Hello Hyderabad, we're kicking off an eventful week with a special celebration marking 10 years of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) 🎂🎈

CNCF, the force behind Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and many other groundbreaking open-source projects, has grown into a global ecosystem of 290K+ contributors and 200+ innovative projects—powering the future of cloud-native tech.

And now, it’s time for Hyderabad to join the celebration - India's First #cTENcf Birthday Party!

Agenda:

09:45 - 10:15 | Registrations & Entry

10:15 - 10:30 | Introduction to CNCF Hyderabad - Atulpriya Sharma, CNCF Ambassador

10:30 - 10:55 | Keynote - Cloud-native vs Cloud-neutral: Key considerations aligning to the distinct industry approaches by Chakravarthy Komaravolu, Head of Cloud Solutions & Practice – EMEA, Tech Mahindra

11:00 - 11:15 | Break

11:20 - 11:30 | Quiz 

11:35 - 12:00 | Conversational Observability: Investigate, Debug, and Resolve with Grafana MCP and AI Assistants by Sathpal Singh, Cloud & AI Architect at UBS

12:05 - 12:30 | Simplifying Platform Engineering at Scale with k0rdent by Prithvi Raj & Bharath Nallapeta, Mirantis

12:35 - 13:00 | Operating the Operator: Engineering Kubernetes Operators for Production - Animesh, SRE, Kong Inc

13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch

14:00 - 14:15 | Quiz

14:20 - 14:45 | Embracing Multitenancy: Transforming Enterprises for the Future by Hrittik Roy, Platform Advocate, LoftLabs

14:50 - 15:15 | Securing AI Workloads: Building Zero-Trust Architecture for LLM Applications by Shivay Lamba, Developer Experience Engineer at Couchbase

15:20 - 15:45 | Whatever Docker Can Do, KitOps Can Too by Ram Iyengar, OSS Evangelist, CloudFoundry

16:00 - 16:30 | CNCF Birthday Bash - 🎂 Cake Cutting | 📸 Group Photos | 🤝 Community Networking

When and Where?

📍Location: Tech Mahindra - Google Maps Location - Entry through Gate 3

🗓 Date: 2 Aug 2025

⏰ Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Things to Remember:

• Limited Spots
• Approval-Based Entry - only confirmed people will be allowed entry.
• No laptops are allowed
• Govt. Id is mandatory

Let’s celebrate cloud-native, the CNCF way!