AGENDA 2026
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THE CONFERENCES
| Date | 7th OCT 2026 | 8th OCT 2026 |
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| HALL A | FOSS For Everyone | FOSS For Everyone |
| HALL B | DevOps | Developers' Meet |
| HALL C | AI & ML: Opening Up the Tech | Data & Bases: Open Source Rocks! |
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LUNCH |
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| HALL A | FOSS For Everyone | IT Infra (Security, Storage & Cloud) |
| HALL B | DevOps | Developers' Meet |
| HALL C | Clari Tech Connect | AI & ML: Opening Up the Tech |
7th October 2026
Title:
Accelerating Your Development and improving Productivity with Logi Actions and MX
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 10:00 – 10:45 AM
Speaker:
Aarshad Devani, Senior AI Architect, Cobweb MENA FZ
Title:
Beyond Foundation Models: Building Multimodal AI for the Real World
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 10:45 – 11:30 AM
Speaker:
Prof Poonam Goyal, Professor, Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Title:
Panel Discussion: How can academia and industry work together to make India an Open Source Superpower?
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 02:30 – 03:15 PM
Speaker:
Sowmya Narayanan Sadagopan, Founding Director IIIT Bangalore
Dr. Navneet Goyal, Senior Professor, Department of Computer Science, BITS Pilani
Heena Juneja, Industry Principal, Frost & Sullivan
Karrtik Iyer, AI Leader, ThoughtWorks
Srivathsa NS, Technology Leader (Chair)
Title:
LinuxCon, OSI, Yocto, KubeEdge, to AITRA: The Journey to Startup!
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:45 – 12:15
Speaker:
Sanil Kumar D, Founder, CEO (Business and Technology), Caze Labs Private Limited
Title:
From 8+ Hackathon Wins to Open Source: Turning Weekend Projects into Lasting Impact
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 12:15-12:45
Speaker:
Yash Thakare, Software Engineer – AI, Mphasis
Title:
Teaching AI Agents to Remember: Open Source Memory Solution with Knowledge Graphs
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 12:45-01:30
Speaker:
Vasundhara Shukla, Developer Advocate, APAC, Neo4j
Title:
Open Source and AI – NPE a rising threat and a community solutions
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 01:30 – 01:45
Speaker:
Biju K Nair, Founding and Managing Partner, Legalitech.in
Title:
Zendalona: Digitally Empowering the Visually Impaired through Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS)
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 03:30-04:00
Speaker:
Nalin Sathyan, Founder, Zendalona and K Sathyaseelan, Lecturer, Training Center for Teachers of Visually Handicapped
Title:
webminal: Free educational Linux Learning platform
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:00-04:15
Speaker:
Lakshmipathi Ganapathi, Independent Open Source Programmer
Title:
Meetily: A privacy-first AI meeting assistant.
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:15-04:30
Speaker:
Sujith S, CTO, Zackriya Solutions
Title:
Chenile: A Java framework for building moduliths and microservices
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:30-04:45
Speaker:
Raja Shankar Kolluru, Maintainer, Chenile
Title:
CircuitVerse: The Logical circuit simulation platform
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:45-05:00
Speaker:
Aboobacker MK, Maintainer, CircuitVerse
Title:
gofr.dev
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 05:00-05:15
Speaker:
Aryan Mehrotra, Maintainer, GoFr
Title:
Observal
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 05:15-05:30
Speaker:
Subramania Raja, Maintainer, Observal
Title:
Teach Agents When Not To Act: Practicing Agentic DevOps
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:45 – 12:15 PM
Speaker:
Kamesh Sampath, Lead Developer Advocate, Snowflake
Title:
One Plugin, Many Signals: Architecting Observability at Scale in OpenSearch
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 12:15 – 12:45 PM
Speaker:
Prabhakar Vemparala, Engineering Manager and Shaik Buden Saheb, Staff engineer; Freshworks
Title:
The 800 MB Lie: What Your Docker Image Says About Your Architecture
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 12:45 – 01:15 PM
Speaker:
Sachin Garg, CTO, NavankurIT
Title:
DevOps for AI: From Code to Production, Faster and Smarter
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 01:15 – 01:45 PM
Speaker:
Rajesh Hegde, Software Engineer, Unisys
Title:
The CI Pipeline Is Too Late: Preventing Secrets Before They Leave a Developer’s Laptop
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 04:00 PM
Speaker:
Hritik V, Security Engineer, Axilock and Aman Sapra, Researcher
Title:
Build Your Own AI Kubernetes Assistant with MCP
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:00 – 04:45 PM
Speaker:
Yash Pawar, DevOps Engineer, deboistech
Title:
eBPF Without the Magic: From Tools to Your First Program
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:45 – 05:15 PM
Speaker:
Safeer C M, Principal Engineer, MoEngage
Title:
“ChatGPT Wrote My Manifest”: The Dangers and Joys of AI-Assisted Kubernetes
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 05:15 – 05:45 PM
Speaker:
Jay Gondaliya, Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat
Title:
Building Identity, Trust and Governance for Open Source AI Agents
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:45-12:15
Speaker:
Arun Kumar G, Staff Customer Engineer, Applied AI, Google
Title:
From Vibes to Verified: Lessons in Harness Engineering
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 12:15-12:45
Speaker:
Amith K K, Sr. Principal – Agentic Engineering, Unisys
Title:
Open Source Intelligence: AI/ML Workflows for OpenBMC Firmware Architecture
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 12:45-01:15
Speaker:
P Raveendra Reddy, Technical Staff, Dell Technologies and Tarun Aitha, Software Engineer 2, Dell Technologies
Title:
The Enterprise Context Problem: Legacy APIs to AI Agents, building the MCP Layer for Enterprise Software
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 03:30-04:00
Speaker:
Niranjan Akella, Enginnering Manager AI/ML and Sandesh Bandal, Developer Advocate; 2nd Brain Labs
Title:
AI On-Call Engineer for Enterprises
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:00-04:45
Speaker:
Prasun Kumar, Co-founder and CEO, Oppex AI
Title:
Scaling LLM Training Beyond Data Parallelism: The Open-Source Stack from PyTorch to Megatron
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:45-05:15
Speaker:
Sakshi Tyagi, Senior Apllied Scientist, Thomson Reuters
Title:
From Rules to Agents: Building an Open-Source AI-Native Fraud Defense
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 05:15-05:45
Speaker:
B Priyankaa, Data Scientist, BFSI Sector
8th October 2026
Title:
The Database as a Platform: What Extensibility Unlocks for Open Source.
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 10:45 – 11:30 AM
Speaker:
Anna Widenius, CEO, MariaDB Foundation
Title:
YTsaurus: Beyond the Hadoop Zoo — A Unified Platform for ETL, Analytics, and LLM Training at Exabyte Scale
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 02:30 – 03:15 PM
Speaker:
Pavel Sushin, Head of Analytics Tools Engineering & Operations, YTsaurus
Title:
Freeing your development environment
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 11:45 – 12:15
Speaker:
Samir Kamerkar, Engineering Director, Canonical
Title:
The Power of Open-Weight Models for Inclusive Intelligent Tutor
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:15 – 12:45
Speaker:
Jagat Sesh Challa, Associate Professor, BITS Pilani
Title:
Taking FOSS to Everyone – The DPG Approach
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:45 – 01:15
Speaker:
Chandrashekar Ramanathan, Professor & Head, DPI Division, IIIT-Bangalore
Title:
How India’s Largest G2C Platform Migrated to FOSS and Broke Free from Oracle
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 01:15 – 01:45
Speaker:
Hari Kiran, Founder & CEO, OpenSource DB
Title:
Licenses Are for Everyone, Not Just Lawyers
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 04:00
Speaker:
Kumar Anirudha, Founding Engineer, Vibrant Labs
Title:
ONLYOFFICE for developers: Mastering integration tools
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 04:00 – 04:30
Speaker:
Shashank Jha, Technical Writer, ONLYOFFICE
Title:
AI That Does the Work: Live Open Source Automation for Small Businesses
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 04:30 – 05:00
Speaker:
Sandeep Athiyarath, Founder; Nitish Pillai, Network Engineer; FCOOS Technologies Pvt Ltd
Title:
We Do CARE
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 05:00 – 05:30
Speaker:
Vysakh Premkumar, DevOps Consultant, E-Gov Foundation
Title:
Harness engineering: How to make a multi agent harness
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 11:45 – 12:15
Speaker:
Malay Hazarika, Co-Founder, Osuite.io
Title:
Switching Intelligence: Building Modular LLMs with Granite Switch
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:15 – 12:45
Speaker:
Nabarko Roy and Aakriti Aggarwal, AI Research Engineer, IBM
Title:
Knowledge formats for humans and Agents
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:45 – 01:15
Speaker:
Janardan Revuru, Web standards and AI community leader
Title:
Joules per Token: How AITRA helps GPU Energy Decisions!
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 01:15 – 01:45
Speaker:
Pravin Ranjan, Sr. Software Engineer, IBM; Joval Kuruvila, Senior Software Engineer, Caze Labs and Rishi Naman Singh, Software Engineer, Caze Labs
Title:
Building a Petabyte-Scale Kubernetes Native Object Store with Apache Ozone
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 04:15
Speaker:
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Principal Software Engineer – Storage, Cloudera
Title:
From LLMs to Autonomous Systems: Engineering Reliable Agentic AI with Open Source
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 04:15 – 04:45
Speaker:
Monica R, Software Engineer, Autodesk and Priyatam Ch, Senior Full-Stack Developer, Arctic Wolf
Title:
Thinking in Qubits: A Developer’s Introduction to Quantum Computing
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 04:45 – 05:15
Speaker:
Manjunath Janardhan, AI/ML Computational Science Senior Manager, Accenture
Title:
TBC
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 05:15 – 05:45
Speaker:
TBC
Title:
Built to Scale: One Data Platform for the AI Era with OceanBase
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 11:45 – 12:15
Speaker:
Ankur Gupta, Solution Architect, OceanBase India
Title:
DuckDB engine for MariaDB. When Sea Lion learns to Quack
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:15 – 12:45
Speaker:
Roman Nozdrin, Architect/Staff developer, MariaDB Corporation
Title:
MySQL 9.7 LTS: Where Innovation Meets Stability
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:45 – 01:15
Speaker:
Mayank Prasad , Senior Engineering Development Manager, Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Title:
Data Architecture for Agentic AI Systems
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 01:15 – 01:45
Speaker:
Malepati Bala Siva Sai Akhil, Principal Software Engineer, Couchbase
Title:
Why its important to focus on hardware in our mission to run free/open source software everywhere
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 04:00
Speaker:
Abhas Abhinav, Hacker, entrepreneur and free software activist
Title:
Hardening IoT Devices: Defense-in-Depth on Yocto-Based Embedded Linux
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 04:00 – 04:30
Speaker:
Abraham Gogulamudi, Senior Engineering Manager, GEHealthcare
Title:
Beyond Embedded: Architecting Open-Source Intelligent Systems with Camera, Radar & ROS 2
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 04:30 – 05:00
Speaker:
Aditi Bhatt, Senior Division Manager, Cyient Ltd
Title:
Build a reliable real-time health device using open hardware, open protocols, and open-weight AI
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 05:00 – 05:45
Speaker:
Megha Mitra, Tech lead, Mytr.AI
WORKSHOPS
Title: Build Your First Quantum Circuit in Python: A Beginner’s Workshop (WS01)
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Manjunath Janardhan, AI/ML Computational Science Senior Manager Accenture
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Karan Chellani, Senior Architect | GenAI & Enterprise AI Solutions Leader, Persistent Systems Ltd. and Prakriti Solankey, Senior Engineering Lead, Persistent Systems
Title: MariaDB Foundry: Build, Extend and Contribute to MariaDB (WS03)
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Daniel Black, CIO, MariaDB Foundation and Mohd Jarir Khan, Google Summer of Code studen
Title: AI Chips with Open Source and AI: A Practical Path to Production (WS04)
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Raja Gopal Hari Vijay, Member Leadership Staff, Zoho Corporation
Title: From Prototype to Production: Demystify Context Architecture, LLM Security, and Guardrails. (WS05)
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Sanil Kumar D, Founder, CEO – Business & Technology; Dharmanandana Reddy Pothula Chief Cyber Security Architect – Products & Solutions; Alen Titus, Software Engineer; Caze Labs Private Limited
Title: Introduction to the ROCm AI Stack for Building Multimodal AI Applications (WS06)
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Dr. Saiyedul Islam, Senior Member of Technical Staff, AI Group, AMD India and Aditya Sivagnanam, PMTS, Developer Application Engineer, AI Group, AMD India
Title: Mark My Words. And Pixels. A Hands-On Guide to AI Watermarking (WS14)
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Mayank Raj, Staff Engineer, Infrastructure, Stripe and Shreya Agrahari, Analyst, Accenture
Title: The OpenRuntime for Coding Agents: Discover, Attribute, and Route Across Any Harness and Provider (WS08)
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Karan Bharadwaj, Co-founder and Head of Product, Nasiko and Neeraj Penumaka, Backend Engineer, Nasiko
Title: Agentic Analytics in Regulated Industries: Live on Exasol (WS09)
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Prathamesh Karmalkar, Staff Software Engineer, Exasol AG
Title: The Open Source Jarvis: Build Your Own Private Voice Assistant (WS10)
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Sayed Imran, Site Reliability Engineer, 66degrees
Title: The Agentic Stack: Designing and Deploying Autonomous Workflows and Agents (WS11)
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Arvind Devaraj, AI / LLM Engineer, Juspay
Title: The Heart of the YTsaurus Platform: Core Components and Interactive Querying (WS12)
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Artur Turaev Global Product Owner, YTsaurus and Andrey Grunau, Technical project manager, YTsaurus
CONFERENCES
COMMUNITY TRACK: FOSS For Everyone
Is India contributing back to Open Source as a nation? Are Indians initiating new Open Source projects? Can we expect some Indian Open Source projects to go global?
Come and discover answers to these questions. Get inspired by Indians who have contributed back. Listen to those who have launched Open Source projects and taken them global. Listed to contirbutors who joined the community for their engineering projects but ended up making a major impact. And, more…
ENTRY: Community Pass and above
DEVELOPERS’ MEET: WHAT’S THE LATEST?
What’re latest tools and programming languages for Software Developers, from the World of Open Source?
What’s HOT? What’s NOT?
What are the latest practices being adopted by the Gurus of Open Source to develop faster, better and cheaper?
Find answers to these questions, and more, by attending this track.
ENTRY: Knowledge Pass and above
OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE
Open hardware, open silicon, maker ecosystems, embedded systems, RISC-V, IoT, and robotics—how is Open Source Hardware transforming innovation and making technology more accessible? How does that BENEFIT you?
What are the latest developments in Open Source Hardware platforms, development boards, chip architectures, design tools, and manufacturing workflows that can help you build better products faster?
What are the key challenges in adopting Open Source Hardware, including licensing, supply chains, manufacturing, certification, and ecosystem support, and how can organizations and makers successfully overcome them?
ENTRY: Knowledge Pass and above
DEVOPS ZONE: GOOD TECH & BEST PRACTICES
Is DevOps important for your team?
How’s DevOps revolutionising the world of Software Development?
What’re the latest DevOps solutions from the world of Open Source?
Find out answers to these questions, and more, by attending this track. Learn from industry experts. Listen to peers who’ve tasted success, and clear all your doubts.
ENTRY: Knowledge Pass and above
DATABASES: OPEN SOURCE ROCKS!
What’s the latest in the world of Open Source databases?
Why are we seeing more and more Open Source databases come to the fore–and beat the past leaders?
How to choose the right database for your application?
Find answers to these questions, and more, by attending this track. Listen to your peers who have already tasted success, and ask them questions that can empower you.