MLDS speaker · 2026
Ritesh Dhoot
EVP - EngineeringNeysa
About Ritesh Dhoot
Ritesh Dhoot is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience building technology organizations. As the former Founder of Agricx Ritesh pioneered world-first AI and deep-learning platforms for agricultural quality assessment, with patents filed in image processing and computer vision. His entrepreneurial background is complemented by a distinguished career scaling global engineering hubs for Cisco, H1.co, Orange Health Labs, and BYJU’S. A specialist in distributed systems, Generative AI, and big data, Ritesh excels at aligning product, platform, and people to accelerate growth. Beyond his technical and operational expertise, he is an active angel investor and advisor, dedicated to driving the next generation of sovereign AI infrastructure. Outside of engineering, Ritesh is a cinematic enthusiast who approaches film through an architectural lens and finds creative balance playing the keyboard.
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MLDS 2026
Bengaluru
26–27 Mar 2026Mar 27, 2026 · 11:35–12:05 · Hall 1 · Bengaluru
Keynotes / Tech TalksAgents Don't Fail. Infrastructure Does
Why the agentic AI era demands a completely different foundation — and what builders in India need to get there. Everyone today is trying to build agents, and most of them will struggle to make it to production. Not because the reasoning is wrong. Not because the model isn't good enough. But because the infrastructure underneath — fragmented, opaque, and designed for a pre-agentic world — simply wasn't built to support how agents run. This session makes the case that the agentic era isn't just a model problem — it's a systems problem. It maps what agentic workloads demand: persistent memory, low-latency inference, stateful orchestration, real-time observability, and cost control that doesn't collapse under multi-agent load. This is the infrastructure conversation the agentic AI era has been avoiding.
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