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Advanced Model Serving Techniques with Ray on Kubernetes - Andrew Sy Kim, Google & Kai-Hsun Chen, Anyscale Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Behind Schedule: Pod Resource Configuration from Beginning to... Huh? - Joe Thompson, Platform9 Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 All Your Routes Are Ready, More or Less - Dave Protasowski, Broadcom Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF The Future of DBaaS on Kubernetes - Melissa Logan, Constantia; Sergey Pronin, Percona; Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale; Gabriele Bartolini, EDB Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Architecting Tomorrow: The Heterogeneous Compute Resources for New Types of Workloads - Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel Finland Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC SIG Network Intro and Updates - Daman Arora, VMware by Broadcom & Shaun Crampton, Tigera Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC The Spice Must Flow Green: CNCF's Environmental Sustainability TAG - Marlow Warnicke (Weston), SchedMD & Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A The State of Cloud Native Business Value in 2024 - Danielle Cook, appCD; Simon Forster, Stackegy; Catherine Paganini, Buoyant; Colin Griffin, Krumware; Robbie Glenn, Accenture Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE TUF: Secure Distribution Beyond Software - Marina Moore, Independent Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Using Notary Project to Ensure Authenticity and Integrity of Artifacts Within the Enterprise - Toddy Mladenov, Microsoft & Tjark Rasche, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD Unlocking Cost Savings & New Possibilities: Your Guide to Prometheus Remote Write 2.0 - Callum Styan, Grafana Labs & Bartłomiej Płotka, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ ARM-Wrestling: Overcoming CPU Migration Challenges to Reduce Costs - Laurent Bernaille & Eric Mountain, Datadog Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC All-Your-GPUs-Are-Belong-to-Us: An Inside Look at NVIDIA's Self-Healing GeForce NOW Infrastructure - Ryan Hallisey & Piotr Prokop PL, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF AuthZEN: The “OpenID Connect” for Authorization - Omri Gazitt, Aserto Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 GitOops... I Did It Again! Protecting Your GitOps System from Being Used for Privilege Escalation - Oreen Livni & Elad Pticha, Cycode Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Tutorial: A Mad Scientist's Guide to Automating CNI with Generative AI - Doug Smith, Red Hat, Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE 12:10pm MST
AI and ML: Let’s Talk About the Boring (yet Critical!) Operational Side - Rob Koch, Slalom Build & Milad Vafaeifard, Epam Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Operationalizing High-Performance GPU Clusters in Kubernetes: A Case Study of Databricks' DBRX - Will Gleich & Wai Wu, Databricks Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Beyond 'Can You Mentor Me?' - Crafting the Contribution Ladder - Nitish Kumar, Akuity; Wenjia Zhang, Google; Lucas Käldström, Upbound; Carol Valencia, Elastic; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Can Your Kubernetes Network Handle the Heat? Building Resilience with AI Chaos - Lior Lieberman, Google & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story - Sergey Pronin, Percona Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Building Reliable Cross-Cloud Kubernetes Clusters on Spot Instances with Drafter and PVM - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC AI for Policy and Policy for AI! - Poonam Lamba, Google; Boris Kurktchiev, Nirmata; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Ronald Petty, RX-M; Jimmy Ray, Boeing Digital Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Best Friends Keep No Secrets: Going Secretless with Cert-Manager - Ashley Davis & Tim Ramlot, Venafi Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Dapr's Road Ahead: GenAI APIs, Distributed Scheduling at Scale and What It Means for Your Platform - Yaron Schneider, Diagrid Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Emissary-Ingress: Version 4 and the Road Ahead - Flynn, Buoyant Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD SIG Scheduling Intro & Updates - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Kensei Nakada, Tetrate.io Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Towards Zero Change Incidents: Intuit's Strategy for Implementing AI-Driven Progressive Delivery - Avik Basu & Saravanan Balasubramanian, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Automated Multi-Cloud, Multi-Flavor Kubernetes Cluster Upgrades Using Operators - Ziyuan Chen, Databricks Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Automated Multi-Cloud Blue-Green Cluster Rotations: Zero Downtime Upgrades at Scale - Sourav Khandelwal, Databricks Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF The Hard Truth About GitOps and Database Rollbacks - Rotem Tamir, Ariga Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Breaking Free from Vulnerability Scanning Noise: Automated VEX Aggregation for Accuracy - Teppei Fukuda, Aqua Security Software Ltd. Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 🚩 An Introduction to Capture The Flag - Andy Martin & Kevin Ward, ControlPlane Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 A 12:45pm MST
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Architecting the Future of AI: From Cloud-Native Orchestration to Advanced LLMOps - Ion Stoica, Anyscale Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Optimizing LLM Performance in Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry - Ashok Chandrasekar, Google & Liudmila Molkova, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Choose Your Own Adventure: The Observability Odyssey - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Cilium, EBPF, WireGuard: Can We Tame the Network Encryption Performance Gap? - Daniel Borkmann & Anton Protopopov, Isovalent Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF AIStore as a Fast Tier Storage Solution: Enhancing Petascale Deep Learning Across Cloud Backends - Abhishek Gaikwad & Aaron Wilson, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Cloud Native Sustainability Speedrun: Tools from Infrastructure to Application Level - Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Guiding Kubernetes: The Steering Committee's Role in Project Evolution - Maciej Szulik, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Harbor Project - The Maintainers Session What We Have Accomplished! - Orlin Vasilev, SUSE; Vadim Bauer, 8gears Container Registry; Miner Yang, Daniel Jiang & Yan Wang, Broadcom Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Kubernetes Data Protection WG Deep Dive - Dave Smith-Uchida, Veeam Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Kubernetes WG Device Management - Advancing K8s Support for GPUs - John Belamaric, Google; Patrick Ohly, Intel; Kevin Klues, NVIDIA Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive - Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson & Laura Lorenz, Google; Ryan Zhang, Microsoft; Stephen Kitt, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Unifying Observability: Correlating Metrics, Traces, and Logs with Exemplars and OpenTelemetry - Anusha Reddy Narapureddy & Charlie Le, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Does My K8s Application Need CPR? Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Cluster Workload Management App - Braulio Dumba & Ezra Silvera, IBM Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Better Pod Availability: A Survey of the Many Ways to Manage Workload Disruptions - Zach Loafman, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Secure by Design CI/CD: Practical Insights from Adobe and Autodesk - Vikram Sethi, Adobe Inc. & Jesse Sanford, Autodesk Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Bridging Clouds: TikTok’s Blueprint for Unified OIDC Access on Multi-Cloud Kubernetes - Naveen Mogulla, TikTok Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 🚩 An Introduction to Capture The Flag - Andy Martin & Kevin Ward, ControlPlane Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 A Tutorial: Confidential Containers 101: A Hands-on Workshop - Archana Choudhary & Suraj Deshmukh, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE 3:25pm MST
A Tale of 2 Drivers: GPU Configuration on the Fly Using DRA - Alay Patel & Varun Ramachandra Sekar US, Nvidia Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Optimizing Load Balancing and Autoscaling for Large Language Model (LLM) Inference on Kubernetes - David Gray, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Create & Distribute a Plugin for Kubernetes (Kubectl) in Few Minutes? Easy! 🙂 - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud & Gaëlle Acas, Doctolib Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Extending the Gateway API: The Power and Challenges of Policies - Kate Osborn, NGINX Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Architecting a Data Platform with Open Source Tools - Priyanka J. Naik, Palo Alto Networks Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Deep Dive Into Generic Control Planes and Kcp - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC How to Get Started Contributing in the CNCF - Destiny O'Connor, Women Blessing Women & Riaan Kleinhans, Linux Foundation Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Life of a Packet: Ambient Edition - John Howard, Solo.io & Keith Mattix, Microsoft Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Mastering ApplicationSet: Advanced Argo CD Automation - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF OpenTelemetry Project Update - Alolita Sharma, Apple; Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Grafana Labs; Ted Young, ServiceNow; Morgan Mclean, Splunk; Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive - Sergey Kanzhelev & Dawn Chen, Google; Mrunal Patel, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Using OpenTelemetry for Deep Observability Within Messaging Queues - Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz & Ekansh Gupta, Zeta Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Global Payments: Setting New Standards for Reliability in Cloud Native Multi-Region Applications - Trey Caliva, Global Payments Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Cash App's Journey Into a Multi-Cluster Ecosystem - Rachel Sheikh, Cash App Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Scale Job Triggering with a Distributed Scheduler - Cassie Coyle & Artur Souza, Diagrid Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 CEL-Ebrating Simplicity: Mastering Kubernetes Policy Enforcement - Kevin Conner, Getup Cloud & Anish Ramasekar, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 4:00pm MST
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Making Kubernetes Simpler for Accelerated Workloads - Susan Wu, Google; Lucy Sweet, Uber; Mitch McKenzie, Weave; Aditya Shanker, Crusoe Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Platform Performance Optimization for AI - a Resource Management Perspective - Antti Kervinen, Intel & Dixita Narang, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Museum of Weird Bugs: Our Favorites from 8 Years of Service Mesh Debugging - Tom Dean & Alen Haric, Buoyant Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF DNS Deep Dive in Kubernetes with CoreDNS - Jingming Guo, Airbnb Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 From Observability to Performance - Nadia Pinaeva, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Building Resilience: Effective Backup and Disaster Recovery for Vector Databases on Kubernetes - Pavan Navarathna & Shwetha Subramanian, Veeam Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Experience in Designing & Implementing a Cloud Native Framework for Farm Data Analytics - Braulio Dumba, IBM & Gloire Rubambiza, Cornell University Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC CNI Updates and Direction! - Michael Zappa, Microsoft Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD How to Expand Your IDP: The New Building Blocks of Backstage - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Linkerd Update: Ingress, Egress, IPv6, Enhanced Multicluster, Rust, and More - William Morgan, Buoyant Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Han Kang, David Ashpole & Richa Banker, Google; Damien Grisonnet, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Understanding How OpenTelemetry Network Uses eBPF for Network Observability - Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz & Jonathan Perry, State-fu Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Watching the Watchers: How We Do Continuous Reliability at Grafana Labs - Nicole van der Hoeven, Grafana Labs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Kubernetes at Scale: Practical Solutions for Enhanced CNI and Kubelet Performance - Henrique Santana, Amazon Web Services & Bruno Gabriel da Silva, Sysdig Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Perform Laser Focused Deployments by Deciding in Advance the Blast Radius - Kostis Kapelonis, Octopus deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Expanding the Capabilities of Kubernetes Access Control - Jimmy Zelinskie, authzed & Lucas Käldström, Upbound Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Tutorial: Get the Most Out of Your GPUs on Kubernetes with the GPU Operator - Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, Tariq Ibrahim, Amanda Moran & Christopher Desiniotis, NVIDIA; David Porter, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE 5:25pm MST
Detecting and Overcoming GPU Failures During ML Training - Sarah Belghiti, Wayve & Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Production AI at Scale: Cloudera’s Journey in Building a Robust Inference Platform - Zoram Thanga & Peter Ableda, Cloudera Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Conquering Configuration Constraints: Real-World Patterns for Distributing Data at Scale in Kubernet - Daniel Hrabovcak, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Container Image Workflows at Scale with Buildpacks - Jesse Brown, Heroku & Aidan Delaney, Bloomberg Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry - Jonah Kowall, Independent & Pavol Loffay, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Observability TAG Round-up and What’s New for AI Observability - Alolita Sharma, Apple & Chris Larsen, Netflix Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD Squashing Trampoline Pods: The Future of Securely Enabling Hardware Extensions - Joe Betz, Google & David Eads, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC XRegistry - Looking Beyond CloudEvents - Calum Murray, University of Toronto Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE The OTTL Cookbook: A Collection of Solutions to Common Problems - Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb & Evan Bradley, Dynatrace Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Misadventures in Large Scale Cluster Performance - Shane Corbett, AWS & Dima Ilchenko, Lacework Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Creating Paved Paths for Platform Engineers - Ritesh Patel, Nirmata; Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Viktor Farcic, Upbound; Nicholas Morey, Akuity; Praseeda Sathaye, Amazon Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Taming Your Application’s Environments - Marcos Lilljedahl, Dagger & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 From Observability to Enforcement: Lessons Learned Implementing eBPF Runtime Security - Anna Kapuścińska & Kornilios Kourtis, Isovalent Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Workload Identity Federation – Stop Using Long-Lived Credentials - Benjamin Dronen, Ford Motor Company & Kristen Newcomer, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC 6:00pm MST
🎉 #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest Sponsored by CDW Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: 0.0.0.0 Day: Exploiting Localhost APIs from the Browser - Avi Lumelsky, Oligo Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: Accepting Mortality: Strategies for Ultra-Long Running Stateful Workloads in K8s - Sebastian Beyvers & Maria Hansen, Giessen University Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: Climatik: Cloud Native Sustainable LLM via Power Capping - Chen Wang, IBM & Vincent Hou, Bloomberg L.P. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: Kubernetes as a Geographically Distributed System - Ildiko Vancsa, Open Infrastructure Foundation Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: Optimizing Pod Affinity in Kubernetes: A Mathematical Approach to Workload Placement - Jack Xue, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: Revolutionizing Windows Container Startup Performance - Tina Wu & Shaheed Chagani, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: Unleashing the Power of Init and Sidecar Containers in Kubernetes - Carlos Sanchez & Natalia Angulo, Adobe Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: Unleashing the Power of Prediction to Proactively Scale Control Plane Components - Anubhav Aeron & Ryan Tay, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: Unveiling Anomalies: eBPF-Based Detection in High-Volume Encrypted Network Traffic - Ben Smith-Foley, Rensselaer Center for Open Source Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session: What's Happening with SPIFFE and WIMSE? - Daniel Feldman, Qusaic Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase
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Shifting Gears: Leveraging CNCF Tools to Streamline Operations at Toyota Connected - Benson Phillips & Rob Heckel, Toyota Connected Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Harnessing the Power of Envoy Proxy for Building an LLM Gateway - Idit Levine, Solo.io Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Cooperative Scheduling for Stateful Systems - Michael Youssef & Laxman Prabhu, LinkedIn Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Kubernetes Workspaces: Enhancing Multi-Tenancy with Intelligent Apiserver Proxying - James Munnelly & Andrea Tosatto, Apple Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Artifact Hub: Discover, Analyze, and Share Cloud Native Artifacts - Matt Farina, SUSE Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD GitOps at Production Scale with Flux - Leigh Capili, Flox & Priyanka Ravi, G-Research Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE SIG-Apps: Powering Applications with High-Volume Data and APIs - Maciej Szulik, Red Hat & Janet Kuo, Google Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC SPIRE: Intro & In-Depth Exploration of the Upcoming Forced Rotation and Revocation Feature - Agustín Martínez Fayó & Marcos Yacob, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! - Eddie Zaneski, Defense Unicorns & Arda Guclu, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Lesson’s Learned Adopting OpenTelemetry at Scale - Alex Arnell, Heroku / Salesforce Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Navigating the Cgroup Transition: Bridging the Gap Between Kubernetes and User Expectations - Sohan Kunkerkar, Red Hat Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Engineering a Kubernetes Operator: Lessons Learned from Versions 1 to 5 - Andrew L'Ecuyer, Crunchy Data Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Yahoo’s Kubernetes Journey from on-Prem to Multi-Cloud at Scale - Nandhakumar Venkatachalam & Payal Patel, Yahoo Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 How We Made OpenTelemetry Be Our Fitness Tracker for Your CI/CD Pipelines! - Nicolas Woerner, Clario & Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 From Silicon to Service: Ensuring Confidentiality in Serverless GPU Cloud Functions - Zvonko Kaiser, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Tutorial: Kubernetes Smart Scaling: Getting Started with Karpenter - Changsu Lee & Raj Saha, AWS; Wilson Darko & Charlie McBride, Microsoft; Praseeda Sathaye, Amazon Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE 🚨 Contribfest: Backstage Onboarding: Your Journey to Community Contribution! Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A 🚨 Contribfest: Collaborative WebAssembly Creation with WasmCloud Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D 🚩 Capture The Flag Experience Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 A 11:55am MST
Democratizing AI Model Training on Kubernetes with Kubeflow TrainJob and JobSet - Andrey Velichkevich, Apple & Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Tick, TAG, TOC - Keeping Cloud Native Running - Karena Angell & Emily Fox, Red Hat; Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom; Alex Chircop, Akamai; Ricardo Aravena, Truera Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Scratching the Surface: Simulating K8s in MIT Scratch - Mitch Connors, Microsoft & Jude Connors, Independent Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 How to Move from Ingress to Gateway API with Minimal Hassle - Keith Mattix, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Database DevOps: CD for Stateful Applications - Stephen Atwell, Harness.io & Christopher Crow, Pure Storage Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Running Quantum-Safe Applications on Kubernetes - Paul Schweigert & Michael Maximilien, IBM Quantum Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF 0.1 to 1.16: How Has Knative Fulfilled Its Vision? - Dave Protasowski, Broadcom & Evan Anderson, Stacklok Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD Cilium: Connecting, Observing, and Securing Kubernetes and Beyond with eBPF - Ahmed Bebars, The New York Times & Liz Rice, Isovalent @ Cisco Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Cluster API Deep Dive - Roadmap to API Graduation - Fabrizio Pandini, Broadcom & Vince Prignano, Apple, Inc. Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A CNCF TAG Network: Intro & Deep Dive - Lee Calcote, Layer5 Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF SIG Autoscaling Projects Update - Jack Francis, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Cognitive and Self-Adaptive System for Effective Distributed-Tracing in Applications - Mitul Tandon & Akash Gusain, VMware; Susobhit Panigrahi, Broadcom Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Multi-Zone Clusters Inside and Out - Tom Dean, Buoyant Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Evolving Reddit’s Infrastructure via Principled Platform Abstractions - Karan Thukral & Harvey Xia, Reddit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF From Chaos to Calm: Building a Unified and Scalable CI/CD Pipeline at Akamai - Tomer Patel, Akamai Technologies Inc. Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 What Agent to Trust with Your K8s: Falco, Tetragon or KubeAmor? - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 12:30pm MST
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Unlocking Potential of Large Models in Production - Yuan Tang, Red Hat & Adam Tetelman, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE What Istio Got Wrong: Learnings from the Last Seven Years of Service Mesh - Christian Posta & Louis Ryan, Solo.io Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Solving the Kubernetes Networking API Rubik's Cube - Doug Smith & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat; Shane Utt, Kong; Lior Lieberman, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 How the Tables Have Turned: Kubernetes Says Goodbye to Iptables - Casey Davenport, Tigera & Dan Winship, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Distributed Cache Empowers AI/ML Workloads on Kubernetes Cluster - Yuichiro Ueno & Toru Komatsu, Preferred Networks, Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Running WebAssembly (Wasm) Workloads Side-by-Side with Container Workloads - Jiaxiao Zhou, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Oh My! What Is the TAG App Delivery Doing to Support You - Daniel Oh, Red Hat; Roberth Strand, Sopra Steria; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft; Abby Bangser, Syntasso Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Bare Metal Kubernetes with KOps: Gathering Community Wisdom - Justin Santa Barbara, Google & Ciprian Hacman, Microsoft Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Celebrating Prometheus 3.0: A Deep Dive with the Maintainers - Kemal Akkoyun, fal.ai & Josh Abreu, Grafana Labs Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Cortex Intro: Multi-Tenant Scalable Prometheus - Charlie Le, Apple & Daniel Blando, Amazon Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive - Saad Ali & Michelle Au, Google; Xing Yang, VMware by Broadcom; Hemant Kumar, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Low-Overhead, Zero-Instrumentation, Continuous Profiling for OpenTelemetry - Christos Kalkanis, Elastic Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ One Inventory to Rule Them All: Standardizing Multicluster Management - Corentin Debains, Google & Ryan Zhang, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Exceeded Your Validation Cost Budget? Now What? - Joel Speed, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Mastering Cell-Based Architecture: Practical Solutions and Best Practices - Shweta Vohra, Booking.com & Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2 Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 From Standards to Practice: The Journey to Container Maturity - Carmen Chow & Thomas Robinson, Yelp Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Tutorial: Live with Gateway API V1.2 - Flynn, Buoyant & Mike Morris, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE 🚨 Contribfest: Enhancing Kubernetes Debugging and Observability with Inspektor Gadget Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A 🚨 Contribfest: Helm 4: The Next Generation of the Kubernetes Package Manager Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D 3:25pm MST
Unlocking the Future of GPU Scheduling in Kubernetes with Reinforcement Learning - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe Systems & Aditi Gupta, Disney Plus Hotstar Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Tackling GPU Shortages and High Costs by Harnessing Hybrid Kubernetes Clusters - Xiaoman Dong & Alex Pucher, Parasail Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC TLS and MTLS: Introduction to Modern Security - Andrew Davis, Independent & Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock) Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Networking 101 - Niranjan Shankar, Microsoft & Ram Vennam, Solo.io Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Elastic Data Streaming: Autoscaling Apache Kafka - Jakub Scholz, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Load-Aware GPU Fractioning for LLM Inference on Kubernetes - Olivier Tardieu & Yue Zhu, IBM Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Cloud Native Storage: The CNCF Storage TAG Projects, Technology & Landscape - Alex Chircop, Akamai & Raffaele Spazzoli, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Elevate Your Kubernetes Policy Game with Kyverno! - Vishal Choudhary, Nirmata; Lanting Chiang & Karen Tu, Robinhood Markets, Inc. Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD Intro & Deep Dive - Kubernetes Infrastructure - Arnaud Meukam, Independent & Mahamed Ali, Cisco Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Updates - John Belamaric, Google & David Eads, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Peak Innovation and Cloud Tweaks: Falco’s Ongoing Runtime Security Development - Jason Dellaluce, Leonardo Grasso & Luca Guerra, Sysdig; Carlos Tadeu Panato Junior, Chainguard; Melissa Kilby, Apple Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Measuring All the Costs with OpenCost Plugins - Alex Meijer, Stackwatch Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Orchestrating Quasi-Real Time Data Processing in the Computing Farm of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN - Giuseppe Avolio, CERN Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC From Chaos to Harmony, Transforming ML Engineering: A Kubernetes Adoption Journey Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF You're Overpaying for CI - Kyle Penfound, Dagger Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 It's Dangerous to Build It Alone, Take This. - Jeremy Rickard & Ashna Mehrotra, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 4:00pm MST
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Which GPU Sharing Strategy Is Right for You? a Comprehensive Benchmark Study Using DRA - Kevin Klues & Yuan Chen, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Defense Unicorns; Karen Chu, Fermyon; Jason Hall, Chainguard; Scott Rigby, Independent; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Understanding Kubernetes Networking in 30 Minutes - Ricardo Katz, Broadcom & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Microsegment Your Network Like Mastercard with AdminNetworkPolicy - John Zaiss, Mastercard & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Elevating Kubeflow Spark Operator's Future: Best Practices and Enhancements - Vara Bonthu, AWS & Chaoran Yu, Apple Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI WASM + KWOK Wizardry: Writing and Testing Scheduler Plugins at Scale - Dejan Pejchev & Jonathan Giannuzzi, G-Research Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Fluent Bit: Better Pipelines for Observability - Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Gateway API: What's New, What's Next? - Christine Kim & Nick Young, Isovalent at Cisco; Mattia Lavacca, Kong; Guilherme Cassolato, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Navigate Cross SIG Collaborations with SIG Docs - Rey Lejano & Savitha Raghunathan, Red Hat; Divya Mohan, SUSE; Xander Grzywinski, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro, Deep Dive & V1.0 Update - Charlie Egan, Styra Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Secure Release Processes with in-Toto Policy Verification - John Kjell, TestifySec & Aditya Sirish A Yelgundhalli, New York University Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD Mastering OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration - Steve Flanders, Cisco Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Per-Node Api-Server Proxy: Expand the Cluster's Scale and Stability - Weizhou Lan & Iceber Gu, DaoCloud Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC GÖDel Scheduler: A Unified Scheduler for Online and Offline Workloads - Bing Li, Yue Yin & Lintong Jiang, ByteDance Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Bring the Joy Back to Deployments! - Murriel McCabe, Google Cloud & Elizabeth Ponce, Airbnb Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Mish-Mesh: Abusing the Service Mesh to Compromise Kubernetes Environments - Hillai Ben-Sasson & Nir Ohfeld, Wiz Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Tutorial: No Mess Rollouts with Gateway API: Leveraging Gateway API and Argo Rollouts for Progressive Delivery - Nina Polshakova & Lawrence Gadban, Solo.io Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE 🚨 Contribfest: Kickstart Your eBPF Journey with Tetragon Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A 🚨 Contribfest: Meshery Contribfest: Extending the Cloud Native Manager Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D 5:25pm MST
Managing and Distributing AI Models Using OCI Standards and Harbor - Steven Zou & Steven Ren, VMware by Broadcom Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Navigating Failures in Pods with Devices: Challenges and Solutions - Sergey Kanzhelev, Google & Mrunal Patel, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Engaging the KServe Community, The Impact of Integrating a Solutions with Standardized CNCF Projects - Adam Tetelman, NVIDIA; Taneem Ibrahim, Red Hat; Johnu George, Nutanix; Tessa Pham, Bloomberg; Andreea Munteanu... Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Pick My Project! Lessons Learned from Interviewing 20+ End Users for Cloud Native Case Studies - Shedrack Akintayo & Bill Mulligan, Isovalent at Cisco Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Why Serverless Is Trending Again - Matt Butcher, Fermyon Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 One Gateway API to Rule Them All (and in the Cluster Configure Them) - Flynn, Buoyant Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF What if Kubernetes Was a Compiler Target? - David Morrison, Applied Computing Research Labs & Tim Goodwin, UC Santa Cruz Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q+A - David Ko, SUSE Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD Scaling and Safeguarding the Heart of Kubernetes: Deep Dive Into etcd - Wenjia Zhang & Marek Siarkowicz, Google; James Blair, Red Hat; Ivan Valdes Castillo, Aki Technologies; Wei Fu, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Securing the Future of Ingress-Nginx - James Strong, Isovalent & Marco Ebert, Giant Swarm Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A The Path to Helm 4 - Matt Farina, SUSE & Andrew Block, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE What's New in SIG-Windows - Mark Rossetti, Microsoft & Aravindh Puthiyaparambil, Softdrive Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Now You See Me: Tame MTTR with Real-Time Anomaly Detection - Kruthika Prasanna Simha & Raj Bhensadadia, Apple Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Pod Power: Liberating Kubernetes Users from Container Resource Micromanagement - Dixita Narang, Google & Peter Hunt, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC How Google Build Its New Cloud on Top of Kubernetes - Saad Ali, Jie Yu & Prashanth Venugopal, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Multi-Tier Security in WasmCloud: From Developer Constraints to Platform Extensibility - Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151
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Better Together! GPU, TPU and NIC Topological Alignment with DRA - John Belamaric, Google & Patrick Ohly, Intel Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - William Morgan, Buoyant; Ashley Davis, Venafi; Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Securing Outgoing Traffic: Building a Powerful Internet Egress Gateway for Reliable Connectivity - Edie Yang & Akshita Agarwal, Airbnb Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF How We Scale a Distributed SQL Database to 1 PB - Sam Dillard, PingCAP Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy CI with Zero Test Flakes - Antonio Ojea, Michelle Shepardson & Benjamin Elder, Google Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Bloomberg's Journey to Manage Multi-Cluster Training Application with Karmada - Leon Zhou & Yao Weng, Bloomberg Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD CRI-O Features for Fun and Profit - Peter Hunt & Sohan Kunkerkar, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Discover CNCF TAG Runtime: From AI, WASM, OS, Edge to Workloads in the Heart of Salt Lake City - Stephen Rust, Akamai; Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom; Danielle Tal, Microsoft; Ricardo Aravena, TruEra Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Thanos: Intro and Updates - Ben Ye, Amazon Web Services Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Shopify’s Open Source Approach to Network Monitoring with eBPF, Vector and ClickHouse - Sebastian Rabenhorst & Matt Franklin, Shopify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ The State of Kubernetes Optimization and the Role of AI - James Wilson, nOps; Haoran Qiu, Microsoft; Katie Gamanji, Apple; Jasmine James, Square; Josh Cypher, Sonos Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Upgrade Safely: Avoid the Pitfalls of Kubernetes Versioning - Rob Scott, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel - Paula Kennedy, Syntasso; Chris Plank, NatWest Bank; Suhail Patel, Monzo; Jinhong Brejnholt, Saxo Bank; Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity Intern... Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Still Don't Do What Charlie Don't Does - Making CRD Changes Safer - Nick Young, Isovalent Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Powering Automatic Authorization in Envoy Through Live Traffic Inspection - Dom Del Nano, Pixie core maintainer Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Tutorial: OpenTelemetry Hands-on - Automatic and Manual Instrumentation for Java and Python Apps - Matthias Haeussler, Novatec Consulting GmbH & Tiffany Jernigan, Independent Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE 🚨 Contribfest: Kyverno: Lets Build Together! Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D 🚨 Contribfest: Making SlimToolkit XRAY Even Easier to Use: Building a Terminal UI Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A 11:55am MST
Building Massive-Scale Generative AI Services with Kubernetes and Open Source - John McBride, OpenSauced Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Improving Service Availability: Scaling Ahead with Machine Learning for HPA Optimization - Avni Sharma & Estela Ramirez, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Accessibility at KubeCon: Deaf Voices in Cloud Native - Rob Koch, Slalom Build; Jay Jackson, CallRevu; Destiny O'Connor, Women Blessing Women; Anastasiia Gubska, BT Group; Travis Johnson, Convo Communications Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting - Moderated by Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, The Linux Foundation Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes - Mofi Rahman & Abdel Sghiouar, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Seeing Double? Implementing Multicast with eBPF and Cilium - Louis DeLosSantos, Isovalent at Cisco Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Kubernetes on Multisites – A Story About Stateful App, Hybrid Clouds, and High Availability - Florian Coulombel, Dell Technologies & Jan Šafránek, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - The Cloud Native Control Plane Framework - Jared Watts, Upbound Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF WG Serving: Accelerating AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes - Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA & Yuan Tang, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD What's New in Operator Framework?! - Bryce Palmer, Rashmi Gottipati & Lalatendu Mohanty, Red Hat; Attila Meszaros, Apple Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Working Together to Improve Security Visibility in Kubernetes - Rita Zhang & Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Strategies for Mitigating Performance Interference in Cloud-Native Systems - Jonathan Perry, Startup Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC What Containerd 2.0 Means for You - Samuel Karp, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Kubernetes Upgrades: Less Pain, More Gain (and Maybe a Little Swearing) - Jago Macleod, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Share the Ride: Robust Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes at Uber - Sashank Appireddy & Apoorva Jindal, Uber Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Rogue No More: Securing Kubernetes with Node-Specific Restrictions - Anish Ramasekar, Microsoft & James Munnelly, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 12:30pm MST
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Bloomberg’s Journey to Improve Resource Utilization in a Multi-Cluster Platform - Yao Weng & Leon Zhou, Bloomberg Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 From Vectors to Pods: Integrating AI with Cloud Native - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom; Kevin Klues, NVIDIA; Joseph Sandoval, Adobe; Ricardo Rocha, CERN; Cathy Zhang, Intel Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Can You Put a Price Tag on Open Source? - Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic & Bob Killen, CNCF Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Testing Kubernetes Without Kubernetes: A Networking Deep Dive - John Howard, Solo.io Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Object Storage Is All You Need - Justin Cormack, Docker Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Faster Containerized LLM Serving via Knowledge Sharing - Junchen Jiang, University of Chicago & Zhou Sun, Mooncake Labs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Are Your Microservices Truly Scaling? A Framework for Unlocking the Stateful Backend - Sam Dillard, PingCAP Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Contributing to Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - SIG ContribEx Style! - Kaslin Fields, Google; Priyanka Saggu, SUSE; Madhav Jivrajani, UIUC; Nabarun Pal, Independent Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Exploring KubeEdge: Architecture, Use Cases, and Project Graduation Updates - Yin Ding, Google & Hongbing Zhang, Daocloud Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD KubeVirt: Enhancements and the Road Ahead - Vladik Romanovsky & David Vossel, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Vitess: Introduction, New Features and Running in Production - Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale; Derek Perkins, Nozzle; Sudhi Vijayakumar, Backblaze Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Supercharge Your Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics - Vamshi Krishna Samudrala & Sravan Akinapally, American Airlines Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Micro-Segmentation and Multi-Tenancy: The Brown M&Ms of Platform Engineering - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata & Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity International Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF The Missing Talk About API Versioning & Evolution in Your Developer Platform - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Sergiusz Urbaniak, Independent Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Seccomp and eBPF; What’s the Difference? Why Do I Need to Know? - Natalia Reka Ivanko & Duffie Cooley, Isovalent @ Cisco Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 The Policy Engines Showdown - Gabriel L. Manor, Permit.io; Andres Aguiar, Okta; Omri Gazitt, Aserto; Anders Eknert, Styra; Sarah Cecchetti, AWS Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Tutorial: Simplify and Optimize Your YAML with YAMLScriptb - Ingy döt Net, YAML LLC Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE 🚨 Contribfest: Hop Aboard and Contribute to Headlamp Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A 🚨 Contribfest: Sidecar-Less Service Mesh: Let’s Work Together on Istio V2 Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D 2:55pm MST
Cloud-Native AI: Wasm in Portable, Secure AI/ML Workloads - Miley Fu, Second State Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Enabling Fault Tolerance for GPU Accelerated AI Workloads in Kubernetes - Arpit Singh & Abhijit Paithankar, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE How GoTo Financial Automates Upgrading 60+ Istio Service Mesh Seamlessly! - Didi Yudha Perwira & Zufar Dhiyaulhaq, GoTo Financial Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF Thousands of Gamers, One Kubernetes Network - Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Girish Moodalbail, NVIDIA Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Object, Block, or File Storage? Choosing the Right Cloud Storage to Integrate Into Kubernetes - Mitch Becker & Tom McDonald, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI OpenSearch: Navigating Innovation and Community Collaboration for 2025 and Beyond - Anandhi Bumstead & Anirudha Jadhav, Amazon Web Services Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Building a More Resilient Future with Advanced Cloud Provider Testing - Michael McCune, Red Hat & Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC CoreDNS Plugins: A Deep Dive - John Belamaric, Google & Yong Tang, Ivanti Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Nothing but NATS - Going Beyond Cloud Native - Byron Ruth & Kevin Hoffman, Synadia Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD Strimzi: Data Streaming on Kubernetes with Apache Kafka - Jakub Scholz, Red Hat & Lixin Yao, Apple Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF What’s Going on in the Containerd Neighborhood? - Phil Estes, AWS; Samuel Karp, Google; Akihiro Suda, NTT; Michael Brown, IBM; Kirtana Ashok, Microsoft Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A The Key Value of Etcd Over Custom Resources: Scalability - Jef Spaleta, Isovalent at Cisco Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Modernization of Intuit Payroll Enterprise Using Event Driven Architecture - Hema Maarimuthu & Vigith Maurice, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF This Platform Goes to 11: Boost Developer Productivity with Lessons from Salesforce - Joe Kutner, Salesforce Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Securing the Supply Chain: A Practical Guide to SLSA Compliance from Build to Runtime - Enguerrand Allamel, Ledger Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 4:00pm MST
Best Practices for Deploying LLM Inference, RAG and Fine Tuning Pipelines on K8s - Meenakshi Kaushik & Shiva Krishna Merla, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Divide and Conquer: Master GPU Partitioning and Visualize Savings with OpenCost - Kaysie Yu & Ally Ford, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE Gamifying Cloud Native: How to Design and Build an Educational Game for Your Project - Calum Murray, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering & Zainab Husain, OCAD University Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom HJ Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 Topology Aware Routing: Understanding the Tradeoffs - Rob Scott, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Privacy in the Age of Big Compute - Sal Kimmich, Confidential Computing Consortium, Linux Foundation Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Meet the CNCF Code of Conduct Committee - Bill Mulligan & Carla Gaggini, Isovalent at Cisco; Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft; Tim Pepper, CISA Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Pushing Authorization Further: CEL, Selectors and Maybe RBAC++ - Mo Khan & Rita Zhang, Microsoft; Jordan Liggitt, Google Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC The Node Tetris Rabbit Hole: Why Your Binpacking Might Be Underperforming - Hannah Taub, Adobe Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Medical Research Computing Infrastructure on Hybrid Kubernetes - Jennings Zhang & Rudolph Pienaar, Boston Children's Hospital Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Migratory Patterns: Making Architectural Transitions with Confidence and Grace - Pete Hodgson, PartnerSlate Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 EF SPIFFE Deployments in Non-Kubernetes Environments - Nadin El-Yabroudi & Eli Nesterov, SPIRL Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 Why Perfect Compliance Is the Enemy of Good Kubernetes Security - Michele Chubirka, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC Tutorial: Stop Kubernetes' Revolving Door: A Hands-on Tutorial to Secure a Kubernetes Cluster - Savitha Raghunathan & Rey Lejano, Red Hat; Mahé Tardy, Isovalent at Cisco Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom ACE 🚨 Contribfest: K8gb Contribfest: Enhancing K8gb Project with Arbitrary Network Resource Integration Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 D 🚨 Contribfest: OpenTelemetry Contribfest Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 A 4:55pm MST
Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Slurm with Kubernetes in a Kubernetes Native Way - Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA & Angel Beltre, Sandia National Laboratories Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 Distributed Multi-Node Model Inference Using the LeaderWorkerSet API - Abdullah Gharaibeh & Rupeng Liu, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE With Great Flexibility Comes Great Complexity: Inspect Your Gateway API Configuration - Mattia Lavacca, Kong & Gaurav Ghildiyal, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 EF Goodbye Etcd! Running Kubernetes on Distributed PostgreSQL - Denis Magda, Yugabyte Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI Navigating the Future: Exploring the Latest in Kubernetes Dashboard Development - Marcin Maciaszczyk & Sebastian Florek, Plural Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 BC Rook: Intro and Deep Dive with Ceph Storage - Travis Nielsen, Annette Clewett, Blaine Gardner & Subham Rai, IBM Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom CDE Running a Highly Available Identity and Access Management with Keycloak - Ryan Emerson & Kameswararao Akella, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 EF Ten Years of gRPC: Looking Back and Looking Forward - Kevin Nilson, Google & Israel Shapiro, Broadcom Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom BCD WG Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next - Marcin Wielgus, Google & Kevin Hannon, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A Service Profiling Based Management and Scheduling in K8s - Jia Deng, Cong Xu & Mingmeng Luo, Bytedance Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 BC Reducing Cloud Cost for Multi-Tenancy Kubernetes Platform - Simon Ting & Sravan Akinapally, American Airlines Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom BDF Zero Downtime Upgrades at Scale: How Okta Manages Hundreds of Clusters Daily - Jérémy Albuixech & Kahou Lei, Okta Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 SPIFFE the Easy Way: Universal X509 and JWT Identities Using Cert-Manager - Tim Ramlot & Ashley Davis, Venafi Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151
