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MLDS 2027: India's largest agentic AI conference for developers

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[01]Eight editions

Eight editions, in numbers

Attendees per edition
Sources for the attendance figuresAs published, per editionAttendees as published per edition: mixed measures (post-event counts, site counters, pre-event figures). 2021–22 virtual; 2027 is a goal.
  1. 2019706 attendees · in personPost-event delegate count. Other AIM sources say 690+ and 700+.
  2. 20201,000+ attendees · in personPre-event banner; the counter said 1,500. Bengaluru + Hyderabad; no per-city split exists.
  3. 20211,000+ attendees · virtualVirtual. The counter said 1,500.
  4. 20221,000+ attendees · virtualVirtual. Counter figure; no post-event number found.
  5. 20231,000+ attendees · in personAs published by AIM on the MLDS 2023 site before the event.
  6. 20241,500+ attendees · in personPublished as 1.5x the previous year.
  7. 20252,000+ attendees · in personAs published on the MLDS 2025 site counter.
  8. 20262,000+ attendees · in personAs published by AIM after the event.
  9. 20273,000+ attendees · 2027 goal2027 goal across both cities combined, not a result.

2027 · 9th edition

  • 3,000+Attendeesgoalboth cities2027 goal across both cities combined (confirmed by AIM).
  • 100+SpeakersgoalTarget; no 2027 speaker announced yet.
  • 2CitiesBengaluru · HyderabadBengaluru Feb 25–26 · Hyderabad Mar 4–5
  • 4DaysFeb 25–26Mar 4–5Two days in each city
Busy foyer crowd, attendees in transit at MLDS 2026
Crowded booth, engaged demo at MLDS 2026
Animated booth conversation over a laptop at MLDS 2026

Mostly developers and engineers with 5–15 years' experience · AIM, 2026 · photos MLDS 2026

[02]Partners since 2019

62 brands have backed MLDS

Sponsor MLDS 2027 Partnership options
Brands per editionBrands per edition, 2019 to 2026. 2019: 12 brands, 0 returning, 12 first time. 2020: 13 brands, 2 returning, 11 first time. 2021: 7 brands, 1 returning, 6 first time. 2022: 15 brands, 6 returning, 9 first time. 2023: 10 brands, 6 returning, 4 first time. 2024: 9 brands, 4 returning, 5 first time. 2025: 9 brands, 5 returning, 4 first time. 2026: 17 brands, 6 returning, 11 first time.
62All122019’19132020’2072021’21152022’22102023’2392024’2492025’251711 new6 back2026’26

62 brands · 18 came back

Still from the MLDS 2026 partner reel by BITS Pilani DigitalPartner-made reelBITS Pilani Digital · 2026
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Source and footnoteAbout this wallEvery edition 2019-2026 has an archived sponsor page with tier headings, so commercial sponsors are well covered.Gaps· Media, community and academic partners are thin: only Amity (2019), ISB (2020) and ADaSci (2021, 2023) appear as named partners. No media-partner lists were found for any year.· 2024 and 2025 partners pages list only headline tiers (Powered By, AI Partner, Platinum, Gold, Silver). If those editions had exhibit-only booths, they are missing.· Two archived headings had no logo under them: 'Award Sponsor' (2020) and 'Badge Sponsor' (2022).· Proschool (2020) and Quantiphi (2022) appear only on one early homepage strip, not on the final sponsor pages; tier unknown.
2026 'E2E Cloud & NVIDIA' was one joint Powered By logo; it is counted as two brands (E2E Cloud, NVIDIA). 59 sponsors, 3 academic and community partners. "Returning" = listed in an earlier edition.Sources2019: sponsor page · homepage2020: sponsor page · homepage2021: sponsor page · homepage2022: sponsor page · homepage2023: sponsor page · homepage2024: sponsor page · homepage2025: sponsor page · homepage2026: sponsor page · MLDS sponsor records

Archived sponsor pages, 2019–2026. · info@aimmediahouse.com

[03]The shift

The conversation moved here first

3%53%Session titles about agents, 2023 → 2026

2026 · Agentic · 62 sessions

  • Agents53%
  • Production20%
  • GenAI / LLM8%
  • Classic DS1%
Share of MLDS session titles matching each topic, by year (percent; groups overlap)
YearClassic data scienceGenAI / LLMProduction / scaleAgents / agenticSessions
202314%1%4%3%63
20245%42%3%1%60
20253%35%6%19%93
20261%8%20%53%62
Source and footnoteHow this was countedKeyword count of session titles in the MLDS agenda database, 2023–26 (derived). Keyword count of session titles in the MLDS agenda database, 2023–2026; indicative. A title can match more than one group and most match none, so the shares do not add up to 100%.
% of MLDS session titles per topic · groups overlap

[04]2027 themes

Agentic AI × Forward Deployed Engineering

Plan MLDS with your agent
Open in Claude Open in ChatGPT

Agentic AI is what gets built; Forward Deployed Engineering is how it reaches production inside a real business. MLDS 2027 covers both, from prompt to production.

Two speakers on stage, AI agents slide at MLDS 2026
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Share of MLDS session titles about agents, 2023–2026
  • 2023: 3% of session titles
  • 2024: 1% of session titles
  • 2025: 19% of session titles
  • 2026: 53% of session titles

What gets built

Agentic AI

  • Reason
  • Use tools
  • Remember
  • Act
Engineer explaining, green network slide behind at MLDS 2026
02New for 2027

How it reaches production

Forward Deployed Engineering

  • Discovery on site
  • Integration
  • Going live
  • Owning the outcome after launch
The FDE deep-dive
Source and footnoteWhy it says newNo session on forward-deployed engineering appears in the MLDS 2023–26 agendas, so this focus area is new for 2027.
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2027 theme · FDE

Forward Deployed Engineering: the engineers who take AI to the customer

What an FDE does

A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who works inside a customer's team, learns how the work really runs, and builds, connects and runs the AI system there until it delivers results. Palantir made the role famous; AI labs, AI-native startups and Indian IT firms now hire for it.

  1. Embeds with customers
  2. Learns the workflow
  3. Builds and connects AI
  4. Runs it to results
Why nowFDE job postings in India1
  1. Jun 20251×
  2. Jun 2026~19×
More numbers

Indian FDE roles are in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai1

+1,165%

FDE job postings, Jan–Oct 2025 vs 20242

FDE postings asking for2
  • AI agents35%
  • LLM experience31%
Indian IT FDE benches, planned3
  • Infosys “frontier engineers”6,000
  • LTM AI10001,000

Delta

Where the role started: Palantir’s forward deployed engineer4

  1. 1Indeed via AIM, Oct 2026 (Indeed data, reported by AIM, 14 Oct 2026)
  2. 2Bloomberry, Nov 2025 (Bloomberry analysis of FDE job postings, Nov 2025 (updated Jan 2026))
  3. 3AIM, Jul 2026 (AIM, "Inside Indian IT's Scramble to Build an Army of Forward Deployed Engineers", 24 Jul 2026)
  4. 4Palantir blog (Palantir blog, "Dev versus Delta")

Already on the MLDS stage: the deployment craft

  1. Video: “Building Production-Grade ML Systems for Heavy Industry: From Model Development to Shop-Floor Decisions” by Soummo Bose
    2026

    Tata Steel

  2. Video: “Agentic AI is Easy. Running It in Production is Not.” by Alok Shrivastwa
    2026

    Microland

  3. Video: “From AI Experimentation to Production: The Orchestration Stack for Reliable Agentic Systems” by Neel Radia & Manan Bhatt
    2026

    StoneX Group & Orkes

  4. Video: “Building AI Agents: From Prototype to Production” by Vikas Mishra
    2025

    Google Cloud

  5. Video: “Deploying agentic workflow in production at scale” by Anurag Mishra & Puneet Narang
    2025

    EY

  6. Video: “[Workshop] Deploying LLM in production at scale” by Anurag Mishra & Puneet Narang
    2024

    EY

All 9 talks

Past MLDS talks on taking AI from prototype to production. FDE is new as a named theme in 2027.

2027 focus areas (agenda not yet announced)

  • Discovery on site: turning a customer's real workflow and data into an agent worth building
  • Integration: wiring agents into enterprise data, legacy systems and tools without breaking them
  • Going live: evaluation, guardrails, security and observability that get a pilot past the demo
  • Owning the outcome after launch: monitoring, cost, latency and handover to the customer's team
  • The FDE career in India: the mix of engineering, domain knowledge and customer skills the role asks for

Agentic AI × Forward Deployed Engineering, live in two cities.

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[05]The stage

Builders on the MLDS stage

Past speakers, 2020–2026. No 2027 speaker yet.

Source and footnoteWhat 500+ counts · derivedProfiles, not unique people: they include headline guests, AIM hosts and a few duplicate entries. No 2027 speaker has been announced yet.
489 with headshots · 541 appearances. Source: MLDS speaker database, 2019–26 (derived count)
21/21
How talks are groupedHow talks are groupedAIM's grouping, from talk titles: Agentic = the title is about agents; Production = the title is about production systems or evaluation; Research = academic and model-building talks; Legends = headline guests.
Talk titles are verbatim from the MLDS 2023–26 agendas. The 2020 row is a session note: the 2020 agenda is not in the MLDS database.
  1. Abhishek Ranjan, CTO · apna & Bluemachines.ai, MLDS 2026. Talk: “The Agent Protocol Stack: MCP + A2A + Context Engineering (How agents actually integrate with the real world)”
  2. Chiranjoy Chowdhuri, Global Head - AI and Data · Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, MLDS 2026. Talk: “Evaluating Agentic AI Systems: From Prompt Accuracy to Task Completion”
  3. Chirag Jain, Vice President, AI Practice · Genpact, MLDS 2021, 2024, 2025, 2026. Talk: “A Unified Framework for Training, Trajectory Improvement, Optimization, and Evaluation of Agentic AI Systems”
  4. Arpit Bhayani, Creator of DiceDB, MLDS 2026. Talk: “Databases Were Not Designed For This”
  5. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Professor, IIT Bombay and Founding Director, BharatGen, MLDS 2026. Talk: “BharatGen: Sovereign & Shared: Frugally Scalable Multilingual–Multimodal AI for Bharat”
  6. Soummo Bose, Chief AI Officer · Tata Steel, MLDS 2026. Talk: “Building Production-Grade ML Systems for Heavy Industry: From Model Development to Shop-Floor Decisions”
  7. Prof. Snehanshu Saha, Head- A.I. Research (APPCAIR) · BITS Pilani, MLDS 2026. Talk: “Intelligence in Structure, Not Policy: Resilient Multi-Agent Urban Food Delivery–where intelligence should live in delivery systems?”
  8. Chinmay Prakash, Senior AI Engineer, AI Practice · Genpact, MLDS 2023, 2024, 2026
  9. Paras Chopra, Turing's Dream, MLDS 2025. Talk: “How to build SOTA AI models from India”
  10. Tanay Pratap, Founder & CEO · Invact Metaversity, MLDS 2025. Talk: “AI and the Future of Programming: Opportunities and Challenges for India's Tech Workforce”
  11. Lavi Nigam, Developer Relations Engineer · Google Cloud, MLDS 2023, 2024, 2025. Talk: “Building Scalable Multi-Agent Systems with Gemini: From Scratch to EV Industry Report”
  12. Mathangi Sri Ramachandran, Chief Data Officer · Yubi, MLDS 2019, 2020, 2022, 2025
  13. Viswanathan Anand, Former Five-time World Chess Champion, MLDS 2024. Talk: “Chess and AI Synergy: A Grandmaster's Perspective”
  14. Sanyam Bhutani, Senior Data Scientist · H2O.ai, MLDS 2024. Talk: “Large Language Models, From Zero to Fine-Tuning”
  15. Anubhav Srivastava, Head of Data Science · Viacom18 Digital Ventures, MLDS 2019, 2022, 2024
  16. Sudalai Rajkumar (SRK), 4x Kaggle Grandmaster, MLDS 2023. Talk: “AI in Web3 & Its Applications”
  17. Anish Agarwal, Head of Analytics · Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, MLDS 2020, 2021, 2023
  18. Martin Henze, Data Scientist · Kaggle Grandmaster, MLDS 2021
  19. Luca Massaron, Senior Data Scientist, Kaggle Master; Google Developer Expert on ML · Kaggle · Google Developer Expert, MLDS 2021
  20. Viral Shah, Co-creator of Julia programming language, MLDS 2020. Session note: Hands-on session on differentiable programming
  21. Savin Goyal, Senior Software Engineer · Netflix, MLDS 2020
  22. FDE FrontlineOpen call · 2027: pitch an FDE or agentic talk
Speakers per edition
Source and footnoteSpeaker appearances · derivedSpeaker-edition appearances (one per speaker per year spoken), 541 in all. Profiles, not unique people: they include headline guests, AIM hosts and a few duplicate entries. No 2027 speaker has been announced yet.
Source: MLDS speaker database, 2019–26 (derived count)
  1. 58 speaker appearances in 2019
  2. 71 speaker appearances in 2020
  3. 58 speaker appearances in 2021
  4. 50 speaker appearances in 2022
  5. 69 speaker appearances in 2023
  6. 65 speaker appearances in 2024
  7. 97 speaker appearances in 2025 (peak)
  8. 73 speaker appearances in 2026
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[06]40 Under 40 AI Builders

Hall of Honour

Honorees per year, 2019 to 2026: 2019 36, 2020 39, 2021 40, 2022 40, 2023 39, 2024 38, 2025 35, 2026 38. Pick a year to see example names.

2019 · 40 Under 40 Data Scientists

  • Sanjeev SharmaFounder, Director and CEO at Swaayatt Robots
  • Dr. Sunil Kumar VuppalaPRINCIPAL SCIENTIST at PHILIPS Research India
  • Jacob JosephLead Data Scientist at Clevertap

2020 · 40 Under 40 Data Scientists

  • Samarth BharadwajResearch Scientist at IBM Research India
  • Karan ShahDirector – Analytics at Swiggy
  • Bhavesh BhattData Scientist at Fractal Analytics

2021 · 40 Under 40 Data Scientists

  • Dipanjan SarkarData Science Lead at Applied Materials
  • Nitin AggarwalTechnical PM, Cloud AI at Google
  • Satyen AbrolPrincipal Research Scientist at Rakuten India

2022 · 40 Under 40 Data Scientists

  • Ankit JainTech Lead, Machine Learning at Meta (Facebook)
  • Praneet DuttaMachine Learning Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
  • Shuddha Satwa HaldarHead of Analytics at Swiggy

2023 · 40 Under 40 Data Scientists

  • Sudalai Rajkumar4x Kaggle Grandmaster
  • Seema NagarStaff Research Scientist – IBM Research, India
  • Jitendra GuptaData Science Leader – Baker Hughes

2024 · 40 Under 40 Data Scientists

  • Aayush MudgalSenior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
  • Kedar PotdarManager, System Software – AI at NVIDIA
  • Garvit AryaSenior Data Analytics Engineer at Google

2025 · 40 Under 40 Data Scientists

  • Arjit Jainco-founder and CTO at TurboML
  • Mehuli MukherjeeVice President at Wells Fargo
  • Akhil MakolPrincipal Engineer at NatWest Group

2026 · 40 Under 40 AI Builders

  • Lakshmi Devi PrakashVice President – Applied AI ML Lead, JP Morgan Chase & Co
  • Vivek PariharHead of Engineering & CISO, Purplle.com
  • Charchit BahlVice President, EXL Services
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40 Under 40 Data Scientists honorees holding their trophies under confetti on the MLDS stage
305honoured since 2019
Source and footnoteDerived countNamed honorees, 2019–26. The awards page says 300+; a few names may repeat across years.
Source: MLDS awards data, 2019–26 (derived count)
MLDS 2024 award winners on stage
2024
Charchit Bahl receiving the 40 Under 40 award, MLDS 2026
2026

[07]Formats

Not just talks

  3. Still from the MLDS 2023 · MachineHack Code-A-Thon video

    Hackathon

    Clip: MLDS 2023 · MachineHack Code-A-Thon

    Hackathon: ran in 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025, 2026.

    2027 not yet announced

  4. Paper track

    69papers · 2023–25

    Paper track: 26 papers in 2023, 23 papers in 2024, 20 papers in 2025.

    2027 not yet announced

  6. Code Craze

    3on-stage contests · 2025

    Code Craze: ran in 2025.

    2027 not yet announced

  7. Chess & treasure hunt

    Chess & treasure hunt: ran in 2026.

    2027 not yet announced
Sources for the formatsSourcesHands-on workshops MLDS 2026 agenda (Hall 2); MLDS 2027 pass details.Expo & demos MLDS 2026 partner list; Insider.AI EP2 on YouTube.Hackathon AIM on LinkedIn; MachineHack clip on YouTube. Clip: MLDS 2023 MachineHack Code-A-Thon.Paper track MLDS agenda database, 2023–25 (derived count). No paper track ran in 2026.VIP roundtable MLDS 2027 VIP Pass details.Code Craze MLDS 2025 agenda; Code Craze page (Wayback, Jan 2025).Chess & treasure hunt Insider.AI EP2 on YouTube; attendee posts on LinkedIn.
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[08]Passes

Two cities, three passes

Per person, one city, both days, plus 18% GST. Same prices in both cities.

Bengaluru passes: price per person before 18% GST (bar height shows the price), and what each includes.
₹6,000Standard₹7,080 incl. GST₹12,000Learning₹14,160 incl. GST₹20,000VIP₹23,600 incl. GST
Talks & sessions: Access to talks & Sessions (No Workshops & roundtables)IncludedIncludedIncluded
Keynote sessions: Access to content from industry leaders and keynote sessionsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Lunch, both days: Conference Lunch for all 2 daysIncludedIncludedIncluded
Half-day AI workshops: Exclusive Half-day AI Workshops during the conference (Both Day 1 & Day 2)Not includedIncludedIncluded
90-min roundtable: Exclusive 90 min Roundtable Discussion with Industry Peers during the conferenceNot includedNot includedIncluded
Front-row seating: Platinum Seating - front-row seats reserved for you at all sessionsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Platinum lounge: Exclusive Platinum Lounge Access - A lounge for VIP pass holders and Speakers only!Not includedNot includedIncluded
6 more
  • WhatsApp support: Dedicated Whatsapp Support (before, during, and after the show)
  • VIP check-in
  • Priority lunch area: Priority Lunch area
  • Post-event synopsis: Post event synopsis and findings
  • Goodies bag: Goodies bag with Exclusive Merchandise
  • 1-year AIM subscription: 1 Year Digital Subscription of AIM
Not includedNot includedIncluded
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Request: Learning Pass for MLDS 2027

- MLDS 2027 (9th edition, running since 2019): India's largest agentic AI conference for developers.
- Dates: Bengaluru, Feb 25–26, 2027 (NIMHANS Convention Centre); Hyderabad, Mar 4–5, 2027 (Venue TBC). Each pass covers one city, both days.
- Pass: Learning Pass, ₹12,000 + 18% GST per person (₹14,160 incl. GST). Includes: Exclusive Half-day AI Workshops during the conference (Both Day 1 & Day 2).
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[09]Frames

MLDS 2026, in frames

[10]Voices from MLDS 2019–2026

What people said after past editions

Attentive audience, thoughtful faces at MLDS 2026

  1. MLDS 2026

  2. Neon-green MLDS stage, audience silhouettes at MLDS 2026
    2026Attendee

    Agents fail because of weak systems, not weak models.

    Karan GehlodSenior Software Engineer

  3. Shweta Sawant

    Senior Data Scientist, John Deere India

    Agentic AI is real; production is the real fight.

    2026AttendeeSource: LinkedIn

  4. Murugan Rajenthiran

    AI/ML Specialist, Sony

    Recapped every session in numbers. Plans to return in 2027.

    2026AttendeeSource: LinkedIn

  5. Anannya Upadhyaya

    First-time attendee

    Hackathons, competitive treasure hunts, a room serious about ML.

    2026AttendeeSource: LinkedIn

  6. Ruchi Chauhan

    Healthcare AI/ML Scientist

    Everyone around you is building, breaking and rebuilding AI.

    2026PanellistSource: LinkedIn post (screenshot)

  7. Sreekanth Iyer

    Distinguished Architect, SymphonyAI

    Wants more rooms like this, and more hands-on time.

    2026SpeakerSource: LinkedIn

  8. Vivek Parihar

    VP Eng & CISO, Purplle

    AI is built in production, not in slides.

    202640U40 honoreeSource: LinkedIn

  9. Conor Applegate

    2026 Gold partner, Millennium

    Agentic-AI enthusiasm, nearly matched by appetite for math brainteasers.

    2026PartnerSource: LinkedIn post (screenshot)
  10. Prof. Snehanshu Saha, speaker headshot

    Prof. Snehanshu Saha

    Head, AI Research (APPCAIR), BITS Pilani

    Well-structured environments let simple agents beat learned policies.

    2026SpeakerSource: LinkedIn

  11. MLDS 2025

  12. Samuel Shine

    Attendee

    One of the highlights of his year.

    2025AttendeeSource: LinkedIn

  15. MLDS 2024

  17. MLDS 2023

  18. Sudalai Rajkumar (SRK), speaker headshot

    Sudalai Rajkumar (SRK)

    4x Kaggle Grandmaster

    Valued meeting and connecting with industry peers.

    2023SpeakerSource: Awards page testimonial

  23. MLDS 2021

  26. MLDS 2019

Paraphrased from public posts. Post with #MLDS2027 to be featured.
Source and footnoteSourcesLinkedIn posts, AIM articles, MLDS site testimonials (Wayback) and company newsrooms. Cards link to the post where it is a public page. The chart counts the voices on this page; editions with none had no named post-event voice we could verify.

[11]History

From ML to agents, 2019 → 2027

  1. 2019, 1st edition: ML

    Bengaluru

    706 attendees

    Video still: MLDS 2019 promo: 'We painted the whole town'. Play video: MLDS 2019 promo: 'We painted the whole town'

  2. 2020, 2nd edition: Two cities

    Bengaluru · Hyderabad

    1,000+ attendees

    Video still: MLDS 2020 promo listing Bangalore and Hyderabad dates. Play video: MLDS 2020 promo listing Bangalore and Hyderabad dates

  3. 2021, 3rd edition: Virtual

    Online

    1,000+ attendees

    Video still: MLDS 2021 third-edition video. Play video: MLDS 2021 third-edition video

  4. 2022, 4th edition: Virtual

    Online

    1,000+ attendees

  5. 2023, 5th edition: Back in person

    Bengaluru

    1,000+ attendees

    Video still: MLDS 2023 sneak peek. Play video: MLDS 2023 sneak peek

  6. 2024, 6th edition: GenAI

    Bengaluru

    1,500+ attendees

    Video still: MLDS 2024 official aftermovie. Play video: MLDS 2024 official aftermovie

  7. 2025, 7th edition: Developers

    Bengaluru

    2,000+ attendees

    Video still: MLDS 2025 official aftermovie. Play video: MLDS 2025 official aftermovie

  8. 2026, 8th edition: Agentic

    Bengaluru

    2,000+ attendees

    Cheerful attendees walking, neon ceiling at MLDS 2026. Play video: AIM Presents MLDS 2026 (73s reel)

  9. 2027, 9th edition: Two cities again

    Bengaluru · Hyderabad

    3,000+ goal

Attendance as published for each edition
Source and footnoteAttendees per editionAttendees as published per edition: mixed measures (post-event counts, site counters, pre-event figures). 2021–22 virtual; 2027 is a goal.2019 · 706: Post-event delegate count. Other AIM sources say 690+ and 700+. Source: AIM MLDS 2019 wrap-up2020 · 1,000+: Pre-event banner; the counter said 1,500. Bengaluru + Hyderabad; no per-city split exists. Source: MLDS 2020 site banner (Wayback)2021 · 1,000+: Virtual. The counter said 1,500. Source: AIM post-event article2022 · 1,000+: Virtual. Counter figure; no post-event number found. Source: MLDS 2022 site counter (Wayback)2023 · 1,000+: As published by AIM on the MLDS 2023 site before the event. Source: MLDS 2023 site, pre-event (Wayback)2024 · 1,500+: Published as 1.5x the previous year. Source: AIM newsletter, 'Inside India's Biggest Generative AI Summit'2025 · 2,000+: As published on the MLDS 2025 site counter. Source: MLDS 2025 site counter (Wayback)2026 · 2,000+: As published by AIM after the event. Source: AIM Presents MLDS 2026 reel (description); site counter2027 · 3,000+ (goal): 2027 goal across both cities combined, not a result. Source: AIM's 2027 plan, as posted by AIM Events on LinkedIn

[12]Archive

Hundreds of talks, free to watch

~400videos on YouTube
Source and footnoteHow ~400 was counted~400 = sum of 7 playlist counts on 31 Oct 2026 (76 · 94 · 10 · 77 · 92 · 15 · 36), including interviews, promos and testimonial clips. No talk recordings were found for 2021–2023. Talk cards show session titles from the MLDS agenda; each opens that year’s playlist, and not every session was recorded.
  3. 2021: held online, no recordings found
  4. 2022: held online, no recordings found
MLDS 2026

Agentic AI is Easy. Running It in Production is Not.

Alok Shrivastwa, Microland (opens the MLDS Speakers 2026 playlist on YouTube)Video still: India's Biggest AI Summit Wrapped Up | MLDS 2026 | Sessions, Demos & AI Innovation | Insider.AI EP2MLDS 2025

Building AI Agents: From Prototype to Production

Vikas Mishra, Google Cloud (opens the MLDS 2025 playlist on YouTube)Video still: MLDS 2025 | India's Biggest Developer Summit - Official AftermovieMLDS 2024

Generative AI and the Road to Singularity

Jaspreet Bindra, Tech Whisperer (opens the MLDS 2024 playlist on YouTube)Video still: MLDS 2024 - India's Biggest Gen AI Summit | Official Aftermovie

[13]FAQ

Questions, answered

About MLDS 2027

MLDS 2027 is the 9th edition of India's largest agentic AI conference for developers, hosted by AIM since 2019. It runs for two days in each city: Bengaluru on Feb 25–26, 2027 at NIMHANS Convention Centre, and Hyderabad on Mar 4–5, 2027 (venue TBC).

The 2027 themes are agentic AI and Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE): the engineers who take AI to the customer. Expect keynotes, workshops, an AI Expo and the AI Awards.

When and where is the AI Conference 2027 in India?

MLDS 2027, India's largest agentic AI conference for developers hosted by AIM, takes place in two cities: Bengaluru, 25-26 Feb 2027, and Hyderabad, 4-5 Mar 2027. It is the 9th edition of MLDS.

Is MLDS the largest agentic AI conference for developers in India?

Yes. MLDS is widely regarded as India's largest agentic AI conference for developers, and MLDS 2027 aims to bring together 3,000+ attendees across both cities combined, 100+ speakers and 1,000+ organizations across keynotes, workshops, an AI Expo and the AI Awards.

Who should attend the AI Conference 2027 in India?

CXOs, AI and ML engineers, data scientists, enterprise leaders, founders, researchers, students and AI product builders attend MLDS 2027 to learn, network and discover the latest in Generative AI, Enterprise AI, Agents, MLOps and Responsible AI.

How much do AI Conference 2027 India tickets cost?

MLDS 2027 passes are available in multiple tiers, starting with Early Bird pricing. Visit the Tickets page for current AI Conference 2027 India ticket prices, group discounts and corporate passes.

Which pass should I buy?

Standard covers talks, keynotes and lunch on both days. Learning adds half-day hands-on AI workshops on both days. VIP adds a 90-minute roundtable, front-row seating and the lounge. Passes are per city, plus 18% GST, with group discounts of 10%, 20% and 30% for teams of 3–5, 6–10 and 11+. See the Tickets page for current prices.

Who is speaking at MLDS 2027?

MLDS 2027 aims to feature 100+ AI leaders, including senior practitioners from leading enterprises, AI startups and research labs across India and the world. Speaker reveals are published on the Speakers page.

How can my company sponsor the AI Conference 2027 in India?

Companies can become a MLDS 2027 partner by visiting the Sponsors page or contacting the team. Sponsorship gives access to India's most senior AI buyer audience across enterprise, government and startups.

MLDS 2027Feb 25–26 / Mar 4–5Early bird till 13 Nov

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