KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Speakers

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 →

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)

Keynote Sessions

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

Avi Kothari

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Sarvam

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

Aditya Sridasyam

Software Development Engineer 2, Flipkart

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)

Keynote Sessions

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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 →

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 →

Serving and scalingV3 pdf

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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)

Keynote Sessions

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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)

Keynote Sessions

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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 →

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)

Keynote Sessions

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

Pradeep Bishnoi

JioStar, Senior Director of Engineering

Thursday June 18, 2026 11:10am - 11:13am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions

11:15am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

Keynote Sessions

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

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 →

20260618 Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics pdf

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

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

3:10pm IST

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Why Platforms & AI Need Each Other - Ram Iyengar, Cloud Foundry Foundation

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

Chief Evangelist, CF

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 →

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

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 →

KubeconIndia2026 PronomitaDey.pptx pdf

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 →

Your Prompt Is a Cross Border Data Transfer Sudhanshu Prajapati pdf

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

Jithin Raj is the lead protocol maintainer of PEAC Protocol and founder of Originary. He works on portable signed records for APIs, MCP servers, and agent workflows.

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 →

KC IN 2026 pdf

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 →

Secure GitOps for Regulated Workloads Argo CD Meets Confidential Containers KC+CNC INDIA 2026 Jitendra Singh pdf

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 →

Cluster Wide Policies Risk Presentation (3) pdf

Thursday June 18, 2026 5:32pm - 5:37pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

Content Experience Level Beginner

9:45am IST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks

Friday June 19, 2026 9:45am - 10:05am IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

Keynote Sessions

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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)

Keynote Sessions

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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)

Keynote Sessions

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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)

Keynote Sessions

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

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 10:29am - 10:39am IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Keynote Sessions, Security

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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)

Keynote Sessions

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

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)

Keynote Sessions

10:56am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks

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

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

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

Keynote Sessions

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 →

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

AI + ML

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

From Flaky Builds to Self-Healing Deployments: An OTel-Driven CI/CD Tale - Chamod Perera, Circles & Shivay Lamba, CNCF Ambassador

Friday June 19, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

This session is based on real production experience building and operating an observability-driven CI/CD platform using CNCF projects. It shows how OpenTelemetry can extend beyond application monitoring to become a core primitive for modern CI/CD systems.

While running dozens of Kubernetes clusters and handling 60M+ requests per minute, costly east-west network load balancers and fragmented CI metrics created blind spots that hid deployment failures. Traditional dashboards showed healthy systems, while rollouts quietly broke.

We share how treating Jenkins pipelines as distributed systems enabled end-to-end tracing across builds, deployments, and runtime behavior. By correlating CI signals with OpenTelemetry traces, we detected cascading failures and closed the loop with automated GitOps rollbacks. The talk covers real challenges, trade-offs, and lessons learned to build reliable, self-healing delivery pipelines.

Speakers

Shivay Lamba

Developer Relations Engineer, CNCF Ambassador

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development.

He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also worked at organizations like Amazon, EY, Genpact. He is a Tensorflow.JS SIG member and community lead from In... Read More →

Chamod Perera

Software Engineer II | CNCF Ambassador, Circles

Chamod Shehanka is a software engineer II at Circles.Life , an open-source and cloud native enthusiast and interested in conducting tech talks in domains such as cloud native tools. He's leading the KCD Sri Lanka and GDG Sri Lanka. Other than that he's an ex GitHub Field Expert

Self Healing Deployments CI CD Tale pdf

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

Application Development

4:10pm IST

So You Want To Run AI Agents on Kubernetes: A 101 Guide - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST

Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

Your platform team is trying to integrate AI workloads, your developers want to deploy agents and your leadership expects 10x efficiency with AI but when you dig into the specifics, the terminology becomes a maze: AI Agents, MCP Servers, and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA). Where do you even start?

This session is centered around what problem each of these solve. In this hands-on 101 guide I will start by demystifying how AI agents operate on Kubernetes—how they interact with workloads, the role of MCP servers in enabling multi-agent coordination, and the fundamentals of DRA for intelligent resource management. Then, I will bring it all together with a live demo showing how AI agents can dynamically tune DRA drivers to optimize scheduling and resource usage in real time. Whether you’re an engineer, researcher, or just Kubernetes-curious, this session will equip you with the foundational knowledge and confidence to start experimenting with agentic and adaptive systems on Kubernetes.

Speakers

Rajas Kakodkar

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Rajas is a staff software engineer at Broadcom, where he focuses on low level functions of Kubernetes nodes. He is a tech lead of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group, Workload Foundation and a Kubernetes contributor. He has been co-chairing Cloud Native AI Day, a co-located event at... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Beginner

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, Everpure

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... Read More →

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Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Level 3)

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

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