Now you know!
Friday 8th May 2026 is the date for our ADUG Autumn Symposium.
All of our presenters will be live in Melbourne this year! For this reason be present at the Melbourne venue and take in the full experience, where you can talk directly to the speakers. Only if you can’t make it, you can participate online. Make sure you join us for a great day.
A perfect opportunity to stretch your mind during presentations, hone those skills, catch up with old buddies, and make some new friends.
Get in early and save with our Early Bird offer to participate in person at The Bridge Hotel Mordialloc.
This page, and our forum, will be updated as more details are confirmed.
More Details …
Presentations
Malcolm Groves
Beyond the Chatbot: Embedding Context-Aware AI into Your RAD Studio Applications
Beyond the Chatbot: Embedding Context-Aware AI into Your RAD Studio Applications
The software application landscape has shifted. For developers in vertical markets, the threat isn’t just a new competitor, it’s the customer expectation gap. As NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently noted, the real value of AI is its ability to sit inside an application, understand the context, and actually do the work. Consequently, the “dumb” application is rapidly becoming a business liability.
To stay relevant, RAD Studio developers must move beyond basic integrations and start building applications where AI is an invisible, high-functioning engine. This session is designed for ISVs who need to modernize their applications. We will demonstrate how to leverage the power of the SmartCore AI components in RAD Studio 13 to build software that doesn’t just present a chat window, but deeply embeds intelligence into the core functions.
David Chandler
Delphi in the Dairy: Transforming Automation Across Australia and New Zealand
David Chandler, founder of Easy Dairy Automation Systems, shows how Delphi powered the evolution from herd‑management software into full dairy‑shed automation across Australia and New Zealand. From data pipelines to RFID identification, automatic cattle sorting, feeding control, milk metering and animal‑health monitoring, this session highlights how Delphi’s database performance, hardware access and reliability made it the backbone of mission‑critical ag‑tech systems.
Alister Christie
Automating Better Code in Delphi
Understanding algorithm complexity can be tough when it’s mostly theoretical. But we can show its real impact on program performance.
Writing new code is only part of the job — maintaining and improving what you already have is where many projects live or die. In this session, we’ll explore the wealth of automated tools available to Delphi developers that can help you write cleaner, safer, and more maintainable code without requiring a complete rewrite.
We’ll cover the full spectrum: from code formatters that enforce consistent style, to static analysis tools that catch bugs and bad practices before they reach production, to unit testing that gives you confidence when making changes. We’ll also look at how AI coding assistants are changing the way we work with legacy code, how source control underpins everything, and how metrics like code toxicity can help you identify where your code base needs the most attention.
Whether you’re working on a decades-old application or a greenfield project, these tools are available to you today — and many of them are free. Come along and discover how a few additions to your development workflow can make a significant difference to the quality of your code.
Michael Van Canneyt
Pascal in an AI world
AI is all-pervasive.
In this talk we will explore how to run your own LLM in a Pascal program using Delphi or Lazarus without the need for any external program.
Additionally, we will see how you can extend your Pascal programs to they can embed an AI agent. As an example, we will demonstrate how to extend the Lazarus IDE so it has an AI agent embedded.
* Speakers and content are subject to change.
When and where
When:
- 8:45 – 17:30 on Friday 8th May 2025 AEST Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
- 00:45 – 9:30 Friday 9th May, UTC+2, Italy
- 23:45 Thursday 8th – 8:30 Friday 9th May UK London
- 15:45 Thursday 8th – 0:30 Friday 9th May PDT San Francisco, Los Angeles
- 19:45 Thursday 8th – 4:30 Friday 9th May BRT Rio de Janeiro
Where:
- Online via Zoom (recordings available to registrants)
- The Bridge Hotel Mordialloc
Melbourne Venue Location and Transport Information
Related Events
Melbourne Bistro Dinner:
Extend your day in Melbourne at an informal dinner at the Bistro at the Bridge Mordialloc after the symposium from about 6pm after the prize draw finishes.
This is an ideal opportunity to chat with other Delphi users about things you know and things you don’t know. Or just use the opportunity to catch up with friends and ‘chew the fat’.
Choose your food and drinks and pay as you go. This is a great way to end the day, so why not join in the fun this year?
Jump onto the ADUG forum, and navigate to Meetings->Bistro Dinner after the 2026 Symposium and RSVP there.
Registration
Existing Members register through ADUG Services
Key Dates
| 18th April | Melbourne Early Bird Registration Ends |
| 5th May | Melbourne Registrations Close |
| 7th May | Online Registrations Close |
| 8th May | Symposium |
Prices
| Pricing 2026 | Amount | Finish | ||
| On-Site | Early Bird | Members | $75 | 18-Apr-2026 |
| Non-Members (+ 1yr Free ADUG Membership) | $135 | 18-Apr-2026 | ||
| Regular | Members | $100 | 05-May-2026 | |
| Non-Members (+ 1yr Free ADUG Membership) | $160 | 05-May-2026 | ||
| Online | Regular | Members | $45 | 07-May-2026 |
| Non-Members (+ 1yr Free ADUG Membership) | $80 | 07-May-2026 |
Prize Draw
Attendees must be ADUG members to be entered into the end-of-day prize draw of Delphi related software, books, mugs and other must have treats.
Sponsors
Principal Sponsor
Co-Sponsors
Schedule – AEST (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane)
Presentations are a combination of pre-recorded, online and in person, depending on the home base of the presenter and the time zone of their base.
| 8:45am | Welcome |
| 9:00am | Alister Christie Automating Better Code in Delphi |
| 10:30am | Morning Tea |
| 10:45am | David Chandler Delphi in the Dairy: Transforming Automation Across Australia and New Zealand |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 1:30pm | Malcolm Groves Beyond the Chatbot: Embedding Context-Aware AI into Your RAD Studio Applications |
| 3:00pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3:30pm | Michael Van Canneyt Pascal in an AI world |
| 5:00pm | Prize draw |
Program may change as details are confirmed.
Symposium Prizes
ADUG wishes to acknowledge these friends of the ADUG for supporting us with donations of valuable products. The total value of the prizes is in excess of $A30,000.
The prize draw is the final event of the day, held immediately after the last presentation, and operates like so:
procedure ADUGPrizePicker;
begin
PopulateListOfAllPrizes;
while PrizesAvailable do
begin
if AttendeeListEmpty then PopulateListOfAllAttendees;
RandomlyPickAWinnerFromAttendees;
AskWinnerToSelectPrizeFromAvailablePrizes;
while WaitingForPrizeSelection do
begin
if WinnerTakingTooLong then StirWinner;
end;
if WinnerTookFarTooLong then AllocateRandomPrize;
NoteSelectedPrize;
RemoveSelectedPrizeFromAvailablePrizes;
RemoveWinnerFromAttendees;
end;
end; Draw rules:
- Only attendees who are an ADUG member and have registered and paid before the symposium date are eligible for the prize draw.
- The organizers will make their best efforts to conduct the prize
draw in an unbiased and fair manner, and inform all winners of their
prize, however no responsibility is taken. - Attendees are encouraged to remain for the duration of the prize draw to ensure their claim on any prizes.
- Attendees un-avoidably unable to remain for the prize draw (e.g. due to flight times) may arrange a proxy:
- Proxies voters must be arranged prior to the commencement of the prize draw.
- A proxy may either be the ADUG President, or another attendee.
- Proxies provided to the President must be in writing and consist of no more than three prize selections.
- Non-president proxies must be disclosed to the President before the prize draw.
- If none of the prizes nominated in the proxy are available a random prize will be selected.
Prizes notes:
- Pricing is approximate and has been adjusted for international exchange rates.
see relevant product website for more details - Prizes are provided at the discretion of the sponsor.
ADUG will not be liable for any discrepancies between the prize description here and the prize provided by the sponsor.
For the smooth flowing of the prize draw, it is strongly recommended that you have your prize selection ready before the prize
draw – dawdlers will be subject to being RPAB’ed (Random Prize Allocation Button)
| Donated by | Prize description | Quantity | Usual cost (per item, original currency) | Total prize value (approx. AUD) |
| Scalabium | SMExport with source | 2 | 50 EUR | $82 |
| Scalabium | SMImport | 2 | 50 EUR | $82 |
| Scalabium | Paradox Viewer business license | 2 | 20 EUR | $33 |
| Scalabium | dBase Viewer business license | 2 | 20 EUR | $33 |
| Scalabium | DBISAM Viewer business license | 2 | 20 EUR | $33 |
| Scalabium | Advantage Viewer business license | 2 | 20 EUR | $33 |
| Scalabium | TPS to Text converter business license | 2 | 60 EUR | $99 |
| LMD Innovative | LMD VCL Complete | 1 | 349 EUR | $574 |
| unSigned | RAD & Installer commercial licence | 1 | 49 EUR | $80 |
| Xequte Software | ImageEn | 1 | 499 USD | $708 |
| Axialis | Axialis IconVectors – Vector Icon Editor for Developers Make pixel-perfect icons for software development with a fast SVG editor, live code export, and local AI automation via MCP. Export vectors to SVG, XAML, ReactTS, VueTS, C++, VectorDrawable, SwiftUI, and connect local AI clients such as Codex, Claude, Copilot, and Cursor. | 10 | 69 EUR | $113 |
| Soft Service Company | Bluetooth Framework Single Developer License without source | 5 | 340 AUD | $340 |
| Soft Service Company | Bluetooth Framework Single Developer License with source | 2 | 680 AUD | $680 |
| Soft Service Company | Wi-Fi Framework Single Developer License without source | 5 | 280 AUD | $280 |
| Soft Service Company | Wi-Fi Framework Single Developer License with source | 2 | 560 AUD | $560 |
Good luck!