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12:00pm • KubeEdge DeepDive: Extending Kubernetes To the Edge With Real-World Industry Use Case - Ronak Raj, Independent
12:40pm • In-toto Attestations for What Really Happens in Your Build Pipeline, With Witness - Vyom Yadav, Canonical & Rahul Vishwakarma, Highlevel
2:30pm • Introduction To Metal³ — Kubernetes-Native Bare Metal Provisioning - Sunnatillo Samadov, Ericsson
4:10pm • Longhorn: What's New & What's Next for Cloud Native Persistent Storage - Divya Mohan, SUSE
4:50pm • No More Secrets With Keycloak's Federated Client Authentication - Rishabh Singh, Red Hat
5:30pm • Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso; Madhu Rajanna, Rewant Soni, Malay Parida, IBM; Pratik Surve, Red Hat
12:00pm • Commit-Then-Disclose: Cryptographic SBOM Auditing Without IP Leakage - Sharvil Bhatt, Reliance Industries limited & Swastik Gour, Improving
12:40pm • Root Without Risk: A Decade-Long Quest for True Container Isolation - Sumir Broota, Broota Enterprise
2:30pm • Sponsored Demo: Scaling EdTech at Hyperspeed: How PhysicsWallah Reduced Kubernetes Costs Without Slowing Down - Avinash Gupta, Physicswallah & Gaurang Singh, Cast AI
3:00pm • Sponsored Demo: From Local App to Cluster in Minutes with Headlamp and OSS - Sanket Bakshi, Microsoft
3:30pm • Sponsored Demo: Cloud Native AI: Model Management with Harbor & Velero - Dhruv Tyagi, Broadcom
4:00pm • Sponsored Demo: The True Cost of Building at Machine Speed - Dan Lorenc, Chainguard
4:30pm • Sponsored Demo: Cut the Bill, Not the Brains. AI Coding Agents That Ship More and Cost Less - Matas Kaminskas, Cast AI
9:45am • Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure & Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure, Linux Foundation
10:22am • Keynote: Sovereign AI at Population Scale. How Sarvam Runs 100 Million+ Conversations Across India's Languages on a CNCF Stack - Avi Kothari, Senior Infrastructure Engineer & Vinayak Gavariya, Lead Developer Relations Engineer, Sarvam
10:29am • Keynote: From Afterthought to Practice: How Flipkart Built a Multi-tenant Chaos Platform on LitmusChaos - Aditya Sridasyam, Software Development Engineer, Flipkart & Uma Mukkara, Head of Resilience Testing, Harness
10:36am • Keynote: Plug in and Scale: Serving LLM Models on Kubernetes Made Simple - Shrinidhi Venkataraman, AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca & Nithin R, AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca
10:48am • Keynote: From Platforms to AI Factories. Has Kubernetes Solved It? - Saiyam Pathak, Principal Developer Advocate, vCluster
11:00am • Keynote: Engineering Population-Scale AI & AI Infrastructure with Cloud Native Technologies at NPCI - Tittu Varghese, In-charge, AI Infrastructure Engineering, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
11:05am • Keynote: Cloud Native at Bharat Scale, How Rapido Scaled to 7+ Million Rides - Srivatsa Katta, CTO & Adarsh K Kumar, Principal Product Engineer, Rapido
11:10am • Keynote: How JioHotstar Streams Cricket to 72 Million Fans in Real Time with Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry - Pradeep Bishnoi, Senior Director of Engineering, JioStar
11:15am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
12:40pm • Beyond VLLM: Distributed LLM Inferencing With Llm-d on Kubernetes - Ravindra Patil, Red Hat
2:30pm • Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural Sound Barrier - Vasu Chandrasekhara, NeoNephos & Stefan Schimanski, NVIDIA
3:10pm • Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Why Platforms & AI Need Each Other - Ram Iyengar, Cloud Foundry Foundation
4:50pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: 5 Tactics To Forging a Hardened Software Chain - Pronomita Dey, Intuit
4:57pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Your Prompt Is a Cross-Border Data Transfer - Sudhanshu Prajapati, Improving
5:04pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: One Header, Portable Proof: PEAC Receipts for K8s APIs - Jithin Raj, Originary
5:11pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Pruning the Kernel CVEs With Code Reachability Analysis - Ashish Bijlani, Ossillate Inc
5:18pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Secure GitOps for Regulated Workloads: Argo CD Meets Confidential Containers - Jitendra Singh, Microsoft
5:25pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Stepping Aside To Step Up: Designing Maintainer Succession for India’s Cloud Native Future - Nikhita Raghunath, Broadcom
5:32pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Why Your Cluster-Wide Policies Are a Risk (And What To Do About It) - Dhruv Puri, Aspora
12:00pm • Project Lightning Talk: Opening/Intro - Sagar Utekar, CNCF Ambassador
12:07pm • Project Lightning Talk: Harbor Project Update: Gitless GitOps, Satellite at the Edge - Prasanth Baskar, Community Lead
12:14pm • Project Lightning Talk: The Kyverno Five! Policy Types for the Full Resource Lifecycle - Neha Jaju, Maintainer
12:21pm • Project Lightning Talk: GitOps Without Boundaries: Deploy to Infrastructure and Workloads with PipeCD! - Eeshaan Shreyas Sawant, Maintainer
12:28pm • Project Lightning Talk: Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks - Vidhi Shah, Maintainer
12:35pm • Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss! - Nitish Kumar, Maintainer
12:42pm • Project Lightning Talk: Vitess in Production: Powering Applications at Massive Scale - Harshit Gangal, Maintainer
12:49pm • Project Lightning Talk: ModelPack: Bringing the OCI Standard to AI/ML - Andrew Block, Maintainer
12:56pm • Project Lightning Talk: Closing - Sagar Utekar, CNCF Ambassador
2:30pm • 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
3:10pm • Zero-GPU Autopilot: Orchestrating Kagent and Kgateway for Private, Self-Healing Clusters - Ashok M, DigitalOcean & Dillibabu Sampath, Wells Fargo
4:10pm • Kubernetes Ate the Budget: How We Made Cost a Platform Responsibility - Bhavani Indukuri & Aman Chandna, DigitalOcean
4:50pm • From API Events To Production in Minutes: Backstage as the Front Door To Multi-Tenant Provisioning - Aditya Soni & Atul Bhardwaj, Sailpoint
5:30pm • Building a Self-Service Platform for Stateful AI Agents - Shuva Jyoti Kar, Cisco Systems
12:00pm • What Did My Agent Do? Observability and Accountability for AI Agents - Ishan Jain, Grafana Labs
12:40pm • When Kafka Goes Cloud Native: Observability That Actually Works! - Roopadharsini K & Mary Vinothini, Fidelity Investments
2:30pm • Who Watches the Watchers? From Closed Observability To Open Control at Scale - Aditi Gupta, JioHotstar; Madhu Patel, Adobe; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen
3:10pm • The Lean Observability Stack: Quick and Native Telemetry for Service Mesh - Arpitha Srivathsa Malavalli, Google
4:10pm • The Invisible Tax: How Data Format Conversions Drive up Telemetry Pipeline Costs - Cijo Thomas, Microsoft
4:50pm • 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
5:30pm • Offline but Not Blind: Observability in Air-Gapped Kubernetes Environment - Manoj Sardana, HCL Software