AI in SRE & CloudOps: Hype vs Reality - Bangalore 2026

Event Details

• Date: 22 Jan 2026

• Location: Bellandur, Bangalore

• Date: 23 Jan 2026

• Location: MG Road, Bangalore

Why This Roundtable Matters

As AI adoption accelerates across infrastructure and operations teams, the gap between marketing narratives and production reality continues to widen. This closed-door roundtable brings together experienced SRE, DevOps, and CloudOps leaders to compare notes on what is actually holding up in real production environments and what is quietly breaking down.

This is not a product demo, training session, or future-looking keynote.
It is a practitioner-led conversation grounded in lived operational experience.

Who This Event Is For

This roundtable is designed for:

• Senior SREs operating production-critical systems

• DevOps and CloudOps leaders responsible for reliability, cost, and risk

• Teams experimenting with AI or agentic systems in live environments

• Organizations operating at scale, including regulated or high-impact domains

  
  

What We’ll Explore

Rather than presentations, the session will focus on shared experiences and open discussion around themes such as:

Real vs. Perceived Capabilities of AI in Operations

Where AI meaningfully accelerates investigation and understanding and where expectations need recalibration.

Agentic Automation and the Role of Human Intent

Why agentic workflows work best when intent, approval, and accountability remain explicit.

Context as the Real Bottleneck in Incident Response

How fragmented tooling slows response and where AI can reduce cognitive load without over-automation.

Operating AI in Regulated and High-Stakes Environments

Why explainability and traceability matter more than autonomy in systems with real consequences.

Designing Safer, More Trustworthy Agents

Why small, purpose-built agents often outperform broad, general-purpose systems in production.

Where Measurable Impact Is Emerging Today

Quiet, compounding gains in root-cause analysis, knowledge capture, and team resilience.

How the Session Will Run

• Closed-door, invite-only roundtable

• Small group discussion (15–20 participants)

• Experience-led, not presentation-driven

• No sales pitches or vendor demos

• Emphasis on candor, peer learning, and practical insight