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18-19 June
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9:30am IST

[SOLD OUT] Distributed SQL Summit hosted by YugabyteDB | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED Trident Hotel BKC, Golconda Ballroom

12:30pm IST

[SOLD OUT] VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Community Day: Building AI-Ready Platforms, the Cloud Native Way Hosted by VMware by Broadcom | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED Harbor Hall, Novotel Mumbai International Airport

3:30pm IST

Registration + Badge Pick-Up Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

7:30am IST

Cloakroom Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

8:00am IST

Registration + Badge Pick-Up Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure & Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure, Linux Foundation Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:22am IST

Keynote: Sovereign AI at Population Scale. How Sarvam Runs 100 Million+ Conversations Across India's Languages on a CNCF Stack - Avi Kothari, Senior Infrastructure Engineer & Vinayak Gavariya, Lead Developer Relations Engineer, Sarvam Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:29am IST

Keynote: From Afterthought to Practice: How Flipkart Built a Multi-tenant Chaos Platform on LitmusChaos - Aditya Sridasyam, Software Development Engineer, Flipkart & Uma Mukkara, Head of Resilience Testing, Harness Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:36am IST

Keynote: Plug in and Scale: Serving LLM Models on Kubernetes Made Simple - Shrinidhi Venkataraman, AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca & Nithin R, AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:48am IST

Keynote: From Platforms to AI Factories. Has Kubernetes Solved It? - Saiyam Pathak, Principal Developer Advocate, vCluster Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:00am IST

Keynote: Engineering Population-Scale AI & AI Infrastructure with Cloud Native Technologies at NPCI - Tittu Varghese, In-charge, AI Infrastructure Engineering, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:05am IST

Keynote: Cloud Native at Bharat Scale, How Rapido Scaled to 7+ Million Rides - Srivatsa Katta, CTO & Adarsh K Kumar, Principal Product Engineer, Rapido Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:10am IST

Keynote: How JioHotstar Streams Cricket to 72 Million Fans in Real Time with Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry - Pradeep Bishnoi, Senior Director of Engineering, JioStar Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:15am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:30am IST

Coffee Break ☕ Jasmine 1 (Level 3) Project Pavilion Jasmine 1 (Level 3) Solutions Showcase Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

11:45am IST

Learning Lounge: Learn to Protect Your Software from Supply Chain Attack - Ram Iyengar, Cloud Foundry Foundation Jasmine 1 (Level 3) | Booth G3 Peer Group Mentoring 206 (Level 2)

12:00pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Opening/Intro - Sagar Utekar, CNCF Ambassador Lotus 1 (Level 3) KubeEdge DeepDive: Extending Kubernetes To the Edge With Real-World Industry Use Case - Ronak Raj, Independent 204 (Level 2) What Did My Agent Do? Observability and Accountability for AI Agents - Ishan Jain, Grafana Labs Lotus 2 (Level 3) Commit-Then-Disclose: Cryptographic SBOM Auditing Without IP Leakage - Sharvil Bhatt, Reliance Industries limited & Swastik Gour, Improving 205 (Level 2)

12:07pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Harbor Project Update: Gitless GitOps, Satellite at the Edge - Prasanth Baskar, Community Lead Lotus 1 (Level 3)

12:14pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: The Kyverno Five! Policy Types for the Full Resource Lifecycle - Neha Jaju, Maintainer Lotus 1 (Level 3)

12:21pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: GitOps Without Boundaries: Deploy to Infrastructure and Workloads with PipeCD! - Eeshaan Shreyas Sawant, Maintainer Lotus 1 (Level 3)

12:28pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks - Vidhi Shah, Maintainer Lotus 1 (Level 3)

12:35pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss! - Nitish Kumar, Maintainer Lotus 1 (Level 3)

12:40pm IST

Beyond VLLM: Distributed LLM Inferencing With Llm-d on Kubernetes - Ravindra Patil, Red Hat Jasmine 2 (Level 3) Re-Architecting Monoliths Into Kubernetes Microservices at Million-User Scale: Hard Lessons - Aditya Sharma, Lumenore Lotus 3 (Level 3) In-toto Attestations for What Really Happens in Your Build Pipeline, With Witness - Vyom Yadav, Canonical & Rahul Vishwakarma, Highlevel 204 (Level 2) When Kafka Goes Cloud Native: Observability That Actually Works! - Roopadharsini K & Mary Vinothini, Fidelity Investments Lotus 2 (Level 3) Root Without Risk: A Decade-Long Quest for True Container Isolation - Sumir Broota, Broota Enterprise 205 (Level 2)

12:42pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Vitess in Production: Powering Applications at Massive Scale - Harshit Gangal, Maintainer Lotus 1 (Level 3)

12:49pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: ModelPack: Bringing the OCI Standard to AI/ML - Andrew Block, Maintainer Lotus 1 (Level 3)

12:56pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Closing - Sagar Utekar, CNCF Ambassador Lotus 1 (Level 3)

1:10pm IST

Lunch 🍛 Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

1:30pm IST

Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

2:15pm IST

The Ultimate Kubestronaut Trivia Challenge! Hosted by Fazlur Rahman Khan 203 (Level 2)

2:30pm IST

Sponsored Demo: Scaling EdTech at Hyperspeed: How PhysicsWallah Reduced Kubernetes Costs Without Slowing Down - Avinash Gupta, Physicswallah & Gaurang Singh, Cast AI 205 (Level 2) Beyond the Primary CR: The Design Choice of What and What Not To Watch in Kubernetes Operators - Guna Kambalimath & Kishen V, IBM Lotus 3 (Level 3) Introduction To Metal³ — Kubernetes-Native Bare Metal Provisioning - Sunnatillo Samadov, Ericsson 204 (Level 2) Who Watches the Watchers? From Closed Observability To Open Control at Scale - Aditi Gupta, JioHotstar; Madhu Patel, Adobe; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen Lotus 2 (Level 3) Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural Sound Barrier - Vasu Chandrasekhara, NeoNephos & Stefan Schimanski, NVIDIA Jasmine 2 (Level 3) Unity in Diversity: Architecting “Shared-First” Kubernetes Platforms for Life-Critical Workloads - Manoj K R, Siddiq Tanveer M A, Rishi Nikhilesh Damerla, & Geethika Chappidi, Motorola Solutions Lotus 1 (Level 3) Maintainer Meet-Up 206 (Level 2)

3:00pm IST

Learning Lounge: Certify Your Curiosity: How to Keep Learning in the Cloud Native World - Fazlur Rahman Khan, Linux Foundation Education Jasmine 1 (Level 3) | Booth G3 Sponsored Demo: From Local App to Cluster in Minutes with Headlamp and OSS - Sanket Bakshi, Microsoft 205 (Level 2) Project Pavilion Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

3:10pm IST

Building and Orchestrating Real Production-ready Agentic AI Systems - Kevin Dubois & Daniel Oh, IBM Lotus 3 (Level 3) The Lean Observability Stack: Quick and Native Telemetry for Service Mesh - Arpitha Srivathsa Malavalli, Google Lotus 2 (Level 3) Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Why Platforms & AI Need Each Other - Atulpriya Sharma, Improving Jasmine 2 (Level 3) Zero-GPU Autopilot: Orchestrating Kagent and Kgateway for Private, Self-Healing Clusters - Ashok M, DigitalOcean & Dillibabu Sampath, Wells Fargo Lotus 1 (Level 3)

3:30pm IST

Sponsored Demo: Cloud Native AI: Model Management with Harbor & Velero - Dhruv Tyagi, Broadcom 205 (Level 2)

3:40pm IST

Coffee Break ☕ Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

3:45pm IST

Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

4:00pm IST

Learning Lounge: KubeQuest: The Cloud Native Quiz Challenge - Fazlur Rahman Khan, Linux Foundation Education Jasmine 1 (Level 3) | Booth G3 Sponsored Demo: The True Cost of Building at Machine Speed - Dan Lorenc, Chainguard 205 (Level 2)

4:10pm IST

K8s Complexity Tamed: One Interface To Rule Them All With CNCF Incubating Project KubeVela - Jerrin Francis & Gowtham S, Guidewire Software India Lotus 3 (Level 3) Longhorn: What's New & What's Next for Cloud Native Persistent Storage - Divya Mohan, SUSE 204 (Level 2) The Invisible Tax: How Data Format Conversions Drive up Telemetry Pipeline Costs - Cijo Thomas, Microsoft Lotus 2 (Level 3) Kubernetes Ate the Budget: How We Made Cost a Platform Responsibility - Bhavani Indukuri & Aman Chandna, DigitalOcean Lotus 1 (Level 3) Getting Started with CNCF Mentorship: A Guide for Future Mentees 203 (Level 2)

4:30pm IST

Sponsored Demo: Cut the Bill, Not the Brains. AI Coding Agents That Ship More and Cost Less - Matas Kaminskas, Cast AI 205 (Level 2)

4:50pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: 5 Tactics To Forging a Hardened Software Chain - Pronomita Dey, Intuit Jasmine 2 (Level 3) The 900-Second Ghost: Debugging Half-Open TCP - Dhruv Jain, Gojek (GoTo Group) Lotus 3 (Level 3) No More Secrets With Keycloak's Federated Client Authentication - Rishabh Singh, Red Hat 204 (Level 2) Observability 2.0: Shifting Left From Reactive Monitoring To GenAI-Powered Insights - Kokilavani Kathiresan & RK Gupta, Intuit; Sivakumar Krishnamurthy, Cloudera; Suresh Kumar Khemka, Atlassian India LLP Lotus 2 (Level 3) From API Events To Production in Minutes: Backstage as the Front Door To Multi-Tenant Provisioning - Aditya Soni & Atul Bhardwaj, Sailpoint Lotus 1 (Level 3)

4:57pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Your Prompt Is a Cross-Border Data Transfer - Sudhanshu Prajapati, Improving Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

5:00pm IST

Women's Community Gathering 206 (Level 2)

5:04pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: One Header, Portable Proof: PEAC Receipts for K8s APIs - Jithin Raj, Originary Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

5:11pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Pruning the Kernel CVEs With Code Reachability Analysis - Ashish Bijlani, Ossillate Inc Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

5:18pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Secure GitOps for Regulated Workloads: Argo CD Meets Confidential Containers - Jitendra Singh, Microsoft Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

5:25pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Stepping Aside To Step Up: Designing Maintainer Succession for India’s Cloud Native Future - Nikhita Raghunath, Broadcom Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

5:30pm IST

Beyond Monolithic AI: Cloud Native Patterns for Dynamic Model Selection and Semantic Routing - Vincent Caldeira & Anindita Sinha Banerjee, Red Hat Lotus 3 (Level 3) Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso; Madhu Rajanna, Rewant Soni, Malay Parida, IBM; Pratik Surve, Red Hat 204 (Level 2) Offline but Not Blind: Observability in Air-Gapped Kubernetes Environment - Manoj Sardana, HCL Software Lotus 2 (Level 3) Building a Self-Service Platform for Stateful AI Agents - Shuva Jyoti Kar, Cisco Systems Lotus 1 (Level 3)

5:32pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Why Your Cluster-Wide Policies Are a Risk (And What To Do About It) - Dhruv Puri, Aspora Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

6:00pm IST

Welcome Reception 🎉 Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

7:30am IST

Cloakroom Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

8:00am IST

Registration + Badge Pick-Up Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:07am IST

Keynote: From Kubernetes Learning to Community Leadership: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cloud Native Engineers - Lavanya Anbalagan, Platform Architect, MatrixKube Technologies Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:12am IST

Keynote: Running 911 & Mission-Critical Workloads on Shared Kubernetes Platforms - Manoj K R, Senior Software Engineer, Motorola Solutions Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:17am IST

Keynote: The Human Cost of Security in the AI Era - Sonali Srivastava, Senior Developer Advocate, Improving Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:29am IST

Keynote: Automating RBI Compliance With Unified Policy-as-Code - Jim Bugwadia, Founder and CEO, Nirmata & Ashwath Kumar, Head of Security, Razorpay Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:41am IST

Keynote: The Vertically Integrated Bank: Scaling from NBFC to Integrated on Kubernetes - Faeka Ansari, DevEx Platform Engineer, Slice Financial Bank Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:46am IST

Keynote: SBI Meghdoot - Modern Sovereign Cloud Serving Millions of Customers - Rajesh Singh, Cloud Lead, SBI Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:51am IST

Keynote: One Deploy Plane, Every Runtime: How Shopify Generalized Cloud Native Beyond Kubernetes - Aqeel Nazeer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:56am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:15am IST

Coffee Break ☕ Jasmine 1 (Level 3) Solutions Showcase Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

11:45am IST

Learning Lounge: One Small Step, One Giant Leap - Learning Paths in LF Education - Ram Iyengar, Cloud Foundry Foundation Jasmine 1 (Level 3) | Booth G3 Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

12:00pm IST

When LLMs Hit Production: Why You Need an AI Gateway - Gavrish Prabhu, Nutanix Lotus 1 (Level 3) Transforming the DNA: How the Indian Banking Sector Is Leading the Cloud Native Revolution - Sudheesh Sudhakaran, Broadcom; K Sriram Kumar, I-exceed; RanVijay Pandey, Infosys Finacle; Komila Jain, TCS; Rajesh Singh, SBI Lotus 3 (Level 3) A gRPC Transport for the Model Context Protocol - Pawan Bhardwaj, Google Lotus 2 (Level 3) Introducing OCI Webhook Support in Argo CD: From Polling To Real-Time - Nitish Kumar, Akuity 204 (Level 2) Inference in Progress… Please Monitor Responsibly - Gaurav Sharma, NVIDIA 205 (Level 2)

12:40pm IST

GPU Hunter: Architecting Global GPU Availability With MultiKueue - Kishore Jagannath & Ram J A, Google Jasmine 2 (Level 3) When Kubeflow Fights Cilium: Debugging 60% Idle GPUs in Kubernetes - Ramkumar Nagaraj & Bingi Narasimha Karthik, Adobe Lotus 1 (Level 3) Conversations With the Kernel: A Netlink Deep Dive - Yash Kumar Singh & Daman Arora, Broadcom Lotus 2 (Level 3) KServe in Production: Scaling Generative Inference the Cloud Native Way - Johnu George, Nutanix 204 (Level 2) Patients as Time-Series: High-Stakes Clinical Alerting With OpenSearch & K8s - Seema Saharan, Autodesk & Aakanksha Saharan, Independent Lotus 3 (Level 3) Zero Trust for Autonomous Agents: Isolating AI Workloads on Kubernetes - Kanagalingam Senthalan, WSO2 205 (Level 2)

1:10pm IST

Lunch 🍛 Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

2:30pm IST

Run Your Own AI Cluster on a DGX Spark: Kubernetes, GPUs, and DRA - Janakiram MSV, Janakiram & Associates & Shreyas Mocherla, Nirmata Jasmine 2 (Level 3) Service Networking Within Air-Gapped Environments: Deployment Strategies and Operational Management - Anirban Nandi, Google Lotus 2 (Level 3) When the Edge Can’t Afford a Third Node: A Storage Solution for Two-Node Kubernetes Cluster - Parth Arora, IBM Lotus 3 (Level 3) Ready, Set, Go: WASM-Powered Containers Taking Your AI To New Heights - Anshika Tiwari, Amazon Web Services & Abhineet Saxena, NUTANIX 205 (Level 2) Scaling the Developer Frontier: The TAG DevEx Roadmap for 2026 - Daniel Oh & Kevin Dubois, IBM 204 (Level 2) How We Stopped a Crypto-mining Attack in Kubernetes Caused by a Next.js RCE - Achanandhi M & Tamil Vanan Karuppannan Lotus 1 (Level 3)

3:00pm IST

Learning Lounge: CNPA or CNPE? Roles, Skills & Which One is Right For You! - Fazlur Rahman Khan, Linux Foundation Education Jasmine 1 (Level 3) | Booth G3

3:10pm IST

From Flaky Builds to Self-Healing Deployments: An OTel-Driven CI/CD Tale - Chamod Perera, Circles & Shivay Lamba, CNCF Ambassador Jasmine 2 (Level 3) From Textbooks To YAML: Mapping Your CS Degree To the Cloud Native World - Parvathy Nair, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology & Sudhish Nair, Red Hat Lotus 1 (Level 3) Why We Ditched Kube-proxy: Scaling 10M Daily Browser Sessions With Kubernetes EndpointSlices - Rajat Khanna, CommerceIQ Lotus 2 (Level 3) Feast as a Cloud Native Data System: Bridging Batch Processing and Online Serving on Kubernetes - Nikhil Kathole, Red Hat Lotus 3 (Level 3) When Kubernetes Becomes an Interface, Not a Cluster - Samarth Sharma, DataGenie & Goutam Verma, Expedia 205 (Level 2) Using Buildpacks To Reduce Container Bloat and Attack Surface - Sai Bharadwaj Avvari, Salesforce 204 (Level 2)

3:40pm IST

Coffee Break ☕ Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

4:10pm IST

So You Want To Run AI Agents on Kubernetes: A 101 Guide - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom Jasmine 2 (Level 3) Phippy’s First Steps Into Kubernetes - Hrittik Roy, vCluster & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify Lotus 1 (Level 3) Validating RK3588 for KubeEdge: Scalable ARM64 Edge Node Simulation Without Hardware - Sachin Jha, CNCF(KubeEdge) 205 (Level 2) Inside Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience (ContribEx) - Prajyot Parab, IBM; Avni Mahajan, Speedybyte; Swathi Rao, Kubernetes 1.37 Comms Lead; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom 204 (Level 2) Kubernetes API Server Performance Clinic: Auditing, and Priority & Fairness in Production - Neel Shah, Middleware & Suman Chakraborty, Platform9 Systems Lotus 2 (Level 3) The Leapfrog Upgrade Playbook: Upgrading When You’re Years Behind - Yug Gupta, Walmart Global Tech Lotus 3 (Level 3)

4:50pm IST

LLMs Behind Bars: Sandboxes at Scale for AI on a Short Leash - Prashanth Pai, CodeRabbit 205 (Level 2) The Hidden Cost of ML Data Lifecycles in Kubernetes - Yashasvi Misra, Pure Storage Jasmine 2 (Level 3) The Death of the YAML-Engineer: Engineering "Invisible" Platforms With Crossplane and Score - Abhinav Sharma & Mumshad Mannambeth, KodeKloud Lotus 3 (Level 3) etcd in 2026: Enhancements, V3.7 Roadmap, and Community Growth - Lavish Pal, Independent; Arka Saha, Broadcom; Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Guna K Kambalimath, IBM 204 (Level 2) Kubernetes Workload Resiliency in Action: Beyond Basics - Nabarun Pal & Akhil Mohan, Broadcom Lotus 2 (Level 3) Zero Trust for Fintech: Building Secure Banking Infrastructure With Cilium - Prasta Maha & Herbert Sianturi, Krom Bank Indonesia Lotus 1 (Level 3)

6:00pm IST

[SOLD OUT] OpenStack & StarlingX Meetup hosted by OpenInfra Foundation | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED Pondichéry Café at the Sofitel Mumbai