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On 28 November, the first conference for Forward Deployed Engineers brings the important conversation about how to get AI into production to Hyderabad. Tickets go on sale 30 September.
Most enterprise AI isn’t failing at the model. It fails in the gap between a working demo and a system the business relies on every day. We believe that closing that gap takes two kinds of engineering.
Forward deployed engineers are where AI starts delivering outcomes. FDEs work inside the customer's organisation. They learn how decisions really get made, fit AI into the way the business already runs, and stay until people are using it. They turn a promising demo into something that changes how work gets done.
Platform engineers are how those outcomes scale safely. An outcome that works for one team is only the start. Taking it across an enterprise needs a platform that is secure, governed, observable and repeatable. Without one, every deployment is a one-off and every success is hard to reproduce.
The value comes when the two work as one team. FDEs without a platform create brilliant pilots that can't scale. Platforms without FDEs create capability that nobody puts to use. When the two are connected, from first deployment to enterprise-wide rollout, AI moves into production and stays there.
That belief shapes how ClearRoute works as an AI-native platform engineering consultancy, and it's why we're backing FDExHyderabad as Title Sponsor.
FDExHyderabad is the first conference from FDE Community, an open, vendor-neutral community for the FDE role. The community is building a free, openly licensed competency framework, written in public by practitioners, and both launch on stage on the morning of the event.
The agenda reflects the whole journey from demo to production. It includes FDE engineering deep dives on how real deployments went, a dedicated platform engineering track on the platforms FDEs deploy onto, panels where practitioners and hiring leaders debate the role, and lightning talks featuring live agent demos.
India's Global Capability Centres (GCCs) and enterprises are moving from AI experiments to AI in production, and Hyderabad sits at the centre of that shift. The city has one of the country's deepest pools of engineers working inside enterprise deployments, and FDECommunity's first chapter is forming there. The event is run in partnership with Cloud Native Hyderabad, the community behind KCD Hyderabad.
"At ClearRoute, we believe the magic happens when FDEs and Platform Engineers work as one team, and the FDE Community brings that conversation together. We're proud to be Title Sponsor and to back a community shaping how India's GCCs and enterprises move AI into production." Supriya Rao, Managing Director, ClearRoute India
FDExHyderabad takes place on Saturday 28 November 2026 at T-Hub, Hi-Tech City, with 300 places available. Whether you're an FDE, a platform engineer, or leading AI adoption in a GCC or enterprise, come and find the ClearRoute team. We'd like to hear what's standing between your AI and production.
Tickets go on sale 30 September. Get your ticket here
On 28 November, the first conference for Forward Deployed Engineers brings the important conversation about how to get AI into production to Hyderabad. Tickets go on sale 30 September.
Most enterprise AI isn’t failing at the model. It fails in the gap between a working demo and a system the business relies on every day. We believe that closing that gap takes two kinds of engineering.
Forward deployed engineers are where AI starts delivering outcomes. FDEs work inside the customer's organisation. They learn how decisions really get made, fit AI into the way the business already runs, and stay until people are using it. They turn a promising demo into something that changes how work gets done.
Platform engineers are how those outcomes scale safely. An outcome that works for one team is only the start. Taking it across an enterprise needs a platform that is secure, governed, observable and repeatable. Without one, every deployment is a one-off and every success is hard to reproduce.
The value comes when the two work as one team. FDEs without a platform create brilliant pilots that can't scale. Platforms without FDEs create capability that nobody puts to use. When the two are connected, from first deployment to enterprise-wide rollout, AI moves into production and stays there.
That belief shapes how ClearRoute works as an AI-native platform engineering consultancy, and it's why we're backing FDExHyderabad as Title Sponsor.
FDExHyderabad is the first conference from FDE Community, an open, vendor-neutral community for the FDE role. The community is building a free, openly licensed competency framework, written in public by practitioners, and both launch on stage on the morning of the event.
The agenda reflects the whole journey from demo to production. It includes FDE engineering deep dives on how real deployments went, a dedicated platform engineering track on the platforms FDEs deploy onto, panels where practitioners and hiring leaders debate the role, and lightning talks featuring live agent demos.
India's Global Capability Centres (GCCs) and enterprises are moving from AI experiments to AI in production, and Hyderabad sits at the centre of that shift. The city has one of the country's deepest pools of engineers working inside enterprise deployments, and FDECommunity's first chapter is forming there. The event is run in partnership with Cloud Native Hyderabad, the community behind KCD Hyderabad.
"At ClearRoute, we believe the magic happens when FDEs and Platform Engineers work as one team, and the FDE Community brings that conversation together. We're proud to be Title Sponsor and to back a community shaping how India's GCCs and enterprises move AI into production." Supriya Rao, Managing Director, ClearRoute India
FDExHyderabad takes place on Saturday 28 November 2026 at T-Hub, Hi-Tech City, with 300 places available. Whether you're an FDE, a platform engineer, or leading AI adoption in a GCC or enterprise, come and find the ClearRoute team. We'd like to hear what's standing between your AI and production.
Tickets go on sale 30 September. Get your ticket here