Hardik Dodiya and Samarth Deyagond presented on Gardener, an open source project that allows for managing Kubernetes clusters at scale across different cloud providers and data centers. They discussed how Gardener addresses issues like underutilized control plane machines and operational complexity through a hierarchical cluster-on-cluster architecture. Finally, they demonstrated Gardener's capabilities and extensibility through external contributions and showed how it relates to other projects like Cluster API.