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Wednesday, August 6
 

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

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

11:37am 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

12:12pm 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

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

2:50pm 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

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

4:37pm 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
avatar for Nitin Nizhawan

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

5:16pm 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
 
Thursday, August 7
 

9:30am IST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
Thursday August 7, 2025 9:30am - 9:35am IST
Hall 3
Thursday August 7, 2025 9:30am - 9:35am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions

9:37am IST

Keynote: From Outage To Observability: Lessons From a Kubernetes Meltdown - Saiyam Pathak, LoftLabs & Arnab Chatterjee, Nomura
Thursday August 7, 2025 9:37am - 9:47am IST
Hall 3
Is basic monitoring and logging using prometheus and ELK stack enough? Our DevOps automation platform suffered a major Kubernetes outage due to weak observability despite having the basic setup in place.

What Went Wrong?
Our "good enough" setup fell apart when it mattered most. Logs were a mess with no correlation, & tracing was half-baked, leaving us clueless during debugging. One customer’s CI/CD pipeline overwhelmed shared resources and brought everyone down. Aggressive autoscaling overloaded the control plane. Worst of all, a single tenant’s failure affected the entire cluster.

How did we fix it?
We swapped basic Prometheus for a distributed setup that could handle the scale. Workloads got isolated per tenant and team, with multi-tenancy baked in and dedicated monitoring to match. Fine-grained autoscaling & experimentation with tracing tools(Parca/Odigos). The result? A cluster that bends but doesn’t break.

If you want to avoid your own outage horror story, this talk is for you.
Speakers
avatar for Saiyam Pathak

Saiyam Pathak

Principal Developer Advocate, LoftLabs
Saiyam is working as Principal Developer Advocate at Loft Labs. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native and Kubernetes technologies. Previously at Civo, Walmart Labs, Oracle, and HP, Saiyam has worked on many facets of Kubernetes, including machine... Read More →
avatar for Arnab Chatterjee

Arnab Chatterjee

Vice President, Nomura
Arnab Chatterjee is a seasoned technologist who has nearly two decades of industry experience in Cloud Native,Data Platforms ,Tools and best practices
Thursday August 7, 2025 9:37am - 9:47am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions, Observability

9:48am IST

Keynotes to be Announced
Thursday August 7, 2025 9:48am - 10:01am IST
Hall 3
Thursday August 7, 2025 9:48am - 10:01am IST
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  Keynote Sessions

10:02am IST

Keynote: Kubernetes and Platform Engineering: A Strategic Partnership for Scalable Innovation - Bhavani Indukuri, Staff Platform Engineer, Zscaler
Thursday August 7, 2025 10:02am - 10:12am IST
Hall 3
As organisations push to accelerate software delivery, Kubernetes has emerged as the backbone of modern platform engineering, enabling businesses to transcend traditional infrastructure and build scalable, high-performance platforms that empower developers to effortlessly deploy, manage, and scale applications.

In this session, I’ll dive into how Kubernetes is revolutionising platform engineering — turning complex infrastructure into self-service environments that drive automation, scalability, and developer efficiency. Through real-world case studies and forward-thinking strategies, I’ll demonstrate how Kubernetes helps organisations unlock unprecedented flexibility, accelerate delivery cycles, and build platforms that scale seamlessly in today’s dynamic landscape.
Speakers
avatar for Bhavani Indukuri

Bhavani Indukuri

Staff Platform Engineer, Zscaler
Bhavani is a Staff Platform Engineer at Zscaler. She plays a pivotal role in streamlining and optimising DevOps and CloudNative solutions, ensuring seamless and efficient software delivery. Previously, at ServiceNow, she was actively involved in migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes... Read More →
Thursday August 7, 2025 10:02am - 10:12am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions

10:14am IST

Keynotes to be Announced
Thursday August 7, 2025 10:14am - 10:39am IST
Hall 3
Thursday August 7, 2025 10:14am - 10:39am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions

10:40am IST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Thursday August 7, 2025 10:40am - 10:45am IST
Hall 3
Thursday August 7, 2025 10:40am - 10:45am IST
Hall 3
  Keynote Sessions

11:30am IST

Children's Guide To LLMs on Kubernetes - Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify & Aman Mundra, Welzin
Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 3
Do you know about Large Language Models or LLMs? It’s been a while since we’ve seen a technology like this grab everyone’s attention, techies and non-techies alike. Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene, powered by an LLM, AI has become a household name. But for newcomers, especially in the cloud native ecosystem, these concepts can feel overwhelming.
In this talk, we’ll start from the very basics, explaining what LLMs are and busting some common myths. We’ll break down the key terms with simple diagrams and analogies that are easy to digest. You’ll get a clear, beginner-friendly look at how LLMs work, why Kubernetes is perfect for running them, and how they fit together in the cloud-native world.
We’ll even walk through running an LLM on Kubernetes using vLLM for some practical insights and touch on how this opens the door to AIOps. If you’re curious about stepping into the AI ecosystem and understanding its cloud foundations, this talk is for you.
Speakers
avatar for Aman Mundra

Aman Mundra

Founder, Welzin
Amandeep Singh is the Founder & CEO of Welzin, a full-stack AI firm delivering cutting-edge solutions in AI/ML, GenAI, and data science. With 11+ years of experience, he has led transformative projects across finance, legal, manufacturing, and mar-tech.Before launching Welzin, Amandeep... Read More →
avatar for Saloni Narang

Saloni Narang

Co-Founder, Kubesimplify
Saloni is a Co-founder at kubesimplify and previously worked at SAP Labs. She has worked on different cloud tools, including GCP,Oracle, AWS. She loves to read about new open-source tools in the Cloud Native landscape. Being a CNCF Ambassador and Docker Captain she has been very... Read More →
Thursday August 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm IST
Hall 3
  AI + ML

12:10pm IST

Cloud Native GenAI Using KServe and OPEA - Johnu George, Nutanix & Arun Gupta, Intel
Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 3
This talk explores how KServe and OPEA are redefining the enterprise AI stack through modular and composable architectures. KServe delivers a scalable, hardware-agnostic Kubernetes native platform for production model deployment. OPEA complements this infrastructure with an open, multi-provider platform that provides optimized GenAI solutions through standardized interfaces. By building on KServe's capabilities, OPEA allows teams to focus on developing innovative applications rather than managing complex infrastructure concerns.
Join us to learn how deconstructing AI systems into specialized Lego blocks leads to more extensible and powerful enterprise AI architectures. We will demonstrate how this separation of concerns speeds up innovation, enabling teams to focus on app development for their app development. We will also discuss practical approaches for implementing this "building block" methodology in your organization's AI strategy.
Speakers
avatar for Johnu George

Johnu George

Technical Director, Nutanix
Johnu George is a Technical Director at Nutanix with a background in distributed systems and large-scale hybrid data pipelines. He is an active open-source contributor and has steered several industry collaborations on projects like Kubeflow, Apache Mnemonic and Knative. He is a member... Read More →
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Arun Gupta

VP, Developer Programs, Intel
Arun Gupta is vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation. He is an open source strategist, advocate, and practitioner for over two decades. He has taken companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems through systemic changes to embrace... Read More →
Thursday August 7, 2025 12:10pm - 12:40pm IST
Hall 3
  AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

2:10pm IST

Auto-instrumentation for GPU Performance Using eBPF - Marc Tudurí, Grafana Labs
Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 3
Modern AI workloads rely on large GPU fleets whose efficient utilisation is crucial due to high costs. However, gathering telemetry from these workloads to optimise performance is challenging because it requires manual instrumentation and adds performance overheads. Further, it does not produce telemetry in a standardised format for commonly used visualisation tools like Prometheus.

This talk explores the potential of leveraging eBPF to capture CUDA calls made to GPUs, including kernel launches and memory allocations. Data from these probes can be used to export Prometheus metrics, facilitating detailed analysis of kernel launch patterns and associated memory usage. This approach offers significant benefits as eBPF imposes minimal overhead and requires no intrusive instrumentation. Our implementation is also open-source and available on GitHub.
Speakers
avatar for Marc Tudurí

Marc Tudurí

Staff Engineer, Grafana Labs
Marc Tuduri is Prometheus contributor, OpenTelemetry member and Software Engineer at Grafana.
Thursday August 7, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm IST
Hall 3
  AI + ML

2:50pm IST

How Intuit Streamlined AI/ML Inference Workflows on K8s - Yashash H L & Sreekanth P R, Intuit
Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 3
Building ML systems that operate on real-time data streams is no easy feat, especially when dealing with complex messaging systems, scaling requirements, and the need for seamless inference. At Intuit, we saw firsthand how these challenges slowed down our ML teams and hindered innovation. That’s why we created Numaflow, a Kubernetes-native open-source platform that empowers teams to easily connect to streaming sources, apply transformations, and run inference at scale—without the typical overhead. In this talk, we’ll share how Numaflow enhances the developer experience, reduces boilerplate, and accelerates deployment of ML workflows. Whether you're a data scientist, ML engineer, or platform builder, this session will offer practical insights into running real-time inference on streaming data, the Intuit way.
Speakers
avatar for Sreekanth P R

Sreekanth P R

Senior Software Engineer, Intuit India
Senior Software Engineer, Intuit India
avatar for Yashash H L

Yashash H L

Senior Software Engineer, Intuit
Yashash is a Software engineer for the Intuit Platform and Analytics team in Bangalore, India. He is one of the lead contributors to open source Numaproj streaming platform. His focus areas include stream processing, analytics and observability.
Thursday August 7, 2025 2:50pm - 3:20pm IST
Hall 3
  AI + ML

3:50pm IST

Multi-Layered Guardrails for Cloud Native AI: Enforcing Compliance and Safety at Scale - Vincent Caldeira & Anindita Sinha Banerjee, Red Hat
Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 3
As AI-powered cloud-native applications evolve, ensuring trust, compliance, and robustness requires dynamic governance mechanisms that operate seamlessly across distributed environments. This session introduces a multi-layered cloud-native framework that enforces AI guardrails at three critical stages: pre-processing (input validation), inference (real-time bias mitigation), and post-inference (output validation).

By leveraging Kubernetes orchestration, Istio service mesh, and knowledge graphs, the framework enables scalable AI governance that integrates multi-agent coordination, real-time intervention, and traceability to ensure AI decisions remain transparent, auditable, and aligned with compliance requirements.

Attendees will gain insights into cloud-native AI governance patterns, practical deployment strategies, and the role of multi-agent oversight in ensuring compliant, production-ready AI workflows within Kubernetes environments.
Speakers
avatar for Vincent Caldeira

Vincent Caldeira

CTO APAC, Red Hat
Vincent Caldeira, CTO of Red Hat in APAC, is responsible for strategic partnerships and technology strategy. Named a top CTO in APAC in 2023, he has 20+ years in IT, excelling in technology transformation in finance. An authority in open source and cloud-native technologies, Vincent... Read More →
avatar for Anindita Sinha Banerjee

Anindita Sinha Banerjee

Data Scientist, Red Hat
With over a decade in Data and Decision Sciences, I design NLP and AI solutions that solve complex business challenges. Currently a Data Scientist at Red Hat and former researcher at Tata Research Development and Design Center, I have presented research at premier conferences and... Read More →
Thursday August 7, 2025 3:50pm - 4:20pm IST
Hall 3
  AI + ML

4:30pm IST

Sandboxing Agentic AI With LSM-BPF - Rahul Jadhav, Accuknox
Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 3
AI Agents are autonomously taking decisions, interacting with each other, and ensuring that the user specified deliverable is achieved. In lot of cases, AI Agents are dynamically generating the code to achieve the functionality. This dynamically generated code needs to be guardrailed i.e., an untrusted model could generate malicious code that will have equal access as that of the model itself. The aim of the talk is to create awareness of security issues sorrounding this use-case, explain the existing tooling/frameworks (such as executing in remotely hosted MicroVMs, use of WASM from NVIDIA). Explain the operational issues using such sandboxing mechanism and then put forth an approach leveraging LSM-BPF that combines the power of Linux Security Modules (LSM) with that of eBPF to achieve better sandboxing. KubeArmor, a CNCF Project, would be used to explain how this can be achieved.
Speakers
avatar for Rahul Jadhav

Rahul Jadhav

Nephio SIG-Security chair, CNCF Ambassador, CTO AccuKnox, Accuknox
An avid coder, a systems engineer working on solutions involving security and performance of cloud-native tech. Contributed towards several open sources including Linux Kernel and worked closely with IETF Standards (such as ROLL, 6lo, LWIG) and Linux Foundation. Taken several projects... Read More →
Thursday August 7, 2025 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
Hall 3
  AI + ML
 
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