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Thursday, June 18
 

8:00am IST

Registration + Badge Pick-Up
Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 6:30pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 6:30pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Registration

8:00am IST

Cloakroom
Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 8:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 8:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Registration

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, Linux Foundation & Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure, Linux Foundation
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:15am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Speakers
avatar for Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO, CNCF
Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More →
avatar for Jonathan Bryce

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation
Jonathan Bryce is the Executive Director of Cloud & Infrastructure at the Linux Foundation, where he leads both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the OpenInfra Foundation—two of the largest and most influential open source communities in the world. With over... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:15am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:17am IST

Keynote: From Kubernetes Learning to Community Leadership: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cloud Native Engineers - Lavanya Anbalagan, Platform Architect, MatrixKube Technologies
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:17am - 10:20am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
The cloud-native ecosystem is creating new opportunities for engineers across the world — not just to learn modern technologies, but to build confidence, grow their careers, and become active contributors to the community.

This keynote explores how continuous learning, Kubernetes certifications, open-source participation, and hands-on platform engineering can help engineers build strong technical foundations and meaningful careers in cloud native technologies. From learning Kubernetes concepts to enabling others through mentorship and community engagement, the journey reflects the power of practical learning and consistent upskilling.

The session also highlights how community-driven programs, technical certifications, and real-world experience can help aspiring engineers gain confidence, deepen their expertise, and actively contribute to the growing Kubernetes ecosystem. As cloud-native adoption continues to expand, the next generation of engineers has an opportunity not only to build scalable systems but also to shape the future of the community itself.
Speakers
avatar for Lavanya Anbalagan

Lavanya Anbalagan

Platform Architect, MatrixKube Technologies
Kubernetes and cloud native enthusiast focused on platform engineering, community learning, and mentorship. A Golden Kubestronaut who has trained and mentored multiple engineers in Kubernetes and cloud native practices, with a passion for helping aspiring engineers build strong foundations... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:17am - 10:20am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:22am IST

Keynote: From Afterthought to Practice: How Flipkart Built a Multi-tenant Chaos Platform on LitmusChaos - Uma Mukkara, Head of Resilience Testing, Harness
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:22am - 10:27am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce platform, runs hundreds of tightly coupled microservices that must withstand the massive traffic surges of Big Billion Days and festive sales. To stop treating outages as an afterthought, Flipkart's Central Reliability Engineering team built a centralized chaos engineering platform on top of Litmus Chaos. To make it work at their scale, they customized Litmus in four meaningful ways: a hybrid multi-tenancy architecture that splits the difference between cluster-wide and namespace-wide installs, a DaemonSet-based high-availability model for chaos injection, a first-class Script Runner fault for dynamic target selection and context chaining, and a hybrid VM chaos extension for workloads that don't run on Kubernetes. This talk shares what they built, why, and what they contributed back upstream.
Speakers
avatar for Uma Mukkara

Uma Mukkara

Head of Resilience Testing, Harness
Uma Mukkara is the head of Resilience Testing at Harness. Previously, Uma was a co-founder of ChaosNative and MayaData, both of which he helped lead to successful acquisitions. He also co-created the popular CNCF open source projects openEBS and LitmusChaos, which he continues to... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:22am - 10:27am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:29am 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
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:29am - 10:39am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
Our session introduces a cloud-native, in-house platform for modular LLM inference at enterprise scale. Built on Kubernetes, the architecture unifies open-source and vendor models via OpenAI-compatible APIs and supports distributed serving with popular inference runtimes like vLLM, SGLang, and Triton.

Powered by NVIDIA Dynamo, the system optimizes GPU fleets through intelligent scheduling, KV-aware routing, prefix caching, and NIXL-based GPU-to-GPU data transfer, further optimized by allocating fractions of a GPU using KAI-Scheduler. The platform delivers streaming, speculative decoding, quantization, and autoscaling to zero via KEDA.

We ensure comprehensive observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, all governed by GitOps principles using ArgoCD and secured with enterprise-grade practices. For end-user consumption, the platform integrates with Open WebUI via standard APIs. We’ll cover the architecture, key components, and cloudability-driven cost governance strategies that empower data science teams while accelerating safe, sustainable AI innovation across AstraZeneca.
Our session introduces a cloud-native, in-house platform for modular LLM inference at enterprise scale. Built on Kubernetes, the architecture unifies open-source and vendor models via OpenAI-compatible APIs and supports distributed serving with popular inference runtimes like vLLM, SGLang, and Triton.

Speakers
avatar for Shrinidhi

Shrinidhi

AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca India
AI Platform Engineer blending Kubernetes savvy with MLOps rigor. I design and run scalable, cost-aware GPU platforms for training and LLM inference—GitOps-driven, observable, and secure. Passionate about autoscaling-to-zero, fractional GPUs, and making model serving fast, reliable... Read More →
avatar for Nithin R

Nithin R

AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca
ML Platform Engineer | AstraZeneca

Building and scaling enterprise-grade machine learning platforms from the ground up is my passion. At AstraZeneca, I'm at the forefront of developing a robust, ML platform and LLM Inference Engine using a powerful suite of open-source technologies. This platform empowers our data scientists... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:29am - 10:39am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions, AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

10:41am IST

Keynotes to be Announced
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:41am - 10:51am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 10:41am - 10:51am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:53am IST

Keynote: Engineering Population-Scale AI & AI Infrastructure with Cloud Native Technologies at NPCI - Tittu Varghese, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:53am - 10:56am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) processes more than 24 billion monthly transactions and 700 million daily payments on one of the world’s largest real-time payment systems, all powered by open source, cloud native infrastructure. In this keynote, NPCI will share how they built their AI infrastructure using Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Prometheus, vLLM, OpenStack, NVIDIA AI platforms and many more open-source components to deliver real-time fraud detection in under sub second latency at national scale. The session will explore the architecture behind their payment rail including GPU-accelerated AI inference, distributed cloud infrastructure, and cloud-native tooling powering fraud and AI infrastructure, and financial AI models. Get a look inside their reference architecture and how cloud-native technologies are becoming critical infrastructure for AI at scale with sovereignty.

Speakers
avatar for Tittu Varghese

Tittu Varghese

In-charge, AI Infrastructure Engineering, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
Tittu Varghese is the In-Charge of AI Infrastructure Engineering at National Payments Corporation of India, leading the platform and infrastructure initiatives powering AI systems at scale. With deep expertise in distributed systems and critical infrastructure engineering, he has... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:53am - 10:56am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:58am IST

Keynote: Cloud Native at India Scale, How Rapido Scaled to 4+ Million Rides - Srivatsa Katta, CTO & Adarsh K Kumar, Principal Product Engineer, Rapido
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:58am - 11:01am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
India moves on Rapido. The country's largest taxi platform serves over 4 million rides daily, matching riders to drivers in real time across 150+ microservices at 200K requests per second.

None of this would exist without the CNCF ecosystem. In this keynote, we walk through how Kubernetes, Istio, Prometheus, Thanos, Cert Manager, and External DNS work together to power a platform where every second of latency means a rider waiting in the heat.

This is the story of what cloud native makes possible when the stakes involve millions of livelihoods, not just uptime metrics.

Speakers
avatar for Adarsh K Kumar

Adarsh K Kumar

Principal Product Engineer, Rapido
Adarsh is a Principal Engineer and heads the Infrastructure Platform team,
Previously a Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks, he brings 14 years of experience in distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure.

He is a CNCF community builder, co-organizing CNCG Kochi and Kubernete... Read More →
avatar for Srivatsa Katta

Srivatsa Katta

CTO, Rapido
Srivatsa Katta is the CTO of Rapido. He leads the technology vision behind Rapido's open-source, platform-first architecture spanning over 150 microservices.

Previously a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, he brings nearly two decades of experience building blockchain, AI and distributed systems at scale... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:58am - 11:01am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:03am IST

Keynote: From Platforms to AI Factories. Has Kubernetes Solved It? - Saiyam Pathak, Principal Developer Advocate, vCluster
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:03am - 11:13am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
Two years ago, every platform team was building developer platforms. Today the same teams, and the AI Cloud providers selling to them, face a harder question. How do you safely share GPU infrastructure across multiple AI teams without stepping on each other?

Kubernetes is already the production platform for AI inference. Containers, autoscaling, multi-tenancy, RBAC are all solved. The remaining problem is GPUs themselves. Today Kubernetes asks for them in whole numbers. One pod, one GPU, even when the workload uses 10% of it.

This keynote walks through how the CNCF ecosystem, and Kubernetes itself, has answered. HAMi virtualizes one physical GPU into multiple slices today, each with its own memory budget. DRA evolves the platform's resource model so Kubernetes finally understands GPUs as rich devices instead of opaque numbers.

Then, we move to a live demo. There will be a MacBook on stage, connected directly to an NVIDIA DGX Spark. A single Blackwell GPU will run two open source LLMs for two teams, generating answers simultaneously. There are no slides and no recordings.

That's the AI factory. And yes, Kubernetes has solved it, with a little help from its friends.
Speakers
avatar for Saiyam Pathak

Saiyam Pathak

Head of Developer Relations, vCluster
Saiyam is working as Head of DevRel at vCluster. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native & AI infrastructure. He is Kubecon Co-chair and has worked on many facets of Kubernetes, including machine learning platforms, scaling, multi-cloud, & managed Kubernetes... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:03am - 11:13am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:15am IST

Keynotes to be Announced
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:15am - 11:20am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 11:15am - 11:20am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:22am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:22am - 11:30am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 11:22am - 11:30am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:30am IST

Coffee Break ☕
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Breaks

11:30am IST

Solutions Showcase
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:30am - 7:30pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)
Visit our sponsors in the Solutions Showcase to try the latest demos, watch live presentations, talk to experts, check out job opportunities, and score some swag.

In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or to access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third-party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:30am - 7:30pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)
  Solutions Showcase

11:45am IST

Peer Group Mentoring
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:45am - 1:00pm IST
206 (Level 2)
Peer Group Mentoring allows participants to meet with experienced open source veterans across many CNCF projects. Mentees are paired with 2 – 10 other people in a pod-like setting to explore technical, community, career, and certification questions together.

If you're interested in attending as a Mentee, seats are only guaranteed to those on the sign up sheet.

If you're interested in being a Mentor, please sign up by May 25.


Check-in: 11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Session: 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:45am - 1:00pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Experiences
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:00pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Opening/Intro
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:05pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:05pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:00pm IST

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
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
The Indian BFSI sector is shifting to cloud-native architectures to enhance operational efficiency, scalability, and digital customer experiences. This panel of industry leaders, Architects from India's largest Bank (SBI) to leading Banking software firms (Infosys Finacle, TCS, I-exceed), is here in India's financial capital, to discuss:
- Cloud Native adoption and growth in the BFSI sector
Banking-specific, unique real-world use cases, role of Agentic AI
- Developing and operating applications at scale, e.g 1.7B accounts serving 1.3B people across the globe
- Security safeguards, governance, and change management, with the use of the CNCF project Flagger
- Tackling challenges with cloud-native technologies and the feedback loop with the community and maintainers.

This panel shares insights on cloud-native adoption in India's BFSI sector, incorporating global perspectives. Be inspired by how popular technologies are architected at scale to deliver innovative banking solutions.
Speakers
avatar for K Sriram Kumar

K Sriram Kumar

SVP Platform Engineering, I-exceed
Works a Senior Vice President in a Fintech specialising
on Cloud native applications handling Cloud security , Application Security and Platform Engineering.
avatar for Sudheesh Sudhakaran

Sudheesh Sudhakaran

Engineering leader, Broadcom, Broadcom
Sudheesh Sudhakaran is an engineering leader with VMware by Broadcom. Before Broadcom acquired VMware, he was the India site leader for the VMware Tanzu team. As a Senior Director of Engineering, he was responsible for the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) and Tanzu Edge product portfolio... Read More →
avatar for Komila Jain

Komila Jain

Chief Architect, TCS
• 25+ years of IT industry experience leading solution for large scale digital transformation program, Integration projects & application modernization
• Experience in building Solutions & Framework to fast-track digital transformation engagements.
• Strategic & in-depth... Read More →
avatar for Rajesh Singh

Rajesh Singh

Cloud Lead at SBI, SBI
Handling largest cloud in BFSI Sector.
avatar for RanVijay Pandey

RanVijay Pandey

Head Technology Alliances, Infosys Finacle
Ran Vijay Pandey – Global Alliance Head, Infosys Finacle
Ran Vijay Pandey leads global technology alliances for Infosys Finacle, driving strategic partnerships across platforms and ecosystems. With over 25 years of experience in IT, banking, and financial services, he has held leadership roles in technology architecture, industry consulting... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:00pm IST

Inside Envoy Gateway: Resiliency and Performance at Scale - Rudrakh Panigrahi, Salesforce
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Envoy Gateway continues to gain popularity as a fully conformant Kubernetes Gateway API implementation, with over half a million weekly Helm pulls and increasing adoption in production environments. The central theme of this session will be control plane resiliency and performance: automatic failover with leader election and warm standbys, smarter xDS handling and faster convergence. Also expect insights into recent wins, including a 30% reduction in memory footprint, with upcoming initiatives that are expected to improve performance and resiliency further.If you’re operating a production-grade gateway to manage infrastructure and traffic at scale or evaluating one, this session is for you.
Speakers
avatar for Rudrakh Panigrahi

Rudrakh Panigrahi

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
Software engineer with about 7 years of experience specializing in large scale distributed systems, platform engineering and cloud infrastructure. Currently building the cloud native networking platform at Salesforce, focused on addressing high availability and performance at scale... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Envoy

12:00pm IST

What Did My Agent Do? Observability and Accountability for AI Agents - Ishan Jain, Grafana Labs
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
Generative AI systems and AI agents behave very differently from traditional software. Their non-deterministic nature and ability to act across multiple steps make debugging and accountability harder, which increases the need for better observability. Beyond latency and error rates, teams need insight into prompts, responses, and agent actions to understand what an agent did and why.

In this session, I will show how to instrument AI agents using OpenTelemetry and the GenAI Semantic Conventions, with OpenLIT as the native SDK. Through a live demo, I will demonstrate how to capture agent interactions alongside performance telemetry using Prometheus and Jaeger, while keeping sensitive data separate to reduce risk and cost.

I will also show how telemetry can support ongoing evaluations, helping teams reason about agent behavior over time without logging everything. This talk is for engineers building AI agents who want to improve trust and accountability without oversharing data.
Speakers
avatar for Ishan Jain

Ishan Jain

Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
I’m a Developer Experience Engineer at Grafana Labs, focused on making observability practical and accessible. I maintain the Grafana Ansible Collection, Grafana Operator, and OpenLIT, with over 5M downloads. Formerly an SRE, I enjoy working in open source and sharing real-world... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability

12:00pm IST

Commit-Then-Disclose: Cryptographic SBOM Auditing Without IP Leakage - Sharvil Bhatt, Reliance Industries limited & Swastik Gour, Improving
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
205 (Level 2)
SBOM regulations (NTIA, EU CRA,CISA) create conflicting requirements: auditors demand transparency while vendors require confidentiality. We present a two-layer Merkle commitment architecture separating public change detection from private component disclosure. Layer 1 builds standard Merkle trees producing public roots for tamper detection—anyone monitors changes without seeing components. Layer 2 commits internal hashes with 256-bit random nonces, yielding private commitment roots shared only with auditors for cryptographic hiding. Selective disclosure reveals only changed components via decommitment tuples with O(log n) proofs. Auditors verify commitments reconstruct to trusted roots. Re-randomization refreshes nonces without altering data. Tested: 100 auditors, 100K components, 50K proofs, zero false accepts. Performance: 2.6M disclosures/second, 0.01ms proof generation, 625-byte paths. Policy-based filtering achieves 72% disclosure reduction.

Speakers
avatar for Swastik Gour

Swastik Gour

Product Engineer , CNCF ambassador, Improving
Swastik is a CNCF ambassador and a Product Engineer by profession who enjoys to contribute to opensource inclusing openssf hosted RSTUF , kyverno , knative , paralus , Kubevela and is also a CAPI CI signal release shadow . He likes to study about the latest tech And innovations going... Read More →
avatar for Sharvil Bhatt

Sharvil Bhatt

Researcher and ex security auditor, Ex Reliance Industries limited
Published security researcher and Master's Candidate at LNMIIT. Former Security Auditor at Reliance Industries with expertise in OS kernel internals, eBPF-based threat detection, Rust and Go for secure tooling, and binary fuzzing. Skilled in container security, SBOM generation, supply-chain... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Security

12:07pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Harbor Project Update: Gitless GitOps, Satellite at the Edge - Prasanth Baskar, Community Lead
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:07pm - 12:12pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Speakers
avatar for Prasanth Baskar

Prasanth Baskar

Software Engineer, 8gears Container Registry
Prasanth Baskar is a Software Engineer and a core contributor to the CNCF Harbor project. loves mentoring new contributors through LFX Mentorship and also an active contributor to kitops, oras, kubernetes. I have spoken at KubeCon, OpenSSF Community day, CNCF Meetups and various foss... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:07pm - 12:12pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:14pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: The Kyverno Five! Policy Types for the Full Resource Lifecycle - Neha Jaju, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:14pm - 12:19pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers
NJ

Neha Jaju

Software Engineer, Nirmata

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:14pm - 12:19pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:21pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: GitOps Without Boundaries: Deploy to Infrastructure and Workloads with PipeCD! - Eeshaan Shreyas Sawant, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:21pm - 12:26pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers
avatar for Eeshaan Sawant

Eeshaan Sawant

Technology Evangelist, ONLYOFFICE (Ascensio System SIA)
Eeshaan is an Engineer from Pune, India. His job is to make technical things a little less painful.

A DevRel Engineer at ONLYOFFICE, CNCF maintainer at PipeCD and four years deep into open source and cloud native, Eeshaan spends most of his time writing docs, creating content or... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:21pm - 12:26pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:28pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks - Vidhi Shah, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:28pm - 12:33pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Speakers
avatar for Vidhi Shah

Vidhi Shah

Lead Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
Vidhi is an LMTS at Salesforce, where she architects high-scale developer platforms and resilient cloud-native systems. Specializing in the intersection of availability and security, Vidhi has led complex initiatives ranging from multi-architecture CI enablement to deep-tier Vault... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:28pm - 12:33pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:35pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss! - Nitish Kumar, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:35pm - 12:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Speakers
avatar for Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar

Software Engineer, Akuity
Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity working on the core Argo team. He is a maintainer of the CNCF-graduated project Argo CD and a former Release Team member of the Kubernetes project. Outside of work, Nitish enjoys playing chess and travelling.
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:35pm - 12:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:40pm IST

Beyond VLLM: Distributed LLM Inferencing With Llm-d on Kubernetes - Ravindra Patil, Red Hat
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
As (LLMs) continue to grow in size and demand, single-node inferencing quickly becomes a bottleneck for performance, scalability, and cost. While vLLM has become popular for efficient LLM serving on a single node, it does not fully address the challenges of distributed inferencing across multiple GPUs and nodes in Kubernetes environments.

This talk introduces llm-d, a emerging cloud-native project designed to enable distributed LLM inferencing on Kubernetes. We will cover why vLLM gained popularity and the limitations when scaling beyond a single node. We will explore how llm-d goes a step further by enabling multi-node, multi-GPU inferencing with cloud-native primitives.

Attendees will learn how llm-d fits into modern Kubernetes platforms, how it improves scalability and resource utilization. The session focuses on practical architecture, design trade-offs, and real-world use cases rather than theory with a demo on how llm-d distributes load.
Speakers
avatar for Ravindra Patil

Ravindra Patil

Principal Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat
I am AI evanlegist and working at Red Hat in AI team. I really like to learn and explore how the world can benefit from this AI revolution. I am also very keen in evaluation aspect of AI models to make sure that LLM models are Bias free and are responsible AI.
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

12:40pm IST

Re-Architecting Monoliths Into Kubernetes Microservices at Million-User Scale: Hard Lessons - Aditya Sharma, Lumenore
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
Legacy platforms often begin as tightly coupled monoliths running on virtual machines. While workable at small scale, this model breaks down under real production traffic, operational growth, and security demands.

This talk presents a real-world case study of re-architecting a BI and AI analytics platform from a VM-based monolith into Kubernetes-native microservices serving millions of users. It covers a 13 years journey from on-prem bare metal and vertical scaling failures to containerization and a production-grade Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments.

The session focuses on practical challenges such as resource contention, downtime-driven scaling, observability gaps, security audit failures, configuration drift, and manual operations, and explains how these drove decisions around service decomposition, GitOps, defense-in-depth security, and service mesh adoption.
Speakers
avatar for Aditya Sharma

Aditya Sharma

Technical Architect, Lumenore
I’m driven by curiosity and a passion for building better systems. With experience across DevOps, DevSecOps and FinOps, I integrate security, automation and efficiency from day one. I help organizations tame complexity and turn technology into a competitive advantage. I believe... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Cloud Native Experience

12:40pm IST

In-toto Attestations for What Really Happens in Your Build Pipeline, With Witness - Vyom Yadav, Canonical & Rahul Vishwakarma, Highlevel
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
204 (Level 2)
State-sponsored supply chain attacks, like the Shai Hulud worm, highlight the urgent need for automated, cryptographically verifiable attestations generated at the moment the supply chain executes, capturing execution details that directly improve the accuracy of secure SDLC documents like SBOMs.

Witness, an in-toto subproject, is one such tool that records various aspects of a system during supply chain execution. Unlike static lock files generated by toolchains, which often miss components and lack cryptographically verifiable metadata, Witness captures a complete and verifiable picture of what was actually executed. New observability features now enable Witness to enrich SBOMs with accurate, runtime-derived data, while also establishing a network baseline for supply chain execution.
Speakers
avatar for Vyom Yadav

Vyom Yadav

Security Engineer, Canonical
Vyom is a CNCF Ambassador and was the Kubernetes Release Lead for v1.34. He is also on the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. At Canonical, he focuses on Ubuntu Security and Software Supply Chain Security.

In the past he has worked on other various open source projects including Kyverno, OSSF Minder, in-toto, KuberArmor, Checkstyle... Read More →
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Rahul Vishwakarma

Open Source Developer | in-toto / Witness | GSoC & LFX Mentee, Highlevel
Rahul Vishwakarma is an active open source contributor to CNCF's in-toto project, where he has worked on Witness and Archivista — building attestors and policy verification features for supply chain security. He previously contracted with TestifySec and is currently an SDE Intern... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, in-toto

12:40pm IST

When Kafka Goes Cloud Native: Observability That Actually Works! - Roopadharsini K & Mary Vinothini, Fidelity Investments
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
In the fast-paced world of cloud-native infrastructure, monitoring Kubernetes Kafka clusters shouldn’t feel like a puzzle or a last-minute audit surprise. In financial organisations, Kafka on Kubernetes powers critical needs, from regulatory compliance to real-time client updates. But legacy monitoring couldn’t keep up, and relying on sleep-deprived SREs wasn’t an option. We overcame this challenge by building custom dashboards in a unified observability platform using OpenTelemetry for vendor-agnostic collection, deployed natively on Kubernetes, and integrating Grafana and OpenSearch for real-time visibility and faster troubleshooting.

Attendees will learn how to meet compliance needs, speed up incident response, and design reliable Kafka observability at enterprise scale and also walk away with a practical blueprint for modernizing monitoring and adopting open-source practices in Kubernetes.
Speakers
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Mary Vinothini

Principal Cloud Engineer, Fidelity Investments
Kafka Engineer, leading the Kafka Platform in Fidelity Investments. Specialized in designing, deploying, and managing Kafka clusters to ensure high availability and scalability of data streaming platforms. Possess expertise in Kafka architecture, performance tuning, and troubleshooting... Read More →
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Roopadharsini K

Software Engineer, Fidelity Investments
Roopadharsini K is a Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments, with a keen focus on onboarding applications and platforms to enterprise messaging and event streaming ecosystems. Her work is inclined towards ensuring that integration efforts adhere to organizational event taxonomy... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability

12:40pm IST

Root Without Risk: A Decade-Long Quest for True Container Isolation - Sumir Broota, Broota Enterprise
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
205 (Level 2)
Kubernetes has long struggled with safe container isolation where `root` in a pod meant `root` on the node. This session shows how KEP‑127 and user namespaces finally make root inside a container harmless.

Real scenario: Your container needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN for FUSE mounts. An exploit succeeds. Without user namespaces: attacker = root on node, full cluster access. With user namespaces: attacker = UID 65536 - relatively powerless.

This talk chronicles the 9+ year journey mapping your pods "root" to an unprivileged nobody on the host.

Why it took 9 years:
- Early attempts (2016) failed-no kernel support
- v1.25-1.28: Three alpha rewrites
- v1.27: idmap mounts breakthrough
- v1.30: off-by-default Beta after CRI overhauls
- v1.33: Default beta-production-ready
- v1.34: Observability (metrics added)

What you'll learn:
✓ Live code walkthrough: kubelet → CRI → runc UID remapping
✓ Demos: container breakout attempts CVE-2024-21626 AKA Leaky Vessel patched
✓ Practical deployment patterns
Speakers
avatar for Sumir Broota

Sumir Broota

Sr DevSecOps Engineer & Tech Architect, Broota Enterprise
An independent DevSecOps and Tech Architecture consultant, kubestronaut, and cybersecurity and FOSS enthusiast, currently running Mumbai’s largest cybersecurity community -BreachForce.
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Security

12:42pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Vitess in Production: Powering Applications at Massive Scale - Harshit Gangal, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:42pm - 12:47pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Speakers
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Harshit Gangal

Software Engineer, PlanetScale / Vitess
Harshit Gangal is a Senior Software Engineer and core Vitess contributor, specializing in distributed transactions, query optimizations, and performance tuning. He has deep expertise in MySQL internals and has enhanced Vitess with improvements to query planning and execution. Harshit... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:42pm - 12:47pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:49pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: ModelPack: Bringing the OCI Standard to AI/ML - Andrew Block, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:49pm - 12:54pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers
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Andrew Block

Distinguished Architect, Red Hat
Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat who works with organizations to adopt Open Source solutions with a focus on Cloud Native, security and emerging technologies. Andrew is the author of multiple technical publications and frequently shares his knowledge and experiences... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:49pm - 12:54pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:56pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Closing
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:56pm - 12:58pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:56pm - 12:58pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

1:10pm IST

Lunch 🍛
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:10pm - 2:30pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 1:10pm - 2:30pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Breaks

2:30pm IST

Beyond the Primary CR: The Design Choice of What and What Not To Watch in Kubernetes Operators - Guna Kambalimath & Kishen V, IBM
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
Watching resources is fundamental to how K8s Operators reconcile state of the CR which is the primary resource, on the other hand, there are secondary resources created and managed by the controller to support the primary resource!

But does every secondary resource need to be watched?

In this session, we explore the design choices behind deciding what to watch and what not to watch considering real world examples. We'll dive into pros and cons of different approaches considering key factors - performance, scalability, RBAC boundaries, robustness of the operator. We'll understand how selective watching can reduce noise and improve the controller efficiency, By the end of the session, attendees will know how to choose the right approach for developing smarter, streamlined Kubernetes Operators backed by real-world use cases.
Speakers
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Kishen V

Cloud Engineer, IBM
A software engineer with a history of working in Cloud Native and Containerization technologies since 2020, with a passion towards contributing to open-source technologies. I love playing Diablo and Guitar in my leisure.
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Guna K Kambalimath

Software Engineer, IBM ISDL
Software engineer at IBM ISDL with a work experience of 5 years. Involved the development of VPC Block CSI driver in IBM Cloud. My expertise is in Golang, C++, systems, monitoring and alerting tools. Contributor to the opensource kubernetes signature community.
Current work involves ODF and ceph deployment/support on IBM PowerVS infrastructure... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Application Development

2:30pm IST

Introduction To Metal³ — Kubernetes-Native Bare Metal Provisioning - Sunnatillo Samadov, Ericsson
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
This talk introduces Metal³, an open-source project that makes it easy to manage physical servers using Kubernetes. Metal³ enables teams to provision, manage, and recover bare metal machines in a cloud-native way, using familiar Kubernetes workflows. We will explore what Metal³ is, its core capabilities, common use cases, and how it supports recovery and day-2 operations. The session is suitable for attendees of all experience levels.
Metal³ was accepted as a CNCF Incubating project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in August 2025
Speakers
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Sunnatillo Samadov

Open Source Developer, Ericsson
Sunnatillo is a Kubernetes engineer with 4+ years of experience in cloud-native development. He is a maintainer and contributor to the Metal³ project within the CNCF ecosystem, focusing on Kubernetes operators, bare metal infrastructure, platform engineering, and storage.

He previously served as Release Team Lead for Cluster API and is passionate about DevOps and building resilient, production-grade Kubernetes platforms... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Metal3.io

2:30pm IST

Who Watches the Watchers? From Closed Observability To Open Control at Scale - Aditi Gupta, JioHotstar; Madhu Patel, Adobe; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
Observability is your safety net - but at scale, it often fails first. As our Kubernetes platform grew, rising traffic produced more telemetry, overwhelming our stack and leaving us blind during incidents. High-cardinality metrics exhausted memory, and ingestion brownouts became recurring nightmares. We didn't have too much data; we had too little control.
In this talk, we dissect the concrete failure modes and show how we rebuilt observability by treating telemetry pipelines as first-class distributed systems with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo.

We will walk through production fixes:

- Active Traffic Shaping: OTel Collectors for batching and tail sampling.
- Defusing Cardinality Bombs: Prometheus recording rules to stabilise memory.
- Back pressure & Limits: Surviving 10x traffic spikes.

This isn't a tool comparison. It's a blueprint for building observability you can reason about under stress, so your monitoring doesn't become the “next outage” you're explaining.
Speakers
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Sandeep Kanabar

Lead Software Engineer, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)
Hailing from India, Sandeep is a passionate software engineer and individual contributor. A frequent meetup speaker, he loves sharing real-world lessons and insights with the community. He's a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, serving as co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard... Read More →
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Aditi Gupta

Software Engineer II @JioHotstar, JioStar India Pvt. Ltd.
I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer. Graduated from Asia's largest tech university for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service architecture... Read More →
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Madhu Patel

Software Engineer 2, Adobe
I'm Madhu Patel, a Software Development Engineer at Adobe, where I work on large-scale distributed backend services supporting Creative Cloud platforms, as well as AI agents designed to enhance user productivity. I am a graduate of Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability

2:30pm IST

Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural Sound Barrier - Vasu Chandrasekhara, NeoNephos & Stefan Schimanski, NVIDIA
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
We first trace the evolution of the "aerodynamics" of the K8s data, control, and work planes. As we dissect the architectural building blocks and controller archetypes of K8s, we discover the kubelet controller pattern as an universal design principle, with which we easily explain the unfolding of K8s Inception with Hosted Control Planes (HCP), where any control plane becomes a recursive workload in K8s itself.

Armed with these concepts we come to the ultimate, supersonic plane: KCP, the pure data and API plane.
Learn how to mentally decouple K8s from its underlying infrastructure and move toward a truly scalable, declarative API-first future. The next evolution in cloud-native. With KCP, and by treating KRM as a universal interface, we will show how you can benefit from the same pattern used to manage a single pod, to engineer global-scale platforms.

At each architecture evolution step, we accompany a demo and use case: from single clusters, vClusters, clusters with HCP, and KCP.
Speakers
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Stefan Schimanski

Pinrcipal Engineer, NVIDIA
Stefan is a Principal Engineer at Nvidia, working on control planes, Kubernetes, kcp, and as a tech-lead in Sig API Machinery. He contributed a major part of the CRD feature set. Stefan is a 2x Google Summer of Code mentor with CNCF, loves teaching and helping others learn. Before... Read More →
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Vasu Chandrasekhara

NeoNephos Advisor, Independent
Former VP on Cloud Native Strategy at SAP turned NeoNephos Ambassador. After establishing Kubernetes in the enterprise foundation at SAP, he’s now focused on the cloud-native ecosystem and mindset for digital sovereignty.
He previously led SAP's substantial project within EU IPCEI-CIS and established NeoNephos as its "OSS Infrastructure". Vasu holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück but refuses to be tied down to any geography. He prefers it in the cloud... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

2:30pm IST

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
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
In life-critical systems such as 911 dispatch, emergency call handling, and public safety platforms, the traditional “one cluster per application” model creates operational silos that limit resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency. This session describes how we challenged that model by building a Shared First Kubernetes platform that allows many sensitive services to coexist without compromising isolation or availability
We operate 25+ production Kubernetes clusters across multiple clouds. Each shared cluster runs 50–60 independent products and supports 2,000–4,000 microservices processing real-time emergency workloads where downtime can impact human lives.
The talk covers zero-touch workload isolation using a custom Kubernetes Admission Controller, per-tenant NGINX Ingress Controllers, automated DNS and certificate management and safe upgrade practices. We conclude by showing 50–60% infrastructure cost savings while improving reliability for mission-critical public safety systems.
Speakers
avatar for Rishi Nikhilesh Damerla

Rishi Nikhilesh Damerla

Manager, Software Engineering, Motorola Solutions
Dynamic Engineering Manager leading CPS Observability teams at Motorola Solutions, specializing in Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Kubernetes (GKE/OpenShift/Native), and AI/ML integrations (Vertex AI, Agentic AI workflows). Drives unified observability, SRE excellence, and platform... Read More →
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Geethika Chappidi

Software Engineer, Motorola Solutions
Software Engineer at Motorola Solutions architecting cloud native development, automation and the evolving ecosystem of Kubernetes. As a newer voice in the platform engineering space, I bring a fresh perspective to building resilient, AI enhanced infrastructure for mission critical... Read More →
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Manoj K R

Senior Software Engineer, Motorola Solutions Pvt Ltd
Manoj K R is a Platform Engineering professional specializing in large-scale Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure, with a strong focus on automation, security, and reliability. He works closely with Siddiq, Engineering Manager at Motorola Solutions, who leads CPS Infrastructure... Read More →
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Siddiq Tanveer M A

Engineering Manager, Motorola Solutions Inc
Engineering Manager at Motorola Solutions, leading team that build and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms. I focus on delivering secure and reliable self-hosted and managed Kubernetes environments that empower partners to deploy applications at scale. With deep experience... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering

2:30pm IST

Maintainer Meet-Up
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 4:30pm IST
206 (Level 2)
The Maintainer Meet-Up is for CNCF Maintainers to share best practices, dive into contributing processes, and solve common problems across projects.
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 4:30pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Project Opportunities

3:10pm IST

Building and Orchestrating Real Production-ready Agentic AI Systems - Kevin Dubois & Daniel Oh, IBM
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
Developing AI applications today isn’t just about experimental single-model interactions. Organizations are rapidly adopting AI and to do that, the requirements for enterprise software become increasingly more complex. Advanced Agentic AI systems address this need, where multiple specialized agents work together, each capable of independent reasoning.

The real challenge for architects lies in orchestrating these agents to collaborate effectively towards a common goal. Unfortunately though, a "one-size-fits-all" approach to coordination just doesn't work due to the complex nature of software. In addition, just like traditional apps, these agentic systems need to be deployed, managed and observed in cloud environments.

In this session we'll explore the spectrum of Agentic AI patterns; real world implementations with Java; how to deploy these Agentic Systems to Kubernetes, and what other considerations there are to get these applications running in production.

Speakers
avatar for Daniel Oh

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM
Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author
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Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM
Kevin Dubois is often featured as a (keynote) speaker at conferences around the world, where he shares his passion and knowledge about developer experience, open source, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Application Development

3:10pm IST

KubeEdge DeepDive: Extending Kubernetes To the Edge With Real-World Industry Use Case - Ronak Raj, Independent
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Following its graduation within the CNCF, KubeEdge has solidified its position as the premier platform for extending Kubernetes to the edge. In this session, project maintainers will explore KubeEdge's evolution, offering a deep dive into the core architecture that enables efficient management of edge workloads.

Attendees will gain insights from real-world deployments across diverse sectors, including Smart Cities, Industrial IoT (IIoT), Edge AI, Robotics, and Retail. Beyond success stories, the talk will cover critical technical updates, including the newly introduced Certified KubeEdge conformance test, recent technological advancements, and the latest updates on community governance.
Speakers
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Ronak Raj

LFX Mentee' KubeEdge, Self-Employed
Ronak Raj is an AI Researcher and software developer. He has contributed to multiple open-source communities, including google-deepmind/torax, Learning Equality, LangChain (langchain / langchain-google) etc
He is a recent LFX Mentorship graduate with CNCF KubeEdge, where he worked... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, KubeEdge

3:10pm IST

The Lean Observability Stack: Quick and Native Telemetry for Service Mesh - Arpitha Srivathsa Malavalli, Google
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
When timelines are tight or infrastructure is isolated, setting up complex observability suites can be a bottleneck. However, a service mesh like Istio, backed by Envoy, already provides a goldmine of data. Drawing from experience in restricted, air-gapped environments, we demonstrate how to turn Envoy and Istio into primary telemetry sources to build a reliable pipeline using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (OTel). We will break down essential Istio and Envoy metrics—such as request totals, bytes, and duration—and demystify their rich labels. Attendees will learn to leverage these metrics for "Golden Signal" dashboards, SLOs, and meaningful alerts, without manual per-service configuration. We also cover setting up OTel-based pipelines for Envoy access logs. Finally, we address "day 2" operations: using Prometheus relabeling to reduce cardinality, managing log verbosity via the Istio Telemetry API, and determining when to use synthetic probers over standard metrics.
Speakers
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Arpitha Srivathsa Malavalli

Software Engineer, Google
Arpitha Malavalli is a Software Engineer at Google specializing in the reliability and observability of cloud-native services. She plays a key role in enhancing Anthos Service Mesh (ASM) for Google Distributed Cloud Hosted, focusing on high-security, air-gapped environments. Arpitha... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

3:10pm IST

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Why Platforms & AI Need Each Other - Atulpriya Sharma, Improving & Ram Iyengar, Cloud Foundry
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
A match made in heaven, or one hell of a couple? Platform teams spent 2 years perfecting golden paths for cloud-native infrastructure. 5 engineers managing 100 services.

Last week, a new AI agent generated the same config in 30 seconds. This week they're managing 5 LLM models across 200 services. The future seems one-sided. This couple needs counselling.

This is escalating abstraction: Platforms reduce k8s chaos. AI automates those paths at breakneck speed. But AI-generated configs violate platform policies. Platforms enforce governance via admission controllers. Governance needs observability. Observability reveals the gap: no model lifecycle management, no agent audit trails, no cost control APIs.

This talk traces real interdependencies: deprecating models, managing sprawl, isolating agents, controlling budgets. You'll learn what exists - CNCF AI Conformance, tools, working groups & the critical gaps.

Right now, there's no greater agony than rationalising AI without platforms.
Speakers
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Ram Iyengar

India Community lead, OpenSSF
Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent... Read More →
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Atulpriya Sharma

Principal Developer Advocate | CNCF Ambassador, Improving
Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about Cloud Native, Kubernetes & DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content – blog posts, webinars – & host Twitter spaces and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth.

In addition, I'm also a CNCF Ambassador and the organizer of CNCF Hyderabad. When I am not working, I’m a food & travel blogger & love exploring eateries & going on road trips. You can find me at @TheTechMaharaj on Twitter... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

3:10pm IST

Zero-GPU Autopilot: Orchestrating Kagent and Kgateway for Private, Self-Healing Clusters - Ashok M, DigitalOcean & Dillibabu Sampath, Wells Fargo
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Modern Kubernetes environments have outpaced human operational capacity. While observability data is abundant, the Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR) remains high due to manual intervention. This session introduces a paradigm shift: an autonomous operations model that is entirely private, secure, and requires zero GPUs.

We demonstrate how to use Kagent, a CNCF sandbox reasoning framework, coupled with vLLM optimized for CPU-only inference to create a Sovereign SRE. By integrating Kgateway, we enforce policy driven traffic management that allows the agent to safely reroute traffic, isolate failing pods, and execute rollbacks based on real-time health intelligence. Attendees will walk away with a blueprint for a self-healing platform that uses local, file-based RAG to follow organizational rules without any data leaving the VPC or a single dollar spent on external AI APIs.
Speakers
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Ashok M

Techincal Account Manager, DigitalOcean
Golden Kubestronaut, AWS Cloud and AI practitioner. I have experience in working with cloudnative environments and also securing them.
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Dillibabu Sampath

Lead Software Engineer, Wells Fargo
Open-source enthusiast with a strong passion for technology and continuous learning. Thrives on collaboration, knowledge sharing, and exploring new ideas. Driven by curiosity and always eager to discover emerging technologies and opportunities for growth. Proud Golden Kubestronaut... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering

3:40pm IST

Coffee Break ☕
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Breaks

4:10pm IST

K8s Complexity Tamed: One Interface To Rule Them All With CNCF Incubating Project KubeVela - Jerrin Francis & Gowtham S, Guidewire Software India
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
Platform fragmentation is a silent productivity killer in Kubernetes. As our platform grew, so did its complexity—forcing developers to master observability, authentication, cost control, and more just to deploy a simple service. In this session, we’ll show how we turned a fragmented ecosystem into a unified experience using KubeVela and the Open Application Model. You’ll see how we:

Adopted KubeVela as a universal platform interface

Developed a componentized model so developers declare needs, not implementation

Created reusable traits that auto-inject observability, compliance, and best practices

Reduced cognitive load and boosted application quality

The outcome? Developers build and ship faster, SREs sleep better, governance runs itself, and teams spend less time wrestling with YAML and more time delivering value.
Speakers
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Jerrin Francis

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform, Guidewire Software, India
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Gowtham S

Senior Technical Product Manager - Cloud Platform, Guidewire Software, India
Driving Cloud-native platform engineering product strategy for KubeVela, OAM at Guidewire. Ex-AWS Containers Specialist, helped Enterprise customers to optimize Kubernetes workloads on EKS at scale. Passionate about AI/ML on Kubernetes and CNCF projects.
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Application Development

4:10pm IST

Longhorn: What's New & What's Next for Cloud Native Persistent Storage - Divya Mohan, SUSE
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Longhorn equips clusters with lightweight, cloud native capabilities, including incremental snapshots, disaster recovery, and RWX support—free from vendor dependencies. In this session, Divya Mohan explores this year's project updates and provides structured insights into the roadmap. The session also aims to outline actionable paths for new contributors by highlighting contribution opportunities within the project.
Speakers
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Divya Mohan

Principal Technology Advocate, SUSE
Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, where she contributes to its cloud native open source projects. Within the CNCF ecosystem, she is the maintainer for the Kubernetes & Longhorn projects. She has previously worked extensively in systems engineering during her tenure... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Longhorn

4:10pm IST

The Invisible Tax: How Data Format Conversions Drive up Telemetry Pipeline Costs - Cijo Thomas, Microsoft
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
Telemetry travels long pipelines before reaching observability backends. While enrichment, filtering, and sampling provide clear diagnostic value, much of the compute cost comes from repeatedly converting telemetry between different data formats.

Telemetry flows through SDK representations, wire protocols, collector-internal formats, and backend ingestion schemas. Each boundary introduces marshaling, unmarshaling, and copying. These transformations add no new information, yet consume CPU and memory and scale linearly with data volume—creating a hidden “transform tax” that compounds at scale.

This talk presents measurements from instrumented OpenTelemetry SDK and Collector pipelines, quantifying compute spent on pure format conversion versus value-generating processing. Attendees will learn where conversion costs arise and explore strategies to reduce waste, including fewer representation hops, zero-copy techniques, and emerging approaches such as Apache Arrow-based layouts.
Speakers
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Cijo Thomas

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Cijo is a Software Engineer at Microsoft specializing in Observability. He has been deeply involved with the OpenTelemetry project since its inception and is a core maintainer for the OpenTelemetry .NET and OpenTelemetry Rust implementations. His expertise extends beyond OpenTelemetry... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:10pm IST

Kubernetes Ate the Budget: How We Made Cost a Platform Responsibility - Bhavani Indukuri & Aman Chandna, DigitalOcean
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Kubernetes makes scaling workloads easy, but as clusters span regions and clouds, understanding and trusting costs becomes difficult. Limited cost transparency in platform challenges customer trust, making cost visibility a platform responsibility with accuracy, transparency, and trust as first-class requirements.

In this talk, we share how we centralised our platform’s k8s cost metrics using OpenCost, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana to deliver consistent, customer-facing visibility across multi-region, multi-cloud clusters.

We will walk through the architecture, show how raw metrics are converted into application-level cost data, and how sharing billing-level cost data improved transparency, trust, with 99.9% accuracy. The session also covers production lessons, trade-offs, and operational challenges while scaling centralised cost visibility and customer trust across the platform.
Speakers
avatar for Bhavani Indukuri

Bhavani Indukuri

Senior Platform Engineer II, DigitalOcean
Bhavani is a Senior Platform Engineer at DigitalOcean, CNCF Ambassador, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 Co-chair. She is also an organiser with Women in CNCF, advocating for diversity in the cloud-native community. A recognised speaker and thought leader, she shares practical... Read More →
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Aman Chandna

Senior Engineering Manager, DigitalOcean
Aman Chandna is Senior Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean, leading innovative, AI-ready Observability platforms. Previously at Microsoft, he delivered hyperscale Azure features like Cross Region Restore used by millions. With 8 years in distributed systems, Aman blends the architectural... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: 5 Tactics To Forging a Hardened Software Chain - Pronomita Dey, Intuit
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 4:55pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
In the fast-paced world of Cloud Native, the transition from "code commit" to "production pod" is often a fragmented journey. As platform engineering matures, the responsibility for security has shifted from being a final gatekeeper to a continuous thread woven into the software lifecycle. Gone is the era where a simple image scan was enough. Today’s threats require a multi-layered defence-in-depth strategy that treats security as an automated, immutable property of the platform. This talk provides a tactical blueprint for engineers looking to secure their platforms from the supply chain to runtime.
Speakers
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Pronomita Dey

Senior Software Engineer, Intuit
Pronomita is a Senior Software Engineer at Intuit with 7+ years of experience scaling cloud-native platforms. Specialising in Platform/SRE, she focuses on SecOps, FinOps, and developer productivity. An organiser at Women in Cloud Native and a diversity advocate, she is passionate... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 4:55pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

4:50pm IST

The 900-Second Ghost: Debugging Half-Open TCP - Dhruv Jain, Gojek (GoTo Group)
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
What happens when a production incident lasts 15 minutes, yet monitoring systems report everything as “green”? At hyperscale, supporting on-demand services in Southeast Asia’s most populous countries, a team encountered a silent and elusive failure mode: half-open TCP connections.

In this deep-dive session, the speaker conducts a packet-level autopsy of a real-world incident that impacted millions of messages. The talk examines the critical differences between FIN and RST packets, demonstrating how the absence of a single 40-byte segment resulted in 900 seconds of effective downtime. Attendees will learn why relying on default Linux kernel tcp_keepalive settings is unsafe for high-availability systems.

The session also explores the Zero Window phenomenon and how TCP backpressure can cause message timestamp drift. This is a story of persistence, spanning detailed packet captures and collaboration with a major cloud provider’s networking team to fix load balancer FIN-delivery behavior.
Speakers
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Dhruv Jain

Lead Software Engineer, Gojek (GoTo Group)
Dhruv Jain is a Lead Software Engineer at Gojek, where he focuses on building and scaling MQTT infrastructure that handles millions of concurrent connections across Southeast Asia. Beyond his work at Gojek, he is an active contributor to the open-source community and Google Summer... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Application Development

4:50pm IST

No More Secrets With Keycloak's Federated Client Authentication - Rishabh Singh, Red Hat
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Keycloak has from day one supported identity brokering, allowing users to authenticate via an external OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0 identity provider. With its latest version, you can use Kubernetes Service Account tokens and other federated client authentication to authenticate OpenID Connect clients.

Depending on the environment the clients is running in this can eliminate the need for managing secrets for clients altogether.

A number of cloud vendors for example support injecting tokens automatically for workloads, Kubernetes have support for service accounts, and last but not least there is SPIFFE that can be leveraged in most environments.

Join this talk to learn about the concepts, see a live demo, and hear what's next on our road map.
Speakers
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Rishabh Singh

Principal Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat
Currently Support Engineer at Red Hat, Solving issues around Keycloak, Jboss Enterprise Application Server, Elytron, Openshift, Openshift Pipelines(Tekton), Openshift Gitops(Argo CD).

Overall Experience of 9years in IT industry and have been working in Red Hat for last 5years.
... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Keycloak

4:50pm IST

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
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
In this panel, engineering leaders from Intuit and Atlassian discuss how they transitioned from fragmented monitoring to a unified, OTel-based observability strategy across 1000+ microservices, built on CNCF standards like OpenTelemetry and Argo.

Key discussion points include:
- Standardization at Scale: How to drive OpenTelemetry adoption across thousands of microservices without slowing down feature delivery.
- The Cost of Insight: How to move beyond the "collect everything" mentality. We’ll discuss the architectural shift from mindless ingestion to intelligent sampling
- AIOps & The Future: Moving beyond dashboards to predictive incident response and AI-augmented root cause analysis.
- 'Signal' vs. 'Noise':How are teams leveraging AI to separate true signals from the noise of thousands of clusters?

Join us for a candid conversation on the technical hurdles, cultural shifts, and architectural "oops" moments encountered while scaling observability for millions of customers.
Speakers
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Sivakumar Krishnamurthy

Head, SRE/DevOps & GCC Leader, Cloudera

Strategic Engineering Executive and Global Capability Center (GCC) Leader with 22+ years of expertise leading, scaling, and transforming global engineering organizations for high-growth IaaS/PaaS/SaaS enterprises. Proven ability to translate complex technology roadmaps into operational... Read More →
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Kokilavani Kathiresan

Engineering Manager, Intuit
Kokila is an Engineering Manager at Intuit, leading an exceptional team of Observability experts. Specializing in Tracing and Real User Monitoring, her team effortlessly handles millions of spans per second. A proud member of Tech Women at Intuit, sharing her expertise and providing... Read More →
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Suresh Kumar Khemka

Head of Engineering - Compute, Atlassian India LLP
Two decades of experience in Platform engineering, SRE. Devops, Performance engineering.
RG

RK Gupta

Global Head of Engineering, Observability, Intuit

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

From API Events To Production in Minutes: Backstage as the Front Door To Multi-Tenant Provisioning - Aditya Soni & Atul Bhardwaj, Sailpoint
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
A common challenge for SaaS platforms on K8s is handling the full tenant lifecycle, onboarding, upgrades, and teardown, without manual provisioning or tenant-per-cluster architectures. As tenant counts rise, manual workflows slow customer time-to-value and create operational toil.

This session shows how we built an event-driven tenant lifecycle engine using Backstage as the self-service entry point and Argo Workflows, argo-events, NATS, and GitOps as the automation backbone. It handles onboarding, provisioning, feature enablement, scaling, migrations, and teardown without human intervention. The platform reduced onboarding from hours to minutes and supported ~10,000 tenant-specific deployments across clusters while avoiding cluster-per-tenant explosion.

Attendees will learn how Backstage can drive self-service provisioning flows while Argo Workflows and GitOps execute lifecycle operations reliably, with patterns that reduce toil and improve reliability and SLO compliance.
Speakers
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Aditya Soni

CNCF Ambassador, Senior DevOps Engineer, SailPoint
Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Forrester Research, Searce, and is currently positioned at SailPoint as a Senior DevOps Engineer. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He... Read More →
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Atul Bhardwaj

Staff DevOps Engineer, Sailpoint Technologies
8+ years experienced & result-oriented DevOps Engineer possessing in-depth experience of effectively managing configuration & deployment of infrastructure & services in a cloud-based environment and also in client side servers and also on third party servers.Also have a experience... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:57pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Your Prompt Is a Cross-Border Data Transfer - Sudhanshu Prajapati, Improving
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:57pm - 5:02pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
Your release pipeline fails, and you ask an AI agent to debug it. You paste logs, grant doc access, and it fixes the bug. But where did that prompt actually go?

Every time you interact with AI, you create a complex data flow. A single request can pull from a vector db (RAG), trigger external tool calls via MCP, & leave sensitive trails in app logs. Now, the most sensitive data in any org is no longer in databases. It's in prompts, logs, & agentic calls.

In 2025, half of employees have leaked sensitive company data into public AI tools. When these prompts cross borders, sovereignty is lost.

In this talk, I'll demo how to generate an “AI Receipt”, a per-request trace using open source tools (OTel). Tracing the full data path - prompt ingestion, retrieval, & tool calls, see exactly where sovereignty breaks, turning sovereignty from a claim into verifiable proof of where data flows.

Join me to create your AI Receipt - so next time you prompt, you know exactly where it goes.
Speakers
avatar for Sudhanshu Prajapati

Sudhanshu Prajapati

Senior Developer Advocate | AI Leader | Open Source Contributor | CNCG Organizer, Improving
Sudhanshu Prajapati is a data and backend engineer turned developer advocate with over 5 years of experience, specializing in cloud-native technologies and distributed systems. He writes technical blogs, docs, and videos to help teams adopt/build tooling around cloud native and AI... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:57pm - 5:02pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:00pm IST

Women's Community Gathering
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm IST
206 (Level 2)
Women’s Gatherings are strategic community spaces designed to foster inspiration, empowerment, knowledge sharing, and leadership visibility. They create intentional opportunities to amplify the voices of individuals who identify as women and non-binary, celebrate achievements, and strengthen representation across the ecosystem.

The objective of this session is to establish a dedicated community gathering for Women in Cloud Native at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon enabling meaningful networking, peer mentorship, collaboration, and sustained engagement. We aim to drive inclusion, increase participation, and support the long-term growth of women leaders within the cloud native community.
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Experiences

5:04pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: One Header, Portable Proof: PEAC Receipts for K8s APIs - Jithin Raj, Originary
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:04pm - 5:09pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
What if every API response included a tiny signed receipt that anyone could verify offline? I'll show how one response header turns your gateway into an evidence-issuing proxy. No new infra, no vendor lock-in -- just portable proof of what happened.
Speakers
avatar for Jithin Raj

Jithin Raj

Lead Protocol Maintainer, Originary
Stewarding PEAC Protocol and Originary building Open infrastructure for provable agent interactions.

Agents are proliferating across the web, but there's no standard way to prove what they accessed, under what terms, or with whose consent.

PEAC Protocol fixes this: machine-readable interaction terms, cryptographic receipts, verifiable compliance. No central gatekeeper... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:04pm - 5:09pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

5:11pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Pruning the Kernel CVEs With Code Reachability Analysis - Ashish Bijlani, Ossillate Inc
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:11pm - 5:16pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
The Linux kernel is now a CVE Numbering Authority, a change that has driven an unprecedented increase in reported kernel vulnerabilities. In Kubernetes environments, this shift has amplified compliance requirements that mandate per-CVE tracking, remediation, or justification.

This talk presents a methodology for kernel CVE pruning via static code reachability analysis. We map CVEs to vulnerable kernel functions and evaluate whether those functions are reachable under a specific kernel configuration and execution environment. The analysis incorporates build-time configuration (Kconfig), loadable modules, and inter-procedural call graphs to approximate practical exploitability.

We present an open-source tool that automates this analysis and evaluate it with representative workloads. Our results show that many kernel CVEs are in unreachable code, yielding a high reduction in reported exposure. We also discuss limitations and implications for compliance-driven vulnerability management.
Speakers
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Ashish Bijlani

Entrepreneur/Researcher, Ossillate Inc
Ashish is the founder of Ossillate Inc, a cybersecurity startup. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has co-authored peer-reviewed papers in top-tier academic conferences, and has also presented his work at premier industry conferences, such... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:11pm - 5:16pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

5:18pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Secure GitOps for Regulated Workloads: Argo CD Meets Confidential Containers - Jitendra Singh, Microsoft
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:18pm - 5:23pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
GitOps has revolutionized the way we manage cloud-native infrastructure but what happens when your workloads need to be confidential, attested, and cryptographically verifiable?

This session explores a new frontier in GitOps: deploying and managing confidential container workloads with Argo CD, Sigstore, and Confidential Computing hardware (e.g., Intel TDX, AMD SEV, IBM Secure Execution). You’ll learn how to enforce cryptographic integrity, verify runtime isolation, and prevent unauthorized workloads using policy-driven rollouts and attestation checks.
We’ll showcase how to:
• Automate confidential workload verification in Argo CD pipelines
• Use Sigstore/Cosign for keyless signing and provenance attestation
• Gate deployments based on SLSA levels or TEE runtime evidence
• Visualize runtime trust using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus
Speakers
avatar for Jitendra Singh

Jitendra Singh

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Jitendra Singh is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft India with 10+ years of experience, following his tenure at IBM R&D India Software Labs. He specializes in developing cutting-edge solutions for hybrid, multicloud, storage, and edge deployments, including expertise in data... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:18pm - 5:23pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:25pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Stepping Aside To Step Up: Designing Maintainer Succession for India’s Cloud Native Future - Nikhita Raghunath, Broadcom
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:25pm - 5:30pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
As a Kubernetes maintainer and ex-CNCF TOC Vice Chair, I’ve been involved in leadership decisions at both ends: stepping into roles and intentionally stepping away from them.

In recent years, Indian contributors have stepped up into maintainer & governance roles. This is a huge win. But the next challenge is quieter and far more uncomfortable: how do today’s maintainers step aside to make room for the next generation of leaders?

Too often, maintainer succession happens only in crisis - after burnout or sudden departures. Projects stall, contributor momentum drops & leadership remains concentrated in too few hands.

In this lightning talk, I’ll break down what effective succession looks like in practice, drawing from real examples from K8s and CNCF projects. I’ll cover maintainer tenure and transition patterns, real succession stories, emeritus maintainer models, psychological challenge of letting go as well as succession templates, role definitions and knowledge transfer checklists.
Speakers
avatar for Nikhita Raghunath

Nikhita Raghunath

Engineering Manager, Broadcom
Nikhita is an engineering manager at Broadcom and a maintainer of the Kubernetes project. She was formerly the vice chair of the CNCF TOC & has won the CNCF Top Committer Award. Nikhita has also been a chair of 4 global KubeCons. Apart from this, she was a member of the Kubernetes... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:25pm - 5:30pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:30pm IST

Beyond Monolithic AI: Cloud Native Patterns for Dynamic Model Selection and Semantic Routing - Vincent Caldeira & Anindita Sinha Banerjee, Red Hat
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
The era of the "one-size-fits-all" LLM is ending. We are shifting toward Compound AI Systems—complex meshes where the goal isn't just to query a model, but to dynamically select the best model for the specific task at hand. This shift creates a massive opportunity for cloud-native architectures: how do you govern non-deterministic routing at scale?

This session breaks down the infrastructure required to move from monolithic agents to multi-model orchestration. We will demonstrate how to implement Semantic Routing within an AI Gateway to act as a traffic controller, instantly analyzing user intent to route queries to the most capable (or cost-effective) model. You will learn patterns for "supervisor" workflows, where lightweight models handle routing and heavyweight models handle self-correction. Join us to discover how to build controlled AI systems on Kubernetes, ensuring your agents are not just powerful, but precise, effectively governed, and fundamentally safer.
Speakers
avatar for Vincent Caldeira

Vincent Caldeira

CTO APAC, Red Hat
Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat APAC CTO and Industry Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, drives tech strategy and emerging engineering. A Top 10 APAC CTO (2023) with 20+ years in finance IT, he is an authority on open source, cloud-native technologies and AI. Vincent holds leadership... Read More →
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Anindita Sinha Banerjee

Data Scientist, Red Hat
With over a decade in Data and Decision Sciences, I design NLP and AI solutions that solve complex business challenges. Currently a Data Scientist at Red Hat and former researcher at Tata Research Development and Design Center, I have presented research at premier conferences and... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

5:30pm IST

Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Parth Arora, IBM; Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso; Madhu Rajanna, Rewant Soni & Malay Parida, Red Hat
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
The Rook project will be introduced to attendees of all levels and experience. Rook is an open source cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph to natively integrate with Kubernetes. The panel will discuss various scenarios to show how Rook configures Ceph to provide stable block, shared file system, and object storage for your production data. Rook was accepted as a graduated project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in October 2020.
Speakers
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Madhu Rajanna

Software Architect at IBM, IBM Germany Research & Development GmbH
Software Architect at IBM Storage on the OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) team. He is a maintainer of the Ceph-CSI and CSI-Addons and a reviewer of the Rook project.
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Rewant Soni

Software Engineer, IBM


avatar for Malay Kumar Parida

Malay Kumar Parida

Software Engineer, IBM
Engineer at IBM Storage with 4+ years of experience working with the Data Foundation Team. I specialize in working on operators orchestrating Rook, CSI & Noobaa CRs.
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parth arora

Software Engineer, IBM
I am Parth Arora, a software developer specializing in distributed storage systems.
As a Maintainer and developer, I have extensive experience working with Rook, a cloud-native storage orchestrator that enables storage systems like Ceph to be run as a service on Kubernetes. I have contributed to the development of Rook and have worked on projects involving Ceph... Read More →
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Deepika Upadhyay

Ceph Engineer, Clyso
I'm Deepika, a Ceph Engineer at Clyso I'm working on the Rook project. With over 5 COI Ro clusters for enterprises, particularly in

the years in the Ceph community, I specialize in deploying large-scale Rook Ceph in containerized environments. My career started with Ceph Storage Engineering, focusing on RADOS and RBD. I'm passionate about driving innovation in Mopen-source storage solutions and find working i... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Rook

5:30pm IST

Offline but Not Blind: Observability in Air-Gapped Kubernetes Environment - Manoj Sardana, HCL Software
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
In many regulated industries, especially across India, not every Kubernetes cluster runs in the cloud. Banks & government systems often operate air-gapped Kubernetes clusters with no internet access. In these environments, SaaS-based observability assumptions does not hold good &Observability becomes core Kubernetes infrastructure, not a service.

This session explains why air-gapped K8s environments matter and outlines the challenges they introduce, including constrained scaling, offline upgrades, local image management, and storage-bound observability pipelines.

We then walk through a real-world journey of building K8s observability in an air-gapped setup using OpenTelemetry and self-hosted LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir). The talk covers in-cluster telemetry design, cardinality control, offline upgrades, autoscaling without internet and operating observability components as first-class Kubernetes workloads, followed by practical limitations and operational best practices.
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Manoj Sardana

Director of Operations and devOps Tooling, HCL Software
With over 20 years of IT experience, I am Director of operations and information Systems at HCLSoftware, where I lead a team to manage the availability, reliability, and performance of SaaS-based solutions on AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud. I have extensive experience on cloud native tools... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability

5:30pm IST

Building a Self-Service Platform for Stateful AI Agents - Shruti Mantri, Google & Shuva Jyoti Kar, Cisco Systems
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
AI agents are moving from prototypes into production, and platform teams are increasingly asked to provide a “paved road” for deploying them safely. But agentic workloads don’t fit neatly into traditional stateless service templates: they pull in embeddings and retrieval context, call tools, stream responses, and require repeatable execution across environments—often leading to one-off deployments and operational inconsistency.

This talk presents a platform engineering "path” for agentic workloads using a pattern we call self-contained data agents: a standardized, containerized unit that packages the agent runtime, tool contracts, and data-adjacent execution model behind a clear service boundary. We’ll show how Knative enables a consistent developer experience—request-driven deployment, scale-to-zero, revision-based rollouts, and session management—while keeping the platform portable and Kubernetes-native.
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SHUVA JYOTI KAR

Senior Principal Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
Shuva is a Senior Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks architecting secure enterprise AI platforms. He is authoring two upcoming books: Engineering the Data Agent Control Plane (O'Reilly) and Agent Skills in Action (Manning). An open-source contributor and former OpenDaylight... Read More →
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Shruti Mantri

Staff Software Engineer, Google
Shruti is an accomplished engineer with over a decade of experience, specializing in innovative data solutions. Her passion for exploring new technologies keeps her at the forefront of advancements in the field. As an active contributor to open-source projects and a technical blog... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering

5:32pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Why Your Cluster-Wide Policies Are a Risk (And What To Do About It) - Dhruv Puri, Aspora
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:32pm - 5:37pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
As Kubernetes evolves, so must policy enforcement. ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and MutatingAdmissionPolicy set new standards using CEL for policy logic. Kyverno aligned with these patterns and introduced CEL-based policy types.

However, cluster-scoped resources created challenges: RBAC complexity, isolation concerns, and performance bottlenecks. Kyverno addressed this with namespace-scoped policy types - limiting blast radius, simplifying permissions, and improving admission latency.

Dhruv Puri (Kyverno LFX Mentee) explains why namespace-scoped policies matter, how they secure multi-tenant environments, and how Kyverno internals can help you optimize admission performance.
Attendees leave with actionable strategies for namespace-scoped policies and a deeper understanding of Kyverno's architecture.
Speakers
avatar for Dhruv Puri

Dhruv Puri

DevOps Engineer, Aspora
I’m an open-source contributor, with a strong interest in DevOps, cloud-native technologies, and large-scale infrastructure. I’ve worked with Kyverno wherein I implemented the namespace-scoped CEL policies and have previously contributed to Prometheus Operator as GSoC contributor... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:32pm - 5:37pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

6:00pm IST

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