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:20261120T033000Z DTEND:20261121T123000Z DTSTAMP:20261110T160141Z UID:session/9A9SasbiBzbfFJyvWwuRVy@hasgeek.com SEQUENCE:18 CREATED:20260909T084451Z DESCRIPTION:# Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference schedule\n**20-21 November 2 026** \n**View schedule: https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/schedule**\n\n Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference is looking for talks\, demos\, workshops\, discussions\, and stories from people building\, operating\, scaling\, se curing\, 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. We want to understand what platform teams are dealing with right now: the systems they are build ing\, the operational problems they are solving\, the failures they are le arning from\, and the new practices they are testing in production.\n\n## Direction of Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference\nRootconf 2026 will explore t wo connected questions.\n\n* First\, how are platforms changing to support AI systems?\nThis includes infrastructure for inference\, model serving\, agents\, observability\, security\, governance\, token costs\, deployment workflows\, and enterprise concerns around reliability and control.\n\n* Second\, how is AI changing the practice of platform engineering?\nThis in cludes AI-assisted operations\, agents for observability or incident respo nse\, automation for deployments and rollbacks\, security workflows\, deve loper platforms\, and experiments where teams are using AI to improve engi neering systems.\n\nWe also welcome strong proposals on core platform engi neering topics that may not be AI-led. Reliability\, observability\, datab ases\, infrastructure\, security\, scalability\, internal developer platfo rms\, cost\, automation\, and operations remain central to Rootconf.\n\nTh e final tracks will be shaped after we review the submissions. We are keep ing the CFP open so the program can reflect the strongest work\, rather th an 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\, agents\, and platform wor kflows\n- Guardrails\, governance\, compliance\, and security for AI-enabl ed systems\n- FinOps for AI\, including token costs and infrastructure cos ts\n- Enterprise approaches to self-hosted or internally managed AI system s\n- AI tools for SRE\, DevOps\, security\, platform engineering\, and dev eloper experience\n- Agents for deployment\, rollback\, debugging\, incide nt response\, or operational workflows\n- Infrastructure\, scalability\, l atency\, and reliability stories\n- Databases\, queues\, distributed syste ms\, and storage in platform contexts\n- Internal developer platforms and platform product thinking\n- Kubernetes\, orchestration\, operators\, auto mation\, and runtime platforms\n- Security\, policy\, access control\, and sandboxing\n- Failure stories\, migrations\, tradeoffs\, and hard lessons from production\n- Work in progress that would benefit from feedback or c ollaborators\n\nIf your work sits between domains\, that is welcome. We ar e especially interested in talks that connect technical depth with practic al experience.\n\n## Presentation formats\nWe welcome different formats\, including:\n- Technical talks\n- Case studies\n- War stories\n- Failure st ories\n- Live demos\n- Project showcases\n- Work in progress sessions\n- B irds of Feather discussions\n- Workshops\n- Lightning talks\n\nA proposal does not need to describe a finished or polished product. If you are worki ng on something interesting\, stuck on a hard problem\, or experimenting w ith a new approach\, we would like to hear from you.\n\nFor demos and show cases\, we are looking for concrete examples rather than product pitches. Show us what was built\, what problem it solved\, what broke\, what change d\, 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 Santimano — Principa l Engineer at Rubrik \n https://www.linkedin.com/in/rollandsantimano/\n \n* Talina Shrotiya — Senior Engineering Manager at Couchbase\n https: //www.linkedin.com/in/talinashro/\n\n* Vivek Pemavat — Principal Enginee r at Acceldata\n https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-pemawat-65693213/\n\n \n## Who should consider speaking\nYou should consider submitting a propos al if you are:\n- Building or operating platforms\, infrastructure\, devel oper tooling\, or production systems\n- Working in DevOps\, SRE\, platform engineering\, MLOps\, security\, data infrastructure\, or adjacent roles\ n- Exploring how AI is changing platform work or how platforms need to sup port AI systems\n- Responsible for reliability\, observability\, cost\, de ployment\, governance\, or scale\n- Working across teams and domains to ma ke systems easier to build and run\n- Carrying a useful lesson from a migr ation\, incident\, architecture decision\, experiment\, or failure\n\nYou do not need to have all the answers. Rootconf values grounded stories\, ho nest tradeoffs\, and useful details.\n\n## Why present at Rootconf\nAs a p resenter\, you get to:\n- Share real engineering work with a technical aud ience that cares about substance\n- Find peers working on similar problems \n- Receive feedback from practitioners across companies and domains\n- Ma ke your work visible beyond your immediate team or organization\n- Help sh ape how the platform engineering community understands new and emerging pr actices\n- Contribute to a conference program built around practical learn ing rather than generic trend talk\n\nFor demos and showcases\, Rootconf c an be a place to find collaborators\, users\, reviewers\, and people who c an challenge or improve your thinking.\n\n## Who should attend\nRootconf 2 026 is for people who build\, run\, depend on\, or make decisions about en gineering platforms.\n\nYou should consider attending if you are:\n- A pla tform engineer\, SRE\, DevOps engineer\, infrastructure engineer\, securit y engineer\, MLOps engineer\, data infrastructure engineer\, or engineerin g leader\n- Building internal platforms or developer tooling\n- Evaluating how AI affects infrastructure\, operations\, observability\, security\, o r cost\n- Looking for practical stories from teams running systems in prod uction\n- Interested in learning from failures\, tradeoffs\, and implement ation details\n- Looking to meet practitioners working on similar problems \n\n## Why attend\nAttendees can expect:\n- Practical sessions from people doing the work\n- Concrete use cases\, demos\, and implementation stories \n- A view into how platform teams are responding to AI without losing sig ht of core engineering concerns\n- Honest discussion of failures\, risks\, costs\, and operational realities\n- Opportunities to meet peers\, discov er projects\, and exchange ideas\n- A program shaped by the quality and di versity of submissions\, not by a narrow predefined track structure\n\n## Next steps\nSubmit your proposal through the CFP form - https://hasgeek.co m/rootconf/2026-cfp/sub\n\nAfter submissions begin coming in\, the editors team will review the quality\, range\, and direction of proposals before finalizing tracks and session formats.\n\nShortlisted speakers may be aske d to share additional details or draft material before the final program i s confirmed. This helps us keep the conference useful\, practical\, and te chnically grounded.\n\nWe look forward to hearing what you are building\, breaking\, learning\, and rethinking.\n\n## Deadline\nSend in your proposa l by **9 October 2026** at the latest.\n\n## Questions?\nWrite to info@has geek.com or call/text 7676332020. LAST-MODIFIED:20261104T091314Z 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