2nd AI SRE & AIOps Workshop: Pune Edition
Deciding whether to build or buy an AI SRE? Spend one Friday working it out with up to 23 other SRE, platform and cloud ops engineers in Pune, before you sign a contract or write the first line of code.
You leave with your own call, scored against your own org, plus the cost numbers and guardrails to back it up.
BUILD OR BUY? EVERY OPS TEAM IS ASKING
Buying gets you speed. Building gets you control. The right call depends on four questions most teams haven't worked through yet:
What does the operating brain need: memory, context, routing, harness?
How do you move between model versions without breaking production?
What does it cost to run, and where does token spend run away?
How do you stop hallucinations once agents touch production?
You work through all four with your own numbers, and "build" is a perfectly good outcome.
EDITION 1: HYDERABAD, 18 SEP 2026
The first edition ran in Hyderabad with SRE Hyderabadi. 24 engineers attended, from 14 companies including banking, healthcare, telecom and fintech teams.
HANDS-ON, FROM YOUR OWN SEAT
Every seat gets a live Kubernetes cluster. Accounts are handed out on the day. Nothing to set up beforehand.
Four AI models go head to head on the same ops problem.
The agent runs with memory on, then off. You watch the answer change.
The room red-teams the agent. One goal: break it before it breaks production.
Real production blockers get worked on. Bring what bit you. The group digs in.
SIX TOPICS ON THE TABLE
AIOps vs copilots vs agents. Everyone says "agent". Which one do you actually need to build?
Getting the foundations right. Most ops agents fail in the setup, before their first answer.
Agents that remember. It solved this exact incident last Tuesday. Today it has no idea.
Giving agents safe hands. Guardrails, permissions and blast-radius control before prod.
Trust but verify. Wrong 5% of the time in production means switched off in a week.
Agent economics. When the agent costs more than the hours it saves.
WHAT YOU DO ON THE DAY
10:00 Chai and arrivals.
10:15 Your #1 production blocker, on the table. The day is built around the room's blockers.
10:30 Buy vs build. Score your own org against a decision framework and leave with a verdict.
11:15 The operating brain. Memory, context, model routing and the harness, built live on your own cluster.
12:30 Lunch with the room.
13:00 What it costs. Price your own architecture at your alert volume and see where token spend runs away.
13:25 Break the agent. Red-team it yourself, scored on a live leaderboard. Failure stories stay in the room under Chatham House rule.
13:55 Your 30-day commitment. One change, written down. We email it back to you on day 30.
WHAT YOU BRING BACK
A build vs buy decision, scored against your org, that you can defend to leadership
A cost estimate for an agentic setup at your alert volume
An upgrade checklist for model versions, plus patterns that stop hallucinations reaching prod
One written 30-day change
LEADING A TEAM? NOMINATE 2
Send the one or two engineers who will own AI in your ops stack. It's 2 seats per company, so pick the pair who will act on it. They come back with the four things above, for Rs 500 each and one Friday, 10 AM to 2 PM. Share this page with them. Each person applies separately.
NEED A MANAGER'S OK? FORWARD THIS
I'd like to attend the AI SRE & AIOps Workshop in Pune on Fri 9 Oct, 10 AM to 2 PM. It's hands-on and capped at 24 people. I'll come back with a build vs buy verdict for our team, a cost estimate at our alert volume and one change we can make in the next 30 days. It costs Rs 500. Details: https://luma.com/53gmriwh
WHO SHOULD APPLY
SREs, platform engineers, DevOps and cloud ops engineers who work hands-on with production systems
Leads and managers who own reliability or cloud spend and have to decide what AI does in their ops stack
Teams at any stage: not started, evaluating, piloting or already running agents in production
If you don't work on production systems, this room isn't for you. That's why it's capped.
BEFORE YOU COME
Bring a laptop with a browser.
Know your team's rough monthly alert volume. You'll use it in the cost session.
HOW TO GET IN
Apply below. Five short questions.
We read every application. You hear back within 1 hour.
If you're approved, you get an email with a link to pay Rs 500. Check your spam folder for it.
Seats go to the first 24 approved people who pay.
FAQ
Is this a sales pitch? No. GoGoAI Dev, a community for ops engineers, organises it. NudgeBee, an AIOps company from Pune, is the partner. You score your own org, test four models yourself and red-team the agent, so the verdict is yours. "Build" is a valid answer.
Do I get a receipt? Yes. Razorpay emails a payment receipt after you pay.
Can a colleague take my seat? Yes, if they apply and we approve them. Email devgogoai@gmail.com.
Is it recorded? No. The failure stories are shared under Chatham House rule.
Where exactly? SB Road / Shivaji Nagar, Pune, easy to reach for everyone. We're finalising the venue now and will share it with approved guests soon.
Organised by GoGoAI Dev. AIOps partner: NudgeBee.