What we learned at AI DevCon India 2026

Nasiko sponsored AI DevCon India 2026 in Bengaluru, connecting with over 2,000 developers and technical leaders across two days. We ran more than 100 live product demonstrations, and found practitioners looking for production-ready answers, not conceptual agent talk.

Agents aren't the problem anymore. Operating them reliably at scale is.

The open-source signal

The open-source community response was particularly strong: 200+ developers joined the ecosystem over the event, and 45+ expressed interest in actively contributing. Technical conversations centered on extensibility, deployment, and system ownership, and rarely on what an agent is.

Patterns that kept repeating

Across demos and hallway conversations, teams kept asking for the same things:

• Better tool integration and MCP-style tool calling
• Workflow orchestration across agents
• Credential management that survives production
• Intelligent routing between agents and models

Each request reflects the same underlying complexity: managing systems of agents, not building individual ones.

The unexpected part

Philosophical questions dominated more conversations than we anticipated. Developers wanted to understand the open-source approach and its sustainability, which turned into deeper discussions about community infrastructure and shared foundations for agent systems.

The market's priority is clear: the shift from building individual agents to managing systems of agents is underway, and production-ready infrastructure is the critical need driving it.