BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//HasGeek//NONSGML Funnel//EN DESCRIPTION:Call for Proposals X-WR-CALDESC:Call for Proposals 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:20260909T093003Z UID:session/9A9SasbiBzbfFJyvWwuRVy@hasgeek.com SEQUENCE:9 CREATED:20260909T084451Z DESCRIPTION:# Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference Call for Proposals\n**13-14 November 2026** \n\nRootconf 2026 Annual Conference is looking for talks\ , demos\, workshops\, discussions\, and stories from people building\, ope rating\, scaling\, securing\, observing\, and evolving modern platforms.\n \nThis year\, we are especially interested in the intersection of platform engineering and AI\, but the conference is not limited to AI-only work. W e want to understand what platform teams are dealing with right now: the s ystems they are building\, the operational problems they are solving\, the failures they are learning from\, and the new practices they are testing in production.\n\n## Direction of Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference\nRootcon f 2026 will explore two connected questions.\n\n* First\, how are platform s changing to support AI systems?\nThis includes infrastructure for infere nce\, model serving\, agents\, observability\, security\, governance\, tok en costs\, deployment workflows\, and enterprise concerns around reliabili ty and control.\n\n* Second\, how is AI changing the practice of platform engineering?\nThis includes AI-assisted operations\, agents for observabil ity or incident response\, automation for deployments and rollbacks\, secu rity workflows\, developer platforms\, and experiments where teams are usi ng AI to improve engineering systems.\n\nWe also welcome strong proposals on core platform engineering topics that may not be AI-led. Reliability\, observability\, databases\, infrastructure\, security\, scalability\, inte rnal developer platforms\, cost\, automation\, and operations remain centr al to Rootconf.\n\nThe final tracks will be shaped after we review the sub missions. We are keeping the CFP open so the program can reflect the stron gest work\, rather than forcing talks into a theme too early.\n\n## Topics we are interested in\nYou can submit work related to\, but not limited to :\n- Platforms for AI systems\n- Inference operations and model serving\n- Running AI workloads in production\n- Observability for AI systems\, agen ts\, and platform workflows\n- Guardrails\, governance\, compliance\, and security for AI-enabled systems\n- FinOps for AI\, including token costs a nd infrastructure costs\n- Enterprise approaches to self-hosted or interna lly managed AI systems\n- AI tools for SRE\, DevOps\, security\, platform engineering\, and developer experience\n- Agents for deployment\, rollback \, debugging\, incident response\, or operational workflows\n- Infrastruct ure\, scalability\, latency\, and reliability stories\n- Databases\, queue s\, distributed systems\, and storage in platform contexts\n- Internal dev eloper platforms and platform product thinking\n- Kubernetes\, orchestrati on\, operators\, automation\, and runtime platforms\n- Security\, policy\, access control\, and sandboxing\n- Failure stories\, migrations\, tradeof fs\, and hard lessons from production\n- Work in progress that would benef it from feedback or collaborators\n\nIf your work sits between domains\, t hat is welcome. We are especially interested in talks that connect technic al depth with practical experience.\n\n## Presentation formats\nWe welcome different formats\, including:\n- Technical talks\n- Case studies\n- War stories\n- Failure stories\n- Live demos\n- Project showcases\n- Work in p rogress sessions\n- Birds of Feather discussions\n- Workshops\n- Lightning talks\n\nA proposal does not need to describe a finished or polished prod uct. If you are working on something interesting\, stuck on a hard problem \, or experimenting with a new approach\, we would like to hear from you.\ n\nFor demos and showcases\, we are looking for concrete examples rather t han product pitches. Show us what was built\, what problem it solved\, wha t broke\, what changed\, and what others can learn from it.\n\n## Meet the Editors\n* Bharadwaj Embar — Engineering Manager\, Platform Engineering at Nutanix\n https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharadwajrembar/\n\n* Rolland S antimano — Principal Engineer at Rubrik \n https://www.linkedin.com/i n/rollandsantimano/\n\n* Talina Shrotiya — Senior Engineering Manager at Couchbase\n https://www.linkedin.com/in/talinashro/\n\n* Vivek Pemavat — Principal Engineer at Acceldata\n https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek- pemawat-65693213/\n\n\n## Who should consider speaking\nYou should conside r submitting a proposal if you are:\n- Building or operating platforms\, i nfrastructure\, developer tooling\, or production systems\n- Working in De vOps\, SRE\, platform engineering\, MLOps\, security\, data infrastructure \, or adjacent roles\n- Exploring how AI is changing platform work or how platforms need to support AI systems\n- Responsible for reliability\, obse rvability\, cost\, deployment\, governance\, or scale\n- Working across te ams and domains to make systems easier to build and run\n- Carrying a usef ul lesson from a migration\, incident\, architecture decision\, experiment \, or failure\n\nYou do not need to have all the answers. Rootconf values grounded stories\, honest tradeoffs\, and useful details.\n\n## Why presen t at Rootconf\nAs a presenter\, you get to:\n- Share real engineering work with a technical audience that cares about substance\n- Find peers workin g on similar problems\n- Receive feedback from practitioners across compan ies and domains\n- Make your work visible beyond your immediate team or or ganization\n- Help shape how the platform engineering community understand s new and emerging practices\n- Contribute to a conference program built a round practical learning rather than generic trend talk\n\nFor demos and s howcases\, Rootconf can be a place to find collaborators\, users\, reviewe rs\, and people who can challenge or improve your thinking.\n\n## Who shou ld attend\nRootconf 2026 is for people who build\, run\, depend on\, or ma ke decisions about engineering platforms.\n\nYou should consider attending if you are:\n- A platform engineer\, SRE\, DevOps engineer\, infrastructu re engineer\, security engineer\, MLOps engineer\, data infrastructure eng ineer\, or engineering leader\n- Building internal platforms or developer tooling\n- Evaluating how AI affects infrastructure\, operations\, observa bility\, security\, or cost\n- Looking for practical stories from teams ru nning systems in production\n- Interested in learning from failures\, trad eoffs\, and implementation details\n- Looking to meet practitioners workin g on similar problems\n\n## Why attend\nAttendees can expect:\n- Practical sessions from people doing the work\n- Concrete use cases\, demos\, and i mplementation stories\n- A view into how platform teams are responding to AI without losing sight of core engineering concerns\n- Honest discussion of failures\, risks\, costs\, and operational realities\n- Opportunities t o meet peers\, discover projects\, and exchange ideas\n- A program shaped by the quality and diversity of submissions\, not by a narrow predefined t rack structure\n\n## Next steps\nSubmit your proposal through the CFP form - https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026-cfp/cfp\n\nAfter submissions begin co ming in\, the editors team will review the quality\, range\, and direction of proposals before finalizing tracks and session formats.\n\nShortlisted speakers may be asked to share additional details or draft material befor e the final program is confirmed. This helps us keep the conference useful \, practical\, and technically grounded.\n\nWe look forward to hearing wha t you are building\, breaking\, learning\, and rethinking.\n\n## Deadline\ nSend in your proposal by **9 October 2026** at the latest.\n\n## Question s?\nWrite to info@hasgeek.com or call/text 7676332020. LAST-MODIFIED:20260909T084747Z LOCATION:Bangalore & Hybrid - https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026-cfp/ ORGANIZER;CN=Rootconf:MAILTO:no-reply@hasgeek.com URL:https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026-cfp/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference in 5 minutes TRIGGER:-PT5M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR