Can a developer still matter in a world where AI writes code, fixes bugs, ships features, and increasingly acts on its own?
That question is no longer theoretical.
It is shaping careers, engineering teams, startups, and the future of software development itself.
On May 30, YourStory will bring that conversation to the forefront at DevSparks Bengaluru 2026, its flagship developer-only summit at Marriott Hotel Whitefield. Following a successful Pune edition earlier this year, the Bengaluru event returns with a packed lineup of deep-dive sessions, lightning talks, fireside chats, and technical discussions.
DevSparks 2026 is part of YourStory's nationwide movement to empower India's developer ecosystem with next-generation technologies, including coding agents, agentic AI, multi-agent orchestrators, AI SDKs, and GenAI productivity tools.
The Bengaluru edition is expected to bring together more than 1,000 developers, alongside startup founders, GCC leaders, engineering teams, and enterprise technologists for a day of conversations around the future of software, infrastructure, and AI-first development.
Finding a footing in an AI-driven world
As AI becomes increasingly capable, developers across experience levels are struggling with a tough question: where does human expertise fit in a rapidly automated industry?
Opening the summit will be tech creator Arsh Goyal, who will deliver a keynote urging developers to think beyond coding alone. In a crowded and fast-changing ecosystem, engineers who can ship projects, communicate ideas, and build credibility will stand out.
The broader shift in AI economics and infrastructure will also be explored throughout the day.
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director of AI Research at Zoho Corp, will speak about how open-weight models are reshaping AI development and changing how companies approach innovation and deployment. The session will also examine how Zoho Labs is navigating this transition.
Tanu Garg, AI Service Transformation Leader at EY GDS, will focus on how AI is making service delivery more proactive and efficient, highlighting the growing role of AI systems inside enterprise workflows.
For developers looking to understand how to adapt technically and professionally, Jigar Hilani, Senior Director of Enterprise Solutions Architecture and Engineering at NVIDIA South Asia, will lead a 30-minute tech deep dive on thriving in the age of AI and emerging developer systems.
In a session on building offline-first conversational agents for the real world, Ankush Sabharwal, CEO and CTO, CoRover AI, will focus on the architecture behind multilingual voice and text interactions on-device, and what it takes to make low-latency, privacy-first AI work at enterprise scale.
Beyond individual sessions, the summit will also explore how developers can build and scale AI-first applications, understand multimodal AI systems across text, code, image, video, and speech, and work with emerging frameworks powering next-generation software experiences.
Mirdul Swarup, Manager of Developer Relations at Vultr, will also deliver a lightning talk on how Vultr is powering the next generation of cloud infrastructure with their developer-first approach.
DevSparks Bengaluru 2026 returns to decode AI-and the future of developers
Enter the agentic era
One of the defining themes of DevSparks Bengaluru 2026 will be the rise of agentic AI. Unlike earlier AI systems that largely responded to prompts, agentic systems can independently execute tasks, coordinate workflows, and interact with tools, infrastructure, and data systems with increasing autonomy.
This transition is fundamentally changing the role of developers: from writing isolated functions to orchestrating intelligent systems.
Praful Bagai, Head of Developer Relations for India and South Asia at AWS, will unpack this transformation in a technical deep-dive session focused on agentic systems, multi-agent orchestration, and the future of software workflows.
The conversation will continue with Mantas Lukauskas, AI Tech Lead at Hostinger, who will discuss how developers are rethinking software and infrastructure interactions in the age of agentic AI.
Ayush Anand, Head of Product (Voice) at Plivo, will examine how voice fundamentally reshapes human-machine interaction, and why voice systems are structurally more complex than traditional chat-based interfaces, with multiple probabilistic layers involved in processing and response.
Financial systems are also undergoing rapid AI-led transformation. Aavishkar Bharara, Director of FinTech at Intuit, will explore how AI agents are beginning to merge lending, risk, and payments into personalised financial pathways.
Murali Vasudevan, Head of People & Org Success, Toast, will address the evolving nature of hiring in an AI-assisted workplace. He will explore the real signals that matter beyond CVs, and how candidates can navigate learning and growth without burnout in a rapidly changing industry.
The summit's closing session will feature Nitish Jha, Head of Engineering at Atlassian, who will speak about scaling enterprise IT with agentic AI and what it takes to build and deploy intelligent systems at enterprise scale.
Across sessions, attendees can expect discussions on autonomous systems, coding agents, AI infrastructure, orchestration frameworks, and real-world use cases.
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More than a tech conference
Over the years, DevSparks has evolved into more than a developer gathering. It has become a space where developers, engineers, founders, and technology leaders come together to make sense of an industry evolving at extraordinary speed.
As AI continues to redefine software development, events like DevSparks are increasingly becoming spaces not just to learn new tools, but to understand what the future of engineering itself may look like.
DevSparks Bengaluru 2026 takes place on May 30 at the Marriott Hotel Whitefield, Bengaluru.
Get your tickets here.
Edited by Teja Lele