DES is India’s first & only conference dedicated to the emerging field of Data Engineering. The two-day summit dedicated to cutting-edge data engineering innovation offers attendees direct access to trailblazing engineers and innovators from leading tech companies.
Data Engineering Is Being Rewritten by AI — Are We Still in Control?
In a world where AI can build pipelines and infer schemas, the role of the data engineer is undergoing a fundamental shift. The skills that once defined the profession are being automated and that raises an important question: where does a data engineer's value truly lie?
Join this session to explore how a data engineer’s role is not being replaced, but rather elevated. Understand how you can move beyond manual execution and step into higher-impact roles, shaping business outcomes, driving adoption, and applying the human judgment that no model can match.
Designing Agent Skills for Data Engineering: From Pipelines to Autonomous Systems
Data engineers are the backbone of reliable AI, yet too often their expertise is locked inside repetitive recontextualization, one-off scripts, and ad hoc workflows that don't scale.
This tech talk explores how agent skills empower data engineers to break that cycle by packaging domain knowledge into portable, reusable building blocks that eliminate the need to rephrase the same logic across every new request. From ingestion to governance, attendees will walk away with practical steps and tools to build skills that give AI agents the context to act autonomously, consistently, and at production scale. So, data engineers can stop repeating themselves and start multiplying their impact.
Professionals across analytics, GenAI, data engineering and DevOps, ranging from freshers to seasoned senior leaders.
Keynote
May 14, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. IST | Hall 1, Hotel Radisson Blu, Bengaluru
Tech Talk
May 14, 2026 | 11:55 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. IST | Hall 2, Hotel Radisson Blu, Bengaluru
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