KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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. Layer 2 commits internal hashes with 256-bit random nonces, yielding private commitment roots shared only with auditors for cryptographic hiding. Selective disclosure reveals only changed components via decommitment tuples with O(log n) proofs. Auditors verify commitments reconstruct to trusted roots. Re-randomization refreshes nonces without altering data. Tested: 100 auditors, 100K components, 50K proofs, zero false accepts. Performance: 2.6M disclosures/second, 0.01ms proof generation, 625-byte paths. Policy-based filtering achieves 72% disclosure reduction.

Speakers

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 project designed to enable distributed LLM inferencing on Kubernetes. We will cover why vLLM gained popularity and the limitations when scaling beyond a single node. We will explore how llm-d goes a step further by enabling multi-node, multi-GPU inferencing with cloud-native primitives.

Attendees will learn how llm-d fits into modern Kubernetes platforms, how it improves scalability and resource utilization. The session focuses on practical architecture, design trade-offs, and real-world use cases rather than theory with a demo on how llm-d distributes load.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 challenge by building custom dashboards in a unified observability platform using OpenTelemetry for vendor-agnostic collection, deployed natively on Kubernetes, and integrating Grafana and OpenSearch for real-time visibility and faster troubleshooting.

Attendees will learn how to meet compliance needs, speed up incident response, and design reliable Kafka observability at enterprise scale and also walk away with a practical blueprint for modernizing monitoring and adopting open-source practices in Kubernetes.

Speakers

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 real world examples. We'll dive into pros and cons of different approaches considering key factors - performance, scalability, RBAC boundaries, robustness of the operator. We'll understand how selective watching can reduce noise and improve the controller efficiency, By the end of the session, attendees will know how to choose the right approach for developing smarter, streamlined Kubernetes Operators backed by real-world use cases.

Speakers

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.

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 compromising isolation or availability
We operate 25+ production Kubernetes clusters across multiple clouds. Each shared cluster runs 50–60 independent products and supports 2,000–4,000 microservices processing real-time emergency workloads where downtime can impact human lives.
The talk covers zero-touch workload isolation using a custom Kubernetes Admission Controller, per-tenant NGINX Ingress Controllers, automated DNS and certificate management and safe upgrade practices. We conclude by showing 50–60% infrastructure cost savings while improving reliability for mission-critical public safety systems.

Speakers

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 orchestrating these agents to collaborate effectively towards a common goal. Unfortunately though, a "one-size-fits-all" approach to coordination just doesn't work due to the complex nature of software. In addition, just like traditional apps, these agentic systems need to be deployed, managed and observed in cloud environments.

In this session we'll explore the spectrum of Agentic AI patterns; real world implementations with Java; how to deploy these Agentic Systems to Kubernetes, and what other considerations there are to get these applications running in production.

Speakers

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

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 with vLLM optimized for CPU-only inference to create a Sovereign SRE. By integrating Kgateway, we enforce policy driven traffic management that allows the agent to safely reroute traffic, isolate failing pods, and execute rollbacks based on real-time health intelligence. Attendees will walk away with a blueprint for a self-healing platform that uses local, file-based RAG to follow organizational rules without any data leaving the VPC or a single dollar spent on external AI APIs.

Speakers

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.

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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:

Adopted KubeVela as a universal platform interface

Developed a componentized model so developers declare needs, not implementation

Created reusable traits that auto-inject observability, compliance, and best practices

Reduced cognitive load and boosted application quality

The outcome? Developers build and ship faster, SREs sleep better, governance runs itself, and teams spend less time wrestling with YAML and more time delivering value.

Speakers

Jerrin Francis

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform, Guidewire Software, India

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 defence-in-depth strategy that treats security as an automated, immutable property of the platform. This talk provides a tactical blueprint for engineers looking to secure their platforms from the supply chain to runtime.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 millions of messages. The talk examines the critical differences between FIN and RST packets, demonstrating how the absence of a single 40-byte segment resulted in 900 seconds of effective downtime. Attendees will learn why relying on default Linux kernel tcp_keepalive settings is unsafe for high-availability systems.

The session also explores the Zero Window phenomenon and how TCP backpressure can cause message timestamp drift. This is a story of persistence, spanning detailed packet captures and collaboration with a major cloud provider’s networking team to fix load balancer FIN-delivery behavior.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 required to move from monolithic agents to multi-model orchestration. We will demonstrate how to implement Semantic Routing within an AI Gateway to act as a traffic controller, instantly analyzing user intent to route queries to the most capable (or cost-effective) model. You will learn patterns for "supervisor" workflows, where lightweight models handle routing and heavyweight models handle self-correction. Join us to discover how to build controlled AI systems on Kubernetes, ensuring your agents are not just powerful, but precise, effectively governed, and fundamentally safer.

Speakers

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 environments matter and outlines the challenges they introduce, including constrained scaling, offline upgrades, local image management, and storage-bound observability pipelines.

We then walk through a real-world journey of building K8s observability in an air-gapped setup using OpenTelemetry and self-hosted LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir). The talk covers in-cluster telemetry design, cardinality control, offline upgrades, autoscaling without internet and operating observability components as first-class Kubernetes workloads, followed by practical limitations and operational best practices.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:30pm IST

Building a Self-Service Platform for Stateful AI Agents - 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 deployments and operational inconsistency.

This talk presents a platform engineering "path” for agentic workloads using a pattern we call self-contained data agents: a standardized, containerized unit that packages the agent runtime, tool contracts, and data-adjacent execution model behind a clear service boundary. We’ll show how Knative enables a consistent developer experience—request-driven deployment, scale-to-zero, revision-based rollouts, and session management—while keeping the platform portable and Kubernetes-native.

Speakers

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 →

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST
Lotus 1 (Level 3)

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 complex mandates directly into "Policy-as-Code" (PaC) controls. The speakers demonstrate how to move from periodic audit woes to "steady-state ops hygiene" using PaC across three critical layers: Proactive Controls (Shift-Left) to catch issues in CI/CD, Preventive Controls to block non-compliant workloads, and Detective Controls for continuous, automated evidence gathering.

You will learn how to translate abstract compliance standards into enforceable policies and immutable audit trails, reducing technical debt and satisfying regulators without slowing down innovation.

Speakers

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 more throughput and less bandwidth usage.
3. gRPC already has streaming capabilities which can be used for MCP as required.
4. It would be less frictional for micro-services to have their services as MCP using gRPC transport as infra remains the same.
5. Protobuf specification creates strong API contracts between various language implementations.
6. As gRPC supports proxy-less service mesh, MCP servers having gRPC transport can take advantage of it for various features such as load balancing, MTLS etc.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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. Moving beyond basic setup, the speakers address the "Quota vs. Datacenter Capacity" dilemma. They reveal a critical gap discovered through experiments: workloads becoming stranded in regions with exhausted capacity despite available quotas.

The speakers share their collaboration with the community to resolve these scheduling gaps (Issue #8089). This talk demonstrates the configuration aspects of Admission Checks and provisioning classes in Multikueue to force the scheduler to "hunt" for actual capacity in worker clusters across regions rather than relying solely on user-provided quota.

Speakers

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 considering network topology. Cilium optimizes networking but can't move scheduled pods. Result? GPUs unused while the scheduler searches for placement that won't happen.

This talk shares our systematic investigation, diagnostic methodology, and scheduling constraints that resolved it. Lab tests show GPU utilization improved from 40% to 85%. You'll see the problem reproduced live, understand why it's hard to detect, and get tested Kubernetes configs. This matters for anyone planning distributed training with Kubeflow or similar orchestrators on network-optimized clusters.

Speakers

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 explores how Netlink’s extensible design and attribute-based encoding enable efficient communication between layers of the networking stack.

We’ll then demonstrate how these capabilities can be leveraged in cloud-native systems - showcasing how we are using netlink in kube-proxy to interact with the netfilter accounting (nfacct) subsystem for in-kernel packet counting, and how we recently shifted conntrack cleanup from a user-space binary-based approach to Netlink, significantly reducing connection cleanup time from minutes to seconds.

Speakers

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 →

Daman Arora

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Trying to maintain kube-proxy.

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 2 (Level 3)

Connectivity

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 how the NVIDIA GPU Operator and DRA drivers expose GPU capabilities, how ResourceClasses and ResourceClaims work, and how to enable multiple workloads to share a single device with predictable behavior. A live demo runs an interactive chat or multimodal app beside a background job on the same GPU, using different DRA policies and observing enforcement at runtime.
You leave with a clear mental model, reusable YAML, and patterns that remain portable from a desk-side Spark to multi-node cloud clusters, plus basics for utilization visibility, capacity planning, and multi-tenancy.

Speakers

Janakiram MSV

Principal Analyst, Janakiram & Associates

https://janakiram.com/profile

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 routing via the EndpointSlice API — achieving 40% latency improvement while handling stale endpoints and scale-up race conditions.

We also built custom HPA metrics tied to scrape queues, scaled from 4K to 16K concurrent scrapes with spot VMs, and used MinIO as in-cluster cache to cut egress by 60%.

No fancy tooling — just deep Kubernetes knowledge solving hard problems with what's already there.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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, schedulers, and nodes, workloads are executed locally using lightweight runtimes, while applications continue to interact through Kubernetes-style APIs.

We'll see:

=> Which Kubernetes components are actually required to run workloads
=> Running workloads without etcd, schedulers, or nodes
=> Local-first execution with Kubernetes-compatible APIs
=> Clear limitations and failure modes of this approach
=> What this model enables for edge, disaster recovery, and local development

The goal is not to replace Kubernetes, but to understand which parts of it are essential and which are incidental. with a demo

Speakers

Goutam Verma

SDE II, Expedia

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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, and edge-core behavior were verified. Along the way, I’ll also highlight the challenges, what worked, what didn’t, and the key lessons that made the process smoother.

If you’re interested in edge computing, ARM devices, or contributing to KubeEdge without access to specialized hardware, this talk will give you a clear, realistic, and easy-to-follow blueprint.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 dissect API latency using Audit Logs and Prometheus metrics (apiserver_request_duration_seconds) to identify "noisy neighbor" controllers that starve critical system components. We will dissect the Priority and Fairness (APF) flow control system, replacing legacy-- max-requests-inflight to guarantee that critical system calls (like node heartbeats) never get dropped, even during massive scale-up events. The session includes a live "autopsy" of a real-world API outage caused by unoptimized LIST calls and demonstrates how to fix it using API Streaming (WatchList), proper client-side caching, and more.

Speakers

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 →

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 primary source of failures. We’ll explore common anti-patterns involving PVCs, object storage mounts, and ephemeral volumes, and how they led to rising costs, broken reproducibility, and pipelines training on stale or incorrect data. Finally, we’ll discuss practical cloud-native patterns for managing ML data that respect data lifecycles, improve lineage, and keep Kubernetes focused on what it does best.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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 for maximum resilience.

We'll examine resource requests/limits, priority classes, resource quotas, runtime classes, and strategies like pod disruption budgets and affinity rules. Through practical examples and real-world scenarios, you'll learn how to configure each mechanism, understand their interactions, and avoid common pitfalls that lead to pod evictions, performance degradation, and cascading failures.

Whether you're running mission-critical services or shared multi-tenant clusters, this session will equip you with a resilience framework that protects your workloads under pressure.

Speakers

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.

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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