AGENDA 2026
THE CONFERENCES
Click on any of the topics listed below, to see more information about the speakers and sessions within.
| Date | 12 March 2026 | 13 March 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| HALL A | Succeeding With AI | Succeeding With AI |
| HALL B | Coding with AI | Open Source & AI |
| LUNCH | ||
| HALL A | Power of Agentic AI | Data Management with AI |
| HALL B | DevOps & DevSec Ops with AI | GenAI & LLMs |
12th March 2026
Title: Coding productivity with Logitech MX Series
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Speaker: Arsh Goyal, AI and Engineering Content Creator and Chiraayu Pandya, Marketing Manager, Logitech India
Title: From Models to Momentum, Building Enterprise-Ready AI Systems That Actually Deliver
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Speaker: Dr. Vamsi Mohan Vandrangi, Director of Engineering, QFTL
Title: Build Production Ready Telephony AI Agent in 15mins
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Speaker: Murugan Pandian, Founder, TeleCMITBC
Title: Accelerating Velocity & Enterprise Readiness by Quality Engineering (QE), using GenAI
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Speaker: Shivabhushan Yadwad Sr Engineering Manager, Everpure, Kirthika Yeleswaram, Member of Technical Staff Everpure
Title: Building AI in a Regulated World: What Developers Need to Know About AI Laws
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 12:30 PM – 01:00 PM
Speaker: Ankita Sabharwal, Head of Data Privacy, Chadha and Chadha
Title: From AI That Generates to AI That Scales Judgment: Building AI Systems for Real Work
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 01:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Speaker: Manas Ray, Distinguished Architect, JaazX AI
Title: Giving your agents a visual voice via MCP Apps
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 PM
Speaker: Ashita Prasad, Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services
Title: Human + AI: The New Pair Programming Model
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Speaker: Procheta Bhattacharyya, Software Engineer, Paypal
Title: Vibe Coding: The shift toward natural language as the primary programming interface.
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Speaker: Nandini N, Enablement Manager Databricks, Ronakk Govani, Senior TSE – Spark, Databricks
Title: TBA
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 12:30 PM – 01:00 PM
Speaker: TBA
Title: Building and Deploying AI Systems: From Prompt to Production
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 01:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Speaker: Abhinav Tiwari, Tech Lead, Betterhalf.ai
Title: AI Agent for Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 2:30 PM – 03:00 PM
Speaker: Aman Kohli, Engineering Manager, Everpure, Dileep Rudrappa, Member of Technical Staff, Everpure
Title: Hidden layer of automation: Is your system Agent ready?
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Speaker: Ritvi Mishra, DevRel, CodeRabbit and Talvinder Singh, CEO, Zop.Dev
Title: Responsible and Accountable Agents in Production
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 03:30 PM – 04:00 PM
Speaker: Anannya Roy Chowdhury, GenAI Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services
Title: Battle Scars from Prod Deployment of Agentic Systems
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 4:15 PM – 04:45 PM
Speaker: Shirsha Ray Chaudhuri, Director Research Engineering, Thomson Reuters
Title: Agentic AI in Software Delivery: Scaling Autonomous Engineering Workflows in the Enterprise
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 04:45 PM – 05:15 PM
Speaker: Umesh Udayaprakash, Chief Delivery Officer, Innominds Software Inc.
Title: Zero-Trust Identity for AI Agents
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM
Speaker: Rakesh Seal, Sr. R&D Engineer and Vibaswan Roychowdhury, Senior Software Engineer; Keysight Technologies
Title: From chaos to control: AI agents with guardrails in DevOps
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Speaker: Megha Kadur, Senior Software Engineer, Barracuda Networks
Title: Effective Use of GenAI in Infrastructure Debugging: A Real-World Case Study
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 03:45 PM – 04:15 PM
Speaker: Rima Sidique, DevOps Engineer, Stackgenie
Title: AI-Based Threat Modeling For AI Systems
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 04:15 PM – 04:45 PM
Speaker: Ankit Sharma, Leader, Platform Security, Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd
Title: Why Security Tools Don’t Stop Real Attacks — and How Teams Use AI Instead
Date: 12-03-2026
Time: 04:45 PM – 05:15 PM
Speaker: Sarath Babu C, Founder, Gain and Shine
13th March 2026
Title: From Frontier Models to Production Agents: Building the Complete GenAI Stack on AWS
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Speaker: Mani Chandrasekaran, Enterprise Technologist, Amazon Web Services
Title: AI Is the New Keyboard: Every Developer Must Make The Most Of It
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Speaker: Mithun Srinivas, SDE 2, Cisco
Title: You Built It. Why Don’t They Use It? Understanding the Real Barriers to AI Adoption
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00
Speaker: Anand Sundaram Iyer, Founder & AI Adoption Architect, AI Squared
Title: Beyond the Hype: AI to Success across Enterprise and Open Source
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 12:00 – 12:30 PM
Speaker: Joval Kuruvila, Software Engineer, Caze Labs Private Limited and Rohith Vaidyanathan, Senior SWE, IUDX
Title: The Rise of Zero-Effort Apps and Zero-Coding Companies in a Zero-Attention World
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 12:30 PM – 01:30 PM
Speaker: Karrtik Iyer, Principal AI Researcher, Thoughtworks
Sumitha Prashanth, Sr. Director, Leading Customer Experience for India & SAARC, Cisco
Biju K Nair, Lawyer, LegaliTech.in
Srivathsa NS, Technology Leader (Chair)
Aditi Bhatnagar, Founder & CEO, Offgrid Security
Title: License to Infer: A Field Guide to Open-Weight Agents in the Enterprise
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Speaker: Amith K K, Associate Principal Engineer, Unisys
Title: Reduce LLM Costs with Semantic Caching: Real World Lessons
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Speaker: Bhavana Anant Giri, Developer Advocate, Redis
Title: Harnessing Open Source Frameworks for Advancing AI
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Ankush Ghosh, Director and CTO, Nyagrodhah Futures Pvt.Ltd Co.
Title: Practical Applications of Open-Source LLMs
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 12:30 PM – 01:00 PM
Speaker: Akki Bharath Goud, Cloud Architect, OVHcloud
Title: Using Lang Chain and Gemma Models to develop faster AI agents on edge
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Speaker: Supriya Sirbi, Software Architect, Aptiv
Title: Building Trusted Data Products & Setting a Stage for AI Driven Data Discovery
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM
Speaker: Ratul Dey, Analytics Innovation Senior Principal, Data & AI Industry Leader
Title: From Data pipelines to GenAI pipelines: What breaks in the Real world
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 03:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Speaker: Shabhana Mohammed, Senior Data Engineer, Intuitive.AI
Title: Stop Feeding Your AI Junk: Engineering High-Fidelity Data Pipelines
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 03:30 PM – 04:00 PM
Speaker: Mathew Joseph, GTM Engineer, Cerebrium
Title: Datacenter DNA for AI: Building Storage Architectures That Let AI Think Faster
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 04:15 PM – 05:00 PM
Speaker: Shubhi Khanna, Senior Firmware Engineer, Western Digital
Title: Data Reconstruction and Quality for LLMs
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 05:00 PM – 05:30 PM
Speaker: Purva Porwal, AI Manager & Architect, State Street Corp
Title: Making LLM Agents Think Once, Then Act Fast
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM
Speaker: Aakash Bist, Member of Technical Staff, Everpure, Gaurav Jain, Sr. Staff Software Enginee, Everpure
Title: RAG it Till You Make It : Building Smarter AI with Graphs & Gemini 3
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Speaker: Bhavesh Kailashchandra Bhatt, Lead Data Scientist, IDFC FIRST Bank
Title: DsPy the Declarative Programming making prompts go brrrrrrr
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 03:45 PM – 04:15 PM
Speaker: Jayita Bhattacharyya, AI engineer, Domyn
Title: Turning GenAI into Business Value: A Practical Case Study
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 04:15 PM – 04:45 PM
Speaker: Tisha Singh, Technical Lead, Linkenite oy
Title: Engineering with LLM’s: Architectures, Tools, and Best Practices
Date: 13-03-2026
Time: 04:45 PM – 05:15 PM
Speaker: Prasad Pramod Jadhav, Technical Lead, WIPR
WORKSHOPS
Title:Coding with Care: A Gamified Approach to Embedding Responsible AI Principles [WS01]
Date: 12th March 2026
Time: 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Gautam Misra, Associate Researcher and Supratik Mitra, Associate, Aapti Institute
Title: From Hello World to Production: Building Java AI Agents That Actually Work at Scale [WS09]
Date: 12th March 2026
Time: 11:00 AM to 01:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Varsha Das, Developer Advocate, AWS
Title: Build Production Ready Voice AI Agent [WS02]
Date: 12th March 2026
Time: 11:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Prasath Sekar, Product Manager, TeleCMI
Title:Learn to build Local ChatGpt using llmaa and FastApi [WS03]
Date: 12th March 2026
Time: 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Praveen Kumar, FullStack Software Consultant, solo
Title: Small Agents. Big Mesh. Build Production-Grade Agentic AI Systems with Solace Agent Mesh (Hands-On) [WS04]
Date: 12th March 2026
Time: 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Giri Venkatesan, Principal Developer Advocate, Solace
Title: How to Build AI Agents using Vibe Coding & Deploy It [WS11]
Date: 13th March 2026
Time: 11:00 AM to 01:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Anannya Roy Chowdhury, GenAI Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services
Title: AI Native SDLC: Idea to Deployable Application in a Day! [WS05]
Date: 13th March 2026
Time: 10:45 AM to 01:30 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Sanil Kumar D., Founder, CEO and Uday Swamy, Chief Solutions Architect (AI); Caze Labs Private Limited
Title: From Patterns to Production: Applying Design Pattern Principles to Agentic AI Systems[WS06]
Date: 13th March 2026
Time: 10:45 AM to 01:30 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Manjunath Janardhan, AI/ML Computational Science Senior Manager, Accenture
Title: Building Scalable and Secure Multi Agent AI Systems [WS08]
Date: 13th March 2026
Time: 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Aman Zishan M A, Software Development Engineer, Vizibl
Title: Agentathon: Building Agents and Refining Prompts [WS07]
Date: 13th March 2026
Time: 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Vijayan N, Founder, Vudhi FinTech