Who is speaking at Civo Navigate India 2026? Meet the speakers and sessions

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Debora Tonet
Debora Tonet

Events Marketing Coordinator at Civo

With the future of technology moving quickly, AI is changing how we build and deploy, and questions around who controls our data, infrastructure, and technology stack are becoming increasingly important. That’s exactly where Civo Navigate India 2026 comes in.

Civo Navigate India is back for the second time on 24th November 2026, bringing together over 1,000 industry experts for a day focused on AI, cloud and data sovereignty. 

Taking place at the Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center, this year’s event brings together some of the people closest to these conversations, from engineers and AI practitioners to founders, technology leaders and developer advocates. With over 30 speakers, hands-on workshops, technical sessions, and plenty of opportunities to connect, Civo Navigate India is designed to go beyond the hype and get into the ideas, technologies, and challenges shaping what comes next.

Here’s a look at the speakers taking the stage and the conversations shaping this year’s Sovereignty and AI edition.

What is Civo Navigate India about?

Civo Navigate India 2026 is Bangalore's leading tech conference for cloud-native engineers, platform architects, and AI practitioners. On 24 November, Bengaluru's best builders and leaders come together for a day that shapes the next era of cloud infrastructure.

  • When: Tuesday, November 24th 2026
  • Where: Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Hotel & Convention Center

The event isn’t just about abstract conversations; it brings together people working on these challenges every day.

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What can I expect from attending Civo Navigate India?

Civo Navigate India is a full-day, in-person event that opens with a keynote on the main stage at 9:30 AM. From there, the program runs across four spaces: the main stage, two breakout rooms, and a dedicated workshop room for anyone who'd rather build than listen.

Every session comes back to two questions:

  1. How do we build smarter technology?
  2. How do we maintain control over the infrastructure and data it depends on?

For years, these were treated as separate conversations. They aren't anymore. Throughout the day, speakers will dig into AI infrastructure, cloud-native engineering, Kubernetes, MLOps, data sovereignty, and the future of AI, with a focus on the practical realities of building, deploying, and scaling modern technology, not just the theory.

When sessions wrap at 5:30 PM, the conversation doesn't stop. It moves. The networking event is your chance to swap ideas with the people you've been sharing rooms with all day, and with giveaways running throughout, you'll have the chance to win exclusive swag and prizes too.

Hands-on learning: Join the workshop room

Civo Navigate India isn't designed to be a day of sitting back and listening. Alongside the main stage sessions, attendees will have access to hands-on workshops led by industry experts, giving them the opportunity to get closer to the technology and take practical ideas back to their teams.

It's a big part of what makes Civo Navigate different.

You can hear about what's changing in AI and cloud. You can challenge ideas with the people working on them. And then you can get hands-on and start exploring what those changes could mean for your own work.

Meet the speakers

The 2026 lineup brings together voices from across India's technology ecosystem and beyond.

SpeakersSession

Shweta Sharma, Senior Engineering Manager, Intuit

The Agentic Founder: Mastering "Vibe Coding" to Build Autonomous Startups

You no longer need a technical co-founder to build a startup. Learn how AI tools take founders from napkin sketch to MVP in hours, and help underrepresented founders bypass the gatekeepers.

Neha Gupta, Co-Founder, Keploy.io

Is the Testing Pyramid Obsolete in the AI-Gen Era of SDLC?

When AI writes the code and the tests, does the Testing Pyramid still hold? Lessons from building Keploy on where traditional testing models still work, and where they break.

Archie Sharma, COO, Zencoder

Building Human-Centric AI

AI should make people more capable, not replace them. Explore how to build agents that work alongside teams, not instead of them.

Kiran Kaur Raina, Founder & CEO, NucleQi

Beyond Intelligence: The Convergence of AI and Quantum Computing

Classical AI is reaching its limits. Discover why the future isn't AI or quantum, but both.

Tarun Shekher, Senior Software Developer, Cisco Systems

Beyond the Perimeter: Securing East-West Traffic in Kubernetes with ML-Driven Policy Discovery

One compromised container can reach almost anything in your cluster. See how eBPF and ML generate least-privilege network policies automatically, with real YAML.

Deepthi Anantharam, Vice President, Canarys Automations

From IT Services to AI Products: Can India Make the Leap

India built a $250 billion empire on delivery, but AI rewards invention. A candid look at what's holding India back, and where it can win.

Prerit Munjal, Product Manager, Groupon

99 Ways to Hijack Your Cloud (And How to Sleep at Night Again)

Your cloud won't fall to an elite exploit. It'll fall to a hardcoded secret or one permission too many. Real incidents, first-principles fixes, no vendor pitches.

More speakers to be announced

The lineup doesn’t stop here; this is only the first wave. More speakers will be announced in the coming weeks across AI infrastructure, cloud-native engineering, and data sovereignty, with sessions spanning both the main stage and the workshop room.

If you want to get a feel for what Civo Navigate India looks like in practice, watch the main stage videos from the 2025 edition or read the full event wrap-up.

Join us at Civo Navigate India 2026

On Tuesday 24 November, Bengaluru becomes the meeting point for people building, deploying and shaping what comes next in technology. Expect technical insight. Expect big ideas. Expect plenty of questions. And, of course, expect some very good conversations along the way.

If you're interested in AI, cloud-native technology, Kubernetes, data sovereignty, or simply understanding where technology is heading next, this is one day worth having in the calendar. 

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Debora Tonet
Debora Tonet

Events Marketing Coordinator at Civo

Debora Tonet is the Events Marketing Coordinator at Civo, responsible for planning and executing events that bring the Civo community together, from meetups and conferences to partner activations and industry gatherings.

She brings over a decade of experience spanning creative direction, cultural strategy, branding, and digital storytelling. She is the founder of Black Girls in Fashion, a platform created to connect and amplify Black women in the fashion industry, through which she has led community strategy and content development with a focus on inclusion and impact. Her work has taken her into collaboration with organisations including the British Fashion Council and London Fashion Week.

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