Women in Systems

Women in Systems:

Join Women in Systems for a meetup bringing together researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and experiences across systems. Through lightning talks and a panel discussion, we will explore topics spanning databases, distributed systems, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, lakehouse analytics, inference systems, security, reliability, and observability.

One part of the discussion will look at where systems are headed: how changing workloads, new applications, and evolving infrastructure are challenging existing designs. This includes the systems questions raised by AI and agentic workloads, alongside broader developments in storage, query processing, orchestration, and resource management.

The meetup will make room for both research and lessons from building and operating real systems -- design choices, engineering trade-offs, challenges, and open questions. Rather than centring on a single technology, the aim is to bring together perspectives from across the systems community.

The speakers are exclusively women, but registration is open to everyone

To encourage women’s participation, especially from tier 2 and tier 3 cities, we have travel grants: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdh6ETV8iS6TYTKxVY3Hp-1PLocIlDA0TX9VtTYhP0EeFoskA/viewform?usp=preview

Event Details

Date: Saturday, 28 November 2026

Time: 10:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Venue: Microsoft Office (Bellandur)

Format: Lightning talks and a panel discussion