> Markdown version of [/magazine/785-tech-events-in-bangalore-2026-6-conferences-to-attend-before-the-year-ends](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/785-tech-events-in-bangalore-2026-6-conferences-to-attend-before-the-year-ends). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Tech Events in Bangalore 2026: 6 Conferences to Attend Before the Year Ends **By:** [Daniel Cranney](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@daniel-cranney) **Published:** October 14, 2026 Bangalore (Bengaluru) has six tech events worth attending between late October and mid-December 2026. They range from the first Black Hat India and a cluster of developer community conferences to the first WeAreDevelopers Conference India. Each entry says who the event suits, so you can skip what is not for you. Events that already took place this autumn are listed at the end. Dates are checked against organiser pages and event listings, but confirm on the official site before you book travel. ## Upcoming tech events in Bangalore at a glance Six events remain between late October and December 2026, sorted by date. | # | Event | Dates (2026) | Venue | Best for | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | [AltSecCON 2026](https://businessanalyst.techcanvass.com/tech-conference-in-bangalore/) | Oct 24-27 | Hilton Embassy GolfLinks | Offensive security teams | | 2 | [Black Hat India 2026](https://infosecmap.com/?p=41345) | Oct 27-30 | Sheraton Grand, Brigade Gateway | Security researchers and defenders | | 3 | [26th Datacenter Summit](https://businessanalyst.techcanvass.com/tech-conference-in-bangalore/) | Oct 28 | The Ritz-Carlton | Infrastructure leaders | | 4 | [Specialist community conferences](https://dev.events/AS/IN/Bengaluru) | Nov 14-21 | Various | Linux, gRPC, Android, Flutter, WordPress developers | | 5 | [WeAreDevelopers Conference India](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india) | Nov 25-26 | BIEC, Tumkur Road | Developers, AI engineers, engineering leaders | | 6 | [Great International AI Native Summit (GAINS)](https://conferenceindex.org/event/great-international-ai-native-summit-gains-2026-december-bengaluru-in) | Dec 9-10 | To be confirmed | AI engineers | ## The 6 tech events in Bangalore worth your time ### 1. AltSecCON 2026 (Oct 24-27) AltSecCON combines three days of hands-on red team training with a one-day practitioner conference at Hilton Embassy GolfLinks. Training covers Azure attacks, Active Directory evasion and red teaming AI agents and copilots. Pick it if you work in offensive security. ### 2. Black Hat India 2026 (Oct 27-30) Black Hat comes to India for the first time, at Sheraton Grand at Brigade Gateway. The four days combine hands-on trainings, a Summit Day and a two-day main conference. Expect research Briefings, open-source tool demos in the Arsenal and a business hall. It is the strongest pick on this list for security researchers and defenders. ### 3. 26th Datacenter Summit (Oct 28) A one-day executive forum at The Ritz-Carlton on high-density AI compute, liquid cooling, power and edge infrastructure. It is aimed at infrastructure and data centre leaders, not application developers. ### 4. Specialist community conferences (Nov 14-21) November brings a cluster of single-technology events, useful if you want depth in one stack: - UbuCon India 2026 (Nov 14-15), for Ubuntu and Linux users - gRPConf India (Nov 18), on gRPC and service communication - droidCon India (Nov 20), for Android developers - WordCamp Bengaluru 2026 (Nov 20), for the WordPress community - flutterCon India (Nov 21), for Flutter developers Dates come from [dev.events](https://dev.events/AS/IN/Bengaluru); venues were not confirmed at the time of writing. ### 5. WeAreDevelopers Conference India (Nov 25-26) WeAreDevelopers, the organiser of World Congress events in Europe and North America, brings its first India edition to BIEC. Expect 3,000+ developers, 100+ speakers and two days of talks, workshops, a tech expo and networking. Entire, the developer platform founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, is co-host. The programme follows six themes: building with AI as a craft, agentic systems in production, languages and architecture, platforms and cloud, security and trust, and engineering leadership. Speakers include Thomas Dohmke (Entire), Wolfgang Platz (Tricentis) and engineers from JPMorgan Chase, Stripe, Atlassian, Adobe, Red Hat and Booking. Sessions already confirmed on the [agenda](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india/agenda/sessions) include: - [AI Is the Easy Part](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india/agenda/sessions/ai-is-the-easy-part-why-faster-engineers-don-t-make-faster-businesses-1293921), Bharat Sharma (Booking): why halving coding time with AI improved delivery lead time by only about 4%. - [How We Cut Our API’s p99 Latency from Minutes to Under a Second](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india/agenda/sessions/how-we-cut-our-api-s-p99-latency-from-minutes-to-under-a-second-1275757), Deepak Agrawal (Atlassian): six compounding failures in a Spring Boot and PostgreSQL stack, plus a ten-point audit checklist. - [Autopsy of an Autonomous Incident](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india/agenda/sessions/autopsy-of-an-autonomous-incident-when-the-agent-made-it-worse-1294504), Navin Pai (StackGen): real incidents where an AI SRE agent made things worse, and the guardrails that followed. - [How SWE and EM Roles Are Changing in the Age of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india/agenda/sessions/how-is-swe-em-roles-are-changing-in-the-age-of-ai-1290685), Amol Sharma (Stripe): how review and alignment grew from 40% to 70-80% of an engineering manager’s week. - [From Prompt Engineering to Harness Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india/agenda/sessions/from-prompt-engineering-to-harness-engineering-building-observable-and-governed-1257328), Lakshmi Devi Prakash (JPMorgan Chase): a blueprint for observable, governed GenAI systems in production. - [ULTRON: Your Agent Has No Hands](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india/agenda/sessions/ultron-your-agent-has-no-hands-real-time-voice-mcp-and-ten-phones-on-stage-1291798), Sagar Tamang (Two Spoon Technologies): a live voice agent driving ten Android phones on stage through MCP. - [Build a Zero-Cost AI Agent in Your Browser](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india/agenda/sessions/build-a-zero-cost-ai-agent-in-your-browser-1291295), Nishant Thakur and Aishwarya Mathuria (Adobe): a two-hour workshop building an AI agent in one HTML file, with no API keys or servers. More sessions are still being added. **Get your ticket:** visit [WeAreDevelopers Conference India](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india) and use the code **INDIA15** at checkout. ### 6. Great International AI Native Summit (Dec 9-10) GAINS is a new engineering-first summit from Saltmarch, the organiser of the Great International Developer Summit (GIDS). Its programme covers coding agents, orchestration, evaluation, observability and governance of AI systems in production. The venue was not public at the time of writing. ### Earlier in the second half of 2026 These events already took place this autumn. Most run every year. | Event | Dates (2026) | Venue | Focus | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [World AI Summit Bengaluru](https://businessanalyst.techcanvass.com/tech-conference-in-bangalore/) | Oct 14-15 | Sheraton Grand, Malleswaram | Enterprise AI, AI policy | | [TechSparks 2026](https://businessanalyst.techcanvass.com/tech-conference-in-bangalore/) | Oct 13-15 | Taj Yeshwantpur | Startups, founders, investors | | [Cypher 2026](https://cypher.analyticsindiamag.com/ai-conference-india-2026) | Oct 7-9 | KTPO, Whitefield | AI, 5,000+ attendees | | [Open Source India 2026](https://businessanalyst.techcanvass.com/tech-conference-in-bangalore/) | Oct 7-8 | NIMHANS Convention Centre | Open source, Kubernetes, LLMs | | [IndiaFOSS 2026](https://fossunited.org/indiafoss/2026) | Sep 26-27 | NIMHANS Convention Centre | Free and open source software | ## How to choose which tech event in Bangalore to attend Match the event to your role first, then check who is on stage. | If you are a… | Start with | | --- | --- | | Software engineer or AI engineer | WeAreDevelopers Conference India, GAINS, specialist community conferences | | Platform, cloud or DevOps engineer | WeAreDevelopers Conference India, UbuCon India | | Security professional | Black Hat India, AltSecCON | | CTO or engineering leader | WeAreDevelopers Conference India | | Infrastructure leader | Datacenter Summit | Three checks help before you buy a ticket. Are the speakers practitioners who run systems in production, or mainly vendors? Does the agenda go deep on your stack, or stay at strategy level? And is the event in the city centre or at BIEC on Tumkur Road, which needs extra travel time from most of Bangalore? ## Frequently asked questions ### Which tech events are still to come in Bangalore in 2026? From late October to December: AltSecCON, Black Hat India, the Datacenter Summit, a cluster of community conferences in November, WeAreDevelopers Conference India and GAINS. Dates and venues are in the table at the top. ### What tech events are in Bangalore in November 2026? November brings community conferences such as UbuCon India, gRPConf India, droidCon India, WordCamp Bengaluru and flutterCon India. WeAreDevelopers Conference India follows on November 25-26 at BIEC. ### Which Bangalore tech events are best for developers? WeAreDevelopers Conference India covers the widest range of engineering topics, from AI-assisted coding to platforms and security. For a single stack, pick a community event such as droidCon or flutterCon. IndiaFOSS and Open Source India are strong choices for open source, returning in 2027. ### Where is BIEC and how do I get there? The Bangalore International Exhibition Centre is on Tumkur Road (10th Mile), northwest of the city centre, and hosts WeAreDevelopers Conference India. Allow extra travel time at peak hours. ## Meet us at WeAreDevelopers Conference India Two days, 3,000+ developers and 100+ speakers at BIEC on 25-26 November 2026. Get your ticket at [wearedevelopers.com/conference-india](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india) and use the code **INDIA15** at checkout. ## Sources - [WeAreDevelopers Conference India sessions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/conference-india/agenda/sessions) - [WeAreDevelopers Conference India press release, GlobeNewswire](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/05/3375017/0/en/wearedevelopers-launches-its-india-conference-as-the-country-bets-on-ai-and-innovation.html) - [Black Hat India 2026, InfoSec Map](https://infosecmap.com/?p=41345) - [Black Hat India 2026 trainings, Orange Cyberdefense](https://orangecyberdefense.com/global/insights/events/black-hat-india-2026) - [GAINS 2026, Conference Index](https://conferenceindex.org/event/great-international-ai-native-summit-gains-2026-december-bengaluru-in) - [Developer conferences in Bengaluru, dev.events](https://dev.events/AS/IN/Bengaluru) - [Tech conferences in Bangalore, October 2026, Techcanvass](https://businessanalyst.techcanvass.com/tech-conference-in-bangalore/) - [Cypher 2026, Analytics India Magazine](https://cypher.analyticsindiamag.com/ai-conference-india-2026) - [IndiaFOSS 2026, FOSS United](https://fossunited.org/indiafoss/2026) ## Related Articles - [19 Best Tech Conferences Coming in 2024](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/158-19-best-tech-conferences-coming-in-2024) - [Top Must-Visit Developer Conferences in the US in 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/679-top-must-visit-developer-conferences-in-the-us-in-2026) - [5 Reasons Why Attending Conferences in 2026 Matters More Than You Think](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/692-5-reasons-why-attending-conferences-in-2026-matters-more-than-you-think) - [Tech Conferences Berlin: The Best Tech Events For 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/182-tech-conferences-berlin-the-best-tech-events-for-2023) ## Related Videos - [Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100000-official-opening-of-wearedevelopers-world-congress-2026) - [Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1138-official-opening-of-wearedevelopers-world-congress) - [Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1385-official-opening-of-wearedevelopers-world-congress-2025) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Open Source Agent Toolkits](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2160-wearedevelopers-live-open-source-agent-toolkits) ## Related Jobs - [Staff Developer Advocate, GitHub Security Lab](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/2628442-staff-developer-advocate-github-security-lab) at **GitHub** - [Software Engineer, Java (Opshub)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/2768059-software-engineer-java-opshub) at **Bitpanda** - [Senior Software Engineer, Angular (B2C Web Platform)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/1927757-senior-software-engineer-angular-b2c-web-platform) at **Bitpanda** - [Senior Software Engineer, Angular (B2C Web Platform)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/2949698-senior-software-engineer-angular-b2c-web-platform) at **Bitpanda** - [Software Development Engineer Ii](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/1985738-software-development-engineer-ii) at **Expedia** - [Senior Fullstack Engineer - Hybrid or Remote](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/3581297-senior-fullstack-engineer-hybrid-or-remote) at **Edge Impulse**