Hyderabad Open Source Conference - Community Collaboration

### 📢 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

NO SPOT REGISTRATIONS AT MICROSOFT ALLOWED.

IMPORTANT: This meetup is a celebration of collaboration across Hyderabad’s vibrant tech communities. Developers, leaders, and learners from multiple communities come together with a shared belief: the future of technology is built better when communities unite—through open knowledge, shared learning, and collective innovation.

Please Register Here to avoid duplicate RSVPs

• You need to RSVP at Grafana and Friends Meeup group and not at Kubernetes Over Koffee meetup session link
• RSVPs on will first go to a waiting list
• Approved participants will receive a confirmation email from [sathpal.gnec@gmail.com](mailto: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.

📣 Speaker Announcement
I am excited to be speaking at Hyderabad Open Source Conference on Behind the Scenes of Kubernetes: How the World’s Largest Open Source Project Actually Works
In this session, I will demonstrate how Kubernetes, the world's largest open source project is able to collaborate across the continents, overcoming the barriers in cultures, languages, timezones etc., and still be as robust as it is today. You will realise that it's not all about code contributions as there are many more areas involved in keeping the health and sanity of this much loved open source project.

### 🌐 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

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Registration 09:30 AM to 10:00 AM
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Keynote: The Unified Platform Vision 10:00 AM by Mehraj Faheem
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Edge AI in the Real World: From SLMs to Physical AI by Snehith Allamraju 10:15 AM
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Break 10:50 AM
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Building an Open-Source Dev Tool with GitHub Copilot by Vipul Chakravarthy 11:05 AM
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Behind the Scenes of Kubernetes: How the World’s Largest Open Source Project Actually Works by Khaja Moinuddin 11:40 AM
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Grafana Fleet Management - From Chaos to Control at Scale by Rahul kandru 12:15 PM
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Break 01:00 PM
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The Grand Quiz 02:00 PM
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The Kernel of the Cloud: Navigating the CNCF Landscape from Code to Scale by Atulpriya Sharma, Raghu Reddy 02:15 PM
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Chai, Code & Traces - AI by Vinay Gattu 02:50 PM
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The Zero-Touch Infrastruture: A Roadmap to NoOps by Kunal Das 03:25 PM
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Always-On AI: How to guarantee ‘Context’ and ‘Continuity’ in unstable environments. by Rishi Nikhilesh 04:00 PM
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Session by Nudgebee and Networking 04:30 PM