# Sessions & Talks

Selected highlights from 50+ technical presentations on cloud native technologies, platform engineering, and developer experience.

## Running MCP Servers at Scale: Sandboxed Tool Execution on Kubernetes
- Date: 12/11/2026
- Event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Salt Lake City, USA
- Summary: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: a Kubernetes-native architecture for hosting MCP servers in production with warm sandbox pools, per-session isolation, and checkpoint/restore, backed by OpenKruise Agents.
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/

## [Keynote] Picking Ahmedabad Isn't Sovereignty: Control Plane Patterns for Regulated Platforms
- Date: 19/09/2026
- Event: KCD Gujarat 2026
- Category: Keynote
- Location: Ahmedabad, India
- Summary: KCD Gujarat 2026 keynote: why workload placement is not the sovereignty boundary — the control plane is — and the tenant cluster patterns regulated platforms are converging on.

## Squeezing Every Millisecond: A Practical Guide to Optimizing Time To First Token with OSS Muscle
- Date: 11/08/2026
- Event: Open Source Summit Korea 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Summary: Open Source Summit Korea 2026: a practical playbook for diagnosing Time To First Token (TTFT) bottlenecks and tuning LLM inference with open source stacks like vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, and Hugging Face TGI.
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-korea/

## Your Container Images Are a Liability: The Supply Chain Debt Nobody Is Paying Down
- Date: 08/08/2026
- Event: COSCUP 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Taipei, Taiwan
- Summary: COSCUP 2026 — a live audit of standard, slim, distroless, and hardened base images, and the practical patterns for making minimal images the default without slowing teams down.

## YAML is the New Dockerfile: Building AI Agent Systems with Docker cagent
- Date: 08/08/2026
- Event: COSCUP 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Taipei, Taiwan
- Summary: COSCUP 2026 — a systems view of AI agent infrastructure, covering multi-agent workflows and MCP, and why concepts like OCI artifacts and YAML workflows are reappearing in AI tooling, illustrated with Docker cagent.

## Conformance for Inference: How We Reduced Bad Deploys on a GPU Platform
- Date: 30/07/2026
- Event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Summary: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026: a practical checklist for inference workload conformance on shared Kubernetes GPU platforms.
- Link: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan/program/schedule/?id=1194934

## Phippy's First Steps into Kubernetes
- Date: 18/06/2026
- Event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Summary: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026: a beginner-friendly guide to local Kubernetes, comparing Minikube, Kind, k3d, Docker Desktop, and Rancher Desktop.
- Link: https://kccncind2026.sched.com/event/2IW4W/phippys-first-steps-into-kubernetes-hrittik-roy-vcluster-saloni-narang-kubesimplify

## Open Source is Not the Same Anymore
- Date: 16/06/2026
- Event: Open Source India 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Summary: Open Source India 2026 — a co-presented session with Faeka Ansari (Akuity) on how open source business models, contributor dynamics, and end-user expectations have shifted.
- Link: https://ossindia2026.sched.com/event/2KNFP/open-source-is-not-the-same-anymore-faeka-ansari-akuity-inc-hrittik-roy-vcluster

## [Keynote] The Missing Middle: The Shared Infrastructure MCP Needs Before It Hits a Million Servers
- Date: 14/06/2026
- Event: MCP Dev Summit Mumbai 2026
- Category: Keynote
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Summary: MCP Dev Summit Mumbai 2026 keynote: mapping the shared plumbing every production MCP deployment now reinvents.

## [Keynote] The Missing Middle: The Shared Infrastructure MCP Needs Before It Hits a Million Servers
- Date: 09/06/2026
- Event: MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru 2026
- Category: Keynote
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Summary: MCP Dev Summit Bengaluru 2026 keynote: mapping the shared plumbing every production MCP deployment now reinvents.
- Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CV6Hebm0LA

## Breaking Down Inference Optimization: The Three Different Layers
- Date: 04/06/2026
- Event: CNCG Colombo
- Category: Meetup
- Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Summary: CNCG Colombo — a meetup talk that splits inference optimization into three distinct layers: model, runtime, and infrastructure, and shows where each one pays back.

## Identity Propagation in MCP: OBO, Multi-Hop Chains, and the Trust Problem
- Date: 30/05/2026
- Event: The AI Infrastructure Meetup: BLR
- Category: Meetup
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Summary: The AI Infrastructure Meetup BLR — a 30-minute session on why identity propagation, OBO delegation, and multi-hop trust are becoming critical infrastructure problems for production MCP systems.

## GitOps Your Costs: Automated FinOps Through Argo Workflows
- Date: 24/03/2026
- Event: ArgoCon 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Summary: ArgoCon 2026 (CNCF Co-located Events Europe) — using Argo Workflows to put cost guardrails in version control alongside your applications.
- Link: https://colocatedeventseu2026.sched.com/event/2DY4h

## What We Learned Scaling Vector Search for AI on OpenSearch 3.x
- Date: 01/03/2026
- Event: OpenSearchCon China 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Summary: OpenSearchCon China 2026 — Hilton Shanghai Hongqiao

## Help! My LLM is a Resource Hog: How We Tamed Inference with Kubernetes and Open Source Muscle
- Date: 01/03/2026
- Event: SCaLE 23x (Cloud Native Days)
- Category: Conference
- Location: Pasadena, California, USA
- Summary: SCaLE 23x — Southern California Linux Expo, Cloud Native Days track

## Stop the GPU Madness! Making LLM Inference Actually Efficient on K8s
- Date: 28/02/2026
- Event: AWS User Group Jaipur
- Category: Meetup
- Location: Jaipur, India
- Summary: AWS User Group Jaipur — main auditorium, RIC Jaipur. A meetup talk on running LLM inference workloads on Kubernetes without burning through GPU budgets.
- Link: https://awsugjaipur.in/

## Accelerating CI Pipelines: Rapid Kubernetes Testing with vCluster
- Date: 01/02/2026
- Event: Cloud Native & AI Day — Beyond ChatBots
- Category: Meetup
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Summary: Cloud Native & AI Day: "Beyond ChatBots — Let's talk about Agentic Stack." — Collabnix community, LeadSquared office

## Stop the GPU Madness! Making LLM Inference Actually Efficient on K8s
- Date: 01/02/2026
- Event: KCD New Delhi 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Summary: Kubernetes Community Days New Delhi 2026

## Content and User Journey
- Date: 21/01/2026
- Event: vCluster Connect 2026
- Category: Conference
- Location: Costa Rica
- Summary: vCluster Connect 2026 — Costa Rica

## Help! My LLM is a Resource Hog: How We Tamed Inference with Kubernetes and Open Source Muscle
- Date: 01/11/2025
- Event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Atlanta, USA
- Summary: A client came to us with a problem we're seeing more and more, their large language model (LLM) was deployed, but inference was painfully slow, GPU usage was unpredictable, and costs were spiraling out of control. Kubernetes alone wasn't enough, they needed a production-ready, efficient, and scalable stack.

In this talk, we'll walk through how we diagnosed and solved the issue using open-source CNCF tools, turning a chaotic deployment into a well-oiled inference machine.

You'll learn how to:
1. Use KServe and Kubeflow to serve LLMs reliably.
2. Benchmark and auto-scale workloads using Volcano and KEDA while optimizing resource usage and latency.
3. Track model performance and drift with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

We'll share benchmarks, architectures, and lessons from the field, all based on open-source tooling you can try today. Whether you're running LLMs at scale or just exploring GenAI, this talk is packed with real-world solutions to help you do more with less.
- Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9yK5W6whQI&t=141s

## Fast Infra, Reliable Clusters: Modern Approaches to Application Validation
- Date: 01/11/2025
- Event: Open Source Summit Korea 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Summary: Open Source Summit Korea 2025

## Standardising AI Workflows on Kubernetes for Research
- Date: 01/10/2025
- Event: KCD Sri Lanka 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Summary: Kubernetes Community Days Sri Lanka 2025

## Enterprise Multi Cluster GPU Allocation for enabling Gen AI Research
- Date: 01/10/2025
- Event: OpenInfra Summit Europe 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Paris, France
- Summary: OpenInfra Summit Europe 2025 — École Polytechnique campus

## Beyond Documentation: Creating Immersive Learning Journeys for Developer Success
- Date: 01/10/2025
- Event: DevRelKaigi 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Tokyo,Japan
- Summary: DevRelKaigi 2025

## Multi Cluster GPU Allocation for AI Research
- Date: 01/08/2025
- Event: COSCUP 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Taipei, Taiwan
- Summary: COSCUP 2025 — Conference on Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters, Aug 9–10

## Multitenancy in the Kubernetes Era
- Date: 01/08/2025
- Event: Cloud Native Taiwan User Group Meetup
- Category: Meetup
- Location: Taipei, Taiwan
- Summary: Cloud Native Taiwan User Group Meetup — co-located with COSCUP 2025, Aug 9–10

## Shedding the VMware Layer: A Migration to Bare Metal Infrastructure
- Date: 19/07/2025
- Event: OpenInfra Days Indonesia 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Summary: OpenInfra Days Indonesia 2025 — Yogyakarta

## Bare Metal Kubernetes with GPU: Architecting GPU Infrastructure with Isolation and Efficiency
- Date: 01/07/2025
- Event: Cloud & Compute — AI
- Category: Conference
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Summary: Cloud & Compute — AI, Bengaluru

## Embracing Multitenancy: Transforming Enterprises for the Future
- Date: 01/07/2025
- Event: Nebraska.Code() 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Summary: Nebraska.Code() 2025

## Multitenancy in the Kubernetes Era
- Date: 01/04/2025
- Event: Incident Management & Cloud Native Meetup
- Category: Meetup
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Summary: Incident Management & Cloud Native Meetup — In-Person

## Multitenancy Made Simple: What It Is and Why It Matters
- Date: 01/03/2025
- Event: FOSSASIA Summit 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Bangkok, Thailand
- Summary: FOSSASIA Summit 2025 — True Digital Park West

## Accelerating CI Pipelines: Rapid Kubernetes Testing with vCluster
- Date: 01/02/2025
- Event: FOSDEM 2025
- Category: Conference
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Summary: FOSDEM 2025 — using ephemeral tenant clusters to make Kubernetes-aware integration tests fast enough to run on every PR.

## Multi-tenancy with vCluster
- Date: 01/01/2025
- Event: Vienna DevOps and Security Meetup
- Category: Meetup
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Summary: Vienna DevOps and Security Meetup — Multi-tenancy with vCluster

## Open Source Dev Containers with DevPod
- Date: 01/12/2024
- Event: GeekcampSG 2024
- Category: Conference
- Location: Singapore
- Summary: GeekcampSG 2024

## Embracing Multitenancy: Transforming Enterprises for the Future
- Date: 01/12/2024
- Event: Azure Developer Community Day 2024
- Category: Conference
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Summary: Azure Developer Community Day 2024 Munich

## Multitenancy in the Kubernetes Era
- Date: 04/10/2024
- Event: Devoxx Morocco 2024
- Category: Conference
- Location: Marrakesh, Morocco
- Summary: Devoxx Morocco 2024 — Marrakesh

## Building a Cloud Native Community from Scratch: The Journey of CNCG Hooghly
- Date: 01/10/2024
- Event: KCD Chattogram 2024
- Category: Conference
- Location: Chattogram, Bangladesh
- Summary: Kubernetes Community Days Chattogram 2024

## Virtual Kubernetes Clusters: A New Approach to Multi-tenancy
- Date: 19/09/2024
- Event: SREday London 2024
- Category: Conference
- Location: London, UK
- Summary: SREday London 2024 — using tenant clusters built on vCluster to give teams isolated Kubernetes without the overhead of separate physical clusters.
- Link: https://sreday.com/2024-london/Hrittik_Roy_Loft_Labs_Virtual_Kubernetes_Clusters_A_New_Approach_to_MultitenancySREday London

## Developing on Containers with Dev Containers
- Date: 01/09/2024
- Event: Open Source Summit Europe 2024
- Category: Conference
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Summary: Open Source Summit Europe 2024

## Open Source Dev Containers with DevPod
- Date: 01/09/2024
- Event: Civo Navigate Europe 2024
- Category: Conference
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Summary: Civo Navigate Europe 2024

## Caring for Developers with DevEx
- Date: 01/06/2024
- Event: Kubernetes Community Days — Hyderabad
- Category: Keynote
- Location: Hyderabad, India
- Summary: Keynote at KCD Hyderabad 2024 on why developer experience is the platform team's real product, and what it takes to build for it.
- Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2KbfR-tDoU

## Open Source Dev Containers with DevPod
- Date: 01/04/2024
- Event: FOSSASIA Summit 2024
- Category: Conference
- Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
- Summary: FOSSASIA Summit 2024

## Open Source Dev Containers with DevPod
- Date: 01/02/2024
- Event: GitTogether 2024
- Category: Meetup
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Summary: GitTogether 2024 at Google RMZ — Bengaluru

## Securing GitOps with Sealed Secrets
- Date: 01/01/2024
- Event: NDC Security 2024
- Category: Conference
- Location: Oslo, Norway
- Summary: NDC Security 2024

## Using Cloud VMs as your Personal Computer ft. GNOME
- Date: 27/07/2023
- Event: GUADEC 2023
- Category: Conference
- Location: Riga, Latvia
- Summary: GUADEC 2023 — GNOME Users And Developers European Conference

## Documentation in Open Source
- Date: 25/02/2023
- Event: KolkataFOSS 2023
- Category: Conference
- Location: Kolkata, India
- Summary: KolkataFOSS 2023 — A conference to promote Free and Open Source Software in Kolkata

## [Workshop] Use EC2 as Your Personal Computer ft. VSCode
- Date: 01/01/2023
- Event: AWS Community Day Singapore 2023
- Category: Conference
- Location: Singapore
- Summary: AWS Community Day Singapore 2023

## MicroK8s, Kubernetes and deploying Applications
- Date: 26/11/2022
- Event: UbuCon Asia 2022
- Category: Conference
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Summary: UbuCon Asia 2022 — Seoul, South Korea
- Link: https://2022.ubucon.asia/sessions/microk8s-kubernetes-and-deploying-applications/

## Helm for Beginners
- Date: 01/07/2022
- Event: Kubernetes Community Days Africa 2022 (Online)
- Category: Conference
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
- Summary: KCD Africa 2022 (Online) — an introduction to Helm: charts, releases, templating, and the upgrade workflow.
- Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDPBASjhPWM