12–13 November 2026 · IST (UTC+5:30)
Schedule
Both days, every announced session, with the room and the track. Sessions run in parallel across five halls — pick a track and the day reads as one column.
Times are local to Bengaluru
Everything is IST (UTC+5:30). Talks are recorded and go up within two weeks; workshops are capped at forty seats and are not recorded.
Sessions per track
All 48 sessions across the two days. Web and AI carry the largest share; Career is the smallest track and fills up first.
DAY-01
Day 1
Thursday 12 November 2026
8 sessionsRegistration, badge pickup and filter coffee
BreakFoyerWhat the Browser Is Actually Doing While You Wait
KeynoteRohan Shetty · Chrome, GoogleWebMain HallAn opening keynote that walks one navigation from DNS to first paint, stopping wherever the browser is doing something you did not ask it to.
Rendering 40,000 Ticks a Second Without Dropping a Frame
TalkAnanya Rao · ZerodhaWebHall AWhat survived four rewrites of a live market-data grid, and the two ideas that did the real work.
Your Eval Set Is Lying to You
TalkKarthik Menon · Sarvam AIAIHall BFour ways a benchmark quietly stops measuring anything, with examples from Indic language evaluation.
The Six Accessibility Bugs in Every Component Library
TalkAisha Farouk · ShopifyDesignHall CA live audit of three popular libraries with a screen reader on, and the fixes for each finding.
Lunch and the hallway track
BreakTerraceWe Deleted Our Staging Environment. Here Is What Broke.
TalkPriya Nambiar · RazorpayDevOpsHall AEighteen months of shipping four hundred services straight to production behind flags, and the three incidents it caused.
Agents Without the Framework
TalkSofia Marchetti · Hugging FaceAIHall BA tool-calling loop in ninety lines, and a cost comparison against the same thing built on three popular frameworks.
Chai break
BreakFoyerWorkshop: Query Planning for People Who Write Application Code
WorkshopVikram Desai · HasuraWebWorkshop Room 1Bring a laptop. We read real EXPLAIN output until the shape of a bad query becomes obvious on sight.
Designing for the Keyboard First
TalkGrace Adeyemi · LinearDesignHall CHow a keyboard-first product decides what gets a shortcut, and how it measures whether the shortcut helped.
Community mixer on the lawn
BreakNorth Lawn
DAY-02
Day 2
Friday 13 November 2026
10 sessionsDoors open and coffee
BreakFoyerZero-Downtime Migrations Are Mostly Bookkeeping
TalkLin Wei · GrabDevOpsHall AA monolith moved across three regions with no maintenance window, told as the checklist it actually was.
Retrieval Is a Ranking Problem, Not a Database Problem
TalkTanvi Bhatt · AmazonAIHall BWhy swapping the vector store rarely helps, and what moving the reranker does instead.
A Design System Nobody Forks
TalkDaniel Osei · FigmaDesignHall CThe governance model behind a library 900 designers share, and the three escape hatches that keep it from being forked.
Deleting 80% of Our Alerts Made Us Faster
TalkArjun Pillai · SwiggyDevOpsHall AHow a peak-hour order pipeline cut its pager volume by four fifths and lowered time-to-detect at the same time.
Lunch and lightning talks
BreakTerraceWorkshop: Load Testing for a Day That Happens Once a Year
WorkshopSanjay Iyer · FlipkartDevOpsWorkshop Room 1Build a load profile from real traffic shapes, then find the knee in your own service before the sale does.
One Form, Forty-Six Countries
TalkChen Yu · StripeWebHall BAddress formats, input modes, autofill and validation, and why the field order changes per country.
What Your Resume Looks Like From the Other Side
TalkNadia Hassan · IndependentCareerHall CFour thousand screened resumes, the six seconds each one got, and what changed the outcome.
Maintaining a Build Tool Without Burning Out
TalkImran Qureshi · Vite core teamCareerHall AIssue triage, saying no in public, and the rota that finally worked.
Hiring Your First Ten Engineers
TalkLeela Varma · UltrahumanCareerHall BFour to sixty engineers in three years, and the two hires that were mistakes.
The Promotion You Should Turn Down
KeynoteMeera Krishnan · AtlassianCareerMain HallA closing keynote on the ladder nobody draws: going IC to director and back again, and what each rung actually costs.
Closing remarks and goodbyes
BreakMain Hall
Workshops are the part that sells out
Forty seats each, not recorded. Regular tickets include one; VIP includes all twelve.