/ Speakers
The people on stage
Engineers, designers, researchers, founders and investors who build in India. Every talk is reviewed for substance, and nobody pays to speak. (Sample speakers.)
- Plenary
- AI and data
- Product and design
- Cloud and dev
- Startups and funding
- Plenary
Anjali Menon
CTO, Sample Payments Co.
Built a payments stack used by 30 million merchants (sample). Opens and closes the summit.
- AI and data
Rahul Deshpande
ML lead, Sample Health AI
Ships language models into clinics in tier-2 cities, with the evaluation numbers to match.
- Product and design
Meera Iyer
Head of design, Sample Bank
Redesigned a banking app for first-time UPI users across six languages.
- Cloud and dev
Arjun Reddy
SRE lead, Sample Mobility
Keeps a ride-hailing platform up through Diwali traffic. Runs the Terraform workshop.
- Startups and funding
Kavya Shetty
Partner, Sample Ventures
Early-stage investor in 40 Indian SaaS and AI companies (sample). Hosts the pitch clinic.
- AI and data
Farhan Siddiqui
Research engineer, Sample Indic Lab
Builds evaluation sets for Kannada, Hindi and Tamil. Runs the RAG workshop.
- Product and design
Neha Kulkarni
Principal researcher, Sample Commerce
Ten years of user research across Bharat, from kirana stores to D2C brands.
- Cloud and dev
Vikram Rao
Database engineer, Sample Exchange
Runs Postgres at 50,000 writes a second, and will tell you exactly how.
- Startups and funding
Suresh Gowda
Founder, Sample SaaS (Series B)
Sold B2B software to 200 Indian enterprises before raising a rupee of venture money (sample).
- Plenary
Ravi Nair
Maintainer, Sample Open Source Foundation
Maintains three widely used open-source libraries from his home in Kochi.
- Plenary
Lakshmi Prasad
VP Infrastructure, Sample Cloud India
Plans data centre capacity, power and cooling for AI workloads in India.
- AI and data
Ishita Banerjee
Speech AI researcher, Sample Voice
Trains speech models that work at a traffic signal in Kolkata, not just in a studio.
/ Speak in 2028
Have something real to share?
The call for talks for the 2028 edition opens in May 2027. We pay travel and stay for every speaker, and we coach first-time speakers.
ADMIT ONE · 18–19 MAR 2027 · BENGALURU
Early-bird prices end 31 December.
Save up to ₹4,000 a ticket, and another 10% when five or more of your team come along.