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Thursday, June 18
 

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure & Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure, Linux Foundation
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:20am IST

Speakers
avatar for Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk

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

Jonathan Bryce

Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, The Linux Foundation
Jonathan Bryce is the Executive Director of Cloud & Infrastructure at the Linux Foundation, where he leads both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the OpenInfra Foundation—two of the largest and most influential open source communities in the world. With over... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 9:45am - 10:20am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:22am IST

Keynote: Sovereign AI at Population Scale. How Sarvam Runs 100 Million+ Conversations Across India's Languages on a CNCF Stack - Avi Kothari, Senior Infrastructure Engineer & Vinayak Gavariya, Lead Developer Relations Engineer, Sarvam
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:22am - 10:27am IST
India speaks in 22 languages. Sarvam ensures AI speaks back in every one of those languages, whether in Marathi to a farmer confirming her crops, in Tamil to a citizen accessing a government scheme, or in Hindi to a customer resolving a loan query. Delivering that across millions of API calls and voice conversations daily, at sub-second latency, and while remaining auditable, is as much an infrastructure challenge as an AI one.

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

Avi Kothari

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Sarvam

avatar for Vinayak Gavariya

Vinayak Gavariya

Lead Developer Relations Engineer, Sarvam
Vinayak Gavariya is an AI Engineer leading Developer Relations at Sarvam, where he works at the intersection of research, engineering, product, GTM and community. He focuses on helping developers build with AI through great products, integrations, documentation, education, and co... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:22am - 10:27am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions

10:29am IST

Keynote: From Afterthought to Practice: How Flipkart Built a Multi-tenant Chaos Platform on LitmusChaos - Aditya Sridasyam, Software Development Engineer, Flipkart & Uma Mukkara, Head of Resilience Testing, Harness
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:29am - 10:34am IST
Flipkart, one of India's leading digital commerce entities, runs hundreds of tightly coupled microservices that must withstand the massive traffic surges of Big Billion Days and festive sales. To stop treating outages as an afterthought, Flipkart's Central Reliability Engineering team built a centralized chaos engineering platform on top of Litmus Chaos. To make it work at their scale, they customized Litmus in four meaningful ways: a hybrid multi-tenancy architecture that splits the difference between cluster-wide and namespace-wide installs, a DaemonSet-based high-availability model for chaos injection, a first-class Script Runner fault for dynamic target selection and context chaining, and a hybrid VM chaos extension for workloads that don't run on Kubernetes. This talk shares what they built, why, and what they contributed back upstream.
Speakers
avatar for Aditya Sridasyam

Aditya Sridasyam

Software Development Engineer 2, Flipkart
avatar for Uma Mukkara

Uma Mukkara

Head of Chaos Engineering, Harness Inc
Uma Mukkara is the head of Resilience Testing at Harness. Previously, Uma was a co-founder of ChaosNative and MayaData, both of which he helped lead to successful acquisitions. He also co-created the popular CNCF open source projects openEBS and LitmusChaos, which he continues to... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:29am - 10:34am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:36am 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 10:36am - 10:46am IST
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
avatar for Shrinidhi

Shrinidhi

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

Nithin R

AI Platform Engineer, AstraZeneca
ML Platform Engineer | AstraZeneca

Building and scaling enterprise-grade machine learning platforms from the ground up is my passion. At AstraZeneca, I'm at the forefront of developing a robust, ML platform and LLM Inference Engine using a powerful suite of open-source technologies. This platform empowers our data scientists... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:36am - 10:46am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions, AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

10:48am IST

Keynote: From Platforms to AI Factories. Has Kubernetes Solved It? - Saiyam Pathak, Principal Developer Advocate, vCluster
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:48am - 10:58am IST
Two years ago, every platform team was building developer platforms. Today the same teams, and the AI Cloud providers selling to them, face a harder question. How do you safely share GPU infrastructure across multiple AI teams without stepping on each other?

Kubernetes is already the production platform for AI inference. Containers, autoscaling, multi-tenancy, RBAC are all solved. The remaining problem is GPUs themselves. Today Kubernetes asks for them in whole numbers. One pod, one GPU, even when the workload uses 10% of it.

This keynote walks through how the CNCF ecosystem, and Kubernetes itself, has answered. HAMi virtualizes one physical GPU into multiple slices today, each with its own memory budget. DRA evolves the platform's resource model so Kubernetes finally understands GPUs as rich devices instead of opaque numbers.

Then, we move to a live demo. There will be a MacBook on stage, connected directly to an NVIDIA DGX Spark. A single Blackwell GPU will run two open source LLMs for two teams, generating answers simultaneously. There are no slides and no recordings.

That's the AI factory. And yes, Kubernetes has solved it, with a little help from its friends.
Speakers
avatar for Saiyam Pathak

Saiyam Pathak

Head of Developer Relations, vCluster
Saiyam is working as Head of DevRel at vCluster. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native & AI infrastructure. He is Kubecon Co-chair and has worked on many facets of Kubernetes, including machine learning platforms, scaling, multi-cloud, & managed Kubernetes... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 10:48am - 10:58am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:00am IST

Keynote: Engineering Population-Scale AI & AI Infrastructure with Cloud Native Technologies at NPCI - Tittu Varghese, In-charge, AI Infrastructure Engineering, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 11:03am IST
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) processes more than 24 billion monthly transactions and 700 million daily payments on one of the world’s largest real-time payment systems, all powered by open source, cloud native infrastructure. In this keynote, NPCI will share how they built their AI infrastructure using Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Prometheus, vLLM, OpenStack, NVIDIA AI platforms and many more open-source components to deliver real-time fraud detection in under sub second latency at national scale. The session will explore the architecture behind their payment rail including GPU-accelerated AI inference, distributed cloud infrastructure, and cloud-native tooling powering fraud and AI infrastructure, and financial AI models. Get a look inside their reference architecture and how cloud-native technologies are becoming critical infrastructure for AI at scale with sovereignty.

Speakers
avatar for Tittu Varghese

Tittu Varghese

In-charge, AI Infrastructure Engineering, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
Tittu Varghese is the In-Charge of AI Infrastructure Engineering at National Payments Corporation of India, leading the platform and infrastructure initiatives powering AI systems at scale. With deep expertise in distributed systems and critical infrastructure engineering, he has... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:00am - 11:03am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:05am IST

Keynote: Cloud Native at Bharat Scale, How Rapido Scaled to 7+ Million Rides - Srivatsa Katta, CTO & Adarsh K Kumar, Principal Product Engineer, Rapido
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:05am - 11:08am IST
India moves on Rapido. The country's largest taxi platform serves over 4 million rides daily, matching riders to drivers in real time across 150+ microservices at 200K requests per second.

None of this would exist without the CNCF ecosystem. In this keynote, we walk through how Kubernetes, Istio, Prometheus, Thanos, Cert Manager, and External DNS work together to power a platform where every second of latency means a rider waiting in the heat.

This is the story of what cloud native makes possible when the stakes involve millions of livelihoods, not just uptime metrics.

Speakers
avatar for Adarsh K Kumar

Adarsh K Kumar

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

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

Srivatsa Katta

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

Previously a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, he brings nearly two decades of experience building blockchain, AI and distributed systems at scale... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:05am - 11:08am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:10am IST

Keynote: How JioHotstar Streams Cricket to 72 Million Fans in Real Time with Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry - Pradeep Bishnoi, Senior Director of Engineering, JioStar
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:10am - 11:13am IST
When tens of millions of fans tune in for live cricket, every millisecond matters. In this keynote, engineers from JioHotstar will take audiences behind the scenes of one of the world’s largest streaming platforms across globally distributed, cloud-native infrastructure.

The session will explore how JioHotstar uses Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, OpenTelemetry, Karpenter, Envoy Gateway, and other CNCF technologies to scale to 50–60 million concurrent users during live sporting events while maintaining reliability, observability, and performance at massive scale. Attendees will see how nearly all core services from personalization and payments to subscriptions and content delivery run in a highly containerized environment spanning dozens of clusters across multiple continents.

The keynote will also preview JioHotstar's next phase of AI-driven operations, including conversational Kubernetes troubleshooting, intelligent SRE automation, and AI-powered user experiences. Through real-world architecture diagrams and live-event scale insights, this session highlights how cloud native infrastructure keeps digital entertainment moving for millions every match day.
Speakers
avatar for Pradeep Bishnoi

Pradeep Bishnoi

JioStar, Senior Director of Engineering
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:10am - 11:13am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

11:15am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Thursday June 18, 2026 11:15am - 11:30am IST

Thursday June 18, 2026 11:15am - 11:30am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions
 
Friday, June 19
 

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
Friday June 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:05am IST

Friday June 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:05am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:07am IST

Keynote: From Kubernetes Learning to Community Leadership: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cloud Native Engineers - Lavanya Anbalagan, Platform Architect, MatrixKube Technologies
Friday June 19, 2026 10:07am - 10:10am IST
The cloud-native ecosystem is creating new opportunities for engineers across the world. The Kubestronaut program, built around advanced Kubernetes certifications, showcases how structured learning and technical excellence can help engineers gain industry recognition, deepen their expertise, and accelerate career growth.

This keynote explores how continuous learning, Kubernetes certifications, open-source participation, and hands-on platform engineering can help engineers build strong technical foundations and meaningful careers in cloud native technologies. From learning Kubernetes concepts to enabling others through mentorship and community engagement, the journey reflects the power of practical learning and consistent upskilling.

The session also highlights how community-driven programs, technical certifications, and real-world experience can help aspiring engineers gain confidence, deepen their expertise, and actively contribute to the growing Kubernetes ecosystem. As cloud-native adoption continues to expand, the next generation of engineers has an opportunity not only to build scalable systems but also to shape the future of the community itself.
Speakers
avatar for Lavanya Anbalagan

Lavanya Anbalagan

Platform Architect, MatrixKube Technologies
Kubernetes and cloud native enthusiast focused on platform engineering, community learning, and mentorship. A Golden Kubestronaut who has trained and mentored multiple engineers in Kubernetes and cloud native practices, with a passion for helping aspiring engineers build strong foundations... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:07am - 10:10am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:12am IST

Keynote: Running 911 & Mission-Critical Workloads on Shared Kubernetes Platforms - Manoj K R, Senior Software Engineer, Motorola Solutions
Friday June 19, 2026 10:12am - 10:15am IST
Manoj K R, a Kubeastronaut and Senior Software Engineer at Motorola Solutions, CPS, shares how Kubernetes and CNCF technologies such as cert-manager, KEDA, HPA/VPA, Cilium, Kyverno, and multi-tenant platform automation are being used to support 911 and other mission-critical enterprise applications on shared Kubernetes platforms across cloud environments. This keynote preview will highlight how cloud-native platform engineering enables workload isolation, scalable traffic management, DNS automation, security governance, and reliable operations for critical workloads at scale.
Speakers
avatar for Manoj K R

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 →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:12am - 10:15am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:17am IST

Keynote: The Human Cost of Security in the AI Era - Sonali Srivastava, Senior Developer Advocate, Improving
Friday June 19, 2026 10:17am - 10:27am IST
We have been coming to KubeCon for ten years and talking about supply chain security for at least five of those years. We know the attacks and the mitigations. We have the frameworks, the SBOM attestations and the CNCF projects.

So why are the houses still burning?

That is what this talk is about. Not the tools, you know the tools. The gap between knowing and doing. And what happens when AI arrives on both sides of that gap at the same time.

Every security vulnerability comes with a score. But no severity score captures what it costs to be the person who reads that advisory at two in the morning, maintaining a project in the hours between their actual job and life, for a community that depends on them.

GitHub RCE, Trivy supply chain attack, tj-actions compromise, the xz backdoor. CVSS rankings from High to Critical. And behind every one, a human.

Every technological wave has done this. Humans absorb the cost.

The CNCF TAG DevEx survey of nearly 100 projects confirms top concerns of maintainers include security vulnerabilities and the burden caused by a potential flood of low-effort PRs and issues.

This talk traces the human cost across real incidents, asks why the pattern keeps repeating, and explores what it would take to finally break it.

Key takeaways include empathy for the maintainers along with a demo of how the same AI could be used to help maintainers know whether a published CVE affects their project and to what extent.
Speakers
avatar for Sonali Srivastava

Sonali Srivastava

Senior Developer Advocate, Improving
Sonali Srivastava is a Senior Developer Advocate at Improving, Co-chair KubeCon India 2026, and Co-organizer CNCF Women in Cloud Native. With experience across system administration, open source contribution and developer advocacy, she focuses on bridging gap between developers and... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:17am - 10:27am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:29am 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 10:29am - 10:39am IST
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
avatar for Jim Bugwadia

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 →
avatar for Ashwath Kumar

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 10:29am - 10:39am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions, Security

10:41am IST

Keynote: The Vertically Integrated Bank: Scaling from NBFC to Integrated on Kubernetes - Faeka Ansari, DevEx Platform Engineer, Slice Financial Bank
Friday June 19, 2026 10:41am - 10:44am IST
This talk shares slice's platform engineering journey from monolithic systems to 100s of cloud native microservices on K8s. It explores how ownership, GitOps, container security, observability, clone spaces, custom CI runners, and AI agent infrastructure helped build security, compliance, reliability, and speed into the platform.

A practical story of how owning the core, building strong platform capabilities, and making the Secure path the fast path can turn cloud native engineering into a competitive advantage.
Speakers
avatar for Faeka Ansari

Faeka Ansari

Senior Software Engineer | CNCF Ambassador, Slice Financial Bank
Faeka is Senior Software Engineer at fintech startup, an International technical speaker and helping maintain open-source K8s-native projects. She is a Kubernetes Release team member and was an Linux Fn. mentee under Istio. She leads several community initiatives across CNCF, Google... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:41am - 10:44am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:46am IST

Keynote: SBI Meghdoot - Modern Sovereign Cloud Serving Millions of Customers - Rajesh Singh, Cloud Lead, SBI
Friday June 19, 2026 10:46am - 10:49am IST
SBI is the largest public sector bank in India catering to more than 52 Crore customers ranging from rural to NRI Customers. Given such dynamic geography to address, the Bank needs a robust cloud platform to not only serve high-volume digital transactions for applications like UPI but also provide flexibility to host modern container & AI apps.
This session focuses on how SBI has built a robust Sovereign Cloud Platform Meghdoot to cater the varied application demands

Learn how this Sovereign Cloud stack supporting an enterprise Kubernetes platform provides strict compliance, zero-trust security, and the flexibility needed to support the daily digital transactions of millions of citizens. You can expect practical lessons on managing large enterprise workloads, connecting legacy infrastructure with cloud-native design, and setting a new global standard for sovereign digital banking.
Speakers
avatar for Rajesh Singh

Rajesh Singh

Cloud Lead at SBI, SBI
Handling largest cloud in BFSI Sector.
Friday June 19, 2026 10:46am - 10:49am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
  Keynote Sessions, Security

10:51am IST

Keynote: One Deploy Plane, Every Runtime: How Shopify Generalized Cloud Native Beyond Kubernetes - Aqeel Nazeer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify
Friday June 19, 2026 10:51am - 10:54am IST
At Shopify, applications don't all live on Kubernetes. They live on Kubernetes, on VMs, and on serverless. Hundreds of services across multiple regions, reached through a single deploy plane. At peak last Black Friday, this fleet served 489 million requests per minute and ran across 3.18 million CPU cores.

None of this would exist without the CNCF ecosystem. A request to Shopify flows through a layered edge — CDN, regional load balancers, and tenant-routing proxies — before reaching a workload on Kubernetes, VMs, or serverless. In this keynote, we walk through how Kubernetes, Envoy with xDS, custom resources and controllers, and an observability stack built on Prometheus, Thanos, and OpenTelemetry compose into a single orchestrator that ships code safely across every runtime in our fleet — with phased traffic shifting, automated rollback against live error metrics, and an audit trail expressed in git.

Attendees will leave with a mental model for using cloud-native primitives to build a deploy control plane that scales beyond Kubernetes. This is the story of what cloud native makes possible when AI is writing the code faster than humans can review it — and the deploys still have to be safe.
Speakers
avatar for Aqeel Nazeer

Aqeel Nazeer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify
Aqeel Nazeer is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on Shopify's Continuous Deployment team, where he builds the systems that ship code safely across Shopify's global fleet. He focuses on deploy infrastructure that keeps pace with AI-accelerated engineering without sacrificing safety... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 10:51am - 10:54am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

10:56am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Friday June 19, 2026 10:56am - 11:15am IST

Friday June 19, 2026 10:56am - 11:15am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)
 
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