Vardhan AI Community at Unicorn AI Summit 2026
500+ AI founders, engineers and operators, engineering talks from India's biggest AI-native companies, and 50 startup demo booths.
We were there
Vardhan AI Community was at Unicorn AI Summit 2026 in Bengaluru on Monday, 21 September, attending as a delegate. The summit was organised by Magicball — India's largest AI engineer community, with 20,000+ members — and co-presented by Grayscale Ventures and PromptQL, hosted by Vikram Bhandari, Sid Verma and Nikhil Kapur.
The evening brought together 500+ AI founders, engineers and operators for engineering talks from some of India's leading AI-native companies, alongside a floor of 50 AI startup demo booths. We went for the same reason we go to any of these: to learn from people actually building, and bring useful ideas back to this community.
What we saw
The published lineup featured engineering talks from Kaushik Bhat (Razorpay), Sidhant Panda (Swiggy), Venkatesan Vaidhyanathan (Slice), Adarsha Das (Meesho), Tirumarai Selvan (PromptQL), Shubham Jindal (Harness), Anshu Avinash (DevRev) and Devinder Gupta (Flipkart) — engineers and operators from India's biggest consumer and AI-native companies talking about what they've actually shipped, not just roadmaps.
Alongside the talks, 50 AI startups demoed live on the floor — a genuinely wide cross-section of what's being built in India right now, from infrastructure to applied agents.
What's next
Our next community session is AI Builders #002 — “The New AI: Agents Are Here” — a free online session on Saturday, October 10 at 7:00 PM IST. Details and registration are below.