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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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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.

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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.

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Jerrin Francis

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform, Guidewire Software, India

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:30pm IST

Building a Self-Service Platform for Stateful AI Agents - 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.

Speakers

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 →

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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