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

Registration

Aarambha is an invite-only gathering with limited capacity. Submitting a registration is a request to attend and does not guarantee entry. Confirmed attendees will receive an approval email from the Bengaluru Tech Week team ✉️

Date: Tuesday, 1 September 2026Time: 6:00–9:30 PMVenue: HSR Layout, Bengaluru

Aarambha opens six days of meetups, workshops, conferences, hackathons, roundtables, cultural gatherings, and builder-led events across the city ⚡️

Explore: bengalurutechweek.com