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# The Rise of Agentic SRE: Humans, Agents, and Reliability


- **Event:** Conference India 2026

## Description

As organisations deploy increasingly complex and distributed architectures on Google Cloud spanning GKE, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Pub/Sub, and multi-region networking, traditional incident response based on reactive practices falls behind. The need arises for smarter automation that enables faster anomaly detection, richer context analysis, and timely interventions within well-defined operational constraints.

In this talk, I will discuss the principles of building a robust and dependable platform for agentic SRE on Google Cloud, the key architectural components, and the observability layer that provides the foundational data. I will also examine the safeguards required to enable autonomy while keeping operations secure, governed, and auditable. Finally, through practical use cases alert triage, incident copiloting, root-cause analysis, and bounded automated remediation, we will explore how AI can be integrated into operations to improve reliability.



## Speaker

### [Neel Shah](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@neel-shah)

Developer Advocate @StackGen ·  Google Developer Expert


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- [Beware of Strangers Bearing Code: Open Source Trust in the Agent Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/1978-beware-of-strangers) — Vikram Vaswani
- [Ship Happens: Guardrails for AI-Written Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/2033-ship-happens) — Anthony Nguyen

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