KCD Delhi 2026
KCD
Delhi
2026
About Event
Presenting you the first ever KCD in the heart of India - KCD Delhi, that brings together adopters and technologists from the open source and cloud native ecosystem for a full day of learning, collaboration, and meaningful networking. With 500+ attendees expected, it stands as one of India’s most vibrant cloud native gatherings.
500+
Attendees
30+
Speakers
1
Day Event
Event Timeline
Registrations
Get Started for the day, grab your badge and enjoy some coffee and let people know you're here!
Keynote
Keynote & Opening remarks and vision for KCD Delhi 2026
Breakfast/Coffee
Enjoy morning refreshments and networking
Parallel Technical Sessions/Workshops
Deep dive into Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies
Lunch
Enjoy a delicious food, meet with amazing people
Parallel Technical Sessions/Workshops
Hands-on learning experiences and advanced sessions
High Tea and Snacks
Afternoon refreshments and community networking
Closing Remarks
Wrap up and community awards
Registrations
Get Started for the day, grab your badge and enjoy some coffee and let people know you're here!
Keynote
Keynote & Opening remarks and vision for KCD Delhi 2026
Breakfast/Coffee
Enjoy morning refreshments and networking
Parallel Technical Sessions/Workshops
Deep dive into Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies
Lunch
Enjoy a delicious food, meet with amazing people
Parallel Technical Sessions/Workshops
Hands-on learning experiences and advanced sessions
High Tea and Snacks
Afternoon refreshments and community networking
Closing Remarks
Wrap up and community awards
Agenda
Mainstage
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 07:30 – 09:15 | Registrations | — |
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Opening Remarks | Saiyam Pathak - Head of Developer Relations, vCluster |
| 09:50 – 10:00 | AI-driven Decision Support Systems in Defence | Ms Sanchita Malik, Sc-G, Defence Research & Development Organisation |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | AI on Kubernetes: A Community Roundtable on What’s Working, What’s Not | Atulpriya Sharma - Senior Developer Advocate, Infracloud, Ram Iyengar - Chief Evangelist, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Saloni Narang - Co-Founder, Kubesimplify, Amanda Brock - CEO, OpenUK |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Tea Break | — |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Gateway API Deep Dive: The Modern Replacement for Ingress NGINX | Sagar Utekar - Site Reliability Engineer, CrowdStrike & Oshi Gupta - Site Reliability Engineer, Improving Pune |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Trust But Verify: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust | Gurpreet Sachdeva - Senior Director, capegemini |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | Taming the Multi-Cluster Sprawl: Add-on Automation with Project Sveltos | Suman Chakraborty - Solutions Architect, Platform9 & Mridul Gain - Senior Member of Technical Staff, Platform9 |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | Stop the GPU Madness! Making LLM Inference Actually Efficient on K8s | Hrittik Roy - Platform Advocate, vCluster & Aditya Soni - SRE, SailPoint |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch Break | — |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Surviving Zero-Trust-Reliability with Observability and eBPF | Aditya Krishnakumar - Senior Site Reliability Engineer, SentinelOne |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Building Elastic Cloud Serverless on K8s: Lessons from Operating at Scale | Someshwaran M - Developer Advocate, Elastic |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Why First-Generation AIOps Stalled, And What Agentic AIOps Changes | Rakesh Rajendran - Co-Founder & CEO, Nudgebee |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Shift Left Without Slowing Down: Pre-Hardened Containers for Developer Velocity | Sanket Modi - Sr. Manager - Community, Cleanstart |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Tea Break | — |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Running Multiple Isolated AI Workloads on AMD MI300X GPUs | Mirdul Sarup - Manager, Developer Relations, Vultr |
| 16:45 – 17:15 | KMCP and the Future of Agent-Native Kubernetes: Control Planes | Aman Mundra - Founder and CEO, Welzin & Surabhi - Data Engineer, American Express |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Closing Remarks & Group Photo | — |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Solutions Showcase & Networking Hour | — |
Breakout
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11:15 – 11:45 | GPU-Native Observability: Reducing LLM Latency with eBPF and Grafana Beyla | Rigin Rajan - Lead Consultant, HCLTech |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | OpenChoreo: A Plane-Based Architecture for Internal Developer Platforms | Manjula Rathnayaka - Director of Engineering, WSO2 |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | From Cloud to Pi: Zero-Trust Artifact Distribution to Edge & Remote Sites with Harbor Satellite | Prasanth Baskar - Software Engineer, 8gears AG & Soham Chakraborty - SRE, Sematext Group |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | GitOps at Scale using FluxCD | Aditya Joshi - Senior Software Engineer, Walmart |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch Break | — |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | AI-Augmented Kubernetes Operations: Making Your Cluster Self-Explaining with LLMs & Semantic Search | Rajan Sharma - Principal Architect, Comtech |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Kubernetes 1.35: The Release That Finally Saves My Budget (and My Sanity) | Arnab Chatterjee - Cloud Native Expert |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Contributing to Argo CD: A Hands-On Guide for New Contributors in India | Nitish Kumar - Software Engineer, Akuity & Argo Project Maintainer |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | KServe & KAgent: Simplifying AI Model Deployment at Scale | Rishi Mondal & Naman Jain |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Tea Break | — |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Beyond Device Plugins: Mastering GPU Workloads with DRA and NVIDIA GPU Operator | Shivkumar Ople - Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | AI-Assisted Kubernetes Policy Management with Kyverno | Akshay Kumar & Onkar Shelke |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Engineering BharatGen: Sovereign Data and Indigenous LLM Development | Kundeshwar Pundalik |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Solutions Showcase & Networking Hour | — |
Pluto
| Time | Session | Host |
|---|---|---|
| 11:15 – 13:15 | Real-World Multi Cluster Networking Patterns with Istio | Sayed Imran, Kubestronaut |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Lunch Break | — |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | Women Gathering – Community Meetup | Saloni Narang - Co-Founder, Kubesimplify |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Tea Break | — |
Solutions Showcase will be open during Tea Breaks, Lunch Break & Networking Hour (17:30 – 18:30)
Galaxy is the Speakers’ Lounge
Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Amanda Brock
CEO • OpenUK
Panel Discussion
Atulpriya Sharma
Senior Developer Advocate • Infracloud
Panel Discussion
Ram Iyengar
Chief Evangelist • Cloud Foundary Foundation
Panel Discussion
Saiyam Pathak
Head of Developer Relations • vCluster
Opening Remarks
Saloni Narang
Co-Founder • Kubesimplify
Panel Discussion
Sanchita Malik
Scientist • DRDO
Keynote Talk: AI-Driven Decision Support System in Defence
Speakers
Aditya Joshi
Senior Software Engineer • Walmart
GitOps at Scale using FluxCD
Aditya Krishnakumar
Senior Site Reliability Engineer • SentinelOne
Surviving Zero-Trust-Reliability with Observability and eBPF
Aditya Soni
SRE • SailPoint
Stop the GPU Madness! Making LLM Inference Actually Efficient on K8s
Akshay Kumar
Open Source Evangelist • Obmondo
AI-Assisted Kubernetes Policy Management with Kyverno
Aman Mundra
Founder & CEO • Welzin
KMCP and the Future of Agent-Native Kubernetes
Arnab Chatterjee
Cloud Native Expert •
Kubernetes 1.35: The Release That Finally Saves My Budget
Gurpreet Sachdeva
Senior Director • Capgemini
Trust But Verify: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain
Hrittik Roy
Platform Advocate • vCluster
Stop the GPU Madness! Making LLM Inference Actually Efficient on K8s
Kundeshwar Pundalik
Technical Lead • BharatGen
Engineering BharatGen: Sovereign Data and Indigenous LLM Development
Manjula Rathnayaka
Director of Engineering • WSO2
OpenChoreo: A Plane-Based Architecture for Internal Developer Platforms
Mridul Gain
Senior Member of Technical Staff • Platform9
Taming the Multi-Cluster Sprawl: Add-on Automation with Project Sveltos
Mirdul Swarup
Manager, Developer Relations • Vultr
Running Multiple Isolated AI Workloads on AMD MI300X GPUs
Nitish Kumar
Software Engineer & Argo Project Maintainer • Akuity
Contributing to Argo CD: A Hands-On Guide for New Contributors
Onkar Shelke
SRE Engineer & LFX Mentee • CNCF Kubestellar
KServe & KAgent: Simplifying AI Model Deployment at Scale
Oshi Gupta
Site Reliability Engineer • Improving Pune
Gateway API Deep Dive: The Modern Replacement for Ingress NGINX
Prasanth Baskar
Software Engineer • 8gears AG
Zero-Trust Artifact Distribution to Edge with Harbor Satellite
Rajan Sharma
Principal Architect • Comtech
AI-Augmented Kubernetes Operations with LLMs & Semantic Search
Rakesh Rajendran
Co-Founder & CEO • Nudgebee
Why First-Generation AIOps Stalled, And What Agentic AIOps Changes
Rigin Rajan
Lead Consultant • HCLTech
GPU-Native Observability: Reducing LLM Latency with eBPF and Grafana Beyla
Rishi Mondal
Maintainer • CNCF Kubestellar
KServe & KAgent: Simplifying AI Model Deployment at Scale
Sagar Utekar
Site Reliability Engineer • CrowdStrike
Gateway API Deep Dive: The Modern Replacement for Ingress NGINX
Sanket Modi
Sr Engineering Manager, Community • CleanStart Security
Shift Left Without Slowing Down: Pre-Hardened Containers for Developer Velocity
Sayed Imran
Kubestronaut •
Real-World Multi Cluster Networking Patterns with Istio
Shivkumar Ople
Senior Software Engineer • NVIDIA
Mastering GPU Workloads with DRA and NVIDIA GPU Operator
Soham Chakraborty
SRE • Sematext Group
Zero-Trust Artifact Distribution to Edge with Harbor Satellite
Someshwaran M
Developer Advocate • Elastic
Building Elastic Cloud Serverless on K8s: Lessons from Operating at Scale
Suman Chakraborty
Solutions Architect • Platform9
Taming the Multi-Cluster Sprawl: Add-on Automation with Project Sveltos
Surabhi
Data Engineer • American Express
KMCP and the Future of Agent-Native Kubernetes
Venue
Location:
Aerocity, New Delhi
Near IGI Airport
Place:
Holiday Inn New Delhi Aerocity
Date:
February 21, 2026
What Awaits You
🏨 Premium Venue
5-star conference experience
🎤 Grand Ballroom
500+ capacity for keynotes
🤝 500+ Attendees
Network with cloud-native experts
🍽️ Gourmet Catering
Breakfast, lunch & refreshments
Frequently asked questions
What's Included?
Gain full-day access to engaging technical talks, hands-on workshops, and open-source discussions—along with breakfast, lunch, evening refreshments, conference materials, exclusive swag, and dedicated networking opportunities with 500+ industry professionals.
Who Should Attend?
AI Developers, DevOps engineers, Cloud architects, Platform Engineers, SREs, Software Developers, and Technology Leaders interested in Kubernetes and Cloud-native technologies.
Meet the team
Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Diversity Sponsor
Party Sponsor
Cloud Native Partners
Community Partners
Media Partners
