Cloud Native AI Summit
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Akshay Adsul
Kasun Talwatta

Speakers

Akshay Adsul & Kasun Talwatta

Solo.io

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Akshay Adsul

Solo.io APAC Lead CS Engineering · Solo.io

Akshay Adsul is currently working with Solo.io as the APAC Lead CS Engineering. He has over 19+ years exp in IT Industry inc Red Hat, CBA and Fidelity Investments. He is an experienced DevOps Specialist and is highly skilled in CI/CD using DevOps tools, Automation, Kubernetes, for Cloud native platforms and classic architectures. He has been a speaker at various events including the Track Keynote speaker for DevOps Asia Summit 2023 in Singapore. And is a regular speaker at CNCF events.

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Kasun Talwatta

Solo.io, Principal Solutions Architect · Solo.io

Kasun is a Principal Solution Architect at Solo.io. He has held roles for both pre-sales and post-sales at Solo.io hence understands the full customer adoption journey. He currently specializes in Service Meshes and API Gateways. Over the last few decades he has gradually transitioned from a full stack developer to building Cloud Native solutions. He is highly experienced working in several different industries ranging from Health IT to Financial Services.

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Session

Why can't I have more tokens Rob? Using agentgateway to keep your AI usage under control.

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Industry trends are pushing companies to use more AI, often "at all costs". However, once CFOs start seeing the bills, the reality of "at all costs" really starts to sink in, and we start to turn to more pragmatic approaches to AI budgets. The first step to managing AI spend is to have good monitoring in place. You need to know who your big users are, and which projects or workflows are draining your token budget. The answers can often be surprising! In this talk, I'll walk through a live demo of how you can set up monitoring across multiple providers, with centralized access, using agentgateway. We'll talk about what metrics are important to track, and some gateway patterns we can use to keep costs from becoming unmanageable, like token-based rate-limiting. The full step-by-step demo will be available on Github and the audience can optionally follow along on their own machines.

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  • Cloud Native AI Summit — Melbourne

    October 28–29, 2026

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