NETWORKING DINNER | MUMBAI
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Nearly half of today’s web traffic is generated by bots and automated agents, and Fastly’s latest Threat Insights show that most of this activity is unverified or unwanted. AI crawlers, fetchers, and headless bots are reshaping how content is accessed and how applications and APIs are exposed, turning bot strategy from a narrow security concern into a board‑level business issue.
In India’s high‑growth digital economy, this shift is especially relevant for organisations across BFSI, commerce, media, and SaaS that depend on secure, high‑performing web and API channels. The challenge is no longer just handling scale, but deciding, in real time, which automated traffic should be allowed, throttled, deceived, or blocked, and on what business logic.
During this session, we will use Fastly’s Threat Insights as a starting point to explore how security and technology leaders are classifying and controlling AI crawlers and fetchers, balancing security, performance, and infrastructure cost at the edge, and rethinking access, identity, and control in an increasingly agentic web. This will be a candid, peer‑led conversation focused on aligning security, traffic management, and AI strategy with measurable business outcomes.
WHY ATTEND
Common Sense Events uses a conversational, story-telling approach designed for peer learning. Every participant’s voice shapes the discussion — no slides, no pitch decks.
This is an executive peer group meet for 10-12 senior leaders. Participation in this in-person networking session is at no cost for qualified attendees.
SPEAKERS
Artur Bergman has served as Fastly’s Chief Technology Officer and Founder since April 2024. He served as Chief Architect from February 2020 to April 2024, as Chief Executive Officer from Fastly’s founding in March 2011 until February 2020, Chairperson of the Board of Directors from February 2020 to April 2023, and as a member of the Board of Directors since March 2011. From September 2007 to June 2011, Mr. Bergman served as Manager, Vice President, then Chief Technology Officer of Wikia, Inc., a global community knowledge-sharing platform. From November 2005 to March 2007, Mr. Bergman served as Engineering Manager for Six Apart Ltd., a social networking service. From the second half of 2003 to August 2005, Mr. Bergman served as Engineering Manager of Fotango, Ltd., a Canon Europe subsidiary.
Smita Satyavada draws on nearly two decades of experience in Cloud, CDN, and edge computing to shape market strategy, build partner ecosystems, and unlock new revenue streams for Fastly in India. She is passionate about helping digital enterprises deliver secure, high‑performance experiences at scale across India and other emerging markets. Previously, Smita led enterprise , startup and mid‑market growth at AWS and Akamai, driving business across OTT, e‑commerce, and BFSI, and building repeatable new‑logo and partner‑led motions. With a background spanning direct sales, solutions consulting, and GTM strategy, she is known for translating complex technology into clear business value narratives for CXOs while coaching teams to exceed quota and deepen strategic alliances.
Tharun partners with India’s technology executives, including CTOs, CISOs, and VPs of Engineering, to secure and optimize enterprise infrastructure against the automated wave of bots and AI agents. As unverified traffic redefines origin costs and API exposure, he helps engineering leaders implement real-time traffic policies to allow, throttle, or block autonomous agents without degrading user performance. His expertise is built on a hands-on infrastructure engineering career at platform benchmarks like Akamai, Cloudflare, and F5. Throughout his tenure in network security, Tharun has specialized in large-scale DDoS mitigation, advanced Web Application Firewalls (WAF), and API defense. At Fastly, Tharun serves as a strategic advisor to DevOps and cloud teams across India’s highest-growth digital verticals, including BFSI, commerce, media, and SaaS. He focuses on moving complex traffic management logic to the edge, helping organizations navigate the agentic future of the web safely and efficiently.
AGENDA
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Guest Arrival & Registration
6:30 PM – 6:40 PM
Welcome & Introductions
Hosted by
Smita Satyavada, Area Vice President – Fastly India
6:40 PM – 7:00 PM
Keynote: Founder’s Story
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The Agentic Future of the Web
Artur Bergman, Founder & Chief Technology Officer – Fastly
7:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Fastly Threat Insights:
AI, Bots and Automated Traffic High‑level walkthrough of Fastly’s latest Threat Intel data and India‑specific patterns
Smita Satyavada & Tharun Raj
7:15 PM – 8:15 PM
Executive Roundtable Discussion
Peer‑led dialogue with Fastly leadership and CXOs on intent‑based traffic management, edge security and the agentic web
8:15 PM – 8:20 PM
Closing Remarks & Key Takeaways
8:20 PM onwards
Dinner & Networking
9:30 PM
Closing
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