BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//HasGeek//NONSGML Funnel//EN DESCRIPTION:Engage with a vibrant community of DevOps\, SRE & Platform eng ineers X-WR-CALDESC:Engage with a vibrant community of DevOps\, SRE & Platform en gineers NAME:Sponsor Rootconf Annual Conference X-WR-CALNAME:Sponsor Rootconf Annual Conference REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H SUMMARY:Sponsor Rootconf Annual Conference TIMEZONE-ID:Asia/Kolkata X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Kolkata BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sponsor Rootconf Annual Conference DTSTART:20261003T132700Z DTEND:20261231T132700Z DTSTAMP:20261024T034930Z UID:session/Hj4w8zF2D2UNnjvF4cCEsk@hasgeek.com SEQUENCE:23 CREATED:20261003T103429Z DESCRIPTION:# Sponsor Rootconf\nRootconf is a platform for engineers runni ng systems in production. Practitioners in the Rootconf community are peop le who run `sudo su` on a production box at 2 AM\, who think about `mdadm` when someone mentions RAID\, and who show up at meet-ups and activities t o argue about trade-offs.\n\nEvery talk\, workshop\, and sponsor interacti on is curated for relevance to practitioners who run infrastructure\, plat forms\, or SRE in production.\n\n![Karthik Ramachandra exchanging experien ces with participants at Rootconf’s databases edition](https://images.ha sgeek.com/embed/file/020fb0f93e864a958065bc26f2b1efc0)\n\n*Karthik Ramacha ndra\, Partner Director of Engg & India Site Lead - Azure SQL at Microsoft \, exchanges experiences at Rootconf Topical Edition on Databases\, June 2 026.*\n\n---\n\n## About Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference\n**Dates:** 13– 14 November 2026 \n**Location:** Bengaluru\n\n**Expected attendance:** Ap proximately 150 attendees per day\, or 300 attendee-days across the two-da y conference. We expect a mix of people attending both days and people att ending one day. This is not a forecast of 300 unique attendees.\n\nFor pla nning on-site engagement\, use the expected daily audience of approximatel y 150 people.\n\n**Focus:** Platform engineering\, DevOps\, SRE\, and infr astructure — plus two open strands this edition:\n\n- **Platforms for AI :** Inference\, agents\, guardrails\, governance\, cost/FinOps\, and secur ity.\n- **AI for platforms:** Agentic workflows applied to observability\, security\, and deployments.\n\n---\n\n## Who you’ll meet at Rootconf\n\ n### Audience profile\n\n![Roles and functions represented among Rootconf attendees](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/3fb5add7d6394428bb91f5fba 533a952)\n\n*Based on membership and attendee data from 2024-2026.*\n\n### What participants say\n\n> “Even if you skip the sessions\, stay for th e crowd. The hallway conversations were some of my favorite moments.”\n\ n— **Sumanth Reddy\, SRE at Blinkit**\, on Rootconf’s Topical Edition on Databases\n\n### Companies represented\n\n![Companies represented among Rootconf attendees](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/7004920ebe82445 f932b322ee16c4474)\n\n*Organizations represented by attendees between 2024 and 2026. Affiliations do not imply sponsorship.*\n\n---\n\n## Speakers a cross editions\nCase studies\, war stories and production experiences shar ed by **100+ presenters since 2023**.\n\n![Roles represented among past Ro otconf presenters](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/d6ef1e16554545438 fc3c1800d1fe717)\n\n![Mallikarjun from Flipkart presenting HBase deploymen t across data centres at Rootconf 2025](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/f ile/1c222cba63d947b58cdf52dd19a3304c)\n\n*Mallikarjun (Flipkart) presentin g a session on HBase deployment across data centres at Rootconf 2025.*\n\n ## Sponsors across editions\n\n| Sponsor | Tier | Edition |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Nutanix | Platinum | Rootconf 2024\, 2025\, 2026 |\n| PhonePe | Platinum | Rootconf 2024 |\n| Firebolt | Gold | Databases edition |\n| Coi nbase | Gold | Rootconf 2025 |\n| e6data | Silver | Rootconf 2024 |\n| Swi ggy\, Shopify | Bronze | Rootconf 2024 |\n| Thoughtworks\, Facets.Cloud | Bronze | Rootconf 2025 |\n\n**Diversity partners:** FOSS United Foundation · HackerRank\n\n---\n\n## Sponsorship tiers\n\n**One Platinum spot remai ns for 2026.** Nutanix is confirmed as a Platinum sponsor. The remaining P latinum package includes exclusive conference lanyard branding — your br and on the lanyards worn by attendees across both days.\n\n| Benefit | Bro nze | Silver | Gold | Platinum |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Pri ce** | ₹50\,000 | ₹1\,50\,000 | ₹4\,00\,000 | ₹5\,50\,000 |\n| **S pots available** | 6 | 4 | 3 | **1 remaining\; Nutanix confirmed** |\n| ** Exhibition space** | Small table | Table | Booth | Booth / lounge |\n| **O n-site attendee engagement** | — | Giveaway | Treasure hunt + giveaway | Treasure hunt + giveaway |\n| **Curated speaking opportunity** | — | Sh ort talk (5–10 min) | Talk (15 min) | Fireside chat |\n| **Branding** | Logo on website | Logo on website and event banner | Logo on website\, eve nt banner\, and notebook | Logo on website\, event banner\, and notebook\, plus **exclusive conference lanyard branding** |\n| **Passes** | 2\, entr y-only | 3\, entry-only | 8\, catering bundled | 12\, catering bundled |\n | **Community meet-ups beyond the conference** | — | — | One meet-up/m ixer at the sponsor’s venue\, the week before the conference | One pre-c onference meet-up/mixer at the sponsor’s venue\, plus a second meet-up 3 months after the conference |\n\n*Prices are exclusive of GST.*\n\n![Spon sors](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/3e19798caa2a47479277a2384b2a5e df)\n\n### Sponsor sessions: useful takeaways and meaningful interaction\n Sponsor sessions are curated to give practitioners useful takeaways and cr eate opportunities for engagement with sponsors during the conference.\n\n Topics should connect to the audience’s work in production: technical de cisions\, implementation experience\, operational challenges\, and trade-o ffs. Concrete examples and lessons help attendees understand where a spons or’s expertise or product can be relevant to their own systems.\n\nThe s ession’s content and format should support questions\, discussion\, and follow-up conversations with the sponsor.\n\n> “Their comments pushed me to think about what the audience could take away from my experience and a pply to their own work\, which made the talk far more practical.”\n\n— **Snehasish Roy\, Technical Lead at PhonePe**\, on editorial feedback for his Clockwork talk at the Rootconf meet-up\, May 2026\n\n---\n\n## Confer ence add-ons\nAdd these to your sponsorship package\, or choose them indep endently for visibility at Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference.\n\n| Item | Pr ice (INR) | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Giveaway add-on** | Flat ₹25\,000 | Opportunity + execution only — giveaway items must be suppl ied by the sponsor. |\n| **Photo kiosk** | Flat ₹35\,000\, all-inclusive | Includes set-up. |\n\n---\n\n## Year-round sponsorship opportunities\nE ngage with Rootconf practitioners throughout the year through meet-ups\, g eek-ups\, and technical workshops. These opportunities are available indep endently of annual conference sponsorship\, with dates and formats agreed separately.\n\n| Opportunity | Price (INR) | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Meet-up** | Flat ₹45\,000 | Bring Rootconf practitioners to your venue. Sponsorship supports community participation\; it is not a commitme nt to organize an event on your behalf. A speaking slot isn’t guaranteed . |\n| **Geek-up** | ₹75\,000–₹1\,50\,000\, depending on the guest ’s profile and visibility | A gathering built around a visiting practiti oner who is already in the city\, hosted for the community to meet. Subjec t to practitioner availability. |\n| **Sponsored technical workshop** | On request | Topic\, format\, timing\, and pricing are scoped together. |\n\ n![workshop photo](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/52957d6982014f61b 87fbb390ce78dcc)\n\n*Participants at a workshop held during Rootconf Topic al Edition on Databases\, June 2026* \n\n> “The workshops were structure d so well that anyone was able to walk in and follow along. I came out wit h a much deeper appreciation for the work happening under the hood.”\n\n — **Sumanth Reddy\, SRE at Blinkit**\, on the SQL query engine and Postg res OLTP write-path workshops\n\n*Looking to fund access rather than visib ility? See the Diversity Fund below.*\n\n---\n\n## Contribute to the Diver sity Fund\nSome candidates just need the ticket covered\; others need trav el and stay support too. Your contribution goes into a shared fund\, alloc ated by Hasgeek directly to candidates based on need.\n\n**Contribute ₹2 5\,000 to be recognized as a Diversity Partner**\, listed separately from sponsorship tiers.\n\nRecognition includes:\n- Recognition on the website and in social media promotion.\n- Verbal acknowledgment at the conference. \n- A post-event impact summary.\n\n*A goodwill contribution\, not a spons orship tier — no booth\, stage time\, or lead-generation access.*\n\n--- \n\n## What’s coming up\n\n| Date | Event | Location |\n| --- | --- | -- - |\n| 12 Nov and 21 Nov 2026 — dates to be confirmed | Workshops associ ated with the Rootconf Annual Conference | Bengaluru |\n| 13-14 Nov 2026 | **Rootconf Annual Conference 2026** | Bengaluru |\n| Every two months\, s tarting Nov 2026 | Independent Rootconf workshops\, part of the annual mem bership programme | Bengaluru |\n| Jan\, Mar\, May\, Jul\, Sep\, Nov 2027 | Platform engineering meet-ups | Bengaluru |\n| 9-10 June 2027 | **Rootco nf 2027 Database edition** | Bengaluru/Pune |\n\nThe conference workshops and the membership programme workshops are separate series. Conference wor kshop dates will be announced once confirmed.\n\n[Submit a proposal (CfP)] (https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026-cfp/sub) · [Tickets and registration]( https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/)\n\n---\n\n![Audience at Rootconf 2025 gathered for a group photograph](https://images.hasgeek.com/embed/file/7bd c5fde06204857b89c4b39ee76cf38)\n\n*Audience at Rootconf 2025.*\n\n## Get i n touch\nTell us what you’re trying to reach — hiring\, product feedba ck\, or brand presence in the platform engineering and infrastructure comm unity — and we’ll help you pick the tier that fits\, or shape a custom add-on.\n\n**Email:** [sales@hasgeek.com](mailto:sales@hasgeek.com) \n** Phone:** +91 7676332020 LAST-MODIFIED:20261021T045102Z LOCATION:Online - https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/rootconf-sponsorship-deck/ ORGANIZER;CN=Rootconf:MAILTO:no-reply@hasgeek.com URL:https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/rootconf-sponsorship-deck/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Sponsor Rootconf Annual Conference in 5 minutes TRIGGER:-PT5M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR