September 7 – 11, 2026
School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus
Registration Closed.
Agentic AI Bootcamp 2026 is an intensive five-day advanced training programme funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, and organized by the Amrita School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus.
The programme is designed to provide students, researchers, faculty members, and professionals from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and institutions across India with comprehensive, hands-on training in the rapidly evolving field of Agentic Artificial Intelligence. Combining expert-led lectures, practical laboratories, industry sessions, and a capstone hackathon, the bootcamp equips participants to design, develop, deploy, and evaluate intelligent AI agents capable of reasoning, planning, using tools, maintaining memory and context, and autonomously executing complex tasks.
As AI rapidly transitions from prompt-driven models to autonomous, agent-based systems, there is an increasing demand for professionals who understand not only the underlying technologies but also the engineering, deployment, governance, security, and ethical considerations required for building reliable AI applications. This programme bridges that gap through an advanced curriculum covering agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, Model Context Protocol (MCP), LLMOps, production deployment, responsible AI, and enterprise-scale AI systems.
The bootcamp will feature distinguished speakers and technical experts from academia and leading technology organizations, including IBM, Nokia, ServiceNow, Publicis Sapient, and aaquarian.ai, providing participants with valuable insights into real-world enterprise applications and emerging trends in Agentic AI.
The programme culminates in an Agentic AI Hackathon, where participants will collaborate in teams to develop innovative AI-powered solutions addressing real-world challenges while applying the concepts and technologies learned throughout the bootcamp.
Pre-Final and Final year Undergraduate and postgraduate students from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and other universities / Institutions
Research scholars and early-career researchers
Faculty members
Industry professionals and AI enthusiasts
Open to participants from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham as well as other colleges, universities, research institutions and organizations.
Ideal for students, researchers, faculty members, software developers, AI practitioners, professionals and entrepreneurs interested in Agentic AI.
Prerequisites: Basic programming knowledge (Python preferred) and familiarity with AI/ML concepts are beneficial but not mandatory.
Participants who successfully complete the programme will receive a Certificate of Participation issued by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Accommodation provided in a first come first serve basis.
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| DAY 1 (September 7th) | ||
| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Inauguration, welcome, boot camp objectives, and agenda overview | |
| 9:30 AM – 11:30 PM | From NLP to Agentic AI: LLM Fundamentals, Transformers and Mathematical Foundations | Dr. Geetha M Associate Professor, Amrita School of Computing, Amritapuri Dr. Gopakumar G Associate Professor, Amrita School of Computing, Amritapuri |
| 11:45 PM – 1 PM | Optimizing LLM Applications using Prompt Engineering and RAG | Dr. Simi S Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Computing, Amritapuri |
| 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM | Small Language Models, edge AI, and local inference | Mr. Mowle Asirwadam Associate Director – Delivery Management, Orion Innovation Mr. Santhoshkumar Ravi Technical Lead, Gen AI, Orion Innovation |
| 3:30 PM – 5 PM | Edge AI and Local LLM Deployment: Tools, Platforms and Hands-on | |
| DAY 2 (September 8th) | ||
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Keynote address – Agentic AI in the Enterprise: Trends, Transformation and the Future of Work | Ms. Aditi Kulkarni Lead – Accenture Advanced Technology Centers Global Network and Advanced Technology Centers in India |
| 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Agentic AI architectures: single-agent, multi-agent, hierarchical, planner-executor, Multi-modal agentic systems and coordination patterns | Mr. Swapnil Saruav Senior Manager Problem Management, ServiceNow |
| 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM | Memory in agentic systems: definition, types, and management strategies | |
| 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | Agent design patterns, state, context, and reasoning loops | |
| 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM | Tool calling, MCP, and A2A protocols | |
| 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Agentic AI frameworks and orchestration stacks (Handson) | |
| DAY 3 (September 9th) | ||
| 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM | Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs, Retrieval, Indexing and Context Engineering for Agentic AI | Mr. Ajith Vallath Prabhakar |
| 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM | System design for LLM applications: end-to-end architecture, Frontend, backend, API gateway, LLM gateway, auth, logging | |
| 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM | Hands-on System Design for LLM Applications: Vector DBs, Knowledge Graphs, Retrieval and Context Engineering | Mr. Narendra Singh Bisht Senior Associate Data Science L2 | Delivery, Engineering, Publicis Sapient |
| 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | Fine-tuning strategies and selection trade-offs | |
| 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM | From prototype to production: LLMOps for Agentic AI | |
| 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | MLOps, LLMOps, and AIOps: differences, overlaps, monitoring | |
| DAY 4 (September 10th) | ||
| 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM | Enterprise Agentic AI with IBM: Framework, Components and Use Cases | Ratheesh Muraleedharan Program Director – watsonx Orchestrate, IBM Rakesh Pimplikar Chief AI Architect, IBM Sovereign Core Sudheer Kareem Transformation Leader, Software and Markets, IBM Ganesh Krepeshwar Sruthi S Kumar Agentic AI Solution Architect, IBM |
| 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM | Agentic AI System Design: Industry Use Case, Architecture and Orchestration | |
| 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM | Production Deployment of Agentic AI: Docker, Cloud and Best Practices | |
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | Securing Agentic AI Systems: Threats, Privacy and Access Control | Dr. Divya G Nair AI/ML Security Expert, Senior Research Specialist, NOKIA |
| 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Governance and Responsible AI for Agentic Systems | Sivaramakrishnan R Guruvayur Chief AI Scientist aaquarian.ai |
| 3:45 PM – 5 PM | Hackathon briefing, Team formation, and guided hackathon session | Mr. Narendra Singh Bisht Senior Associate Data Science L2 | Delivery, Engineering, Publicis Sapient |
| DAY 5 (September 11th) | ||
| 9:00 AM – 3:15 PM | Hackathon | Mr. Narendra Singh Bisht Senior Associate Data Science L2 | Delivery, Engineering, Publicis Sapient |
| 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM | Careers and Future Directions in Agentic AI: Trends, Sovereign AI and Enterprise Adoption | Sivaramakrishnan R Guruvayur Chief AI Scientist aaquarian.ai |
| 4:15 PM – 5 PM | Valedictory Session: Reflections, Feedback and Certificate Distribution | |
Aditi Kulkarni
Lead, Accenture Advanced Technology Centers Global Network and Advanced Technology Centers in India
Ratheesh Muraleedharan
Program Director – watsonx Orchestrate, IBM
Rakesh Pimplikar
Chief AI Architect, IBM Sovereign Core
Sudheer Kareem
Transformation Leader, Software and Markets, IBM
Ganesh Krepeshwar
Agentic AI Solution Architect, IBM
Sruthi S Kumar
Agentic AI Solution Architect, IBM
Swapnil Saruav
Senior Manager Problem Management, ServiceNow
Sivaramakrishnan R Guruvayur
Chief AI Scientist
aaquarian.ai
Ajith Vallath Prabhakar
Global Technical Delivery Leader (AI and Analytics), aaquarian.ai, UAE Dubai
Mowle Asirwadam
Associate Director – Delivery Management, Orion Innovations
Santhoshkumar Ravi
Technical Lead, Gen AI, Orion Innovation
Dr. Divya G Nair
AI/ML Security Expert, Senior Research Specialist, NOKIA
Narendra Singh Bisht
Senior Associate Data Science L2 | Delivery, Engineering, Publicis Sapient
Dr. Geetha M
Associate Professor and Chairperson, Department of CSE (AI), School of Computing, Amritapuri
Dr. Gopakumar G.
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri
Dr. Simi S
Vice Chairperson, Department of CSE AI, School of Computing, Amritapuri | Assistant Professor (Level 12), School of Computing, Amritapuri
Dr. Swaminathan J
Professor and Chairperson, Department of CSE, School of Computing, Amritapuri
Dr. Manjusha Nair
Associate Professor, School of Computing, Amritapuri
Dr. Namitha K
Assistant Professor (Level 10), School of Computing, Amritapuri
Mr. Harikumar S
Manager – Academia – Industry Partnership, AmritaCREATE, Amritapuri
Mr. Aravind Mohan
Research Associate, AmritaCREATE, Amritapuri
Dr. Diljith T
Senior Research Associate, Amrita CREATE, Amritapuri
Priya Ravi
Assistant Manager – Events & Marketing, Amrita School of Computing, Amritapuri
The bootcamp began with a strong foundation in the technologies driving the transition towards Agentic AI. The morning sessions explored the evolution from Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models to Agentic AI, covering Transformers and their mathematical foundations, followed by Prompt Engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
The afternoon brought an industry perspective through sessions by Mr. Mowle Asirwadam, Associate Director – Delivery Management, Orion Innovation, and Mr. Santhoshkumar Ravi, Technical Lead – Gen AI, Orion Innovation. Their sessions focused on Small Language Models, Edge AI and Local Inference, giving participants insights into approaches for bringing AI capabilities closer to the edge.
The day concluded with a hands-on session on Edge AI and Local LLM Deployment, introducing participants to tools and platforms for experimenting with local AI models.
The first day thus established the technical foundation for the days ahead — moving from understanding how modern AI systems work to exploring how they can be built, deployed and eventually transformed into intelligent agents.
Day 2 marked the formal beginning of the Agentic AI-focused sessions of AMRITA Agentic Leap – Agentic AI Bootcamp 2026, taking participants from the foundations of AI into the architecture, reasoning and orchestration of intelligent agents.
The day opened with a keynote by Ms. Aditi Kulkarni, Accenture, on “Agentic AI in the Enterprise: Trends, Transformation and the Future of Work.” The session looked beyond simply using AI tools and focused on the skills and mindset required to work effectively in an AI-driven world.
Drawing on the evolution of AI, she encouraged participants to think deeply about problem statements, critical thinking, judgement and decision-making, rather than focusing only on generating answers with AI. Her message was particularly relevant to the emerging era of Agentic AI, where humans need to remain in the lead while AI systems assist, reason and act.
Aditi also challenged the participants to think about their own “Move 78” — the next unexpected and meaningful move that they could make in an evolving world of AI.
The technical sessions that followed, led by Mr. Swapnil Saurav, ServiceNow, took participants deeper into the building blocks of Agentic AI. The sessions explored agent architectures, memory, reasoning, action and control, helping participants understand how an agent moves beyond a single LLM interaction into a continuous cycle of observing, deciding, acting and updating its state.
Participants explored different agent design patterns, including ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, Reflection and Critique, and Human-in-the-Loop approaches. The sessions also introduced practical concepts around memory lifecycle, retrieval, context, tool use and orchestration.
A hands-on component using n8n gave participants an opportunity to experiment with building agentic workflows and understand how memory and tools can be incorporated into practical AI applications.
Day 2 therefore brought together two complementary perspectives — Aditi’s enterprise and human-centric view of the AI transformation, and Swapnil’s technical exploration of how intelligent agents are designed and built.
The day began with Ajith Vallath Prabhakar, Principal, senqora.ai, exploring Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs, Retrieval, Indexing and Context Engineering for Agentic AI. Participants then moved into end-to-end system design, looking at the components surrounding an LLM application, including the frontend, backend, API and LLM gateways, authentication and logging.
Narendra Singh Bisht, Senior Associate Data Science L2 Delivery, Engineering, Publicis Sapient, brought these concepts into hands-on system design, followed by sessions on fine-tuning, LLMOps, MLOps and AIOps, with a focus on taking Agentic AI from prototype to production.
A key takeaway from Day 3 was that building an agent is only one part of the journey. Reliable Agentic AI also depends on how information is retrieved and managed, how the surrounding system is designed, and how the application is monitored and taken into production.
From understanding the agent to engineering the system around it — Day 3 moved participants a step closer to building Agentic AI for the real world.
The day began with an industry-led session by IBM, featuring Ratheesh Muraleedharan, Program Director – watsonx Orchestrate; Rakesh Pimplikar, Chief AI Architect; Sudheer Kareem, Transformation Leader; Ganesh Krepeshwar and Sruthi S. Kumar, Agentic AI Solution Architects. The sessions explored enterprise Agentic AI, system architecture, orchestration and production deployment, with participants introduced to IBM watsonx Orchestrate and its practical applications.
The focus then moved to securing Agentic AI systems, with Dr. Divya G Nair, AI/ML Security Expert and Senior Research Specialist, Nokia, addressing threats, privacy, authentication, authorisation and access control. A key takeaway was the need to move from human-in-the-loop to human-in-the-lead, with clearly defined boundaries for AI agents.
The day concluded with Sivaramakrishnan R Guruvayur, Chief AI Scientist, aaquarian.ai, who explored Governance and Responsible AI for Agentic Systems. The session highlighted the importance of translating responsible AI principles into policies, controls, accountability mechanisms and measurable evidence.
Day 4 brought together enterprise implementation, security and governance — essential perspectives for building Agentic AI systems that are not only capable, but reliable, secure and responsible.
Amrita School of Computing
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Amritapuri Campus
Clappana P.O., Kollam, Keralam – 690525
