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Friday, June 19
 

7:30am IST

Cloakroom
Friday June 19, 2026 7:30am - 5:45pm IST

Friday June 19, 2026 7:30am - 5:45pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

8:00am IST

Registration + Badge Pick-Up
Friday June 19, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm IST

Friday June 19, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
Friday June 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:05am IST

Friday June 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:05am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:07am IST

Keynote: From Kubernetes Learning to Community Leadership: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cloud Native Engineers - Lavanya Anbalagan, Platform Architect, MatrixKube Technologies
Friday June 19, 2026 10:07am - 10:10am IST
The cloud-native ecosystem is creating new opportunities for engineers across the world. The Kubestronaut program, built around advanced Kubernetes certifications, showcases how structured learning and technical excellence can help engineers gain industry recognition, deepen their expertise, and accelerate career growth.

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 →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:07am - 10:10am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:12am IST

Keynote: Running 911 & Mission-Critical Workloads on Shared Kubernetes Platforms - Manoj K R, Senior Software Engineer, Motorola Solutions
Friday June 19, 2026 10:12am - 10:15am IST
Manoj K R, a Kubeastronaut and Senior Software Engineer at Motorola Solutions, CPS, shares how Kubernetes and CNCF technologies such as cert-manager, KEDA, HPA/VPA, Cilium, Kyverno, and multi-tenant platform automation are being used to support 911 and other mission-critical enterprise applications on shared Kubernetes platforms across cloud environments. This keynote preview will highlight how cloud-native platform engineering enables workload isolation, scalable traffic management, DNS automation, security governance, and reliable operations for critical workloads at scale.
Speakers
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 →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:12am - 10:15am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:17am IST

Keynote: The Human Cost of Security in the AI Era - Sonali Srivastava, Senior Developer Advocate, Improving
Friday June 19, 2026 10:17am - 10:27am IST
We have been coming to KubeCon for ten years and talking about supply chain security for at least five of those years. We know the attacks and the mitigations. We have the frameworks, the SBOM attestations and the CNCF projects.

So why are the houses still burning?

That is what this talk is about. Not the tools, you know the tools. The gap between knowing and doing. And what happens when AI arrives on both sides of that gap at the same time.

Every security vulnerability comes with a score. But no severity score captures what it costs to be the person who reads that advisory at two in the morning, maintaining a project in the hours between their actual job and life, for a community that depends on them.

GitHub RCE, Trivy supply chain attack, tj-actions compromise, the xz backdoor. CVSS rankings from High to Critical. And behind every one, a human.

Every technological wave has done this. Humans absorb the cost.

The CNCF TAG DevEx survey of nearly 100 projects confirms top concerns of maintainers include security vulnerabilities and the burden caused by a potential flood of low-effort PRs and issues.

This talk traces the human cost across real incidents, asks why the pattern keeps repeating, and explores what it would take to finally break it.

Key takeaways include empathy for the maintainers along with a demo of how the same AI could be used to help maintainers know whether a published CVE affects their project and to what extent.
Speakers
avatar for Sonali Srivastava

Sonali Srivastava

Senior Developer Advocate, Improving
Sonali Srivastava is a Senior Developer Advocate at Improving, Co-chair KubeCon India 2026, and Co-organizer CNCF Women in Cloud Native. With experience across system administration, open source contribution and developer advocacy, she focuses on bridging gap between developers and... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:17am - 10:27am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:29am IST

Keynote: Automating RBI Compliance With Unified Policy-as-Code - Jim Bugwadia, Founder and CEO, Nirmata & Ashwath Kumar, Head of Security, Razorpay
Friday June 19, 2026 10:29am - 10:39am IST
In highly regulated fintech environments like Razorpay, compliance with RBI and PCI DSS mandates is a license to operate. A single misconfiguration can trigger severe penalties or risk payment licenses. However, traditional manual "audit toil" and late-stage production fixes create massive engineering friction and business risk.

This session explores a multi-layered, automated framework to map complex mandates directly into "Policy-as-Code" (PaC) controls. The speakers demonstrate how to move from periodic audit woes to "steady-state ops hygiene" using PaC across three critical layers: Proactive Controls (Shift-Left) to catch issues in CI/CD, Preventive Controls to block non-compliant workloads, and Detective Controls for continuous, automated evidence gathering.

You will learn how to translate abstract compliance standards into enforceable policies and immutable audit trails, reducing technical debt and satisfying regulators without slowing down innovation.
Speakers
avatar for Jim Bugwadia

Jim Bugwadia

Co-founder and CEO, Nirmata
Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer... Read More →
avatar for Ashwath Kumar

Ashwath Kumar

Head of Security, Razorpay
Ashwath Kumar is the Head of Security at Razorpay. A seasoned Principal Engineer and Texas A&M alumnus, he specializes in cloud security, architecture reviews, and red teaming. Ashwath has a proven track record of leading large teams to solve complex security hurdles. He is a frequent... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:29am - 10:39am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions, Security

10:41am IST

Keynote: The Vertically Integrated Bank: Scaling from NBFC to Integrated on Kubernetes - Faeka Ansari, DevEx Platform Engineer, Slice Financial Bank
Friday June 19, 2026 10:41am - 10:44am IST
This talk shares slice's platform engineering journey from monolithic systems to 100s of cloud native microservices on K8s. It explores how ownership, GitOps, container security, observability, clone spaces, custom CI runners, and AI agent infrastructure helped build security, compliance, reliability, and speed into the platform.

A practical story of how owning the core, building strong platform capabilities, and making the Secure path the fast path can turn cloud native engineering into a competitive advantage.
Speakers
avatar for Faeka Ansari

Faeka Ansari

Senior Software Engineer | CNCF Ambassador, Slice Financial Bank
Faeka is Senior Software Engineer at fintech startup, an International technical speaker and helping maintain open-source K8s-native projects. She is a Kubernetes Release team member and was an Linux Fn. mentee under Istio. She leads several community initiatives across CNCF, Google... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:41am - 10:44am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:46am IST

Keynote: SBI Meghdoot - Modern Sovereign Cloud Serving Millions of Customers - Rajesh Singh, Cloud Lead, SBI
Friday June 19, 2026 10:46am - 10:49am IST
SBI is the largest public sector bank in India catering to more than 52 Crore customers ranging from rural to NRI Customers. Given such dynamic geography to address, the Bank needs a robust cloud platform to not only serve high-volume digital transactions for applications like UPI but also provide flexibility to host modern container & AI apps.
This session focuses on how SBI has built a robust Sovereign Cloud Platform Meghdoot to cater the varied application demands

Learn how this Sovereign Cloud stack supporting an enterprise Kubernetes platform provides strict compliance, zero-trust security, and the flexibility needed to support the daily digital transactions of millions of citizens. You can expect practical lessons on managing large enterprise workloads, connecting legacy infrastructure with cloud-native design, and setting a new global standard for sovereign digital banking.
Speakers
avatar for Rajesh Singh

Rajesh Singh

Cloud Lead at SBI, SBI
Handling largest cloud in BFSI Sector.
Friday June 19, 2026 10:46am - 10:49am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions, Security

10:51am IST

Keynote: One Deploy Plane, Every Runtime: How Shopify Generalized Cloud Native Beyond Kubernetes - Aqeel Nazeer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify
Friday June 19, 2026 10:51am - 10:54am IST
At Shopify, applications don't all live on Kubernetes. They live on Kubernetes, on VMs, and on serverless. Hundreds of services across multiple regions, reached through a single deploy plane. At peak last Black Friday, this fleet served 489 million requests per minute and ran across 3.18 million CPU cores.

None of this would exist without the CNCF ecosystem. A request to Shopify flows through a layered edge — CDN, regional load balancers, and tenant-routing proxies — before reaching a workload on Kubernetes, VMs, or serverless. In this keynote, we walk through how Kubernetes, Envoy with xDS, custom resources and controllers, and an observability stack built on Prometheus, Thanos, and OpenTelemetry compose into a single orchestrator that ships code safely across every runtime in our fleet — with phased traffic shifting, automated rollback against live error metrics, and an audit trail expressed in git.

Attendees will leave with a mental model for using cloud-native primitives to build a deploy control plane that scales beyond Kubernetes. This is the story of what cloud native makes possible when AI is writing the code faster than humans can review it — and the deploys still have to be safe.
Speakers
avatar for Aqeel Nazeer

Aqeel Nazeer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify
Aqeel Nazeer is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on Shopify's Continuous Deployment team, where he builds the systems that ship code safely across Shopify's global fleet. He focuses on deploy infrastructure that keeps pace with AI-accelerated engineering without sacrificing safety... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:51am - 10:54am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:56am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Friday June 19, 2026 10:56am - 11:15am IST

Friday June 19, 2026 10:56am - 11:15am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:15am IST

Coffee Break ☕
Friday June 19, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm IST
Sliced fresh Fruits (VE, GF)
Watermelon, grapes, kiwi, dragon fruit, papaya

Medu vada (VE, GF)
With coconut and tomato chutney
(Contains Mustard)

Mysore Bonda (VE, GF)

Sambhar
(Contains Mustard)

Coconut chutney
(Contains Mustard)

Vegetable upma (VE)
Savory semolina porridge with mixed vegetables
(Contains Wheat, Mustard, Milk)

Cheese Chutney Sandwich
(Contains Milk, Wheat, Mustard)

Almond Croissants
(Contains Milk, Wheat, Nut (Almond))
Friday June 19, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

11:15am IST

Solutions Showcase
Friday June 19, 2026 11:15am - 4:10pm IST
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.
Friday June 19, 2026 11:15am - 4:10pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

11:45am IST

Learning Lounge: One Small Step, One Giant Leap - Learning Paths in LF Education - Ram Iyengar, Cloud Foundry Foundation
Friday June 19, 2026 11:45am - 12:00pm IST
Tip Talk
Speakers
avatar for Ram Iyengar

Ram Iyengar

Chief Evangelist, CF
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 →
Friday June 19, 2026 11:45am - 12:00pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3) | Booth G3

11:45am IST

Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
Friday June 19, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm IST
Sponsor: Portworx by Everpure
Demo: CSI WON’T SAVE YOU: Why 'CSI Support' is not a storage strategy and you are being setup to fail
Booth Number: G9


In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or 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.
Friday June 19, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

12:00pm IST

When LLMs Hit Production: Why You Need an AI Gateway - Gavrish Prabhu, Nutanix
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
The surge of Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) is introducing new operational challenges for Kubernetes platforms. Unlike traditional APIs, GenAI traffic is highly variable, token-driven, and cost-sensitive, requiring new approaches to routing, security, and observability.

This session, presented by the project maintainers, examines Envoy AI Gateway, a CNCF-hosted open source project, and its role as a Kubernetes-native control plane for GenAI workloads.. We’ll break down an end-to-end architecture that uses Envoy AI Gateway to manage and govern traffic across multiple LLM backends both self-hosted and cloud-based while enforcing policies such as token-aware rate limiting, authentication, and dynamic model selection.

Attendees will leave with practical insights into designing resilient, scalable GenAI platforms on Kubernetes, and an understanding of how AI-aware gateways fit into modern cloud-native infrastructure.
Speakers
avatar for Gavrish Prabhu

Gavrish Prabhu

Technical Lead, Nutanix
Gavrish Prabhu is a Founding ML Engineer on the Nutanix Enterprise AI team with a background in distributed systems. He is active in open-source projects and is a maintainer of KServe and Envoy AI Gateway Projects. His key interests are systems involving the next generation of AI... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

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
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
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 →
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:00pm IST

A gRPC Transport for the Model Context Protocol - Pawan Bhardwaj, Google
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
We want to introduce gRPC as native transport for Model Context Protocol.

As we know gRPC is already well establish in microservices, these services are now evolving as tools for AI.

Using gRPC as native transport for MCP have following advantages
1. Authentication and Authorization features of gRPC channels can be used for transport.
2. As gRPC uses protobuf, hence we get the advantage of more throughput and less bandwidth usage.
3. gRPC already has streaming capabilities which can be used for MCP as required.
4. It would be less frictional for micro-services to have their services as MCP using gRPC transport as infra remains the same.
5. Protobuf specification creates strong API contracts between various language implementations.
6. As gRPC supports proxy-less service mesh, MCP servers having gRPC transport can take advantage of it for various features such as load balancing, MTLS etc.
Speakers
avatar for Pawan Bhardwaj

Pawan Bhardwaj

Senior Software Engineer, Google
As a senior software engineer specializing in gRPC within Google's open source team, my focus lies in enhancing the performance and usability of networking systems for applications. My previous experience includes working with Cumulus Linux and Cisco NxOS on network forwarding pl... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Connectivity

12:00pm IST

Introducing OCI Webhook Support in Argo CD: From Polling To Real-Time - Nitish Kumar, Akuity
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
As GitOps evolves, more teams are adopting OCI-based artifacts for Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests instead of traditional Git repositories. While Argo CD added support for OCI sources, one major gap remained: event-driven updates. Unlike Git repositories, OCI registries historically lacked first-class webhook integration, forcing teams to rely on polling or manual refreshes. For organizations using GHCR, DockerHub, this meant slower feedback loops and reduced automation in production environments.

Argo CD is adding webhook support for OCI-compliant registries. In this session, I’ll present the design and implementation of webhook support, including GHCR and upcoming Docker Hub integration. I’ll also demonstrate how to configure registry webhooks, connect them to Argo CD, and trigger real-time reconciliation securely.

By the end of this talk, you’ll understand not just how OCI webhooks work internally, but how to configure them correctly in production and what pitfalls to avoid.
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.
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
204 (Level 2)

12:00pm IST

Inference in Progress… Please Monitor Responsibly - Gaurav Sharma, NVIDIA
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Running GPU inference on Kubernetes is no longer exotic — it’s becoming the default for modern AI workloads. But while teams obsess over model latency and throughput, the real problems usually hide deeper: GPU under-utilization, memory fragmentation, node-level contention, noisy neighbour, and observability gaps that make debugging feel like guesswork.
In this talk, we’ll walk through a practical, field-tested monitoring approach for GPU inference workloads on Kubernetes. Attendees will learn how to instrument GPU nodes, collect and correlate GPU-specific metrics, build alerting around inference SLOs, and detect performance regressions before they disrupt production. We’ll also cover common anti-patterns and what “good” looks like for GPU observability in 2025.
If you're running (or planning to run) GPU inference at scale, this session will help you monitor responsibly — and keep your cluster healthy, efficient, and fast.
Speakers
avatar for Gaurav Sharma

Gaurav Sharma

Engineering Manager, Nvidia
Currently working as Engineering Manager for Reliability Engineering team for Nvidia AI. In the past I have been part of SRE teams for Nvidia cloud gaming, Microsoft Azure Reliability, Adobe Analytics & VMware Cloud Services.
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Observability

12:40pm IST

GPU Hunter: Architecting Global GPU Availability With MultiKueue - Kishore Jagannath & Ram J A, Google
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
This talk tackles the global GPU shortage and a critical cloud-native reality in batch workload scheduling: "Kueue Quota reserved" does not equal "Capacity available". For production inference, this distinction determines whether workloads succeed or remain stuck indefinitely.

The session explores transcending regional silos using MultiKueue to manage a global federation of worker clusters. Moving beyond basic setup, the speakers address the "Quota vs. Datacenter Capacity" dilemma. They reveal a critical gap discovered through experiments: workloads becoming stranded in regions with exhausted capacity despite available quotas.

The speakers share their collaboration with the community to resolve these scheduling gaps (Issue #8089). This talk demonstrates the configuration aspects of Admission Checks and provisioning classes in Multikueue to force the scheduler to "hunt" for actual capacity in worker clusters across regions rather than relying solely on user-provided quota.
Speakers
avatar for Kishore Jagannath

Kishore Jagannath

Cloud Engineer, Google
Kishore Jagannath serves as a Cloud Solutions Engineer at Google, where he focuses on cloud infrastructure, large-scale Kubernetes orchestration and AI Platform Infrastructure. Over the past year, he has been architecting global compute planes to address GPU scarcity for production-critical... Read More →
avatar for Ram J A

Ram J A

Solutions Architect, Google
Ram J A is an engineer who enjoys learning new things and using technology to solve problems. Their work primarily focuses on Cloud computing and Kubernetes, with a recent interest in AI Infrastructure and building LLM-based agents. Outside of work, Ram spends time catching up on... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

12:40pm IST

When Kubeflow Fights Cilium: Debugging 60% Idle GPUs in Kubernetes - Ramkumar Nagaraj & Bingi Narasimha Karthik, Adobe
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
We built a research testbed to validate ML workload scalability on Kubernetes with Kubeflow and Cilium. During 500-node stress tests, GPUs sat idle 60% of the time while pods waited for available resources.

Through controlled experiments, we isolated the cause: Kubeflow's pipeline scheduler and Cilium's network-aware pod placement make conflicting decisions. Kubeflow schedules pods without considering network topology. Cilium optimizes networking but can't move scheduled pods. Result? GPUs unused while the scheduler searches for placement that won't happen.

This talk shares our systematic investigation, diagnostic methodology, and scheduling constraints that resolved it. Lab tests show GPU utilization improved from 40% to 85%. You'll see the problem reproduced live, understand why it's hard to detect, and get tested Kubernetes configs. This matters for anyone planning distributed training with Kubeflow or similar orchestrators on network-optimized clusters.
Speakers
avatar for Bingi Narasimha Karthik

Bingi Narasimha Karthik

Senior Cloud Engineer, Adobe
Bingi, a Senior Cloud Engineer at Adobe, is certified in CKA, CKAD, KCNA, PCA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, CSPO, and Machine Learning. He excels in simplifying Kubernetes metrics, transforming data into actionable insights. His innovative namespace metric delivery... Read More →
avatar for Ramkumar Nagaraj

Ramkumar Nagaraj

Sr Computer Scientist, Adobe
Currently I am working in Adobe Systems Pvt Ltd as a Senior Computer Scientist. Claimed Golden Kubestronaut badge.
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

12:40pm IST

Conversations With the Kernel: A Netlink Deep Dive - Yash Kumar Singh & Daman Arora, Broadcom
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
The Linux Netlink API is the kernel’s structured communication channel for the user space, enabling interaction with subsystems such as routing, netfilter, and interface management. Introduced as a modern replacement for ioctl, Netlink provides a message-based architecture where the user space and the kernel exchange serialized binary messages through dedicated Netlink families. This session explores how Netlink’s extensible design and attribute-based encoding enable efficient communication between layers of the networking stack.

We’ll then demonstrate how these capabilities can be leveraged in cloud-native systems - showcasing how we are using netlink in kube-proxy to interact with the netfilter accounting (nfacct) subsystem for in-kernel packet counting, and how we recently shifted conntrack cleanup from a user-space binary-based approach to Netlink, significantly reducing connection cleanup time from minutes to seconds.
Speakers
avatar for Yash Singh

Yash Singh

Senior Software Engineer, Broadcom
Yash Singh is a Software Engineer at Broadcom. He works on Kubernetes core components releases, building and validating the Kubernetes FIPS for Tanzu. He plays an important role in the development of Tanzu Extend Support of Kubernetes and its components. Yash contributes to a host... Read More →
avatar for Daman Arora

Daman Arora

Software Engineer, Broadcom
Trying to maintain kube-proxy.
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Connectivity

12:40pm IST

KServe in Production: Scaling Generative Inference the Cloud Native Way - Johnu George, Nutanix
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
KServe has evolved into a powerful, production-ready model serving platform for a wide range of machine learning and generative AI use cases. This Maintainer Track session will provide a comprehensive overview of how KServe supports everything from deploying your first inference service to running advanced, large-scale generative inference workloads in production.

We will highlight the latest feature enhancements, including distributed inference support, KV cache optimized inference, token-based rate limiting, and integration with external model providers. The session will also cover architectural considerations, scaling strategies, and operational best practices for real-world deployments.

Finally, we will share the roadmap for generative inference in KServe and discuss how the community is shaping the future of scalable, efficient, and cloud-native AI serving.
Speakers
avatar for Johnu George

Johnu George

Technical Director, Nutanix
Johnu George is a Technical Director at Nutanix, where he leads the AI Systems team. He has driven several industry collaborations across projects such as Kubeflow, KServe, and Knative. His research interests include machine learning systems design, distributed learning infrastructure... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
204 (Level 2)

12:40pm IST

Patients as Time-Series: High-Stakes Clinical Alerting With OpenSearch & K8s - Seema Saharan, Autodesk & Aakanksha Saharan, Independent
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Patients aren’t static records; they are evolving systems. Neurology makes this clear, but the technical lesson applies to any domain where "normal" changes over time. This session treats longitudinal data as time-series to reshape search, relevance, and alerting in OpenSearch.

We move beyond "snapshot" queries to focus on evidence drift and trajectories via three pillars:

Longitudinal Indexing: Strategies for time-dependent data to support trend-based retrieval.

Detecting Trajectory Drift: Using OpenSearch Anomaly Detection to identify when patterns deviate from expected ranges.

Probabilistic Alerting: Moving from hard thresholds to uncertainty-aware alerts factoring in clinical noise and data gaps.

Attendees will learn to build systems that reason over time and trends rather than isolated documents—a blueprint for healthcare, AIOps, and beyond. This session bridges OpenSearch with the CNCF ecosystem (Kubernetes/OpenTelemetry) for mission-critical workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Seema Saharan

Seema Saharan

Senior SRE, CNCF Ambassador, Autodesk
Meet Seema, the tech whiz at Autodesk. She's not just about fixing things – she loves sharing what she knows! Whether speaking at cool events like GitLab Commit, and GitHub Universe or breaking down tech on her YouTube channel, Seema makes the complicated stuff easy and fun. Join... Read More →
avatar for Aakanksha Saharan

Aakanksha Saharan

Student, Independent
Aakanksha is a med student with a strong interest in the intersection of tech and medicine and its potential to drive innovation in healthcare. She is a co-founder of Curaximo, where she explores tech-driven approaches to medicine. She has volunteered with multiple medical organizations... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:40pm IST

Zero Trust for Autonomous Agents: Isolating AI Workloads on Kubernetes - Kanagalingam Senthalan, WSO2
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
AI Agents are moving from experimental scripts to autonomous "digital employees" creating a new security crisis. Because agents determine their own execution paths, standard security fails. Securing them requires strictly enforcing the 4 Pillars of Governance: Administration, Authentication, Authorization, and Audit at the infrastructure layer.

This talk presents a practical implementation of these pillars using Cell-Based Architecture on Kubernetes. We will demonstrate how to encapsulate agents into governed "Cells" to enforce Zero Trust controls at every critical traffic boundary:
1. User → Agent
2. Agent → Agent
3. Agent → Tool
4. Agent → LLM

We will translate these pillars into real Kubernetes primitives, giving attendees a blueprint to move from "unmanaged bots" to hardened, enterprise-ready workloads. All patterns demonstrated use CNCF-hosted projects and open-source identity primitives leveraging open standards like OIDC and OAuth 2.0.
Speakers
avatar for Kanagalingam Senthalan

Kanagalingam Senthalan

Technical Lead, WSO2
Kanagalingam Senthalan is a core contributor and technical lead for Project Thunder, an open-source identity service designed for cloud-native workloads including AI agents. Previously, he led the Application Identity team for WSO2 Internal Developer Platform, where he embedded security... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

1:10pm IST

Lunch 🍛
Friday June 19, 2026 1:10pm - 2:30pm IST
Salads
Greek style (GF)
Salad of sweet pepper, cucumber, Kalamata olives, feta crumble
(Contains Milk)

Salad of Granny Smith apple, fresh iceberg, fennel, parmesan grits, dehydrated cranberries (VE)
(Contains Mustard)

Krapow gai
Salad of minced chicken, chilli flakes, parched rice, and coriander saw tooth
(Contains Soy, Sesame, Wheat, Mustard)

Chatpate chole aur bhune aloo ki chaat
(Contains Milk, Wheat)

Main Course
Dum ka Murgh (GF)
Chicken cooked with dum in saffron-based aromatic gravy
(Contains Milk, Nut (Cashew))

Paneer Kundan qalian cottage cheese cooked in a flavorful, rich golden gravy scented with saffron and herbs (GF)
(Contains Milk, Nut (Cashew))

Lachha saag
Spinach tempered with cumin, garlic, and chilli
(Contains Milk, Mustard)

Subz handi (VE, GF)
Seasonal vegetable cooked with Indian spices

Dal fry (VE, GF)
Yellow lentil tempered with cumin, garlic, and red chili
(Contains Milk)

Steamed fragrant basmati rice (VE, GF)

Dum subz Biryani
(Contains Milk)

Provençale baked vegetable, aged cheddar, and Parmigiano Reggiano crust
(Contains Milk, Wheat)

Black bean fish with red onions and peppers, scallions 
(Contains Fish, Soy, Wheat, Celery, Egg)

Stir-fry of asparagus, waterchestnuts, babycorn, shiitake, and napa cabbage, chilli bean glaze (VE, GF)
(Contains Soy, Celery)

Effu noodles (VE)
(Contains Wheat, Soy)

Accompaniments
Assorted Indian bread
(Contains Milk, Wheat)

Cucumber and fresh mint raita (GF)
(Contains Milk)

Pickle, papad and chutney (GF)
(Contains Milk, Mustard)

Desserts
Kesari shrikhand, pistachio crumble
(Contains Milk, Nut (Pistachio, Almond))

Passion fruit chiboust, coconut crème
(Contains Sulphite, Soy, Nut (Pistachio))

Belgium Chocolate Pastry
(Contains Milk, Wheat, Soy)
Friday June 19, 2026 1:10pm - 2:30pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

2:30pm IST

Run Your Own AI Cluster on a DGX Spark: Kubernetes, GPUs, and DRA - Janakiram MSV, Janakiram & Associates & Shreyas Mocherla, Nirmata
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
AI engineers often choose between laptops that cannot keep up and expensive shared cloud clusters, which slows iteration. This session shows how to turn a single NVIDIA DGX Spark into a personal AI cluster using Kubernetes, GPU tooling, and Dynamic Resource Allocation.
Starting from a minimal single-node cluster, we add GPU enablement, an AI app stack, and DRA-based GPU sharing. You will learn how the NVIDIA GPU Operator and DRA drivers expose GPU capabilities, how ResourceClasses and ResourceClaims work, and how to enable multiple workloads to share a single device with predictable behavior. A live demo runs an interactive chat or multimodal app beside a background job on the same GPU, using different DRA policies and observing enforcement at runtime.
You leave with a clear mental model, reusable YAML, and patterns that remain portable from a desk-side Spark to multi-node cloud clusters, plus basics for utilization visibility, capacity planning, and multi-tenancy.
Speakers
avatar for Janakiram MSV

Janakiram MSV

Principal Analyst, Janakiram & Associates
https://janakiram.com/profile
avatar for Shreyas Mocherla

Shreyas Mocherla

Software Engineer, Nirmata
Shreyas Mocherla is a Software Engineer at Nirmata working on AI Platform Engineering. He built the Kyverno MCP Server, one of the early Model Context Protocol implementations for Kubernetes, and is a CNCF Kubestronaut, among the youngest globally to earn the distinction. Shrey specializes... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

2:30pm IST

Service Networking Within Air-Gapped Environments: Deployment Strategies and Operational Management - Anirban Nandi, Google
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
During the development of an air-gapped cloud infrastructure, Google engineering teams encountered a major challenge: the heavy operational burden on each service owner to manage common networking functions like load balancing, authorization, mTLS, rate limiting, etc. This was further complicated by the prevalent use of open-source software stacks with limited customisations for such use cases. Consequently, a collective decision was made to implement an Istio service mesh and in-cluster gateways to abstract these operations. However, operating a mesh in an air-gapped environment introduces unique technical and logistical difficulties.

This talks presents methodologies for reliably scaling meshes and gateways both zonally and globally across diverse bare-metal and KubeVirt clusters spanning multiple networks by integrating with established OSS technologies like MetalLB, Cilium ClusterMesh, etc. as well as OpenTelemetry, Fluentbit, Grafana, etc. for robust operational transparency.
Speakers
avatar for Anirban Nandi

Anirban Nandi

Software Engineer, Google
Anirban is working as a software Engineer at Google and has been involved in the Kubernetes ecosystem for the past 3 years while primarily working on Kubernetes networking technologies such as Istio, Envoy, xDS, Gateway API, etc.
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Connectivity

2:30pm IST

When the Edge Can’t Afford a Third Node: A Storage Solution for Two-Node Kubernetes Cluster - Parth Arora, IBM
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Edge Kubernetes clusters run under strict constraints—limited hardware, power, and space—where deploying three nodes for storage quorum is often unrealistic. Still, these environments must support stateful workloads and recover safely from failures.

This session focuses on Rook-Ceph as a storage solution for two-node Kubernetes clusters at the edge. It explains why Ceph traditionally expects three nodes, what breaks in minimal deployments, and how recent design patterns make two-node setups practical when combined with fencing.

Attendees will learn how Rook-Ceph behaves in two-node clusters, how floating Ceph MONs and DRBD-backed monitor state help preserve quorum, and why fencing is critical to avoid split-brain during node crashes, power loss, or network partitions.
Speakers
avatar for parth arora

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 →
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Data Processing + Storage

2:30pm IST

Ready, Set, Go: WASM-Powered Containers Taking Your AI To New Heights - Anshika Tiwari, Amazon Web Services & Abhineet Saxena, NUTANIX
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
With the rise of containerization and edge computing, the demand for portable, efficient, and low-latency solutions is growing. WebAssembly (WASM), known for its small size and fast loading, is expanding beyond the browser into containerized and edge environments. When combined with CNCF projects like Kraken, WasmEdge Runtime, and containerd, WASM can unlock hardware accelerators (GPU, TPU, FPGA) to revolutionize AI/ML workloads across both containerized and edge deployments.

In this talk, we’ll explore:

1. How Kraken and WasmEdge Runtime enable seamless integration of WASM into containerized environments for enhanced performance.
2. Showcasing WASM-powered containers running AI workloads across various hardware platforms.

By the end of this talk, you'll know how to take your containerized and edge AI/ML workloads to the next level with speed, portability, and hardware acceleration.
Speakers
avatar for Abhineet Saxena

Abhineet Saxena

Systems Reliability Engineering II, Nutanix
Abhineet Saxena is a Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS, Linux, and DevOps, and an AWS User Group and CNCF Community Leader. He has organized and spoken at events like Kubernetes Birthday Bash, Grafana Jaipur, and Navigating the Cloud. A speaker at KubeCon India 2026, he focuses on... Read More →
avatar for Anshika Tiwari

Anshika Tiwari

CSA - Cloud Engineer, Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Anshika is a passionate DevOps/SRE Engineer who is always eager to learn & implement cloud-native solutions, she has contributed to streamlining deployment processes and enhancing system reliability. She is eager to share her experiences and insights at conferences, contributing to... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Emerging + Advanced
  • Content Experience Level Any

2:30pm IST

Scaling the Developer Frontier: The TAG DevEx Roadmap for 2026 - Daniel Oh & Kevin Dubois, IBM
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
As the cloud native ecosystem matures, the focus has shifted from "making it run" to "making it easy." For the maintainers of TAG DevEx, this means moving beyond philosophy into concrete standards and AI-driven automation.

In this session, the TAG Developer Experience Co-Chairs will pull back the curtain on the scope defining the next era of developer productivity. We will dive deep into our key initiatives and subprojects, including the Cloud Native Adoption Framework, Application Integration Dependency Specification, a new standard for declaring how apps interact with cloud services, and our research into Agentic AI’s role in the inner loop. Attendees will gain a clear framework for adopting a "Developer-First" mindset within their own projects, backed by real-world data on secure coding adoption and contributor friction. Join us to see how we are building the blueprints for the next decade of cloud native development.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Dubois

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, AI, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Oh

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)

2:30pm IST

How We Stopped a Crypto-mining Attack in Kubernetes Caused by a Next.js RCE - Achanandhi M & Tamil Vanan Karuppannan
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Modern frameworks help teams move fast, but a single vulnerability can quickly escalate into a serious security incident.

In this talk, we simulate a real-world attack scenario where a publicly disclosed RCE vulnerability in Next.js is exploited to deploy crypto-mining workloads inside a Kubernetes cluster. We demonstrate how an application-level vulnerability can quickly escalate into a cluster-wide threat - and how to prevent it before it does.

We’ll break down how such an attack unfolds, the runtime indicators that can expose it, and why patching the application alone isn’t enough.

We’ll then demonstrate how to stop this class of attack using Falco for runtime threat detection and Kyverno for policy enforcement - detecting malicious activity, blocking misuse, and limiting blast radius.

Finally, we’ll share Kubernetes security best practices including resource limits, workload isolation, security policies, and improved runtime visibility to help teams better secure their clusters.
Speakers
avatar for Tamil Vanan Karuppannan

Tamil Vanan Karuppannan

Principal Engineer
Tamil vanan is a cloud native Tech lead. He is passionate about finding solutions to problems in the cloud native environment.

He works with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, multi-cloud and networking. He is a passionate supporter of open source and CNCF and actively participates in it... Read More →
avatar for Achanandhi M

Achanandhi M

Advanced Analyst, EY

Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

3:00pm IST

3:10pm IST

From Flaky Builds to Self-Healing Deployments: An OTel-Driven CI/CD Tale - Chamod Perera, Circles & Shivay Lamba, CNCF Ambassador
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
This session is based on real production experience building and operating an observability-driven CI/CD platform using CNCF projects. It shows how OpenTelemetry can extend beyond application monitoring to become a core primitive for modern CI/CD systems.

While running dozens of Kubernetes clusters and handling 60M+ requests per minute, costly east-west network load balancers and fragmented CI metrics created blind spots that hid deployment failures. Traditional dashboards showed healthy systems, while rollouts quietly broke.

We share how treating Jenkins pipelines as distributed systems enabled end-to-end tracing across builds, deployments, and runtime behavior. By correlating CI signals with OpenTelemetry traces, we detected cascading failures and closed the loop with automated GitOps rollbacks. The talk covers real challenges, trade-offs, and lessons learned to build reliable, self-healing delivery pipelines.
Speakers
avatar for Shivay Lamba

Shivay Lamba

Developer Relations Engineer, CNCF Ambassador
Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development.

He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also worked at organizations like Amazon, EY, Genpact. He is a Tensorflow.JS SIG member and community lead from In... Read More →
avatar for Chamod Perera

Chamod Perera

Software Engineer II | CNCF Ambassador, Circles
Chamod Shehanka is a software engineer II at Circles.Life , an open-source and cloud native enthusiast and interested in conducting tech talks in domains such as cloud native tools. He's leading the KCD Sri Lanka and GDG Sri Lanka. Other than that he's an ex GitHub Field Expert
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

3:10pm IST

From Textbooks To YAML: Mapping Your CS Degree To the Cloud Native World - Parvathy Nair, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology & Sudhish Nair, Red Hat
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Students graduate with strong OS and Networking knowledge but often feel lost facing the "Wall of YAML" in Cloud Native. They understand "Processes" and "TCP/IP" but struggle to connect them to "Pods" and "Service Meshes."

This session features a University Professor and a Industry Expert strictly mapping standard Computer Science curriculum to Kubernetes primitives. We will translate three core domains live on stage:

Compute: Moving from OS-level fork()/exec() to Containers, and mapping Process Groups to Pods.

Networking: Translating the OSI Model and physical switching to CNIs, Services, and Ingress.

Storage: Mapping Block Devices and File Systems to Persistent Volumes (PVs), Claims (PVCs), and CSI.

Attendees will leave with a mental bridge connecting their academic foundation to modern cloud architecture, realizing they already possess the core knowledge required—they just need to learn the new vocabulary.
Speakers
avatar for Parvathy Nair

Parvathy Nair

Assistant Professor, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology
Research Scholar and Assistant Professor with 8+ years of experience in Python, C/C++, and R. Specializes in Theory of Computation, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing and Deep Learning. Committed to leveraging academic trends to enhance education and mentor students toward higher-order... Read More →
avatar for Sudhish Nair

Sudhish Nair

Senior Software Maintenance Engineer, Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd.
Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat with 12+ years of experience in cloud-native development and support. Specializing in OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), GitOps (ArgoCD), REd Hat Developer Hub (Backstage), Serverless logic, Openshift, Kubernetes, Quarkus & Java. I'm also... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Cloud Native Novice

3:10pm IST

Why We Ditched Kube-proxy: Scaling 10M Daily Browser Sessions With Kubernetes EndpointSlices - Rajat Khanna, CommerceIQ
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
At CommerceIQ, we scrape 850+ retailers daily through Kubernetes-orchestrated headless browsers — 10M pages, thousands of ephemeral pods per hour.

This talk covers when our networking broke at scale and how we fixed it with native Kubernetes.

At 8K+ concurrent pods, kube-proxy's iptables rules and conntrack exhaustion caused latency spikes. We bypassed kube-proxy with direct pod-to-pod routing via the EndpointSlice API — achieving 40% latency improvement while handling stale endpoints and scale-up race conditions.

We also built custom HPA metrics tied to scrape queues, scaled from 4K to 16K concurrent scrapes with spot VMs, and used MinIO as in-cluster cache to cut egress by 60%.

No fancy tooling — just deep Kubernetes knowledge solving hard problems with what's already there.
Speakers
avatar for Rajat Khanna

Rajat Khanna

Senior Tech Lead, CommerceIQ
Senior Tech Lead at CommerceIQ, leading the BOT Evasion team — one of the largest browser automation fleets in e-commerce, orchestrating 10M+ daily scrapes across 850+ retailers on Kubernetes. Contributor to OpenTelemetry JS (Jaeger Remote Sampler). Active CNCF community member... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Connectivity

3:10pm IST

Feast as a Cloud Native Data System: Bridging Batch Processing and Online Serving on Kubernetes - Nikhil Kathole, Red Hat
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Modern AI and GenAI platforms running on Kubernetes depend on derived data that must be processed in batch and served with low latency. Teams often stitch together data processing engines, object stores, databases, and caching layers, creating operational complexity and inconsistent data access patterns.

This session presents Feast as a cloud native data system that bridges batch processing and online serving on Kubernetes. We explore how Feast integrates with Kubernetes-native data engines such as Spark and Ray, reuses existing data lakes and warehouses as offline stores, and materializes data into online stores optimized for real-time access.

Using Open Data Hub and the Feast Operator, the talk demonstrates a Kubernetes-native architecture for managing data pipelines. Attendees will learn practical design patterns and operational trade-offs for building scalable, cloud native data platforms that support ML and RAG workloads without introducing new data silos.
Speakers
avatar for Nikhil Kathole

Nikhil Kathole

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Nikhil is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI), focused on building Feature Store and contributing to Feast (https://feast.dev/) upstream project across Feature Server performance improvements, Registry REST API server, Kubernetes Scaling/HA... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Data Processing + Storage
  • Content Experience Level Any

3:10pm IST

When Kubernetes Becomes an Interface, Not a Cluster - Samarth Sharma, DataGenie & Goutam Verma, Expedia
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
We often treat Kubernetes as a system you must continuously run and operate. But in practice, many teams interact with Kubernetes primarily as an API contract rather than as an always on control plane.
In this talk we'll explore a different way to think about Kubernetes, what if the Kubernetes API mattered more than the cluster itself?

Instead of running a full control plane with etcd, schedulers, and nodes, workloads are executed locally using lightweight runtimes, while applications continue to interact through Kubernetes-style APIs.

We'll see:

=> Which Kubernetes components are actually required to run workloads
=> Running workloads without etcd, schedulers, or nodes
=> Local-first execution with Kubernetes-compatible APIs
=> Clear limitations and failure modes of this approach
=> What this model enables for edge, disaster recovery, and local development

The goal is not to replace Kubernetes, but to understand which parts of it are essential and which are incidental. with a demo
Speakers
avatar for Goutam Verma

Goutam Verma

SDE II, Expedia
Software Engineer at WSO2 | Google Summer of Code | ETH India | Summer of Bitcoin | MLH Fellowship | GeeksforGeeks | Speaker at KubeCon and OSS
avatar for Samarth Sharma

Samarth Sharma

Software Engineer, DataGenie
I am Samarth Sharma, a software engineer and an Opensource enthusiast. I have worked with various tech organizations as a Software Engineer Fellow, including Google Summer of Code' 22 and 23, Geeks for Geeks, MLH and Metafic.
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Emerging + Advanced

3:10pm IST

Using Buildpacks To Reduce Container Bloat and Attack Surface - Sai Bharadwaj Avvari, Salesforce
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Stop drowning in CVEs for unnecessary components. 87% of container vulnerabilities hide in packages never loaded at runtime, inflating security backlogs and enabling "Living off the Land" attacks.

Adopting minimal base images often triggers the "Middle-Tier Trap" at scale. If 100 microservices share a custom dependency, platform teams must either bloat the global corporate base image or force developers to maintain fragmented, unpatched Dockerfiles.

In this session, we will break the patching treadmill using Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB) to architect a federated "Patching Waterfall." Attendees will learn:
- Tiered Inheritance: Using CNB Custom Builders to compile and cache heavy, domain-specific dependencies exactly once.
- OS Rebasing: Leveraging CNB's superpower to instantly swap the underlying OS for hundreds of apps in milliseconds, flowing security patches without triggering application rebuilds.
- Day-2 Ops: Securely debugging "distroless" builds via Ephemeral Containers.
Speakers
avatar for Sai Bharadwaj Avvari

Sai Bharadwaj Avvari

SMTS, Salesforce Developer Productivity, Salesforce
Sai Bharadwaj Avvari is a Software Engineer at Salesforce.com, working as part of the Developer Productivity Cloud. A graduate of IIT Madras with a B.Tech in CSE, he has been working at Salesforce as part of the Software Supply Chain Security Team, responsible for leading the teams... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)

3:40pm IST

Coffee Break ☕
Friday June 19, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm IST
Coffee, Tea, Water

Cookies
(Contains Milk, Wheat, Soy, Sesame, Nuts (cashew, almond)
Friday June 19, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

4:10pm IST

So You Want To Run AI Agents on Kubernetes: A 101 Guide - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Your platform team is trying to integrate AI workloads, your developers want to deploy agents and your leadership expects 10x efficiency with AI but when you dig into the specifics, the terminology becomes a maze: AI Agents, MCP Servers, and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA). Where do you even start?

This session is centered around what problem each of these solve. In this hands-on 101 guide I will start by demystifying how AI agents operate on Kubernetes—how they interact with workloads, the role of MCP servers in enabling multi-agent coordination, and the fundamentals of DRA for intelligent resource management. Then, I will bring it all together with a live demo showing how AI agents can dynamically tune DRA drivers to optimize scheduling and resource usage in real time. Whether you’re an engineer, researcher, or just Kubernetes-curious, this session will equip you with the foundational knowledge and confidence to start experimenting with agentic and adaptive systems on Kubernetes.
Speakers
avatar for Rajas Kakodkar

Rajas Kakodkar

Software Engineer, Broadcom
Rajas is a staff software engineer at Broadcom, where he focuses on low level functions of Kubernetes nodes. He is a tech lead of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group, Workload Foundation and a Kubernetes contributor. He has been co-chairing Cloud Native AI Day, a co-located event at... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

4:10pm IST

Phippy’s First Steps Into Kubernetes - Hrittik Roy, vCluster & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
For many engineers entering the cloud native ecosystem, the journey with Kubernetes begins on their own laptop. They install a local cluster, follow a tutorial, and try to understand how things work. This first step is important, but it is also where confusion often starts.

Today, newcomers face many tools, such as Minikube, Kind, k3d, Vind, Docker Desktop, and Rancher Desktop. All of them promise Kubernetes on your machine, but each one is built for a different purpose. Without clear guidance, people often spend more time fixing setup problems than learning Kubernetes itself.

In this session, we will simplify local Kubernetes for beginners in the cloud native space, guided by Albert Einstein’s idea that “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Through simple demos and practical examples, we will cover how local Kubernetes clusters work behind the scenes, how to avoid common setup mistakes, and how local environments connect to real production systems.
Speakers
avatar for Hrittik Roy

Hrittik Roy

TPME, vCluster
Hrittik is a Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, with expertise in cloud native technologies and open source communities. He has contributed extensively to developer advocacy, technical writing, and community engagement. Hrittik has been a featured speaker at events... Read More →
avatar for Saloni Narang

Saloni Narang

Co Founder Kubesimplify, Kubesimplify
Saloni Narang is the Co-founder of Kubesimplify and has previously worked at SAP Labs. She has hands-on experience with multiple cloud platforms, including GCP, Oracle, and AWS. Passionate about the Cloud Native ecosystem, she loves exploring and writing about emerging open-source... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Cloud Native Novice
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:10pm IST

Validating RK3588 for KubeEdge: Scalable ARM64 Edge Node Simulation Without Hardware - Sachin Jha, CNCF(KubeEdge)
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
In this session, I’ll share how I validated support for the RK3588 ARM64 chip in KubeEdge—without using any physical hardware. Instead of relying on real devices, I built a simulation-based setup that mimics how an RK3588-powered edge node behaves inside KubeEdge.

I’ll walk through the practical steps: how the environment was emulated, how pods were tested, and how metrics, node status, and edge-core behavior were verified. Along the way, I’ll also highlight the challenges, what worked, what didn’t, and the key lessons that made the process smoother.

If you’re interested in edge computing, ARM devices, or contributing to KubeEdge without access to specialized hardware, this talk will give you a clear, realistic, and easy-to-follow blueprint.
Speakers
avatar for Sachin Jha

Sachin Jha

LFX Intern, CNCF(KubeEdge)
Sachin is a cloud-native enthusiast and an active contributor to CNCF projects, currently focusing on Kyverno. With a strong background in DevOps, Kubernetes, and containerization, Sachin has been actively involved in open-source communities, collaborating on policy-driven security... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Emerging + Advanced

4:10pm IST

Inside Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience (ContribEx) - Prajyot Parab, IBM; Avni Mahajan, Speedybyte; Swathi Rao, Kubernetes 1.37 Comms Lead; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
When a large open source community feels approachable before you understand how it works, that sense of welcome is shaped by small choices that rarely get the spotlight yet influence how people participate. Within Kubernetes, much of this work lives in SIG Contributor Experience.

This talk brings together contributors from New Contributor Orientation (NCO), community moderation, contributor-site, and contributor-comms. Each area reflects a careful balance: guiding newcomers, caring for shared spaces, and communicating updates in ways people can follow and use.

We center the human moments behind this work.

The first NCO session where someone found the confidence to speak. The responsibility of moderating large public community platforms, and the steady effort behind content and communications that help contributors understand what is changing, why it matters, and where they can step in.

These everyday decisions shape whether people feel supported enough to stay and contribute.
Speakers
avatar for Nabarun Pal

Nabarun Pal

Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom, Kubernetes Maintainer, Broadcom
Nabarun is a Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee member and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. He is a Release Manager for Kubernetes and has been the Kubernetes 1.21... Read More →
avatar for Avni Mahajan

Avni Mahajan

Software developer, Speedybyte
Avni is a Kubernetes Org Member in SIG ContribEx Comms, where she contributes to LWKD, supports the New Contributor Orientation (NCO), and helps out in other community and communication related areas. She has also contributed to Meshery and enjoys being part of open source communities... Read More →
avatar for Prajyot Parab

Prajyot Parab

Senior Cloud Engineer, IBM
Prajyot is a Cloud Engineer with experience in cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes. He contributes to various projects within the Kubernetes and Kubernetes-SIGs organizations, collaborating with the community to enhance the cloud-native ecosystem. His interests include Kubernetes... Read More →
avatar for Swathi Rao

Swathi Rao

Kubernetes v1.35 and v1.36 Comms Shadow | LFX Mentee '24, Kubernetes 1.37 Comms Lead

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)

4:10pm IST

Kubernetes API Server Performance Clinic: Auditing, and Priority & Fairness in Production - Neel Shah, Middleware & Suman Chakraborty, Platform9 Systems
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
The Kubernetes API Server is the heart of your cluster, but at scale, it often becomes a hidden bottleneck, throttling critical controllers, freezing deployments, or crashing under "thundering herd" list-watch storms. This talk is a deep-dive operational clinic for SREs running high-throughput clusters (10k+ pods) who need to move beyond default configurations.

Attendees will learn how to dissect API latency using Audit Logs and Prometheus metrics (apiserver_request_duration_seconds) to identify "noisy neighbor" controllers that starve critical system components. We will dissect the Priority and Fairness (APF) flow control system, replacing legacy-- max-requests-inflight to guarantee that critical system calls (like node heartbeats) never get dropped, even during massive scale-up events. The session includes a live "autopsy" of a real-world API outage caused by unoptimized LIST calls and demonstrates how to fix it using API Streaming (WatchList), proper client-side caching, and more.
Speakers
avatar for Suman Chakraborty

Suman Chakraborty

Solutions Architect, Platform9 Systems
Suman is a Solutions Architect at Platform9 systems. He is a consultant and advisor for Kubernetes & Cloud Native Solutions, helping Customers and End users in their application modernisation journey and adoption with DevOps best practices. Suman has been a distinguished speaker and... Read More →
avatar for Neel Shah

Neel Shah

Developer Advocate, StackGen
A DevOps engineer with a great passion for building communities around DevOps. Organiser of Google Cloud Gandhinagar, CNCF Gandhinagar, Hashicorp User Group Gandhinagar and Open Source Weekend. Have mentored 15+ hackathons and open source programs. I have given more than 15 talks... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Operations + Performance

4:10pm IST

The Leapfrog Upgrade Playbook - Yug Gupta, Walmart Global Tech
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
This is a story of how Walmart Leapfrogged 11 Kubernetes Releases Without Customer Downtime.

If that sounds impossible, wait untill you see the constraints: Millions of k8s resources, an etcd database nearing ~7GB, and a version gap so wide that “just upgrade” wasn’t a plan. We needed a method that was safe across API removals, predictable under extreme object counts, and repeatable enough to become a standard operating procedure.

Attendees will learn: (1) how to preflight deprecated APIs and CRDs using upstream guidance (2) how to design restore ordering and “selective restore” boundaries to avoid bringing back broken objects, (3) how to tune API server concurrency so backup/restore doesn’t become a self-inflicted outage, and (4) how to validate correctness and plan rollbacks.

This is a field guide for anyone who’s fallen far behind and needs a safe way forward without betting production on a one-shot upgrade.

No secret sauce, just the hard-earned physics of Kubernetes at scale.
Speakers
avatar for Yug Gupta

Yug Gupta

Staff Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech
Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech IndiaAn open source enthusiast, contributing to the kubernetes ecosystem.
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Operations + Performance

4:50pm IST

LLMs Behind Bars: Sandboxes at Scale for AI on a Short Leash - Prashanth Pai, CodeRabbit
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
LLMs can write code - and sometimes running that code is the most direct way to deliver product value. The moment you do, you’ve effectively introduced a remote-code-execution surface: the code is untrusted by default, but the system still has to execute it to stay useful.

In this talk, we’ll share what it took to build and operate production sandboxes for LLM-generated code at scale. We’ll cover the isolation model (containers, least-privilege defaults, syscall/filesystem restrictions), the operational reality (startup latency, resource limits, cold starts, observability), and the guardrails that matters when code or users try to misbehave. We’ll also dig into data protection: locking down egress, blocking exfiltration paths, and keeping secrets out of reach.

We’ll cover what worked, what failed, and what we’d do differently - ending with a practical, vendor-agnostic mental model and checklist you can apply.
Speakers
avatar for Prashanth Pai

Prashanth Pai

Principal Engineer, CodeRabbit
Prashanth Pai is a Principal Engineer at CodeRabbit, where he builds the infrastructure that powers safe, reliable execution for AI products in production.

He started his career at Red Hat and has been passionate about open source ever since.
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  AI + ML

4:50pm IST

The Hidden Cost of ML Data Lifecycles in Kubernetes - Yashasvi Misra, Pure Storage
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
As ML workloads move onto Kubernetes, many teams unintentionally turn their clusters into data platforms storing training data, features, and intermediate artifacts alongside compute. While convenient at first, this approach introduces hidden costs that surface over time.

This talk shares real-world lessons from operating ML pipelines on Kubernetes where data management, not models, became the primary source of failures. We’ll explore common anti-patterns involving PVCs, object storage mounts, and ephemeral volumes, and how they led to rising costs, broken reproducibility, and pipelines training on stale or incorrect data. Finally, we’ll discuss practical cloud-native patterns for managing ML data that respect data lifecycles, improve lineage, and keep Kubernetes focused on what it does best.
Speakers
avatar for Yashasvi Misra

Yashasvi Misra

Software Engineer, Everpure
Yashasvi Misra is a Software Engineer at Pure Storage and Chair of the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct Working Group. She has contributed to foundational projects like NumPy & Kubernetes and has been an active part of the Python community since her college days. Yashasvi is also a passionate... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

4:50pm IST

The Death of the YAML-Engineer: Engineering "Invisible" Platforms With Crossplane and Score - Abhinav Sharma & Mumshad Mannambeth, KodeKloud
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
"I just want to ship my code". Every developer says it, but few organizations achieve it. Instead, developers spend 30% of their time wrestling with 1,000-line Helm charts and complex Terraform modules. This is the "YAML Tax", and it's killing engineering velocity.

This session shares how we abolished the YAML Tax at scale. We’ll demonstrate how to build an "Invisible Platform" where developers use Score - a workload-centric specification - to describe what their app needs, while Crossplane dynamically provisions the how across multi-cloud environments.

Attendees will learn the blueprint for:
1. Contract-Driven Development: Using Score to decouple the application's requirements from the environment’s implementation.
2. The Control Plane Shift: Replacing brittle CI/CD pipelines with Crossplane's continuous reconciliation loop for cloud resources.
3. Developer Joy at Scale: How we reduced onboarding time from weeks to minutes by hiding Kubernetes complexity behind a single score.yaml.
Speakers
avatar for Abhinav Sharma

Abhinav Sharma

Site Reliability Engineer, KodeKloud
I am a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at KodeKloud . I am an Open source contributor, evaluating and contributed in various open source tools and projects, such as, Microsoft's Open source libraries, OpenCV, SUSE, etc. I was also a Google Summer of Code contributor 2022 and a GitHub... Read More →
avatar for Mumshad Mannambeth

Mumshad Mannambeth

Trainer, KodeKloud

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Application Development
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

etcd in 2026: Enhancements, V3.7 Roadmap, and Community Growth - Lavish Pal, Independent; Arka Saha, Broadcom; Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Guna K Kambalimath, IBM
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Whether you know it or not, as a Kubernetes user, you are also an etcd user. Join us to learn a little about the SIG and database, followed by recent changes and etcd’s future roadmap.

First, we’ll fill the audience in about etcd and its place in the Cloud Native universe. Then, we'll go over changes to etcd in the last year, including 3.4 downgrade support, the v3store migration (and problems), performance enhancements, livez/readyz, and more. We'll even have a few demos. Next, we'll talk about the v3.7 roadmap, including image registry update, range stream, RAFT async writes, and diagnostic tooling. We'll also provide an update on the robustness tests and Go workspace support. We’ll also share our progress on building the official etcd operator.

Attendees will not only learn about the state of etcd, but also how to contribute.
Speakers
avatar for Josh Berkus

Josh Berkus

Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat
Josh Berkus is the Kubernetes Community Manager, working in Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. He's currently involved with Kubernetes, Etcd, Elekto, Podman, and uBlue, but has spent more than 20 years contributing to many projects, including Linux, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL, and... Read More →
avatar for Guna K Kambalimath

Guna K Kambalimath

Software Engineer, IBM ISDL
Software engineer at IBM ISDL with a work experience of 6 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 community and etcd operator working group... Read More →
avatar for Arka Saha

Arka Saha

Software Engineer, Broadcom
Arka Saha, a Broadcom Software Engineer, leads Kubernetes releases & maintenance for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). He manages Broadcom's Prow infrastructure, ensuring long-term support for k8s, etcd, containers, Golang & related components. Previously he managed Red Hat OpenShift... Read More →
avatar for Lavish Pal

Lavish Pal

LFX Mentee @Kubernetes, Independent
Lavish, a computer engineering student from India, is an LFX Mentee who has significantly contributed to Kubernetes An active contributor to etcd, Kubernetes and part of the Kubernetes release team v1.32. He loves deep diving into distributed systems and creating articles on them... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
204 (Level 2)

4:50pm IST

Kubernetes Workload Resiliency in Action: Beyond Basics - Nabarun Pal & Akhil Mohan, Broadcom
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Kubernetes provides powerful mechanisms to protect and isolate workloads, but many teams deploy applications without leveraging these capabilities. In the context of AI workloads, which are often resource-intensive and long-running, maintaining resilience is more critical than ever.

This talk explores Kubernetes workload protection mechanisms and demonstrates how to combine them strategically for maximum resilience.

We'll examine resource requests/limits, priority classes, resource quotas, runtime classes, and strategies like pod disruption budgets and affinity rules. Through practical examples and real-world scenarios, you'll learn how to configure each mechanism, understand their interactions, and avoid common pitfalls that lead to pod evictions, performance degradation, and cascading failures.

Whether you're running mission-critical services or shared multi-tenant clusters, this session will equip you with a resilience framework that protects your workloads under pressure.
Speakers
avatar for Akhil Mohan

Akhil Mohan

Software Engineer, Broadcom
Akhil works as a Software Engineer at Broadcom. An active contributor to projects in cloud native and container ecosystem. Akhil is a reviewer for containerd and a maintainer of kubernetes publishing-bot. He works mostly on container runtimes and kubernetes sig-node aspects.
avatar for Nabarun Pal

Nabarun Pal

Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom, Kubernetes Maintainer, Broadcom
Nabarun is a Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee member and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. He is a Release Manager for Kubernetes and has been the Kubernetes 1.21... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Operations + Performance

4:50pm IST

Zero Trust for Fintech: Building Secure Banking Infrastructure With Cilium - Prasta Maha & Herbert Sianturi, Krom Bank Indonesia
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
In the highly regulated world of banking, "security by default" isn't just a buzzword, but it is a compliance requirement. As financial institutions migrate to Kubernetes, they face a critical challenge: How do you enforce strict network segregation, achieve Zero Trust, and maintain deep observability.

This session explores how to leverage Cilium and eBPF to build a battle-hardened banking infrastructure. We will move beyond standard Kubernetes Network Policies, demonstrating how to implement Layer 7 filtering, transparent encryption, and deep observability in service communications.

Attendees will receive a practical roadmap for:
- Enforcing Zero Trust: Using Cilium Network Policies to restrict traffic based on identity and fqdn, not just IP addresses.
- Achieving Compliance: implementing Transparent Encryption (WireGuard/IPsec) to meet data-in-transit requirements.
- Auditing: Utilizing Hubble for deep visibility into dropped packets and flow logs to satisfy security audits.
Speakers
avatar for Herbert Sianturi

Herbert Sianturi

Senior DevOps Engineer, Krom Bank Indonesia
Herbert Sianturi serves as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Krom Bank Indonesia, where he roles spearheads efforts in enhancing the quality of end-to-end application lifecycle and applying open source platform as a base. With years of expertise in container orchestration and cloud computing... Read More →
avatar for Prasta Maha

Prasta Maha

Senior Devops Engineer, Krom Bank Indonesia
Prasta is passionate about tech, especially Linux, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Data Engineering, Security, and Programming. He also shares his tech experiences and insights on https://medium.com/prastamaha

website: https://prastamaha.dev
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

6:00pm IST

[SOLD OUT] OpenStack & StarlingX Meetup hosted by OpenInfra Foundation | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Friday June 19, 2026 6:00pm - 10:00pm IST
Join the OpenInfra community in India for an evening discussing the technologies powering modern infrastructure: OpenStack and StarlingX. Connect with fellow operators, developers, architects, and open source enthusiasts for an informal gathering featuring networking, great food, and conversations about the future of cloud, edge computing, AI infrastructure, and open source innovation. Whether you're a longtime contributor or just getting started with OpenInfra technologies, this is a great opportunity to meet peers, exchange ideas, and celebrate the vibrant community building the next generation of infrastructure together. RSVP required. 
Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.
For questions regarding this event, please contact: [email protected] 
RSVPs have closed for this event.
Friday June 19, 2026 6:00pm - 10:00pm IST
Pondichéry Café at the Sofitel Mumbai C 57, G Block BKC, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400051, India
 
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