# Speakers — DevFest Chennai 2026

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- [Swaathi Kakarla](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/swaathi-kakarla), Founder & CTO at Skcript — speaking on "Keynote"
- [Karthik Kamalakannan](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/karthik-kamalakannan), Founder & CEO at Skcript — speaking on "Keynote"
- [Saurabh Mishra](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/saurabh-mishra), Lead Consultant at Independent — speaking on "Beyond the Happy Path: Production-Grade Agent Guardrails, Human Verification, Observability on GCP"
- [Srushti Raybhoge](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/srushti-raybhoge), Software Engineer 2 (Google Developer Expert, Firebase) at Addepar — speaking on "Secure Frontend AI: Building Smart Web Apps with Firebase AI Logic & Gemini"
- [Jeeththenthar L](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/jeeththenthar-l), AI Engineer at Kovanlabs — speaking on "Don't Let AI Agents Push Your Buttons: Building the Agentic Web with WebMCP"
- [Varun Poladiya](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/varun-poladiya), B2B Marketing Leader (12+ years, AdTech/EdTech/IT/AI) at Independent — speaking on "Using Gemini & AI Studio to Build a Lead Gen Engine for B2B Tech Businesses"
- [Aditya Shinde](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/aditya-shinde), Founder at Ketoy — speaking on "Kotlin Over the Air: Reimagining Android/KMP App Delivery"
- [Achintya Jai](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/achintya-jai), Researcher, Privacy Tech at OWASP — speaking on "Developing and Using OWASP Nettacker for Security Testing"
- [Neeraj Pathak](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/neeraj-pathak), Summer Intern at Deloitte — speaking on "Gemma 101: Fine-Tuning Open Models with LoRA, Transformers & Differential Privacy the Deepmind Way"
- [Rashmi Asokan](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/rashmi-asokan), AI Native Product Strategist at Independent — speaking on "Lessons from Building an AI Native Product Ground Up"
- [Dhanush Kandhan](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/dhanush-kandhan), Engineering, Climate Activist at letRetro — speaking on "Rethinking Infrastructure for Agentic Workloads"
- [Aakash Dhakshnamoorthy](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/aakash-dhakshnamoorthy), AI/ML Engineer & Strategist at Zenardy Technologies India — speaking on "Running AI Where It Matters: Open Source On-Device Inference Across the Edge Cloud Continuum"
- [Imran Roshan](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/imran-roshan), Google Developer Expert, Google Cloud Security and Operations at Independent — speaking on "AI Assisted SREs Are a Thing!"
- [Gokulbarath N](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/gokulbarath), AI & Robotics Engineer, Founder at BGO Apps — speaking on "Local AI: The Google Gemma Edition"
- [Shangeeth Sivan Adiyapatham](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/shangeeth-sivan-adiyapatham), Android Engineer at Poshmark — speaking on "Simplified Performance Debugging for Native / Cross-Platform Apps Running on Android"
- [Dishant Parakh](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/dishant-parakh), Program Associate, India Team at Ocean Energy Pathway (OEP) — speaking on "Can AI Help a City Breathe?"
- [Dr Ayana Ghosh](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/ayana-ghosh), Assistant Professor, Department of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Madras — speaking on "Machine Learning the Physical World"
- [Dr Moumita Mukherjee](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/moumita-mukherjee), AI Team Lead at Solinas Integrity — speaking on "Automatic Defect Detection of Water / Sewer Pipeline"
- [Dr Nimeshika Jayachandran](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/nimeshika), Strategic Partnerships Manager at MediSimVR — speaking on "AI & VR for Healthcare"
- [Pulkit Verma](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/pulkit-verma), Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras — speaking on "When AI Leaves the Lab: Building Physical AI People Can Trust"
- [Dr Lakshmanan Nataraj](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/natarajan), Independent AI Researcher, Consultant & Advisor at Independent — speaking on "From Malware Images to Deepfake Detection: Unconventional Approaches in Applied AI"
- [Gokulakrishnan L](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/gokulakrishnan-l), Student at IIITDM Kancheepuram — speaking on "Building Privacy-First Edge AI with Gemma 4: Lessons from Winning a Google Build with AI Hackathon"
- [Hariprasad Sudharshan](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/hariprasad-sudharshan), Product Manager, AI & API at 1Finity (a Fujitsu company) — speaking on "Opportunities in AI: Personal Observations on Culture of Goldrush in California"
- [Sanju Sivalingam](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/sanju-sivalingam), Founding Engineer at AGI, Inc. — speaking on "The Next Billion Users Won't Be Human"
- [Kartikey Rawat](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/kartikey-rawat), Senior AI/ML Engineer and Developer Advocate at Qualcomm — speaking on "Qualcomm as a Dev-AI Native Company"
- [Salman Faris](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/salman-faris), Community at Screenly — speaking on "Building Physical AI: An Arduino UNO Q Workshop for Edge AI and Sensors (Group activity, Limited seats only)"
- [Manu Vishwakarma](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/manu-vishwakarma), Lead Data Scientist at Poshmark — speaking on "From Models to Decisions: How AI Is Reshaping Poshmark and Fashion Marketplace"
- [Shreya Sevelar](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/shreya-sevelar), AI/ML Engineer I at Poshmark — speaking on "From Models to Decisions: How AI Is Reshaping Poshmark and Fashion Marketplace"
- [Somasundaram Mahesh](https://devfest.gdgchennai.in/speakers/somasundaram-mahesh), Founding AI Engineer at AGI, Inc. — speaking on "Offload Testing to Agents"