KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

Aanand Krishnan is Vice President of Products · Oracle Cloud Infrastructure where he sets the vision, strategy and execution for IaaS and PaaS services. Prior to Oracle, Aanand was the CEO and founder of Tala Security, acquired by Intuit. He has over 20 years of experience delivering market-leading products at Symantec, Dolby Labs and Avago (Broadcom). As an investment banker for Morgan Stanley, he advised leading semiconductor, software and clean-tech companies on a variety of M&A and financing transactions. Aanand holds an MBA from Berkeley, where he was a recipient of the CJ White Fellowship, and a Masters in Photonics and Optoelectronics from UC Santa Barbara, where he was a QUEST Fellow. He has a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with honors from BITS, Pilani.

Abby is a Principal Engineer · Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.

Adolfo García Veytia (@puerco) is the founder of Carabiner Systems. He is one of the Kubernetes SIG Release Technical Leads · actively working on the Release Engineering team. He specializes in improving the software that drives the K8s release process. He is also the creator of the OpenVEX and protobom projects currently incubating in the OpenSSF. Adolfo is passionate about coding with friends, helping new contributors, and amplifying the Latinx presence in the Cloud Native community.

Chief Architect · Akamai. Member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee. Previously a founder and CTO of Ondat (formerly StorageOS), building software defined solutions for cloud native environments, and a co-chair of the CNCF Storage TAG. Before embarking on the startup adventure he spent over 25 years engineering infrastructure platforms for companies like Nomura and Goldman Sachs.

As a Staff Machine Learning Scientist · Niantic (Scopely), Andy builds scalable ML solutions for one of the biggest mobile games (Pokemon GO) to enhance player experiences and drive business impact. He is passionate about connecting data with product strategy to deliver measurable value.

Anjali Telang is a Principal Product Manager for OpenShift Security and Identity · Red Hat, with 16+ years of experience in security and cloud. A passionate advocate for open source projects such as SPIFFE/SPIRE, cert-manager, External Secrets Operator, Secret Store CSI Driver, she focuses on bringing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers. Before Red Hat, she held product and engineering leadership roles at VMware and NetApp. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, cooking, and meditation.

Antonio Ojea is a Software Engineer · Google, where he works on Kubernetes. He is one of the top contributors of the Kubernetes project, Tech Lead in Kubernetes SIG Network & Testing with a proven track record in leading technical initiatives to enhance Kubernetes networking stability and performance. Enthusiastic advocate for strong testing practices within open-source communities.

As a Principal Engineer · Amazon, focus on proactive & reactive scaling, capacity planning and cost controllership. Previously, maintainer at Dapr, Head of Engineering at Diagrid, Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, Manager at Expedia and Software Engineer at Amazon.

Bodhish is a Senior Fullstack Engineer, startup founder, and a speaker who leads the Digital Public Goods (DPG) team · Pupilfirst. As the creator of Open Healthcare Network (OHC), he architected tools that power critical care infrastructure across multiple Indian states. Founded during the pandemic, OHC has evolved into a thriving community-driven project. His portfolio of open-source innovations includes Care, MediSpeak, MyTemplate, and AfterFlood, alongside his significant contributions to Pupilfirst LMS. Bodhish’s contributions extend beyond engineering, as he has been at the forefront of integrating AI to solve complex challenges in healthcare and education. As one of the first recipients of GitHub’s Open Source Grants from India, he has demonstrated a unique ability to build and nurture communities that scale impactful initiatives like OHC. His work not only transforms critical care infrastructure but also inspires and empowers developers to contribute to open-source solutions that address real-world problems. With a vision for systemic change, Bodhish continues to showcase how technology can be a powerful catalyst for societal transformation.

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He’s currently a CTO · the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he’s a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.

Dr. Chunpeng Wang is a Senior Applied Scientist · Amazon, where he has spent the past 6 years developing forecasting algorithms for system load prediction and capacity planning. His work has been instrumental in securing website availability and optimizing infrastructure performance at Amazon’s scale for Amazon’s retail events like PrimeDay.

Faseela is a cloud-native developer · Ericsson Software Technology, Istio Service Mesh maintainer and a twice-elected member of the Istio Steering Committee, driving its Security, Test and Release, and Documentation functions. She is a CNCF Ambassador, LFX Mentor, contributor to the CNCF “ICA – Istio Certified Associate” examination, and the winner of the prestigious CNCF “Chop Wood Carry Water” award, 2023. She is also the co-author of the CNCF Istio Children’s illustrated book – “Izzy saves the Birthday”. She is one of the organizers of Cloud Native Aachen – the official CNCF Chapter of Aachen, Germany. Faseela is a key member driving the 5G transformation of Ericsson, designing Cloud Native Network Functions and bridging the gap between telco and opensource. Her association with opensource starts with OpenDaylight, one of the Linux Foundation’s earliest collaborative opensource projects, where she has served in the Technical Steering Committee for many years. Early in her career, she has served as a maintainer in the Linux Foundation Infrastructure, enabling the required tooling for several LF projects. She was also actively involved in shaping some of the SDN enabler standards like OpenFlow, and Network Service Header (NSH) in Service Chaining, EVPN and BGP for Telco world. In the recent years, Faseela has served as the event co-chair for both the IstioDays co-located with KubeCon in 2023 and has been a Program Committee member at several KubeCons.

Frank Mancina serves as Vice President of Engineering and Operations · HAProxy Technologies, where he leads the development of world-class application delivery solutions. With over 20 years of experience in technology leadership, he has built a distinguished track record of scaling high-performing engineering teams and delivering enterprise-grade solutions across diverse senior leadership roles.

Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of Solo.io · a company that creates open-source tools to assist enterprises in adopting and extending innovative cloud-native technologies while modernizing their existing IT investments. Solo.io is a top contributor to CNCF projects such as Envoy Proxy, Istio Service Mesh, and Cilium CNI. Their portfolio of open-source products includes Gloo Gateway, an Envoy-based gateway, and Gloo Mesh, an Istio distribution for service mesh.

Jago Macleod is an Engineering Director · Google, where he leads much of the Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) team, which gives him the opportunity to work with some of Google Cloud’s largest customers. Prior to working at Google, Jago helped make the smart homes that may eventually turn against us at Nest; and before that, he made some of the games that will distract us along the way as VP of Engineering at Disney Interactive Games.

CTO · Innovate LLC

Jayson leads platform engineering initiatives · the American Red Cross, providing cloud-native service enablement in support of our mission. A longtime advocate for open source and its adoption in the enterprise, believes in technology’s power to help humanity do better things – a belief put into practice while coordinating relief efforts during Hurricane Helene disaster in Western NC.

Jeremy Rickard is a principal software engineer · Microsoft, where he works on supply chain security projects in the Azure Container Upstream team. He is also a chair for SIG Release, a co-chair for the Long Term Support (LTS) working group, and was the release lead for Kubernetes 1.20. He previously worked on Kubernetes platforms at Apple and VMware.

CEO · Tech Corp

Jorge is the Principal PM Lead for AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) · a fully managed Kubernetes platform on Azure where he has served thousands of customers as a Product Manager since its early days. Formerly he was the Technical Lead for App Dev and DevOps with the Azure Global Black Belt team and has implemented and architected solutions in Azure since 2012, spanning across different roles from Services, Tech Evangelism and Tech Sales. He holds a MSc in Computer Engineering and has a mix of Dev and Ops background having worked as a full-stack developer before moving to a system administrator and later to a DevOps engineer role prior to joining Microsoft. He has founded two startups with successful exit throughout his career and has a passion for helping organizations and individuals grow and succeed leveraging the cloud and kubernetes.

Joseph is a Principal Product Manager · Adobe Inc. with the Developer Productivity team for over six years. He leads the development of Adobe’s cloud-native platform, leveraging his decade-long end user expertise in Kubernetes. Currently serving as one of the CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board members, he shares his strategic insights and learnings with the community and project teams. Joseph is also a member of Kubernetes SIG-Release, serving as a Release Manager Associate, contributing to five release teams, and has been an emeritus advisor. Passionate about open-source and its impact on his career, he is dedicated to mentoring those just starting in the field.

Keith Babo is the Chief Product Officer atSolo.io, where he leads product strategy and execution, enabling enterprises to build and scale the next generation of cloud-native and agentic infrastructure for AI-driven applications. Prior toSolo.io, Keith held leadership roles in product management and engineering · Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and Intel Corporation.