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Agenda

26–27 February 2027, MLR Convention Centre, Whitefield, Bengaluru. Times run down the page, the four halls run across it. Keynotes, meals and plenaries take the whole width — nothing is scheduled against them, so you never have to choose.

InfrastructureKaveri hall
AITungabhadra hall
DesignSharavathi hall
SecurityKabini hall
Day 1Friday26 February 202720 sessions

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Time
Infrastructure
Kaveri hall
AI
Tungabhadra hall
Design
Sharavathi hall
Security
Kabini hall
08:3009:30
Doors — Registration, badge pickup and filter coffee
Foyer
09:3010:15
Opening keynote — Software that has to move 200,000 vehicles
Lalitha Narayanan, Ather Energy
Main auditorium
10:3010:55
Running an exchange gateway on eight boxes
Aarthi Subramanian
Kaveri
Tokenizers for eleven Indian scripts
Sneha Iyer
Tungabhadra
Designing for the second-slowest phone in the room
Meera Krishnan
Sharavathi
Threat modelling UPI at 14 billion payments a month
Priya Raghunathan
Kabini
11:1011:35
Your p99 is lying to you
Marta Beltrán
Kaveri
Serving a 70B model on ₹40 of GPU an hour
Rahul Menon
Tungabhadra
One component library, 55 products
Anand Pillai
Sharavathi
Killing the security questionnaire
Samuel Okonkwo
Kabini
11:5012:35
Unconference — Pitch a topic at the board; the four halls open for whatever collects the most stickers
All four halls
12:3513:45
Lunch — Three counters on the lawn, one of them entirely vegetarian
Lawn
13:4514:10
Sharding 40 million orders with nobody noticing
Kavin Ramanathan
Kaveri
Evals that survive contact with production
Yuki Tanaka
Tungabhadra
Workshop, sign-up
Workshop: auditing your own colour tokens
Lucia Ferrari · 90 minutes, sign up at the desk
Sharavathi
Clinic, drop in
Office hours: bring your logging setup
Ritu Sharma · 15 minutes per team
Kabini
14:2515:10
Panel — What Indian engineering teams still get wrong about scale
Aarthi Subramanian, Marta Beltrán and Divya Balakrishnan, hosted by Nilesh Kulkarni
Main auditorium
15:1015:45
Break — Chai, vada and the hallway track
Foyer
15:4516:30
Lightning talks — Nine speakers, five minutes each, hard cut-off
Main auditorium
16:4518:00
Close — Day one wraps, then the rooftop reception
Terrace
Day 2Saturday27 February 202718 sessions

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Time
Infrastructure
Kaveri hall
AI
Tungabhadra hall
Design
Sharavathi hall
Security
Kabini hall
09:0009:45
Doors — Coffee, and yesterday's notes pinned to the board
Foyer
09:4510:20
Day two keynote — The org chart is the architecture
Erik Sundström, Spotify
Main auditorium
10:3511:00
What we learned rewriting our ledger three times
Nilesh Kulkarni
Kaveri
Six months of support agents: what actually shipped
Divya Balakrishnan
Tungabhadra
Prototypes that answer questions
Lucia Ferrari
Sharavathi
What the DPDP rules actually require of your logs
Ritu Sharma
Kabini
11:1511:40
Anycast, explained by someone who broke it
Ola Adeyemi
Kaveri
Small models, sharp edges
Thomas Renner
Tungabhadra
Type in nine scripts: a practical guide
Vignesh Balan
Sharavathi
Key rotation you can explain to your CEO
Jonas Weber
Kabini
11:5512:40
Clinic — Maintainers' clinic — bring a repository, leave with a plan
Twelve reviewers spread across the four halls
All four halls
12:4013:50
Lunch — The same three counters, a much shorter queue on the second day
Lawn
13:5015:20
Workshop, sign-up
Hands-on: chaos drills on a live cluster
Marta Beltrán · bring a laptop
Kaveri
Workshop, sign-up
Hands-on: fine-tuning on a single GPU
Rahul Menon · 40 seats
Tungabhadra
Clinic, drop in
Portfolio review, fifteen minutes each
Meera Krishnan and Anand Pillai
Sharavathi
Workshop, sign-up
Capture the flag, teams of three
Samuel Okonkwo and Jonas Weber
Kabini
15:3516:20
Closing — What we heard, and where Podium goes next year
The programme committee
Main auditorium
16:2018:00
Open floor — Badges stay on, the coffee stays hot
Foyer

Before you plan your day

  • Talks are twenty-five minutes with a five-minute swap. Doors close when a talk starts; the hall is small and the swap is tight.
  • Workshops are capped and fill up — sign up at the desk on Friday morning, not online.
  • Every hall is captioned live. The main auditorium also has Indian Sign Language interpretation.
  • Recordings of all eighteen talks and both keynotes go up on 10 March, free, with transcripts.
Still deciding?

Early-bird seats are ₹6,900 until 12 December 2026. That covers both days, every hall, lunch, and the Friday rooftop reception.

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