I posted a brief note on 2025‑09‑06 expressing excitement for an upcoming CNCF‑related event in Chandigarh, mentioning the organizer Saiyam Pathak.
Excited for the event !
The event is tied to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the local CNCG Chandigarh community.
I am collaborating with CNCG Chandigarh & Kubesimplify for the Cloud Native Meetup.
The meetup is scheduled for May 2 2026 and will bring together developers, engineers, and builders interested in modern infrastructure and platform engineering.
The CNCF Chandigarh meetup featured 7 talks total, all focused on AI workloads.
Out of those, 4 talks were specifically about AI agents.
2 talks covered sandboxing agents.
The event was a sold‑out cloud‑native day in Chandigarh.
We decided to emphasize agent containment because the community sees standardization and sandboxing as the next critical steps for AI workloads, and we launched the #AAIF as a neutral home for agent standards to accelerate interoperability faster than the historical CNCF timeline.
I organized the Cloud Native Chandigarh (CNCF) meetup to bring roughly 200 engineers and professionals together on 18 July 2026 at the Radisson in Chandigarh.
Event date: 2026‑07‑18.
Expected attendance: 200 engineers & professionals.
Venue: Radisson, Chandigarh.
Gold sponsor: Vultr.
The agenda covers Kubernetes for AI/ML workloads, MLOps, GitOps pipelines, AI agent orchestration, observability and GPU cost optimisation, with sessions ranging from beginner to advanced.