2026-02-14 –, Opening, Keynotes, Closing: Floor8 Terrace
Panel discussion: The Collaboration Synthesis: Engineering India’s Open AI Future from Classroom to Cloud
Rajan leads the Partner Ecosystem Engineering's Product Certification Solutions team at Red Hat, helping global technology partners build trusted, proven, and secure solutions on Red Hat platforms. His work focuses on strengthening the bridge between community innovation and enterprise reliability — ensuring that certified partner products deliver confidence to customers everywhere.
A community-driven leader, Rajan believes in empowering people through technology, connection, curiosity, and collaboration. He is personally passionate about coaching, mentoring, and nurturing psychologically safe teams where creativity thrives.
Outside of work, you’ll find him travelling across the world, exploring new places & culture, capturing moments through his lens, vibing to offbeat music, or sharing good energy with the communities he’s part of.
VP, Conferences, Apache Software Foundation and Sr. Manager, Community Outreach, Open Source Program Office, Red Hat
I am Gaurav Hirani, currently serving as a General Manager – Head Cloud at Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom company. With over 21 years of experience, I bring expertise in Cloud, Telecom, IoT, DevOps and SRE. I am also serving on CAB of Confluent.
My academic background includes a B.E. in Computer Science, LL.B., PG from IIT Roorkee, MBA from IIM Indore, and NTU Singapore. I have had the privilege of speaking at various summits and conferences in India and internationally, sharing insights on Tech (Cloud and DevOps) driving Telecom and IoT.
Senior Director, APAC SA and Adoption Leader, Tech Sales, Red Hat
Professor & Program Director, Department of Computer Engineering & Technology @ Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT WORLD PEACE UNIVERSITY, PUNE, Bharat
Veteran technologist with experience in many facets of IT and software engineering. Currently managing global teams that design, architect and deliver web applications based on open source software.