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KyvernoCon Virtual 2026

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yvernoCon Virtual 2026 expands access to policy-as-code conversations by offering a fully virtual, globally accessible event. With a blend of thought leadership, hands-on sessions, and real-world success stories, attendees will learn how Kyverno enables teams to scale policy management, enhance platform security, and improve developer experiences. The event…

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8Voices
0Underwriters
0Exhibitors
8On the bill · sessions
7Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at KyvernoCon, in alphabetical order.
Ankit Kotnala
Cloud Consultant · Google
Anmol Krishan Sachdeva
Sr. Solutions Engineer (Platform Engineering) · Google
Kirti Goyal
DevRel · Keploy
Marcus Ross
DevOps, Platform Engineer & Kubestronaut · Hamburg Port Authority
Omolade Akinwunmi
DevOps Engineer/Founder · MAX
Pavan Madduri
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer & Kubestronaut · Grainger
Sakalya Deshpande
Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer · SAP Labs
Tanat Lokejaroenlarb
Staff SRE & Platform Engineer · Adevinta
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The Programme

Selected from 8 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:05 AM

    Drift Prevention in GitOps Workflows Using Kyverno

    You deployed a clean, Git-approved config and three days later, something in your cluster quietly changed and nobody knows why. That's drift. And in GitOps, it's the silent killer …

  • 10:35 AM

    Policy-as-Code for LLM Inference: Cost & Security Guardrails

    LLM inference workloads are unlike any other Kubernetes workload — a single misconfigured job can exhaust GPU quota for an entire team overnight. On multi-tenant AI platforms servi…

  • 10:50 AM

    Webhook Topology and Admission Latency: Lessons from Migration

    Kyverno’s ValidatingPolicy introduces a more fine-grained integration with Kubernetes admission webhooks. Instead of relying on catch-all endpoints like traditional ClusterPolicy r…

  • 8:00 AM

    Welcome & Opening Remarks

    Cortney Nickerson, CNCF Ambassador and Head of Community at Nirmata the creators of Kyverno, will open the day by bringing the community together to celebrate Kyverno's recent CNCF…

  • 8:05 AM

    From YAML to CEL: Understanding Kyverno’s New Policy Model

    Kyverno’s support for CEL (Common Expression Language) introduces powerful new ways to write Kubernetes policies. However, for many users the shift from traditional YAML pattern ma…

  • 8:25 AM

    Poison Control: Unifying Software and Content Provenance for AI Workloads via Kyverno

    As AI workloads increasingly scale on Kubernetes, securing them requires more than locking down the infrastructure. While industry standards effectively secure containerized runtim…

  • 8:55 AM

    From Policy to Production: Implementing ISO27001/BSI IT-Grundschutz in Kubernetes with Kyverno

    How do you bridge the gap between strict compliance requirements, like Germany’s BSI IT-Grundschutz implementation of ISO27001, and dynamic Kubernetes environments? Using daily rea…

  • 9:35 AM

    ReBAC with Kyverno: Automating Multi-Tenant RBAC at Scale

    Managing Kubernetes RBAC at scale is painful — teams manually create Roles and RoleBindings per namespace, onboarding takes tickets, and permission drift is inevitable. At Grainger…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 7 companies, parsed from the program.

Seven companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
7Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

13% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner113%
  • Manager / Lead113%
  • Engineer · IC563%
  • Other roles113%

Of 8 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Google2V
  2. 02Adevinta1V
  3. 03Grainger1V
  4. 04Hamburg Port Authority1V
  5. 05Keploy1V
  6. 06MAX1V
  7. 07SAP Labs1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this convocation.