The Agentic Advantage
Google Cloud Startup Summit is back! Join us on 30th September, 2026 at the Ritz Carlton, Bengaluru for an evening of insights on the startup economic mandate.
Google Cloud Startup Summit is back! Join us on 30th September, 2026 at the Ritz Carlton, Bengaluru for an evening of insights on the startup economic mandate.
Thank you for your interest. Registration is now closed.
September 30, 2026
4:00 PM–9:30 PM IST
99, Residency Rd, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar
Join India’s top founders, investors, and tech leaders at the Google Cloud Startup Summit to explore the cutting edge of the Agentic Era. This summit dives deep into four critical pillars: the transformative power of Agentic AI, the low-latency frontier of Voice AI, the creative scale of Gen Media, and the absolute baseline of Security. Through live product demos and candid founder discussions, you’ll walk away with practical blueprints to build, scale, and secure next-gen AI that delivers measurable ROI for your startup today.
🚀 Key Takeaways
- Master the AI Pillars: Explore deep-dives into Agentic workflows, autonomous Voice AI, and high-velocity Gen Media pipelines.
- Learn from Top Founders & VCs: Hear frank discussions on AI costs, compute optimization, and real business returns with founders and leading venture partners.
- Security at the Core: Get practical playbooks on data privacy, trust, and robust security protocols for customer-facing AI agents.
- Explore cutting-edge AI: Check out interactive developer demo stations, discover unique GenAI applications, and network with fellow attendees.
🧑💻 Interactive Hands-on Experience: Register early to try out the newest Agentic AI tools firsthand prior to the main stage program. Indicate your preferred session during registration to reserve a spot.
Speakers
Managing Director, Digital Natives Business, Google Cloud
Head - Startups Business,
Google Cloud
Head of Customer Engineering, India Startups, AI-Native & GenMedia, Google Cloud
Head - Growth Stage Startups, Google Cloud
Platform Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
Vice President - Applied Science for Consumer Shopping
Flipkart
Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
Area Vice President - India and SAARC Region at Wiz
Google Cloud
Director - Solutions Engineering at Wiz
Google Cloud
AI Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
Director of Customer Engineering
Google Cloud
Co-Founder & Head of Technology
Kutumb (Primetrace)
Partner
Accel
Co-founder
Knowl
Co-Founder and Product Owner – BeVigil
CloudSEK
Agenda
4:00 PM–5:00 PM | Hands on Experience - Beyond the Sandbox: Shipping Agents with Antigravity CLI Build and deploy production-ready AI agents using the Antigravity CLI and ADK. You will equip agents with official skills, integrate persistent memory and dynamic code execution, add critical security guardrails like PII redaction, and deploy directly to Vertex AI Agent Runtime with least-privilege IAM policies. Raghav Govindan, Platform Customer Engineer, Google Cloud |
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5:00 PM–6:00 PM | Hands on Experience - Agentic Data Engineering Life Cycle Market conditions shift in milliseconds—static rules can’t keep up. Build an autonomous data engineering agent that ingests live log streams, detects performance drift, and self-optimizes its bidding policies in real time to outcompete the market. Sourabh Jain, Cloud Architect, Google Cloud |
5:00 PM–6:00 PM | Registration, Experience Zones & Developer Demos Check in, grab refreshments, and explore the interactive demo booths to see GenAI and Voice AI in action before the main stage sessions begin. |
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6:00 PM–6:05 PM | Opening Note: Welcome to the Agentic Era Setting the stage with the startup economic mandate. Learn how startups can leverage a vertically integrated stack and clear AI economics to bypass the "feature trap" and drive immediate P&L impact. Amit Kumar, Managing Director, Digital Natives Business, Google Cloud |
6:05 PM–6:35 PM | Keynote Fireside: Scaling Conversational & Voice AI for 300M+ Indian Shoppers A one-on-one executive conversation on how Flipkart scales conversational and voice-first experiences for over 300 million Indian shoppers. We will move beyond the hype to share the exact architectural blueprints from cracking sub-second latency and high-concurrency festive workloads to making conversational commerce a core driver of user engagement. Moderator - Amit Kumar, Managing Director, Digital Natives Business, Google Cloud Speaker - Samir Shah, Vice President - Applied Science for Consumer Shopping, Flipkart |
6:35 PM–6:50 PM | Command Center Live (Demo Part 1): Agentic AI Go beyond the chatbot hype with an immersive showcase of Agentic AI in action. This session features live, end-to-end demonstrations of autonomous agents handling complex, multi-step workflows. Discover how to architect, deploy, and scale intelligent agents that drive measurable business impact and ROI." Parul Sahoo, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud |
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6:50 PM–7:10 PM | Securing the Frontier: Advancing Cloud AI with Security at the Core An expanded, deep-dive session addressing the critical baseline of trust, data privacy, and robust security protocols required to safely deploy customer-facing autonomous AI agents. Anil Bhasin, Area Vice President - India and SAARC Region at Wiz, Google Cloud Sujit Nair, Director - Solutions Engineering at Wiz, Google Cloud |
7:10 PM–7:25 PM | Vision to Reality (Demo Part 2): Gen Media & Voice AI. Experience a live, hands-on demonstration of Google Cloud’s Generative Media solutions. Witness how startups accelerate content velocity, automate asset pipelines, and drive hyper-personalization. Vanshika Bansal, AI Customer Engineer, Google Cloud |
7:25 PM–8:05 PM | Panel Discussion: Unpacking Startup AI Economics & Real ROI Join pioneering founders and leaders from Kutumb, Knowl, SloudSEK and Accel for an engaging panel on hardware acceleration, robust security baselines, unit economics, and maximizing real-world AI deployment ROI. Moderator - Tarun Pant, Director of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud Speaker - Mohit Sharma, Co-Founder & Head of Technology, Kutumb (Primetrace) Rachit Parekh, Partner, Accel Amit Singhi, Co-founder, Knowl Syed Shahrukh Ahmad, Co-Founder and Product Owner – BeVigil, CloudSEK |
8:05 PM–8:10 PM | Closing Note: Your Blueprint for the Agentic Era Synthesizing the evening's insights into a sharp, tactical roadmap. Leave with a clear, outcome-driven framework to prove that for your startup, the future is buildable today. Kapil Kochar, Head - Growth Stage Startups, Google Cloud |
8:10 PM–9:00 PM | Networking Cocktails & Dinner and Experience Zone Activities Continued interaction at the interactive demo booths and through cocktails and dinner. Meet DJ Tara, the AI RJ Immersive experience on the main stage as you grab your drinks. |
Pre-event Hands on Experience
4:00 PM–5:00 PM | Hands on Experience - Beyond the Sandbox: Shipping Agents with Antigravity CLI Build and deploy production-ready AI agents using the Antigravity CLI and ADK. You will equip agents with official skills, integrate persistent memory and dynamic code execution, add critical security guardrails like PII redaction, and deploy directly to Vertex AI Agent Runtime with least-privilege IAM policies. Raghav Govindan, Platform Customer Engineer, Google Cloud |
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5:00 PM–6:00 PM | Hands on Experience - Agentic Data Engineering Life Cycle Market conditions shift in milliseconds—static rules can’t keep up. Build an autonomous data engineering agent that ingests live log streams, detects performance drift, and self-optimizes its bidding policies in real time to outcompete the market. Sourabh Jain, Cloud Architect, Google Cloud |
Main Agenda
5:00 PM–6:00 PM | Registration, Experience Zones & Developer Demos Check in, grab refreshments, and explore the interactive demo booths to see GenAI and Voice AI in action before the main stage sessions begin. |
|---|---|
6:00 PM–6:05 PM | Opening Note: Welcome to the Agentic Era Setting the stage with the startup economic mandate. Learn how startups can leverage a vertically integrated stack and clear AI economics to bypass the "feature trap" and drive immediate P&L impact. Amit Kumar, Managing Director, Digital Natives Business, Google Cloud |
6:05 PM–6:35 PM | Keynote Fireside: Scaling Conversational & Voice AI for 300M+ Indian Shoppers A one-on-one executive conversation on how Flipkart scales conversational and voice-first experiences for over 300 million Indian shoppers. We will move beyond the hype to share the exact architectural blueprints from cracking sub-second latency and high-concurrency festive workloads to making conversational commerce a core driver of user engagement. Moderator - Amit Kumar, Managing Director, Digital Natives Business, Google Cloud Speaker - Samir Shah, Vice President - Applied Science for Consumer Shopping, Flipkart |
6:35 PM–6:50 PM | Command Center Live (Demo Part 1): Agentic AI Go beyond the chatbot hype with an immersive showcase of Agentic AI in action. This session features live, end-to-end demonstrations of autonomous agents handling complex, multi-step workflows. Discover how to architect, deploy, and scale intelligent agents that drive measurable business impact and ROI." Parul Sahoo, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud |
|---|---|
6:50 PM–7:10 PM | Securing the Frontier: Advancing Cloud AI with Security at the Core An expanded, deep-dive session addressing the critical baseline of trust, data privacy, and robust security protocols required to safely deploy customer-facing autonomous AI agents. Anil Bhasin, Area Vice President - India and SAARC Region at Wiz, Google Cloud Sujit Nair, Director - Solutions Engineering at Wiz, Google Cloud |
7:10 PM–7:25 PM | Vision to Reality (Demo Part 2): Gen Media & Voice AI. Experience a live, hands-on demonstration of Google Cloud’s Generative Media solutions. Witness how startups accelerate content velocity, automate asset pipelines, and drive hyper-personalization. Vanshika Bansal, AI Customer Engineer, Google Cloud |
7:25 PM–8:05 PM | Panel Discussion: Unpacking Startup AI Economics & Real ROI Join pioneering founders and leaders from Kutumb, Knowl, SloudSEK and Accel for an engaging panel on hardware acceleration, robust security baselines, unit economics, and maximizing real-world AI deployment ROI. Moderator - Tarun Pant, Director of Customer Engineering, Google Cloud Speaker - Mohit Sharma, Co-Founder & Head of Technology, Kutumb (Primetrace) Rachit Parekh, Partner, Accel Amit Singhi, Co-founder, Knowl Syed Shahrukh Ahmad, Co-Founder and Product Owner – BeVigil, CloudSEK |
8:05 PM–8:10 PM | Closing Note: Your Blueprint for the Agentic Era Synthesizing the evening's insights into a sharp, tactical roadmap. Leave with a clear, outcome-driven framework to prove that for your startup, the future is buildable today. Kapil Kochar, Head - Growth Stage Startups, Google Cloud |
8:10 PM–9:00 PM | Networking Cocktails & Dinner and Experience Zone Activities Continued interaction at the interactive demo booths and through cocktails and dinner. Meet DJ Tara, the AI RJ Immersive experience on the main stage as you grab your drinks. |
Registration closed
Thank you for your interest. Registration is now closed.
