SNIA India T/E/N Storage Meetup - August 2025 - Hosted by NetApp

PLEASE NOTE: This is a SNIA event being generously hosted by a SNIA member, in this instance NetApp.

Talk on "AI in Cyber Resilience" by Gaurav Makkar, Technical Director, Engineering Data Services, NetApp

Brief: Cyberattacks are on the rise and are increasingly becoming more complex to detect and respond to. An anomaly needs to be assessed and responded to in the order of seconds to minutes in an increasingly complex data environment. Also, not all attacks are of the same severity. This keynote throws light on how AI is helping solve some of these complex problems to keep our data and infrastructure safe.

Talk on "Agentic AI – Use Cases, Benefits, Risks" by Ravikanth Chaganti, , Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies

Brief: Agentic AI is an emergent and disruptive paradigm beyond generative AI that carries great promise and great risk. With generative AI, a large language model (LLM) generates content as the result of a prompt. With agentic AI, the language model now generates actions to execute on behalf of a user using tools at its disposal. It has agency to act on your behalf and even run autonomously. But how can this be done safely and effectively for enterprises?

This webinar will introduce Agentic AI and cover:

• What is agentic AI?
• What makes it different from generative AI?
• Adoption challenges and what to consider when evaluating solutions for enterprise use
• Sample use case

Meetup Agenda:

10:00AM: Registration & Refreshments

10:30AM: Meetup Commences with a Kick-off by Vasanthi Ramesh

10:45AM: Brief introduction about SNIA India

11:00AM: Talk on 'AI in Cyber Resilience' by Gaurav Makkar, Technical Director, Engineering Data Services, NetApp

11:45AM: SNIA Talk on 'Agentic AI' by Ravikanth Chaganti, Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies

12.30PM: Networking Lunch

Speakers:

Ravikanth Chaganti is a Distinguished Engineer and an architect in the AI solutions engineering team at Dell Technologies. He currently focuses on building AI Platform infrastructure solutions. He has over 24 years of experience in system integration, software architecture, and more recently AI solutions. He is a published author and a multi-year recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award in AI services.

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