KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

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

Seema Saharan

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, 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 →

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

205 (Level 2)

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

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

2:30pm IST

Ready, Set, Go: WASM-Powered Containers Taking Your AI To New Heights - Anshika Tiwari, Amazon Web Services & Abhineet Saxena, Independent

Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST

205 (Level 2)

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. Live demos 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

Abhineet Saxena

Cloud Engineer, Atlassian India

Abhineet Saxena is a Cloud Engineer with expertise in AWS, Linux, and DevOps practices, as well as an AWS User Group Leader and CNCF Community Leader. He has actively contributed to the tech community by organizing and speaking at events like Kubernetes Birthday Bash, Grafana Jaipur... Read More →

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

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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

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

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. He is enthusiastic about Open Source Technologies and previously he contributed to the foreman and fedora communities.

Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Any

4:10pm IST

Phippy’s First Steps Into Kubernetes - Hrittik Roy, vCluster & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

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

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 →

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

4:50pm 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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

"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

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 →

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

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

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

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

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 →

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

12:40pm IST

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3:10pm IST

4:10pm IST

4:50pm IST

4:50pm IST

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