Aug 23, 2025
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Le Meridien Hyderabad
Thank you for making DevSparks 2025 Hyderabad

a Grand Success. DevSparks' next edition is

scheduled for Sep 20, 2025 in Chennai.
Supercharging innovation  for
1  million  Indian  devs
DevSparks 2025 is a nationwide movement empowering the developer ecosystem with emerging tech solutions, next-gen innovations, tech insights, resources and more.

The goal? To supercharge Indian tech to build for the world.
500+
expert developers
20+
legendary speakers
15+
hands-on sessions

DevSparks Roadshow

Chennai
Sep 20, 2025
Hyderabad
Concluded
Pune
Concluded
Bengaluru
Concluded

Agenda

11:00 AM
Registration and Networking
11:30 AM
Opening Keynote Address
Rishabh Mansur
Head, Content Categories, YourStory
Tech Deep Dive
11:35 AM
Building agentic systems with Google Cloud
Unlock the power of generative AI with Google Cloud's comprehensive approach to building and managing advanced AI agent systems at scale. This tech talk introduces the open-source Agent Development Kit (ADK) and the Agent2Agent (A2A) communication protocol, simplifying the creation of powerful multi-agent architectures. Discover how to leverage Vertex AI Agent Builder for the full life-cycle of development, from building diverse agents for customer service, data analytics, and code generation to deploying them in Agent space. Learn to seamlessly integrate agents with your existing enterprise systems and unlock the transformative impact of agentic AI within your organization.
Madhu Shekar
Customer CTO, Google Cloud
Tech Deep Dive
12:10 PM
Powering the next generation of AI applications with Redis
Discover how Redis serves as a vector database for RAG applications, explore architectural patterns for building conversational AI, recommendation systems, real-time analytics platforms, and more - all to solve real-world AI challenges at scale.
Kanika Gupta
Solutions Architect, Redis
Lightning Talk
12:45 PM
Shaping the future of development: AI-driven dev lifecycle (AI-DLC)
This session explores a structured approach developed at AWS to embed AI across the entire software development lifecycle—from planning and coding to testing and deployment. Through real-world examples, live demos, and repeatable design patterns, see how engineering teams are delivering production-grade outcomes at unprecedented speed, with productivity gains of up to 20x.
Raja SP
Head of Developer Acceleration, AWS
1:05 PM
Lunch
Lightning Talk
1:45 PM
Building and deploying scalable and economic GenAI solutions for all industries
In the rapidly evolving landscape of GenAI, organisations are increasingly seeking efficient and cost-effective methods to develop and deploy GenAI solutions across industries. Explore how NVIDIA's GenAI SDKs and workflows, particularly the NeMo framework, facilitate the entire lifecycle of GenAI model development—from data curation to fine-tuning, implementation of guardrails, and optimised inference RAG Services.
Jigar Halani
Director - Solution Architect & Engg, NVIDIA
Fireside Chat
2:10 PM
Supercharging human potential through data and AI
The scope of data and AI, often restricted to pure tech enablers, is now widening with more leaders and innovators acknowledging that their power lies in augmenting human potential. The EY-SAP partnership enables businesses to leverage agentic AI, intelligent automation and trust analytics to make smarter, swifter and more strategic decisions. It opens up a world where humans can interact with their data in natural and intuitive ways. In this session, Kalappa Chowrira, SAP Alliance Leader - GDS Consulting EY Global Delivery Services, will share how EY-GDS and SAP embed autonomous agents to streamline decision making, the importance of transparency, security and ethics when it comes to AI adoption and a new paradigm of human-machine collaboration.
Kalappa Chowrira
EY GDS Consulting SAP Alliance Leader and Solutions Leader, EY GDS
Rishabh Mansur
Head, Content Categories, YourStory
Panel Discussion
2:35 PM
GCC Innovation in 2026: AI, frontier tech and the big opportunity for tech talent
Join India's top GCC site leaders in decoding the latest innovations being built in India's GCC landscape and the impact and opportunity it is opening up for Indian tech talent.
Dr. Ludwig Heinzelmann
Head of Global IT Delivery Network, Deutsche Börse Group
Neeraj Chauhan
Head of Technology GCC - India, ArcelorMittal Global Business & Technologies
Sri Lakshmi Tadepalli
Vice President IT, Global Clearance, FedEx
Subu Boyinapalli
Vice President,
ANSR
Lightning Talk
3:10 PM
Learning session: Hiring and talent trends that devs need to know
Take a look at the state of the tech hiring landscape in India across enterprises, GCCs and startups, and upskill yourself to stay ahead of the AI revolution.
Dhanraj G
Co-founder & CTO, Quickhyre AI
Panel Discussion
3:30 PM
Inside India’s tech powerhouses: GCC breakthroughs in data and security
Join tech leaders from Indian GCCs as they unpack the cutting-edge data and security breakthroughs their teams are building, the modern tools and workflows being implemented, the latest advancements creating impact, and more.
Anita Alexander
VP – Engineering (Healthcare Intelligence), Providence India
Mohan Rao Goli
CVP & Managing Director, Samsung R&D Institute India – Bangalore (SRI-B)
Vishal Mahajan
Senior Director of Software Engineering, Carelon Global Solutions
Rishabh Mansur
Head, Content Categories, YourStory
4:00 PM
Coffee & Networking
Workshop
11:30 AM
Building serverless agents with ADK on Google Cloud Run & Gemini 2.5
This workshop will guide you through deploying, managing, and observing a serverless agent built with the Agent Development Kit (ADK) on Google Cloud Run. You will learn how to build a ""Weather Agent"" using the ADK and Gemini, and then deploy it as a scalable and robust service without managing any infrastructure. The workshop covers setting up your Google Cloud project, creating a PostgreSQL database, and wrapping the agent in a FastAPI application. Finally, you will learn how to load-test your agent to observe Cloud Run's auto-scaling capabilities and use Cloud Trace for performance monitoring.
Praful Mehrotra
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Shashi Ranjan
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Workshop
3:00 PM
Building serverless agents with ADK on Google Cloud Run & Gemini 2.5
This workshop will guide you through deploying, managing, and observing a serverless agent built with the Agent Development Kit (ADK) on Google Cloud Run. You will learn how to build a ""Weather Agent"" using the ADK and Gemini, and then deploy it as a scalable and robust service without managing any infrastructure. The workshop covers setting up your Google Cloud project, creating a PostgreSQL database, and wrapping the agent in a FastAPI application. Finally, you will learn how to load-test your agent to observe Cloud Run's auto-scaling capabilities and use Cloud Trace for performance monitoring.
Praful Mehrotra
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Shashi Ranjan
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Tech Deep Dive
12:15 PM
Beyond Automation: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Agentic AI
This session aims to gain insights into tackling practical business problems, organizational change management, and critical considerations like governance, security, and data quality as enterprises look to scale the adoption of AI Agents. Leaders will share as well as gain insights into defining agentic AI vision, overcoming adoption constraints, measuring ROI, and preparing their workforce for an agent-driven future.
Anand Reddy Kukudala
Co-founder & CTO, Tericsoft
Guru Bala
Customer Engineering Manager, Google Cloud
Hari Krishna Reddy Abba
Director of Product Management, Pine Labs
Kalyan C Varanasi
AVP Cloud and IT, Infosys
Kiran Kumar Sanapathi
AVP Data Analysis, Induslnd Bank
Madhu Madhanan
VP – Product Engineering, CitiusTech
Rajesh Unde
CTO, PL Capital
Santosh Kumar Jha
Head of Technology Strategy, CAMS
Ipsita Basu
Senior Director, YourStory

speakers

Jigar Halani
Director - Solution Architect & Engg, NVIDIA
Madhu Shekar
Customer CTO, Google Cloud
Mohan Rao Goli
CVP and Managing Director, Samsung R&D Institute India – Bangalore (SRI-B)
Vishal Mahajan
Senior Director of Software Engineering, Carelon Global Solutions
Anita Alexander
VP – Engineering (Healthcare Intelligence), Providence India
Subu Boyinapalli
Vice President, ANSR
Sri Lakshmi Tadepalli
Vice President IT, Global Clearance FedEx
Raja SP
Head of Developer Acceleration, AWS
Kalappa Chowrira
EY GDS Consulting SAP Alliance Leader and Solutions Leader, EY GDS
Dr. Ludwig Heinzelmann
Head of Global IT Delivery Network, Deutsche Börse Group
Neeraj Chauhan
Head of Technology GCC - India, ArcelorMittal Global Business & Technologies
Kanika Gupta
Solutions Architect, Redis
Guru Bala
Customer Engineering Manager, Google Cloud
Dhanraj G
Co-founder & CTO, Quickhyre AI
Praful Mehrotra
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Shashi Ranjan
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Hari Krishna Reddy Abba
Director - Product Management, Pine Labs
Madhu Madhanan
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Platform Engineering, CitiusTech
Kiran Kumar Sanapathi
AVP Data Analysis, Induslnd Bank
Kalyan C Varanasi
AVP Cloud & IT, Infosys
Rajesh Unde
CTO, PL Capital
Santosh Kumar Jha
Head of Technology Strategy, CAMS
Anand Reddy Kukudala
Co-founder & CTO, Tericsoft
Jigar Halani
Director - Solution Architect & Engg, NVIDIA
Madhu Shekar
Customer CTO, Google Cloud
Guru Bala
Customer Engineering Manager, Google Cloud
Pawan Sachdeva
Senior Managing Director & Head of Technology, Carelon Global Solutions
Sireesh Mutharaju
Associate Vice President - Software Development, Verizon India
Praful Mehrotra
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud
Shashi Ranjan
Customer Engineer, Google Cloud

Session Themes

EXPLORING THE GENAI LANDSCAPE

GenAI is everywhere. Master GenAI for B2C and B2B use cases, coding and AI assistants to build products, tools and services that matter.

DRIVING AI USE CASES

Can India become the AI use case capital of the world? Explore how to accelerate app development using AI, optimise developer workflows, and more.

DATA ADVANTAGE: UNLOCKING REAL-TIME INSIGHTS

No data, no AI. From big data to smart data, discover the latest in advanced analytics, enhanced data governance, data pipelines and more.

POWERING AI AT SCALE

AI for 1.4 billion users? Learn all about India’s AI mission, infrastructure for AI at scale, tools for rapid scaling of AI models, and more.

SECURING THE FUTURE WITH CYBERSECURITY

Discover advanced threat detection and response systems, proactive vulnerability management, cybersecurity workflow automation, and more.

BUILDING NEXT-GEN CLOUDS FOR THE AI ERA

Hyperscale your way to success. Build cloud infra for AI workloads, innovate with data on cloud, multi-cloud, and more.

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES SPOTLIGHT

Think beyond AI, explore what India’s deeptech segment has to offer in quantum, blockchain, robotics and more.

EXPLORING THE GenAI LANDSCAPE

Understand GenAI for B2C and B2B use cases, GenAI for coding and AI assistants, upcoming AI products, tools and services, Multimodal AI, case studies of successful GenAI implementations, future of content creation and more.

DRIVING AI USE CASES

Explore App development using AI, AI integrations across sectors (fintech, ecommerce, agritech, manufacturing and more), Edge AI and IoT, optimising developer workflows, model fine-tuning, Indic languages, and more.

DATA ADVANTAGE: UNLOCKING REAL-TIME INSIGHTS

From big data to smart data, learn the latest in advanced analytics, enhanced data governance, data pipelines and processing automation, AI's role in real-time decision-making, and more.

POWERING AI AT SCALE

Discover the latest advancements in blockchain, robotics, quantum, spacetech, as well as app development, no-code/low-code, upskilling and hiring tech, etc.

SECURING THE FUTURE WITH CYBERSECURITY

Advanced threat detection and response; Building resilient systems: Proactive vulnerability management; Automating cybersecurity workflows with machine learning; Balancing privacy and innovation: Secure data handling

BUILDING NEXT-GEN CLOUDS FOR THE AI ERA

Cloud infrastructure optimised for AI workloads; Innovations in data on cloud, multi cloud, edge computing and more; AI-driven cost optimisation in cloud infrastructure; Bridging AI and cloud-native application development

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES SPOTLIGHT

Discover the latest advancements in blockchain, robotics, quantum, spacetech, as well as app development, no-code/low-code, upskilling and hiring tech, etc.

Why attend devsparks 2025?

Build the future with AI

Make AI your BFF! At DevSparks, you can become a grandmaster at applying AI to your tech stacks and real-world scenarios to 100x your impact.

Experience India’s best dev communities

India’s most impactful dev communities are coming to DevSparks! Are you? Come and meet India’s brightest and most talented devs all under one roof.

Discover the hottest in deeptech

Want to get your hands on the latest in quantum, blockchain, robotics, and more? Say no more, DevSparks has you covered.

Get your hands on brand new tech

At DevSparks, you could be among the first to access brand new AI, data and security products, live demos, custom launches and exclusive dev programmes. Don’t miss out!

Level up with hands-on learning

DevSparks is filled with deep-dive technical workshops, masterclasses and upskilling opportunities—all designed to turn you into a top 1% dev. Be there!

Solve real-world problems with AI

Decode how to apply AI tools and solutions to real-world scenarios in everyday tech environments

Meet India’s best dev communities

DevSparks Bengaluru 2025 will host 10+ of India’s fastest growing and impactful dev communities and evangelists across segments.

Discover the latest tech advancements

Explore cutting-edge breakthroughs in not only AI but also other emerging technologies driving India’s tech revolution.

Be part of exclusive product launches

Witness product demos, launches and exclusive dev programmes being unveiled in front of India’s developer ecosystem.

Learn, upskill, get hired

Build specific knowledge through deep-dive technical workshops and masterclasses in tech, grow your skill set and find job opportunities at leading tech firms.

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