### 📢 Important to Note

We’re excited to welcome you to the Hyderabad Open Source Conference 2026.
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 sathpal.gnec@gmail.com 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.

Thank you for helping us keep the onboarding simple, fair, and hassle-free.
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### 🌐 About the Event

This event is a **celebration of collaboration across Hyderabad’s vibrant tech communities**, coming together with a shared belief: **the future of technology is built better when communities unite**.
On **31st January 2026 at Microsoft Building 1**, we are bringing multiple grassroots and global tech communities under one roof — Python, GitHub, Kubernetes, Grafana, CNCF, SRE, CAST AI, and Global AI — to create a **Unified Platform Community Day**.
This is not a typical conference. It’s a **community-first experience** designed to:

* Encourage **cross-pollination of ideas** between diverse tech domains
* Break silos between developers, platform engineers, SREs, and AI practitioners
* Foster **real conversations, not just talks**
* Enable learning that is practical, hands-on, and immediately applicable

The day kicks off with a **visionary keynote** that sets the tone for why unified platforms, shared tooling, and community-driven innovation matter more than ever. From there, each session is curated and led by **community experts**, sharing real-world experiences, lessons learned, and emerging trends.
What makes this event truly special is the **collaborative spirit**:

* Communities are not just participating — they are **co-creating the agenda**
* Attendees are not passive listeners — they become **contributors and collaborators**
* The event culminates in a **crowdsourced live hackathon**, where ideas turn into action

Whether you are a **developer, platform engineer, SRE, cloud architect, AI enthusiast, or community organizer**, this event offers a space to learn, connect, and build together.
At its core, this collaboration reflects a simple but powerful idea:

> *When communities come together, innovation accelerates.*

We invite you to be part of this journey — to learn from each other, build meaningful connections, and shape the next chapter of our tech ecosystem, together.

### 📅 Event Agenda

**Date:** 31st January 2026
**Time:** 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
**Location:** Microsoft Building 1

***

### 🕘 9:30 – 10:00 \| Registration

* Attendee check-in & networking

### 🕙 10:00 – 10:30 \| Keynote

**The Unified Platform Vision**
Setting the tone for a collaborative, open, and future-ready tech ecosystem.

### ☕ 10:30 – 10:45 \| Coffee & Buffer

* Networking break

### 🧠 10:45 – 11:15 \| Session 1

**Python User Group**
Insights, community use cases, and ecosystem updates.

### 🧑‍💻 11:15 – 11:45 \| Session 2

**GitHub**
Modern developer workflows, collaboration, and open source practices.

### ☸️ 11:45 – 12:15 \| Session 3

**K8s over Coffee**
Kubernetes conversations made simple and practical.

### 📊 12:15 – 12:45 \| Session 4

**Grafana**
Observability, metrics, logs, traces, and performance insights.

### 🍽️ 12:45 – 1:30 \| Lunch Break

* Lunch & informal networking

### 🧩 1:30 – 2:00 \| The Grand Quiz

* Interactive quiz with exciting prizes

### 🌐 2:00 – 2:30 \| Session 5

**CNCF**
Cloud Native landscape, projects, and community growth.

### 🚨 2:30 – 3:00 \| Session 6

**SRE**
Reliability engineering, incident response, and operational excellence.

### 💸 3:00 – 3:30 \| Session 7

**CAST AI**
Kubernetes cost optimization and intelligent automation.

### 🤖 3:30 – 4:00 \| Session 8

**Global AI**
AI trends, community initiatives, and real-world adoption stories.

### 🛠️ 4:00 – 4:30 \| Crowdsourced Live Hackathon

* Collaborative problem-solving
* Community-driven ideas & demos

***

### 🎉 4:30 \| Wrap\-up & Networking

* Closing notes and community interactions

Grafana & Friends Hyderabad

Sathpal Singh

Navaneeth Krishna

Grafana Community

Jahnavi Logani

Rahul kandru

Abhiroop Mukherjee

Abhinav Ponnala

Hyderabad Open Source Conference - Community Collaboration

Microsoft Building 1

## 🌐 Grafana & Friends Mumbai — Online \| Feb 2026

Hello folks! 👋
We’re excited to kick off **2026** with our first **Grafana & Friends Mumbai** meetup — and this one is **online**, so you can experience it from anywhere! 🚀
This session is designed to be **student-friendly, beginner-focused**, and community-driven, with talks centered around **Grafana, observability, and real-world learning journeys**.
🎤 **Speakers and agenda will be revealed soon**, so stay tuned!

### 📅 Event Details

* **Date:** 6th February 2026 (**Friday**)
* **Time:** 5:30 PM IST
* **Mode:** Online

### ✨ What to Expect

* Beginner-friendly Grafana talks
* Practical insights and learning-focused sessions
* Community stories and real-world use cases
* Live Q&A and interactive discussions

Whether you’re a **student, early-career professional, or Grafana enthusiast**, this meetup is a great place to learn, connect, and grow with the community.

📌 **Speakers & topics coming soon**

📌 **Registrations open — save your spot!**

🌟 **Join our WhatsApp community** to stay updated with speaker announcements and future events: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FrInNqM5OGH5fEkWUaNKN8

We look forward to seeing you online — let’s learn and build together! 💬

#Grafana #GrafanaAndFriends #MumbaiTech #Observability #OpenSource #Community #Meetup #OnlineEvent

Grafana & Friends Mumbai

Nikita Shinde

Prajwal Deshpande

SHIVAM GUPTA

Amit Kumar Upadhyay

Hrithik Sawant

Omkar Baliram Kale

rahulmagar11

Amitabh Soni

Jayesh Wadile

Uddhabendra Maity

Saumya Mishra

Vikas Arora

Parasharam Tanaji Desai

Aziz Saya

Dhruv K

Vidhya Venkatesan

shaikhsufiyan1246

nikunj j

uddesh8788

Santosh Chanda

Grafana & Friends Mumbai — Online | Feb 2026

Online event

Get ready for an exciting event with **Grafana & Friends Pune: Happy Hours**! Grafana Labs is all set to host its next happy hour in Pune in collaboration with **Observability India** and **[Josh Software](https://www.joshsoftware.com/)**. This session will bring together industry experts to discuss the latest trends and advancements in monitoring, observability, dashboarding, and much more.

*Note: This is an in-person event; no recordings will be available post-event.*

Got insights to share? Call for Papers is now open! **Submit your talk [here](https://forms.gle/QxctYXQBq1o7hAqAA)**.

We look forward to meeting you in person for a morning filled with insightful sessions, networking, and shared experiences!For any questions or to express interest in future speaking opportunities, please contact the organizers. More details on speakers and the complete agenda will be shared soon!

Grafana & Friends Pune

Ajinkya Sawant

Ruturaj Kadikar

sabareesan murugesan

Rahul Chaudhari

Hrishikesh Darbastwar

abbiradar2005

Himanshu Sangshetti

Tamal Karmakar

swinal kamble

Pushparag Vaidya

Vishvas Dubey

Mohammad Sagari

SUCHETA G DHERE

Siddharth Mehta 

Prince kumar

Shobha Kumari

shaikhsaim

preetpatidar13

anandmehta2024

Peruri Santhosh Uday

Grafana & Friends x Observability India Happy Hours

Josh Software

Join us for presentations, snacks, and discussion! This time around we have an agenda of monitoring topics on the complete opposite spectrum. We'll talk about pure hobbyist monitoring topics, AI prompt based workflows and debugging your production Kubernetes clusters when they are on fire.

**Special thanks to Nokia and Mark Prosser for hosting us at their downtown office.**

**Agenda:**

6:00-6:15 PM: Arrivals and introductions

6:15-6:35 PM: Observability Sidequests

6:35-6:40 PM: Q&A

6:40-7:10 PM: Uh, is this a good idea? Examining the viability of reusable AI prompt-based workflows for developers

7:10-7:15 PM: Q&A

7:15-7:35 PM: Debugging your Kubernetes Cluster when it's on fire.

7:35-7:40 PM: Q&A

7:40-8:00 PM: Q&A, networking and wrap up

**Talk 1: Observability Sidequests! - Eldin from Grafana**
Eldin will demo some of his personal use dashboards, like monitoring his 3D printer and household CO2 and temperature sensors.

**Eldin** helps people make sense of their systems through better observability. He's spent years in support, services, and advisory roles, so he knows what it really takes to make tech work in the real world. These days, he's all about helping teams solve modern observability challenges and systems that actually make life easier.

**Talk 2: Uh, is this a good idea? Examining the viability of reusable AI prompt-based workflows for developers - Adriana - Dynatrace**
It’s tempting to throw AI onto everything we do these days. But do we have to?

Can we be lazy enough to tell our AI assistant to set up our local developer tooling for us with just some well-constructed prompts, without having to rely on our platform engineering friends?

Can we achieve the Star Trek dream of saying, “Computer, run level 10 diagnostic.” and the computer would just know? And could it be repeatable and shareable?

This talk explores the developer's journey of creating a natural-language, reusable prompt-based workflow with Block's Codename Goose to provision a local development environment.

Attendees will learn about:
\* MCP and Goose
\* The target demo workflow
\* Challenges faced, and key takeaways

Attendees will also come away with an understanding of the possibilities and limits of creating reusable prompt-based workflows, answering the question: can developers self-provision tools using natural language? And just because they CAN, SHOULD THEY?

**Adriana Villela** is a blogger, host of the Geeking Out podcast, CNCF Ambassador, and maintainer of the OpenTelemetry End User SIG. By day, she focuses on Observability and OpenTelemetry, as a Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace. By night, she climbs walls. She also loves capybaras, because they make her happy.

**Talk 3: Debugging your Kubernetes Cluster when it's on fire - Nikola Grcevski - Grafana**

Imagine you have a Kubernetes cluster that’s hosting some number of services, perhaps these services are written in different programming languages, perhaps there are some databases in the cluster too. Now, imagine that this cluster is intermittently experiencing errors and it’s not easy to tell what’s going on.

In this talk I will show you how you can add detailed telemetry immediately to a problematic production environment cluster, without any changes to your existing cluster configuration or applications, with the new OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation project. We’ll show you how you’ll be able to get insights into what’s wrong with your cluster or services, by leveraging on-demand distributed traces and connectivity graphs, even if it’s the first time you have heard the term OpenTelemetry.

**Nikola Grcevski** has worked as a software engineer for more than 20 years, mostly in the field of compilers, managed runtimes and performance optimization. Most recently he's working on low level application instrumentation with eBPF at Grafana Labs.

Grafana & Friends Toronto

Nikola Grcevski

Clarence Mills

Sachneet Bajaj

Huanning Wang

Kriti Bhandari

Yurii

Mark Prosser

Daniel

Greg K

John R. Southern

Tobiloba

IRYNA

shashankananthoju

Mubasher Khan Mohammed

Roy Reshef

Lewis Luo

Pavel

jonathan kean

Shuduo Sang

Observability Sidequests, AI prompt workflows and debugging Kubernetes Clusters

Nokia Toronto Downtown (14th floor)

🚀 **CNCF Meetup X Grafana & Friends Kolkata – The Platform Effect**

We’re back — and this time, it’s all about **The Platform Effect**.
How platforms are redefining cloud-native, engineering velocity, and the way teams build, scale, and operate modern systems.

This meetup dives deep into:
☁️ Cloud-native architectures
⚙️ Platform Engineering in real-world systems
🚢 Kubernetes at scale
🧠 Building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
🔁 Observability, automation & cloud operations
🌐 The future of cloud ecosystems

If you’re building on cloud, running platforms, scaling infra, or engineering products on Kubernetes — this one’s for you.

📅 **Event Date:** 21st Feb 2026
📝 **Registrations Open:** 26th Jan 2026
📣 **CFP:** Coming soon (speaker registrations opening shortly)

Whether you’re a **developer**, **SRE**, **platform engineer**, **founder**, or **cloud architect** — this meetup is where ideas, infra, and innovation collide.

Let’s talk cloud.
Let’s talk platforms.
Let’s build the next layer of the internet. 🌍⚡

#CNCF #ThePlatformEffect #CloudNative #PlatformEngineering #Kubernetes #DevOps #SRE #CloudCommunity #CloudIndia #CloudEvents #OpenSource

Grafana & Friends Kolkata

Saptadeep Banerjee

Shivam (Anirudh) Nandy

Sourav upadhyay

nishikumari82414300

Abhinav 

Rohit Goyal

sanu mondal

subhrasekhargarai

Shubhradip Manna

Debabrata Mandal

Shreya Banerjee

Ganpati Raj

Sorabaddin Mallick

KAUSHIK MITRA 

Abhik Paul

debajitpal.380718

Sujal Shaw

neerajkumarburnwal.cse2021

Heak josh

the platform effect

Grafana

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