Thank You for Making OSI 2026 a Success!
• Held on 7–8 Oct 2026 @ NIMHANS Convention Center, BLR
Open Source + AI: Build the Future of Intelligent Software
23rd edition of Asia's leading open-source conference for developers, DevOps teams, AI engineers, founders, architects and technology leaders.
Accelerate the development and deployment of open source through open models, GenAI apps, AI agents, RAG, LLMOps, DevOps, cloud-native infrastructure, databases, cybersecurity, open hardware and the tools shaping modern software.
• The Theme OF 2026
Just can't wait to see how Open Source Thrives in the AI Era?
AI is no longer separate from software development. It is becoming part of every product, platform and workflow. And much of this change is being powered by open-source models, frameworks, databases, infrastructure and communities.
OSI 2026 brings together the people building this future: developers creating AI-powered products, engineers deploying AI systems, founders building AI startups, enterprises adopting GenAI, and communities contributing to open technologies.
• Conference Tracks
Six tracks. Two Days.
01
FOSS for Everyone
02
Developer's Meet
03
Data & Bases
04
DevOps
05
Open Source Hardware
06
AI & ML
• Program Focus
What OSI 2026 will cover
The Open Source For You magazine team in partnership with India's Open Source community and industry bring you 10 themes spanning the full open-source and AI stack, from models and infrastructure to security and real-world deployment.
01
GenAI applications and AI agents
02
Open-source LLMs, SLMs and multimodal models
03
RAG, vector databases and knowledge graphs
04
LLMOps, deployment, evaluation and observability
05
AI coding tools and developer productivity
06
AI security, governance, privacy and licensing
07
Open data platforms and modern database stacks
08
DevOps, Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
09
Edge AI, embedded systems and open-source hardware
10
Real-world AI product and enterprise deployment case studies
• Who Should Attend
Built for builders
Attend OSI 2026 if you are building, deploying, evaluating or scaling open-source or AI-powered technology.
Software Developers
AI Engineers
ML Engineers
DevOps Teams
Platform Engineers
Cloud Architects
Data Teams
IT Infrastructure Managers
Cybersecurity Professionals
Founders
Product Leaders
Technical Decision Makers
Open-Source Contributors
Students
Community Builders
• Hands-On
Learn by doing, not just watching
Learn with Hands-on Workshops
Join our MasterClasses
Learn to Solve Tech Problems
Being focused sessions limited to a smaller group, workshops and masterclasses are usually limited to 20 seats per session. As each workshop or masterclass gets announced, we will ping all registrants with a reservation link so that they can reserve their seats.
• Speaker 2026
The Gurus of 2026
Manjunath Janardhan
AI/ML Computational Science Senior Manager, Accenture
Raja Gopal Hari Vijay
Member Leadership Staff, Zoho Corporation
Anna Widenius
CEO,
MariaDB Foundation
Arvind Devaraj
AI / LLM Engineer,
Juspay
Jay Gondaliya
Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat
Roman Nozdrin
Architect/Staff developer, MariaDB Corporation
Prabhakar Vemparala
Engineering Manager, Freshworks
Sachin Garg
CTO,
NavankurIT
Safeer C M
Principal Engineer,
MoEngage
Sayed Imran
Site Reliability Engineer, 66degrees
Abraham Gogulamudi
Senior Engineering Manager, GEHealthcare
Ankur Gupta
Solution Architect, OceanBase India
Megha Mitra
Tech lead,
Mytr.AI
Hari Kiran
Founder & CEO,
OpenSource DB
Janardan Revuru
Web standards and AI community leader
Sanil Kumar D
Founder, Caze Labs Private Limited
Abhas Abhinav
Founder,
DeepRoot GNU/Linux
Prasun Kumar
Co-founder and CEO,
Oppex AI
Sakshi Tyagi
Senior Apllied Scientist, Thomson Reuters
Yash Pawar
DevOps Engineer,
deboistech
P Raveendra Reddy
Technical Staff, Dell Technologies
Rajesh Hegde
Software Engineer,
Unisys
Daniel Black
Chief Innovation Officer, MariaDB Foundation
Shashank Jha
Technical Writer,
ONLYOFFICE
B Priyankaa
Data Scientist,
BFSI Sector
Amith K K
Sr. Principal – Agentic Engineering, Unisys
Prathamesh Karmalkar
Staff Software Engineer,
Exasol AG
Karan Bharadwaj
Co-founder and Head of Product, Nasiko
Nabarko Roy
AI Research Engineer,
IBM
Aakriti Aggarwal
AI Research Engineer, IBM Research
Kumar Anirudha
Founding Engineer, Vibrant Labs
Vasundhara Shukla
Developer Advocate, APAC, Neo4j
Aditi Bhatt
Senior Division Manager, Cyient Ltd
Poonam Goyal
Professor, Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Dr. Saiyedul Islam
Senior Member of Technical Staff, AI Group, AMD India
Aditya Sivagnanam
PMTS, Developer Application Engineer, AI Group, AMD India
Aarshad Devani
Senior AI Architect, Cobweb MENA FZ
Jagat Sesh Challa
Associate Professor, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
Karan Chellani
GenAI & Enterprise AI Solutions Leader, Persistent Systems Ltd
Malepati Bala Siva Sai Akhil
Principal Software Engineer, Couchbase
Neeraj Penumaka
Backend Lead,
Nasiko
Kamesh Sampath
Lead Developer Advocate,
Snowflake
Arun Kumar G
Staff Customer Engineer, Applied AI Google
Samir Kamerkar
Engineering Director,
Canonical
Vysakh Premkumar
DevOps Consultant, E-Gov Foundation
Chandrashekar Ramanathan
Professor & Head, Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Division, IIIT-Bangalore
Dharmanandana Reddy Pothula
Chief Cyber Security Architect - Products & Solutions, Caze Labs Private Limited
Alen Titus
Software Engineer, Caze Labs Private Limited
Niranjan Akella
Enginnering Manager AI/ML, 2nd Brain Labs
Sandesh Bandal
Developer Advocate, 2nd Brain Labs
Yash Thakare
Software Engineer - AI, Mphasis
Tarun Aitha
Software Engineer 2, Dell Technologies
Nalin Sathyan
Founder,
Zendalona
K Sathyaseelan
Lecturer, Training Center for Teachers of Visually Handicapped
Lakshmipathi Ganapathi
Independent Open Source Programmer
Sujith S
CTO,
Zackriya Solutions
Raja Shankar Kolluru,
Maintainer,
Chenile
Aboobacker MK
Maintainer,
CircuitVerse
Aryan Mehrotra
Maintainer,
GoFr
Sandeep Athiyarath
Founder and Exec Director, FCOOS Technologies Pvt Ltd
Subramania Raja
Maintainer,
Observal
Monica R
Software Development Engineer, Autodesk
Priyatam Ch
Senior Full-Stack Developer, Arctic Wolf
Sowmya Narayanan Sadagopan
Founding Director, IIIT Bangalore
Srivathsa NS
Technology Leader
Karrtik Iyer
AI Principal,
Thoughtworks
Heena Juneja
Industry Principal, Frost & Sullivan
Navneet Goyal
Senior Professor,
BITS Pilani
Rakesh Radhakrishnan
Principal Software Engineer - Storage, Cloudera
Pavel Sushin
Head of Analytics Tools Engineering & Operations, YTsaurus
Shaik Buden Saheb
Staff engineer,
Freshworks
Mayank Raj
Staff Engineer, Infrastructure, Stripe
Shreya Agrahari
Analyst,
Accenture
Nitin Kumar Gupta
Software Engineer,
Caze Labs
Niitish Pillai
Network Engineer, FCOOS Technologies Pvt Ltd
Prakriti Solankey
Senior Engineering Lead, Persistent Systems
Artur Turaev
Global Product Owner, YTsaurus
Andrey Grunau
Technical project manager, YTsaurus
Biju K Nair
Founding and Managing Partner, Legalitech.in
Malay Hazarika
Co-Founder,
Osuite.io
Pravin Ranjan
Sr. Software Engineer,
IBM
Joval Kuruvila
Senior Software Engineer, Caze Labs
Rishi Naman Singh
Software Engineer,
Caze Labs
Mayank Prasad
Senior Engineering Development Manager, Oracle India Pvt Ltd
• Delegate Companies
Attendees from
• For Sponsors & Exhibitors
Reach developers building the AI stack
OSI gives sponsors and exhibitors access to a developer-heavy audience that actively evaluates tools, platforms and technologies. For AI, cloud, DevOps, database, security, hardware and developer-tool companies, OSI 2026 is a platform to engage the builders and decision makers shaping India's open-source and AI adoption.
• Thank You
Partners of 2026
OSI 2026 is made possible by the sponsors, exhibitors, and media partners who support India’s open-source and AI community.
Presenting Partner
Silver Partners
Associate Partners
Exhibiting Partners
Media Partners
