Product Engineering

Presenters Mallikarjuna Muchu Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Cultivating the Future: How Cloud-Native AI is Revolutionizing Agriculture 🚀🌽 Hey tech enthusiasts and curious minds! Manikonda Muchu here, head of startups, and I’m thrilled to dive into a topic that impacts every single one of us: food production. But we’re not just talking about farms; we’re looking at agriculture through a powerful new lens – the lens of cloud-native AI. Get ready, because we’re transforming a traditional industry into a highly intelligent, autonomous future! ...

Presenters Vaishali Mahavratayajula Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🚀 Democratizing Cybersecurity: Why Your Small Business Needs a SOC in Your Pocket In the world of big tech, cybersecurity is a titan. Large corporations employ massive teams, deploy sophisticated DevSecOps pipelines, and spend millions to fortify their perimeters. But what about the small-scale business owner? What about the entrepreneur running a Shopify store, managing Instagram automations, and handling payments through third-party processors? ...

Presenters Manasa Uppula Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🏗️ Building Trust: Architecting Compliant Financial Onboarding In the world of fintech and cloud-native development, onboarding is often treated as a simple UX flow—a series of forms and checkboxes. But for Manasa Uppula, an enterprise web architect with 14 years of experience, onboarding is the architectural foundation of trust. When a customer onboards, you aren’t just collecting data; you are establishing legal consent, granting access to regulated services, and creating an immutable record that regulators might scrutinize years down the line. If your architecture treats compliance as a surface-level afterthought, you are building on sand. ...

Presenters Dhivya Dhayakar Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🌐 The Agentic Era: Moving Beyond Standalone Chatbots to Unified Ecosystems As we navigate 2026, the era of the isolated, static chatbot has officially ended. We are stepping into a future defined by unified AI ecosystems—a world where AI agents act not as siloed tools, but as interconnected nodes in a fluid, collaborative network. Dhivya Dhayakar recently shared a roadmap for mastering this transition, emphasizing a critical balance: how do we harness autonomous action while maintaining robust human accountability? ...

Presenters Sonali Priya Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Beyond the Basic Three: Building Design Systems That Conquer Enterprise Analytics 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt like your design system, the supposed bedrock of consistency and efficiency, is actually crumbling under the weight of complex enterprise analytics? You’re not alone. Sonali Priya, Creative Director at LB Networks, has walked this challenging path and has emerged with a powerful solution: a seven-layer model designed to tackle the unique demands of building and scaling these intricate systems. ...