Great International AI Native Summit GAINS on December 09-10, 2026 in Bengaluru, India

From the makers of the Great International Developer Summit (GIDS), GAINS is a focused, engineering-first summit for teams building and operating AI-native systems in the real world. 

The Great International AI Native Summit (GAINS) is an engineering-first summit focused on the design, behavior, operation, supervision, and operational maturation of AI-native systems.

GAINS is designed specifically for the technical realities of practitioners working inside Global Software Engineering Centers, hyperscale engineering organizations, startups, platform engineering teams, and enterprise modernization groups.

We are not only looking for teams building frontier models or autonomous multi-agent systems. We are equally interested in the systems built around intelligence: workflow orchestration, retrieval systems, memory systems, context engineering, evaluation infrastructure, supervision systems, governance architectures, AI-native applications, AI-native developer workflows, operational platforms for intelligent systems. Whether intelligence is embedded inside customer-facing products, enterprise platforms, developer tooling, internal workflows, search systems, recommendation systems, automation pipelines, or operational infrastructure, the engineering challenges increasingly look similar.

GAINS Audience Tiers

Tier A: Engineering Foundations for AI-Native Systems

This tier is designed for software engineers with prior production development experience, senior engineers, architects, platform teams, and engineering managers who are adapting proven systems thinking to AI-native systems.

Sessions in this tier focus on helping practitioners understand how intelligence changes software design, architecture, workflows, developer tooling, retrieval systems, evaluation loops, and operational behavior.

Typical attendees include:

    Software Engineer with prior production development experience
    Senior Software Engineer (SDE-2 / SDE-3)
    Tech Lead
    Senior Backend Engineer
    Data Infrastructure Engineer
    Search & Recommendation Engineer
    Developer Productivity Engineer
    Platform Engineer
    Engineering Manager

Tier B: Production Systems & Operational Scale

This tier is designed for engineers responsible for operating, scaling, supervising, securing, and governing intelligent systems under real-world constraints around reliability, latency, quality, cost, security, and operational control.

Typical attendees include:

    Principal AI / ML Engineer
    Staff / Senior Staff Engineer
    GenAI Infrastructure Lead
    MLOps Platform Architect
    Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
    Performance Engineer
    Distributed Systems Architect
    Chief Architect