Ready for the Run @ Lucknow
Ready for the Run @ Lucknow takes place Oct 24, 2026 in Lucknow, India. India's AI & Web3 community is preparing for the next market cycle - and we want to know how. Ready for the Run is a community-first meetup circuit bringing together builders, investors, traders, founders, and researchers for real conversations on where AI and Web3 are headed next. Expect candid discussions, live polling, and networking with people who are actually building and betting on this space. Lucknow carries the theme Trust. No market runs without it - regulation, custody, who you believe and why - and few cities are better suited to a conversation about relationships and reputation than this one. This isn't a pitch fest. It's a space for honest takes, contrarian views, and collective intelligence - capturing how each city's community is thinking, positioning, and preparing right now, city by city, across a 9-city run - maybe more The circuit is co-led by Raajeev Anand (TechHybr), bringing his on-ground Web3 & AI community reach into every stop of the run. Whether you're deep in the trenches or just AI & Web3-curious, come add your voice to the conversation. Ready? Let's run. Partners Trailblazers OroPocket - Brings a Trailblazer's perspective to the room - pioneering everyday access to gold & silver investing, a domain adjacent to but distinct from crypto-native assets. Their presence broadens the credibility of the conversation and adds real-world asset variety to the ecosystem represented here. X | LinkedIn | Promo Community Partners KoinX X | LinkedIn Web3 Events X | LinkedIn Web3 Aligarh X | LinkedIn Bhopal DAO X | LinkedIn Zyphar Community Collably Network X | LinkedIn Co-Host Raajeev Anand (@cryptomargofficial)/ TechHybr Raajeev Anand is an India-based Web3 & AI social media influencer and digital entrepreneur, building at the intersection of emerging technology and community-driven education. Through TechHybr, his vision is to build a value-driven ecosystem, powered by Web3 and AI, that brings together content, development, and scale - making complex technology accessible, practical, and actionable for creators, students, and businesses across India. Insta | X | LinkedIn About Infini3 Infini3 is an events and media platform, built as an IP of 28° North - a boutique strategic advisory firm for early-stage Web3 & AI startups. It brings India's crypto and Web3 ecosystem together across formats, from large-scale IRL events and community meetups to online panels, podcasts, and AMAs. Infini3 turns community participation into collective intelligence - capturing sentiment, insights, and signals from the people actually building and investing in this space. X | Telegram | Instagram About 28° North 28° North is a boutique strategic advisory firm for early-stage Web3 and AI startups, working on scope-based mandates across positioning, product, growth, community, and fundraising. It operates with an operator-first, KRA-driven approach - practical strategy built to execute, not just present. Infini3 is its events and media arm, extending that same structured, outcome-focused thinking into community-building and content formats.
About the event
Ready for the Run @ Lucknow is part of a growing calendar of focused AI + Web3 gatherings where the people actually building protocols, writing contracts, and shipping products meet in person. The format is designed around real exchange, not broadcast.
Sessions cover practical ground in AI + Web3: how protocols are architected, where security assumptions break down, how governance actually gets implemented, and what the current generation of tooling makes possible that was not feasible a year ago.
The conversation tends to be specific rather than general. This is not an introduction to blockchain. It is a working gathering for people already in it.
What gets covered
Smart contract development and tooling: Foundry, Hardhat, Anchor, and the frameworks being used in production across AI + Web3, with sessions on testing patterns, deployment workflows, and common failure modes.
Protocol design and architecture: How to reason about state, composability, liquidity, and incentive design when building on a shared global ledger.
Security and auditing: Practical approaches to reviewing code, running fuzzing campaigns, setting up bug bounty programs, and learning from recent exploits.
Governance, DAOs, and treasury: How decentralized organizations make decisions at scale, manage protocol upgrades, and allocate community resources without capturing them.
Talks, demos, and the hallway
Sessions run across multiple stages with breakout rooms for smaller technical discussions. The most useful conversations often happen informally, between sessions, when the people running the protocols are accessible for real questions.
Side events and evening gatherings run around the main schedule in Lucknow, India. Check the satellite event calendar alongside the official agenda.
Getting there and registering
The event is in Lucknow, India. Register through the official event website. Passes sell out, so do not wait.
Book accommodation early if you are traveling. Conference week hotel prices in most cities spike significantly once the main block of rooms fills.