You’ve sat through a conference to know the drill, but all you got is a mix of sales pitches and beginner tutorials all dressed up as keynotes. You sit through slides, clap at the right moments, and walk out with a tote bag, swag, and the same questions that you walked in with.
Well, not anymore. DevNext 2026 is here to rescue.
This is India’s Leading AI & Developer Conference, built for the engineers who have already shipped code and are now expecting someone else to figure out the hard parts.
The legacy behind Devnext
The AI & Developer Conference carries the legacy of India’s largest tech community that holds Guinness and Limca Book records, serves 5.7 million members, and has awarded 1M+ skill certificates. DevNext 2026 brings together 750+ AI native tech builders for a single day. So this is definitely not your usual CXO summit or a bootcamp-style conference.The conference is organized around six focused tracks curated for tech builders to shape the AI future, such as:
Track 01: AI in Engineering
This track goes into the layer most conference talks skip. You will leave with an architectural understanding of how AI is wired into production engineering systems and the specific decisions that separate a robust AI deployment from a fragile one.
Track 02: Cloud & Platform Engineering
This track is built for platform engineers who need to evolve their stack to carry the weight of AI native applications without compromising on reliability or developer experience.
Track 03: Secure Engineering
This track is for engineers who need to secure AI systems from the inside out embedding security into design decisions before the first line of code, not as an audit after deployment.
Track 04: DevOps & SRE
This track equips SRE and DevOps engineers with the reliability frameworks, observability tooling, and chaos engineering practices purpose-built for AI-era production environments.
Track 05: Architecture & Scale
This track goes deep on the system design choices that determine whether an AI-integrated platform survives production at scale: data flow architecture, consistency models, distributed inference patterns, and the reliability contracts that hold complex systems together when everything else is non-deterministic.
Track 06: Career & Engineering Leadership
This track is for the senior engineer at the inflection point: the one learning to make architectural decisions, manage technical debt as a business variable, lead distributed teams and steer an engineering culture through an AI transition that has no established playbook.
Event Details: Developer Conference Hyderabad
- When: September 26, 2026 (Doors open at 9 AM, event runs until 7 PM)
- Where: Novotel, Hyderabad
- Organized BY: ET TechGig (The Economic Times Business Verticals)
Build to be experienced, not just watched
Every ticket holder will be able to access six immersive experiences that will inspire you to do practical work instead of just passive listening and watching it.
- The Shared Sandbox: Pair up in a live cloud workspace and build something real with zero setup.
- Break the Build Challenge: Race to find and fix a sabotaged pipeline under time pressure.
- The Tech GD: Moderated group debate on a live engineering question where the sharpest points rise.
- Hired in 5: Crack a challenge and earn a short, high-signal conversation with hiring teams.
- The Knowledge Exchange: Peer-to-peer sharing of what’s actually working, no slides allowed.
- The Networking Floor: Role-based introductions so the right people find each other without the usual conference awkwardness.
Who will show up?
Developer Conference Hyderabad provides a space where experienced professionals can go deeper into AI, architecture, and the leadership leaps without the noise of beginner content or executive fluff:
- Senior & Staff Engineers
- Principal Engineers
- Backend / Frontend / Full Stack Developers
- DevOps & SRE Engineers
- Cloud & Platform Engineers
- Data & AI/ML Engineers
- Security Engineers
- QA & SDETs
- Tech Leads
- Engineering Managers
- Solution Architects
- Engineering Leads / Managers
Passes and Pricing
Individual Pass
Perfect for senior developers and engineers ready to go deeper on AI, architecture and the leadership leap.
- Price: ₹1,499 per person (Early Bird, down from ₹4,999)
- Includes: Main Stage Access, All Track Access, Networking Lunch, Attendee Swag Kit
- Availability: Early Bird Pass capped at 150 seats only
Team Pass
Bring your engineering team and leave with a shared language for what to build next in the AI era.
- Price: ₹5,999 for 5 people (down from ₹24,999)
- Includes: Everything in Individual Pass, 5 Passes, Dedicated Account Manager, Team Photo At Venue
- Availability: Limited seats
Pass Tiers and Deadlines
- Priority Pass: Ended on 26th June
- Early Bird Pass: Ends on 16th July
- Regular Pass: Ends on 17th August
- Late Pass: Ends on 31st August
- Super Late Pass: Ends on 16th September
Why This Matters for India’s Tech Builders
The AI era isn’t just changing what engineers build: it’s changing the engineering problems they need to solve. From building production-ready AI systems and scaling cloud infrastructure to securing modern applications and designing resilient architectures, today’s engineering teams are navigating challenges that demand more than tutorials and documentation.
Stay Ready: Contact and Sponsorship
Interested in sponsorship, group bookings, or speaking opportunities? The team is available to assist:
Your AI: Native Builder Journey Starts Here
The room fills once. Don’t watch from the outside. DevNext 2026 is shaping up to be the leading AI & developer conference that India’s tech builders have been waiting for.
September 26, 2026 | Novotel, Hyderabad
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