AGENDA 2026
Detailed agenda will be published by 17 September 2026
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07 October 2026
MORNING (10:00 AM onwards)
Track / Workshop
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Hall B
Hall C
WORKSHOP 1: TBC
Room 1
WORKSHOP 2: TBC
Room 2
WORKSHOP 3: TBC
Room 3
AFTERNOON (2:15 PM onwards)
Track / Workshop
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Hall B
AI & ML: Opening Up the Tech
Hall C
WORKSHOP 1: TBC
Room 1
WORKSHOP 2: TBC
Room 2
WORKSHOP 3: TBC
Room 3
08 October 2026
MORNING (10:00 AM onwards)
Track / Workshop
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Hall B
WORKSHOP 1: TBC
Room 1
WORKSHOP 2: TBC
Room 2
WORKSHOP 3: TBC
Room 3
AFTERNOON (2:15 PM onwards)
Track / Workshop
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Hall B
Hall A
WORKSHOP 1: TBC
Room 1
WORKSHOP 2: TBC
Room 2
WORKSHOP 3: TBC
Room 3
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 AMSpeaker: 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 AMSpeaker: Prof Poonam Goyal, Professor, Birla Institute of Technology & Science
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One Plugin, Many Signals: Architecting Observability at Scale in OpenSearch
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 12:15-12:45
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Prabhakar Vemparala, Engineering Manager, Freshworks
Title:
The 800 MB Lie: What Your Docker Image Says About Your Architecture
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 12:45-01:15
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
Speaker:
Rajesh Hegde, Software Engineer, Unisys
Title:
Teach Agents When Not To Act: Practicing Agentic DevOps
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 03:30-04:15
Speaker:
Kamesh Sampath, Lead Developer Advocate, Snowflake
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Build Your Own AI Kubernetes Assistant with MCP
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:15-04:45
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
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
Speaker:
Jay Gondaliya, Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat
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TBC
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:45-12:15
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TBC
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
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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
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TBC
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 01:15-01:45
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TBC
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AI On-Call Engineer for Enterprises
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 04:00-04:45
Speaker:
Prasun Kumar, Co-founder and CEO, Oppex AI
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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: 10:45-11:15
Speaker:
Anna Widenius, CEO, MariaDB Foundation
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Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 11:45 – 12:15
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Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:15 – 12:45
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Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:45 – 01:15
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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
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Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 04:30 – 05:00
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Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 05:00 – 05:45
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Your Agent has a Memory Problem: Why knowledge graphs matter for persistent, explainable AI agents
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 11:45 – 12:15
Speaker:
Vasundhara Shukla, Developer Advocate, APAC, Neo4j
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
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Knowledge formats for humans and Agents
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:45 – 01:15
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Janardan Revuru, Web standards and AI community leader
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TBC
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 11:45 – 12:15
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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
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Built to Scale: One Data Platform for the AI Era with OceanBase
Date: 8th October 2026
Time: 12:45 – 01:15
Speaker:
Ankur Gupta, Solution Architect, OceanBase India
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
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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
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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: [WS01]
Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
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Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
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Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
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Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
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Date: 7th October 2026
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Date: 7th October 2026
Time: 11:30 – 02:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, NIMHANS Convention Center, Bengaluru
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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.