Event Schedule
KCD Kochi 2026 · One day · Five parallel tracks · 38 speakers
Keynote Track
Registration & Badge Pickup
Welcome Mixer — Networking & Catch-up with the Kochi Community
Introduction & Welcome Note
Opening introduction and welcome to KCD Kochi 2026
Kubernetes Reimagined: AI Agents, Auto Mode, and the Rise of Autonomous Operations
Mani Chandrasekaran
Field CTO and Enterprise Technologist, Amazon Web Services
Observability in the Era of AI and Agentic Workloads
Aditya Godbole
CTO, Last9
Sponsor Talk — Open source in AI security at Cisco
Rajat Upadhyaya
Director, Software Engineering, Cisco
Sponsor Talk — KodeKloud
Sponsor Talk — Confluent
Morning Tea & Coffee Break
Morning Sessions
Deploying Tiny AI Workloads on k3s Using WebAssembly
Achanandhi Mathankumar · EY
Agentic AI Has Entered the Chat: A New Era of SRE Automation
Abhinav Dubey · Devtron Inc
Supercharging AI Inference on K8s: Demystifying KV Cache, LM Cache & Smart Routing
Raghavendra Sirigeri · Questodev
Building Adaptive MLOps Platforms with Checkpoint-Aware Scheduling on Kubernetes
Kapil Nema · Red Hat
Agentic AI / ML
Track 01
Security, Observability & DevEX
Track 02
Platform Engineering
Track 03
Lightning Talks & Kube Stories
Track 04
Deploying Tiny AI Workloads on k3s Using WebAssembly
Achanandhi Mathankumar · EY
From Novice to Ninja: Mastering Kubernetes Security with Open Source Tools
Fazlur Rahman Khan · The Linux Foundation
What We Miss About Operators: Hidden Wins Inside Kubernetes Clusters
Bhavani Indukuri · DigitalOcean
Rise of Agentic Platforms: Seamless Scaling Beyond Automation
Manoj Kumar T
How We Reduced GenAI Costs Using Hybrid Models, Agents & Kubernetes Signals
Geeta Kakrani
Agentic AI Has Entered the Chat: A New Era of SRE Automation
Abhinav Dubey · Devtron Inc
Who Trained This Model? Bringing Supply Chain Security to the AI Pipeline
Raghu Reddy · Calix
Esakki Raj E · Cisco
Application-Centric Kubernetes Platforms with kro and ArgoCD
Sayed Imran · 66Degrees
From cgroups to eBPF: Building Container-Aware Logic
George Eldho
Building Distributed Intelligence with Kubernetes and Ray
Merin
Supercharging AI Inference on K8s: Demystifying KV Cache, LM Cache & Smart Routing
Raghavendra Sirigeri · Questodev
Commit, Sync, Toggle: GitOps Workflows for Feature Flags with OpenFeature and GoFeatureFlag
Safeer C M · MoEngage
Shedding the Spare Tire: Reducing the Operational Weight of Your Service Mesh
Sagar Utekar · CrowdStrike
Infrastructure is LEGO: Composable Platforms That Snap Together
Prithviraj
Incident to Insight: AI-Powered Cloud Native Kubernetes Troubleshooting with HolmesGPT
Ajay Sathianathan
Building Adaptive MLOps Platforms with Checkpoint-Aware Scheduling on Kubernetes
Kapil Nema · Red Hat
OpenChoreo: A Plane-Based Architecture for Internal Developer Platforms
Manjula Rathnayaka · WSO2
Platform Patterns for AI on K8s: Admission, Isolation & Observability That Work
Saurabh Mishra · Optum Global
From Pods to Production: Serving LLMs on Kubernetes with KServe + vLLM
Abdul Hakkeem PA
The Bin Packing Problem: Right-Sizing Your Kubernetes Pods
Rahul Joseph
Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions
From Kernel to Kubernetes: Running and Profiling LLM Workloads at the OCI Layer
Pratik Panda · Red Hat
Kubernetes Minus AI. What's Left?
Ram Iyengar · Linux Foundation
Panel Discussion: Platform Engineering in the Era of AI: Hype, Reality, and What is Next
Mani Chandrasekaran · Amazon Web Services
Manjula Rathnayaka · WSO2
Aditya Godbole · Last9
Agentic AI / ML
Track 01
Security, Observability & DevEX
Track 02
Platform Engineering
Track 03
Lightning Talks & Kube Stories
Track 04
From Kernel to Kubernetes: Running and Profiling LLM Workloads at the OCI Layer
Pratik Panda · Red Hat
Running OpenTelemetry in Kubernetes: Architecture Decisions, Failures, and Hard-Won Lessons
Vivek Anandaraman · CloudElu Labs
AI-Augmented DevOps — How We Use AI Agents to Simplify Kubernetes Troubleshooting
Ismath K I · KeyValue Systems
How Many Agents Are Too Many? - The Hidden Cost of Multi-Agent Systems
Anannya Roy Chowdhury · Amazon Web Services
Kubernetes Minus AI. What's Left?
Ram Iyengar · Linux Foundation
From Noisy Logs to Actionable Insights: AI-Assisted Observability with Fluent Bit, OpenSearch & RA
Jeevitha G · Juniper Networks
Understanding Kubernetes internals by building a toy kubeadm implementation
Sreeram Venkitesh · DigitalOcean
Scaling the Unscalable: How We Herded a Windows Monolith into Kubernetes Without Losing Our Minds
Abhith M V · Siemens Healthineers
Eldho George · Siemens Healthineers
Panel Discussion: Platform Engineering in the Era of AI: Hype, Reality, and What is Next
Mani Chandrasekaran · Amazon Web Services
Manjula Rathnayaka · WSO2
Aditya Godbole · Last9
Panel Discussion
Anannya Roy Chowdhury · Amazon Web Services
Rajat Upadhyaya · Cisco
Merin · Google
Terraform to Crossplane: The Art of Zero-Downtime Migration
Vibhor Chinda · Guidewire Software
Ayush Kumar · Guidewire Software
Building Elastic Cloud Serverless on Kubernetes: Lessons from Operating at Cloud Scale
Someshwaran Mohan Kumar · Elastic
AI-Native Routing with Envoy
Anurag Aggarwal · Tetrate
Gopakumar N · Tetrate
Database lessons with Valkey on Kubernetes
Suriyaa Thiyagarajan · Comcast
Tea & Coffee Break — Community Networking
Closing Notes
Thank you, reflections, and what's next for the community
Community Track
Special mixers and community gatherings running alongside the main tracks.
Schedule subject to change
Session times and speakers may be updated. Check back for the latest information.