#59 Large Scale Production Engineering India (LSPE-IN) meet
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Event Agenda and Speaker info
10:45 - Intro over Tea
--- First Half ---
11:15 - AI Ready for SRE: A Practical Maturity Model for Integrating AI into Day-to-Day Operations - Zubia Khan & Garima Jangid, Google
Cuts through the AI hype to offer a practical maturity model for SRE. Covers how to make infrastructure "AI-ready" to reduce manual toil, build proactive systems, and adapt engineering skillsets for orchestration and safety.
Duration: 30 mins + Q&A
11:50 - Beyond Scale: Model Collapse, Diminishing Returns, and the Future of AI - Mathangy, Western Digital
Covers LLMs & SLMs, exploring what happens when scaling hits its limits and what comes next for AI development.
Duration: 30 mins + Q&A
12:30 - Lightning Talk - Pass Downs from Open Source Summit North America 2026: Speaker/Attendee Perspective - Sachin Garg
Highlights and takeaways from Open Source Summit NA 2026. (Details TBD)
Duration: 15 mins + Q&A
1:00 - Lunch
--- Second Half ---
2:00 - Agent Harness Engineering - Abhimanyu Shekhawat, Google
Duration: 30 mins + Q&A
2:35 - Operational Realities of Autonomous AI Infrastructure: Reliability, Observability & Scaling Challenges Beyond Traditional Cloud-Native Systems - SivaKumar G*, AEITY
Duration: 30 mins + Q&A
3:15 - Networking tea and closing