Google Cloud Summit Sydney: Putting Agentic AI into Action

by siowmeng, posted in Big Data, Cloud Enable, Communicate, Secure
S. Soh

Summary Bullets:

  • Enterprises are deploying AI agents leveraging Google Cloud’s solutions and achieving positive business outcomes.
  • Google Cloud offers the full AI stack, and its sovereign cloud and cyber solutions are especially crucial for enterprise customers.

AI agents are no longer an idea. They are now being deployed by enterprises to improve internal workplace productivity and external customer experience. At Google Cloud Summit Sydney (held on June 25, 2026), more examples of agentic AI in operations were presented, moving from deterministic AI chatbots to more autonomous systems. Bunnings, a home improvement, gardening, and hardware products retailer in Australia, upgraded its Buddy AI chatbot that helped customers with product search to an AI agent that takes customers’ descriptions of their projects and fills the shopping carts with the products that they need. Bunnings indicated an uplift of conversion rates and basket sizes when customers engage with Buddy. Similarly, Woolworths supermarket has an agentic AI powered Olive assistant that is able to build shopping baskets from recipe photos and assist with proactive meal planning. These two examples demonstrate how AI agents trained with proprietary knowledge (e.g., Bunnings’s DIY catalog and Woolworths’ recipe catalog) can deliver greater customer outcomes.

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Beyond Subsea: Why Australia’s Next Fiber Race Is on Land

by Brendan Swan, posted in Cloud Enable, Communicate
B. Swan

Summary Bullets:

  • Australia’s digital infrastructure race is moving onshore, with long-haul fiber becoming as important as international subsea connectivity.
  • Vocus and Telstra are expanding their terrestrial network to meet growing AI, cloud, and hyperscaler demand across key intercity corridors.

Over the last decade, Australia’s digital infrastructure strategy has largely centered on subsea cable investment, from new builds to strategic consortium partnerships. These new international systems have expanded capacity, improved network resilience, and strengthened Australia’s connectivity to the world. However, as artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes data traffic patterns, investment is shifting from beneath the ocean to fiber corridors underpinning Australia’s AI future.

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Racing to AI: Tata Communications Accelerates Its Connectivity Position to Singapore

by Brendan Swan, posted in Cloud Enable, Communicate
B. Swan

Summary Bullets:

  • Tata Communications is strengthening its global network to create an AI-ready digital corridor linking India with Singapore.
  • As AI workloads grow, the India to Singapore route is becoming one of Asia’s most strategically important connectivity corridors.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping one of Asia’s busiest digital corridors. As AI workloads, cloud adoption and investment by hyperscalers accelerates across India and Southeast Asia, demand for high-speed, low-latency connectivity is rising just as rapidly. Tata Communications’s latest investment in new subsea cable infrastructure between India and Singapore is more than another cable announcement; it reflects a broader strategy to build an AI-ready digital corridor linking India’s emerging data center hubs with the Southeast Asia’s largest cloud ecosystem. With these investments, Tata Communications seems to be quietly assembling one of the region’s most comprehensive AI connectivity platforms.

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Boomi Targets Agentic AI Governance, but Orchestration Remains Its Raison d’Etre

by Beatriz Valle, posted in Big Data
B. Valle

Summary Bullets:

• Boomi is evolving from an iPaaS into an enterprise platform combining integration, automation, API management, data management, and AI agent governance.

• GlobalData recently attended Boomi’s World Tour London 2026, where agentic AI was discussed at length around announcements including Boomi Connect, Boomi Orchestrate, and Boomi Companion.

Although Boomi has historically been best known as an integration platform as a service, or iPaaS, the company is going to great lengths to emphasize that it has evolved into an enterprise platform which activates data and workflows for customers and combines integration, automation, API management, data management, and AI-agent governance. The Boomi platform acts as the connective and orchestration layer between an organization’s applications, data, and AI systems, but is increasingly moving towards management of AI agents to help data enhance business processes.

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Lack of AI Agent Oversight Brings Dueling Approaches

by Charlotte Dunlap, posted in IT Leader
C. Dunlap
Research Director

Summary Bullets:

• Fast-growing use of agentic AIs within organizations has triggered agentic orchestration/governance prioritization among platform providers

• Controversy remains over two distinct approaches to orchestration: control plane construct or orchestration frameworks

Enterprises deploying AI in 2026 are turning their attention from deployment of agentic AIs to the management of growing numbers of agents being released across organizations. Companies are struggling with how to manage the hundreds or thousands of individual agents built within their organizations–agents built by different teams, running on different platforms, with inconsistent security and governance. This is problematic, considering most organizations lack visibility into agent inventory, purpose, and authorization.

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EU Proposal for MSS Spectrum Seeks to Balance Bloc’s Commercial and Sovereignty Aspirations

by Ismail Patel, posted in Communicate, Internet of Things, IT Leader, Network
I. Patel

Summary Bullets:

  • The EU’s MSS 2 GHz proposal strengthens regulation, security, and competition, but implementation through 2027–2029 will be phased, not immediate.
  • Small spectrum block sizes favor IoT, messaging, emergency services; large-bandwidth applications face bottlenecks.

When the European Commission unveiled its plan late last month to reassign the 2 GHz mobile satellite service (MSS) spectrum at EU-level, it initiated more than a regulatory proposal. With the dust now settled on the announcement, it is clear that this represents a geopolitical and commercial realignment. Signals in the market suggest the framework is firming up around core principles: sovereignty, security, restricted eligibility, spectrum caps, and wholesale access. But beneath those pillars lies a battlefield of interests that will define not just who wins licenses, but which services Europe values the most – IoT or in-flight broadband, messaging or full-fledged device-to-device (D2D) connectivity.

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AI Wars Intensify via Major LLM/Agentic Releases

by Charlotte Dunlap, posted in Big Data
C. Dunlap
Research Director

Summary Bullets:

• Cycles between advanced AI model rollouts are significantly shortened among leaders in this space

• Developers are gaining access to agentic-injected integrated development environments (IDEs); while knowledge workers gain access to agentic AI assistants.

The second quarter marks a momentous period in the industry’s ongoing AI efforts. Platform leaders shipped next-generation agentic runtimes including autonomous and other advanced capabilities, all while managing a more compressed cycle of new AI models, which are rolling out in a matter of weeks versus months.

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UK Plans Teen Social Media Ban, but the Action Raises Questions About Enforceability – and Privacy

by Amy Larsen DeCarlo, posted in Communicate
Amy Larsen DeCarlo – Principal Analyst, Security and Data Center Services

Summary Bullets

• Following the lead of other nations including Australia, the UK is getting set to restrict access to social media sites for minors 16 years and younger, starting in 2027.

• Comparable rules in other countries have proven to be difficult to execute, with teenagers finding workarounds. However, UK government officials say their efforts will leverage highly effective technology to enforce the ban, including biometric facial age estimation.

When UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans to introduce legislation later this year that will bar teenagers and children from social media access, critics offered immediate comparisons to a similar action by Australia in 2025, which has largely been deemed a failure. Though initially Australia touted the fact that 4.7 million accounts held by children under 16 had lost access to social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat, research shows that just months later, the ban had very little effect. A University of New Castle study of 408 12 to 17 year olds found that due to “limited implementation, incomplete compliance, and substantial circumvention of social media restrictions, the ban has been largely unsuccessful.”

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Google Cloud Highlights the ROI of Agentic Workloads During UK Summit

by Beatriz Valle, posted in Communicate
B. Valle

Summary Bullets:

• The Google Cloud UK Summit was held in June 2026, at Tobacco Docks, in London (England). The company will release Gemini 3.5 Pro and Gemini Omni, a multi-modal system, in late-2026.

• Google announced the UK availability of Gemini 3.5 Flash, through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and the Gemini Enterprise app.

Google Cloud held its UK Summit in London with the strategic intent of demonstrating the ROI of agentic AI. With more than 4,000 participants, it followed the thread commenced in 2025 (please see Google Cloud Focuses on Agentic AI During UK Summit, July 15, 2025), only this time the industry has moved decisively towards the implementation of the technology in practical cases. The company showcased its considerable presence in the UK, with a new data center that will be opening in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, later in 2026 as part of a GBP5-billion investment in AI programs in the country.

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HCLTech Hones Its Application Development Practice, Reflecting the Disruptive Impact of AI

by Rena Bhattacharyya, posted in Cloud Enable
A woman with long, wavy dark hair and a warm smile, wearing a gray blazer and a silver necklace, posed against a neutral background.
R. Bhattacharyya

Summary Bullets:

• AI has disrupted traditional developer teams and tasks, and new processes and talent will be required to responsibly implement the intelligent automation and probabilistic nature of agentic systems.

• As enterprises drive towards a mature application landscape that is built using AI and for AI-infused applications, intelligent orchestration and integration are critical.

Although AI offers the promise of greater efficiency across a myriad of enterprise workstreams, one of the use cases with the greatest benefit is application modernization. GenAI’s effectiveness in writing and refactoring code has already been highly touted in mainstream media; less known is its use in other aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It can be used for discovery, documentation, quality assurance, autonomous testing, intelligent orchestration, and other tasks as well. Furthermore, AI is doing much more than accelerating application development; it is changing how software is engineered. Intelligence and analytics are no longer add-ons that are layered onto existing applications. Today’s applications have intelligence embedded into their workflows and decision logic, essentially creating modern apps that are designed to be AI-first.

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