DevOps

KyvernoCon Virtual 2026

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KyvernoCon Virtual 2026 ran on May 6, 2026 in Virtual. It is a DevOps conference. ConferenceGrid lists 10 speakers, 13 exhibitors and 8 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Jun 16, 2026 · dates verified May 10, 2026

KyvernoCon 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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10Speakers
0Sponsors
13Exhibitors
8Sessions
21Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at KyvernoCon, in alphabetical order.

Ankit Kotnala
Cloud Consultant · Google
Anmol Krishan Sachdeva
Sr. Solutions Engineer (Platform Engineering) · Google
Cortney Nickerson
CNCF Ambassador and Head of Community at Nirmata · Nirmata
Kirti Goyal
DevRel · Keploy
Marcus Ross
DevOps, Platform Engineer & Kubestronaut · Hamburg Port Authority
Omolade Akinwumi
DevOps Engineer/Founder · MAX
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

Agenda

Selected from 8 sessions.

  • 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…

Quick answers

When is KyvernoCon Virtual 2026?
KyvernoCon Virtual 2026 ran on May 6, 2026 in Virtual.
Where is KyvernoCon Virtual 2026 held?
KyvernoCon Virtual 2026 was held in Virtual.
Who is speaking at KyvernoCon Virtual 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 10 speakers, including Ankit Kotnala (Cloud Consultant, Google), Anmol Krishan Sachdeva (Sr. Solutions Engineer (Platform Engineering), Google) and Cortney Nickerson (CNCF Ambassador and Head of Community at Nirmata, Nirmata).
Company intelligence

An audience of 21 companies, parsed from the program.

21 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.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
13Exhibitingexhibitor only
8Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

30% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner220%
  • Director / Head of110%
  • Manager / Lead110%
  • Engineer · IC550%
  • Other roles110%

Of 10 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1BCPExhibitor-
2Cloud Native AcademyExhibitor-
3DynatraceExhibitor-
4EncoraExhibitor-
5Google2
6InetumExhibitor-
7InterbankExhibitor-
8Kube CareersExhibitor-
9Kube EventsExhibitor-
10MAX2
11Mito CodeExhibitor-
12Red HatExhibitor-
13RumboExhibitor-
14UTPExhibitor-
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.