​Dear Developers, Startups, and Tech Enthusiasts,

​We are excited to invite you to our first Infobip Connect Meetup in Aurangabad!🇮🇳

​Our mission is to showcase local tech initiatives, introduce Infobip's powerful Developer tools and solutions, and highlight the Infobip Startup Tribe, which supports startups around the world in achieving their goals.

​​Agenda

​​​​🕒 09:00 AM – 09:05 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks

​🎤 Ashutosh S. Bhakare, Docker Captain (event host)

​​​​🎤 Lucija Reic, Startup Ecosystem Lead at Infobip (remote)

​​​​​🕒 09:05 AM - 09:40 AM
Keynote "Secure Your Docker Deployments: From Dockerfile to Production"

​🎤 Ashutosh S. Bhakare, Docker Captain

​​Outline:

​This session dives into building secure and robust Docker deployments. We'll explore Dockerfile best practices to minimize vulnerabilities, covering essential techniques like multi-stage builds, non-root user execution, and avoiding common pitfalls. We'll then demonstrate how to scan Docker base images for vulnerabilities and discuss recommended production-ready images, including distroless and minimal base images. A 20-minute live demo will showcase the secure deployment of a Golang application, putting these best practices into action. Join us to learn how to create secure and efficient containerized applications.

​🕒 09:40 AM - 10:20 AM
Keynote "Container Security - Are you prepared for the next attack?"

​🎤 Dharmesh Vaya, Solutions Architect (Prisma Cloud) at Palo Alto Networks

​​Outline:

​This session dives into building secure and robust Docker deployments. We'll explore Dockerfile best practices to minimize vulnerabilities, covering essential techniques like multi-stage builds, non-root user execution, and avoiding common pitfalls. We'll then demonstrate how to scan Docker base images for vulnerabilities and discuss recommended production-ready images, including distroless and minimal base images. A 20-minute live demo will showcase the secure deployment of a Golang application, putting these best practices into action. Join us to learn how to create secure and efficient containerized applications.

​​​​​🕒 10:20 AM - 11:00 AM
Keynote "How Carudyog startup works"

​🎤 Ujwal Bhutada, Founder at CarUdyog

​​Outline:

​Join me as I share our journey building a successful, cost-optimized car auction platform in the cloud. We'll explore the challenges and triumphs along the way. This session details our successful cloud-based car auction platform and the significant cost savings we achieved. Learn how we optimized our cloud ecosystem. I'll recount our journey to dramatically reduce car auction costs using cloud technologies. Discover how we achieved success through strategic optimization. Learn how we built a thriving car auction platform leveraging cloud ecosystems. This session highlights our journey and the resulting cost efficiencies. Discover how we transformed car auctions with a cloud-powered platform, achieving substantial cost optimization. I'll share our key learnings and successes.

​🕒 11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Keynote " Deploy AI/ML Applications Securely"

​🎤 Jay Thakkar, Researcher at Truxt.ai

​​Outline:

​Securely deploying AI/ML applications requires a holistic approach. This session provides a deep dive into the security risks associated with each stage of the AI/ML pipeline. We'll examine vulnerabilities related to data integrity, model confidentiality, and system availability. Attendees will learn practical techniques for implementing robust security measures, including data validation, access control, model hardening, and monitoring for adversarial attacks. Walk away with actionable strategies to protect your AI/ML deployments. Follwed by how KubeFlow can be used under GKE ecosystems

​🕒 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote: "LLMystery: how they work and how to make them work better"

​🎤 Petra Fribert, Software Engineer at Infobip

​​Outline:

​Explore the remarkable capabilities of Large Language Models and the algorithms that shape their responses . Dive into why hallucinations happen and how to reduce them.

​🕒 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

​Networking with food and beverages

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​About Infobip

​Infobip is a global cloud communications platform that enables businesses to engage with their customers through messaging, voice, email, and other communication channels.

​About Infobip Startup Tribe

​

​​Looking for startups looking for communication solutions

​​| What | Infobip Startup Tribe is a startup perks program by Infobip, offering startups various benefits in order to help them grow.

​​| How | Grow your startup and connect with more customers globally using Infobip products and resources - for free.

​​ | Why | To build and support a global community of startups that benefit from our products and resources regardless of their location, industry or backing.

​​| Note | We are not an accelerator, incubator or fund and we take zero equity