Conference Agenda

March 14, 2026 · Bengaluru

Parallel sessions across Hall A, Hall B, Hall C & Board Room

08:50 - 09:30

Registration and welcome coffee

Check-in, networking, and light refreshments.

09:30 - 09:40

Hall AOPENING

Opening Address

Kunal Kushwaha

Senior Developer Advocate at Cast AI

09:40 - 10:00

Hall AKEYNOTE

Keynote: Application Performance Automation.

Laurent Gil

Cloud Expert, Forbes Council, Finops Foundation Governing Board Member, Co-founder at Cast AI

10:00 - 10:30

Hall AKEYNOTE

Keynote: Personalised software and AI at scale for 24M users.

Hitesh Choudhary

Tech video creator, Co-Founder at Learnyst

10:30 - 11:00

Hall AKEYNOTE

Keynote: Predict and Prevent Incidents: The Rise of AIOps.

Abhishek Veeramalla

CTO at AKVA, Content Creator & Educator, Former RedHat Principal Engineer

11:00 - 11:10

Group Photo

11:10 - 11:30

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions Begin — 4 Halls

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Board Room

11:30 - 12:00

Hall A

How BigBasket Uses Kubernetes to Handle Unpredictable Traffic Surges While Optimizing Cost

Sushant Gulati

Senior Engineer Manager at BigBasket

11:30 - 12:00

Hall B

Event-Driven AI Agents for Autonomous Kubernetes Observability Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

Ranjini Ganeshan

Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS) | DevOps & Kubernetes Practitioner

Chandika S

Cloud & DevOps Architect at Autodesk

11:30 - 12:00

Hall C

Architecting Autonomous Systems in Cloud-Native Environments.

Shuva Jyoti Kar

Principal Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

11:30 - 13:00

Board RoomWORKSHOP

Autonomous Kubernetes: Building AI-Powered Operations

Matas Kaminskas

Engineering Manager at Cast AI

Narunas Kapocius

Senior Engineering Manager at Cast AI

12:00 - 12:30

Hall B

Using AI to Monitor AI: FinOps For The Agents Era.

Ravi Shankar

DevOps Expert | Udemy Instructor | YouTuber

12:00 - 12:30

Hall C

Messaging at Scale: How We Built a Secure, Serverless Notification Platform on AWS.

Naresh Waswani

Senior Architect at Simpplr Inc.

12:00 - 13:00

Hall A

Panel discussion: Agents in Production: What Actually Works (and What Breaks).

Kaushik Deb

Associate Director, AI Engineering at Piramal Finance

Pramod Singh

Expert Associate Partner, Data Science at Bain & Company

Jose Jayanandaraj

Senior Expert at Bosch Global Software Technologies

Hima Bindu

Associate Director, Strategy and Transformation at EY

Zilvinas Urbonas

Senior Director of Engineering at Cast AI

12:30 - 13:00

Hall B

Will Kubernetes Vanish Because of AI?

Ram Iyengar

Chief Evangelist at Cloud Foundry Foundation

12:30 - 13:00

Hall C

From Idle to Invisible: Eliminating GPU Waste with Kubernetes-Native Scale-to-Zero.

Abhishek Choudhary

Founder at TrueFoundry

Shubham Rai

Engineering at Truefoundry

All Halls Reconvene

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Break

Parallel Sessions Begin — 4 Halls

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Board Room

14:00 - 14:30

Hall A

The Illusion of Safety with Prompt-Based Guardrails in LLMs.

Rahul Jadhav

Co-founder and CTO at AccuKnox

14:00 - 14:30

Hall C

Developing xApps for Cloud-based Cellular Networks.

Arpit Tripathi

Technical Director at TelcoLearn

14:00 - 15:30

Board RoomWORKSHOP

How to operate AI-Assisted Development without compromising security and resiliency: From Policy to Enforcement.

Yogesh Trivedi

Founder & CEO at CognitivTrust

Yash Shah

AI Solution Engineer at CognitivTrust

14:00 - 14:30

Hall B

Building Durable AI Agents for DevOps

Shubham Londhe

Senior Developer Advocate at Temporal Technologies.

14:30 - 14:50

Hall B

Context Engineering for Infrastructure: Why the Smartest Model Still Can't Debug YOUR Cluster.

Shiv Pratap Singh

Co-founder and CTO at Nudgebee

14:30 - 15:00

Hall C

From Spend Intelligence to Savings: Procurement Cost Management with the Cost360 Agentic AI Assistant.

Utkarsh Tripathi

Principal Data Scientist at Micron Technology

14:30 - 15:00

Hall A

Serverless Inference in Production: How to Deploy Fast, Cost-Efficient AI Workloads with DigitalOcean's Gradient AI Platform.

Akshit Pratiush

Senior Solutions Architect II at DigitalOcean

14:50 - 15:10

Hall B

Agentic SDLC for the AI Coding Era.

Yogesh Trivedi

Founder & CEO at CognitivTrust

15:00 - 15:30

Hall C

Who Authorized That Agent? Accountability and Identity in Agent-Native Kubernetes.

Atulpriya Sharma

Senior Developer Advocate at Improving

15:00 - 15:30

Hall A

From $50K to $100K/month: The Hidden Cost Curve of AI-Assisted Engineering.

Zilvinas Urbonas

Senior Director of Engineering at Cast AI

15:10 - 15:30

Hall B

From SaaS Chaos to BYOC Freedom.

Satish Dange

Founder at Data Signals

All Halls Reconvene

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions Begin — 4 Halls

Hall A

Hall B

Hall C

Board Room

16:00 - 17:00

Hall A

Panel discussion: Cloud is starting to think.

Shivay Lamba

CNCF Ambassador

Kunal Kushwaha

Senior Developer Advocate at Cast AI

Ram Iyengar

Chief Evangelist at Cloud Foundry Foundation

Arsh Goyal

Engineering and AI Creator at ThoughtSpot

16:00 - 16:30

Hall B

The Rise of the Augmented Developer: How AI Agents Are Creating a New Breed of 10x Engineers.

Ajeet Singh Raina

Technology Influencer | 🐳 Developer Advocate at Docker | Author at Collabnix.com | Distinguished Arm Ambassador

16:00 - 16:30

Hall C

From Fragmented to Unified: Why Modern Backends Need a Core Primitive.

Rohit Ghumare

Head of Developer Relations at Motia

16:00 - 17:30

Board RoomWORKSHOP

Autonomous Kubernetes: Building AI-Powered Operations

Matas Kaminskas

Engineering Manager at Cast AI

Narunas Kapocius

Senior Engineering Manager at Cast AI

16:30 - 17:00

Hall B

High Availability, Zero Drama: Building Resilient Storage in the Cloud.

Aparna Prabhu

Senior Engineering Manager at Digital Ocean

16:30 - 17:00

Hall C

From Chaos to Cosmos: MLOps Deployments Powered by Buildpacks.

Suman Chakraborty

Solution Architect at Platform9 Systems

17:00 - 17:30

Hall B

Scanning the Dark Web at Cloud Scale: Multi-Cloud Infrastructure for Near Real-Time Threat Intelligence.

Varun KM

Head - DevOps & IT at CloudSEK

17:00 - 17:30

Hall C

Your Inner Stack > Your Tech Stack: What 100x Cloud Native Engineers Do Differently.

Savinder Puri

Associate VP at Zensar Technologies

17:00 - 17:30

Hall A

Keeping Cloud Costs Low and Finance Teams Happy.

Shishir Khandelwal

Senior Platform Engineer at PhysicsWallah

All Halls Reconvene

17:30 - 17:40

Networking & Wrap-up

Informal networking and end of conference.