18–20 March 2027 · Bengaluru

Signal 2027: the conference for people who ship

Three days, four tracks, and 42 engineers explaining how they actually built the systems you read about. No keynote fluff, no vendor pitches — just architecture, failures, and the numbers behind them.

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Speakers

42 engineers. Zero slideware.

Every talk is a first-person account from someone who owned the system in production. Here are six of the sessions we are most excited about.

Priya Raghunathan

Staff Engineer, Kettle. Rebuilt a 400M-row ledger onto Postgres logical replication with 90 seconds of downtime.

Nadia Okonkwo

Security Lead, Vantablack. On threat-modelling a payments API when half your traffic comes from partners you cannot audit.

Diego Marchetti

Principal SRE, Northbeam. Why their p99 got worse every time they added capacity, and the two weeks it took to see why.

Tomas Lindqvist

Infrastructure, Harborline. Cutting a 6-hour nightly batch to 11 minutes without rewriting a single query.

Amara Bello

Head of Platform, Cindermark. Running 900 microservices with a platform team of five, and what they deliberately did not build.

Wei-Lin Chao

Engineering Manager, Rothko. Rolling a 60-person org onto trunk-based development when nobody asked for it.

Three days, four tracks

Every session is recorded. Hallway track is deliberately over-scheduled — the 45-minute breaks are the point.

Day 1 — Thursday 18 March

09:00 — Registration, coffee, and badge pickup
10:00 — Opening: what we got wrong about scale (Priya Raghunathan)
11:15 — Track sessions: Data, Platform, Security, Practice
13:00 — Lunch and the sponsor floor opens
14:30 — Track sessions continue
17:30 — Lightning talks, 5 minutes each, sign up on the day

Day 2 — Friday 19 March

09:30 — Incident review theatre: three real postmortems, live
11:15 — Track sessions: Data, Platform, Security, Practice
13:00 — Lunch and open-space signup board
14:30 — Workshops (limited to 30 seats each, first come)
19:00 — Conference dinner at the Old Press Building

Day 3 — Saturday 20 March

10:00 — Open spaces: agenda set by attendees at 09:45
12:30 — Closing panel: what we are all still getting wrong
13:30 — Long lunch, no programming, stay as long as you like

Practical questions

Are talks recorded?+

Yes. Every main-track and breakout session is recorded and published to the attendee portal within two weeks. Open spaces are not recorded, by design.

Is there a student or independent rate?+

There is. Students, career-changers, and unemployed attendees pay a flat 2,000 rupees. Email the organisers with any proof you have — we are not strict about the format.

What is included with a ticket?+

All three days, lunch and coffee, the Friday dinner, and the recordings. Workshops are included but seats are allocated on the day.

Can I get an invoice for my employer?+

Yes — choose the invoice option at checkout and we will issue a GST invoice within one business day.

What is the refund policy?+

Full refund up to 30 days before the event, 50% up to 7 days before. After that you can transfer your ticket to a colleague at no cost, right up to the morning of day one.