KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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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 routing, prefix caching, and NIXL-based GPU-to-GPU data transfer, further optimized by allocating fractions of a GPU using KAI-Scheduler. The platform delivers streaming, speculative decoding, quantization, and autoscaling to zero via KEDA.

We ensure comprehensive observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, all governed by GitOps principles using ArgoCD and secured with enterprise-grade practices. For end-user consumption, the platform integrates with Open WebUI via standard APIs. We’ll cover the architecture, key components, and cloudability-driven cost governance strategies that empower data science teams while accelerating safe, sustainable AI innovation across AstraZeneca.
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.

Speakers

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 →

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

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 Mentor, please sign up by May 25.

Check-in: 11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Session: 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Thursday June 18, 2026 11:45am - 1:00pm IST
206 (Level 2)

Experiences

Content Experience Level Any

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
Banking-specific, unique real-world use cases, role of Agentic AI
- Developing and operating applications at scale, e.g 1.7B accounts serving 1.3B people across the globe
- Security safeguards, governance, and change management, with the use of the CNCF project Flagger
- Tackling challenges with cloud-native technologies and the feedback loop with the community and maintainers.

This panel shares insights on cloud-native adoption in India's BFSI sector, incorporating global perspectives. Be inspired by how popular technologies are architected at scale to deliver innovative banking solutions.

Speakers

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.

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 →

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 →

Rajesh Singh

Cloud Lead at SBI, SBI

Handling largest cloud in BFSI Sector.

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

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 in K8s itself.

Armed with these concepts we come to the ultimate, supersonic plane: KCP, the pure data and API plane.
Learn how to mentally decouple K8s from its underlying infrastructure and move toward a truly scalable, declarative API-first future. The next evolution in cloud-native. With KCP, and by treating KRM as a universal interface, we will show how you can benefit from the same pattern used to manage a single pod, to engineer global-scale platforms.

At each architecture evolution step, we accompany a demo and use case: from single clusters, vClusters, clusters with HCP, and KCP.

Speakers

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 →

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

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, and OpenTelemetry (OTel). We will break down essential Istio and Envoy metrics—such as request totals, bytes, and duration—and demystify their rich labels. Attendees will learn to leverage these metrics for "Golden Signal" dashboards, SLOs, and meaningful alerts, without manual per-service configuration. We also cover setting up OTel-based pipelines for Envoy access logs. Finally, we address "day 2" operations: using Prometheus relabeling to reduce cardinality, managing log verbosity via the Istio Telemetry API, and determining when to use synthetic probers over standard metrics.

Speakers

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: Platforms reduce k8s chaos. AI automates those paths at breakneck speed. But AI-generated configs violate platform policies. Platforms enforce governance via admission controllers. Governance needs observability. Observability reveals the gap: no model lifecycle management, no agent audit trails, no cost control APIs.

This talk traces real interdependencies: deprecating models, managing sprawl, isolating agents, controlling budgets. You'll learn what exists - CNCF AI Conformance, tools, working groups & the critical gaps.

Right now, there's no greater agony than rationalising AI without platforms.

Speakers

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 →

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

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 marshaling, unmarshaling, and copying. These transformations add no new information, yet consume CPU and memory and scale linearly with data volume—creating a hidden “transform tax” that compounds at scale.

This talk presents measurements from instrumented OpenTelemetry SDK and Collector pipelines, quantifying compute spent on pure format conversion versus value-generating processing. Attendees will learn where conversion costs arise and explore strategies to reduce waste, including fewer representation hops, zero-copy techniques, and emerging approaches such as Apache Arrow-based layouts.

Speakers

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 OpenCost, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana to deliver consistent, customer-facing visibility across multi-region, multi-cloud clusters.

We will walk through the architecture, show how raw metrics are converted into application-level cost data, and how sharing billing-level cost data improved transparency, trust, with 99.9% accuracy. The session also covers production lessons, trade-offs, and operational challenges while scaling centralised cost visibility and customer trust across the platform.

Speakers

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 →

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

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 feature delivery.
- The Cost of Insight: How to move beyond the "collect everything" mentality. We’ll discuss the architectural shift from mindless ingestion to intelligent sampling
- AIOps & The Future: Moving beyond dashboards to predictive incident response and AI-augmented root cause analysis.
- 'Signal' vs. 'Noise':How are teams leveraging AI to separate true signals from the noise of thousands of clusters?

Join us for a candid conversation on the technical hurdles, cultural shifts, and architectural "oops" moments encountered while scaling observability for millions of customers.

Speakers

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 →

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 →

Suresh Kumar Khemka

Head of Engineering - Compute, Atlassian India LLP

Two decades of experience in Platform engineering, SRE. Devops, Performance engineering.

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 point and Argo Workflows, argo-events, NATS, and GitOps as the automation backbone. It handles onboarding, provisioning, feature enablement, scaling, migrations, and teardown without human intervention. The platform reduced onboarding from hours to minutes and supported ~10,000 tenant-specific deployments across clusters while avoiding cluster-per-tenant explosion.

Attendees will learn how Backstage can drive self-service provisioning flows while Argo Workflows and GitOps execute lifecycle operations reliably, with patterns that reduce toil and improve reliability and SLO compliance.

Speakers

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 →

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 longer in databases. It's in prompts, logs, & agentic calls.

In 2025, half of employees have leaked sensitive company data into public AI tools. When these prompts cross borders, sovereignty is lost.

In this talk, I'll demo how to generate an “AI Receipt”, a per-request trace using open source tools (OTel). Tracing the full data path - prompt ingestion, retrieval, & tool calls, see exactly where sovereignty breaks, turning sovereignty from a claim into verifiable proof of where data flows.

Join me to create your AI Receipt - so next time you prompt, you know exactly where it goes.

Speakers

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

5:18pm 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). You’ll learn how to enforce cryptographic integrity, verify runtime isolation, and prevent unauthorized workloads using policy-driven rollouts and attestation checks.
We’ll showcase how to:
• Automate confidential workload verification in Argo CD pipelines
• Use Sigstore/Cosign for keyless signing and provenance attestation
• Gate deployments based on SLSA levels or TEE runtime evidence
• Visualize runtime trust using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

Speakers

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 room for the next generation of leaders?

Too often, maintainer succession happens only in crisis - after burnout or sudden departures. Projects stall, contributor momentum drops & leadership remains concentrated in too few hands.

In this lightning talk, I’ll break down what effective succession looks like in practice, drawing from real examples from K8s and CNCF projects. I’ll cover maintainer tenure and transition patterns, real succession stories, emeritus maintainer models, psychological challenge of letting go as well as succession templates, role definitions and knowledge transfer checklists.

Speakers

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

12:40pm IST

Patients as Time-Series: High-Stakes Clinical Alerting With OpenSearch & K8s - Seema Saharan, Autodesk & Aakanksha Saharan, Independent

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Patients aren’t static records; they are evolving systems. Neurology makes this clear, but the technical lesson applies to any domain where "normal" changes over time. This session treats longitudinal data as time-series to reshape search, relevance, and alerting in OpenSearch.

We move beyond "snapshot" queries to focus on evidence drift and trajectories via three pillars:

Longitudinal Indexing: Strategies for time-dependent data to support trend-based retrieval.

Detecting Trajectory Drift: Using OpenSearch Anomaly Detection to identify when patterns deviate from expected ranges.

Probabilistic Alerting: Moving from hard thresholds to uncertainty-aware alerts factoring in clinical noise and data gaps.

Attendees will learn to build systems that reason over time and trends rather than isolated documents—a blueprint for healthcare, AIOps, and beyond. This session bridges OpenSearch with the CNCF ecosystem (Kubernetes/OpenTelemetry) for mission-critical workloads.

Speakers

Seema Saharan

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Autodesk

Meet Seema, the tech whiz at Autodesk. She's not just about fixing things – she loves sharing what she knows! Whether speaking at cool events like GitLab Commit, and GitHub Universe or breaking down tech on her YouTube channel, Seema makes the complicated stuff easy and fun. Join... Read More →

Aakanksha Saharan

Student, Independent

Aakanksha is a med student with a strong interest in the intersection of tech and medicine and its potential to drive innovation in healthcare. She is a co-founder of Curaximo, where she explores tech-driven approaches to medicine. She has volunteered with multiple medical organizations... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Observability

Content Experience Level Any

12:40pm IST

Zero Trust for Autonomous Agents: Isolating AI Workloads on Kubernetes - Kanagalingam Senthalan, WSO2

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST

205 (Level 2)

AI Agents are moving from experimental scripts to autonomous "digital employees" creating a new security crisis. Because agents determine their own execution paths, standard security fails. Securing them requires strictly enforcing the 4 Pillars of Governance: Administration, Authentication, Authorization, and Audit at the infrastructure layer.

This talk presents a practical implementation of these pillars using Cell-Based Architecture on Kubernetes. We will demonstrate how to encapsulate agents into governed "Cells" to enforce Zero Trust controls at every critical traffic boundary:
1. User → Agent
2. Agent → Agent
3. Agent → Tool
4. Agent → LLM

We will translate these pillars into real Kubernetes primitives, giving attendees a blueprint to move from "unmanaged bots" to hardened, enterprise-ready workloads. All patterns demonstrated use CNCF-hosted projects and open-source identity primitives leveraging open standards like OIDC and OAuth 2.0.

Speakers

Kanagalingam Senthalan

Technical Lead, WSO2

Kanagalingam Senthalan is a core contributor and technical lead for Project Thunder, an open-source identity service designed for cloud-native workloads including AI agents. Previously, he led the Application Identity team for WSO2 Internal Developer Platform, where he embedded security... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
205 (Level 2)

Security

Content Experience Level Any

2:30pm IST

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

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

205 (Level 2)

With the rise of containerization and edge computing, the demand for portable, efficient, and low-latency solutions is growing. WebAssembly (WASM), known for its small size and fast loading, is expanding beyond the browser into containerized and edge environments. When combined with CNCF projects like Kraken, WasmEdge Runtime, and containerd, WASM can unlock hardware accelerators (GPU, TPU, FPGA) to revolutionize AI/ML workloads across both containerized and edge deployments.

In this talk, we’ll explore:

1. How Kraken and WasmEdge Runtime enable seamless integration of WASM into containerized environments for enhanced performance.
2. Live demos showcasing WASM-powered containers running AI workloads across various hardware platforms.

By the end of this talk, you'll know how to take your containerized and edge AI/ML workloads to the next level with speed, portability, and hardware acceleration.

Speakers

Abhineet Saxena

Cloud Engineer, Atlassian India

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

Anshika Tiwari

CSA - Cloud Engineer, Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Anshika is a passionate DevOps/SRE Engineer who is always eager to learn & implement cloud-native solutions, she has contributed to streamlining deployment processes and enhancing system reliability. She is eager to share her experiences and insights at conferences, contributing to... Read More →

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

Emerging + Advanced

Content Experience Level Any

3:10pm IST

Feast as a Cloud Native Data System: Bridging Batch Processing and Online Serving on Kubernetes - Nikhil Kathole, Red Hat

Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Modern AI and GenAI platforms running on Kubernetes depend on derived data that must be processed in batch and served with low latency. Teams often stitch together data processing engines, object stores, databases, and caching layers, creating operational complexity and inconsistent data access patterns.

This session presents Feast as a cloud native data system that bridges batch processing and online serving on Kubernetes. We explore how Feast integrates with Kubernetes-native data engines such as Spark and Ray, reuses existing data lakes and warehouses as offline stores, and materializes data into online stores optimized for real-time access.

Using Open Data Hub and the Feast Operator, the talk demonstrates a Kubernetes-native architecture for managing data pipelines. Attendees will learn practical design patterns and operational trade-offs for building scalable, cloud native data platforms that support ML and RAG workloads without introducing new data silos.

Speakers

Nikhil Kathole

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Nikhil is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI), focused on building Feature Store. He is enthusiastic about Open Source Technologies and previously he contributed to the foreman and fedora communities.

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

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Any

4:10pm IST

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

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

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

For many engineers entering the cloud native ecosystem, the journey with Kubernetes begins on their own laptop. They install a local cluster, follow a tutorial, and try to understand how things work. This first step is important, but it is also where confusion often starts.

Today, newcomers face many tools, such as Minikube, Kind, k3d, Vind, Docker Desktop, and Rancher Desktop. All of them promise Kubernetes on your machine, but each one is built for a different purpose. Without clear guidance, people often spend more time fixing setup problems than learning Kubernetes itself.

In this session, we will simplify local Kubernetes for beginners in the cloud native space, guided by Albert Einstein’s idea that “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Through simple demos and practical examples, we will cover how local Kubernetes clusters work behind the scenes, how to avoid common setup mistakes, and how local environments connect to real production systems.

Speakers

Hrittik Roy

TPME, vCluster

Hrittik is a Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, with expertise in cloud native technologies and open source communities. He has contributed extensively to developer advocacy, technical writing, and community engagement. Hrittik has been a featured speaker at events... Read More →

Saloni Narang

Co Founder Kubesimplify, Kubesimplify

Saloni Narang is the Co-founder of Kubesimplify and has previously worked at SAP Labs. She has hands-on experience with multiple cloud platforms, including GCP, Oracle, and AWS. Passionate about the Cloud Native ecosystem, she loves exploring and writing about emerging open-source... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Cloud Native Novice

Content Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

The Death of the YAML-Engineer: Engineering "Invisible" Platforms With Crossplane and Score - Abhinav Sharma & Mumshad Mannambeth, KodeKloud

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

"I just want to ship my code". Every developer says it, but few organizations achieve it. Instead, developers spend 30% of their time wrestling with 1,000-line Helm charts and complex Terraform modules. This is the "YAML Tax", and it's killing engineering velocity.

This session shares how we abolished the YAML Tax at scale. We’ll demonstrate how to build an "Invisible Platform" where developers use Score - a workload-centric specification - to describe what their app needs, while Crossplane dynamically provisions the how across multi-cloud environments.

Attendees will learn the blueprint for:
1. Contract-Driven Development: Using Score to decouple the application's requirements from the environment’s implementation.
2. The Control Plane Shift: Replacing brittle CI/CD pipelines with Crossplane's continuous reconciliation loop for cloud resources.
3. Developer Joy at Scale: How we reduced onboarding time from weeks to minutes by hiding Kubernetes complexity behind a single score.yaml.

Speakers

Abhinav Sharma

Site Reliability Engineer, KodeKloud

I am a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at KodeKloud . I am an Open source contributor, evaluating and contributed in various open source tools and projects, such as, Microsoft's Open source libraries, OpenCV, SUSE, etc. I was also a Google Summer of Code contributor 2022 and a GitHub... Read More →

Mumshad Mannambeth

Trainer, KodeKloud

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Application Development

Content Experience Level Any

4:50pm IST

Zero Trust for Fintech: Building Secure Banking Infrastructure With Cilium - Prasta Maha & Herbert Sianturi, Krom Bank Indonesia

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

In the highly regulated world of banking, "security by default" isn't just a buzzword, but it is a compliance requirement. As financial institutions migrate to Kubernetes, they face a critical challenge: How do you enforce strict network segregation, achieve Zero Trust, and maintain deep observability.

This session explores how to leverage Cilium and eBPF to build a battle-hardened banking infrastructure. We will move beyond standard Kubernetes Network Policies, demonstrating how to implement Layer 7 filtering, transparent encryption, and deep observability in service communications.

Attendees will receive a practical roadmap for:
- Enforcing Zero Trust: Using Cilium Network Policies to restrict traffic based on identity and fqdn, not just IP addresses.
- Achieving Compliance: implementing Transparent Encryption (WireGuard/IPsec) to meet data-in-transit requirements.
- Auditing: Utilizing Hubble for deep visibility into dropped packets and flow logs to satisfy security audits.

Speakers

Herbert Sianturi

Senior DevOps Engineer, Krom Bank Indonesia

Herbert Sianturi serves as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Krom Bank Indonesia, where he roles spearheads efforts in enhancing the quality of end-to-end application lifecycle and applying open source platform as a base. With years of expertise in container orchestration and cloud computing... Read More →

Prasta Maha

Senior Devops Engineer, Krom Bank Indonesia

Prasta is passionate about tech, especially Linux, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Data Engineering, Security, and Programming. He also shares his tech experiences and insights on https://medium.com/prastamaha

website: https://prastamaha.dev

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
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Security

Content Experience Level Any

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