Calling all builders!

​Aarambha is the official opening of Bengaluru Tech Week 2026 - an invite-only evening bringing together technology leaders, founders, engineers, investors, ecosystem builders, partners, and member-event hosts from across Bengaluru ✨

​The evening will explore how Bengaluru can continue building globally significant technology companies—and the people, platforms, communities, capital, and institutions needed to support them.

Keynotes

• ​Rajesh Ramdas (AVP, Field Engineering, Databricks)
• ​Karthik Rameshkumar (Field CTO, Entire)
• ​Shubham Gupta (Co-Founder and General Partner, Together Fund)

​Panel: Building the ecosystem behind Bengaluru’s next generation of technology companies 💡

​A conversation about the networks, capital, communities, platforms, and institutional support required to help builders turn ambitious ideas into enduring companies.

• ​Shreya Krishnan (Managing Director, India & Asia, AnitaB.org)
• ​Dilip Krishna (VC and Startup Partnerships, SEA & India, Databricks)
• ​Varun Kashyap C V (GTM, Aspire)
• ​Vijetha Shastry (Startup Evangelist, BHIVE Workspace)

​Panel: Building and scaling the next generation of technology products from Bengaluru 💻

​Technology leaders will discuss the decisions behind building products at scale. From engineering culture and platform choices to reliability, talent, AI adoption, and serving India’s rapidly evolving market.

• ​Praful Bagai (Head of Developer Relations, India & South Asia, AWS)
• ​Ranjitha R (Head of Engineering, India, PhonePe)
• ​Sunny R Gupta (Head of Engineering and Site Lead, Metaforms)

​Agenda

• ​5:00–6:00 PM: Check-in and networking
• ​6:00–6:15 PM: Welcome note
• ​6:15–6:35 PM: Opening keynote — Rajesh Ramdas
• ​6:40–7:00 PM: Keynote — Karthik Rameshkumar
• ​7:10–7:40 PM: Panel with Ecosystem Enablers
• ​7:40–8:10 PM: Panel with Technology Leaders
• ​8:10–8:30 PM: Closing keynote — Shubham Gupta
• ​8:30 PM onwards: Networking and close