KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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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

4:57pm 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

5:04pm 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

5:11pm 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 kernel functions and evaluate whether those functions are reachable under a specific kernel configuration and execution environment. The analysis incorporates build-time configuration (Kconfig), loadable modules, and inter-procedural call graphs to approximate practical exploitability.

We present an open-source tool that automates this analysis and evaluate it with representative workloads. Our results show that many kernel CVEs are in unreachable code, yielding a high reduction in reported exposure. We also discuss limitations and implications for compliance-driven vulnerability management.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Beginner

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

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 types - limiting blast radius, simplifying permissions, and improving admission latency.

Dhruv Puri (Kyverno LFX Mentee) explains why namespace-scoped policies matter, how they secure multi-tenant environments, and how Kyverno internals can help you optimize admission performance.
Attendees leave with actionable strategies for namespace-scoped policies and a deeper understanding of Kyverno's architecture.

Speakers

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

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:50pm IST

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5:11pm IST

5:18pm IST

5:25pm IST

5:32pm IST

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