the data & ai guild

The Data & AI Guild launched in Hyderabad today at WeWork Raheja Mindspace, Hyderabd, Parinam Praphul, our community manager, opened the evening by laying out exactly why this Guild exists, who it is built for, what it refuses to be, and what the room should expect from every session going forward. No icebreakers. No warm-up slides. Just clarity on purpose. Harish Cholleti, founder, spoke about the vision deck. About the problem why a city with one of the deepest concentrations of data talent in India has had nowhere serious to take that talent. Why every community attempt collapses after the third event. What it would actually take to build something permanent. The room listened because it recognised itself in that diagnosis. Then Snehith Allamraju did not show up just with slides about AI agents but brought a Raspberry Pi and an external SSD to the table. No cloud. No managed inference endpoint. No API wrapper abstracting away what was actually happening. A locally running LLM, on commodity edge hardware, in front of a room of practitioners who work with production data systems for a living. The session covered the agent taxonomy that matters in practice. The line between reactive agents that respond to discrete triggers, deliberative agents that plan across multi-step reasoning chains, and multi-agent systems where orchestration logic becomes its own engineering problem. The room had people who have shipped these systems. The conversation did not stay theoretical for long. The harder question was the edge inference tradeoff. Running a quantised model on a Pi with an SSD makes every cost visible. Inference latency that cloud-managed endpoints absorb becomes a constraint you architect around. Token throughput ceilings that elastic compute hides become decisions your team owns. Against that no egress cost, no dependency on an API whose pricing or rate limits can change without notice, and full data sovereignty which matters more than most teams admit until a compliance requirement forces the conversation.That is the right outcome for a first session. This is the Guild founded in Hyderabad which is Practitioner-first. Built to run serious technical conversations without a vendor agenda in the room. To Sparity the founding sponsor who backed this before there was a track record to point to. The Guild's first event happened because you were willing to be first. That is noted, and it will not be forgotten. #Data #AI #DataEngineering #AIAgents #EdgeAI #LLM #DataCommunity #Hyderabad

Tomorrow, we open the room. The first Data & AI Guild session is on AI Agents on Data with Snehith Allamraju. The useful conversation is no longer whether agents look impressive in demos. It is whether they can work with real data systems, real constraints, real governance, and real business pressure. That is the conversation we want in the room. Not introductory content. Not vendor theatre. A practitioner-first discussion on what actually works, where the edges are, and what the field needs to understand next. Session: AI Agents on Data Speaker: Snehith Allamraju, Data & Analytics Leader Date: May 29, Friday Time: 5 PM Venue: WeWork, Raheja Mindspace Thank you  Sparity for supporting the launch. Follow The Data & AI Guild:  https://lnkd.in/gPpwsVDx #DataAndAIGuildHyderabad #AIAgents #DataAI #EnterpriseAI #HyderabadTech #DataEngineering #ArtificialIntelligence

A practitioner-first conversation on how AI agents can work meaningfully on data. This session will focus on real cases, practical architecture choices, where these systems are useful, where they break, and what practitioners should be paying attention to next. If you work in data or AI and care about what actually works beyond the demo layer, this is the room for you.

Today, we introduce the Data & AI Guild – Hyderabad: a professional community built exclusively for senior practitioners shaping the future of production AI and data systems. As India's AI landscape matures, the industry demands more than foundational knowledge—it requires deep technical expertise, battle-tested architectures, and the kind of nuanced problem-solving that only comes from years in production environments. The Data & AI Guild exists to serve this need. OUR PURPOSE We bring together data scientists, ML engineers, data architects, and AI leaders who have: - Deployed models serving millions of users - Built scalable data platforms under real-world constraints - Led technical teams through AI transformations - Navigated the organizational complexity of enterprise data adoption COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Our programming includes technical masterclasses, architecture deep-dives, system design workshops, and strategic roundtables—all designed for practitioners who have moved beyond theory into the challenges of implementation at scale. BASED IN HYDERABAD, CONNECTED TO INDUSTRY While rooted in Hyderabad's thriving technology ecosystem, our members represent diverse sectors: product companies, consulting firms, research institutions, and innovative startups building India's data-driven future. We invite qualified professionals to join us in advancing the practice of production AI and elevating technical discourse in our community. For membership inquiries and event updates, follow our page. #data #ai #ProductionML #DataEngineering #MLOps #AIStrategy #TechLeadership #HyderabadTech #EnterpriseAI