IntelliCON 2025 - Global AI X Grafana & Friends Hyderabad September Meetup

📢 Important to Note
We’re excited to welcome you to the IntelliCON 2025 - Global AI X Grafana & Friends Hyderabad September meet-up.
To make the experience smooth for everyone, please keep in mind:

• RSVPs will first go to a waiting list.
• Approved participants will receive a confirmation email from Global AI Hyderabad - hyderabad@globalai.community 2–3 days before the event.
• To keep it fair for all, on-spot registrations won’t be possible.
• If you’re unable to attend after approval, please reply to the confirmation email.
• Since we want everyone to have a chance, no-shows without notice may affect approvals for future Global AI events.

Thank you for helping us keep the onboarding simple, fair, and hassle-free.
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### 🌟About IntelliCon 2025
IntelliCon 2025 is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Global AI Hyderabad and Grafana & Friends Hyderabad. This unique partnership brings together the worlds of Artificial Intelligence and Cloud-Native Observability to spark conversations, knowledge sharing, and hands-on learning.
From lightning keynotes to deep-dive sessions and a practical workshop, IntelliCon is designed to explore how AI and reliability engineering intersect helping the community build scalable, observable, and resilient systems.
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### 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM – Welcome Coffee & Networking ☕

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM – Opening Remarks & Keynotes
Keynotes

• Sathpal Singh - Associate Director, Cloud & AI Architect, Community Builder - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathpalsingh/
• Venkat J - https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkatrj/
• Utkarsha Sane - Product Manager, Microsoft - https://www.linkedin.com/in/utkarsha-s-sane/

10:00 AM– 12:30 PM – Speaker Sessions

• Sitaram Tadepalli – Senior Vice President - ML Engineering @DBS Tech India - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitaramtadepalli/

• Topic: Observability in Agentic AI

• Debjyoti Maity – Site Reliability Engineer @Infracloud Technologies - https://www.linkedin.com/in/debjyoti-maity-29077b60/

• Topic: Smarter Kubernetes with AI Agents

• Shiva RV – Deputy Chief of AI Platforms Build @National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarvee11/

• Topic: OpenTelemetry Contribution on Anomaly Detection

• Rahil Tiwari - SDE II @Microsoft - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahiltiwari/

• Topic: Agents using AutoGen

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM – Lunch + Networking 🍴
1:15 PM to 3:00 PM - Workshop (Please see pre requisite doc attached)

• Bhavana Konchada - Principal Software Engineer @Microsoft - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavana-konchada/
• Topic: Getting Started with Azure AI Foundry
  In this hands-on session, participants will get introduced to the basics of Azure AI Foundry — Microsoft’s platform for building and managing AI solutions. The workshop will walk through the fundamentals and guide you step-by-step to deploy your very first AI Agent, giving you practical insights into how AI Foundry can accelerate real-world use cases.

3:00 PM – Closing Notes + Group Photo 📸