25+
Senior Speakers
India's Definitive Conference For Tech Builders In The AI Era
6
Content Tracks
750+
Curated Attendees
10+
Networking Hours
// ABOUT DEVNEXT HYDERABAD.
ONE DAY. SIX TRACKS. 750 AI-ERA TECH BUILDERS.
A room of 750 engineers and developers who are done waiting for the AI era to arrive — because they're already building it.
DevNext is where India's most ambitious AI-native tech builders converge for a day of depth, debate and high-signal networking — across keynote sessions, practitioner panels, live fireside chats, hands-on workshops and open floor debates that put the hardest engineering questions in the room.
Go deeper, move faster and shape what comes next in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad.
- Senior developer-first content tracks
- Immersive summit experiences
- Live hackathon challenge showcase
- High-signal peer networking
// SIX TRACKS ACROSS THE AI-ERA STACK
CURATED FOR TECH BUILDERS SHAPING THE AI FUTURE
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TRACK 01 AI IN ENGINEERING
From prompt engineering to multi-agent orchestration, from LLM evaluation pipelines to AI-augmented developer tooling — this track goes into the layer most conference talks skip. You will leave with an architectural understanding of how AI is wired into production engineering systems, and the specific decisions that separate a robust AI deployment from a fragile one.
Core points
- LLM evaluation and hallucination mitigation in live systems
- Agentic workflow governance and guardrails
- RAG architecture design for enterprise-grade retrieval
- AI observability: monitoring model behaviour in production
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TRACK 02 CLOUD & PLATFORM ENGINEERING
AI workloads are fundamentally reshaping platform architecture — from GPU-aware scheduling and vector database infrastructure to the FinOps models that keep AI at scale financially viable. This track is built for platform engineers who need to evolve their stack to carry the weight of AI-native applications without compromising on reliability or developer experience.
Core points
- AI-optimised infrastructure: GPU scheduling and vector DB architecture
- Platform engineering for LLM workloads at production scale
- Developer experience in the AI era: portals, golden paths and self-service
- Multi-cloud AI deployment: latency, cost and compliance trade-offs
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TRACK 03 SECURE ENGINEERING
AI introduces an entirely new attack surface: adversarial prompts, model inversion, data poisoning, and non-deterministic outputs that defy conventional testing. This track is for engineers who need to secure AI systems from the inside out — embedding security into design decisions before the first line of code, not as an audit after deployment.
Core points
- Adversarial AI: prompt injection, jailbreaks and red-teaming LLMs
- AI model supply chain security and third-party risk
- Data lineage and privacy governance for AI training pipelines
- Zero-trust architecture for AI-integrated microservices
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TRACK 04 DEVOPS & SRE
AI systems fail in ways traditional software does not: model drift, non-deterministic outputs, latency spikes from inference layers, and cascading failures in agentic pipelines. This track equips SRE and DevOps engineers with the reliability frameworks, observability tooling and chaos engineering practices purpose-built for AI-era production environments.
Core points
- SLOs for AI: defining and measuring reliability in non-deterministic systems
- Chaos engineering for agentic pipelines and LLM-dependent services
- AIOps: using machine learning to automate incident detection and response
- Canary deployments and progressive delivery for model updates
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TRACK 05 ARCHITECTURE & SCALE
AI does not replace architectural rigour — it raises the stakes of every decision. This track goes deep on the system design choices that determine whether an AI-integrated platform survives production at scale: data flow architecture, consistency models, distributed inference patterns and the reliability contracts that hold complex systems together when everything else is non-deterministic.
Core points
- Distributed inference architecture: latency, throughput and cost at scale
- Event-driven architecture for real-time AI workloads
- Data mesh design for AI-native organisations
- Designing for graceful degradation in AI-dependent critical paths
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TRACK 06 CAREER & ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP
The AI era is not just transforming what engineers build — it is transforming what engineering leaders are expected to be. This track is for the senior engineer at the inflection point: the one learning to make architectural decisions, manage technical debt as a business variable, lead distributed teams and steer an engineering culture through an AI transition that has no established playbook.
Core points
- Leading AI adoption within engineering teams: culture, resistance and pace
- Build vs buy decisions in the age of foundation models and open-source AI
- Measuring engineering effectiveness in AI-augmented delivery environments
- The architect's role in AI governance: risk, accountability and decision ownership
// WHO IS IN THE ROOM THE ASSEMBLY ZONE FOR INDIA'S AI-NATIVE TECH BUILDERS
- Senior & Staff Engineers
- Principal Engineers
- Backend / Frontend / Full-Stack
- DevOps & SRE
- Cloud & Platform Engineers
- Data & AI/ML Engineers
- Security Engineers
- QA & SDETs
- Tech Leads
- Engineering Managers
- Solution Architects
- Engineering Leads / Managers
// BEYOND THE STAGE
BUILT TO BE EXPERIENCED, NOT WATCHED
Six hands-on, competitive and career-defining experiences — open to every pass holder on the floor.
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EXPERIENCE 01
THE SHARED SANDBOX
Developers pair in a live cloud workspace and build together in real time — zero setup, maximum signal.
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EXPERIENCE 02
BREAK-THE-BUILD CHALLENGE
Individuals & teams race to find and fix a sabotaged pipeline — debugging and incident response, against the clock.
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EXPERIENCE 03
THE TECH GD
A moderated group debate on a live engineering question in the AI era — every voice in, the sharpest arguments rising to the top.
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EXPERIENCE 04
HIRED IN 5
Attempt and crack a challenge and earn yourself a five-minute, signal-dense conversation with hiring teams — portfolios over resumes, matched on the floor.
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EXPERIENCE 05
THE KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
Peer-to-peer networking opportunity where tech builders share what's actually working — real problems, real solutions, no slides.
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EXPERIENCE 06
THE NETWORKING FLOOR
Curated open networking with role-based introductions — so the right engineers find each other without the awkwardness of a conference room.
// PASSES
YOUR SEAT IN INDIA'S AI-NATIVE BUILDER COMMUNITY
Early Bird Pass capped at 150 seats only
- Priority Pass Ends On 26th June
- Early Bird Pass Ends On 16th July
- Regular Pass Ends On 2nd August
- Late Pass Ends On 27th August
- Super Late Pass Ends On 16th September
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// Limited Availability
INDIVIDUAL PASS
Perfect for senior developers and engineers ready to go deeper on AI, architecture and the leadership leap.
₹1,499/PERSON
- Main Stage Access
- All Track Access
- Networking Lunch
- Attendee Swag Kit
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// Limited Availability
TEAM PASS
Bring your engineering team and leave with a shared language for what to build next in the AI era.
₹5,999 FOR 5
- Everything In Individual Pass
- 5 Passes
- Dedicated Account Manager
- Branding As Leadership Partner
- Team Photo At Venue
// STAY READY
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// GOT QUESTIONS? WE'VE GOT ANSWERS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WHEN AND WHERE IS DEVNEXT Hyderabad?
DevNext Hyderabad will take place on September 26, 2026 at Novotel, Hyderabad. Doors open at 9am. The day runs until 7pm.
WHO IS DEVNEXT BUILT FOR?
DevNext is built for developers and engineers with 4–12 years of experience — professionals moving from execution to architecture, AI adoption and engineering leadership. It is not a beginner event and it is not a CXO summit. It is built for the engineer in between.
ARE TICKETS REFUNDABLE?
This is a highly curated event. In case you are selected for the conference, tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable. If your application is not accepted, then the amount will be refunded in full.
HOW IS DEVNEXT DIFFERENT FROM OTHER TECH CONFERENCES IN INDIA?
Most conferences are built for CXOs or complete beginners. DevNext is built for the experienced professional in between — the developer who's already mastered the stack and wants to dominate in the AI era. Every speaker, every session and every format is designed for that person.
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