Aanand Madhav
Aanand MadhavSenior PM · UX
EventsTalks and community

Events, panels, and community rooms where the conversations were worth having.

A small record of talks, panels, and meetups I have spoken at or organised. Less about stage presence, more about the people, the context, and whether the room produced better conversations than the internet usually does.

Community event
12 August 2024
New Delhi, India

ADPList Delhi Design Roundtable & Fireside

Co-organiser, host, speaker

A single ADPList Delhi community event that combined the design roundtable and fireside format. I organised it with Shreshth, and Ankit Pratap Singh helped by opening up his office so we could host it properly.

The goal was simple: get designers and product people into the same room for a better conversation than the usual surface-level networking loop.

The roundtable and fireside were not separate events in practice. They were two parts of the same evening, built around sharper discussion on design, product, and building digital work with more intention.

ADPList Delhi Design Roundtable & Fireside
ADPList Delhi Design Roundtable & Fireside
ADPList Delhi Design Roundtable & Fireside
ADPList Delhi Design Roundtable & Fireside
Panel discussion
31 May 2025
JSS College, Noida, India

WordPress Birthday Panel · JSS Noida

Panelist

I was part of a discussion panel at an event organised at JSS College Noida for WordPress's birthday, hosted for the WordPress Delhi community.

The event brought the local WordPress community into a college setting, which made the conversation more grounded and more useful for people still early in their careers.

It was one of those events where the value was less about stage polish and more about being available for practical questions from the room.

WordPress Birthday Panel · JSS Noida
WordPress Birthday Panel · JSS Noida
Community meetup
30 November
Chennai, India

ADPList Chennai Meetup

Organiser

I organised the ADPList Chennai meetup. More than 100 people signed up, but an orange alert was announced that day and only 5 people turned up.

What could have felt like a failed turnout ended up becoming a quieter and deeper conversation than a larger room might have allowed.

My friend Amit helped by lending his restaurant for the meetup, which made it possible to host the session at all despite the weather and the drop-off.

ADPList Chennai Meetup