KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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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

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

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

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

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

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

5:30pm IST

Building a Self-Service Platform for Stateful AI Agents - Shruti Mantri, Google & Shuva Jyoti Kar, Cisco Systems

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:30pm - 6:00pm IST

Lotus 1 (Level 3)

AI agents are moving from prototypes into production, and platform teams are increasingly asked to provide a “paved road” for deploying them safely. But agentic workloads don’t fit neatly into traditional stateless service templates: they pull in embeddings and retrieval context, call tools, stream responses, and require repeatable execution across environments—often leading to one-off 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 →

Shruti Mantri

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Shruti is an accomplished engineer with over a decade of experience, specializing in innovative data solutions. Her passion for exploring new technologies keeps her at the forefront of advancements in the field. As an active contributor to open-source projects and a technical blog... Read More →

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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