AGENDA 2025
THE CONFERENCES
| Date | 5th November 2025 | 6th November 2025 |
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| HALL A | FOSS For Everyone (Community) | FOSS For Everyone (Community) |
| HALL B | DevOps | Developers' Meet |
| HALL C | AI & ML | Data & Bases: Open Source Rocks! |
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LUNCH |
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| HALL A | FOSS For Everyone (Community) | FOSS For Everyone (Community) |
| HALL B | DevOps | Developers' Meet |
| HALL C | AI & ML: Opening Up the Tech | IT Infra (Security, Storage & Cloud) |
5th November 2025
Title: Open Ecosystem of Agentic AI
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 10:45 – 11:15 AM
Speaker: Shalaka Verma, Head of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud
Title: Context Engineering: Connecting the Dots with Graphs
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 02:30 – 03:15 PM
Speaker: Stephen Chin, VP, Developer Relations, Neo4j
Title: Agents, Assemble! Unleashing Agentic RAGs with Knowledge Graphs
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:11:45-12:15 PM
Speaker: Siddhant Agarwal, Developer Relations APAC, Neo4j
Title: A SiMPL Journey from Inner Source to Open Source Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 12:15 – 12:45 PM
Speaker: Laxminarayan Chandrashekar, Principal Software Engineer, Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
Title: FOSS meets Primary Health Care: Building AMRIT for Bharat
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 12:45 – 01:15 PM
Speaker: Dr. Mithun James, Technical Architect and Ravi Trivedi, Chief Digital Officer; Piramal Swasthya
Title: Open-Source Infrastructure for Scalable, Reproducible Disease Forecasting
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 03:30-04:00 PM
Speaker: Dr Raunaq Pradhan, Product Manager, Artpark, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Title: MOSIP & Its Thriving Community — Co-Creating Digital Identity Through eSignet and Inji
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 04:00-04:30 PM
Speaker: Sivanand Lanka, Vice President of Engineering, MOSIP
Title: Open Source, Real-Time, Powerful: Falco’s Role in Modern Runtime Security
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 04:30-05:00 PM
Speaker: Abhishek Garg, DoE, Syfe
Title: NgKore: Driving OPEN SOURCE Innovation for the FUTURE
Time: 05:00-05:30 PM
Speaker: Khaja Moinuddin Mohammed, Lead Devops Architect, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)TBC
Title: Lock Stock Barrel move to Kubernetes for IT and Storage Applications
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 11:45-12:15 PM
Speaker: Nilanto Bhattacharya Member of Technical Staff, Pure Storage and Dhruv Bhatnagar, Member of Technical Staff, Pure Storage
Title: Cloud Threat Detection and Runtime Security
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:12:15-12:45 PM
Speaker: Sulav Kumar, Sr. Customer Solutions Engineer, Sysdig
Title: TBC
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:12:45-01:15 PM
Speaker: TBC
Title: AI Operations Reimagined: Reflexive Agent Systems for Autonomous Cloud Operations
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:03:30-04:00 PM
Speaker: Mohammad Raghib Mumtaz, Principal Software Development Engineer, Autodesk
Title: eBPF-Powered Security in Kubernetes: The Story of Tetragon
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 04:15-04:45 PM
Speaker: Aftab S, DevOps Engineer, Abilytics Inc.
Title: Navigating Kubernetes Challenges with Observability Insights
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 04:45-05:15 PM
Speaker: Saurabh Mishra, DevOps Lead, Global Payments
Title: CI/CD Pipeline Optimisation: A Comparative Analysis of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Harness
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 05:15-05:45 PM
Speaker: Shwetha Koppal, AVP/Senior Engineer, WellsFargo Pvt Ltd
Title: Ingest Anything, Unify Everything: Apache NiFi + LLMs + Apache Iceberg Universal Pipelines
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 11:45-12:30 PM
Speaker: Kamesh Sampath, Lead Developer Advocate, Snowflake
Title: Managing Risk in Generative AI Code
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:12:30-01:00
Speaker: Laxmiswarupa Dhal, Lead OSS Specialist and Sudhakar MS, Senior OSS Specialist, Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
Title: NeuroFlow: An Agentic AI Framework for Smarter Software Discovery and Governance
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:01:00-01:30 PMTBC
Speaker: Anil Menakath, Senior Manager, Platform Engineering & Core Services, Autodesk India Private Limited
Title: AI Inference That Doesn’t Run Out of Memory
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:03:30-04:00 PMTBC
Speaker: Aakash Bist, Member of Technical Staff, Pure Storage and Jayapaul Paul, MTS- LS/1, Pure Storage
Title:
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:03:30-04:00 PMTBC
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Title: Exploring HybridRAG with Neo4j
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:04:30-05:00 PM
Speaker: Jayita Bhattacharyya, Data Scientist, Deloitte
Title: Cloning Yourself with Local LLMs
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:05:00-05:30 PM
Speaker: Harish Kotra, Dev Platform Lead, Gaia
Title: Building a Self-Hosted LLM Ecosystem: Performance, Privacy, and Practical Insights
Date: 5th November 2025
Time:05:30-06:00 PM
Speaker: Krishnaparsad K, Senior Principal Engineering Technologist, Dell Technologies and Shiva Prasad Katta, Software Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies
6th November 2025
Title: MariaDB is the future of MySQL
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 10:00-10:45 AM
Speaker: Michael “Monty” Widenius, CTO, MariaDB plc & MariaDB Foundation
Title: AI and OpenSource – An opportunity for India to Take the lead
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 10:45-11:30 AM
Speaker: Sarath Chandra K, Chief of Digital and Technology, NPCI Bharat Billpay Ltd
Title: Building FOSS Communities: 20 Lessons from 20 Years
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 02:3-03:15 PMTBC
Speaker: Jim Grisanzio, Host, Duke’s Corner Java Podcast, Oracle
Title: Open Source in the Age of Generative AI: Collaboration, Compliance, and Control
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 03:30-04:15
Panelist: Srivathsa NS, Senior Engineering Director, Office Of The CTO, Unisys (Chair)
Biju K Nair, Open Chain India Work Group Chair, Open Chain Ambassador
Karrtik Iyer, Principal AI Researcher, Thoughtworks
Heena Juneja, Industry Principal, Frost & Sullivan
Janardan Revuru JavaScript Evangelist
Sukarn Singh Maini, Founding Partner, LegaliTech
Title: Open Source Contribution@SAP
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 11:45 – 12:15
Speaker: Ajinkya Patil, Senior Developer, SAP SE
Title: Dominating the machine life-cycle
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 12:15 – 01:00
Speaker: Richard Gooch, Technical Director, Pure Storage And Ramkumar S, Member of Technical Staff, Pure Storage
Title: Postgres Women India: Driving Diversity and Innovation in Open Source
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 01:00 – 01:30
Speaker: Hari Kiran P, Founder & CEO, OpenSource DB and Praveena Sivasankar, Head – Operations, OpenSource DB
Title: Cboard in Malayalam: A Community-Driven Open Source Success Story in AAC
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 04:15-04:45
Speaker: Deepu Benson, Assistant Professor, Manipal Institute of Technology
Title: From GitHub Projects to the Linux Kernel: How FOSS Contributions Work
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 04:45-05:15 PM
Speaker: Nandakumar Edamana, PhD Scholar, IIT Palakkad
Title: Legal Considerations & Best Practices for AI Code Generation in Open Source Software
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 05:15-05:45 PM
Speaker: Sukarn Singh Maini, Founding Partner, LegaliTech
Title: From Base to Specialist: A Step-by-Step Guide to Tuning Gemma
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 11:45-12:15 PM
Speaker: Ravi Manjunatha, Customer Engineer, AI Specialist, Google Cloud
Title: Building Fault-Tolerant Systems with Temporal
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 12:15-12:45 PM
Speaker: Abhishek Das, CoFounder & CTO, SourcingXPress
Title: Frontend + AI = Fastend: Building UI at the Speed of Thought
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 003:30-04:00 PM
Speaker: Rajesh Hegde, Unisys
Title: Security-First: What Businesses Must Know Before Choosing an Open Source Framework
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 04:00-04:30 PM
Speaker: Pralhad Sonar, Sr. Customer Success Manager, Vercel
Title: Building Scalable Architectures: API-led Connectivity using Open Source Gateways
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 04:45-05:15 PM
Speaker: Tarandeep Singh, Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce
Title: Shift Left in Streaming Architectures
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 05:15-05:45 PM
Speaker: Ankit Kumar, Head of Developer & Customer Success, Aklivity
Title: SQL-on-Everything: Connecting Hadoop, Cloud Storage, and NoSQL with Presto
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 11:45 – 12:15 PM
Speaker: Saurabh Mahawar, Developer Relations Engineer, IBM
Title: Is Your Database Truly Open Source – Or Just Open Wash?
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 12:15 – 12:45 PM
Speaker: Balkrishna Basisthnarayan, Senior Solutions Engineer, Percona
Title: Beyond the Command Line: AxonOps Workbench for Apache Cassandra
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 12:45 – 1:30 PM
Speaker: Johnny Miller, Chief Architect and Co-Founder, AxonOps and Rajprakash Yadav, Tech Architect, Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
Title: AI/ML on OpenBMC: Leveraging TensorFlow Lite and Alternatives
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 03:30-04:00 PM
Speaker: P Raveendra Reddy, Software Senior Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies and Tarun Aitha, Software Engineer 2, Dell Technologies
Title: Sonic – The Present and Future of Network Operating Systems
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 04:00-04:30 PM
Speaker: Ashay Krishna, Director Of Engineering, Microsoft India Pvt Ltd
Title: Reimagining Cluster Management: The Gardener Way
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 04:30-05:00
Speaker: Shafeeque E S, Software Developer, SAP Labs India and Sonu Kumar Singh, Developer, SAP Labs India
Title: Stateless Slurm Cluster Deployment and Telemetry Monitoring Using Omnia
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 05:00-05:45 PM
Speaker: Abhishek S A, Software Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies and Aditya Deshpande, Software Engineer 2, Dell Technologies
WORKSHOPS
Title: Hands-On Cassandra: From Data Modeling to Full Deployment [WS01]
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Johnny Miller, Chief Architect and Co-Founder, AxonOps; Rajprakash Yadav, Tech Architect, Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
Title: Building AI Native Applications with Model Context Protocol(MCP) for Dynamic AI Integration [WS02]
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 11:30 – 2:00 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Sai Nitish Mitta, Karan Singh, Shilpa PV, Sreeja Radhakrishnan, Varsha Marekkanavar; DELL
Title: Beyond the API: Hands-On Command-Line Mastery of Gemini [WS03]
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 11:30 – 12:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Shashi Ranjan, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud; Abhradip Mukherjee, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Title: Beyond the API: Hands-On Command-Line Mastery of Gemini [WS03]
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 1:30 – 2:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Shashi Ranjan, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud; Abhradip Mukherjee, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Title: Building Agentic Application with Anthropic in Snowflake [WS05]
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Kamesh Sampath, Lead Developer Advocate, Snowflake
Title: MariaDB in Practice: Community, Education, and AI with Vector Search [WS06]
Date: 5th November 2025
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Anna Widenius, CEO, MariaDB Foundation; Sergei Golubchyk, Chief Architect, MariaDB plc
Kaj Arnö, Executive Chairman of the Board, MariaDB; Hemant Prasad, CEO, Crest Infosolutions
Title: Building Agentic Application with Anthropic in Snowflake [WS07]
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 11:30 – 01:30 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Kamesh Sampath, Lead Developer Advocate, Snowflake
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 11:30 – 01:30 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Manjunath Janardhan, Principal AI Engineer, MSG Global Solutions
Title: Deploy, Manage, and Observe ADK Agent on Cloud Run [WS09]
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 11:30 – 12:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Tara Lodh, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud; Kaushal Rajkotia, Customer Engineer Google Cloud
Title: Deploy, Manage, and Observe ADK Agent on Cloud Run [WS09A]
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 1:30 – 2:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Tara Lodh, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud; Kaushal Rajkotia, Customer Engineer Google Cloud
Title: Strengthening Software Governance Through OSS Compliance [WS10]
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Aarti Arjunwadkar, LicenseOSS Management Professional and Swapna Asgaonkar, LicenseOSS Management Professional; Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited
Title: Automating CI Workflows with GitHub Actions for C, Python, Java & Beyond [WS11]
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 2, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Rajesh Sola, Deputy Director, GITAM University and Bharath G, Senior Lead Engineer, Rockwell Collins Aerospace
Title: Building Intelligent Observability: Agentic AI & MCP Handson with Kubernetes & Prometheus [WS12]
Date: 6th November 2025
Time: 03:30 – 05:30 PM
Venue: Room 3, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
Speaker: Sanil Kumar D., Sushanth Kumar, Amit Kumar Roushan, Uday Swamy, Rohit Vaidyanathan, Pravin Ranjan; Caze Labs Private Limited