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Lalitha Narayanan
Chief Technology Officer, Ather Energy · Bengaluru
“Software that has to move 200,000 vehicles”
Keynote, main auditorium
Seventh year in Bengaluru
26–27 February 2027 · MLR Convention Centre, Whitefield, Bengaluru
Twenty-five minutes, a hard cut-off, no vendor decks. Eighteen talks, two keynotes, six workshops and an unconference that fills whichever hall is free.
Last year the hall was full nine days after tickets opened.
Friday and Saturday · doors at 08:30
On sale now
Early bird, both days, lunch included. Goes to ₹9,500 on 13 December. Students pay ₹2,400.
Submit a twenty-five minute talk by 30 November 2026. First-time speakers get a mentor, two rehearsals and a travel grant if they are coming from outside Karnataka.
Every track owns a shape and a colour. The same four marks run the whole weekend: they head the agenda columns, they sit on the speaker boards, and they are painted on the hall doors. Find your shape, follow it.
Kaveri hall
Databases, queues, networks and the on-call rota. Talks from people who have paged themselves at three in the morning.
5 speakers · 4 sessions
Tungabhadra hall
Models in production: serving cost, evaluation, Indian-language data, and what shipped rather than what demoed.
5 speakers · 4 sessions
Sharavathi hall
Interfaces built for real phones and nine scripts, design systems at scale, and prototypes that settle arguments.
4 speakers · 4 sessions
Kabini hall
Threat modelling, key handling, the DPDP rules, and how to stop answering the same questionnaire twice a quarter.
4 speakers · 4 sessions
Chief Technology Officer, Ather Energy · Bengaluru
“Software that has to move 200,000 vehicles”
Keynote, main auditorium
VP Engineering, Spotify · Stockholm
“The org chart is the architecture”
Keynote, main auditorium
Principal Engineer, Zerodha · Bengaluru
“Running an exchange gateway on eight boxes”
Infrastructure, Kaveri hall
Research Lead, Sarvam AI · Bengaluru
“Tokenizers for eleven Indian scripts”
AI, Tungabhadra hall
Design Director, CRED · Bengaluru
“Designing for the second-slowest phone in the room”
Design, Sharavathi hall
Security Architect, PhonePe · Bengaluru
“Threat modelling UPI at 14 billion payments a month”
Security, Kabini hall
Head of Platform, Swiggy · Bengaluru
“Sharding 40 million orders with nobody noticing”
Infrastructure, Kaveri hall
Director of AI, Freshworks · Chennai
“Six months of support agents: what actually shipped”
AI, Tungabhadra hall
One price, both days, every hall. Lunch, chai and the Friday reception are in the ticket. Nothing is upsold at the door and there is no separate workshop fee.
Until 12 December 2026, or the first 400 seats — whichever runs out first.
From 13 December 2026 until the hall is full. Last year that took nine days.
200 seats held for anyone with a valid college ID. Bring it to the desk.
Teams of five or more pay ₹6,200 a head at any time. Write to tickets@podium.in with your GST number.
We read every proposal without names or companies attached. Talks are twenty-five minutes. Tell us what you built or broke, what it cost, and what you would do differently — that is the whole brief.
MLR Convention Centre on Whitefield Main Road, eleven minutes on foot from Kadugodi Tree Park metro station. Every hall door carries its track shape at a metre across, so you can find Kabini from the far end of the foyer without reading a sign.