Two days with the people who actually ship.
DevSummit 2026 is 48 talks and workshops across five tracks at KTPO Convention Centre, Whitefield. No keynote fluff, no vendor pitches — every session comes from someone who has shipped the thing they are describing.
Opening keynote begins in
YOUR NAME
Printed on the morning of day one. Pronouns and social handle optional.
What two days looks like
- Attendees
- 2,400
- Capped, and it sold out in nine days last year.
- Speakers
- 48
- 18 announced so far, the rest land through September.
- Tracks
- 5
- Web, AI, DevOps, Design and Career, running in parallel.
- Hands-on workshops
- 12
- Ninety minutes each, capped at 40 seats. Bring a laptop.
Over half the room writes code for a living
DevSummit is a practitioner conference, and the mix reflects that. Talks assume you have shipped something and been on call for it.
| Role | Share of attendees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Engineers | 54% | 54% |
| Designers | 16% | 16% |
| Product managers | 12% | 12% |
| Founders | 10% | 10% |
| Students | 8% | 8% |
Share of the 2,400 attendees by role, from the 2025 post-event survey (1,910 responses). Percentages are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100.
Web
Browsers, frameworks, and the rendering pipeline.
AI
Models in production, evals, and agent plumbing.
DevOps
Build, ship, observe, and sleep through the night.
Design
Design systems, accessibility, and interface craft.
Career
Growth, hiring, and the parts nobody documents.
Eighteen of forty-eight, announced
Select any speaker for their talk and a line on who they are. The rest of the programme lands through September.
Five tracks, two days, one hallway
Sessions run in parallel across five halls. Keynotes are in the Main Hall and nothing is scheduled against them.
Sessions per track
Web and AI take the largest share of the 48-session programme. Career is the smallest track but runs in the largest hall — it fills up first.
How to plan your two days
Every talk is recorded, so do not spend the day picking between two rooms — go to the one with the speaker you want to corner afterwards, and watch the other next week.
Workshops are the exception. They are capped at forty seats, not recorded, and the seat is the value. Book them first.
Registration, badge pickup and filter coffee
BreakFoyerWhat the Browser Is Actually Doing While You Wait
KeynoteRohan Shetty · Chrome, GoogleWebMain Hall
Rendering 40,000 Ticks a Second Without Dropping a Frame
TalkAnanya Rao · ZerodhaWebHall A
Your Eval Set Is Lying to You
TalkKarthik Menon · Sarvam AIAIHall B
The Six Accessibility Bugs in Every Component Library
TalkAisha Farouk · ShopifyDesignHall C
Lunch and the hallway track
BreakTerraceWe Deleted Our Staging Environment. Here Is What Broke.
TalkPriya Nambiar · RazorpayDevOpsHall A
Agents Without the Framework
TalkSofia Marchetti · Hugging FaceAIHall B
Chai break
BreakFoyerWorkshop: Query Planning for People Who Write Application Code
WorkshopVikram Desai · HasuraWebWorkshop Room 1
Designing for the Keyboard First
TalkGrace Adeyemi · LinearDesignHall C
Community mixer on the lawn
BreakNorth Lawn
Doors open and coffee
BreakFoyerZero-Downtime Migrations Are Mostly Bookkeeping
TalkLin Wei · GrabDevOpsHall A
Retrieval Is a Ranking Problem, Not a Database Problem
TalkTanvi Bhatt · AmazonAIHall B
A Design System Nobody Forks
TalkDaniel Osei · FigmaDesignHall C
Deleting 80% of Our Alerts Made Us Faster
TalkArjun Pillai · SwiggyDevOpsHall A
Lunch and lightning talks
BreakTerraceWorkshop: Load Testing for a Day That Happens Once a Year
WorkshopSanjay Iyer · FlipkartDevOpsWorkshop Room 1
One Form, Forty-Six Countries
TalkChen Yu · StripeWebHall B
What Your Resume Looks Like From the Other Side
TalkNadia Hassan · IndependentCareerHall C
Maintaining a Build Tool Without Burning Out
TalkImran Qureshi · Vite core teamCareerHall A
Hiring Your First Ten Engineers
TalkLeela Varma · UltrahumanCareerHall B
The Promotion You Should Turn Down
KeynoteMeera Krishnan · AtlassianCareerMain Hall
Closing remarks and goodbyes
BreakMain Hall
Three tiers, no hidden add-ons
Every tier includes both days and all five tracks. What changes is the workshops and how early you get the recordings.
Early bird
Ends soon₹4,900+ GSTThe same ticket as Regular, bought before the deadline.
- Both conference days
- All five tracks
- Lunch and chai, both days
- Talk recordings within two weeks
- Community mixer on the lawn
Regular
Most popular₹7,900+ GSTFull access. What most people buy.
- Both conference days
- All five tracks
- Lunch and chai, both days
- Talk recordings within two weeks
- Community mixer on the lawn
- One hands-on workshop seat
VIP
₹14,900+ GSTFor people who came for the workshops and the speakers.
- Everything in Regular
- All twelve workshops, reserved seats
- Front-block seating in the Main Hall
- Speaker dinner on Thursday night
- Office-hours slot with a speaker of your choice
- Recordings on the Monday after
KTPO Convention Centre, Whitefield
KTPO Convention Centre, Whitefield Main Road, Bengaluru 560066
Getting there
Kadugodi Tree Park is the closest station, an eight-minute walk to the venue gate. Trains run every five minutes from 05:00 to 23:00. Coming from the city centre, board the Purple Line eastbound at Majestic and stay on to the end — about 55 minutes. Volunteers in violet lanyards meet each train from 08:00 on both mornings.
Set your destination to "KTPO Convention Centre, Whitefield" — not "Whitefield", which drops you two kilometres short. Drop-off is at Gate 2 on Whitefield Main Road; Gate 1 is exhibitor loading and will be closed to cars. Expect 60 to 90 minutes from Indiranagar in morning traffic, and rather more on Friday evening.
Free on-site parking for 400 cars in the P2 basement, entered from the service road behind the venue. It fills by 09:15 on day one. Two-wheeler parking is uncapped and always has room. There are six EV chargers on the P2 upper level, first-come and free while you are at the event.
Kempegowda International is 35 kilometres north. A cab is 60 to 80 minutes outside peak hours. The BMTC Vayu Vajra KIA-7 runs to Whitefield roughly hourly and is a third of the price if you are not in a hurry.
Every hall, the foyer and both workshop rooms are step-free, with lifts to the P2 parking level. Accessible toilets are beside Hall A and the Main Hall. A quiet room with low lighting and no audio feed is open next to Workshop Room 2 for the whole event. Mail us any access need at least a week ahead and we will confirm the arrangement in writing.
Who pays for the coffee
Nine companies underwrite the event, which is what keeps the student ticket at ₹1,500.
Platinum partners
Gold partners
Community partners
What the last two looked like
Same venue, smaller hall, and the mixer that ran two hours past its slot.
The opening keynote in the Main Hall, 1,800 seats full by 09:20.
The hallway track, which is where half the value of any conference lives.
A ninety-minute workshop, forty seats, laptops open.
DevSummit 2024, the year we outgrew the old hall.
The mixer on the lawn, which ran two hours past its slot.
A community meetup we hosted in the run-up to the main event.
Frequently asked
What is the refund policy?
Full refund up to 30 days before the event, no questions asked. Between 30 and 7 days you get 50% back, or a free name change to a colleague. Inside 7 days we cannot refund, but a name change is still free right up to the door — mail us and we will move it.
Will talks be recorded?
Yes. Every talk in the Main Hall and Halls A to C is recorded and goes up within two weeks, free and public on YouTube. VIP ticket holders get the unlisted cut on the Monday after the event. Workshops are not recorded — they are hands-on and the room is the point.
Is there a student discount?
There is. Students pay ₹1,500 for the full two days with a valid student ID at the door. We hold 300 student tickets and they are first-come. Community organisers and speakers at local meetups get the same rate — mail us from an address we can verify.
Who attends DevSummit?
Mostly working engineers: 54% of the room writes code for a living, as the audience mix chart on the homepage shows. The rest is 16% designers, 12% product managers, 10% founders and 8% students. It is a practitioner conference — the talks assume you have shipped something.
Is there a code of conduct?
Yes, and it is enforced. It covers the venue, the mixer, the workshop rooms and the event Discord. Two organisers are on duty each day with a published phone number, and reports are handled the same day.
Do you help with travel or visas?
We issue invitation letters for visa applications once your ticket is confirmed — allow six weeks. We do not cover travel or hotels for attendees, but the site lists three hotels within walking distance of the venue at a conference rate.