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Wednesday, August 6
 

8:00am IST

Badge Pick-Up
Wednesday August 6, 2025 8:00am - 6:00pm IST
Registration Centre
Wednesday August 6, 2025 8:00am - 6:00pm IST
Registration Centre
  Registration

9:30am IST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:30am - 9:45am IST
Hall 3
Speakers
avatar for Chris Aniszczyk

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 →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:30am - 9:45am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions

9:47am IST

Keynote: Kubernetes for GenAI: The New Operating System of the AI-First World - Janakiram MSV, Principal Analyst, Janakiram and Associates
Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:47am - 9:57am IST
Hall 3
As Generative AI moves from prototype to production, Kubernetes has emerged as the foundational substrate powering this transition. In this session, I explore how Kubernetes is accelerating the adoption of GenAI and AI agents—from orchestrating large model training and serving, to powering Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning pipelines, and real-time inference, and agentic workflows. I discuss real-world implementations, cutting-edge open-source projects, and reusable design patterns that highlight how the cloud-native ecosystem is evolving to meet the unique demands of AI-native workloads. Whether you’re building foundation models or deploying intelligent agents at scale, Kubernetes is fast becoming the operating system of the GenAI revolution.
Speakers
avatar for Janakiram MSV

Janakiram MSV

Principal Analyst, Janakiram and Associates
Janakiram is a practicing architect, analyst, and advisor with a focus on emerging infrastructure technologies. He provides strategic advisory to technology platform companies, startups, ISVs, and enterprises. As a practitioner working with a diverse Enterprise customer base across... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:47am - 9:57am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions

9:59am IST

Keynote: Pushing the Limits: Scaling ArgoCD’s Repo-Server To Handle 30K Applications - Aditya Sharma & Isha Gusai, Expedia Group
Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:59am - 10:09am IST
Hall 3
Expedia Group’s RCP platform is transitioning to ArgoCD as its control plane. As part of this journey, we are adapting ArgoCD’s industry-leading technology to meet our current and future needs. A critical component of this effort involves fine-tuning the repo-server, originally optimized for GitOps workflows, to manage over 4,000 unique Helm charts at a scale of 12,000 applications, with a forecasted future scale of 30,000 applications.

This talk delves into our deep-dive scalability testing of the repo-server component, exploring memory usage patterns, troubleshooting performance bottlenecks, and addressing memory burst issues. We share our solutions to stabilize the repo-server under heavy load, and provide actionable recommendations based on configurations and parameters that worked for us. These insights aim to benefit the broader community in their own scalability endeavors.
Speakers
avatar for Isha Gusai

Isha Gusai

Senior Software Development Engineer, Expedia Group
Isha is a Platform Engineer at Expedia Group, where she brings her expertise as a Software Development Engineer 3 to the forefront of creating seamless travel experiences. Isha remains committed to leveraging her technical expertise and creativity to shape the future of travel technology... Read More →
avatar for Aditya Sharma

Aditya Sharma

DevOps @ Expedia Group, Expedia Group
Hi, myself Aditya. I did my undergrad from DTU in Computer Engineering and since then I have had an unquenchable thirst for different technologies. This started off with some AI / ML research works, followed by some Web based full stack personal projects and now finally the DevOps... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 9:59am - 10:09am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions, Operations + Performance

10:11am IST

Keynote: DX Is the New UX: How Technical Friction Impacts Business Value - Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate, InfraCloud Technologies
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:11am - 10:21am IST
Hall 3
Remember how you instantly close that glitchy food delivery app when it freezes mid-order? The same principle now applies to developer tools. Every minute spent battling deployment pipelines or debugging environment issues creates unnecessary friction.

This friction impacts your ability to deliver business value. It affects the things that matter: speed to market, talent retention, and competitive advantage. Leading organizations today are now designing for developer joy with the same intensity they apply to customer experiences.

Let us look at how forward-thinking technology leaders are transforming their platforms into competitive advantages by designing for developer delight. We’ll also learn how community insights can accelerate your DX improvements and why investing in seamless developer workflows is now a strategic priority that directly impacts your bottom line in today's talent-driven market.

Great DX isn't just a technical nicety—it's how you'll win in today's competitive market.
Speakers
avatar for Atulpriya Sharma

Atulpriya Sharma

Sr Developer Advocate | CNCF Ambassador, InfraCloud Technologies
Atul is a Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies, a CNCF Ambassador and a technical storyteller with over a decade of experience spanning manual testing, Android development, and more recently into the cloud native space.With a background in computer science and business... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:11am - 10:21am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions

10:23am IST

Keynotes to be Announced
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:23am - 10:39am IST
Hall 3
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:23am - 10:39am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions

10:40am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:40am - 10:45am IST
Hall 3
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:40am - 10:45am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions

10:45am IST

Coffee Break ☕
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am IST
Hall 4
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am IST
Hall 4
  Breaks

10:45am IST

Solutions Showcase
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:45am - 7:15pm IST
Hall 4
Visit our sponsors in the Solutions Showcase to try the latest demos, watch live presentations, talk to experts, check out job opportunities, and score some swag.

In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or to 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.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 10:45am - 7:15pm IST
Hall 4
  Solutions Showcase

11:30am IST

Project Lightning Talks Opening
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 11:35am IST
Hall 3
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 11:35am IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

11:30am IST

Back To the Basics - Service Mesh Fundamentals - Kannan Jayaprakasam, Google
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 2
In containerized environments like Kubernetes, service mesh has emerged as a key architectural component to ensure reliable, secure, and observable communication between services. Despite the growing popularity of service mesh, many developers, operators, and architects find the concept of a service mesh intimidating due to its perceived complexity and wide array of features.

In this talk speaker from the gRPC team in Google will demystify service mesh technology by returning to the basics, providing clear understanding of what a service mesh is, the problems it solves, and how it fits into a cloud-native ecosystem. Additionally, this talk will explore the differences between proxy-based and proxyless service mesh architectures, discussing their advantages, disadvantages, and use cases.
Speakers
avatar for Kannan Jayaprakasam

Kannan Jayaprakasam

Software Engineer, Google
Kannan works as a software engineer at Google in the gRPC team.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 2
  Cloud Native Novice

11:30am IST

ArgoCD CLI Gets an Upgrade: Plugins, Flexibility, and More - Nitish Kumar, Akuity
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
MRG 1-6
The ArgoCD CLI tool has been a cornerstone for managing GitOps workflows, but until now, it lacked support for extending its capabilities through plugins – a feature many users have long desired. This talk introduces an enhancement to the ArgoCD CLI: plugin support, enabling users to create custom plugins and use them as subcommands, extending the ArgoCD CLI tool functionality just like the kubectl.

As part of this feature rollout, I'll demonstrate its real-world application by showcasing a plugin we developed: mta (migrate to ArgoCD). This plugin bridges the gap between Flux and ArgoCD by exporting Flux components into ArgoCD-compatible Custom Resources (CRs), simplifying migrations from Flux to ArgoCD.
Speakers
avatar for Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar

Software Engineer, Argo CD Maintainer, Akuity
Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity, Argo CD maintainer, and a CNCF Ambassador. In the past, Nitish has served as a Linux Foundation Mentee under the Kubernetes Release Engineering Team where he built a Go library used by the K8s project internally. Nitish has given various talks... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
MRG 1-6
  Maintainer Track, Argo

11:30am IST

Supercharge Backstage: Self-Service GitOps Staging Environments With VCluster and FluxCD - Farhaan Shamsee & Rakesh Reddy, Siemens Technology
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 1
What if developers could create fully isolated, production-like environments—directly from Backstage—with just a click?

This talk showcases Backstage as a powerful self-service platform to spin up vClusters representing Dev, Test, and Prod environments. Each virtual cluster is fully GitOps-managed with FluxCD, automatically pulling from specific Git branches to mirror real deployment stages.

The environments can be provisioned on-demand—whether on a developer’s local laptop (using WSL), a centralized server, or a remote EKS cluster—offering flexibility and production-like confidence at every stage.

We’ll deep-dive into building this “staging system” where code is tested safely before ever reaching customers, while giving developers the speed and autonomy they crave—all powered by Backstage.

By the end of the session, you’ll learn how to build a practical, cloud-native staging system to test, validate, and promote code safely—before your customers ever see it.
Speakers
avatar for Farhaan Shamsee

Farhaan Shamsee

Senior DevOps Engineer, Siemens Technology Services Private Limited
Farhaan is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Siemens passionate about platform engineering and open source. With extensive experience in Kubernetes, GitOps, and cloud-native technologies, he focuses on building scalable self-service platforms. His work integrates tools like Backstage, vCluster... Read More →
avatar for Rakesh Reddy

Rakesh Reddy

Sr.DevOps Engineer, siemens
Rakesh Reddy G is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Siemens with 7+ years of experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD automation. He specializes in GitOps, security, and self-service platforms using tools like Backstage and FluxCD. Passionate about open-source and DevOps best practices... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 1
  Platform Engineering

11:30am IST

Guard Your Network With Kyverno and Envoy - Sanskar Gurdasani, Scoutflo & Swastik Gour, InfraCloud Technologies
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 6
In today's complex service mesh environments, ensuring secure and efficient network traffic management is a significant challenge. Many developers struggle with implementing robust, context-aware access control policies without disrupting existing systems. The Kyverno Envoy Plugin offers a solution by integrating with the Envoy proxy and leveraging the Kyverno Authz Server within the cluster, along with a cluster-wide resource called AuthorizationPolicy. This resource utilizes the CEL language to process these requests seamlessly, allowing you to authenticate and enforce policies seamlessly on all traffic.
In this hands-on session, the speakers will leverage this plugin to enhance the security and control of applications, ensuring they are protected from unauthorized access and threats without requiring changes to your microservices. They will also showcase how the plugin seamlessly integrates with various service meshes such as Istio, to extend its functionality across environments.
Speakers
avatar for Swastik Gour

Swastik Gour

Product engineer, Infracloud technologies
I am a CNCF ambassador and an Product engineer by profession who enjoys to contribute to opensource and study about the latest tech. And innovations going on in the CNCF ecosystem . I am also a former cncf gsoc mentee , an LFX mentee , CI signal shadow at CAPI and a active member... Read More →
avatar for Sanskar Gurdasani

Sanskar Gurdasani

Devops Engineer, Scoutflo
Sanskar Gurdasani is a DevOps Engineer and Senior year undergraduate student in Information Technology Engineering at Jabalpur Engineering College. He was an LFX Spring Mentee 2024 for the CNCF - Kyverno where he developed the Kyverno-Envoy-Plugin. He had worked as a DevOps Engineer... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 6
  Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:37am IST

Project Lightning Talk: Vitess: OTel 2025: The Latest Milestones and What’s Next - Steve Flanders, Senior Director of Engineering
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:37am - 11:42am IST
Hall 3
OpenTelemetry has transformed the observability landscape by moving beyond the traditional three pillars of traces, metrics, and logs. With these core components now stable, the project is expanding its reach to encompass even more facets of system monitoring and performance analysis. In this session, we will explore the latest advancements in OpenTelemetry, including the integration of profiling, which offers deeper insights into application performance by capturing detailed execution data. Additionally, we'll discuss the emerging concept of entities, which promises to provide a more holistic view of system components and their interactions. By expanding its capabilities, OpenTelemetry is not just enhancing the granularity and scope of observability but also setting the stage for more comprehensive and actionable insights. Join us to learn how these new developments can help you achieve unparalleled visibility into your systems and drive better operational outcomes.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:37am - 11:42am IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

11:44am IST

Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD 3.0: What’s New and What’s Next? - Nitish Kumar, Software Engineer, Argo CD Maintainer
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:44am - 11:49am IST
Hall 3
The long-awaited Argo CD 3.0 is here, marking the first major release since 2021! This milestone introduces a more mature and robust GitOps experience, focusing on security, performance, and best-practice defaults. In this session, we’ll dive into the key updates, including fine-grained RBAC for resource-level permissions, smarter defaults for streamlined configurations, and new recommendations for secrets management. We’ll also cover what’s been deprecated, how to ensure a smooth upgrade from Argo CD 2.x, bug fixes, new features introduced and what’s next for the project.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:44am - 11:49am IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

11:51am IST

Project Lightning Talk: Essential Resources for gRPC Development - Kevin Nilson, gRPC Maintainer
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:51am - 11:56am IST
Hall 3
gRPC is a powerful framework for building high-performance, distributed systems. But with its growing ecosystem of tools and resources, it can be challenging to know where to start or how to deepen your expertise.



This talk is your guide to explore essential resources that will empower you to build, debug, and optimize your gRPC applications effectively.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:51am - 11:56am IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

11:58am IST

Project Lightning Talk: How to get your custom access tokens from Keycloak - Alexander Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:58am - 12:03pm IST
Hall 3
Access tokens open the doors to APIs, and Keycloak and OpenID Connect provide you the ways to get them. The authentication code flow provides them to users and the client credential grant provides it to services. With token exchange, you can swap one token for another with the right audience and scopes so it fits the APIs.



Join this talk to learn how to get tokens, how to customize their contents, and what changed in our recent releases.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 11:58am - 12:03pm IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:05pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: What’s New in k0s: Lightweight Kubernetes Without Compromise - Prithvi Raj, Community Manager & Developer Advocate
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:05pm - 12:10pm IST
Hall 3
k0s, the zero-friction Kubernetes distribution, has been steadily evolving — bringing fresh capabilities and smarter defaults without bloating its minimal footprint. In this lightning talk, I’ll highlight the latest updates in the k0s project, including recent improvements in HA setup, multi-node bootstrapping, air-gapped deployments, and cloud-native enhancements. Whether you're running edge clusters or want a developer-friendly K8s distro that “just works,” k0s is worth a fresh look. Come get a fast-paced tour of what's new, what’s next, and why it matters.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:05pm - 12:10pm IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:10pm IST

Beyond the Start Button: The Hidden Life of Pod Termination in Kubernetes - Rishabh Jain, Amazon Web Services India
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 2
We spend countless hours making applications resilient and scalable, but often overlook their final moments. While we obsess over startup performance and runtime behavior, the shutdown process remains a mystery. Yet, understanding this crucial phase can mean the difference between clean service transitions and disrupted user experiences.

Join us as we decode Pod termination in Kubernetes, exploring the lifecycle from shutdown signal to final goodbye. We'll examine real-world scenarios through kubectl, kubelet, and API interactions, and share practical strategies for smooth shutdowns. Transform your chaotic Pod terminations into choreographed farewells and enhance your application's reliability.

For: DevOps engineers, SRE teams, and Kubernetes developers.
Speakers
avatar for Rishabh Jain

Rishabh Jain

Senior Cloud Support Engineer, Amazon Web Services India
A Senior Cloud Support Engineer and EC2 Subject Matter Expert at AWS India, he specializes in solving complex cloud challenges. Known for his dedication to customer success and technical excellence, he balances his professional role with life as a devoted husband and father, combining... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 2
  Cloud Native Novice
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:10pm IST

Delegate Authentication and a Lot More To Keycloak With OpenID Connect - Alexander Schwartz & Rishabh Singh, Red Hat
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
MRG 1-6
Authenticating users can start simple with a username and a password for each user. But you will also need to handle forgotten passwords and user registration. You might also want to validate email addresses, add second factors and have users update their profile information as needed.

A single-sign-on system like Keycloak can handle all that for you and will redirect users after they are authenticated to your applications.

See how you can delegate authentication by leveraging features of OpenID Connect. We will start simple and enable more and more features in our demo to show the functionality and flexibility of Keycloak. We will also look at features of the latest release and the road map ahead.
Speakers
avatar for Alexander Schwartz

Alexander Schwartz

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Alexander Schwartz is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working full time as a Keycloak maintainer and technical team lead. At work and in his spare time he codes for Open Source projects. In previous jobs he worked as a software architect and IT consultant. At conferences... Read More →
avatar for Rishabh Singh

Rishabh Singh

Senior Technical Support Engineer, Red Hat
Currently Support Engineer at Red Hat, Solving issues around Red Hat Build of Keycloak, Red Hat Single Sign On, Jboss Enterprise Application Server, Elytron, Openshift, Openshift Pipelines(Tekton), Openshift Gitops(Argo CD). Overall Experience of 8years in IT industry and have been... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
MRG 1-6
  Maintainer Track, Keycloak

12:10pm IST

To Succeed in Platform Engineering, Build Infrastructure Knowledge Graphs - Safeer C M, MoEngage
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 1
Platform engineering continues to evolve as a critical discipline for modern software development. However, infrastructure complexity is slowing down its momentum. The software infrastructure is a complex web of interrelated entities that spans much beyond a simple software catalog and cloud resources. Such infrastructure management is often driven by a team’s understanding of the implicit relationship between these entities. This is not scalable and often leads to operational challenges and loss of developer productivity. Knowledge graphs can build relationships between entities from diverse infrastructure sources and make explicit what was previously implicit knowledge. It elevates the developer productivity and its neglected counterpart - operational excellence. This talk will discuss the importance of knowledge graphs and the strategies and mental models that will help in building knowledge graphs around the software infrastructure.
Speakers
avatar for Safeer CM

Safeer CM

Principal Engineer, MoEngage
Safeer has worked in site reliability, DevOps, and platform engineering for the past 19 years. Safeer is the author of the book Architecting Cloud-Native Serverless Solutions. He is an ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. Currently, he is working as a Principal Engineer... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 1
  Platform Engineering

12:10pm IST

Sovereign Kubernetes at Adobe: Navigating Trust, Security & Compliance Across Jurisdictions - Amandeep Singh, Adobe
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 6
Sovereign deployments operate in geographically or network-isolated environments where data at rest and in transit is highly sensitive and tightly controlled due to jurisdictional regulations. These deployments come with strict security and compliance requirements.

At Adobe, we manage multiple sovereign Kubernetes deployments across different regulatory frameworks, each with unique constraints and challenges. We have to keep operational overhead minimal while ensuring compliance and security at scale.

This talk will cover key compliance and security requirements, such as vulnerability reporting, runtime container scanning, and policy enforcement. We will dive into the challenges we faced and the solutions we developed, including:
- Building a secure and efficient image distribution system
- Automating image vulnerability scanning
- Using Falco for real-time threat detection and response
- Enforcing compliance with Kyverno and Falco
Speakers
avatar for Amandeep Singh

Amandeep Singh

Computer Scientist, Adobe
Currently a Computer Scientist at Adobe, building Adobe's AEM platform. With extensive experience across various cloud technologies, I’ve been working in the Kubernetes space for the past three years. Outside of work, I’m an avid reader and a passionate foodie.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 6
  Security

12:12pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Dockerfiles vs Buildpacks: What's The Cloud Native Way? - Ram Iyengar, Evangelist
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:12pm - 12:17pm IST
Hall 3
Often, our cloud native thought process begins after we have created containers. Only when we complete the "docker build" command, do all the notions of cloud native come into the picture. This talk raises the question - is that the only way to build containers?

Enter Cloud Native Buildpacks. These make the container build process so much easier. While the end product is an OCI-compatible image, the process in getting there is much more refined with Cloud Native Buildpacks.

The images exported by Buildpacks are smaller, more transparent, and have improved security. They also preclude meta information such as static Dockerfiles, and are infinitely more maintainable as a result.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:12pm - 12:17pm IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:19pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: Kyverno: Kubernetes Policy as Code Unleashed! - Mohd Kamaal, Kyverno contributor
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:19pm - 12:24pm IST
Hall 3
Kubernetes policy management has evolved significantly. From basic admission controllers to automating complex, imperative configurations, the journey has highlighted the need for declarative, Kubernetes-native solutions. This lightning talk will explore how Kyverno represents the next generation of Policy as Code for Kubernetes. We'll delve into its declarative approach using Kubernetes manifests, its powerful pattern matching for resource selection, and its ability to mutate, validate, and generate Kubernetes resources and validate images. Discover how Kyverno simplifies policy authoring, enhances security and compliance, and empowers platform engineers and developers alike to manage Kubernetes at scale, all within the familiar Kubernetes ecosystem.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:19pm - 12:24pm IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:26pm IST

Project Lightning Talk: What's new in Harbor Project Updates and New Features - Prasanth Baskar, Software Engineer
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:26pm - 12:31pm IST
Hall 3
we have recently released a new version of harbor. we will go through new and less used features in harbor. that would make managing artifacts at scale much easier. and we will also give you a sneak peek into the exciting features planned for next releases.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:26pm - 12:31pm IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:33pm IST

Project Lightning Talks Closing
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:33pm - 12:38pm IST
Hall 3
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:33pm - 12:38pm IST
Hall 3
  Project Opportunities, Project Lightning Talk

12:40pm IST

Lunch 🍲
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:40pm - 2:10pm IST
Hall 4
Wednesday August 6, 2025 12:40pm - 2:10pm IST
Hall 4
  Breaks

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
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 3
As PepsiCo continues to push the boundaries of AI-driven innovation, multiple 70-billion-parameter Llama model has been deployed within our Kubernetes-based AI platform, showcasing our ability to operationalize large-scale LLMs efficiently while optimizing performance, cost, and scalability.

This session will explore our journey of deploying and managing a high-performance LLM on Kubernetes. We’ll share insights on architectural decisions, GPU provisioning, and fine-tuning techniques for efficient inferencing. Attendees will learn how we tackled memory optimization, high availability, cost-performance balancing, and Responsible AI practices.

We’ll also discuss how our infrastructure, orchestration, and resource management evolved to meet large-scale inferencing demands, ensuring AI-driven innovation remains scalable, responsible, and efficient at PepsiCo.
Speakers
avatar for Dhanashree Shetty

Dhanashree Shetty

Architect, PepsiCo
Dhanashree Shetty is a cloud engineer with over 14 years of experience in IT, specializing in cloud infrastructure. As a tech enthusiast, she enjoys exploring emerging technologies such as cloud automation and orchestration, as well as containerization, Kubernetes platforms. In her... Read More →
avatar for Praseed Naduvath

Praseed Naduvath

Platform Architect, PepsiCo
Praseed Naduvath is a techno-manager with over 18 years in IT, specializing in cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies. A Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Security Specialist, he excels in managing and securing complex Kubernetes environments... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 3
  AI + ML

2:10pm IST

Who Let the Pods Out? Extending Kubernetes with Custom Controllers and CRDs - Ria Bhatia, Godman Sachs
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 2
Kubernetes is powerful, but its true strength lies in extensibility. Many developers struggle to adapt it to their needs, often resorting to workarounds instead of leveraging built-in extension mechanisms. What if Kubernetes worked for you, not the other way around?

This beginner-friendly session will introduce you to Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and custom controllers, guiding you through their design, implementation, and deployment. You'll learn how to create Kubernetes-native abstractions that automate workflows, simplify operations, and enhance the developer experience. We'll cover best practices, automation strategies, and performance optimizations to ensure scalable and maintainable extensions that integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes.

Get ready to move beyond workarounds and let your pods thrive with clean, scalable, and native Kubernetes extensions!
Speakers
avatar for Ria Bhatia

Ria Bhatia

Software Engineer, Goldman Sachs
Ria Bhatia is a passionate software engineer specializing in databases, scalability, and deployment strategies. Committed to gender diversity in tech, she mentors aspiring engineers and actively shares her learnings with the community. An enthusiastic speaker, Ria has presented at... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 2
  Cloud Native Novice

2:10pm IST

Harbor Maintainers Talk - Role of Harbor in AI, IOT Edge and the Future - Prasanth Baskar, 8gears
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
MRG 1-6
In this Ai Era, we are witnessing a demand to efficiently store AI models.
Harbor has become a critical tool for efficiently storing containerized applications and OCI artifacts including AI models.
As early adopters of CNAI model specification, we are leading a standardized approach to store and manage AI models.
Additionally, We will also discuss about Harbor-Satellite a sub-project of harbor which extends harbor registry capabilities to the IOT Edge. It is focused on simplifying delivery of containers and OCI artifacts to the edge easier.
Speakers
avatar for Prasanth B

Prasanth B

Software Engineer, 8gears
Prasanth Baskar is a Software Engineer and a core contributor to the CNCF Harbor project. As an LFX mentee for Harbor Satellite, he has played a key role in its development, contributing extensively to Harbor CLI. Passionate about tech and open source, Prasanth thrives on mentoring... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
MRG 1-6
  Maintainer Track, Harbor

2:10pm IST

Keep Calm and Carry on Cluster Updates - Thanks To Kyverno Chainsaw - Vijay Dharap, Kubermatic
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 6
Do you often find yourself upgrading various resources in k8s cluster? may be some 3rd party helm chart?

Do you get a feeling of shooting in the dark? That you do not exactly know what all changes are being brought in due to new helm chart version?

Have you faced broken deployments because 3rd paty helmchart maintainer changed the values.yaml layout and you did not change the overrides.yaml to adjust to changed structure?

Yes? Yes? Yes? Well... then you have come to right place find solution to such problems!

I will introduce you to Kyverno Chainsaw, which aims to help us reliably verify the deployments!

With Chainsaw, you define test steps (which can changes / delete existing resources / add new resources) and write assertion to verify that all changes have been reflected in the cluster.

During the session - lets explore Chainsaw via few demos and integrate it in CD pipelines and use reports.

Bonus: I will share small generator I wrote to create Chainsaw testcases quickly.
Speakers
avatar for Vijay Dharap

Vijay Dharap

Tech Lead, Kubermatic
Vijay is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator and AWS certified solution architect. Vijay has designed and managed complex and hybrid deployments of multiple clusters for large chemical manufacturers in the world. Vijay has spoken at various conferences in past. Vijay is happily... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 6
  Operations + Performance

2:10pm IST

Introducing Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 1
Providing application teams with a self-service way of deploying applications and their dependencies often means that platform administrators have to hide the implementation details of the platform via simple to consume APIs. In the case of Kubernetes this usually means having to deploy Custom Resource Definition that are either 3rd party or custom built in-house. These CRD’s in addition to allowing Kubernetes users to manage non-Kubernetes objects via the Kubernetes Resources Model (Aka YAML file), they also allow abstracting away the details of how some resources get created and managed.

In this session, you'll learn how KRO allows platform teams to:
- Create high-level APIs that reduce YAML complexity while maintaining flexibility
- Support both native Kubernetes and cloud-specific resources for more efficient orchestration
- Integrate KRO into your Kubernetes workflows for better scalability and simplicity
Speakers
avatar for Abdel Sghiouar

Abdel Sghiouar

Cloud Developer Advocate, Google Cloud
Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Serverless.
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Mofi Rahman

Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud
Mofi Rahman (@moficodes) is a Developer Advocate at Google. His favorite programming language these days is Go. He is a strong believer of the power of open source and importance of giving back to the community. He is a self proclaimed sticker collecting addict and has collected several... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 1
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

2:50pm IST

Scaling ML Smarter: Optimizing Kueue & Volcano With Adaptive Scheduling - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe & Aditi Gupta, Disney + Hotstar (now JioHotstar)
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 3
Kueue and Volcano are leading the charge in orchestrating large-scale distributed ML jobs. But are they truly maximizing your GPU resources? Traditional batch scheduling methods often suffer from inefficient queue management, and rigid allocations that fail to adapt to real-time demand resulting in problems that scale with workloads.

This talk dives into how priority-aware queueing and elastic resource allocation can supercharge Kueue and Volcano, making batch scheduling more adaptive and efficient. We’ll break down the scheduler’s architecture, exploring how jobs dynamically move between priority queues, how elastic scheduling adjusts resource allocations in real time, and how these improvements lead to faster job execution and better GPU utilization.

Whether you're managing distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, or large-scale inference pipelines, this talk will provide the tools and strategies needed to unlock smarter scheduling and maximize ROI on Kubernetes GPU workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Aditi Gupta

Aditi Gupta

Software Developer Engineer, Disney + Hotstar (now JioHotstar)
I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer. Graduated from Asia's largest tech university for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service architecture... Read More →
avatar for Nikunj Goyal

Nikunj Goyal

Member of Technical Staff 2, Adobe
Hi, I am Nikunj Goyal, working as a developer at Adobe and a Maths major from IIT Roorkee. I am working with AI and Machine Learning for some time mainly with Generative AI and graph based methods. I am a core part of Text-to-vector generation team at my org and previously worked... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 3
  AI + ML

2:50pm IST

Kubernetes at the Edge – Come See It in Action! - Xavier Avrillier & Antonia von den Driesch, Giant Swarm
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 2
Edge computing is still a fairly new area in the cloud native tech industry and is growing fast. As computing moves to the edge, what does Kubernetes look like beyond the cloud, and why does it matter?

This session features a live demo with a Raspberry Pi, camera, and real-time AI detection. Watch as our edge device identifies raised hands, sends data to a Kubernetes cluster via KubeEdge, and visualizes results instantly.

We'll explore:
- Edge Kubernetes challenges: connectivity, resources, security
- KubeEdge's approach to decentralized workloads
- Real-world applications across industries

Join us to see how AI, Kubernetes, and edge computing converge to enable powerful new possibilities.
Speakers
avatar for Xavier Avrillier

Xavier Avrillier

Solutions Architect, Giant Swarm
Xavier is a Solutions Architect at Giant Swarm, he is currently working on the managed Kubernetes product in hybrid environments and smart factories. His main focus is around cluster lifecycle and customer implementations.
avatar for Antonia von den Driesch

Antonia von den Driesch

Platform Engineer, Giant Swarm
Antonia has been a platform engineer at Giant Swarm for 5 years and is currently working on development of Giant Swarms Industrial IoT platform which brings their managed Kubernetes product to Smart Factory customers.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 2
  Cloud Native Experience

2:50pm IST

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
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
MRG 1-6
Ever wondered what it’s like to be part of the Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience (ContribEx)? It’s a role that goes beyond what meets the eye! From coordinating community efforts to keeping projects on track, ContribEx contributors wear many hats — each with its own challenge.

Last year at KubeCon India, we explored the contributor-comms subproject. This year, we’re back to share stories from areas like Last Week in Kubernetes Development (LWKD), tools like Peribolos, and processes like Kubernetes New Org Membership under our GitHub Management subproject. Expect anecdotes, lessons learned, and insights from moments that made us pause and reflect.

Join us for an engaging talk with ContribEx contributors as they share their experiences. Whether you’re curious about community management, contributor growth, or how Kubernetes stays organized, there’s something here for you.

Come for the stories, stay for the insights, and see how the Kubernetes contributor experience comes together!
Speakers
avatar for Sreeram Venkitesh

Sreeram Venkitesh

Senior Software Engineer, DigitalOcean
Sreeram is a contributor to the Kubernetes project who is primarily active in SIG Release, SIG Contribex Comms and SIG Node. He was part of the Kubernetes release team from v1.29 to v1.32 and was the Enhancements sub-team lead for Kubernetes v1.31. He is also the subproject lead for... Read More →
avatar for Nabarun Pal

Nabarun Pal

Principal Software Engineer, Kubernetes Maintainer, Broadcom
Nabarun is a Principal Software Engineer, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee member and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. He is a Release Manager for Kubernetes and has been the Kubernetes 1.21 Release Team... Read More →
avatar for Priyanka Saggu

Priyanka Saggu

Technical Lead – SIG Contributor Experience, SUSE
Priyanka Saggu is a Kubernetes Engineer at SUSE, contributing to Kubernetes via Release, ContribEx, Testing, and CLI SIGs. She is the Emeritus Advisor for Kubernetes v1.31, Release Lead for v1.29, GitHub Admin, and Technical Lead for SIG Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx... Read More →
avatar for Aakansha Priya

Aakansha Priya

Developer Relationa, Independent
Aakansha Priya is a CNCF Ambassador, CKA certified & an organiser for KubeHuddle, Toronto; who has previously worked as a Developer Advocate @ EmpathyOps and helps scale tech communities. As a frontend dev turned DevOps advocate, love to tinker around with code, content & community... Read More →
avatar for Mario Jason Braganza

Mario Jason Braganza

IT Consultant, Janusworx
Jason Braganza is a seasoned IT consultant with over 20 years of expertise in designing solutions for small & medium-sized businesses. He is currently focused on the path to learning and promoting free and open-source software, specifically Linux. Jason mentors young people in Linux... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
MRG 1-6
  Maintainer Track, Contributor Experience

2:50pm IST

Mastering Kubernetes Control Plane Performance Optimization With Observability - Liu Jiaxu, Alibaba Cloud
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 6
Are you experiencing performance issues with your Kubernetes control plane? Symptoms such as rising CPU/memory usage, 429 TooManyRequests errors, and delayed responses from the APIServer or ETCD can significantly degrade cluster responsiveness, especially in large environments, ultimately threatening infrastructure reliability.
In this talk, based on our experience managing tens of thousands of production clusters, we will explore how to leverage observability to identify performance bottlenecks and root causes. We'll compare logging, monitoring, and tracing within the Kubernetes control plane, using real-world example - analyzing LIST request.
We will introduce best practices for observability, discuss common performance pitfalls such as APF flow control issues, misconfigured APIServer webhooks, and the heavy burden of excessive LIST requests on control plane, etc. Additionally, we will share optimization solutions for these scenarios, empowering you to enhance cluster performance.
Speakers
avatar for Liu Jiaxu

Liu Jiaxu

Senior Software Engineer, Alibaba Cloud
Jiaxu Liu is a Senior Engineer on the Container Service Team at Alibaba Cloud. He specializes in observability enhancement and large-scale cluster management and optimization for Alibaba Cloud's container service offerings. Before joining Alibaba Cloud, he worked at Nokia as a Senior... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 6
  Operations + Performance

2:50pm IST

IDP as a Product: Where Developer Happiness Meets Platform's Excellence - Ninad Desai & Ruturaj Kadikar, InfraCloud Technologies
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 1
As a developer, are you overwhelmed by the growing number of tools just to ship code? Struggling with visibility into cost, performance, and reliability? Torn between enabling developer autonomy and enforcing governance? The answer to all these challenges lies in building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) like a real product. With clear ownership, iteration, and a focus on your internal users—you solve for both scale and usability. An IDP unifies onboarding, CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, observability, cost visibility, and more.
You’ll learn how an IDP can streamline the entire developer journey while embedding security and operational best practices by design. We’ll discuss prioritising Developer Experience (DevEx), aligning platform capabilities with developer needs, and avoiding becoming a bottleneck.
Whether you’re a platform engineer or an engineering leader, you’ll walk away with actionable insights to make your platform a true enabler at scale.
Speakers
avatar for Ninad Desai

Ninad Desai

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Infracloud pvt ltd
Engineer at heart with 12+ years of experience building secure, scalable cloud-native platforms and solutions. Passionate about simplifying and sharing learnings in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering through real-world stories and community engagement.
avatar for Ruturaj Kadikar

Ruturaj Kadikar

Senior SRE, InfraCloud Technologies
Tech enthusiast navigating through Cloud-Native space! DevOps - SRE - Observability - Chaos - Production Grade Kubernetes - Disaster Recovery
Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 1
  Platform Engineering

3:20pm IST

Coffee Break ☕
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:20pm - 3:50pm IST
Hall 4
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:20pm - 3:50pm IST
Hall 4
  Breaks

3:50pm IST

Lessons from Running a CNCF Community: Mistakes, Wins, and Growth - Kemila De Silva, Aeturnum Inc. & Chamod Perera, Circles
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 2
Building a CNCF community comes with wins and challenges. We launched KCD Sri Lanka in 2022 with a high-grade green screen production, featuring global speakers and over 1K YouTube livestream views. In 2023, our in-person KCD Sri Lanka was an early sold-out, house-full event, drawing speakers from around the world.

From securing sponsorships and growing engagement to handling setbacks, we’ll share key lessons from leading Kubernetes Sri Lanka. Whether you’re starting or scaling a CNCF community, this talk will provide practical takeaways to build a sustainable and impactful cloud native ecosystem.
Speakers
avatar for Chamod Perera

Chamod Perera

CNCF Ambassador | Software Engineer II @Circles.Life | KCD Sri Lanka Organizer, 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
avatar for Kemila De Silva

Kemila De Silva

Senior DevOps Engineer at Aeturnum | CNCF Ambassador | AWS Community Builder (x2), Aeturnum Inc
An experienced DevOps Engineer with 5+ years in CNCF technologies, specializing in developing and implementing robust infrastructures for seamless application deployment. Focused on optimizing availability using industry best practices, actively contributing to the CNCF community... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 2
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

3:50pm IST

From Control Planes To Cognitive Planes: Agentic Architecture With MCP - Eddie Wassef, JPMC
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 6
APIs helped define cloud-native—but agentic systems need more.

In this talk, we introduce MCP (Model, Context, Protocol)—an architectural framework built for adaptive, AI-enhanced, agentic systems. You'll learn how MCP extends API-centric thinking to define not just interfaces, but also capabilities, environment-aware behavior, and reflective discovery.

We’ll explore:

How MCP aligns with Kubernetes' dynamic, declarative model
Why JSON-RPC (not REST/gRPC) is the best fit for dynamic agent tooling
Real-world examples of LLM-driven clients discovering tools, prompts, and commands at runtime
How to structure MCP clients and servers using C# or Go for cloud-native deployment
You'll leave with code samples, a conceptual model, and a UML-driven design for building MCP-based systems—ideal for Kubernetes-based platforms, autonomous agents, and AI-enhanced developer tools.
Speakers
avatar for Eddie Wassef

Eddie Wassef

Head of Arch and AI, JPMC
As a Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Texas user group organizer, Eddie is dedicated to bringing the cloud-native community together through engaging events and knowledge sharing. His leadership in planning KCD Texas 2025, featuring hands-on workshops and interactive sessions, demonstrates... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 6
  Emerging + Advanced
  • Content Experience Level Any

3:50pm IST

SIG etcd Maintainer Track Talk - Arka Saha, VMware by Broadcom; Josh Berkus, Red Hat
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
MRG 1-6
Etcd v3.6, released earlier this year, brings significant features compelling enough to upgrade. This session will provide a detailed overview of the new features and performance improvement over v3.5. We will also discuss known issues and workarounds for upgrading and how it will benefit you.

Next, we will present the long-awaited community-supported etcd-operator which will become the standard way to deploy your etcd clusters on Kubernetes for your bespoke use cases.
Finally, we will share how our in-house robustness test framework has improved etcd's reliability.

This talk will give you a chance to be excited about the future of etcd, and connect you with opportunities to contribute to the project.
Speakers
avatar for Josh Berkus

Josh Berkus

Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat
Josh Berkus is the Kubernetes Community Manager, working in Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. He's currently involved with Kubernetes, Etcd, Elekto, Podman, and uBlue, but has spent more than 20 years contributing to many projects, including Linux, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL, and... Read More →
avatar for Arka Saha

Arka Saha

Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom
Arka Saha, a Broadcom Software Engineer, leads Kubernetes releases & maintenance for Tanzu Extended Support. He manages VMware by Broadcom's Prow infrastructure, ensuring long-term support for k8s, etcd, containers, Golang & related components. Previously he managed Red Hat OpenShift... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
MRG 1-6
  Maintainer Track, etcd

3:50pm IST

Beyond Productivity: Scaling Cloud Dev Environments for Faster Feedback & Sustainable Engineering - Siddhant Khare, Gitpod & Nancy Chauhan, Independent
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 1
Local dev setups worked fine when teams were small. But when you’re dealing with hundreds or thousands of developers, things start to break - slow onboarding, dependency hell, inconsistent environments, and wasted compute cycles.

Cloud Developer Environments (CDEs) promise instant, reproducible workspaces, but shifting from local machines to cloud-first workflows is easier said than done. Latency, security, adoption hurdles, and cost can turn a promising initiative into an operational headache.

This talk will go deep into:

* Why local dev is unsustainable—from wasted CPU cycles to lost engineering hours.
* How cloud environments reduce friction—ephemeral, pre-configured workspaces that just work.
* Optimizing for speed—pre-warmed environments, AI-assisted debugging, and workload-aware compute allocation.
* Measuring impact—tracking developer velocity, infra costs, and sustainability improvements.
* Lessons from real-world rollouts—what works, what breaks, and how to get buy-in.
Speakers
avatar for Nancy Chauhan

Nancy Chauhan

CNCF Ambassador, Engineer
I am Nancy Chauhan, a software engineer passionate about solving complex problems and enhancing software reliability. As a CNCF Ambassador, I engage with a global cloud-native community, contributing to open-source projects and fostering collaboration. I also founded the Women in... Read More →
avatar for Siddhant Khare

Siddhant Khare

Software Engineer, Gitpod
Siddhant Khare is a Software Engineer at Gitpod, where he works on developer productivity, cloud-native architectures, and AI-driven automation. With deep expertise in Go, Rust, and distributed systems, he builds scalable solutions that improve developer workflows. His work spans... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 1
  Platform Engineering

4:30pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Confidential VMs in Kubevirt: Securing VMs With KubeVirt Trusted Execution Environments - Basavaraju G, IBM
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 4:35pm IST
Hall 3
Multi cloud deployments and shared infrastructure enhance data privacy and security issues, with containerized workloads becoming mainstream in Kubernetes, there is a need to host containers securely in addition to virtual machines (VMs) to safeguard hardware-level workloads.
KubeVirt is a cloud native virtualization platform that comes with Confidential Virtual Machines for the most sensitive use cases. They take advantage of Trusted Execution Environments such as AMD SEV, Intel TDX, and IBM Secure Execution to provide data-in-motion encryption for their workloads and defend against subverted host admins as well as against system attacks.
In this session, we will cover KubeVirt methodology for Confidential VMs, including the design of the architecture, challenges of implementation, and deployments. We will examine how the VMs protect sensitive workloads using memory encryption, workload isolation while being placed within Kubernetes orchestration and automation.
Speakers
avatar for Basavaraju G

Basavaraju G

Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Basava Raju.G is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer at IBM, specializing in IBM Kubernetes Service and Openshift Container Platform. With over all 13 years of experience in cloud-native and Platform as a Service (PaaS) Domain. He earned his Master’s in Computer Science At SJCE... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 4:35pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

4:30pm IST

Unlocking the Power of Kuma Service Mesh: Enhancing Reliability and Developer Productivity - Deepak Verma & Arpit Mishra, Zomato
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 2
This session delves into Zomato's journey of adopting Kuma Service Mesh to manage over 500 microservices with 10,000 dataplanes. The session begins by addressing common challenges in service communication, such as observability gaps, insecure traffic, and inconsistent configurations across environments, and explore how Kuma Service Mesh resolves these issues.

The presentation highlights how Kuma standardises configurations, minimises debugging efforts, and improves application performance, thereby reducing developer overhead. A key focus is on leveraging Kuma to enhance developer workflows through local-preview environments, allowing dynamic traffic routing to local services based on headers. This facilitates rapid iteration and debugging.

Additionally, we will discuss our roadmap for utilising Kuma's zone-aware routing to reduce cross-zone data transfer, lowering costs and enhancing efficiency.
Speakers
avatar for Arpit Mishra

Arpit Mishra

Software Engineer, Zomato
Arpit is a Linux and Networking enthusiast, currently working as a Software Engineer at Zomato with extensive experience in Site Reliability, Developer Experience and System Engineering. He previously worked in Glance and has a total of three years of experience in software industry... Read More →
avatar for Deepak Verma

Deepak Verma

Site Reliability Engineer, Zomato
A technology enthusiast working at Zomato with 7+ years of experience where his focus is developer experience, system administration and automation. As a SRE, Deepak has been involved in applying site reliability principles to facilitate business growth through the seamless and reliable... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 2
  Connectivity

4:30pm IST

Redefining Inclusion: Building Truly Global Cloud Native Communities - Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock); Priyanka Saggu, SUSE
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
MRG 1-6
True inclusivity in open source goes beyond accessibility-it embraces cultural, linguistic, and geographic diversity. This session redefines inclusivity by spotlighting regional contributors and underrepresented voices. Together, we'll share real-world lessons from Cloud Native projects across Asia-like shifting meeting times to better serve regional Time Zone (e.g. SIG Contribex, CHAOSS Asia), navigating connectivity barriers, and amplifying non-Western perspectives in community leadership.

We'll explore what global inclusion looks like in practice: not just inviting participation, but enabling it meaningfully. By addressing time zone inequity, cultural nuance, and infrastructure gaps, we unlock richer collaboration and long-term sustainability. This talk is a call to move beyond checkboxes—toward an inclusiveness rooted in empathy, cultural awareness, and action. Let's build a Cloud Native ecosystem where contributors everywhere can truly belong—and thrive.
Speakers
avatar for Josh Berkus

Josh Berkus

Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat
Josh Berkus is the Kubernetes Community Manager, working in Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. He's currently involved with Kubernetes, Etcd, Elekto, Podman, and uBlue, but has spent more than 20 years contributing to many projects, including Linux, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL, and... Read More →
avatar for Priyanka Saggu

Priyanka Saggu

Technical Lead – SIG Contributor Experience, SUSE
Priyanka Saggu is a Kubernetes Engineer at SUSE, contributing to Kubernetes via Release, ContribEx, Testing, and CLI SIGs. She is the Emeritus Advisor for Kubernetes v1.31, Release Lead for v1.29, GitHub Admin, and Technical Lead for SIG Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx... Read More →
avatar for Sandeep Kanabar

Sandeep Kanabar

Lead Software Engineer, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)
Hailing from India, Sandeep is a passionate software engineer working at Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock). A frequent meetup speaker, Sandeep enjoys sharing his lessons learned from 15+ years in the tech space with the community. He's a staunch advocate for diversity and inclusion and... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
MRG 1-6
  Maintainer Track, Contributor Strategy

4:30pm IST

Enhancing DNS Reliability in Kubernetes With Node Local DNS Cache - Sanjay Kumar K K R & Priyanshi Agrawal, New Relic
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 6
In Kubernetes, DNS resolution is vital for service discovery. CoreDNS, the default DNS provider, can face performance issues such as timeouts, latency, and scalability challenges, which increase reliance on upstream DNS and lead to unreliable service discovery. To enhance DNS reliability, we propose integrating Node Local DNS Cache.

We'll discuss implementing node-local DNS caching in 270 clusters with over 18,000 nodes, effectively resolving DNS issues, boosting resolution reliability, reducing CoreDNS load, and minimizing dependency on upstream DNS sources. Attendees will gain insights into the technical approach, including performance assessments and testing scenarios emphasizing latency improvements. We've achieved a 30x performance enhancement and greater dns query-handling capacities through node-local DNS cache deployment. This session will provide valuable understanding of techniques to ensure robust DNS resolution in large-scale Kubernetes environments.
Speakers
avatar for Sanjay Kumar K K R

Sanjay Kumar K K R

Software Engineer, New Relic
Sanjay Kumar is a Software Engineer at New Relic, specializing in cloud-agnostic Kubernetes clusters at scale. With expertise in multi-cloud infrastructure, observability, and platform engineering, he has built resilient, high-performance Kubernetes deployments across AWS, GCP, and... Read More →
avatar for Priyanshi Agrawal

Priyanshi Agrawal

Software Engineer, New Relic
Priyanshi is a software engineer with 3+ years of experience at VMware and New Relic, specializing in GO, Kubernetes, Microservices, Restful Web Services, Git, AWS, and multicloud solutions. Known for blending technical expertise with leadership, Priyanshi excels at driving innovative... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 6
  Operations + Performance

4:30pm IST

Building a Cloud Native IaC Platform for an Enterprise by Leveraging the Kubernetes Ecosystem - Florian Hopfensperger, Allianz Technology & Yury Tsarev, Upbound
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 1
Infrastructure teams have long been a staple of large enterprises, responsible for creating and managing cloud and on-premises resources. However, each team often operates with its own user interface, making it difficult for developers to access the infrastructure they need efficiently. How can we enhance the developer experience while enabling infrastructure teams to offer products more effectively?

This talk will showcase how Allianz Technology leverages the Kubernetes ecosystem and open-source software to build an infrastructure-as-code platform powered by over 1,000 Kubernetes control planes. This approach simplifies the developer experience through customized APIs while providing infrastructure engineers with a scalable framework for delivering infrastructure products and gaining insights for continuous improvement.
Speakers
avatar for Yury Tsarev

Yury Tsarev

Principal Solutions Architect, Upbound
Yury is an experienced software engineer who strongly focuses on open-source, software quality and distributed systems. As the creator of k8gb (https://www.k8gb.io) and active contributor to the Crossplane ecosystem, he frequently speaks at conferences covering topics such as Control... Read More →
avatar for Florian Hopfensperger

Florian Hopfensperger

Software Engineering Lead, Allianz Technology
Florian is a Software Engineering Lead at Allianz Technology working on Kubernetes Control Planes. He is an enthusiast for Cloud Computing, GitOps and Open Source Software and actively contributes to it.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 1
  Platform Engineering

4:37pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Enhancing Runtime Protection Leveraging Compliance Frameworks - Ramakant Sharma, AccuKnox Inc.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:37pm - 4:42pm IST
Hall 3
Runtime security for cloud workloads involves continuously monitoring workload behavior and preventing deviations from normal activity.

The ideal approach is to enforce application-specific zero-trust policies that establish a baseline and prevent unexpected behavior. While, implementing zero trust requires ongoing tuning and is more of a Day 2 operation. In addition, Hardening policies can be established by translating compliance frameworks' prescriptive guidance into enforceable runtime security policies. By adopting a layered runtime security approach, the attack surface can be significantly reduced.

In this talk, we’ll demonstrate how to enhance runtime security using policies influenced by compliance frameworks like CIS and MITRE, etc. We’ll showcase real-world examples and enforce these policies using KubeArmor.
Speakers
avatar for Ramakant Sharma

Ramakant Sharma

Software Engineer, AccuKnox Inc. | Maintainer@KubeArmor, AccuKnox Inc.
Working as a software engineer at AccuKnox Inc., actively contributing to open source and maintainer KubeArmor, CNCF Sandbox project.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:37pm - 4:42pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Security

4:44pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: K0s at the Edge: Minimal Kubernetes, Maximum Impact - Satyam Bhardwaj, Mirantis
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:44pm - 4:49pm IST
Hall 3
As organizations shift workloads away from centralized clouds, they need solutions that are both lightweight and scalable. In this lightning talk, we’ll see how k0s - a single binary Kubernetes distribution, bridges this gap by making edge deployments simple and efficient.

We’ll walk through a short demo on Raspberry Pi 5, showing how to set up a worker node using a Pi device and deploy containerized applications closer to where data is generated. By the end, we’ll understand how this minimal approach can power IoT, AI/ML.
Speakers
avatar for Satyam Bhardwaj

Satyam Bhardwaj

Software Engineer, Mirantis
Satyam is a software engineer at Mirantis with experience in Kubernetes, containers, and open source development. He actively contributes to projects like Kubernetes ClusterAPI and the k0s, k0rdent ecosystem, focusing on enabling scalable AI/ML workloads through efficient infrastructure... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:44pm - 4:49pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Platform Engineering

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
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:51pm - 4:56pm IST
Hall 3
Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, yet managing complex workloads—particularly stateful applications and large-scale deployments—often requires extensions beyond its native capabilities. OpenKruise, addresses these gaps by introducing powerful and enhancements to streamline application lifecycle management.

This presentation explores how OpenKruise augments Kubernetes with features like in-place pod updates (reducing downtime by updating containers without restarting pods), advanced workload controllers (CloneSet, Advanced StatefulSet). These innovations enable DevOps teams to optimize deployments, minimize operational overhead, and scale stateful applications seamlessly.

We’ll delve into real-world use cases from our experiences, plus, how OpenKruise can be plugged to any complex systems/apps.

Attendees will leave with actionable insights into leveraging OpenKruise to enhance deployment strategies and achieve zero-downtime operations.
Speakers
avatar for Husni Alhamdani

Husni Alhamdani

CNCF Ambassador / Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Amartha Mikro Teknologi
Husni is a CNCF Ambassador, and a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at Amartha, previously at Shopee, where he is responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure platforms. In addition to these responsibilities, he primarily focuses on architecting Cloud-Native solutions. He also... Read More →
avatar for Herbert Sianturi

Herbert Sianturi

Senior DevOps Engineer, Krom Bank Indonesia
Herbert Sianturi serves as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Krom Bank Indonesia, where he roles spearheads efforts in enhancing the quality of end-to-end application lifecycle and applying open source platform as a base. With years of expertise in container orchestration and cloud computing... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:51pm - 4:56pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Operations + Performance
  • Content Experience Level Any

4:58pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimizing SNAT Port and IP Address Management in Kubernetes - Nitin Nizhawan & Prachi Sahu, Microsoft
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:58pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 3
Kubernetes workloads rely on public IP addresses for egress traffic via SNAT connections. By default, Kubernetes nodes provide a limited number of SNAT ports (1024 per node), often insufficient for workloads requiring extensive outbound connectivity. Allocating additional IP addresses statically for SNAT purposes in large clusters can lead to significant inefficiencies and wastage of limited public IPv4 resources. This session introduces an innovative SNAT port and IP address management solution developed for AKS multi-cluster, multi-tenant platforms, demonstrating how optimized IP allocation significantly reduces IP address wastage and associated costs.
Speakers
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Nitin Nizhawan

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
With over 16 years of experience in software engineering, I have a robust background in developing enterprise applications using Java, C#, and Golang. I have successfully developed solutions for both on-premises and cloud environments. For the past three years, I have been dedicated... Read More →
avatar for Prachi Sahu

Prachi Sahu

Software Engineer, Microsoft
I'm a Software Developer at Microsoft with hands-on experience working on Kubernetes and Docker at an intermediate level. My work focuses on the Linux platform and distributed networking within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). I work closely on network debugging and observability using... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 4:58pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Connectivity

5:02pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Solving Multi-Region K8s Challenges: Improving Pod Startup Time & Reducing NAT Costs With Zot - Tamil Vanan Karuppannan, Arcesium
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:02pm - 5:07pm IST
Hall 3
Managing a multi-region Kubernetes deployment comes with significant challenges, especially around container image distribution. In our setup, we had a central container registry in a public cloud, but as the number of clusters grew across regions, our NAT transfer costs skyrocketed— a staggering 10x increase

A major contributor to this cost was cross-region image pulls, which also impacted pod startup times. We explored multiple solutions and found Zot (a CNCF sandbox project) to be an ideal fit due to its lightweight architecture and pull-through cache capabilities

By configuring Zot as a regional caching layer, we:

Reduced NAT data transfer costs significantly by keeping frequently pulled images closer to the clusters.
Improved pod startup times by eliminating long fetch delays from a central registry.
Simplified registry management without adding unnecessary complexity.
Speakers
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tamilhce

Principal Engineer, Arcesium
Tamil vanan is a cloud native Tech lead at Arcesium and a former Kubernetes SME at VMware. He is passionate about finding solutions to problems in the cloud native environment. He works with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, multi-cloud and networking. He is a passionate... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:02pm - 5:07pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Operations + Performance

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
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:09pm - 5:14pm IST
Hall 3
Jumping into a massive infrastructure codebase as an intern can be intimidating. But here’s what made onboarding smoother: unit testing with Kubernetes APIs and fake clients.
This talk shares my experience of working on unit tests for an infra plumbing component of a data lakehouse.

The journey from being overwhelmed by Go and Kubernetes to realizing that unit testing is the best entry point to understanding large-scale cloud-native systems will be explored.

The session highlights why Kubernetes APIs make testing easier, introduces informers, controllers, and API behaviors and how they help in testing, how fake clients eliminate the need for a real cluster, and why this is a great starting point for interns and students working on their first cloud-based project.

Attendees will gain insights into the advantages of Kubernetes API interactions and testing, including speed, reliability, comprehensive coverage, and improved developer experience.
Speakers
avatar for Harini Anand

Harini Anand

Software Developer Intern, IBM
CSE undergrad passionate about Computational Cognition, ML, and AI in Healthcare. SDE Intern @IBM Data & AI, working on IBM watsonx™. Formerly at Niramai & IIT Hyderabad, researching ML for breast cancer and gene regulatory networks. Built cognitive tools for dementia prevention... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:09pm - 5:14pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Cloud Native Experience

5:10pm IST

Rewriting the Rules: Why Kubernetes Is Moving To NFTables - Daman Arora & Yash Kumar Singh, Broadcom
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
Hall 2
This session will explore why NFTables offer clear advantages over IPTables and IPVS, especially in large-scale production environments from both maintainers and end users perspective. We’ll share a user story who faced persistent issues with IPTables, saw some success with IPVS, and finally solved their scalability problems by migrating to NFTables. From a maintainers perspective we will showcase how and why NFTable outperforms the other proxy modes. We’ll provide performance insights and discuss kernel compatibility.
We will also discuss NFTables compatibility with various CNI providers and plugins, and how NFTables support is already integrated in many environments, providing a smoother transition. Attending this session you will get an indepth understanding of behavioral changes when migrating from IPTables and IPVS to NFTables, including key metrics to track.
Speakers
avatar for Yash Singh

Yash Singh

Software Engineer, Broadcom
Yash Singh is a Software Engineer at VMware. He works on Kubernetes core components releases, building and validating the Kubernetes FIPS for Tanzu. He plays an important role in the development of Tanzu Extend Support of Kubernetes and its components. Yash contributes to a host of... Read More →
avatar for Daman Arora

Daman Arora

Senior Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom
Trying to maintain kube-proxy.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
Hall 2
  Connectivity

5:10pm IST

Plug-and-Play Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes Built-in Workloads With OpenKruise Rollout - Harkirat Singh, OpenKruise
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
MRG 1-6
OpenKruise Rollout is a sub-project of OpenKruise that aims to ease the process of progressive delivery. This talk explores the internal framework of OpenKruise Rollout to support built-in workload non-invasively. For platform builders, you’ll learn how to easily enable your deployments with new capability such as multi-batch release and blue-green deployment without workload migration and HPA solutions switch. You’ll also learn how to leverage the built-in labeling support to inspect and conduct experiments with newly released pods.
Speakers
avatar for Harkirat Singh

Harkirat Singh

Open Source Developer, OpenKruise
At the end of 2022, I began my career as a software engineer by working on CNCF projects. Being selected as an LFX mentee for Fall 2022 was a turning point that accelerated my growth and I also won several hackathons . Recently collaborated with European founders to build solutions... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
MRG 1-6
  Maintainer Track, OpenKruise

5:10pm IST

Build Your K8s Ready Distro With BootC - Praveen Kumar & Josh Berkus, Red Hat
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
Hall 6
Kubernetes administrators often struggle with maintaining consistency across distributed nodes, managing OS updates, and preventing configuration drift in large-scale containerized environments. Wouldn't it be great if there is a way to generate the distribution using a container file like we do for application images? With bootable containers (bootc) you can do it.

In this demo-centric presentation, we will explore how bootc can simplify operating system management by treating itself as an immutable container image. Using a local Kind cluster on Podman Desktop, we will demonstrate how to create and deploy images, showcasing its advantages in maintaining consistency and security across clusters and edge nodes. By treating the OS as a container image, we can take advantage of existing container workflows, making updates and rollbacks atomic and version-controlled.

Attendees will learn how they can use their container-building skills to manage their distro images as well.
Speakers
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Praveen Kumar

Software Engineer, Red Hat
Praveen Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. In his current role, Praveen is focusing on to provide a tool for developers to play with OpenShift locally. In his free time he tries to contribute different container ecosystem projects. He has been a speaker at Eclipse... Read More →
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Josh Berkus

Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat
Josh Berkus is the Kubernetes Community Manager, working in Red Hat's Open Source Program Office. He's currently involved with Kubernetes, Etcd, Elekto, Podman, and uBlue, but has spent more than 20 years contributing to many projects, including Linux, OpenOffice, PostgreSQL, and... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
Hall 6
  Operations + Performance

5:10pm IST

A Journey To Ephemeral Test Environments With EKS and ArgoCD - Tatiana Selezneva & Gazal Gafoor, REA Group
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
Hall 1
In today's fast-paced development landscape, maintaining reliable and up-to-date test environments is crucial yet challenging. Join us as we share our journey of evolving from traditional long-running test environments to testing directly in production, and eventually achieving scalable and ephemeral test environments for platform builders as well as application teams.

- Are you content with the current state of your test environments?
- Do you find yourself relying on outdated, long-running staging and test environments?
- How do you handle the risks of data staleness and unexpected environment corruption?

In this talk, we will go into the strategies and tools that helped us to transition to ephemeral test environments, highlighting the benefits and challenges encountered along the way. We aim to provide you with practical steps to improve the scalability and reliability of your own testing frameworks.
Speakers
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Tatiana Selezneva

Lead Developer, REA Group
Tatiana is a part of the Platform Engineering team at REA Group, where she focuses on improving developer productivity through the use of Kubernetes orchestration and cloud-native technologies. She is passionate about streamlining development processes and enabling innovation within... Read More →
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Gazal Gafoor

Lead Developer, REA Group
I have been an active user of cloud native technologies for about a decade. I have contributed to the community with code, engagement in the kubernetes slack channel, blog posts and a podcast appearance with a CNCF ambassador.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:10pm - 5:40pm IST
Hall 1
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:16pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: WASM Vs Docker: Partners, Not Rivals - Pradumna V Saraf, Independent
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:16pm - 5:21pm IST
Hall 3
The rise of WebAssembly (WASM) has sparked comparisons with Docker which often leads to questions and confusion: Are WASM and Docker competing technologies?

In this talk, we will see how this is far from the truth. On one side, Docker revolutionised how we bundle and deploy applications, offering unparalleled portability and simplifying workflows across environments. On the other hand, WASM brings speed, security, and efficiency, enabling the execution of code written in languages like C, C++, and Rust almost at native speed, performance, and rapid startup time even in the browser.

We will explore how these two technologies bring the best of both worlds and help developers achieve portability, efficiency, security, and flexibility. We will also look at how Docker is actively working to make WASM mainstream by allowing WASM container images to be hosted on DockerHub and run WASM containers alongside traditional Linux and Windows containers.
Speakers
avatar for Pradumna V Saraf

Pradumna V Saraf

Open Source Developer, Independent
Pradumna is a Developer Advocate, Docker Captain, and a DevOps and Go Developer. He is passionate about Open Source and has mentored hundreds of people to break into the ecosystem. He also creates content on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn, educating others about Open Source and... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:16pm - 5:21pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Emerging + Advanced
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:23pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Predictive Autoscaling in Kubernetes With KEDA and Prophet - Snigdha Kanchana, IBM
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:23pm - 5:28pm IST
Hall 3
This session focuses on enhancing Kubernetes autoscaling by integrating **KEDA** (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) with **Prophet**, a time-series forecasting tool. Traditional Kubernetes autoscaling reacts to current resource metrics like CPU and memory, while predictive autoscaling anticipates future workload demands using historical data. By combining Prophet with KEDA, Kubernetes can proactively scale resources before traffic spikes, ensuring better performance and optimized resource usage.

Attendees will learn how to implement predictive autoscaling with KEDA and Prophet to improve efficiency, reduce latency, and manage resources proactively. This approach helps handle fluctuating workloads, enhancing system reliability and providing a seamless user experience.

Ideal for cloud architects, Kubernetes admins, and DevOps professionals, this session provides actionable insights to automate scaling strategies and improve cost efficiency in cloud-native environments.
Speakers
avatar for Snigdha Kanchana

Snigdha Kanchana

Cloud SRE & DevOps Engineer, IBM
I’m a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer at IBM, specializing in DevOps, cloud computing, and automation with expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud security. Previously, I worked as a DevOps Engineer at NCR Corporation, optimizing cloud... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:23pm - 5:28pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Operations + Performance
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:30pm IST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Mission: Impossible - Building Self-Healing Disaster Recovery With OpenFeature - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:30pm - 5:35pm IST
Hall 3
Imagine presenting to your dream clients when your primary region decides to take a coffee break. That's exactly what happened to us - 25 minutes of unexpected manual failover, and watching hope drain from our team's & audience's faces. Our multi-region setup was more "disaster" than "recovery".

Join this talk as Prerit walk us over how they build an intelligent feature flag orchestration platform using OpenFeature which now processes 1k flag evaluations/second across 3 global regions, reduced infrastructure incident risk by 90% & DR time from 25 minutes to 125 seconds and has successfully handled 15 regional incidents without a single lost transaction.

We will also see they built the "infrastructure gates" to control traffic shifting with millisecond precision, feature state synchronization, and WARM-HOT-COLD DR strategies with just a toggle.
Speakers
avatar for Prerit Munjal

Prerit Munjal

Co-founder & CTO, InfraOne
Prerit is working as a Software Architect, directing his expertise towards harnessing Cloud Native Technologies to design resilient architectures that can seamlessly scale in the future, all while prioritizing technical cost, security, availability and end-user experience. As the... Read More →
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:30pm - 5:35pm IST
Hall 3
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Emerging + Advanced
  • Content Experience Level Any

5:45pm IST

Welcome Reception 🎉
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:45pm - 7:15pm IST
Hall 4
Join us onsite for drinks, appetizers, and conversations with old and new friends in the Solutions Showcase. Explore the exhibit booths to learn more about the latest technologies, meet experts and project maintainers, browse special offers, and much more.

In order to facilitate networking and business relationships at the event, you may choose to visit a third party’s booth or to 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.
Wednesday August 6, 2025 5:45pm - 7:15pm IST
Hall 4
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