TL;DR: DevConf.IN 2027 takes place on February 26-27, 2027 at MIT World Peace University (MIT WPU) in Pune. Admission is free with registration. The Call for Proposals is open for talks, lightning talks, workshops, and booths until November 8, 2026.
Warning
CfP closes November 8, 2026. All sessions must be presented in person in Pune.
Pune, India - DevConf.IN, the annual open source community conference organized and sponsored by Red Hat, returns to MIT World Peace University in Pune for its 2027 edition. The two-day event will be held on February 26-27, 2027, bringing together FOSS contributors, developers, and practitioners for technical talks, workshops, panel discussions, and hackathons.
There is no ticket fee to attend, though all attendees and speakers must complete a free registration. All talks, presentations, and workshops will be in English.
Key Dates
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| CfP opened | September 10, 2026 |
| CfP closes | November 8, 2026 |
| CfP notifications | November 30 - December 6, 2026 |
| Schedule and registration | December 14-20, 2026 |
| Conference | February 26-27, 2027 |
Tracks for 2027
The 2027 edition has seven tracks, with a strong focus on AI, security, and automation.
- Enterprise AI and MLOps covers open-weight models, agentic workflows, model serving, and MLOps platforms, including vLLM, llm-d, Kubeflow, MLflow, PyTorch, OpenShift AI, and RHEL AI.
- Software Supply Chain Security and Agentic AppSec looks at securing software pipelines, agentic vulnerability remediation, SBOMs and xBOMs, non-human identities, and zero-trust architectures.
- Data Sovereignty and Sovereign AI focuses on data residency, governance, confidential computing, sovereign cloud, and running AI models locally and securely.
- Engineering Operations and IT Automation spans AIOps, Ansible, SRE, observability, incident automation, Infrastructure as Code, and configuration management.
- Modern Infrastructure, Edge and Virtualization covers Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization, KubeVirt, edge fleet management, virtualization migration, image-based operating systems, and sustainable computing.
- Platform Engineering and Developer Experience is about internal developer platforms, modern CI/CD, developer tooling, UX engineering, and accessibility.
- An Open Track also welcomes topics outside these themes, such as Linux, systems programming, Rust, open hardware, upstream governance, community building, and academic projects.
Session Types
| Type | Length | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Talk | 45 minutes | Recommended 30-minute talk plus 15 minutes of Q&A |
| Lightning talk | 15 minutes | Short, focused intro to a project, tool, or research topic |
| Workshop | 75 minutes | Hands-on and goal-oriented, up to two presenters |
| Booth | Both days | Open source and community focused, reviewed through the CfP |
Talks are recorded and published on the DevConf YouTube channel after the event. Workshops are not recorded or streamed.
Good to Know Before You Go
All meals served at the venue are Indian vegetarian. Parking is not provided on the MIT WPU campus, and Wi-Fi is not guaranteed for all attendees, although speakers will have access in their session rooms. Recommended hotels will be listed on the event website. See the DevConf.IN FAQ for full details.
Catch Up on DevConf.IN 2026
The previous edition took place on February 13-14, 2026, at the same MIT WPU campus. Session recordings are available on the DevConf.IN 2026 YouTube playlist, and the 2026 schedule is a useful reference for the kind of sessions that get accepted.
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