Name: Keynote: Sovereign AI at Population Scale. How Sarvam Runs 100 Million+ Conversations Across India's Languages on a CNCF Stack - Avi Kothari, Senior Infrastructure Engineer & Vinayak Gavariya, Lead Developer Relations Engineer, Sarvam
Start: 2026-06-18T10:22:00+0530
End: 2026-06-18T10:27:00+0530

18-19 June
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Keynote: Sovereign AI at Population Scale. How Sarvam Runs 100 Million+ Conversations Across India's Languages on a CNCF Stack - Avi Kothari, Senior Infrastructure Engineer & Vinayak Gavariya, Lead Developer Relations Engineer, Sarvam

Thursday June 18, 2026 10:22am - 10:27am IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

India speaks in 22 languages. Sarvam ensures AI speaks back in every one of those languages, whether in Marathi to a farmer confirming her crops, in Tamil to a citizen accessing a government scheme, or in Hindi to a customer resolving a loan query. Delivering that across millions of API calls and voice conversations daily, at sub-second latency, and while remaining auditable, is as much an infrastructure challenge as an AI one.

In this keynote, we explore how Sarvam uses CNCF technologies to power its conversational AI agent platform and how that platform drove a national crop-verification program that reached 17 million farmers across 4 states in a single 24-day campaign, with a roadmap to 8 crore farmers for the next season. The stack includes Linkerd for a zero-trust service mesh, Strimzi-managed Kafka for event streaming, Argo CD and Helm for GitOps-based delivery across roughly 20 components, Prometheus and Thanos for unified multi-cluster observability, and CloudNativePG as the database of record.

Speakers

Avi Kothari

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Sarvam

Vinayak Gavariya

Lead Developer Relations Engineer, Sarvam

Vinayak Gavariya is an AI Engineer leading Developer Relations at Sarvam, where he works at the intersection of research, engineering, product, GTM and community. He focuses on helping developers build with AI through great products, integrations, documentation, education, and co... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 10:22am - 10:27am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

Content Experience Level Intermediate

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

Avi Kothari

Vinayak Gavariya

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