MLC 2026
What Is MLC?
The Machine Learning Conclave is our annual flagship gathering consisting of talks, panels, and hands-on sessions bringing together researchers, practitioners, and students from across the country to explore the frontier of various domains across Artificial Intelligence from foundational theory to real-world deployment.
The Conclave is where IITG's AI community interacts with the wider ecosystem - industry researchers, academic labs, and student builders share a stage for a day of keynotes, panel discussions, and open Q&A. It's the event which connects the dots between what our club builds and where the domain is heading globally.
WHAT TO EXPECT?
We conduct back-to-back keynotes from researchers and founders, on the domains shaping both modern industrial and academic Artificial Intelligence. We also conduct a hackathon alongside the talks, giving participants a chance to build and ship something hands-on before the event wraps up.
Featured Speakers of 2026
Meet the brilliant minds shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence
Abhishek Mishra
Voice AI Evaluation — problems and challenges
Lead Developer Relations Engineer at Smallest AI, working on voice AI and multi-modal agents. Strong background in backend engineering and cloud infrastructure. Python Software Foundation Fellow who organizes PyCon India and leads Google Developer Group, bridging technical development with developer community building.
Mudit Srivastava
Decoding Impact Creation in the Post-Transformer World
Director of Growth at Pathway, a California-based AI research company. Collaborated on projects involving state-of-the-art architectures and real-time agentic AI. Scaled Pathway's community to 110,000+ GitHub stars and established partnerships from NYU and Berkeley to IITs across India. Previously built an enterprise AI startup backed by a 300k-member GenAI community.
Shankar Gopalkrishnan
Cisco: Where Innovation Begins — Where People Meet AI
Principal Engineer in Cisco's Data Center Group with over 25 years of experience. Worked across multiple business units, technologies, and technical leadership roles. Specializes in switching and routing with expertise in Quality of Service (QoS) and forwarding. Frequent speaker at Cisco Live delivering multiple breakout sessions.
Sayak Paul
State of Open Video Generation Models
Research Engineer at Hugging Face, specializing in image and video generation. Maintains the Diffusers library and trains cutting-edge models. When not working, enjoys playing the guitar or watching Suits for the n-th time.
Poulami Sarkar
Agents Are the New Microservices — Or Are They?
Principal Data Scientist specializing in agentic AI systems, GenAI architecture, and scalable data platforms with over 15 years of industry experience. Discusses how agent-based systems are shifting the paradigm of modern software engineering and architecture.
Sumedh R. Risbud
Neuromorphic Computing
Senior Neuromorphic Algorithms Scientist at Intel's Neuromorphic Computing Group with over a decade of experience. Currently Visiting Faculty at IIT Bombay in Electrical Engineering. Ph.D. in fluid mechanics from Johns Hopkins University, postdoctoral research at MIT. B.Tech. and M.Tech. from IIT Bombay in Chemical Engineering. Expertise in Neuromorphic Computing, Statistical Physics, Fluid Mechanics, and Computational Neuroscience.