Our Speakers

Open Source Day
At Silver Oak University (5th Oct 2025)

Parth Pandya

Parth Pandya

Founder & CEO, KrishaWeb

KEYNOTE

The Future of Open Source: Trends, Opportunities, and Emerging Technologies
Harshad Modi

Harshad Modi

CTO, Odoo India

CLOSING KEYNOTE

Building a Multi Billion Dollar Open Source Product
Kiran Trivedi

Kiran Trivedi

Professor, University of Wollongong Australia: India Campus

OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE

Open source hardware for Tiny ML
Varun Pandya

Varun Pandya

Chief Technology Officer, Weam

OPEN SOURCE WITH AI

Open Source & AI
Chetan Soni

Chetan Soni

Cloud Head & Solutions Architect, Linearloop

OPEN SOURCE SECURITY

Building Secure Foundations: An Open-Source Approach to Kubernetes Secrets
Someshwaran Mohan Kumar

Someshwaran Mohan Kumar

Developer Advocate, Elastic India

OPEN DATA

From Guesswork to Flamegraphs: eBPF Profiling with DevFiler
Ansh Arora

Ansh Arora

Program and Partnerships Manager, FOSS United

OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY

Significance of Open Source Projects and its sustainability

CXO PANEL
The Role of Open Source in Driving Innovation and Collaboration

Nirav Gohil

Nirav Gohil

CEO, Tecmantras Solutions

Chetan Sheladiya

Chetan Sheladiya

Founder & CEO, Metizsoft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. & Destinova AI Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Bhavika Patel

Bhavika Patel

Co-founder, HK Infosoft

Chinmay Shah

Chinmay Shah

Director, Crescent Electronics Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Mukesh Goswami

Dr. Mukesh Goswami

CTO, Kenexai LLC

COMMUNITY PANEL
Building a Successful Open Source Community: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Pratik Bhatt

Pratik Bhatt

HOD Wordpress, Addweb Solution

COMMUNITY PANEL

Wordpress Ahmedabad Community
Vijay Golani

Vijay Golani

Co-Founder, Evirg Solution

COMMUNITY PANEL

Magento Ahemdabad
Vikas Rajput

Vikas Rajput

Founder, Techxplore IT Solutions

COMMUNITY PANEL

Java User Group Gujarat
Ruchit Patel

Ruchit Patel

Team Lead, Viitor Cloud

COMMUNITY PANEL

Laravel Ahmedabad
Hussain Lokhandwala

Hussain Lokhandwala

DevOps Engineer, UsefulBI Corporation

COMMUNITY PANEL

The Hackers Meetup

DEVROOMS
Specialized mini-conference tracks that run parallel to the main conference

Jay Thakkar

Jay Thakkar

AI Engineer, Impulsive Web

Google Developer Expert: AI

DEVROOMS

Gemini CLI: The All-Round Developer Friend in the Terminal
Someshwaran Mohan Kumar

Someshwaran Mohan Kumar

Developer Advocate, Elastic India

DEVROOMS

Hands-On Workshop: Data Ingestion, ES|QL Processing, and Nginx Dashboards with Elasticsearch

Open Source with AI: Workshop
At Aubergine Solutions (27th Sept 2025)

Ashish Patel

Ashish Patel

Senior Principal Architect AI, ML & DS, Oracle

OPEN SOURCE WITH AI: WORKSHOP

Creating AI Agents for Open Source Projects
Dhaval Desai

Dhaval Desai

Community manager & Maintainer, Gluu Inc

OPEN SOURCE WITH AI: WORKSHOP

How to Start an Open Source Project & Manage like a Pro
Shreyan Mehta

Shreyan Mehta

CEO, Asambhav Solutions

OPEN SOURCE WITH AI: WORKSHOP

Let's build agents using Google adk

Past Speakers

Ashish Tiwari

Ashish Tiwari

Principal Solutions Architect, Elastic

2024 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

Open Source Journey with Elastic
Sanjay Vaghela

Sanjay Vaghela

CTO, IQM

2024 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

Open Source Technologies for a SaaS at Scale
Ruchit Patel

Ruchit Patel

Team lead, ViitorCloud Technologies

2024 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

Demystifying Open Source
Devarsh Shah

Devarsh Shah

Sr. Full Stack Developer, IQM

2024 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

Open Source Technologies for a SaaS at Scale
Rishang Bhavsar

Rishang Bhavsar

Devops Engineer, smartSense Consulting Solutions

2024 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

How to start an Open Source Project and contribute on Github
Krupa Galiya

Krupa Galiya

Sr. Data scientist, PatternAI

2023 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

Significance of Open Source Contribution and Community Engagement
Viral Parmar

Viral Parmar

Director, ComExpo Cyber Security

2023 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

How Can We Create Community Around Open Source Project And Get More Contribution
Santosh Viswanatham

Santosh Viswanatham

Principal Engineer, Arcesium

2023 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

Coding for Change: Hacktoberfest with Interledger
Ronak Ganatra

Ronak Ganatra

Sr. Wordpress Engineer, Multidots Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

2023 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

Kickstart Your Open Source Journey with Wordpress
Nisharg Shah

Nisharg Shah

Sr. Software Engineer, Coda

2023 OSW × HACKTOBERFEST

Kickstart Your Open Source Journey with NodeJS

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