KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025

6-7 August
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8:00am IST

Badge Pick-Up Registration Centre

9:30am IST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Hall 3

9:47am IST

Keynote: Kubernetes for GenAI: The New Operating System of the AI-First World - Janakiram MSV, Principal Analyst, Janakiram and Associates Hall 3

9:59am IST

Keynote: Pushing the Limits: Scaling ArgoCD’s Repo-Server To Handle 30K Applications - Aditya Sharma & Isha Gusai, Expedia Group Hall 3

10:11am IST

Keynote: DX Is the New UX: How Technical Friction Impacts Business Value - Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate, InfraCloud Technologies Hall 3

10:23am IST

Keynotes to be Announced Hall 3

10:40am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks Hall 3

10:45am IST

Coffee Break ☕ Hall 4 Solutions Showcase Hall 4

11:30am IST

Project Lightning Talks Opening Hall 3 Back To the Basics - Service Mesh Fundamentals - Kannan Jayaprakasam, Google Hall 2 ArgoCD CLI Gets an Upgrade: Plugins, Flexibility, and More - Nitish Kumar, Akuity MRG 1-6 Supercharge Backstage: Self-Service GitOps Staging Environments With VCluster and FluxCD - Farhaan Shamsee & Rakesh Reddy, Siemens Technology Hall 1 Guard Your Network With Kyverno and Envoy - Sanskar Gurdasani, Scoutflo & Swastik Gour, InfraCloud Technologies Hall 6

11:37am IST

Project Lightning Talk: Vitess: OTel 2025: The Latest Milestones and What’s Next - Steve Flanders, Senior Director of Engineering Hall 3

11:44am IST

Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD 3.0: What’s New and What’s Next? - Nitish Kumar, Software Engineer, Argo CD Maintainer Hall 3

11:51am IST

Project Lightning Talk: Essential Resources for gRPC Development - Kevin Nilson, gRPC Maintainer Hall 3

11:58am IST

Project Lightning Talk: How to get your custom access tokens from Keycloak - Alexander Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer Hall 3

12:05pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: What’s New in k0s: Lightweight Kubernetes Without Compromise - Prithvi Raj, Community Manager & Developer Advocate Hall 3

12:10pm IST

Beyond the Start Button: The Hidden Life of Pod Termination in Kubernetes - Rishabh Jain, Amazon Web Services India Hall 2 Delegate Authentication and a Lot More To Keycloak With OpenID Connect - Alexander Schwartz & Rishabh Singh, Red Hat MRG 1-6 To Succeed in Platform Engineering, Build Infrastructure Knowledge Graphs - Safeer C M, MoEngage Hall 1 Sovereign Kubernetes at Adobe: Navigating Trust, Security & Compliance Across Jurisdictions - Amandeep Singh, Adobe Hall 6

12:12pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Dockerfiles vs Buildpacks: What's The Cloud Native Way? - Ram Iyengar, Evangelist Hall 3

12:19pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Kyverno: Kubernetes Policy as Code Unleashed! - Mohd Kamaal, Kyverno contributor Hall 3

12:26pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: What's new in Harbor Project Updates and New Features - Prasanth Baskar, Software Engineer Hall 3

12:33pm IST

Project Lightning Talks Closing Hall 3

12:40pm IST

Lunch 🍲 Hall 4

2:10pm IST

Scaling AI Like a Pro-PepsiCo’s LLM Deployment Strategy on Kubernetes for AI-Driven Business Impact - Praseed Naduvath & Dhanashree Shetty, PepsiCo Hall 3 Who Let the Pods Out? Extending Kubernetes with Custom Controllers and CRDs - Ria Bhatia, Godman Sachs Hall 2 Harbor Maintainers Talk - Role of Harbor in AI, IOT Edge and the Future - Prasanth Baskar, 8gears MRG 1-6 Keep Calm and Carry on Cluster Updates - Thanks To Kyverno Chainsaw - Vijay Dharap, Kubermatic Hall 6 Introducing Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud Hall 1

2:50pm IST

Scaling ML Smarter: Optimizing Kueue & Volcano With Adaptive Scheduling - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe & Aditi Gupta, Disney + Hotstar (now JioHotstar) Hall 3 Kubernetes at the Edge – Come See It in Action! - Xavier Avrillier & Antonia von den Driesch, Giant Swarm Hall 2 Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience: A Look Back, a Step Forward - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE; Aakansha Priya, Independent; Mario Jason Braganza, Janusworx; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom; Sreeram Venkitesh, DigitalOcean MRG 1-6 Mastering Kubernetes Control Plane Performance Optimization With Observability - Liu Jiaxu, Alibaba Cloud Hall 6 IDP as a Product: Where Developer Happiness Meets Platform's Excellence - Ninad Desai & Ruturaj Kadikar, InfraCloud Technologies Hall 1

3:20pm IST

Coffee Break ☕ Hall 4

3:50pm IST

Lessons from Running a CNCF Community: Mistakes, Wins, and Growth - Kemila De Silva, Aeturnum Inc. & Chamod Perera, Circles Hall 2 From Control Planes To Cognitive Planes: Agentic Architecture With MCP - Eddie Wassef, JPMC Hall 6 SIG etcd Maintainer Track Talk - Arka Saha, VMware by Broadcom; Josh Berkus, Red Hat MRG 1-6 Beyond Productivity: Scaling Cloud Dev Environments for Faster Feedback & Sustainable Engineering - Siddhant Khare, Gitpod & Nancy Chauhan, Independent Hall 1

4:30pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Confidential VMs in Kubevirt: Securing VMs With KubeVirt Trusted Execution Environments - Basavaraju G, IBM Hall 3 Unlocking the Power of Kuma Service Mesh: Enhancing Reliability and Developer Productivity - Deepak Verma & Arpit Mishra, Zomato Hall 2 Redefining Inclusion: Building Truly Global Cloud Native Communities - Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock); Priyanka Saggu, SUSE MRG 1-6 Enhancing DNS Reliability in Kubernetes With Node Local DNS Cache - Sanjay Kumar K K R & Priyanshi Agrawal, New Relic Hall 6 Building a Cloud Native IaC Platform for an Enterprise by Leveraging the Kubernetes Ecosystem - Florian Hopfensperger, Allianz Technology & Yury Tsarev, Upbound Hall 1

4:37pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Enhancing Runtime Protection Leveraging Compliance Frameworks - Ramakant Sharma, AccuKnox Inc. Hall 3

4:44pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: K0s at the Edge: Minimal Kubernetes, Maximum Impact - Satyam Bhardwaj, Mirantis Hall 3

4:51pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: OpenKruise: Advancing Kubernetes Workload Automation for Scalable, Disruption-Free Operations - Husni Alhamdani, Amartha Mikro Teknologi & Herbert Sianturi, Krom Bank Indonesia Hall 3

4:58pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimizing SNAT Port and IP Address Management in Kubernetes - Nitin Nizhawan & Prachi Sahu, Microsoft Hall 3

5:02pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Solving Multi-Region K8s Challenges: Improving Pod Startup Time & Reducing NAT Costs With Zot - Tamil Vanan Karuppannan, Arcesium Hall 3

5:09pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Unit Testing in Go With K8s Clients & APIs: An Intern’s POV on Why It’s a Great Start - Harini Anand, IBM Hall 3

5:10pm IST

Rewriting the Rules: Why Kubernetes Is Moving To NFTables - Daman Arora & Yash Kumar Singh, Broadcom Hall 2 Plug-and-Play Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes Built-in Workloads With OpenKruise Rollout - Harkirat Singh, OpenKruise MRG 1-6 Build Your K8s Ready Distro With BootC - Praveen Kumar & Josh Berkus, Red Hat Hall 6 A Journey To Ephemeral Test Environments With EKS and ArgoCD - Tatiana Selezneva & Gazal Gafoor, REA Group Hall 1

5:16pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: WASM Vs Docker: Partners, Not Rivals - Pradumna V Saraf, Independent Hall 3

5:23pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Predictive Autoscaling in Kubernetes With KEDA and Prophet - Snigdha Kanchana, IBM Hall 3

5:30pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Mission: Impossible - Building Self-Healing Disaster Recovery With OpenFeature - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne Hall 3

5:45pm IST

Welcome Reception 🎉 Hall 4

8:00am IST

Badge Pick-Up Registration Centre

9:30am IST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks Hall 3

9:37am IST

Keynote: From Outage To Observability: Lessons From a Kubernetes Meltdown - Saiyam Pathak, LoftLabs & Arnab Chatterjee, Nomura Hall 3

9:48am IST

Keynotes to be Announced Hall 3

10:02am IST

Keynote: Kubernetes and Platform Engineering: A Strategic Partnership for Scalable Innovation - Bhavani Indukuri, Staff Platform Engineer, Zscaler Hall 3

10:14am IST

Keynotes to be Announced Hall 3

10:40am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks Hall 3

10:45am IST

Coffee Break ☕ Hall 4 Solutions Showcase Hall 4

11:30am IST

Children's Guide To LLMs on Kubernetes - Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify & Aman Mundra, Welzin Hall 3 The Fast and the Fluent: AI-Powered Speech Translation at the Edge With K0s - Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc. Hall 1 Smart Capacity-Aware Volume Provisioning for LVM Local Storage Across Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Fleet - Arathi Balasubramanian & Amarnath Ch, Microsoft Hall 2 Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Subham Rai, Nikhil Ladha, Rakshith R & Nitin Goyal, IBM; Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso MRG 1-6 Handling Node Churn in Karpenter: Efficient Scaling for Large EKS Clusters - Shivani Mehrotra, Expedia Group & Chetan Saini, Antra Info Solution PVT LTD Hall 6

12:10pm IST

Cloud Native GenAI Using KServe and OPEA - Johnu George, Nutanix & Arun Gupta, Intel Hall 3 Running Databases Efficiently at Scale - Case Study of Flipkart's Local PV Journey on K8s - Yashpal Choudhary & Akif Ahmed Khan, Flipkart Hall 2 Bridging Big Data and Machine Learning Ecosystems: A Cloud Native Approach Using Kubeflow - Johnu George, Nutanix & Akshay Chitneni, Apple MRG 1-6 Effortless, Standardised Homelab Observability With eBPF - Goutham Veeramachaneni, Grafana Labs Hall 1 Cluster API To Streamline Kubernetes Clusters Lifecycle Management at NVIDIA - Megha Singhal & Gulshan Khatri, NVIDIA Hall 6

12:40pm IST

Lunch 🍲 Hall 4

2:10pm IST

Auto-instrumentation for GPU Performance Using eBPF - Marc Tudurí, Grafana Labs Hall 3 High-Performance Cloud Networking With Calico and Vector Packet Processing - Shatakshi Mishra & Abed Mohammad Kamaluddin, Marvell Technology Hall 2 Inside Vitess: Building Resilient, Distributed Databases - Manan Gupta & Harshit Gangal, PlanetScale MRG 1-6 Containerized Time Travel: Replicating Production Performance - Sravanthi Naga & Hari Babu Volli, Pegasystems Hall 1 Fine-Grained Authorization: The Missing Piece in Agentic AI Security - Shivay Lamba, Couchbase & Ashish Jha, Okta Hall 6

2:50pm IST

How Intuit Streamlined AI/ML Inference Workflows on K8s - Yashash H L & Sreekanth P R, Intuit Hall 3 Scaling Generative AI: Building Production-Ready LLM Applications - Daniel Oh, Red Hat Hall 2 Kubernetes Steering Committee - Navigating the Tides of the Kubernetes Ocean - Maciej Szulik, Independent; Paco Xu, DaoCloud; Nikhita Raghunath & Nabarun Pal, Broadcom MRG 1-6 Observability at Scale With Monitoring as Code: Grafana, Prometheus, & Tempo - Vipin GopalaKrishnapillai, Amway Global Hall 1 Freeze,Investigate,Recover: Unlocking Forensic Container Checkpointing With CRI-U - Suman Chakraborty, Platform9 Systems & Neel Shah, Middleware Hall 6

3:20pm IST

Coffee Break ☕ Hall 4

3:50pm IST

Multi-Layered Guardrails for Cloud Native AI: Enforcing Compliance and Safety at Scale - Vincent Caldeira & Anindita Sinha Banerjee, Red Hat Hall 3 One Operator To Rule Them All? CRD Management Strategies for Cloud Native Apps! - Guna Kambalimath, IBM ISDL Hall 2 Kubernetes Policy as Code for Platform Engineers - Sonali Srivastava, InfraCloud Technologies; Mohd Kamaal & Kushal Agrawal, Independent MRG 1-6 Building a Scalable Observability Platform for Edge Compute Nodes - Naveen Kumar S P & Karthik A, Kongsberg Digital India Hall 1 Choose Your Shield: Evaluating Linux Security Modules for Cloud Native Ecosystems - Ramakant Sharma, AccuKnox Inc. Hall 6

4:30pm IST

Sandboxing Agentic AI With LSM-BPF - Rahul Jadhav, Accuknox Hall 3 From Slow To Pro: Accelerating Kubernetes Native Development With Kind & DevSpace - Raghu Chandrasekaran & Naveenkumar Kumanan, AppViewX Hall 2 Minimal OS, Maximum Impact: Journey To a Flatcar Maintainer - Sayan Chowdhury, Microsoft MRG 1-6 Unlocking Kubernetes Observability: Secure, Tenant-Centric Metrics for GPU Workloads - Bingi Narasimha Karthik & Ramkumar Nagaraj, Adobe Hall 1 Security: The Thing That Everyone Loves To Hate - Bhavani Indukuri, Zscaler; Sonali Srivastava, InfraCloud Technologies; Ram Iyengar, The Linux Foundation; Anusha Hegde, Nirmata Hall 6