Nikhita Raghunath

I was a chariperson and emcee for KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2023 in Chicago, which saw more than 13,000 attendees in person.

Presented a keynote at KubeCon North America 2023 highlighting the contributions of community members across India, East Asia, LATAM and other underrepresented groups in technology. Additionally, I also had a deaf panelist as part of my panel. This was the first time that a deaf member was on stage.

Co-authored article (including a quote) for the article announcing the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023

Participated and provide feedback about GitHub features (and security fixes) as a representative of the Kubernetes project in a meetup organized exclusively for OSS maintainers in India at the GitHub office.

I presented the Keynote at the first Kubernetes Community Days in Chennai.

Chair for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 (Chicago), Europe 2024 (Paris) and North America 2024 (Salt Lake City). Chairs are Open Source and Cloud Native Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). They decide the overall theme of the conference, select the Program Committee, review and determine the final list of talks and coach keynote speakers to help craft their talk. Additionally, they also emcee the keynote stage along with presenting their own keynote covering Kubernetes and/or other CNCF Projects.

Presented a keynote at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 about the latest developments in the cloud native ecosystem, including celebrating contributors in the CNCF Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs).

Member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) defining and maintaining the technical vision of the whole cloud native ecosystem for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The TOC oversees all technical matters of the CNCF. https://github.com/cncf/toc