Google's Gemini in Production - Building for India
@ Anubhav Singh

Discover how Google’s Gemini is being applied in real-world production to address India’s unique scale, diversity, and digital needs. This session highlights key use cases, challenges, and innovations that make AI more impactful and inclusive for a billion users.

Beyond Tools – The First Principles of DevOps
@ Vinayak Kumar

DevOps is often misunderstood as a collection of tools, pipelines, or automation scripts. While these technologies are important, they represent only the surface of what DevOps truly means. At its core, DevOps is a cultural and architectural movement grounded in first principles — collaboration, feedback, flow, and continuous learning.

Open Source at Scale: How NPCI powers NPCI's Digital Payments
@ Tittu Varghese

Open source fuels India’s digital payment revolution — from UPI to billions of real-time transactions each month. By embracing open systems, we’ve scaled innovation and made payments seamless for every Indian.

Container Live Migration: The Missing Piece of the Kubernetes Ecosystem
@ Kunal Das

Learn how Kubernetes can achieve live migration of stateful containers with zero downtime. This session explores an innovative approach that preserves connections, optimizes resources, and strengthens cluster resilience in production environments

Built on Postgres, Designed for Scale & Resilience YugabyteDB for modern workloads

How Thoughtbox scales it's Financial Core & AML Systems with Yugabyte
@ Rijaz Sulaiman

Explore how ThoughtBox, in partnership with Yugabyte, is transforming payments and compliance with distributed PostgreSQL. In this keynote, Rijaz Sulaiman shares real-world lessons on scalability, resilience, and building next-gen financial solutions for a digital-first economy.

Tea Break & Networking

Take a refreshing break over tea while connecting with fellow attendees. This is your chance to exchange ideas, share experiences, and build meaningful connections within the DevOps and cloud-native community.

Explainability Meets MLOps: A Practical Framework for Responsible AI in Industry
@ Dr Ebin Deni Raj, Dr Sara Renjit & Dr John Paul Martin

As AI adoption accelerates, MLOps must go beyond deployment to embed transparency and trust. This session introduces a unified framework that integrates explainability, fairness, and traceability into MLOps pipelines, with real-world use cases in healthcare, finance, and governance.

The Seven Deadly Sins of DevOps
@ Nikitha Shinde, Pratik Parikh

A decade after ‘The Seven Deadly Sins of DevOps’ was introduced, these pitfalls remain as relevant as ever. This session revisits each sin, explores how to avoid them, and shares practical ways to build a modern DevOps culture that drives innovation, resilience, and team well-being.

From Tool Chaos to Unified Observability and Triaging Faster
@ Ranganathan Rajasrinivas

Managing observability at scale is complex—especially with hundreds of microservices and fragmented tools. In this session, we’ll share lessons from a publicly-listed company running 400+ microservices, showing how they moved from tool chaos to unified observability. Learn practical strategies for faster triaging, streamlined workflows, and building resilience at scale.

Policy Made Easy: Kyverno + AI for Smarter Kubernetes Governance
@ Lakshmanan Samynathan

Managing Kubernetes at scale is complex, but governance doesn’t have to be. This session introduces Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine that simplifies security, compliance, and consistency—augmented with AI tools like kubectl-ai to generate and refine policies faster. With real-world demos, you’ll learn how to enforce guardrails the easy way.

Lunch Break [Hackathon]

Recharge with lunch while networking with fellow participants. Use this time to exchange ideas, collaborate with peers, and gear up for the hackathon sessions ahead.

The Art of Prompt Engineering: From Zero-Shot to Chain-of-Thought
@ Nikita Mourya

In Generative AI, better questions mean better answers. This session demystifies prompt engineering—covering zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought techniques—with real-world use cases for developers and DevOps engineers. Learn how to craft smarter prompts to automate workflows, generate configs, and drive better results from today’s LLMs.

From Model to Production: How to Strategize CI/CD and Testing in MLOps
@ Rahul Raj V V, Sarin PS

Building ML models is only half the battle—operationalizing them is where the challenge lies. This session walks through designing CI/CD pipelines for MLOps, covering automated training, validation, deployment, and monitoring. Learn practical strategies to ensure reliability, reproducibility, and confidence in ML workflows across cloud and on-prem environments.

FinOps: ഒരു താത്വിക അവലോകനം
@ Sanooj Mananghat

As cloud costs soar, FinOps has become essential for every modern tech team. This session breaks down what FinOps is, why it matters, and how it helps organizations align engineering, finance, and leadership to maximize cloud value. Walk away with the mindset and fundamentals needed to make cloud spending work smarter for your business.

AI Gateway with kgateway: Building Scalable and Secure LLM Infrastructure in Kubernetes
@ Ansil H

Managing enterprise LLMs often feels fragmented—kgateway AI Gateway changes that. Built on Envoy and Kubernetes-native by design, it brings zero-trust security, intelligent failover, and cost optimization into a unified platform. This session features demos showcasing how kgateway streamlines LLM operations with seamless cloud-native integration.

Closing Note & Lucky Draw

We wrap up the day with closing thoughts and reflections from the organizers, followed by an exciting lucky draw. Don’t miss this final session—it’s the perfect way to celebrate community, collaboration, and the spirit of DMCON 2025.