Events covered
Conferences, meetups, and community events I have covered.
2024
GitTogether Delhi NCR Meetup - August 2024
GitTogether Meetup: Zomato's AI with Unnati Chhabra, Couchbase database testing with Shivay Lamba, GitHub's roadmap with Karan M.V. Organizers Chhavi Garg & Vipul Gupta; ideation-to-presentation group activity.
Walked out with a brain full of code and a pocket full of ideas. AI at Zomato, database testing as a thriller, GitHub heading to Hogwarts-level, and an atmosphere where chill meets mind-blown.
React Delhi x InfoEdge
React Delhi x InfoEdge. Won the quiz and got goodies from React Delhi. Strong lineup on AI in frontend, web performance optimization, and Next.js strategies. Great networking with the React community; shoutout to the organizers.
Won the quiz at React Delhi x InfoEdge and got some awesome goodies. The speaker lineup was incredible – learned a lot about AI in frontend, web performance optimization, and Next.js strategies. Met amazing people in the React community; networking was on point. Big shoutout to the organizers for curating such a fantastic event. React Delhi keeps setting the bar high.
CityJS Conference Delhi
One of the best tech conferences I have been to. International speakers, serious value for money, and a venue that just worked. Highlights: Sainath Ramanathan on micro-frontends, Shruti Balasa on scroll-driven CSS animations, Tapas Adhikary on scaling the front-end, Harshil Agrawal on WebSockets and OpenNext, Li Hau Tan live-coding Svelte 5 in 30 minutes.
CityJS Delhi was one of the best tech conferences I have attended. Went with Swastik Baranwal, Oshaib Beg, Vansh Kapoor, Jaskeerat Singh, Affan Ahmad. Met Bala Bhadra Maharjan, Ashutosh Shrestha, Vinay Shrestha, Deepesh Gupta, Ayush Kumar Tiwari, Mohd Ahmad, Subhankar Maiti, Subhang Singh Gaharwar, Shrey Sinha, Sahaj Singh.
A Masterclass with Don Norman
Masterclass with Don Norman at The Design Village, Noida. An opportunity to learn from one of the foremost voices in design and human-centered design.
Attended a masterclass with Don Norman at The Design Village, Noida.
GitTogether Delhi NCR Meetup - Sepetember 2024
GitTogether. Subhasmita Swain on continuous learning with K8s and GitHub Actions. Kuvam Bhardwaj on DBDaddy, a Go-based CLI for database migrations. Soumya Batra (co-author Llama2 & 3) on LLM safety. Siddharth Vijay on AI and security. Organised by Chhavi Garg and Shivay Lamba.
Strong AI and infra lineup. Met Dipanshu Pandey, Vivek, Aarul Mishra, Karan V., Harendra Prajapat, Ojasvi Bhargava, Rohan Jha, Harsh Kumar, Anurag Dwivedi, Ankit Prajapati, Aditi Arya, Anurag Jaiswal, Akash Sharma.
AI Day Delhi
AI Day Delhi at IIT Delhi R&I Park. Vatsalya Jain (Infogain) on Gen AI and the software development life cycle. Dr. Saumya Rawat Pandey (Parchaa) on AI in healthcare. Rabbitt AI on no-code AI and "Own your AI". E2E Networks.
One of the best AI panels. Met Rahul Dalui, Nitin Sharma, Harendra Prajapat, Saumya Shreya (Sam), Shyank Akshar, Arijit Mukherjee, Ibrahim Khan, Tanisha Singh.
React Delhi x Devtron
React Delhi x Devtron. Monika Rajput on deployment, OPA and Alex in clouderia. Akshay Sharma on web vitals and Chrome DevTools. Rishabh Tayal on developer productivity and ephemeral environments. Eshank Vaish on forms, RJSF and Devtron. Mohit Sharma on Web SDKs. Ayush Thakur on AI agents and JULEP. Hosted by Akansha and Vansh Kapoor.
Full day of React and tooling. Met Krish Khattar, Dipanshu Pandey, Dhruv Sethi, Harnoor Singh and the speakers.
Azure DevOps Day
Intro to DevOps: collaboration, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, key vaults, scripting. Arun Wadhwa on DevOps careers. Reskilll and Azure Developer Community; Devansh Singh Parmar, Sudhansu Kumar. Ranked #2 in the quiz.
Clear run through DevOps basics and careers. Met Sudhansu Kumar Jha, Devansh Singh Parmar, Naman Pandey, Shubham Pandey, Harmanjot Singh Nanda.
Azure Developer Day
Azure Developer Day. Hands-on Azure AI, cloud approaches and connecting with developers. Speakers: Saket Kumar, Amul Kumar, Vinay Pratap Singh Bhadauria. Invited by Reskilll and Merocloud.
Solid Azure focus and good crowd. Met Harshit Arora, Smrati Sharma, Abhishek Pathak, Jitendra Yadav, Lakshya Duseja, Prateek Sharma, Ujjwal Sharma, Advay Anand, Harshavardhan Bajoria, Shambhavi Gupta, Sudhansu Kumar Jha, Devansh Singh Parmar.
Supabase Meetup at LambdaTest
Supabase meetup at LambdaTest. Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson on supabase.new. Rachit Khurana on RAG, generative AI and vector embeddings with a live image RAG demo. Vansh Kapoor on real-time streams (chat app and collaborative whiteboard). Ish Kapoor on VS Code extensions. Aarush Acharya on Edge Functions.
Strong sessions and good demos. Left with fresh ideas. Met Krish Khattar, Manik Rana, Swastik Baranwal, Vibha Pathak, Devansh Singh Parmar.
D2D Delhi Meetup
Day-long D2D meetup at IIIT Delhi. Talks from Aniket Singh Rawat (GSOC), Yashika Chugh (DeFi), Dev Sharma (Go), Anmol Virdi (remote jobs), Siddhartha Satyarthi (career transitions), Yashank Jhamb (font consistency), Sharanya Shrivastava (product management), Manish Sharma (entrepreneurship), plus panel and swag. Organised by Unnati Chhabra.
Solid lineup and a full day. Good mix of open source, fintech, career and product. Unnati and the team ran it smoothly.
Bharat XR: Augmented Reality Symposium
Bharat XR AR symposium: weather-proof execution, AR/VR beyond the lens, industry leaders on immersive tech, and practical-to-futuristic applications. With Snap Inc., Chhavi Garg, Pranjal Nahata.
Torrential rain couldn't dampen innovation at Bharat XR's AR symposium. Cutting-edge AR and VR applications, visionary speakers, and a reminder that true innovation knows no bounds.
Design, No-Code, aur AI
EPYC conference at Microsoft Noida: no-code with Webflow & Wix Studio, Power Platform & AI, inclusive design & accessibility, and gamification (Octalysis).
Transformative event at EPYC's 'Design, No-Code, aur AI' at Microsoft Noida. No-code revolution, AI-driven solutions, inclusive design, and gamification insights. Left inspired and equipped with new tools for digital creation.
React Delhi x Appwrite Meetup
React Delhi x Appwrite meetup: state management with Vansh & Jaskeerat, auth & database workshop with Appwrite, and Tata 1mg on Catalyst framework and performance (Intersection Observer, lazy loading).
Powered down from the React Delhi x Appwrite meetup, state management made simple, hands-on Appwrite auth and database workshop, and 1mg's Catalyst framework going open-source. Reunited with the React meetup squad and met brilliant new faces.
React Meetup - User Auth & Asgardeo
React meetup on user authentication: XSS demos, security best practices, and Asgardeo SDK for React. Speakers from WSO2; organized by Gurjot Singh, Divyansh Gupta, Ojas Elawadhi.
Just wrapped up an incredible React meetup, what a way to kick off the weekend. The challenges of user auth in React are real, but solutions exist. Live demo of XSS attacks and security best practices was a wake-up call. Asgardeo SDK for React is simplifying auth integration like never before.