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:20261019T134707Z UID:session/LWyGVHGJ3WDPbgbCHUyqyj@hasgeek.com SEQUENCE:21 CREATED:20260920T112808Z DESCRIPTION:### Platforms for AI\, and AI for platforms\n**13 & 14 Novembe r 2026** \n**TERI Auditorium\, Domlur\, Bangalore · Online via livestrea m**\n\nMeet the engineers building and operating platforms\, infrastructur e and production systems. Compare approaches to reliability\, security\, p erformance and cost\, and examine how AI is changing this work.\n\nExpect production case studies\, technical demonstrations and discussions about e ngineering decisions: what teams tried\, what worked\, what failed and wha t they would change.\n\nCommunity editors review proposals and work with s peakers to develop their sessions. This edition also marks the first anniv ersary of the Rootconf Platform Engineering meet-up series.\n\n![photo](ht tps://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/020fb0f93e864a958065bc26f2b1efc0)\n\n- --\n\n### Confirmed talks\n\n![poster](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/fi le/99d0594499bc44179fa0cb0fcbc43cbd)\n\n**48 GPU hours\, 10% of the data: Debugging an LLM training run** \nAlosh Denny · AI researcher* \nA train ing job consumed 48 GPU hours while repeatedly processing just a tenth of its intended dataset. Alosh traces the debugging journey through shared-st ate failures\, missing checkpoints and the checks he now runs before commi tting compute.\n**Full submission: http://has.gy/zg_S**\n\n**TraceQL inter nals: Building a query language for distributed traces** \nSuraj Nath · Grafana\nHow do you search distributed traces at scale without building an expensive index? Suraj explores how Grafana Tempo stores and queries trac e data on object storage\, and why traces needed their own query language. A look at columnar storage\, query planning and the trade-offs between st orage cost and query latency.\n**Full submission: http://has.gy/Bt65**\n\n **When the client disconnects but the agent keeps running** \n*Aditya Sin gh · Glance*\nHow do you resume an AI agent’s response after a client d isconnects—even through a different gateway? Aditya shares Glance’s pr oduction architecture for separating agent execution from response deliver y\, using Redis Streams to replay missed events. A look at recovery contra cts\, duplicate handling and the limits of replay when an agent process di es.\n**Full submission: http://has.gy/SeiC**\n\n---\n\n[View the programme and explore submissions →](https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026-cfp/)\n\n- --\n\n### Theme\n**Platforms for AI:** Running inference\, model serving a nd agent workloads\, with the infrastructure\, observability\, security\, governance and cost controls they require.\n\n**AI for platforms:** Applyi ng AI to incident response\, debugging\, deployments\, security workflows and developer tooling.\n\nReliability\, databases\, distributed systems\, infrastructure and day-to-day operations remain central to the programme.\ n\nIf you build or run these systems\, as a platform engineer\, SRE\, DevO ps engineer\, security engineer\, MLOps engineer\, data infrastructure pra ctitioner or engineering leader\, bring your questions and experience.\n\n ---\n\n### Testimonials\n> “Unlike the traditional ‘submit and wait’ approach\, RootConf gives speakers an opportunity to demo their talk befo re a group of reviewers and receive genuine\, constructive feedback on wha t to improve\, add\, or refine.”\n>\n> “The audience was technically s trong\, curious\, and genuinely eager to learn.”\n\n![Aftab](https://ima ges.hasgeek.com/embed/file/8cf88158d8ac4db19e972cf5568766da)\n\n**Aftab Me hrab** \nPresenter at Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference \nProduction Engin eer – Infrastructure\, Comply\n\n---\n\n### Meet the community editors\n Rootconf’s programme is shaped through community peer review. Editors an d reviewers discuss proposals with speakers\, review rehearsals and help r efine sessions around evidence\, trade-offs and practical lessons.\n\n- ** Bharadwaj Embar** - Engineering Manager\, Platform Engineering at Nutanix\ n- **Rolland Santimano** - Principal Engineer at Rubrik\n- **Talina Shroti ya** - Senior Engineering Manager at Couchbase\n- **Vivek Pemavat** - Prin cipal Engineer at Acceldata\n\n---\n\n### Share your work - submissions cl ose on 9 October\nHave a production lesson\, experiment\, demo or unresolv ed engineering problem that other practitioners could learn from?\nWe welc ome talks\, demos\, workshops and Birds of Feather discussions. Work in pr ogress is welcome: tell us what you’re trying\, what you’ve learned an d what remains open.\n**[Submit your proposal by 9 October 2026 →](http: //has.gy/cC7G)**\n\n---\n\n### Volunteer with Rootconf\nHelp shape and run Rootconf 2026. You can support with:\n- Registration and on-ground coordi nation\n- Editorial coordination and workshop coordination\n- Live notes a nd session summaries\n- Design - stickers\, swag\, venue\, you name it!\n* *[Apply to volunteer →](https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/volunteer-with -the-fifthel-rootconf-communties/)**\n\n![group photo](https://images.hasg eek.com/embed/file/7bdc5fde06204857b89c4b39ee76cf38)\n\n---\n\n### Sponsor s\nThank you to **Nutanix**\, Platinum Sponsor\; **Fastah**\, Bronze Spons or\; and **ClawMetry**\, Community Sponsor\, for supporting the Rootconf 2 026 Annual Conference.\n\n### Inquiries\nEmail **info@hasgeek.com** or cal l/text **+91 7676332020**. 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