AI, DPDP & the new data perimeter

A curated round table on securing sensitive data at runtime

📝 Date: Tuesday, 25 August 2026
📝 Time: 1:30 PM arrival & networking · 2:00–3:30 PM round table · 3:30 PM onwards high tea & networking
📝 Venue: InMobi, Bengaluru
📝 Format: Round table with 25 technology practitioners working on rearchitecting their organization’s data landscape for DPDP compliance.

About the round table: practitioner focus

DPDP Rules, 2025 are notified law now. Organizations must comply with obligations such as 72-hour breach notification, 90-day erasure response, and annual audits for Significant Data Fiduciaries (SDFs). Most enterprise AI stacks weren’t built to adhere to these obligations. Vector stores, agent memory, and foreign-hosted inference calls don’t map cleanly onto DPDP’s assumptions about consent boundaries and data lineage.
This round table is for the people building the controls — enterprise architects, experienced security and data engineers, and GRC practitioners working inside the data pipeline rather than around it. If your work involves reading model logs, implementing redaction, writing IAM policies, designing audit trails into agent workflows, or deciding where tokenization sits in a RAG pipeline — this session is for you. The legal language and policy drafting involved in DPDP will not be the main focus of the discussion.
We want experienced practitioners to participate: those who have seen the patterns in how different enterprises are handling data management and compliance, what worked and what didn’t.
The conversation stays close to the Rules themselves. Where does tokenization or access control actually sit in a RAG pipeline? What happens to consent when an agent is mid-session? What does “SDF-ready” runtime control look like, before you’re forced into it?

📝 Hosts

The Fifth Elephant is hosting this round table.
Ravi Balgi, community editor at The Fifth Elephant and architect at DataNimbus is curating and moderating the conversation. His own work in enterprise technology and payments architecture, and the patterns he is tracking across enterprises adopting DPDP, shape the questions to stay grounded in the Rules’ actual text and the real architecture decisions teams are wrestling with right now.
InMobi is hosting the round table on-site. InMobi will also participate in the discussion on how to navigate DPDP’s implications for AI-scale data architecture.
Roshmik Saha, co-founder & CTO, Skyflow, joins as a practitioner who has built encryption, tokenization, and runtime data-access systems at this scale — engaging as a peer on an open industry problem.

How to participate

Seats are limited. Members of The Fifth Elephant and Rootconf communities can register directly and bring a +1. If you are not the right person from your organization for this conversation, you are welcome to bring a colleague in your place — or nominate them instead of yourself — as long as they’re hands-on with data architecture or DPDP compliance work.

Register/nominate a colleague → https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/dpdp-round-table/#register-modal

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