Scaling AI on Kubernetes: Join Broadcom at KubeCon India 2026

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is coming to Mumbai, India, on June 18-19, 2026, and the team here at Broadcom is excited to be a Platinum Sponsor for this highly anticipated event!

Through CNCF’s history, VMware (now part of Broadcom) has been deeply involved as a top 3 long-term contributor to open-source Kubernetes projects, helping to drive innovation, collaboration, and ecosystem growth, partnering with the community. We are just as excited as you are to see the new ideas and innovations coming up at KubeCon this year.

Whether you’re a developer, platform engineer, Kubernetes maintainer, or open source contributor, we’d love to chat with you onsite. We have great demos lined up for you, an insightful theater session, a dedicated co-located day-zero event, and plenty of time to connect in person. (And as the Attendee T-Shirt Sponsor, keep an eye out for our logo on your official KubeCon India conference t-shirt!)

VKS Community Day: Building AI-ready Platforms, the Cloud Native Way

Kick off your KubeCon experience a day early by joining us for VKS Community Day on June 17 at 12:30 PM at the Novotel Mumbai International Airport.

This half-day co-located event is dedicated to “Building AI-Ready Platforms, the Cloud Native Way.” 

Join Broadcom technical experts, customers, partners, and platform engineers from the community for this exclusive event focused on:

• Latest advancements in VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) that uniquely enable platform teams to be successful
• Enabling faster and more resilient paths to get code from development to production
• Efficiently managing your GPU estate for AI workloads
• Leveraging a secure infrastructure foundation to build internal development platforms (IDPs) for modern and AI workloads

From the latest VCF 9.1 release and VKS updates to live demos, customer-led sessions, and conversations with maintainers — this event brings together technology, real-world experience, and community collaboration in one place.

Note: Separate registration is required for this off-site event, so register now and lock your spot!

What to Expect at the VMware Booth (#P2)

Located in the Solution Showcase (Booth #P2), our booth is your hub for all things VMware + Kubernetes. Discover why VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) is the Kubernetes runtime of choice for the private cloud:

• AI-Ready: CNCF certified Kubernetes AI conformant platform to run all AI workloads with consistency, privacy, and portability.
• Ecosystem Integration: CNCF certified Kubernetes runtime to innovate with the broader ecosystem and run all apps.
• Extensibility: Open and extensible networking ecosystem and native integration with leading CNI plug-ins offering choice and flexibility for partner add-ons.
• Frictionless Tooling: Built-in integration with foundational Platform Engineering tools such as Argo and Helm to avoid costly retooling.
• Enterprise Grade: Multi-cluster lifecycle management, policy, and backup for deployment at scale.
• Smooth Upgrades: LTS for Kubernetes minor releases for smoother upgrades while staying in lock-step with innovations.

Interactive Demos

Stop by our demo stations to see live walkthroughs with technical deep-dives and hands-on examples: 

• One Platform to Run Containers and KubeVMs: Learn more about our VKS and KubeVM service capabilities; how to seamlessly manage both containerized workloads and traditional VMs on a single, unified platform. Also, check out our brand-new demo highlighting the Bring-Your-Own (BYO) RHEL License capability.
  
• Updated VKS Lifecycle Management: See the latest from VKS in action. We’ll walk through on-demand deployment, seamless scaling, managing different cluster versions, upgrades, and comprehensive VKS cluster management (including multi-cluster management and policy enforcement).
  
• Deploy AI Workloads Securely: Ready to bring AI to your enterprise?  Dive into building AI workloads on VKS utilizing VCF Private AI services. We’ll be running an end-to-end demo flow that takes you through the entire AI lifecycle on VCF- from model onboarding & governance, to deployment, data Indexing and finally rounding it off with an agent builder. 

Must-Attend Demo Session

Mark your calendars for our demo session to learn how to confidently distribute and protect production AI workloads:

Title: Cloud Native AI: Model Management with Harbor & Velero 

Date / Time: Thursday, June 18 | 15:30 – 15:50 

Location: 205 (Level 2)   

As AI scales on Kubernetes, platform teams face a massive hurdle: managing multi-gigabyte AI models. Baking LLMs directly into container images breaks CI/CD pipelines, bloats storage, and couples the model lifecycle to the inference server code.
In this session, discover how to bring operational maturity to AI workflows. First, we will explore Harbor’s evolution as an AI model registry supporting the Cloud Native AI (CNAI) spec. Then, we will tackle Day-2 operational resilience, demonstrating how to reliably back up and restore your AI namespace using Velero.

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Connect With Our Experts

Meet our experts who are contributing to foundational and popular open-source projects such as Cluster API, etcd, Containerd, Harbor, Contour, Velero, and others. Our engineers are available for 1:1 conversations to discuss open-source solutions that simplify, secure, and scale modern applications.

Come ask questions about VMware + Kubernetes convergence, lifecycle management, resiliency, and running containers and KubeVMs with a consistent operational model..

We can’t wait to see you in Mumbai!