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Thursday, June 18
 

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

12:07pm 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
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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

12:42pm 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
avatar for Harshit Gangal

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)

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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

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 →
avatar for Geethika Chappidi

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 →
avatar for Manoj K R

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 →
avatar for Siddiq Tanveer M A

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

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
avatar for Ashok M

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.
avatar for Dillibabu Sampath

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

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 →
avatar for Aman Chandna

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

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
avatar for Aditya Soni

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 →
avatar for Atul Bhardwaj

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

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
avatar for SHUVA JYOTI KAR

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
 
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