BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//HasGeek//NONSGML Funnel//EN DESCRIPTION:Platforms for AI\, and AI for Platforms X-WR-CALDESC:Platforms for AI\, and AI for Platforms NAME:Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference X-WR-CALNAME:Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H SUMMARY:Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference TIMEZONE-ID:Asia/Kolkata X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference DTSTART:20261113T033000Z DTEND:20261114T123000Z DTSTAMP:20260921T000441Z UID:session/LWyGVHGJ3WDPbgbCHUyqyj@hasgeek.com SEQUENCE:5 CREATED:20260920T112808Z DESCRIPTION:## About Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference\n*Platforms for AI\, and AI for Platforms*\n**13 & 14 November**\n**TERI Auditorium\, Domlur\, Bangalore\; online**\n\nRootconf 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.\n\nRootconf has\, since its fo unding\, served as a community-led forum for platform engineers\, SREs\, a nd 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.\n\nThis edition also marks the **first anniversary of the Rootconf Platform Engineering meet-up series**\ , and the program will reflect that continuity — grounded engineering st ories rather than trend talk.\n\nTalks will cover war stories and producti on case studies — what worked\, what didn't. In addition\, this edition features interactive sessions\, including demos\, workshops\, Birds of Fea ther (BOF) sessions\, and partayyy!\n\n### 2026 Conference Direction\nRoot conf 2026 explores two connected questions:\n\n**How are platforms changin g to support AI systems?** — infrastructure for inference\, model servin g\, agents\, observability\, security\, governance\, token costs\, deploym ent workflows\, and enterprise concerns around reliability and control.\n\ n**How is AI changing the practice of platform engineering?** — AI-assis ted operations\, agents for observability or incident response\, automatio n for deployments and rollbacks\, security workflows\, and developer platf orms.\n\nCore 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 int o a theme early.\n\n📅 Deadline for proposals: **9 October 2026**\n📋 Submit here: [hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026-cfp/cfp](https://hasgeek.com/rootc onf/2026-cfp/cfp)\n\n---\n\n### Meet the Editors\n1. **Bharadwaj Embar** - Engineering Manager\, Platform Engineering at Nutanix\n2. **Rolland Santi mano** - Principal Engineer at Rubrik\n3. **Talina Shrotiya** - Senior Eng ineering Manager at Couchbase\n4. **Vivek Pemavat** - Principal Engineer a t Acceldata\n\n---\n\n### Speaking at Rootconf 2026 — submissions so far \nThe CFP is open and proposals are already coming in across inference inf rastructure\, 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:\n\n* ["When the clie nt disconnects but the agent keeps running"](https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/ 2026-cfp/sub/add-a-catchy-title-or-a-work-in-progress-wip-title-Gsm3GKzbaV 5RrrWLq5AAUR) (Aditya Singh\, Glance) — a resumable streaming architectu re for long-running AI agent interactions\, separating execution from deli very so a client can reconnect to a different gateway pod mid-turn.\n* "[D ecoding at a million tokens when the KV cache lives in host memory](https: //hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026-cfp/sub/decoding-at-a-million-tokens-when-the- kv-cache-liv-TY5Pizw9k9uHF1NpkfRhxB)" (Vivek Kalyanarangan\, IDfy) — a m easured 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 i ndexing scheme.\n* ["When agents go rogue: building a zero-trust agent mes h"](https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026-cfp/sub/when-agents-go-rogue-buildin g-a-zero-trust-agent-m-4sfTQGcN4xASTJq3cmViGi) (Kanika Singhal\, Nutanix) — treating AI agents as untrusted workloads and enforcing egress policy at the network layer to contain prompt-injection-driven data exfiltration. \n\nMeanwhile\, submit your demo/talk/workshop/BOF here --> http://has.gy/ cC7G\n\n---\n\n### Volunteer with Rootconf 2026\nRootconf runs on communit y effort as much as on talks. We're looking for volunteers to help with:\n \n- On-ground floor operations and registration during the conference and workshop days\n- Workshop coordination and speaker support\n- Editorial su pport — reviewing proposals\, working with speakers on drafts\n- Documen tation and live-notes during sessions\n\n*Volunteer application form will be added this week.*\n\n---\n\n### About the Audience\n- Platform engineer s\, SREs\, DevOps engineers\, infrastructure engineers\, security engineer s\n- MLOps and data infrastructure engineers\n- Engineering leaders evalua ting how AI affects infrastructure\, operations\, observability\, security \, or cost\n- Practitioners building internal developer platforms and tool ing\n\n---\n\n### Contact\n💬 Write to info@hasgeek.com or call/text +91 -7676332020. 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