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Wednesday, June 17
 

9:30am IST

Distributed SQL Summit hosted by YugabyteDB | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Wednesday June 17, 2026 9:30am - 7:00pm IST
Trident Hotel BKC, Golconda Ballroom
Experience Distributed SQL Summit Mumbai. Bringing top industry voices, real-world insights, live demos, exclusive swag, great food, raffles, and high-impact exclusive networking, all in one flagship India event.Please note that this is an off-site Sponsor-hosted Co-located event.For more information on the event and to...
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Wednesday June 17, 2026 9:30am - 7:00pm IST
Trident Hotel BKC, Golconda Ballroom C 56, G Block BKC, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400098, India
  Sponsor-hosted Co-located Event
 
Thursday, June 18
 

8:00am IST

Registration + Badge Pick-Up
Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 6:30pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 6:30pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Registration

8:00am IST

Cloakroom
Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 8:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 8:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Registration

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, Linux Foundation & Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure, Linux Foundation
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:15am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Speakers
avatar for Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO, CNCF
Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More →
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Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation
Jonathan Bryce is the Executive Director of Cloud & Infrastructure at the Linux Foundation, where he leads both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the OpenInfra Foundation—two of the largest and most influential open source communities in the world. With over... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:15am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:17am IST

Keynote: From Kubernetes Learning to Community Leadership: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cloud Native Engineers - Lavanya Anbalagan, Platform Architect, MatrixKube Technologies
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:17am - 10:20am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
The cloud-native ecosystem is creating new opportunities for engineers across the world — not just to learn modern technologies, but to build confidence, grow their careers, and become active contributors to the community.This keynote explores how continuous learning, Kubernetes certifications, open-source participation, and hands-on platform engineering can help engineers build strong technical...
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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 →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:17am - 10:20am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:22am IST

Keynote: From Afterthought to Practice: How Flipkart Built a Multi-tenant Chaos Platform on LitmusChaos - Uma Mukkara, Head of Resilience Testing, Harness
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:22am - 10:27am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce platform, runs hundreds of tightly coupled microservices that must withstand the massive traffic surges of Big Billion Days and festive sales. To stop treating outages as an afterthought, Flipkart's Central Reliability Engineering team built a centralized chaos engineering platform on top of Litmus Chaos. To make it work at their scale, they customized Litmus...
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Speakers
avatar for Uma Mukkara

Uma Mukkara

Head of Resilience Testing, Harness
Uma Mukkara is the head of Resilience Testing at Harness. Previously, Uma was a co-founder of ChaosNative and MayaData, both of which he helped lead to successful acquisitions. He also co-created the popular CNCF open source projects openEBS and LitmusChaos, which he continues to... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:22am - 10:27am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:29am IST

Keynote: Plug in and Scale: Serving LLM Models on Kubernetes Made Simple - Shrinidhi Venkataraman, AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca & Nithin R, AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:29am - 10:39am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
Our session introduces a cloud-native, in-house platform for modular LLM inference at enterprise scale. Built on Kubernetes, the architecture unifies open-source and vendor models via OpenAI-compatible APIs and supports distributed serving with popular inference runtimes like vLLM, SGLang, and Triton.Powered by NVIDIA Dynamo, the system optimizes GPU fleets through intelligent scheduling, KV-aware...
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Speakers
avatar for Shrinidhi

Shrinidhi

AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca India
AI Platform Engineer blending Kubernetes savvy with MLOps rigor. I design and run scalable, cost-aware GPU platforms for training and LLM inference—GitOps-driven, observable, and secure. Passionate about autoscaling-to-zero, fractional GPUs, and making model serving fast, reliable... Read More →
avatar for Nithin R

Nithin R

AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca
ML Platform Engineer | AstraZeneca

Building and scaling enterprise-grade machine learning platforms from the ground up is my passion. At AstraZeneca, I'm at the forefront of developing a robust, ML platform and LLM Inference Engine using a powerful suite of open-source technologies. This platform empowers our data scientists... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:29am - 10:39am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions, AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

10:41am IST

Keynotes to be Announced
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:41am - 10:51am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 10:41am - 10:51am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:53am IST

Keynote: Engineering Population-Scale AI & AI Infrastructure with Cloud Native Technologies at NPCI - Tittu Varghese, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:53am - 10:56am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) processes more than 24 billion monthly transactions and 700 million daily payments on one of the world’s largest real-time payment systems, all powered by open source, cloud native infrastructure. In this keynote, NPCI will share how they built their AI infrastructure using Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Prometheus, vLLM, OpenStack, NVIDIA AI platforms and...
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Speakers
avatar for Tittu Varghese

Tittu Varghese

In-charge, AI Infrastructure Engineering, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
Tittu Varghese is the In-Charge of AI Infrastructure Engineering at National Payments Corporation of India, leading the platform and infrastructure initiatives powering AI systems at scale. With deep expertise in distributed systems and critical infrastructure engineering, he has... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:53am - 10:56am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:58am IST

Keynote: Cloud Native at India Scale, How Rapido Scaled to 4+ Million Rides - Srivatsa Katta, CTO & Adarsh K Kumar, Principal Product Engineer, Rapido
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:58am - 11:01am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
India moves on Rapido. The country's largest taxi platform serves over 4 million rides daily, matching riders to drivers in real time across 150+ microservices at 200K requests per second.None of this would exist without the CNCF ecosystem. In this keynote, we walk through how Kubernetes, Istio, Prometheus, Thanos, Cert Manager, and External DNS work together to power a platform where every second...
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Speakers
avatar for Adarsh K Kumar

Adarsh K Kumar

Principal Product Engineer, Rapido
Adarsh is a Principal Engineer and heads the Infrastructure Platform team,
Previously a Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks, he brings 14 years of experience in distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure.

He is a CNCF community builder, co-organizing CNCG Kochi and Kubernete... Read More →
avatar for Srivatsa Katta

Srivatsa Katta

CTO, Rapido
Srivatsa Katta is the CTO of Rapido. He leads the technology vision behind Rapido's open-source, platform-first architecture spanning over 150 microservices.

Previously a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, he brings nearly two decades of experience building blockchain, AI and distributed systems at scale... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:58am - 11:01am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:03am IST

Keynote: From Platforms to AI Factories. Has Kubernetes Solved It? - Saiyam Pathak, Principal Developer Advocate, vCluster
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:03am - 11:13am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
Two years ago, every platform team was building developer platforms. Today the same teams, and the AI Cloud providers selling to them, face a harder question. How do you safely share GPU infrastructure across multiple AI teams without stepping on each other?Kubernetes is already the production platform for AI inference. Containers, autoscaling, multi-tenancy, RBAC are all solved. The remaining...
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Speakers
avatar for Saiyam Pathak

Saiyam Pathak

Head of Developer Relations, vCluster
Saiyam is working as Head of DevRel at vCluster. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native & AI infrastructure. He is Kubecon Co-chair and has worked on many facets of Kubernetes, including machine learning platforms, scaling, multi-cloud, & managed Kubernetes... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:03am - 11:13am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:15am IST

Keynotes to be Announced
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:15am - 11:20am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 11:15am - 11:20am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:22am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:22am - 11:30am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 11:22am - 11:30am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:30am IST

Coffee Break ☕
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Breaks

11:30am IST

Solutions Showcase
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:30am - 7:30pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)
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....
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Thursday June 18, 2026 11:30am - 7:30pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)
  Solutions Showcase

11:45am IST

Peer Group Mentoring
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:45am - 1:00pm IST
206 (Level 2)
Peer Group Mentoring allows participants to meet with experienced open source veterans across many CNCF projects. Mentees are paired with 2 – 10 other people in a pod-like setting to explore technical, community, career, and certification questions together.If you're interested in attending as a Mentee, seats are only guaranteed to those on the sign up sheet.If you're interested in being a...
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Thursday June 18, 2026 11:45am - 1:00pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Experiences
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:00pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Opening/Intro
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:05pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:05pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

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
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
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 ...
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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 →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:00pm IST

Inside Envoy Gateway: Resiliency and Performance at Scale - Rudrakh Panigrahi, Salesforce
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Envoy Gateway continues to gain popularity as a fully conformant Kubernetes Gateway API implementation, with over half a million weekly Helm pulls and increasing adoption in production environments. The central theme of this session will be control plane resiliency and performance: automatic failover with leader election and warm standbys, smarter xDS handling and faster convergence. Also expect...
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Speakers
avatar for Rudrakh Panigrahi

Rudrakh Panigrahi

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
Software engineer with about 7 years of experience specializing in large scale distributed systems, platform engineering and cloud infrastructure. Currently building the cloud native networking platform at Salesforce, focused on addressing high availability and performance at scale... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Envoy

12:00pm IST

What Did My Agent Do? Observability and Accountability for AI Agents - Ishan Jain, Grafana Labs
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
Generative AI systems and AI agents behave very differently from traditional software. Their non-deterministic nature and ability to act across multiple steps make debugging and accountability harder, which increases the need for better observability. Beyond latency and error rates, teams need insight into prompts, responses, and agent actions to understand what an agent did and why. In this...
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Speakers
avatar for Ishan Jain

Ishan Jain

Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
I’m a Developer Experience Engineer at Grafana Labs, focused on making observability practical and accessible. I maintain the Grafana Ansible Collection, Grafana Operator, and OpenLIT, with over 5M downloads. Formerly an SRE, I enjoy working in open source and sharing real-world... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability

12:00pm IST

Commit-Then-Disclose: Cryptographic SBOM Auditing Without IP Leakage - Sharvil Bhatt, Reliance Industries limited & Swastik Gour, Improving
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
205 (Level 2)
SBOM regulations (NTIA, EU CRA,CISA) create conflicting requirements: auditors demand transparency while vendors require confidentiality. We present a two-layer Merkle commitment architecture separating public change detection from private component disclosure. Layer 1 builds standard Merkle trees producing public roots for tamper detection—anyone monitors changes without seeing components....
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Speakers
avatar for Swastik Gour

Swastik Gour

Product Engineer , CNCF ambassador, Improving
Swastik is a CNCF ambassador and a Product Engineer by profession who enjoys to contribute to opensource inclusing openssf hosted RSTUF , kyverno , knative , paralus , Kubevela and is also a CAPI CI signal release shadow . He likes to study about the latest tech And innovations going... Read More →
avatar for Sharvil Bhatt

Sharvil Bhatt

Researcher and ex security auditor, Ex Reliance Industries limited
Published security researcher and Master's Candidate at LNMIIT. Former Security Auditor at Reliance Industries with expertise in OS kernel internals, eBPF-based threat detection, Rust and Go for secure tooling, and binary fuzzing. Skilled in container security, SBOM generation, supply-chain... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Security

12:07pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Harbor Project Update: Gitless GitOps, Satellite at the Edge - Prasanth Baskar, Community Lead
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:07pm - 12:12pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Speakers
avatar for Prasanth Baskar

Prasanth Baskar

Software Engineer, 8gears Container Registry
Prasanth Baskar is a Software Engineer and a core contributor to the CNCF Harbor project. loves mentoring new contributors through LFX Mentorship and also an active contributor to kitops, oras, kubernetes. I have spoken at KubeCon, OpenSSF Community day, CNCF Meetups and various foss... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:07pm - 12:12pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:14pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: The Kyverno Five! Policy Types for the Full Resource Lifecycle - Neha Jaju, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:14pm - 12:19pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers
NJ

Neha Jaju

Software Engineer, Nirmata

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:14pm - 12:19pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:21pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: GitOps Without Boundaries: Deploy to Infrastructure and Workloads with PipeCD! - Eeshaan Shreyas Sawant, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:21pm - 12:26pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers
avatar for Eeshaan Sawant

Eeshaan Sawant

Technology Evangelist, ONLYOFFICE (Ascensio System SIA)
Eeshaan is an Engineer from Pune, India. His job is to make technical things a little less painful.

A DevRel Engineer at ONLYOFFICE, CNCF maintainer at PipeCD and four years deep into open source and cloud native, Eeshaan spends most of his time writing docs, creating content or... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:21pm - 12:26pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:28pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks - Vidhi Shah, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:28pm - 12:33pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Speakers
avatar for Vidhi Shah

Vidhi Shah

Lead Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce
Vidhi is an LMTS at Salesforce, where she architects high-scale developer platforms and resilient cloud-native systems. Specializing in the intersection of availability and security, Vidhi has led complex initiatives ranging from multi-architecture CI enablement to deep-tier Vault... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:28pm - 12:33pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:35pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss! - Nitish Kumar, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:35pm - 12:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
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.
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:35pm - 12:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:40pm IST

Beyond VLLM: Distributed LLM Inferencing With Llm-d on Kubernetes - Ravindra Patil, Red Hat
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
As (LLMs) continue to grow in size and demand, single-node inferencing quickly becomes a bottleneck for performance, scalability, and cost. While vLLM has become popular for efficient LLM serving on a single node, it does not fully address the challenges of distributed inferencing across multiple GPUs and nodes in Kubernetes environments. This talk introduces llm-d, a emerging cloud-native...
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Speakers
avatar for Ravindra Patil

Ravindra Patil

Principal Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat
I am AI evanlegist and working at Red Hat in AI team. I really like to learn and explore how the world can benefit from this AI revolution. I am also very keen in evaluation aspect of AI models to make sure that LLM models are Bias free and are responsible AI.
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

12:40pm IST

Re-Architecting Monoliths Into Kubernetes Microservices at Million-User Scale: Hard Lessons - Aditya Sharma, Lumenore
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
Legacy platforms often begin as tightly coupled monoliths running on virtual machines. While workable at small scale, this model breaks down under real production traffic, operational growth, and security demands. This talk presents a real-world case study of re-architecting a BI and AI analytics platform from a VM-based monolith into Kubernetes-native microservices serving millions of users. It...
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Speakers
avatar for Aditya Sharma

Aditya Sharma

Technical Architect, Lumenore
I’m driven by curiosity and a passion for building better systems. With experience across DevOps, DevSecOps and FinOps, I integrate security, automation and efficiency from day one. I help organizations tame complexity and turn technology into a competitive advantage. I believe... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Cloud Native Experience

12:40pm IST

In-toto Attestations for What Really Happens in Your Build Pipeline, With Witness - Vyom Yadav, Canonical & Rahul Vishwakarma, Highlevel
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
204 (Level 2)
State-sponsored supply chain attacks, like the Shai Hulud worm, highlight the urgent need for automated, cryptographically verifiable attestations generated at the moment the supply chain executes, capturing execution details that directly improve the accuracy of secure SDLC documents like SBOMs. Witness, an in-toto subproject, is one such tool that records various aspects of a system during...
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Speakers
avatar for Vyom Yadav

Vyom Yadav

Security Engineer, Canonical
Vyom is a CNCF Ambassador and was the Kubernetes Release Lead for v1.34. He is also on the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. At Canonical, he focuses on Ubuntu Security and Software Supply Chain Security.

In the past he has worked on other various open source projects including Kyverno, OSSF Minder, in-toto, KuberArmor, Checkstyle... Read More →
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Rahul Vishwakarma

Open Source Developer | in-toto / Witness | GSoC & LFX Mentee, Highlevel
Rahul Vishwakarma is an active open source contributor to CNCF's in-toto project, where he has worked on Witness and Archivista — building attestors and policy verification features for supply chain security. He previously contracted with TestifySec and is currently an SDE Intern... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, in-toto

12:40pm IST

When Kafka Goes Cloud Native: Observability That Actually Works! - Roopadharsini K & Mary Vinothini, Fidelity Investments
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
In the fast-paced world of cloud-native infrastructure, monitoring Kubernetes Kafka clusters shouldn’t feel like a puzzle or a last-minute audit surprise. In financial organisations, Kafka on Kubernetes powers critical needs, from regulatory compliance to real-time client updates. But legacy monitoring couldn’t keep up, and relying on sleep-deprived SREs wasn’t an option. We overcame this...
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Speakers
avatar for Mary Vinothini

Mary Vinothini

Principal Cloud Engineer, Fidelity Investments
Kafka Engineer, leading the Kafka Platform in Fidelity Investments. Specialized in designing, deploying, and managing Kafka clusters to ensure high availability and scalability of data streaming platforms. Possess expertise in Kafka architecture, performance tuning, and troubleshooting... Read More →
avatar for Roopadharsini K

Roopadharsini K

Software Engineer, Fidelity Investments
Roopadharsini K is a Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments, with a keen focus on onboarding applications and platforms to enterprise messaging and event streaming ecosystems. Her work is inclined towards ensuring that integration efforts adhere to organizational event taxonomy... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability

12:40pm IST

Root Without Risk: A Decade-Long Quest for True Container Isolation - Sumir Broota, Broota Enterprise
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
205 (Level 2)
Kubernetes has long struggled with safe container isolation where `root` in a pod meant `root` on the node. This session shows how KEP‑127 and user namespaces finally make root inside a container harmless. Real scenario: Your container needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN for FUSE mounts. An exploit succeeds. Without user namespaces: attacker = root on node, full cluster access. With user namespaces: attacker...
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Speakers
avatar for Sumir Broota

Sumir Broota

Sr DevSecOps Engineer & Tech Architect, Broota Enterprise
An independent DevSecOps and Tech Architecture consultant, kubestronaut, and cybersecurity and FOSS enthusiast, currently running Mumbai’s largest cybersecurity community -BreachForce.
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
205 (Level 2)
  Security

12:42pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Vitess in Production: Powering Applications at Massive Scale - Harshit Gangal, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:42pm - 12:47pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Speakers
avatar for Harshit Gangal

Harshit Gangal

Software Engineer, PlanetScale / Vitess
Harshit Gangal is a Senior Software Engineer and core Vitess contributor, specializing in distributed transactions, query optimizations, and performance tuning. He has deep expertise in MySQL internals and has enhanced Vitess with improvements to query planning and execution. Harshit... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:42pm - 12:47pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:49pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: ModelPack: Bringing the OCI Standard to AI/ML - Andrew Block, Maintainer
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:49pm - 12:54pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Speakers
avatar for Andrew Block

Andrew Block

Distinguished Architect, Red Hat
Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat who works with organizations to adopt Open Source solutions with a focus on Cloud Native, security and emerging technologies. Andrew is the author of multiple technical publications and frequently shares his knowledge and experiences... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:49pm - 12:54pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:56pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Closing
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:56pm - 12:58pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Thursday June 18, 2026 12:56pm - 12:58pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

1:10pm IST

Lunch 🍛
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:10pm - 2:30pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 1:10pm - 2:30pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Breaks

2:30pm IST

Beyond the Primary CR: The Design Choice of What and What Not To Watch in Kubernetes Operators - Guna Kambalimath & Kishen V, IBM
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
Watching resources is fundamental to how K8s Operators reconcile state of the CR which is the primary resource, on the other hand, there are secondary resources created and managed by the controller to support the primary resource! But does every secondary resource need to be watched? In this session, we explore the design choices behind deciding what to watch and what not to watch considering...
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Speakers
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Kishen V

Cloud Engineer, IBM
A software engineer with a history of working in Cloud Native and Containerization technologies since 2020, with a passion towards contributing to open-source technologies. I love playing Diablo and Guitar in my leisure.
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Guna K Kambalimath

Software Engineer, IBM ISDL
Software engineer at IBM ISDL with a work experience of 5 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 signature community.
Current work involves ODF and ceph deployment/support on IBM PowerVS infrastructure... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Application Development

2:30pm IST

Introduction To Metal³ — Kubernetes-Native Bare Metal Provisioning - Sunnatillo Samadov, Ericsson
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
This talk introduces Metal³, an open-source project that makes it easy to manage physical servers using Kubernetes. Metal³ enables teams to provision, manage, and recover bare metal machines in a cloud-native way, using familiar Kubernetes workflows. We will explore what Metal³ is, its core capabilities, common use cases, and how it supports recovery and day-2 operations. The session is...
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Speakers
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Sunnatillo Samadov

Open Source Developer, Ericsson
Sunnatillo is a Kubernetes engineer with 4+ years of experience in cloud-native development. He is a maintainer and contributor to the Metal³ project within the CNCF ecosystem, focusing on Kubernetes operators, bare metal infrastructure, platform engineering, and storage.

He previously served as Release Team Lead for Cluster API and is passionate about DevOps and building resilient, production-grade Kubernetes platforms... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Metal3.io

2:30pm IST

Who Watches the Watchers? From Closed Observability To Open Control at Scale - Aditi Gupta, JioHotstar; Madhu Patel, Adobe; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
Observability is your safety net - but at scale, it often fails first. As our Kubernetes platform grew, rising traffic produced more telemetry, overwhelming our stack and leaving us blind during incidents. High-cardinality metrics exhausted memory, and ingestion brownouts became recurring nightmares. We didn't have too much data; we had too little control. In this talk, we dissect the concrete...
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Speakers
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Sandeep Kanabar

Lead Software Engineer, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)
Hailing from India, Sandeep is a passionate software engineer and individual contributor. A frequent meetup speaker, he loves sharing real-world lessons and insights with the community. He's a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, serving as co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard... Read More →
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Aditi Gupta

Software Engineer II @JioHotstar, JioStar India Pvt. Ltd.
I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer. Graduated from Asia's largest tech university for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service architecture... Read More →
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Madhu Patel

Software Engineer 2, Adobe
I'm Madhu Patel, a Software Development Engineer at Adobe, where I work on large-scale distributed backend services supporting Creative Cloud platforms, as well as AI agents designed to enhance user productivity. I am a graduate of Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability

2:30pm IST

Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural Sound Barrier - Vasu Chandrasekhara, NeoNephos & Stefan Schimanski, NVIDIA
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
We first trace the evolution of the "aerodynamics" of the K8s data, control, and work planes. As we dissect the architectural building blocks and controller archetypes of K8s, we discover the kubelet controller pattern as an universal design principle, with which we easily explain the unfolding of K8s Inception with Hosted Control Planes (HCP), where any control plane becomes a recursive workload...
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Speakers
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Stefan Schimanski

Pinrcipal Engineer, NVIDIA
Stefan is a Principal Engineer at Nvidia, working on control planes, Kubernetes, kcp, and as a tech-lead in Sig API Machinery. He contributed a major part of the CRD feature set. Stefan is a 2x Google Summer of Code mentor with CNCF, loves teaching and helping others learn. Before... Read More →
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Vasu Chandrasekhara

NeoNephos Advisor, Independent
Former VP on Cloud Native Strategy at SAP turned NeoNephos Ambassador. After establishing Kubernetes in the enterprise foundation at SAP, he’s now focused on the cloud-native ecosystem and mindset for digital sovereignty.
He previously led SAP's substantial project within EU IPCEI-CIS and established NeoNephos as its "OSS Infrastructure". Vasu holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück but refuses to be tied down to any geography. He prefers it in the cloud... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

2:30pm IST

Unity in Diversity: Architecting “Shared-First” Kubernetes Platforms for Life-Critical Workloads - Manoj K R, Siddiq Tanveer M A, Rishi Nikhilesh Damerla, & Geethika Chappidi, Motorola Solutions
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
In life-critical systems such as 911 dispatch, emergency call handling, and public safety platforms, the traditional “one cluster per application” model creates operational silos that limit resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency. This session describes how we challenged that model by building a Shared First Kubernetes platform that allows many sensitive services to coexist without...
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Speakers
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Rishi Nikhilesh Damerla

Manager, Software Engineering, Motorola Solutions
Dynamic Engineering Manager leading CPS Observability teams at Motorola Solutions, specializing in Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack, Kubernetes (GKE/OpenShift/Native), and AI/ML integrations (Vertex AI, Agentic AI workflows). Drives unified observability, SRE excellence, and platform... Read More →
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Geethika Chappidi

Software Engineer, Motorola Solutions
Software Engineer at Motorola Solutions architecting cloud native development, automation and the evolving ecosystem of Kubernetes. As a newer voice in the platform engineering space, I bring a fresh perspective to building resilient, AI enhanced infrastructure for mission critical... Read More →
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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 →
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Siddiq Tanveer M A

Engineering Manager, Motorola Solutions Inc
Engineering Manager at Motorola Solutions, leading team that build and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms. I focus on delivering secure and reliable self-hosted and managed Kubernetes environments that empower partners to deploy applications at scale. With deep experience... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering

2:30pm IST

Maintainer Meet-Up
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 4:30pm IST
206 (Level 2)
The Maintainer Meet-Up is for CNCF Maintainers to share best practices, dive into contributing processes, and solve common problems across projects.
Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 4:30pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Project Opportunities

3:10pm IST

Building and Orchestrating Real Production-ready Agentic AI Systems - Kevin Dubois & Daniel Oh, IBM
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
Developing AI applications today isn’t just about experimental single-model interactions. Organizations are rapidly adopting AI and to do that, the requirements for enterprise software become increasingly more complex. Advanced Agentic AI systems address this need, where multiple specialized agents work together, each capable of independent reasoning. The real challenge for architects lies in...
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Speakers
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Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM
Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author
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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, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Application Development

3:10pm IST

KubeEdge DeepDive: Extending Kubernetes To the Edge With Real-World Industry Use Case - Ronak Raj, Independent
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Following its graduation within the CNCF, KubeEdge has solidified its position as the premier platform for extending Kubernetes to the edge. In this session, project maintainers will explore KubeEdge's evolution, offering a deep dive into the core architecture that enables efficient management of edge workloads. Attendees will gain insights from real-world deployments across diverse sectors,...
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Speakers
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Ronak Raj

LFX Mentee' KubeEdge, Self-Employed
Ronak Raj is an AI Researcher and software developer. He has contributed to multiple open-source communities, including google-deepmind/torax, Learning Equality, LangChain (langchain / langchain-google) etc
He is a recent LFX Mentorship graduate with CNCF KubeEdge, where he worked... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, KubeEdge

3:10pm IST

The Lean Observability Stack: Quick and Native Telemetry for Service Mesh - Arpitha Srivathsa Malavalli, Google
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
When timelines are tight or infrastructure is isolated, setting up complex observability suites can be a bottleneck. However, a service mesh like Istio, backed by Envoy, already provides a goldmine of data. Drawing from experience in restricted, air-gapped environments, we demonstrate how to turn Envoy and Istio into primary telemetry sources to build a reliable pipeline using Prometheus, Grafana,...
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Speakers
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Arpitha Srivathsa Malavalli

Software Engineer, Google
Arpitha Malavalli is a Software Engineer at Google specializing in the reliability and observability of cloud-native services. She plays a key role in enhancing Anthos Service Mesh (ASM) for Google Distributed Cloud Hosted, focusing on high-security, air-gapped environments. Arpitha... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

3:10pm IST

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Why Platforms & AI Need Each Other - Atulpriya Sharma, Improving & Ram Iyengar, Cloud Foundry
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
A match made in heaven, or one hell of a couple? Platform teams spent 2 years perfecting golden paths for cloud-native infrastructure. 5 engineers managing 100 services. Last week, a new AI agent generated the same config in 30 seconds. This week they're managing 5 LLM models across 200 services. The future seems one-sided. This couple needs counselling. This is escalating abstraction:...
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Speakers
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Ram Iyengar

India Community lead, OpenSSF
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 →
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Atulpriya Sharma

Principal Developer Advocate | CNCF Ambassador, Improving
Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about Cloud Native, Kubernetes & DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content – blog posts, webinars – & host Twitter spaces and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth.

In addition, I'm also a CNCF Ambassador and the organizer of CNCF Hyderabad. When I am not working, I’m a food & travel blogger & love exploring eateries & going on road trips. You can find me at @TheTechMaharaj on Twitter... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

3:10pm IST

Zero-GPU Autopilot: Orchestrating Kagent and Kgateway for Private, Self-Healing Clusters - Ashok M, DigitalOcean & Dillibabu Sampath, Wells Fargo
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Modern Kubernetes environments have outpaced human operational capacity. While observability data is abundant, the Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR) remains high due to manual intervention. This session introduces a paradigm shift: an autonomous operations model that is entirely private, secure, and requires zero GPUs. We demonstrate how to use Kagent, a CNCF sandbox reasoning framework, coupled...
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Speakers
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Ashok M

Techincal Account Manager, DigitalOcean
Golden Kubestronaut, AWS Cloud and AI practitioner. I have experience in working with cloudnative environments and also securing them.
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Dillibabu Sampath

Lead Software Engineer, Wells Fargo
Open-source enthusiast with a strong passion for technology and continuous learning. Thrives on collaboration, knowledge sharing, and exploring new ideas. Driven by curiosity and always eager to discover emerging technologies and opportunities for growth. Proud Golden Kubestronaut... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering

3:40pm IST

Coffee Break ☕
Thursday June 18, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Breaks

4:10pm IST

K8s Complexity Tamed: One Interface To Rule Them All With CNCF Incubating Project KubeVela - Jerrin Francis & Gowtham S, Guidewire Software India
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
Platform fragmentation is a silent productivity killer in Kubernetes. As our platform grew, so did its complexity—forcing developers to master observability, authentication, cost control, and more just to deploy a simple service. In this session, we’ll show how we turned a fragmented ecosystem into a unified experience using KubeVela and the Open Application Model. You’ll see how we: ...
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Speakers
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Jerrin Francis

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform, Guidewire Software, India
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Gowtham S

Senior Technical Product Manager - Cloud Platform, Guidewire Software, India
Driving Cloud-native platform engineering product strategy for KubeVela, OAM at Guidewire. Ex-AWS Containers Specialist, helped Enterprise customers to optimize Kubernetes workloads on EKS at scale. Passionate about AI/ML on Kubernetes and CNCF projects.
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Application Development

4:10pm IST

Longhorn: What's New & What's Next for Cloud Native Persistent Storage - Divya Mohan, SUSE
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Longhorn equips clusters with lightweight, cloud native capabilities, including incremental snapshots, disaster recovery, and RWX support—free from vendor dependencies. In this session, Divya Mohan explores this year's project updates and provides structured insights into the roadmap. The session also aims to outline actionable paths for new contributors by highlighting contribution...
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Speakers
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Divya Mohan

Principal Technology Advocate, SUSE
Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, where she contributes to its cloud native open source projects. Within the CNCF ecosystem, she is the maintainer for the Kubernetes & Longhorn projects. She has previously worked extensively in systems engineering during her tenure... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Longhorn

4:10pm IST

The Invisible Tax: How Data Format Conversions Drive up Telemetry Pipeline Costs - Cijo Thomas, Microsoft
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
Telemetry travels long pipelines before reaching observability backends. While enrichment, filtering, and sampling provide clear diagnostic value, much of the compute cost comes from repeatedly converting telemetry between different data formats. Telemetry flows through SDK representations, wire protocols, collector-internal formats, and backend ingestion schemas. Each boundary introduces...
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Speakers
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Cijo Thomas

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Cijo is a Software Engineer at Microsoft specializing in Observability. He has been deeply involved with the OpenTelemetry project since its inception and is a core maintainer for the OpenTelemetry .NET and OpenTelemetry Rust implementations. His expertise extends beyond OpenTelemetry... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:10pm IST

Kubernetes Ate the Budget: How We Made Cost a Platform Responsibility - Bhavani Indukuri & Aman Chandna, DigitalOcean
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
Kubernetes makes scaling workloads easy, but as clusters span regions and clouds, understanding and trusting costs becomes difficult. Limited cost transparency in platform challenges customer trust, making cost visibility a platform responsibility with accuracy, transparency, and trust as first-class requirements. In this talk, we share how we centralised our platform’s k8s cost metrics using...
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Speakers
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Bhavani Indukuri

Senior Platform Engineer II, DigitalOcean
Bhavani is a Senior Platform Engineer at DigitalOcean, CNCF Ambassador, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 Co-chair. She is also an organiser with Women in CNCF, advocating for diversity in the cloud-native community. A recognised speaker and thought leader, she shares practical... Read More →
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Aman Chandna

Senior Engineering Manager, DigitalOcean
Aman Chandna is Senior Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean, leading innovative, AI-ready Observability platforms. Previously at Microsoft, he delivered hyperscale Azure features like Cross Region Restore used by millions. With 8 years in distributed systems, Aman blends the architectural... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: 5 Tactics To Forging a Hardened Software Chain - Pronomita Dey, Intuit
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 4:55pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
In the fast-paced world of Cloud Native, the transition from "code commit" to "production pod" is often a fragmented journey. As platform engineering matures, the responsibility for security has shifted from being a final gatekeeper to a continuous thread woven into the software lifecycle. Gone is the era where a simple image scan was enough. Today’s threats require a multi-layered...
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Speakers
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Pronomita Dey

Senior Software Engineer, Intuit
Pronomita is a Senior Software Engineer at Intuit with 7+ years of experience scaling cloud-native platforms. Specialising in Platform/SRE, she focuses on SecOps, FinOps, and developer productivity. An organiser at Women in Cloud Native and a diversity advocate, she is passionate... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 4:55pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

4:50pm IST

The 900-Second Ghost: Debugging Half-Open TCP - Dhruv Jain, Gojek (GoTo Group)
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
What happens when a production incident lasts 15 minutes, yet monitoring systems report everything as “green”? At hyperscale, supporting on-demand services in Southeast Asia’s most populous countries, a team encountered a silent and elusive failure mode: half-open TCP connections. In this deep-dive session, the speaker conducts a packet-level autopsy of a real-world incident that impacted...
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Speakers
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Dhruv Jain

Lead Software Engineer, Gojek (GoTo Group)
Dhruv Jain is a Lead Software Engineer at Gojek, where he focuses on building and scaling MQTT infrastructure that handles millions of concurrent connections across Southeast Asia. Beyond his work at Gojek, he is an active contributor to the open-source community and Google Summer... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  Application Development

4:50pm IST

No More Secrets With Keycloak's Federated Client Authentication - Rishabh Singh, Red Hat
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
204 (Level 2)
Keycloak has from day one supported identity brokering, allowing users to authenticate via an external OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0 identity provider. With its latest version, you can use Kubernetes Service Account tokens and other federated client authentication to authenticate OpenID Connect clients. Depending on the environment the clients is running in this can eliminate the need for managing...
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Speakers
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Rishabh Singh

Principal Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat
Currently Support Engineer at Red Hat, Solving issues around Keycloak, Jboss Enterprise Application Server, Elytron, Openshift, Openshift Pipelines(Tekton), Openshift Gitops(Argo CD).

Overall Experience of 9years in IT industry and have been working in Red Hat for last 5years.
... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Keycloak

4:50pm IST

Observability 2.0: Shifting Left From Reactive Monitoring To GenAI-Powered Insights - Kokilavani Kathiresan & RK Gupta, Intuit; Sivakumar Krishnamurthy, Cloudera; Suresh Kumar Khemka, Atlassian India LLP
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
In this panel, engineering leaders from Intuit and Atlassian discuss how they transitioned from fragmented monitoring to a unified, OTel-based observability strategy across 1000+ microservices, built on CNCF standards like OpenTelemetry and Argo. Key discussion points include: - Standardization at Scale: How to drive OpenTelemetry adoption across thousands of microservices without slowing down...
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Speakers
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Sivakumar Krishnamurthy

Head, SRE/DevOps & GCC Leader, Cloudera

Strategic Engineering Executive and Global Capability Center (GCC) Leader with 22+ years of expertise leading, scaling, and transforming global engineering organizations for high-growth IaaS/PaaS/SaaS enterprises. Proven ability to translate complex technology roadmaps into operational... Read More →
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Kokilavani Kathiresan

Engineering Manager, Intuit
Kokila is an Engineering Manager at Intuit, leading an exceptional team of Observability experts. Specializing in Tracing and Real User Monitoring, her team effortlessly handles millions of spans per second. A proud member of Tech Women at Intuit, sharing her expertise and providing... Read More →
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Suresh Kumar Khemka

Head of Engineering - Compute, Atlassian India LLP
Two decades of experience in Platform engineering, SRE. Devops, Performance engineering.
RG

RK Gupta

Global Head of Engineering, Observability, Intuit

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

From API Events To Production in Minutes: Backstage as the Front Door To Multi-Tenant Provisioning - Aditya Soni & Atul Bhardwaj, Sailpoint
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
A common challenge for SaaS platforms on K8s is handling the full tenant lifecycle, onboarding, upgrades, and teardown, without manual provisioning or tenant-per-cluster architectures. As tenant counts rise, manual workflows slow customer time-to-value and create operational toil. This session shows how we built an event-driven tenant lifecycle engine using Backstage as the self-service entry...
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Speakers
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Aditya Soni

CNCF Ambassador, Senior DevOps Engineer, SailPoint
Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Forrester Research, Searce, and is currently positioned at SailPoint as a Senior DevOps Engineer. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He... Read More →
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Atul Bhardwaj

Staff DevOps Engineer, Sailpoint Technologies
8+ years experienced & result-oriented DevOps Engineer possessing in-depth experience of effectively managing configuration & deployment of infrastructure & services in a cloud-based environment and also in client side servers and also on third party servers.Also have a experience... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:57pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Your Prompt Is a Cross-Border Data Transfer - Sudhanshu Prajapati, Improving
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:57pm - 5:02pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
Your release pipeline fails, and you ask an AI agent to debug it. You paste logs, grant doc access, and it fixes the bug. But where did that prompt actually go? Every time you interact with AI, you create a complex data flow. A single request can pull from a vector db (RAG), trigger external tool calls via MCP, & leave sensitive trails in app logs. Now, the most sensitive data in any org is no...
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Speakers
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Sudhanshu Prajapati

Senior Developer Advocate | AI Leader | Open Source Contributor | CNCG Organizer, Improving
Sudhanshu Prajapati is a data and backend engineer turned developer advocate with over 5 years of experience, specializing in cloud-native technologies and distributed systems. He writes technical blogs, docs, and videos to help teams adopt/build tooling around cloud native and AI... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:57pm - 5:02pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:00pm IST

Women's Community Gathering
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm IST
206 (Level 2)
Women’s Gatherings are strategic community spaces designed to foster inspiration, empowerment, knowledge sharing, and leadership visibility. They create intentional opportunities to amplify the voices of individuals who identify as women and non-binary, celebrate achievements, and strengthen representation across the ecosystem.The objective of this session is to establish a dedicated community...
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Thursday June 18, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm IST
206 (Level 2)
  Experiences

5:04pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: One Header, Portable Proof: PEAC Receipts for K8s APIs - Jithin Raj, Originary
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:04pm - 5:09pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
What if every API response included a tiny signed receipt that anyone could verify offline? I'll show how one response header turns your gateway into an evidence-issuing proxy. No new infra, no vendor lock-in -- just portable proof of what happened.
Speakers
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Jithin Raj

Lead Protocol Maintainer, Originary
Stewarding PEAC Protocol and Originary building Open infrastructure for provable agent interactions.

Agents are proliferating across the web, but there's no standard way to prove what they accessed, under what terms, or with whose consent.

PEAC Protocol fixes this: machine-readable interaction terms, cryptographic receipts, verifiable compliance. No central gatekeeper... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:04pm - 5:09pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

5:11pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Pruning the Kernel CVEs With Code Reachability Analysis - Ashish Bijlani, Ossillate Inc
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:11pm - 5:16pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
The Linux kernel is now a CVE Numbering Authority, a change that has driven an unprecedented increase in reported kernel vulnerabilities. In Kubernetes environments, this shift has amplified compliance requirements that mandate per-CVE tracking, remediation, or justification. This talk presents a methodology for kernel CVE pruning via static code reachability analysis. We map CVEs to vulnerable...
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Speakers
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Ashish Bijlani

Entrepreneur/Researcher, Ossillate Inc
Ashish is the founder of Ossillate Inc, a cybersecurity startup. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has co-authored peer-reviewed papers in top-tier academic conferences, and has also presented his work at premier industry conferences, such... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:11pm - 5:16pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

5:18pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Secure GitOps for Regulated Workloads: Argo CD Meets Confidential Containers - Jitendra Singh, Microsoft
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:18pm - 5:23pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
GitOps has revolutionized the way we manage cloud-native infrastructure but what happens when your workloads need to be confidential, attested, and cryptographically verifiable? This session explores a new frontier in GitOps: deploying and managing confidential container workloads with Argo CD, Sigstore, and Confidential Computing hardware (e.g., Intel TDX, AMD SEV, IBM Secure Execution)....
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Speakers
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Jitendra Singh

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Jitendra Singh is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft India with 10+ years of experience, following his tenure at IBM R&D India Software Labs. He specializes in developing cutting-edge solutions for hybrid, multicloud, storage, and edge deployments, including expertise in data... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:18pm - 5:23pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:25pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Stepping Aside To Step Up: Designing Maintainer Succession for India’s Cloud Native Future - Nikhita Raghunath, Broadcom
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:25pm - 5:30pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
As a Kubernetes maintainer and ex-CNCF TOC Vice Chair, I’ve been involved in leadership decisions at both ends: stepping into roles and intentionally stepping away from them. In recent years, Indian contributors have stepped up into maintainer & governance roles. This is a huge win. But the next challenge is quieter and far more uncomfortable: how do today’s maintainers step aside to make...
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Nikhita Raghunath

Engineering Manager, Broadcom
Nikhita is an engineering manager at Broadcom and a maintainer of the Kubernetes project. She was formerly the vice chair of the CNCF TOC & has won the CNCF Top Committer Award. Nikhita has also been a chair of 4 global KubeCons. Apart from this, she was a member of the Kubernetes... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:25pm - 5:30pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:30pm IST

Beyond Monolithic AI: Cloud Native Patterns for Dynamic Model Selection and Semantic Routing - Vincent Caldeira & Anindita Sinha Banerjee, Red Hat
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
The era of the "one-size-fits-all" LLM is ending. We are shifting toward Compound AI Systems—complex meshes where the goal isn't just to query a model, but to dynamically select the best model for the specific task at hand. This shift creates a massive opportunity for cloud-native architectures: how do you govern non-deterministic routing at scale? This session breaks down the infrastructure...
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Vincent Caldeira

CTO APAC, Red Hat
Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat APAC CTO and Industry Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, drives tech strategy and emerging engineering. A Top 10 APAC CTO (2023) with 20+ years in finance IT, he is an authority on open source, cloud-native technologies and AI. Vincent holds leadership... Read More →
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Anindita Sinha Banerjee

Data Scientist, Red Hat
With over a decade in Data and Decision Sciences, I design NLP and AI solutions that solve complex business challenges. Currently a Data Scientist at Red Hat and former researcher at Tata Research Development and Design Center, I have presented research at premier conferences and... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  AI + ML

5:30pm IST

Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Parth Arora, IBM; Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso; Madhu Rajanna, Rewant Soni & Malay Parida, Red Hat
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
The Rook project will be introduced to attendees of all levels and experience. Rook is an open source cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph to natively integrate with Kubernetes. The panel will discuss various scenarios to show how Rook configures Ceph to provide stable block, shared file system, and object storage for your production...
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Madhu Rajanna

Software Architect at IBM, IBM Germany Research & Development GmbH
Software Architect at IBM Storage on the OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) team. He is a maintainer of the Ceph-CSI and CSI-Addons and a reviewer of the Rook project.
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Rewant Soni

Software Engineer, IBM


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Malay Kumar Parida

Software Engineer, IBM
Engineer at IBM Storage with 4+ years of experience working with the Data Foundation Team. I specialize in working on operators orchestrating Rook, CSI & Noobaa CRs.
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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 →
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Deepika Upadhyay

Ceph Engineer, Clyso
I'm Deepika, a Ceph Engineer at Clyso I'm working on the Rook project. With over 5 COI Ro clusters for enterprises, particularly in

the years in the Ceph community, I specialize in deploying large-scale Rook Ceph in containerized environments. My career started with Ceph Storage Engineering, focusing on RADOS and RBD. I'm passionate about driving innovation in Mopen-source storage solutions and find working i... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Rook

5:30pm IST

Offline but Not Blind: Observability in Air-Gapped Kubernetes Environment - Manoj Sardana, HCL Software
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
In many regulated industries, especially across India, not every Kubernetes cluster runs in the cloud. Banks & government systems often operate air-gapped Kubernetes clusters with no internet access. In these environments, SaaS-based observability assumptions does not hold good &Observability becomes core Kubernetes infrastructure, not a service. This session explains why air-gapped K8s...
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Manoj Sardana

Director of Operations and devOps Tooling, HCL Software
With over 20 years of IT experience, I am Director of operations and information Systems at HCLSoftware, where I lead a team to manage the availability, reliability, and performance of SaaS-based solutions on AWS, GCP, and IBM Cloud. I have extensive experience on cloud native tools... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
  Observability

5:30pm IST

Building a Self-Service Platform for Stateful AI Agents - Shruti Mantri, Google & Shuva Jyoti Kar, Cisco Systems
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
AI agents are moving from prototypes into production, and platform teams are increasingly asked to provide a “paved road” for deploying them safely. But agentic workloads don’t fit neatly into traditional stateless service templates: they pull in embeddings and retrieval context, call tools, stream responses, and require repeatable execution across environments—often leading to one-off...
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SHUVA JYOTI KAR

Senior Principal Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
Shuva is a Senior Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks architecting secure enterprise AI platforms. He is authoring two upcoming books: Engineering the Data Agent Control Plane (O'Reilly) and Agent Skills in Action (Manning). An open-source contributor and former OpenDaylight... Read More →
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Shruti Mantri

Staff Software Engineer, Google
Shruti is an accomplished engineer with over a decade of experience, specializing in innovative data solutions. Her passion for exploring new technologies keeps her at the forefront of advancements in the field. As an active contributor to open-source projects and a technical blog... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
  Platform Engineering

5:32pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Why Your Cluster-Wide Policies Are a Risk (And What To Do About It) - Dhruv Puri, Aspora
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:32pm - 5:37pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
As Kubernetes evolves, so must policy enforcement. ValidatingAdmissionPolicy and MutatingAdmissionPolicy set new standards using CEL for policy logic. Kyverno aligned with these patterns and introduced CEL-based policy types. However, cluster-scoped resources created challenges: RBAC complexity, isolation concerns, and performance bottlenecks. Kyverno addressed this with namespace-scoped policy...
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Dhruv Puri

DevOps Engineer, Aspora
I’m an open-source contributor, with a strong interest in DevOps, cloud-native technologies, and large-scale infrastructure. I’ve worked with Kyverno wherein I implemented the namespace-scoped CEL policies and have previously contributed to Prometheus Operator as GSoC contributor... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 5:32pm - 5:37pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

6:00pm IST

Welcome Reception 🎉
Thursday June 18, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm IST

Thursday June 18, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm IST
  Experiences
 
Friday, June 19
 

8:00am IST

Registration + Badge Pick-Up
Friday June 19, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

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

8:00am IST

Cloakroom
Friday June 19, 2026 8:00am - 5:45pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Friday June 19, 2026 8:00am - 5:45pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Registration

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
Friday June 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:00am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Friday June 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:00am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:00am IST

Keynote: The Human Cost of Security in the AI Era - Sonali Srivastava, Senior Developer Advocate, Improving
Friday June 19, 2026 10:00am - 10:10am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
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...
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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 10:00am - 10:10am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:12am 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 10:12am - 10:22am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
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...
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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 →
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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 10:12am - 10:22am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions, Security

10:24am IST

Keynotes to be Announced
Friday June 19, 2026 10:24am - 10:37am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Friday June 19, 2026 10:24am - 10:37am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:39am IST

Keynote: Building a Cloud-Native Bank Under RBI Constraints - Faeka Ansari, DevEx Platform Engineer, Slice Financial Bank
Friday June 19, 2026 10:39am - 10:49am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
Most banks still depend on legacy core banking systems designed for on-prem infrastructure. But modern fintech workloads, real-time payments, AI systems, and evolving regulations like DPDP are forcing a very different architecture.At Slice small finance bank, we took a different path - building and operating a deeply cloud-native banking platform on Kubernetes while handling strict uptime,...
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Faeka Ansari

DevEx Platform Engineer, Slice Financial Bank
Faeka is Platform Engineer at Slice Financial Bank, an international speaker, and a contributor to several open-source Kubernetes-native projects. She has served on the Kubernetes Release team 5 consecutive releases and leads several community initiatives across CNCF, Google, GitHub... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:39am - 10:49am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:51am IST

Keynotes to be Announced
Friday June 19, 2026 10:51am - 11:18am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Friday June 19, 2026 10:51am - 11:18am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:20am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Friday June 19, 2026 11:20am - 11:30am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Friday June 19, 2026 11:20am - 11:30am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

11:30am IST

Coffee Break ☕
Friday June 19, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Friday June 19, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Breaks

11:30am IST

Solutions Showcase
Friday June 19, 2026 11:30am - 4:10pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)
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....
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Friday June 19, 2026 11:30am - 4:10pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)
  Solutions Showcase

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
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
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...
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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

A gRPC Transport for the Model Context Protocol - Pawan Bhardwaj, Google
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
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...
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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
204 (Level 2)
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...
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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)
  Maintainer Track, Argo

12:00pm IST

Inference in Progress… Please Monitor Responsibly - Gaurav Sharma, NVIDIA
Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
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...
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Gaurav Sharma

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Nvidia
Currently working as Senior SRE 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
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
  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
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
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....
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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 →
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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
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
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...
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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 →
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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
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
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...
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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 →
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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
204 (Level 2)
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...
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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)
  Maintainer Track, kserve

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...
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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 →
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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...
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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
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Friday June 19, 2026 1:10pm - 2:30pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Breaks

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
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
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...
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Janakiram MSV

Principal Analyst, Janakiram & Associates
https://janakiram.com/profile
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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
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
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....
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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
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
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...
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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, 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)...
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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 →
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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
204 (Level 2)
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...
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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, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect... Read More →
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Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM
Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author
Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Developer Experience

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
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
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...
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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 →
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Achanandhi M

Developer Advocate

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

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
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
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...
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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 →
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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)
  Application Development

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
Lotus 1 (Level 3)
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...
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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 →
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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
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
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...
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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
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...
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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

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
205 (Level 2)
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,...
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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
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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
204 (Level 2)
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...
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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)
  Maintainer Track, Buildpacks

3:40pm IST

Coffee Break ☕
Friday June 19, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)

Friday June 19, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm IST
Lotus Foyer (Level 3)
  Breaks

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
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
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...
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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
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...
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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 →
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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
205 (Level 2)
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,...
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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, Independent ; Pritish Samal, Harness.io; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
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,...
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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 →
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Pritish Samal

Software Engineer, Harness.io
Pritish Samal is a Software Engineer at Harness and an open source contributor in the cloud-native ecosystem. As a Linux Foundation mentee at Cloud Native Computing Foundation, he contributed to Kyverno and Kubernetes, focusing on policy validation, testing frameworks, and developer... Read More →
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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 →
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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 →
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Swathi Rao

Kubernetes v1.35 and v1.36 Comms Shadow | LFX Mentee '24, Independent
Swathi enjoys programming and exploring how systems are built, from infrastructure choices to design trade-offs. She works at the intersection of technology and communication in the Kubernetes Community. As a Release Team Member, she helps simplify complex new features for end-users... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
204 (Level 2)
  Maintainer Track, Contributor Experience

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
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
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...
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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 →
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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: Upgrading When You’re Years Behind - Yug Gupta, Walmart Global Tech
Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)
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...
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Yug Gupta

Staff Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech
Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech India
An 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
205 (Level 2)
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....
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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
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
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...
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Yashasvi Misra

Software Engineer, Pure Storage
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 advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech. She has shared her work and insights at conferences around the world, including PyCon India, PyCon Europe, PyLadiesCon, and PyData Global... 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
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...
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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 →
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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
204 (Level 2)
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...
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Speakers
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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 →
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Guna K Kambalimath

Software Engineer, IBM ISDL
Software engineer at IBM ISDL with a work experience of 5 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 signature community.
Current work involves ODF and ceph deployment/support on IBM PowerVS infrastructure... Read More →
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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 →
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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)
  Maintainer Track, etcd

4:50pm IST

Kubernetes Workload Resiliency in Action: Beyond Basics - Nabarun Pal & Akhil Mohan, Broadcom
Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)
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...
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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.
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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
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...
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Speakers
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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 →
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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
 
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