Data Engineering Summit (DES) 2026

OUR ATTENDEES

Srinivasa Kattuboina
VP, Head of Data and Analytics Practice, EPAM, India

EPAM was proud to participate as a Platinum Sponsor at the Data Engineering Summit (DES) 2026 — India's first and only conference dedicated entirely to the discipline of data engineering. Held over two days at Bangalore, the 5th edition of DES drew 1,000+ data professionals at a defining moment for the industry. The conversations cut through the hype and went into the harder territory — what it actually takes to build pipelines that hold up under real-time pressure, how to operationalize generative AI without compromising trust, and how data engineering must evolve from a back-office function into the engine that powers AI-native enterprises.

Srinivasa Kattuboina, VP, Head of Data and Analytics Practice, EPAM-India, took the keynote stage with a session titled "DataOps is Solving the Context Crisis" — a timely and candid exploration of why so many AI initiatives stall the moment they meet enterprise reality. Srinivasa unpacked how modern DataOps — engineered with rigor, automation, and product thinking — is becoming the discipline that can turn scattered data estates into living, contextual foundations that AI can actually reason on. The conversation resonated strongly with senior data leaders navigating this exact inflection point, surfacing what is truly holding enterprises back and what a credible path forward looks like.