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DevFest Pune 2025

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evFest Pune is India's largest community driven tech conference, hosted by Google Developer Groups Pune, bringing together industry experts for an in-depth exploration of emerging technologies, best practices, and innovative solutions. The event features panel discussions, lightning talks, sessions, and workshops on trending topics like AI, cybersecurity, c…

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46Speakers
3Sponsors
31On the bill · sessions
38Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at DevFest, in alphabetical order.
Aarshad Devani
Lead - Google Developer Groups, AI Leader (UN Observatory Status), Entrepreneur, Developer · Google Developer Group Hyderabad
Abhishek Mankuskar
Developer || Creator & Lead, SWOC || Google DevFests & Cloud Speaker || Road to GDE Graduate 2025 || Community Leader · SWOC
Abhishek Sharma
Lead Cloud Engineer · Searce Inc
Amit Agrawal
Co-Founder & CTO · SRide
Amit Godbole
Chief Product Officer · FCI CCM
Amit Modak
Software Engineer · Google
Ashok Vishwakarma
Founder & CTO at Impulsive Web · Impulsive Web
Asmita Khuspe
Platform Engineer at NCS · NCS
Azhar Shaikh
Executive Director, Platform product · JPMorganChase
Bhaskar Annadata
Engineering Manager - Secure AI · Google
Biswanath Giri
Google Cloud Principal Architect · Google
Dhananjay Pathak
Manager · Qualys
Dharmesh Vaya
Solutions Engineering · Wiz
Dhrumil Shah
Architect · Scapia
Dr. Rahul Gaikwad
Staff Resident Solutions Architect at HashiCorp, an IBM Company · HashiCorp, an IBM Company
Dr. Rahul Sharad Gaikwad
Staff Resident Solutions Architect · HashiCorp
Gaurav Kheterpal
Google Developer Expert - AI | Certified Instructor
Gaurav Tripathi
Co-founder & CTO · Partex.AI
Harsh Dattani
Regional Lead - Developer Community Programs India · Google
Himanshu Jain
Engineering Director · Academian
Imtiyaz Khatib
Head, Customer Experience Design & Product Management · Avalara
Jayesh Prajapati
Head - Pune Technology Center, SLB (Schlumberger · SLB (Schlumberger)
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
GoDaddyGold Sponsor
Google for DevelopersTitle Sponsor
GruveGold Sponsor
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Agenda

Selected from 31 sessions on the bill.
  • 02:00 PM 02:30 PM

    Build and Generate faster with Genkit

    Track 3
  • 02:00 PM 02:30 PM

    Compose Navigation made easy with Navigation 3

    Track 1
  • 02:00 PM 02:30 PM

    Human-Centred Design for Agentic Workflows

    Track 2
  • 02:00 PM 02:30 PM

    Rethinking Product Mindset in the AI Era

    Main Event
  • 02:30 PM 03:00 PM

    AI Agents for Healthcare: Building with MCP Toolbox and ADK

    Track 2
  • 02:30 PM 03:00 PM

    Pune Made Me a Platform Engineer!

    Track 3
  • 02:30 PM 03:00 PM

    Stop Building AI Apps. Start Building AI Businesses.

    Community Lounge
  • 02:30 PM 03:00 PM

    The Agentic AI Revolution: Powered by Gemini on Google Cloud

    Track 1
  • 03:00 PM 03:30 PM

    GenAI in Healthcare: Building Smarter, Open, and Accessible Tech Solutions

    Track 3
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 38 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

“38 companies. two are betting more than once.”

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
2All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
35Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

GoDaddy·Gruve.ai

№ 02Fig. 02 — Speakers, by Seniority

37% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite613%
  • Founder / Owner37%
  • Director / Head of817%
  • Manager / Lead920%
  • Engineer · IC1226%
  • Other roles817%

Of 46 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Google6V
  2. 02GoDaddySp·G1V
  3. 03Gruve.aiSp·G1V
  4. 04Google for DevelopersSp·T
  5. 05SLB (Schlumberger)2V
  6. 06Academian1V
  7. 07Accenture1V
  8. 08Addepar1V
  9. 09Avalara1V
  10. 10Birdvision1V
  11. 11ClearRoute India1V
  12. 12Cohesity1V
  13. 13FCI CCM1V
  14. 14FIS1V
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier
gold sponsor2
67% of 3
title sponsor1
33% of 3