KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

18-19 June
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8:00am IST

Registration + Badge Pick-Up Lotus Foyer (Level 3) Cloakroom Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:00am IST

Keynote: The Human Cost of Security in the AI Era - Sonali Srivastava, Senior Developer Advocate, Improving Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:12am IST

Keynote: Automating RBI Compliance With Unified Policy-as-Code - Jim Bugwadia, Founder and CEO, Nirmata & Ashwath Kumar, Head of Security, Razorpay Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:24am IST

Keynotes to be Announced Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:39am IST

Keynote: Building a Cloud-Native Bank Under RBI Constraints - Faeka Ansari, DevEx Platform Engineer, Slice Financial Bank Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:51am IST

Keynotes to be Announced Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:20am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:30am IST

Coffee Break ☕ Lotus Foyer (Level 3) Solutions Showcase Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

12:00pm IST

When LLMs Hit Production: Why You Need an AI Gateway - Gavrish Prabhu, Nutanix Lotus 1 (Level 3) A gRPC Transport for the Model Context Protocol - Pawan Bhardwaj, Google Lotus 2 (Level 3) Introducing OCI Webhook Support in Argo CD: From Polling To Real-Time - Nitish Kumar, Akuity 204 (Level 2) Inference in Progress… Please Monitor Responsibly - Gaurav Sharma, NVIDIA Lotus 3 (Level 3)

12:40pm IST

GPU Hunter: Architecting Global GPU Availability With MultiKueue - Kishore Jagannath & Ram J A, Google Jasmine 2 (Level 3) When Kubeflow Fights Cilium: Debugging 60% Idle GPUs in Kubernetes - Ramkumar Nagaraj & Bingi Narasimha Karthik, Adobe Lotus 1 (Level 3) Conversations With the Kernel: A Netlink Deep Dive - Yash Kumar Singh & Daman Arora, Broadcom Lotus 2 (Level 3) KServe in Production: Scaling Generative Inference the Cloud Native Way - Johnu George, Nutanix 204 (Level 2) Patients as Time-Series: High-Stakes Clinical Alerting With OpenSearch & K8s - Seema Saharan, Autodesk & Aakanksha Saharan, Independent Lotus 3 (Level 3) Zero Trust for Autonomous Agents: Isolating AI Workloads on Kubernetes - Kanagalingam Senthalan, WSO2 205 (Level 2)

1:10pm IST

Lunch 🍛 Lotus Foyer (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 Jasmine 2 (Level 3) Service Networking Within Air-Gapped Environments: Deployment Strategies and Operational Management - Anirban Nandi, Google Lotus 2 (Level 3) When the Edge Can’t Afford a Third Node: A Storage Solution for Two-Node Kubernetes Cluster - Parth Arora, IBM Lotus 3 (Level 3) Ready, Set, Go: WASM-Powered Containers Taking Your AI To New Heights - Anshika Tiwari, Amazon Web Services & Abhineet Saxena, Independent 205 (Level 2) Scaling the Developer Frontier: The TAG DevEx Roadmap for 2026 - Daniel Oh & Kevin Dubois, IBM 204 (Level 2) How We Stopped a Crypto-mining Attack in Kubernetes Caused by a Next.js RCE - Achanandhi M & Tamil Vanan Karuppannan Lotus 1 (Level 3)

3:10pm IST

From Flaky Builds to Self-Healing Deployments: An OTel-Driven CI/CD Tale - Chamod Perera, Circles & Shivay Lamba, CNCF Ambassador Jasmine 2 (Level 3) 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 Lotus 1 (Level 3) Why We Ditched Kube-proxy: Scaling 10M Daily Browser Sessions With Kubernetes EndpointSlices - Rajat Khanna, CommerceIQ Lotus 2 (Level 3) Feast as a Cloud Native Data System: Bridging Batch Processing and Online Serving on Kubernetes - Nikhil Kathole, Red Hat Lotus 3 (Level 3) When Kubernetes Becomes an Interface, Not a Cluster - Samarth Sharma, DataGenie & Goutam Verma, Expedia 205 (Level 2) Using Buildpacks To Reduce Container Bloat and Attack Surface - Sai Bharadwaj Avvari, Salesforce 204 (Level 2)

3:40pm IST

Coffee Break ☕ Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

4:10pm IST

So You Want To Run AI Agents on Kubernetes: A 101 Guide - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom Jasmine 2 (Level 3) Phippy’s First Steps Into Kubernetes - Hrittik Roy, vCluster & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify Lotus 1 (Level 3) Validating RK3588 for KubeEdge: Scalable ARM64 Edge Node Simulation Without Hardware - Sachin Jha, CNCF(KubeEdge) 205 (Level 2) Inside Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience (ContribEx) - Prajyot Parab, IBM; Avni Mahajan, Speedybyte; Swathi Rao, Independent ; Pritish Samal, Harness.io; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom 204 (Level 2) Kubernetes API Server Performance Clinic: Auditing, and Priority & Fairness in Production - Neel Shah, Middleware & Suman Chakraborty, Platform9 Systems Lotus 2 (Level 3) The Leapfrog Upgrade Playbook: Upgrading When You’re Years Behind - Yug Gupta, Walmart Global Tech Lotus 3 (Level 3)

4:50pm IST

LLMs Behind Bars: Sandboxes at Scale for AI on a Short Leash - Prashanth Pai, CodeRabbit 205 (Level 2) The Hidden Cost of ML Data Lifecycles in Kubernetes - Yashasvi Misra, Pure Storage Jasmine 2 (Level 3) The Death of the YAML-Engineer: Engineering "Invisible" Platforms With Crossplane and Score - Abhinav Sharma & Mumshad Mannambeth, KodeKloud Lotus 3 (Level 3) etcd in 2026: Enhancements, V3.7 Roadmap, and Community Growth - Lavish Pal, Independent; Arka Saha, Broadcom; Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Guna K Kambalimath, IBM 204 (Level 2) Kubernetes Workload Resiliency in Action: Beyond Basics - Nabarun Pal & Akhil Mohan, Broadcom Lotus 2 (Level 3) Zero Trust for Fintech: Building Secure Banking Infrastructure With Cilium - Prasta Maha & Herbert Sianturi, Krom Bank Indonesia Lotus 1 (Level 3)