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12:00pm • Introducing OCI Webhook Support in Argo CD: From Polling To Real-Time - Nitish Kumar, Akuity
12:40pm • KServe in Production: Scaling Generative Inference the Cloud Native Way - Johnu George, Nutanix
2:30pm • Scaling the Developer Frontier: The TAG DevEx Roadmap for 2026 - Daniel Oh & Kevin Dubois, IBM
3:10pm • Using Buildpacks To Reduce Container Bloat and Attack Surface - Sai Bharadwaj Avvari, Salesforce
4:10pm • Inside Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience (ContribEx) - Prajyot Parab, IBM; Avni Mahajan, Speedybyte; Swathi Rao, Kubernetes 1.37 Comms Lead; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom
4:50pm • etcd in 2026: Enhancements, V3.7 Roadmap, and Community Growth - Lavish Pal, Independent; Arka Saha, Broadcom; Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Guna K Kambalimath, IBM
12:00pm • Inference in Progress… Please Monitor Responsibly - Gaurav Sharma, NVIDIA
12:40pm • Zero Trust for Autonomous Agents: Isolating AI Workloads on Kubernetes - Kanagalingam Senthalan, WSO2
2:30pm • Ready, Set, Go: WASM-Powered Containers Taking Your AI To New Heights - Anshika Tiwari, Amazon Web Services & Abhineet Saxena, NUTANIX
3:10pm • When Kubernetes Becomes an Interface, Not a Cluster - Samarth Sharma, DataGenie & Goutam Verma, Expedia
4:10pm • Validating RK3588 for KubeEdge: Scalable ARM64 Edge Node Simulation Without Hardware - Sachin Jha, CNCF(KubeEdge)
4:50pm • LLMs Behind Bars: Sandboxes at Scale for AI on a Short Leash - Prashanth Pai, CodeRabbit
9:45am • Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
10:07am • Keynote: From Kubernetes Learning to Community Leadership: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cloud Native Engineers - Lavanya Anbalagan, Platform Architect, MatrixKube Technologies
10:12am • Keynote: Running 911 & Mission-Critical Workloads on Shared Kubernetes Platforms - Manoj K R, Senior Software Engineer, Motorola Solutions
10:17am • Keynote: The Human Cost of Security in the AI Era - Sonali Srivastava, Senior Developer Advocate, Improving
10:29am • Keynote: Automating RBI Compliance With Unified Policy-as-Code - Jim Bugwadia, Founder and CEO, Nirmata & Ashwath Kumar, Head of Security, Razorpay
10:41am • Keynote: The Vertically Integrated Bank: Scaling from NBFC to Integrated on Kubernetes - Faeka Ansari, DevEx Platform Engineer, Slice Financial Bank
10:46am • Keynote: SBI Meghdoot - Modern Sovereign Cloud Serving Millions of Customers - Rajesh Singh, Cloud Lead, SBI
10:51am • Keynote: One Deploy Plane, Every Runtime: How Shopify Generalized Cloud Native Beyond Kubernetes - Aqeel Nazeer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify
10:56am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
12:40pm • GPU Hunter: Architecting Global GPU Availability With MultiKueue - Kishore Jagannath & Ram J A, Google
2:30pm • Run Your Own AI Cluster on a DGX Spark: Kubernetes, GPUs, and DRA - Janakiram MSV, Janakiram & Associates & Shreyas Mocherla, Nirmata
3:10pm • From Flaky Builds to Self-Healing Deployments: An OTel-Driven CI/CD Tale - Chamod Perera, Circles & Shivay Lamba, CNCF Ambassador
4:10pm • So You Want To Run AI Agents on Kubernetes: A 101 Guide - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom
4:50pm • The Hidden Cost of ML Data Lifecycles in Kubernetes - Yashasvi Misra, Pure Storage
12:00pm • 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
12:40pm • Patients as Time-Series: High-Stakes Clinical Alerting With OpenSearch & K8s - Seema Saharan, Autodesk & Aakanksha Saharan, Independent
2:30pm • When the Edge Can’t Afford a Third Node: A Storage Solution for Two-Node Kubernetes Cluster - Parth Arora, IBM
3:10pm • Feast as a Cloud Native Data System: Bridging Batch Processing and Online Serving on Kubernetes - Nikhil Kathole, Red Hat
4:10pm • The Leapfrog Upgrade Playbook - Yug Gupta, Walmart Global Tech
4:50pm • The Death of the YAML-Engineer: Engineering "Invisible" Platforms With Crossplane and Score - Abhinav Sharma & Mumshad Mannambeth, KodeKloud
