a question.
Since members are mostly in Australia, you are much more likely to get a quick answer.
All the content from our mailing list going back over 20 years has been imported into the forum.