Vasu Chandrasekhara
Make Cloud Native Sovereign
Walldorf, Germany
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Former VP on Cloud Native Strategy at SAP turned NeoNephos Ambassador. After establishing Kubernetes in the enterprise foundation at SAP, he’s now focused on the cloud-native ecosystem and mindset for digital sovereignty.
He previously led SAP's substantial project within EU IPCEI-CIS and established NeoNephos as its "OSS Infrastructure". Vasu holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück but refuses to be tied down to any geography. He prefers it in the cloud.
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Sovereignty and Open Source? How to Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!
Historically, the military enforced standardization by leveraging its massive purchasing power to mandate its supply chain to produce equipment with interchangeable parts and specifications.
Today, software has permeated into every (civil or military) crucial system, but interoperability remains an unsolved challenge in the high-stake goal for Software Defined Defense. With the relentless pace of innovation in software and current geopolitical urgency, the luxury of waiting for negotiated interoperability between vendors is gone. We must shift to dynamic, modular frameworks, which can deliver immediate, versatile, field-ready integrations.
We present the Germany Army’s strategy for an Open Defense Cloud that builds on multiple vendors, all collaborating in LF, CNCF, and NeoNephos’ neutral OSS projects. We derive the ecosystem strategy leveraging the inherent motivation of vendors to use OSS.
The OSS ecosystem thinking tied with purchasing power is pivotal for digital sovereignty.
Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural Sound Barrier
We first trace the evolution of the "aerodynamics" of the K8s data, control, and work planes. As we dissect the architectural building blocks and controller archetypes of K8s, we discover the kubelet controller pattern as an universal design principle, with which we easily explain the unfolding of K8s Inception with Hosted Control Planes (HCP), where any control plane becomes a recursive workload in K8s itself.
Armed with these concepts we come to the ultimate, supersonic plane: KCP, the pure data and API plane.
Learn how to mentally decouple K8s from its underlying infrastructure and move toward a truly scalable, declarative API-first future. The next evolution in cloud-native. With KCP, and by treating KRM as a universal interface, we will show how you can benefit from the same pattern used to manage a single pod, to engineer global-scale platforms.
At each architecture evolution step, we accompany a demo and use case: from single clusters, vClusters, clusters with HCP, and KCP.
Kill the Kill Switch - Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty for Citizens and Institutions
In an era of increasing geopolitical tension and systemic cyber threats, the "kill switch"- the ability of a single provider or foreign entity to remotely disable critical digital services - has moved from a theoretical risk to a present danger.
This panel brings together a unique group of stakeholders to dissect the real-world impact of digital dependency and possible solutions. We will hear the first-hand account of a former Town Mayor whose municipality suffered a major cyber attack, exposing the fragility of non-sovereign systems. Experts from the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) and the NeoNephos Foundation will join leaders from the Open Source industry to discuss the roadmap for a solution of the current crisis and explore:
*How dependency on non-sovereign vendors amplifies cyber, legal, and operational risks
*How open source and sovereign cloud initiatives reduce systemic risk and strengthen resilience
*What municipalities and institutions can do to move away from closed systems
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 Sessionize Event
CNCF-Hosted Co-located Events Europe 2026 Sessionize Event
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