Reality Check / The series Delhi · Bangalore · Pune

Three rooms.One standard.

Same series, different pressure. Delhi is about the gap between a pilot and a product. Bangalore is about shipping in the room. Pune is about what breaks when the thing starts working.

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01 / The series

One series.
Three different pressures.

A demo is not a deployment. A pilot is not a product. The gap between the two is where most enterprise AI quietly dies — in data pipelines, security reviews, procurement, and the small matter of making the thing useful on a Tuesday.

01 / Delhi

Delhi

Pilot to Product

Most enterprise AI doesn't fail in the demo. It dies in the pilot.

A day on the unglamorous middle: data that isn't clean, security that won't budge, procurement that takes months, and a business case that has to survive contact with finance. For the people who have to make AI work inside a real company — not just announce it.

Focus: Enterprise AI, commercial
Format: Talks, teardowns, working sessions
Room: Operators, founders, decision-makers
Output: A path past the pilot

Date and place

Sunday 29 November 2026 · Paytm office. Free to attend. Lunch and refreshments provided.

Who we invite

Product managers, engineering and data leads, heads of AI, founders who sell to enterprises, and consultants who work with enterprise clients. Experience matters more than title.

Day shape (tentative)

9:00 AM check-in. 10:00 AM opening and partner sessions. A core conversation of teardowns and honest adoption stories. Lunch. Speaker sessions and open floor. Close at 4:00 PM.

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02 / Bangalore

Bangalore

Shipped Live

One product. One day. Built live.

A workshop-led build day for about 100 curated builders. You start with an empty folder and finish with a working product on your own laptop, which you show in a live Ship and Show.

Focus: Hands-on building
Format: Four workshops and a live demo
Room: Engineers, founders, product people
Output: A working build on your laptop

Date and place

Sunday 6 December 2026 · Paytm office. Free to attend. Lunch and refreshments provided.

How the day works

Four workshops, one product. Each workshop adds one real layer, so you see how the pieces fit, not just how one tool works on its own.

You write the prompts. You shape the look, the copy and one feature of your own, so the product is yours.

Nobody falls behind. Every step has a saved checkpoint you can jump to.

The day at a glance

9:00 AM check-in and setup. 10:00 AM opening. Hands-on workshops of up to 50 minutes each, with a lunch break. A build sprint. Ship and Show, with live demos. 4:00 PM close.

What to bring

A laptop and charger.

What you leave with

A working product on your laptop, and a place in the live demo.

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03 / Pune

Pune

Breaking Point

What breaks when the thing starts working?

A Build vs. Scale session on where technology ends and scale bottlenecks begin. Cost, latency, evaluation, support, trust, and the organisational seams that show up the moment something real starts working. Bring the thing that's straining. Leave with a map of why.

Focus: Scaling AI systems
Format: Build vs. Scale session
Room: Technical leads, architects, operators
Output: A map of what breaks

Date and place

Friday 4 December 2026 · Venue to be revealed soon. Free to attend. Lunch and refreshments provided.

Who we invite

Backend, platform and infrastructure engineers, SREs, data engineers, architects, engineering managers and technical founders who run systems at scale.

Day shape (tentative)

9:00 AM check-in. 10:00 AM opening and partner sessions. The core Build vs. Scale conversation. Lunch. Speaker sessions and open floor. Close at 4:00 PM.

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Have you built something and learned something the hard way?

Delhi talk form Bangalore talk form Pune talk form

Applications open

Pick yourcity.

No two cities run the same show. Choose the room that matches what you're building — or what you're trying to fix.

Not sure? Ask us

01 / DelhiDelhiPilot to Product 02 / BangaloreBangaloreShipped Live 03 / PunePuneBreaking Point