Name: OpenAI DevDay Exchange Bengaluru
Start: 2026-10-16T14:00:00+05:30
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

On Friday 16 October 2026 Shivanath Devinarayanan attended OpenAI DevDay Exchange in Bengaluru, the first of eight city stops OpenAI ran after DevDay 2026. Entry was by application. The afternoon was technical sessions with OpenAI product and engineering teams: the Agents API, GPT-5.6 in Codex, plugins, and how to brief a team of agents, then a closing panel.

Shivanath Devinarayanan at the OpenAI DevDay Exchange Bengaluru registration wall

Kind: conference
Date: 16 Oct 2026
Host: OpenAI
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Format: in-person
Role: attendee

Attendee. OpenAI builder exchange in Bengaluru. Agents API, GPT-5.6 in Codex, plugins.

Takeaways

The opening frame was OpenAI as a platform for all: models, building, and distribution. One slide put ChatGPT at 1.2B weekly users worldwide.
The Agents API was laid out as six parts: harness, environment, memory and context, MCP tools and skills, compaction, and multi-agent.
OpenAI claimed the most performant API everywhere, with 30%+ faster tool calls and 45%+ faster time to first token on the slide.
Derrick Choi, Head of Codex Applied AI (APAC), walked GPT-5.6 in Codex through a profile, try a fix, verify loop.
Plugins connect your apps to your work. Salesforce and Slack sat on the same slide as Figma and Zoom.
The briefing advice for agent teams: give one thread responsibility for a job, give it a way to check its work, delegate independent work and match the model to the task, and tell it what matters and when to ask for help.
Every attendee hatched a Codex creature card. His reads SHIV, hatched 10.16.2026 in Bengaluru, move Spark Dash.

Photos

Shivanath Devinarayanan at the OpenAI DevDay Exchange Bengaluru registration wall with attendees checking in

Check-in at the registration wall.

Shivanath Devinarayanan with two fellow attendees in the crowded venue lobby

Lobby before the sessions.

Shivanath Devinarayanan with a fellow attendee by the food counter

Between sessions.

OpenAI speaker on stage in front of a slide reading A platform for all: Models, Building, Distribution

Opening frame: models, building, distribution.

Stage slide reading 1.2B people globally use ChatGPT every week

1.2B people use ChatGPT every week.

Agents API slide listing harness, environment, memory and context, MCP tools and skills, compaction, and multi-agent

Agents API building blocks.

Slide titled Most performant API everywhere with 30% faster tool calls and 45% faster time to first token

API performance figures.

Derrick Choi on stage under a slide naming him Head of Codex Applied AI (APAC)

Derrick Choi, Head of Codex Applied AI (APAC).

GPT-5.6 slide showing a Profile, Try a fix, Verify loop with the presenter on stage

GPT-5.6: profile, try a fix, verify.

Two presenters under a slide reading Plugins connect your apps to your work, with Salesforce, Slack, Figma and Zoom logos

Plugins connect your apps to your work.

Two presenters in front of guidance cards: give one thread responsibility, give it a way to check its work, delegate independent work and match the model to the task

How to brief a team of agents.

Codex creature trading card named SHIV, hatched 10.16.2026 in Bengaluru, move Spark Dash

His Codex creature card: SHIV, hatched in Bengaluru.

Blue engraving-style portrait of Shivanath Devinarayanan and a fellow attendee with Bangalore Palace behind them

Engraving-style keepsake portrait.

OpenAI event page

Bengaluru opened the DevDay Exchange run on 16 October, ahead of Tokyo, Seoul, Berlin, Paris, London, São Paulo, and Mexico City. OpenAI kept the venue and full programme for approved applicants. OpenAI Developer Community, 18 Aug 2026

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