About Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference
Platforms for AI, and AI for Platforms
13 & 14 November
TERI Auditorium, Domlur, Bangalore; online
Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference will be held on 13th and 14th November 2026, as a hybrid event allowing participants to attend either in-person or via livestream.
Rootconf has, since its founding, served as a community-led forum for platform engineers, SREs, and infrastructure practitioners to share real operational experience. All conference topics, sessions and speakers are curated, peer-reviewed and supported by a group of community editors.
This edition also marks the first anniversary of the Rootconf Platform Engineering meet-up series, and the program will reflect that continuity — grounded engineering stories rather than trend talk.
Talks will cover war stories and production case studies — what worked, what didn’t. In addition, this edition features interactive sessions, including demos, workshops, Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions, and partayyy!
2026 Conference Direction
Rootconf 2026 explores two connected questions:
How are platforms changing to support AI systems? — infrastructure for inference, model serving, agents, observability, security, governance, token costs, deployment workflows, and enterprise concerns around reliability and control.
How is AI changing the practice of platform engineering? — AI-assisted operations, agents for observability or incident response, automation for deployments and rollbacks, security workflows, and developer platforms.
Core platform engineering topics — reliability, observability, databases, infrastructure, security, scalability, internal developer platforms, cost, automation, and operations — remain equally central. Tracks will be shaped after reviewing submissions rather than forced into a theme early.
📅 Deadline for proposals: 9 October 2026
📋 Submit here: hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026-cfp/cfp
Meet the Editors
- Bharadwaj Embar - Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering at Nutanix
- Rolland Santimano - Principal Engineer at Rubrik
- Talina Shrotiya - Senior Engineering Manager at Couchbase
- Vivek Pemavat - Principal Engineer at Acceldata
Speaking at Rootconf 2026 — submissions so far
The CFP is open and proposals are already coming in across inference infrastructure, agent systems, and production reliability stories — from practitioners at companies including Nutanix, Glance, Sahaj, and IDfy. A few standouts from the submissions received so far:
- “When the client disconnects but the agent keeps running” (Aditya Singh, Glance) — a resumable streaming architecture for long-running AI agent interactions, separating execution from delivery so a client can reconnect to a different gateway pod mid-turn.
- “Decoding at a million tokens when the KV cache lives in host memory” (Vivek Kalyanarangan, IDfy) — a measured account of what actually bounds a decode step once KV cache moves to host RAM, across six index designs, with a 1.67x speedup from a new indexing scheme.
- “When agents go rogue: building a zero-trust agent mesh” (Kanika Singhal, Nutanix) — treating AI agents as untrusted workloads and enforcing egress policy at the network layer to contain prompt-injection-driven data exfiltration.
Meanwhile, submit your demo/talk/workshop/BOF here --> http://has.gy/cC7G
Volunteer with Rootconf 2026
Rootconf runs on community effort as much as on talks. We’re looking for volunteers to help with:
- On-ground floor operations and registration during the conference and workshop days
- Workshop coordination and speaker support
- Editorial support — reviewing proposals, working with speakers on drafts
- Documentation and live-notes during sessions
Volunteer application form will be added this week.
About the Audience
- Platform engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers, infrastructure engineers, security engineers
- MLOps and data infrastructure engineers
- Engineering leaders evaluating how AI affects infrastructure, operations, observability, security, or cost
- Practitioners building internal developer platforms and tooling
Contact
💬 Write to info@hasgeek.com or call/text +91-7676332020.