KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: Full Schedule

18-19 June
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12:00pm IST

Transforming the DNA: How the Indian Banking Sector Is Leading the Cloud Native Revolution - Sudheesh Sudhakaran, Broadcom; K Sriram Kumar, I-exceed; RanVijay Pandey, Infosys Finacle; Komila Jain, TCS; Rajesh Singh, SBI

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

The Indian BFSI sector is shifting to cloud-native architectures to enhance operational efficiency, scalability, and digital customer experiences. This panel of industry leaders, Architects from India's largest Bank (SBI) to leading Banking software firms (Infosys Finacle, TCS, I-exceed), is here in India's financial capital, to discuss:
- Cloud Native adoption and growth in the BFSI sector
Banking-specific, unique real-world use cases, role of Agentic AI
- Developing and operating applications at scale, e.g 1.7B accounts serving 1.3B people across the globe
- Security safeguards, governance, and change management, with the use of the CNCF project Flagger
- Tackling challenges with cloud-native technologies and the feedback loop with the community and maintainers.

This panel shares insights on cloud-native adoption in India's BFSI sector, incorporating global perspectives. Be inspired by how popular technologies are architected at scale to deliver innovative banking solutions.

Speakers

K Sriram Kumar

SVP Platform Engineering, I-exceed

Works a Senior Vice President in a Fintech specialising
on Cloud native applications handling Cloud security , Application Security and Platform Engineering.

Sudheesh Sudhakaran

Engineering leader, Broadcom, Broadcom

Sudheesh Sudhakaran is an engineering leader with VMware by Broadcom. Before Broadcom acquired VMware, he was the India site leader for the VMware Tanzu team. As a Senior Director of Engineering, he was responsible for the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) and Tanzu Edge product portfolio... Read More →

Komila Jain

Chief Architect, TCS

• 25+ years of IT industry experience leading solution for large scale digital transformation program, Integration projects & application modernization
• Experience in building Solutions & Framework to fast-track digital transformation engagements.
• Strategic & in-depth... Read More →

Rajesh Singh

Cloud Lead at SBI, SBI

Handling largest cloud in BFSI Sector.

RanVijay Pandey

Head Technology Alliances, Infosys Finacle

Ran Vijay Pandey – Global Alliance Head, Infosys Finacle
Ran Vijay Pandey leads global technology alliances for Infosys Finacle, driving strategic partnerships across platforms and ecosystems. With over 25 years of experience in IT, banking, and financial services, he has held leadership roles in technology architecture, industry consulting... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Any

12:40pm IST

Re-Architecting Monoliths Into Kubernetes Microservices at Million-User Scale: Hard Lessons - Aditya Sharma, Lumenore

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Legacy platforms often begin as tightly coupled monoliths running on virtual machines. While workable at small scale, this model breaks down under real production traffic, operational growth, and security demands.

This talk presents a real-world case study of re-architecting a BI and AI analytics platform from a VM-based monolith into Kubernetes-native microservices serving millions of users. It covers a 13 years journey from on-prem bare metal and vertical scaling failures to containerization and a production-grade Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-prem environments.

The session focuses on practical challenges such as resource contention, downtime-driven scaling, observability gaps, security audit failures, configuration drift, and manual operations, and explains how these drove decisions around service decomposition, GitOps, defense-in-depth security, and service mesh adoption.

Speakers

Aditya Sharma

Technical Architect, Lumenore

I’m driven by curiosity and a passion for building better systems. With experience across DevOps, DevSecOps and FinOps, I integrate security, automation and efficiency from day one. I help organizations tame complexity and turn technology into a competitive advantage. I believe... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Cloud Native Experience

Content Experience Level Beginner

2:30pm IST

Beyond the Primary CR: The Design Choice of What and What Not To Watch in Kubernetes Operators - Guna Kambalimath & Kishen V, IBM

Thursday June 18, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Watching resources is fundamental to how K8s Operators reconcile state of the CR which is the primary resource, on the other hand, there are secondary resources created and managed by the controller to support the primary resource!

But does every secondary resource need to be watched?

In this session, we explore the design choices behind deciding what to watch and what not to watch considering real world examples. We'll dive into pros and cons of different approaches considering key factors - performance, scalability, RBAC boundaries, robustness of the operator. We'll understand how selective watching can reduce noise and improve the controller efficiency, By the end of the session, attendees will know how to choose the right approach for developing smarter, streamlined Kubernetes Operators backed by real-world use cases.

Speakers

Kishen V

Cloud Engineer, IBM

A software engineer with a history of working in Cloud Native and Containerization technologies since 2020, with a passion towards contributing to open-source technologies. I love playing Diablo and Guitar in my leisure.

Guna K Kambalimath

Software Engineer, IBM ISDL

Software engineer at IBM ISDL with a work experience of 5 years. Involved the development of VPC Block CSI driver in IBM Cloud. My expertise is in Golang, C++, systems, monitoring and alerting tools. Contributor to the opensource kubernetes signature community.
Current work involves ODF and ceph deployment/support on IBM PowerVS infrastructure... Read More →

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

Application Development

Content Experience Level Intermediate

3:10pm IST

Building and Orchestrating Real Production-ready Agentic AI Systems - Kevin Dubois & Daniel Oh, IBM

Thursday June 18, 2026 3:10pm - 3:40pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Developing AI applications today isn’t just about experimental single-model interactions. Organizations are rapidly adopting AI and to do that, the requirements for enterprise software become increasingly more complex. Advanced Agentic AI systems address this need, where multiple specialized agents work together, each capable of independent reasoning.

The real challenge for architects lies in orchestrating these agents to collaborate effectively towards a common goal. Unfortunately though, a "one-size-fits-all" approach to coordination just doesn't work due to the complex nature of software. In addition, just like traditional apps, these agentic systems need to be deployed, managed and observed in cloud environments.

In this session we'll explore the spectrum of Agentic AI patterns; real world implementations with Java; how to deploy these Agentic Systems to Kubernetes, and what other considerations there are to get these applications running in production.

Speakers

Daniel Oh

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author

Kevin Dubois

Sr Principal Developer Advocate, IBM

Kevin Dubois is often featured as a (keynote) speaker at conferences around the world, where he shares his passion and knowledge about developer experience, open source, cloud native development and Java. He is also an author, java Champion, and an accomplished software architect... Read More →

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

Application Development

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:10pm IST

K8s Complexity Tamed: One Interface To Rule Them All With CNCF Incubating Project KubeVela - Jerrin Francis & Gowtham S, Guidewire Software India

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Platform fragmentation is a silent productivity killer in Kubernetes. As our platform grew, so did its complexity—forcing developers to master observability, authentication, cost control, and more just to deploy a simple service. In this session, we’ll show how we turned a fragmented ecosystem into a unified experience using KubeVela and the Open Application Model. You’ll see how we:

Adopted KubeVela as a universal platform interface

Developed a componentized model so developers declare needs, not implementation

Created reusable traits that auto-inject observability, compliance, and best practices

Reduced cognitive load and boosted application quality

The outcome? Developers build and ship faster, SREs sleep better, governance runs itself, and teams spend less time wrestling with YAML and more time delivering value.

Speakers

Jerrin Francis

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform, Guidewire Software, India

Gowtham S

Senior Technical Product Manager - Cloud Platform, Guidewire Software, India

Driving Cloud-native platform engineering product strategy for KubeVela, OAM at Guidewire. Ex-AWS Containers Specialist, helped Enterprise customers to optimize Kubernetes workloads on EKS at scale. Passionate about AI/ML on Kubernetes and CNCF projects.

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:10pm - 4:40pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Application Development

Content Experience Level Intermediate

4:50pm IST

The 900-Second Ghost: Debugging Half-Open TCP - Dhruv Jain, Gojek (GoTo Group)

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

What happens when a production incident lasts 15 minutes, yet monitoring systems report everything as “green”? At hyperscale, supporting on-demand services in Southeast Asia’s most populous countries, a team encountered a silent and elusive failure mode: half-open TCP connections.

In this deep-dive session, the speaker conducts a packet-level autopsy of a real-world incident that impacted millions of messages. The talk examines the critical differences between FIN and RST packets, demonstrating how the absence of a single 40-byte segment resulted in 900 seconds of effective downtime. Attendees will learn why relying on default Linux kernel tcp_keepalive settings is unsafe for high-availability systems.

The session also explores the Zero Window phenomenon and how TCP backpressure can cause message timestamp drift. This is a story of persistence, spanning detailed packet captures and collaboration with a major cloud provider’s networking team to fix load balancer FIN-delivery behavior.

Speakers

Dhruv Jain

Lead Software Engineer, Gojek (GoTo Group)

Dhruv Jain is a Lead Software Engineer at Gojek, where he focuses on building and scaling MQTT infrastructure that handles millions of concurrent connections across Southeast Asia. Beyond his work at Gojek, he is an active contributor to the open-source community and Google Summer... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Application Development

Content Experience Level Intermediate

5:30pm IST

Beyond Monolithic AI: Cloud Native Patterns for Dynamic Model Selection and Semantic Routing - Vincent Caldeira & Anindita Sinha Banerjee, Red Hat

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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

The era of the "one-size-fits-all" LLM is ending. We are shifting toward Compound AI Systems—complex meshes where the goal isn't just to query a model, but to dynamically select the best model for the specific task at hand. This shift creates a massive opportunity for cloud-native architectures: how do you govern non-deterministic routing at scale?

This session breaks down the infrastructure required to move from monolithic agents to multi-model orchestration. We will demonstrate how to implement Semantic Routing within an AI Gateway to act as a traffic controller, instantly analyzing user intent to route queries to the most capable (or cost-effective) model. You will learn patterns for "supervisor" workflows, where lightweight models handle routing and heavyweight models handle self-correction. Join us to discover how to build controlled AI systems on Kubernetes, ensuring your agents are not just powerful, but precise, effectively governed, and fundamentally safer.

Speakers

Vincent Caldeira

CTO APAC, Red Hat

Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat APAC CTO and Industry Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, drives tech strategy and emerging engineering. A Top 10 APAC CTO (2023) with 20+ years in finance IT, he is an authority on open source, cloud-native technologies and AI. Vincent holds leadership... Read More →

Anindita Sinha Banerjee

Data Scientist, Red Hat

With over a decade in Data and Decision Sciences, I design NLP and AI solutions that solve complex business challenges. Currently a Data Scientist at Red Hat and former researcher at Tata Research Development and Design Center, I have presented research at premier conferences and... Read More →

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

AI + ML

Content Experience Level Intermediate

12:00pm IST

Inference in Progress… Please Monitor Responsibly - Gaurav Sharma, NVIDIA

Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Running GPU inference on Kubernetes is no longer exotic — it’s becoming the default for modern AI workloads. But while teams obsess over model latency and throughput, the real problems usually hide deeper: GPU under-utilization, memory fragmentation, node-level contention, noisy neighbour, and observability gaps that make debugging feel like guesswork.
In this talk, we’ll walk through a practical, field-tested monitoring approach for GPU inference workloads on Kubernetes. Attendees will learn how to instrument GPU nodes, collect and correlate GPU-specific metrics, build alerting around inference SLOs, and detect performance regressions before they disrupt production. We’ll also cover common anti-patterns and what “good” looks like for GPU observability in 2025.
If you're running (or planning to run) GPU inference at scale, this session will help you monitor responsibly — and keep your cluster healthy, efficient, and fast.

Speakers

Gaurav Sharma

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Nvidia

Currently working as Senior SRE for Nvidia AI.
In the past I have been part of SRE teams for Nvidia cloud gaming, Microsoft Azure Reliability, Adobe Analytics & VMware Cloud Services.

Friday June 19, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner

12:40pm IST

Patients as Time-Series: High-Stakes Clinical Alerting With OpenSearch & K8s - Seema Saharan, Autodesk & Aakanksha Saharan, Independent

Friday June 19, 2026 12:40pm - 1:10pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Patients aren’t static records; they are evolving systems. Neurology makes this clear, but the technical lesson applies to any domain where "normal" changes over time. This session treats longitudinal data as time-series to reshape search, relevance, and alerting in OpenSearch.

We move beyond "snapshot" queries to focus on evidence drift and trajectories via three pillars:

Longitudinal Indexing: Strategies for time-dependent data to support trend-based retrieval.

Detecting Trajectory Drift: Using OpenSearch Anomaly Detection to identify when patterns deviate from expected ranges.

Probabilistic Alerting: Moving from hard thresholds to uncertainty-aware alerts factoring in clinical noise and data gaps.

Attendees will learn to build systems that reason over time and trends rather than isolated documents—a blueprint for healthcare, AIOps, and beyond. This session bridges OpenSearch with the CNCF ecosystem (Kubernetes/OpenTelemetry) for mission-critical workloads.

Speakers

Seema Saharan

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Autodesk

Meet Seema, the tech whiz at Autodesk. She's not just about fixing things – she loves sharing what she knows! Whether speaking at cool events like GitLab Commit, and GitHub Universe or breaking down tech on her YouTube channel, Seema makes the complicated stuff easy and fun. Join... Read More →

Aakanksha Saharan

Student, Independent

Aakanksha is a med student with a strong interest in the intersection of tech and medicine and its potential to drive innovation in healthcare. She is a co-founder of Curaximo, where she explores tech-driven approaches to medicine. She has volunteered with multiple medical organizations... Read More →

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

Observability

Content Experience Level Any

2:30pm IST

When the Edge Can’t Afford a Third Node: A Storage Solution for Two-Node Kubernetes Cluster - Parth Arora, IBM

Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Edge Kubernetes clusters run under strict constraints—limited hardware, power, and space—where deploying three nodes for storage quorum is often unrealistic. Still, these environments must support stateful workloads and recover safely from failures.

This session focuses on Rook-Ceph as a storage solution for two-node Kubernetes clusters at the edge. It explains why Ceph traditionally expects three nodes, what breaks in minimal deployments, and how recent design patterns make two-node setups practical when combined with fencing.

Attendees will learn how Rook-Ceph behaves in two-node clusters, how floating Ceph MONs and DRBD-backed monitor state help preserve quorum, and why fencing is critical to avoid split-brain during node crashes, power loss, or network partitions.

Speakers

parth arora

Software Engineer, IBM

I am Parth Arora, a software developer specializing in distributed storage systems.
As a Maintainer and developer, I have extensive experience working with Rook, a cloud-native storage orchestrator that enables storage systems like Ceph to be run as a service on Kubernetes. I have contributed to the development of Rook and have worked on projects involving Ceph... Read More →

Friday June 19, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm IST
Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Beginner

3:10pm IST

Feast as a Cloud Native Data System: Bridging Batch Processing and Online Serving on Kubernetes - Nikhil Kathole, Red Hat

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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

Modern AI and GenAI platforms running on Kubernetes depend on derived data that must be processed in batch and served with low latency. Teams often stitch together data processing engines, object stores, databases, and caching layers, creating operational complexity and inconsistent data access patterns.

This session presents Feast as a cloud native data system that bridges batch processing and online serving on Kubernetes. We explore how Feast integrates with Kubernetes-native data engines such as Spark and Ray, reuses existing data lakes and warehouses as offline stores, and materializes data into online stores optimized for real-time access.

Using Open Data Hub and the Feast Operator, the talk demonstrates a Kubernetes-native architecture for managing data pipelines. Attendees will learn practical design patterns and operational trade-offs for building scalable, cloud native data platforms that support ML and RAG workloads without introducing new data silos.

Speakers

Nikhil Kathole

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Nikhil is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI), focused on building Feature Store. He is enthusiastic about Open Source Technologies and previously he contributed to the foreman and fedora communities.

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

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Any

4:10pm IST

The Leapfrog Upgrade Playbook: Upgrading When You’re Years Behind - Yug Gupta, Walmart Global Tech

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

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

This is a story of how Walmart Leapfrogged 11 Kubernetes Releases Without Customer Downtime.

If that sounds impossible, wait untill you see the constraints: Millions of k8s resources, an etcd database nearing ~7GB, and a version gap so wide that “just upgrade” wasn’t a plan. We needed a method that was safe across API removals, predictable under extreme object counts, and repeatable enough to become a standard operating procedure.

Attendees will learn: (1) how to preflight deprecated APIs and CRDs using upstream guidance (2) how to design restore ordering and “selective restore” boundaries to avoid bringing back broken objects, (3) how to tune API server concurrency so backup/restore doesn’t become a self-inflicted outage, and (4) how to validate correctness and plan rollbacks.

This is a field guide for anyone who’s fallen far behind and needs a safe way forward without betting production on a one-shot upgrade.

No secret sauce, just the hard-earned physics of Kubernetes at scale.

Speakers

Yug Gupta

Staff Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech

Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech India
An open source enthusiast, contributing to the kubernetes ecosystem.

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

Operations + Performance

Content Experience Level Beginner

4:50pm IST

The Death of the YAML-Engineer: Engineering "Invisible" Platforms With Crossplane and Score - Abhinav Sharma & Mumshad Mannambeth, KodeKloud

Friday June 19, 2026 4:50pm - 5:20pm IST

Lotus 3 (Level 3)

"I just want to ship my code". Every developer says it, but few organizations achieve it. Instead, developers spend 30% of their time wrestling with 1,000-line Helm charts and complex Terraform modules. This is the "YAML Tax", and it's killing engineering velocity.

This session shares how we abolished the YAML Tax at scale. We’ll demonstrate how to build an "Invisible Platform" where developers use Score - a workload-centric specification - to describe what their app needs, while Crossplane dynamically provisions the how across multi-cloud environments.

Attendees will learn the blueprint for:
1. Contract-Driven Development: Using Score to decouple the application's requirements from the environment’s implementation.
2. The Control Plane Shift: Replacing brittle CI/CD pipelines with Crossplane's continuous reconciliation loop for cloud resources.
3. Developer Joy at Scale: How we reduced onboarding time from weeks to minutes by hiding Kubernetes complexity behind a single score.yaml.

Speakers

Abhinav Sharma

Site Reliability Engineer, KodeKloud

I am a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at KodeKloud . I am an Open source contributor, evaluating and contributed in various open source tools and projects, such as, Microsoft's Open source libraries, OpenCV, SUSE, etc. I was also a Google Summer of Code contributor 2022 and a GitHub... Read More →