KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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1:30pm IST

Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos

Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm IST

Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

Sponsor: Clickhouse
Demo: DemoHouse & ClickStack
Booth Number: G10

Sponsor: Intuit
Booth Number: G11

In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.

Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

2:30pm IST

Sponsored Demo: Scaling EdTech at Hyperspeed: How PhysicsWallah Reduced Kubernetes Costs Without Slowing Down - Avinash Gupta, Physicswallah & Gaurang Singh, Cast AI

Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 2:50pm IST

205 (Level 2)

PhysicsWallah serves 10 million learners across India, running live classes 24/7 on Amazon EKS. As the platform scaled, Karpenter hit its limits. Spot interruptions were hard to handle gracefully, manual rightsizing consumed SRE bandwidth, and nodes were chronically over-provisioned for traffic spikes that came and went unpredictably.
In this talk, Avinash (Engineering Lead, PW) and Gaurang Singh (Field CTO APAC, CAST AI) walk through how PW adopted CAST AI to automate Kubernetes cost optimization without risking a single live class. Starting with a read-only POC, the team validated 48.67% cost savings before touching production. They then rolled out workload rightsizing (WOOP) and node autoscaling incrementally, cutting CPU requests by 35% in production.
The session covers the adoption playbook, lessons on configuring Pod Disruption Budgets before enabling rightsizing, and why multi-family spot pools outperform manual over-provisioning for spiky edtech workloads.

**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.**

Speakers

Gaurang Singh

Field CTO APAC, Cast AI

Gaurang Singh is Field CTO, APAC at CAST AI, where he helps enterprises optimize Kubernetes infrastructure at scale across cloud cost, performance, and automation. He works closely with platform engineering teams in BFSI, telecom, and media industries, specializing in large-scale... Read More →

Avinash Gupta

Senior Director of Engineering, Physicswallah

Avinash Gupta is Senior Director of Engineering at PhysicsWallah, where he leads product engineering and infrastructure across PW's platform and its subsidiaries. With over a decade of experience scaling engineering and infra functions at high-growth organizations, he brings deep... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 2:50pm IST
205 (Level 2)

Sponsored Demos, Sponsor Demo Session

3:00pm IST

Sponsored Demo: From Local App to Cluster in Minutes with Headlamp and OSS - Sanket Bakshi, Microsoft

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm IST

205 (Level 2)

Getting an existing app onto Kubernetes often breaks down at the last mile: writing Dockerfiles, generating manifests, and figuring out how everything fits together across environments.

This demo shows a working path from a developer laptop to a production cluster using open-source tools. We start in VS Code with the Containerization Assist MCP server, which generates Dockerfiles and Kubernetes manifests and iterates based on real build feedback. Then we move into Headlamp, the CNCF Kubernetes UI, to inspect a local cluster, validate the deployment, and promote the same workload to AKS without switching tools.

You’ll see a single flow from local app to local cluster to AKS in minutes, how containerization artifacts get created and refined, and how Headlamp provides a consistent view across environments. The focus is on a practical, repeatable path that stays aligned with open-source tooling while working seamlessly with managed Kubernetes.

**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.**

Speakers

Sanket Bakshi

Senior Program Manager, Cloud Native, Microsoft

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:00pm - 3:20pm IST
205 (Level 2)

Sponsored Demos, Sponsor Demo Session

3:30pm IST

Sponsored Demo: Cloud Native AI: Model Management with Harbor & Velero - Dhruv Tyagi, Broadcom

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:30pm - 3:50pm IST

205 (Level 2)

As AI scales on Kubernetes, platform teams face a massive hurdle: managing multi-gigabyte AI models. Baking LLMs directly into container images breaks CI/CD pipelines, bloats storage, and couples the model lifecycle to the inference server code.
In this session, discover how to bring operational maturity to AI workflows. First, we will explore Harbor’s evolution as an AI model registry supporting the Cloud Native AI (CNAI) spec. You will see a live demo of packaging and pushing quantized models into Harbor as standard OCI artifacts, leveraging layer deduplication and rich metadata.

Then, we will tackle Day-2 operational resilience for these deployments. We will demonstrate how to reliably back up and restore your AI namespace: including inference services, configurations, and model cache PVCs ensuring your workloads survive unexpected disasters.

Join us to learn a practical, open-source blueprint for confidently distributing and protecting production AI workloads on Kubernetes.

**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.**

Speakers

Dhruv Tyagi

Product Marketing Engineer, Broadcom

Dhruv Tyagi is a Product Marketing Engineer at VMware by Broadcom focusing on architecting, validating, and promoting the end-to-end infrastructure solutions for VCF Edge and Kubernetes. Dhruv specializes in Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Container Orchestration, Automation, and DevOps... Read More →

CNAI Model Management with Harbor and Velero pdf

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:30pm - 3:50pm IST
205 (Level 2)

Sponsored Demos, Sponsor Demo Session

3:45pm IST

Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:45pm - 4:15pm IST

Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

Sponsor: Neevcloud
Demo: Dedicated Inferencing: "Reserved Compute for Real-Time Voice AI"
Booth Number: G5,G6

Sponsor: Vultr
Demo: Agentic AI for Customer Service Runs on Vultr Cloud GPU and Kubernetes Engine
Booth Number: G7

In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:45pm - 4:15pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

4:00pm IST

Sponsored Demo: The True Cost of Building at Machine Speed - Dan Lorenc, Chainguard

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:00pm - 4:20pm IST

205 (Level 2)

AI is fundamentally reshaping software development. Engineering teams are already shipping 10-50x more code through agentic workflows, but the security infrastructure built for human-paced development can't scale with them. This talk examines the hidden costs and compounding risks that emerge when organizations embrace AI velocity without rethinking their software supply chain. As the attack surface expands during every sprint and exploitation timelines compress from weeks to hours, a new class of threats is emerging: AI-powered malware targeting CI/CD pipelines, physically impossible attack rates, and zero-days that legacy scanning tools were never designed to catch. Drawing on real-world examples, Dan Lorenc outlines what a secure-by-default foundation looks like in the agentic era, where vulnerabilities are eliminated before they reach your environment.

**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.**

Speakers

Dan Lorenc

CEO and Co-founder, Chainguard

Dan Lorenc is co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, a company revolutionizing how organizations build securely with open source software, shaping modern development practices for companies like Canva, OpenAI, Snap Inc, and Snowflake.
His foundational contributions to software supply chain security predate watershed moments like SolarWinds and Log4j. Before founding Chainguard, Dan spent over a decade at Google where he led several influential projects. He created Tekton and Sigstore to make containers more secure... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:00pm - 4:20pm IST
205 (Level 2)

Sponsored Demos, Sponsor Demo Session

4:30pm IST

Sponsored Demo: Cut the Bill, Not the Brains. AI Coding Agents That Ship More and Cost Less - Matas Kaminskas, Cast AI

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:30pm - 4:50pm IST

205 (Level 2)

Your AI coding bill is going to surprise you. Not because the models stopped working - because they're working too well, and you're running everything through the most expensive ones by default.

There's a 12× per-token cost gap between frontier and OSS models. On real coding benchmarks, the gap in output quality is almost nothing. The difference is the harness - the layer most teams never touch.

This talk is about that layer: how automatic task routing cuts spend without touching quality, why the harness matters more than the model you pick, and what the infrastructure underneath actually looks like (vLLM, prefix caching, Kubernetes-native GPU orchestration).

Based on Kimchi, the open-source coding agent we built after our own Anthropic bill went vertical. Practical, benchmarked, runs today.

**In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.**

Speakers

Matas Kaminskas

Senior Engineering Manager, Cast AI

Matas is a Senior Engineering Manager at CAST AI, leading Kimchi - an open-source AI coding agent and inference platform built on open-source models. He has spent 10+ years building distributed systems and helping companies cut Kubernetes infrastructure costs at scale.

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:30pm - 4:50pm IST
205 (Level 2)

Sponsored Demos, Sponsor Demo Session

11:45am IST

Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos

Friday June 19, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm IST

Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

Sponsor: Portworx by Everpure
Demo: CSI WON’T SAVE YOU: Why 'CSI Support' is not a storage strategy and you are being setup to fail
Booth Number: G9

In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or access sponsored content. You are never required to visit third party booths or to access sponsored content. When visiting a booth or participating in sponsored activities, the third party will receive some of your registration data. This data includes your first name, last name, title, company, address, email, standard demographics questions (i.e. job function, industry), and details about the sponsored content or resources you interacted with. If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.

Friday June 19, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm IST
Jasmine 1 (Level 3)

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

1:30pm IST

2:30pm IST

Gaurang Singh

Avinash Gupta

3:00pm IST

Sanket Bakshi

3:30pm IST

Dhruv Tyagi

3:45pm IST

4:00pm IST

Dan Lorenc

4:30pm IST

Matas Kaminskas

11:45am IST

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