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7-8 OCT 2026​ | BENGALURU | INDIA

• 7–8 Oct 2026 @ NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

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.

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• 7–8 Oct 2026 @ NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru

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.

Delegate

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Workshop

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• The Theme

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

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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

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Manjunath Janardhan

AI/ML Computational Science Senior Manager, Accenture

Ashutosh S. Bhakare

CEO, Unnati Development and Training Centre Pvt Ltd

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

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

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• 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.

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Silver Partners

Associate Partners

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