11:30am • Supercharge Backstage: Self-Service GitOps Staging Environments With VCluster and FluxCD - Farhaan Shamsee & Rakesh Reddy, Siemens Technology
12:10pm • To Succeed in Platform Engineering, Build Infrastructure Knowledge Graphs - Safeer C M, MoEngage
2:10pm • Introducing Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud
2:50pm • IDP as a Product: Where Developer Happiness Meets Platform's Excellence - Ninad Desai & Ruturaj Kadikar, InfraCloud Technologies
3:50pm • Beyond Productivity: Scaling Cloud Dev Environments for Faster Feedback & Sustainable Engineering - Siddhant Khare, Gitpod & Nancy Chauhan, Independent
4:30pm • Building a Cloud Native IaC Platform for an Enterprise by Leveraging the Kubernetes Ecosystem - Florian Hopfensperger, Allianz Technology & Yury Tsarev, Upbound
5:10pm • A Journey To Ephemeral Test Environments With EKS and ArgoCD - Tatiana Selezneva & Gazal Gafoor, REA Group
11:30am • Back To the Basics - Service Mesh Fundamentals - Kannan Jayaprakasam, Google
12:10pm • Beyond the Start Button: The Hidden Life of Pod Termination in Kubernetes - Rishabh Jain, Amazon Web Services India
2:10pm • Who Let the Pods Out? Extending Kubernetes with Custom Controllers and CRDs - Ria Bhatia, Godman Sachs
2:50pm • Kubernetes at the Edge – Come See It in Action! - Xavier Avrillier & Antonia von den Driesch, Giant Swarm
3:50pm • Lessons from Running a CNCF Community: Mistakes, Wins, and Growth - Kemila De Silva, Aeturnum Inc. & Chamod Perera, Circles
4:30pm • Unlocking the Power of Kuma Service Mesh: Enhancing Reliability and Developer Productivity - Deepak Verma & Arpit Mishra, Zomato
5:10pm • Rewriting the Rules: Why Kubernetes Is Moving To NFTables - Daman Arora & Yash Kumar Singh, Broadcom
9:30am • Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
9:47am • Keynote: Kubernetes for GenAI: The New Operating System of the AI-First World - Janakiram MSV, Principal Analyst, Janakiram and Associates
9:59am • Keynote: Pushing the Limits: Scaling ArgoCD’s Repo-Server To Handle 30K Applications - Aditya Sharma & Isha Gusai, Expedia Group
10:11am • Keynote: DX Is the New UX: How Technical Friction Impacts Business Value - Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate, InfraCloud Technologies
10:23am • Keynotes to be Announced
10:40am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:30am • Project Lightning Talks Opening
11:37am • Project Lightning Talk: Vitess: OTel 2025: The Latest Milestones and What’s Next - Steve Flanders, Senior Director of Engineering
11:44am • Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD 3.0: What’s New and What’s Next? - Nitish Kumar, Software Engineer, Argo CD Maintainer
11:51am • Project Lightning Talk: Essential Resources for gRPC Development - Kevin Nilson, gRPC Maintainer
11:58am • Project Lightning Talk: How to get your custom access tokens from Keycloak - Alexander Schwartz, Principal Software Engineer
12:05pm • Project Lightning Talk: What’s New in k0s: Lightweight Kubernetes Without Compromise - Prithvi Raj, Community Manager & Developer Advocate
12:12pm • Project Lightning Talk: Dockerfiles vs Buildpacks: What's The Cloud Native Way? - Ram Iyengar, Evangelist
12:19pm • Project Lightning Talk: Kyverno: Kubernetes Policy as Code Unleashed! - Mohd Kamaal, Kyverno contributor
12:26pm • Project Lightning Talk: What's new in Harbor Project Updates and New Features - Prasanth Baskar, Software Engineer
12:33pm • Project Lightning Talks Closing
2:10pm • Scaling AI Like a Pro-PepsiCo’s LLM Deployment Strategy on Kubernetes for AI-Driven Business Impact - Praseed Naduvath & Dhanashree Shetty, PepsiCo
2:50pm • Scaling ML Smarter: Optimizing Kueue & Volcano With Adaptive Scheduling - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe & Aditi Gupta, Disney + Hotstar (now JioHotstar)
4:30pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Confidential VMs in Kubevirt: Securing VMs With KubeVirt Trusted Execution Environments - Basavaraju G, IBM
4:37pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Enhancing Runtime Protection Leveraging Compliance Frameworks - Ramakant Sharma, AccuKnox Inc.
4:44pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: K0s at the Edge: Minimal Kubernetes, Maximum Impact - Satyam Bhardwaj, Mirantis
4:51pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: OpenKruise: Advancing Kubernetes Workload Automation for Scalable, Disruption-Free Operations - Husni Alhamdani, Amartha Mikro Teknologi & Herbert Sianturi, Krom Bank Indonesia
4:58pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimizing SNAT Port and IP Address Management in Kubernetes - Nitin Nizhawan & Prachi Sahu, Microsoft
5:02pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Solving Multi-Region K8s Challenges: Improving Pod Startup Time & Reducing NAT Costs With Zot - Tamil Vanan Karuppannan, Arcesium
5:09pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Unit Testing in Go With K8s Clients & APIs: An Intern’s POV on Why It’s a Great Start - Harini Anand, IBM
5:16pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: WASM Vs Docker: Partners, Not Rivals - Pradumna V Saraf, Independent
5:23pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Predictive Autoscaling in Kubernetes With KEDA and Prophet - Snigdha Kanchana, IBM
5:30pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Mission: Impossible - Building Self-Healing Disaster Recovery With OpenFeature - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne
11:30am • ArgoCD CLI Gets an Upgrade: Plugins, Flexibility, and More - Nitish Kumar, Akuity
12:10pm • Delegate Authentication and a Lot More To Keycloak With OpenID Connect - Alexander Schwartz & Rishabh Singh, Red Hat
2:10pm • Harbor Maintainers Talk - Role of Harbor in AI, IOT Edge and the Future - Prasanth Baskar, 8gears
2:50pm • 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
3:50pm • SIG etcd Maintainer Track Talk - Arka Saha, VMware by Broadcom; Josh Berkus, Red Hat
4:30pm • Redefining Inclusion: Building Truly Global Cloud Native Communities - Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock); Priyanka Saggu, SUSE
5:10pm • Plug-and-Play Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes Built-in Workloads With OpenKruise Rollout - Harkirat Singh, OpenKruise
11:30am • The Fast and the Fluent: AI-Powered Speech Translation at the Edge With K0s - Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis Inc.
12:10pm • Effortless, Standardised Homelab Observability With eBPF - Goutham Veeramachaneni, Grafana Labs
2:10pm • Containerized Time Travel: Replicating Production Performance - Sravanthi Naga & Hari Babu Volli, Pegasystems
2:50pm • Observability at Scale With Monitoring as Code: Grafana, Prometheus, & Tempo - Vipin GopalaKrishnapillai, Amway Global
3:50pm • Building a Scalable Observability Platform for Edge Compute Nodes - Naveen Kumar S P & Karthik A, Kongsberg Digital India
4:30pm • Unlocking Kubernetes Observability: Secure, Tenant-Centric Metrics for GPU Workloads - Bingi Narasimha Karthik & Ramkumar Nagaraj, Adobe
9:30am • Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
9:37am • Keynote: From Outage To Observability: Lessons From a Kubernetes Meltdown - Saiyam Pathak, LoftLabs & Arnab Chatterjee, Nomura
9:48am • Keynotes to be Announced
10:02am • Keynote: Kubernetes and Platform Engineering: A Strategic Partnership for Scalable Innovation - Bhavani Indukuri, Staff Platform Engineer, Zscaler
10:14am • Keynotes to be Announced
10:40am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:30am • Children's Guide To LLMs on Kubernetes - Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify & Aman Mundra, Welzin
12:10pm • Cloud Native GenAI Using KServe and OPEA - Johnu George, Nutanix & Arun Gupta, Intel
2:10pm • Auto-instrumentation for GPU Performance Using eBPF - Marc Tudurí, Grafana Labs
2:50pm • How Intuit Streamlined AI/ML Inference Workflows on K8s - Yashash H L & Sreekanth P R, Intuit
3:50pm • Multi-Layered Guardrails for Cloud Native AI: Enforcing Compliance and Safety at Scale - Vincent Caldeira & Anindita Sinha Banerjee, Red Hat
4:30pm • Sandboxing Agentic AI With LSM-BPF - Rahul Jadhav, Accuknox
11:30am • Handling Node Churn in Karpenter: Efficient Scaling for Large EKS Clusters - Shivani Mehrotra, Expedia Group & Chetan Saini, Antra Info Solution PVT LTD
12:10pm • Cluster API To Streamline Kubernetes Clusters Lifecycle Management at NVIDIA - Megha Singhal & Gulshan Khatri, NVIDIA
2:10pm • Fine-Grained Authorization: The Missing Piece in Agentic AI Security - Shivay Lamba, Couchbase & Ashish Jha, Okta
2:50pm • Freeze,Investigate,Recover: Unlocking Forensic Container Checkpointing With CRI-U - Suman Chakraborty, Platform9 Systems & Neel Shah, Middleware
3:50pm • Choose Your Shield: Evaluating Linux Security Modules for Cloud Native Ecosystems - Ramakant Sharma, AccuKnox Inc.
4:30pm • Security: The Thing That Everyone Loves To Hate - Bhavani Indukuri, Zscaler; Sonali Srivastava, InfraCloud Technologies; Ram Iyengar, The Linux Foundation; Anusha Hegde, Nirmata
11:30am • Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Subham Rai, Nikhil Ladha, Rakshith R & Nitin Goyal, IBM; Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso
12:10pm • Bridging Big Data and Machine Learning Ecosystems: A Cloud Native Approach Using Kubeflow - Johnu George, Nutanix & Akshay Chitneni, Apple
2:10pm • Inside Vitess: Building Resilient, Distributed Databases - Manan Gupta & Harshit Gangal, PlanetScale
2:50pm • Kubernetes Steering Committee - Navigating the Tides of the Kubernetes Ocean - Maciej Szulik, Independent; Paco Xu, DaoCloud; Nikhita Raghunath & Nabarun Pal, Broadcom
3:50pm • Kubernetes Policy as Code for Platform Engineers - Sonali Srivastava, InfraCloud Technologies; Mohd Kamaal & Kushal Agrawal, Independent
4:30pm • Minimal OS, Maximum Impact: Journey To a Flatcar Maintainer - Sayan Chowdhury, Microsoft