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Hangouts

The city runs on coffee and conversation. Here's where tech meets in person — venues for talks, coworking spaces, laptop-friendly cafes and open campuses.

8 spots

Venue

Bangalore International Centre

Domlur

The city's go-to address for serious talks and panels — tech, policy and ideas. If a meetup wants a proper auditorium, it's often here.

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Venue

Atta Galatta

Koramangala

A bookstore-cafe that doubles as one of Koramangala's friendliest event spaces — readings, demos and intimate community meetups.

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Coworking

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Koramangala

A coworking hub with a genuinely active community calendar — hot desks by day, founder and developer meetups by evening.

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Coworking

BHIVE Workspace

HSR Layout

One of HSR's anchor coworking spaces — popular with bootstrapped startups and a frequent host for tech and product meetups.

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Cafe

Third Wave Coffee

Indiranagar

The unofficial second office for half of Indiranagar's developers — good coffee, plug points, and a steady hum of laptops and side projects.

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Cafe

Matteo Coffea

Church Street

A laptop-friendly Church Street institution in the heart of the CBD — easy to slip into for a 1:1, a code session, or a pre-meetup coffee.

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Outdoors

Cubbon Park

Central Bangalore

Weekend mornings here mean Cubbon Reads, run clubs and impromptu tech hangouts under the trees — Bangalore's most wholesome networking.

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Campus

IISc & IIITB Campuses

Malleshwaram / E-City

Open lectures, research symposia and student-run events at the city's top institutes — frequently public, frequently worth the commute.

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