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Monday, November 11
 

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Project Lightning Talk: Opening + Welcome - Jorge Castro, CNCF Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B Cloud Native University Hosted by CNCF - Half Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom B Data on Kubernetes Day Hosted by CNCF - Half Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A-C EnvoyCon Hosted by CNCF - Half Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A OpenFeature Summit Hosted by CNCF - Half Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D-F Kong AI Gateway & Insomnia Workshop: AI Success Through API Heroics Hosted by Kong Hilton Salt Lake City Center, Grand Ballroom A/B Mastering Data Management for Kubernetes Hosted by Portworx by Pure Storage Squatters Pub Brewery Azure Day with Kubernetes Hosted by Microsoft Azure Salt Lake Marriott City Center AppDeveloperCon Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G ArgoCon Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD and 254 B BackstageCon Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Cilium + eBPF Day Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Observability Day Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Platform Engineering Day Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G SigstoreCon Supply Chain Day Hosted by Sigstore Hilton Salt Lake City Center Workload Identity Day Zero Hosted by Venafi, a CyberArk Company - SOLD OUT Venafi Headquarters

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Wednesday, November 13
 

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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 B Behind Schedule: Pod Resource Configuration from Beginning to... Huh? - Joe Thompson, Independent Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD All Your Routes Are Ready, More or Less - Dave Protasowski Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E The Future of DBaaS on Kubernetes - Melissa Logan, Constantia; Sergey Pronin, Percona; Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale; Gabriele Bartolini, EDB Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Architecting Tomorrow: The Heterogeneous Compute Resources for New Types of Workloads - Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel Finland Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B SIG Network Intro and Updates - Daman Arora, VMware by Broadcom; Shaun Crampton, Tigera; Nadia Pinaeva & Dan Winship, Red Hat; Antonio Ojea, Google; Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B 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, StackGen; Simon Forster, Stackegy; Catherine Paganini, Buoyant; Colin Griffin, Krumware; Robbie Glenn, Glennium Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C TUF: Secure Distribution Beyond Software - Marina Moore, Independent Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E 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 B 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 B ARM-Wrestling: Overcoming CPU Migration Challenges to Reduce Costs - Laurent Bernaille & Eric Mountain, Datadog Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B 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 H AuthZEN: The “OpenID Connect” for Authorization - Omri Gazitt, Aserto Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G 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 AD Tutorial: A Mad Scientist's Guide to Automating CNI with Generative AI - Doug Smith, Red Hat, Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

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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 B Operationalizing High-Performance GPU Clusters in Kubernetes: A Case Study of Databricks' DBRX - Will Gleich & Wai Wu, Databricks Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Beyond 'Can You Mentor Me?' - Crafting the Contribution Ladder - Nitish Kumar, Akuity; Wenjia Zhang, Google; Jared Watts, Upbound; Carol Valencia, Elastic; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Can Your Kubernetes Network Handle the Heat? Building Resilience with AI Chaos - Lior Lieberman, Google & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E When Life Gives You Containers, Make an Open Source RDS: A Kubernetes Love Story - Sergey Pronin, Percona Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Building Reliable Cross-Cloud Kubernetes Clusters on Spot Instances with Drafter and PVM - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B AI for Policy and Policy for AI! - Poonam Lamba, Google; Boris Kurktchiev, Nirmata; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Ronald Petty, RX-M; Jimmy Ray, Capital One Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E Best Friends Keep No Secrets: Going Secretless with Cert-Manager - Ashley Davis & Tim Ramlot, Venafi Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C 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 B SIG Scheduling Intro & Updates - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Kensei Nakada, Tetrate.io Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Towards Zero Change Incidents: Intuit's Strategy for Implementing AI-Driven Progressive Delivery - Avik Basu & Saravanan Balasubramanian, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Automated Multi-Cloud, Multi-Flavor Kubernetes Cluster Upgrades Using Operators - Ziyuan Chen, Databricks Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B Automated Multi-Cloud Blue-Green Cluster Rotations: Zero Downtime Upgrades at Scale - Sourav Khandelwal, Databricks Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H The Hard Truth About GitOps and Database Rollbacks - Rotem Tamir, Ariga Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD Breaking Free from Vulnerability Scanning Noise: Automated VEX Aggregation for Accuracy - Teppei Fukuda, Aqua Security Software Ltd. Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G 🚩 An Introduction to Capture The Flag - Andy Martin & Kevin Ward, ControlPlane Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 A

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Architecting the Future of AI: From Cloud-Native Orchestration to Advanced LLMOps - Lily (Xiaoxuan) Liu, Anyscale Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B BoF: AI Training in Kubernetes BoF - Marlow Weston, SchedMD; Ricardo Rocha, CERN; Alex Scammon, G-research; Frederick Kautz, TestifySec Salt Palace | Level 2 | 253 A Optimizing LLM Performance in Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry - Ashok Chandrasekar, Google & Liudmila Molkova, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Choose Your Own Adventure: The Observability Odyssey - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Cilium, eBPF, WireGuard: Can We Tame the Network Encryption Performance Gap? - Daniel Borkmann & Anton Protopopov, Isovalent Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E 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 A Cloud Native Sustainability Speedrun: Tools from Infrastructure to Application Level - Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Guiding Kubernetes: The Steering Committee's Role in Project Evolution - Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Harbor Project - The Maintainers Session What We Have Accomplished! - Orlin Vasilev, SUSE & Vadim Bauer, 8gears Container Registry Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E 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 B SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive - Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson & Laura Lorenz, Google; Ryan Zhang, Microsoft; Stephen Kitt, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Unifying Observability: Correlating Metrics, Traces, and Logs with Exemplars and OpenTelemetry - Kruthika Prasanna Simha & Charlie Le, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B 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 B Better Pod Availability: A Survey of the Many Ways to Manage Workload Disruptions - Zach Loafman, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Secure by Design CI/CD: Practical Insights from Adobe and Autodesk - Vikram Sethi, Adobe Inc. & Jesse Sanford, Autodesk Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD Bridging Clouds: TikTok’s Blueprint for Unified OIDC Access on Multi-Cloud Kubernetes - Naveen Mogulla, TikTok Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G 🚩 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 G

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A Tale of 2 Drivers: GPU Configuration on the Fly Using DRA - Alay Patel & Varun Ramachandra Sekar US, Nvidia Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Optimizing Load Balancing and Autoscaling for Large Language Model (LLM) Inference on Kubernetes - David Gray, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Create & Distribute a Plugin for Kubernetes (Kubectl) in Few Minutes? Easy! 🙂 - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud & Gaëlle Acas, Doctolib Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Extending the Gateway API: The Power and Challenges of Policies - Kate Osborn, NGINX Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Architecting a Data Platform with Open Source Tools - Priyanka J. Naik, Palo Alto Networks Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Deep Dive Into Generic Control Planes and Kcp - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B 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 C 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 E 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 B SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive - Sergey Kanzhelev & Dawn Chen, Google; Mrunal Patel, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Using OpenTelemetry for Deep Observability Within Messaging Queues - Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava & Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Global Payments: Setting New Standards for Reliability in Cloud Native Multi-Region Applications - Trey Caliva, Global Payments Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B Cash App's Journey Into a Multi-Cluster Ecosystem - Rachel Sheikh, Cash App Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Scale Job Triggering with a Distributed Scheduler - Cassie Coyle & Artur Souza, Diagrid Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD CEL-Ebrating Simplicity: Mastering Kubernetes Policy Enforcement - Kevin Conner, Getup Cloud & Anish Ramasekar, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

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Making Kubernetes Simpler for Accelerated Workloads - Susan Wu, Google; Lucy Sweet, Uber; Mitch McKenzie, Weave; Aditya Shanker, Crusoe; Rebecca Weekly, Geico Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Platform Performance Optimization for AI - a Resource Management Perspective - Antti Kervinen, Intel & Dixita Narang, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E DNS Deep Dive in Kubernetes with CoreDNS - Jingming Guo, Airbnb Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD From Observability to Performance - Nadia Pinaeva, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Building Resilience: Effective Backup and Disaster Recovery for Vector Databases on Kubernetes - Pavan Navarathna & Shwetha Subramanian, Veeam Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Experience in Designing & Implementing a Cloud Native Framework for Farm Data Analytics - Braulio Dumba, IBM & Gloire Rubambiza, Cornell University Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B CNI Updates and Direction! - Michael Zappa, Microsoft Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry - Jonah Kowall, Paessler & Pavol Loffay, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A How to Expand Your IDP: The New Building Blocks of Backstage - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Linkerd Update: Ingress, Egress, IPv6, Enhanced Multicluster, Rust, and More - William Morgan, Buoyant Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Han Kang, David Ashpole & Richa Banker, Google; Damien Grisonnet, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Watching the Watchers: How We Do Continuous Reliability at Grafana Labs - Nicole van der Hoeven, Grafana Labs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B 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 B Perform Laser Focused Deployments by Deciding in Advance the Blast Radius - Kostis Kapelonis, Octopus deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD Expanding the Capabilities of Kubernetes Access Control - Jimmy Zelinskie, authzed & Lucas Käldström, Upbound Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G 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 G

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Building Resilience for Large-Scale AI Training: GPU Management, Failure Detection, and Beyond - Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan, Microsoft & Ace Eldeib, Cohere Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Production AI at Scale: Cloudera’s Journey in Building a Robust Inference Platform - Zoram Thanga & Peter Ableda, Cloudera Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E End User TAB Town Hall - Moderated by Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Container Image Workflows at Scale with Buildpacks - Jesse Brown & Terence Lee, Heroku Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E Observability TAG Round-up and What’s New for AI Observability - Alolita Sharma, Apple & Chris Larsen, Netflix Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B Squashing Trampoline Pods: The Future of Securely Enabling Hardware Extensions - Joe Betz, Google & David Eads, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Understanding How OpenTelemetry Network Uses eBPF for Network Observability - Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz & Jonathan Perry, PerfPod Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A XRegistry - Looking Beyond CloudEvents - Calum Murray, University of Toronto Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C The OTTL Cookbook: A Collection of Solutions to Common Problems - Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb & Evan Bradley, Dynatrace Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Misadventures in Large Scale Cluster Performance - Shane Corbett, AWS & Dima Ilchenko, Lacework Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B 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 H Taming Your Application’s Environments - Marcos Lilljedahl, Dagger & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD From Observability to Enforcement: Lessons Learned Implementing eBPF Runtime Security - Anna Kapuścińska & Kornilios Kourtis, Isovalent Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Workload Identity Federation – Stop Using Long-Lived Credentials - Benjamin Dronen, Ford Motor Company & Anjali Telang, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B

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CNCF End User Reception Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Broadcast Lounge 🎉 #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest Sponsored by CDW Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session (PS01): 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 (PS02): 0.0.0.0 Day: Exploiting Localhost APIs from the Browser - Gal Elbaz, Oligo Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session (PS03): 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 (PS04): 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 (PS05): Revolutionizing Windows Container Startup Performance - Tina Wu & Shaheed Chagani, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session (PS06): What's Happening with SPIFFE and WIMSE? - Daniel Feldman, Qusaic Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session (PS07): 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 (PS08): 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 (PS09): Kubernetes as a Geographically Distributed System - Chris Friesen, Wind River Systems Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 🪧 Poster Session (PS10): 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

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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 | 254 B Harnessing the Power of Envoy Proxy for Building an LLM Gateway - Idit Levine, Solo.io Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Cooperative Scheduling for Stateful Systems - Michael Youssef & Zhantong Shang, LinkedIn Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Kubernetes Workspaces: Enhancing Multi-Tenancy with Intelligent Apiserver Proxying - James Munnelly & Andrea Tosatto, Apple Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Artifact Hub: Discover, Analyze, and Share Cloud Native Artifacts - Matt Farina, SUSE Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B GitOps at Production Scale with Flux - Leigh Capili, Flox & Priyanka Ravi, G-Research Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C SIG-Apps: Powering Applications with High-Volume Data and APIs - Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns & Janet Kuo, Google Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B 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 E 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 Lessons Learned Adopting OpenTelemetry at Scale - Alex Arnell, Heroku / Salesforce Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Navigating the Cgroup Transition: Bridging the Gap Between Kubernetes and User Expectations - Sohan Kunkerkar, Red Hat Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B Engineering a Kubernetes Operator: Lessons Learned from Versions 1 to 5 - Andrew L'Ecuyer, Crunchy Data Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Yahoo’s Kubernetes Journey from on-Prem to Multi-Cloud at Scale - Nandhakumar Venkatachalam & Payal Patel, Yahoo Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD How We Made OpenTelemetry Be Our Fitness Tracker for Your CI/CD Pipelines! - Nicolas Woerner, Clario & Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD From Silicon to Service: Ensuring Confidentiality in Serverless GPU Cloud Functions - Zvonko Kaiser, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G 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 G 🚨 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

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Democratizing AI Model Training on Kubernetes with Kubeflow TrainJob and JobSet - Andrey Velichkevich, Apple & Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, Inc. Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Tick, TAG, TOC - Keeping Cloud Native Running - Karena Angell & Emily Fox, Red Hat; Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom; Alex Chircop, Akamai; Ricardo Aravena, Snowflake Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Scratching the Surface: Simulating K8s in MIT Scratch - Mitch Connors, Microsoft & Jude Connors, Independent Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD How to Move from Ingress to Gateway API with Minimal Hassle - Keith Mattix, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Database DevOps: CD for Stateful Applications - Stephen Atwell, Harness.io & Christopher Crow, Pure Storage Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Running Quantum-Safe Applications on Kubernetes - Paul Schweigert & Michael Maximilien, IBM Quantum Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B 0.1 to 1.16: How Has Knative Fulfilled Its Vision? - Dave Protasowski, Broadcom & Evan Anderson, Stacklok Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B Cilium: Connecting, Observing, and Securing Kubernetes and Beyond with eBPF - Ahmed Bebars, The New York Times; Liz Rice, Isovalent @ Cisco; Joe Stevens, Ascend.io Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Cluster API Deep Dive - Roadmap to API Graduation - Christian Schlotter, Broadcom & Vince Prignano, Apple Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A CNCF TAG Network: Intro & Deep Dive - Lee Calcote, Layer5 Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E SIG Autoscaling Projects Update - Jack Francis, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Cognitive and Self-Adaptive System for Effective Distributed-Tracing in Applications - Mitul Tandon & Akash Gusain Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Multi-Zone Clusters Inside and Out - Tom Dean & Phil Henderson, Buoyant Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B Evolving Reddit’s Infrastructure via Principled Platform Abstractions - Karan Thukral & Harvey Xia, Reddit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H From Chaos to Calm: Building a Unified and Scalable CI/CD Pipeline at Akamai - Tomer Patel, Akamai Technologies Inc. Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD What Agent to Trust with Your K8s: Falco, Tetragon or KubeArmor? - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

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Unlocking Potential of Large Models in Production - Yuan Tang, Red Hat & Adam Tetelman, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E What Istio Got Wrong: Learnings from the Last Seven Years of Service Mesh - Christian Posta & Louis Ryan, Solo.io Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B 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 AD How the Tables Have Turned: Kubernetes Says Goodbye to Iptables - Casey Davenport, Tigera & Dan Winship, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Distributed Cache Empowers AI/ML Workloads on Kubernetes Cluster - Yuichiro Ueno & Toru Komatsu, Preferred Networks, Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Running WebAssembly (Wasm) Workloads Side-by-Side with Container Workloads - Jiaxiao Zhou, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B 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 E 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 - Richard Hartman & Josh Abreu, Grafana Labs Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Cortex Intro: Multi-Tenant Scalable Prometheus - Charlie Le, Apple & Daniel Blando, Amazon Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B 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 B Low-Overhead, Zero-Instrumentation, Continuous Profiling for OpenTelemetry - Christos Kalkanis, Elastic Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B One Inventory to Rule Them All: Standardizing Multicluster Management - Corentin Debains, Google & Ryan Zhang, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B Exceeded Your Validation Cost Budget? Now What? - Joel Speed, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Mastering Cell-Based Architecture: Practical Solutions and Best Practices - Shweta Vohra, Booking.com & Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2 Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD From Standards to Practice: The Journey to Container Maturity - Carmen Chow & Thomas Robinson, Yelp Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Tutorial: Live with Gateway API V1.2 - Flynn, Buoyant & Mike Morris, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G 🚨 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

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Unlocking the Future of GPU Scheduling in Kubernetes with Reinforcement Learning - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe Systems & Aditi Gupta, Disney Plus Hotstar Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Tackling GPU Shortages and High Costs by Harnessing Hybrid Kubernetes Clusters - Xiaoman Dong & Alex Pucher, Parasail Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B TLS and MTLS: Introduction to Modern Security - Andrew Davis, Independent & Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock) Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Networking 101 - Niranjan Shankar, Microsoft & Ram Vennam, Solo.io Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Elastic Data Streaming: Autoscaling Apache Kafka - Jakub Scholz, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Load-Aware GPU Fractioning for LLM Inference on Kubernetes - Olivier Tardieu & Yue Zhu, IBM Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Cloud Native Storage: The CNCF Storage TAG Projects, Technology & Landscape - Alex Chircop, Akamai & Raffaele Spazzoli, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E Elevate Your Kubernetes Policy Game with Kyverno! - Charles-Edouard Breteche, Nirmata; Lanting Chiang & Karen Tu, Robinhood Markets, Inc. Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B 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 B 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 C Measuring All the Costs with OpenCost Plugins - Alex Meijer, Stackwatch Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Orchestrating Quasi-Real Time Data Processing in the Computing Farm of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN - Giuseppe Avolio, CERN Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B From Chaos to Harmony, Transforming ML Engineering: A Kubernetes Adoption Journey - Paris Nakita Kejser, JP Politikens Hus Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H You're Overpaying for CI - Kyle Penfound, Dagger Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD It's Dangerous to Build It Alone, Take This. - Jeremy Rickard & Ashna Mehrotra, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

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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 2 | 255 E The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Defense Unicorns; Jason Hall, Chainguard; Scott Rigby & Karen Chu, Independent; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Understanding Kubernetes Networking in 30 Minutes - Ricardo Katz, Broadcom & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Microsegment Your Network Like Mastercard with AdminNetworkPolicy - John Zaiss & Daniel Ruggeri, Mastercard & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Elevating Kubeflow Spark Operator's Future: Best Practices and Enhancements - Vara Bonthu, AWS & Chaoran Yu, Apple Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A WASM + KWOK Wizardry: Writing and Testing Scheduler Plugins at Scale - Dejan Pejchev & Jonathan Giannuzzi, G-Research Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B CNCF Public Sector User Group BoF Salt Palace | Level 2 | 253 A Fluent Bit: Better Pipelines for Observability - Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E 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, Defense Unicorns Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro, Deep Dive & V1.0 Update - Charlie Egan, Styra Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Secure Release Processes with in-Toto Policy Verification - John Kjell, TestifySec & Aditya Sirish A Yelgundhalli, New York University Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B Mastering OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration - Steve Flanders, Cisco Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Per-Node Api-Server Proxy: Expand the Cluster's Scale and Stability - Weizhou Lan & Iceber Gu, DaoCloud Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B GÖDel Scheduler: A Unified Scheduler for Online and Offline Workloads - Bing Li, Yue Yin & Lintong Jiang, ByteDance Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Bring the Joy Back to Deployments! - Murriel McCabe, Google Cloud & Elizabeth Ponce, Airbnb Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD Mish-Mesh: Abusing the Service Mesh to Compromise Kubernetes Environments - Hillai Ben-Sasson & Nir Ohfeld, Wiz Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Pet-a-Pup Sponsored by Sonatype Salt Palace | Level 2 | Room: 252a foyer 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 G 🚨 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

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Managing and Distributing AI Models Using OCI Standards and Harbor - Steven Zou & Steven Ren, VMware by Broadcom Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Navigating Failures in Pods with Devices: Challenges and Solutions - Sergey Kanzhelev, Google & Mrunal Patel, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD 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 A 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 | 254 B Why Serverless Is Trending Again - Matt Butcher, Fermyon Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD One Gateway API to Rule Them All (and in the Cluster Configure Them) - Flynn, Buoyant Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E What if Kubernetes Was a Compiler Target? - David Morrison, Applied Computing Research Labs & Tim Goodwin, UC Santa Cruz Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q+A - Phan Le, SUSE Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B 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 E 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 C What's New in SIG-Windows - Mark Rossetti, Microsoft & Aravindh Puthiyaparambil, Softdrive Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Now You See Me: Tame MTTR with Real-Time Anomaly Detection - Kruthika Prasanna Simha & Raj Bhensadadia, Apple Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Pod Power: Liberating Kubernetes Users from Container Resource Micromanagement - Dixita Narang, Google & Peter Hunt, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B How Google Built a New Cloud on Top of Kubernetes - Saad Ali, Jie Yu & Prashanth Venugopal, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Multi-Tier Security in WasmCloud: From Developer Constraints to Platform Extensibility - Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

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Friday, November 15
 

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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 AD Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - William Morgan, Buoyant; Ashley Davis, Venafi; Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale; Emily Omier, Emily Omier Consulting; Matt Bates, Cofide Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Securing Outgoing Traffic: Building a Powerful Internet Egress Gateway for Reliable Connectivity - Edie Yang & Akshita Agarwal, Airbnb Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E How We Scale a Distributed SQL Database to 1 PB - Jinpeng Zhang, PingCAP Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy CI with Zero Test Flakes - Antonio Ojea, Michelle Shepardson & Benjamin Elder, Google Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Bloomberg's Journey to Manage a Multi-Cluster Training Application with Karmada - Yifan Zhang & Wei-Cheng Lai, Bloomberg Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B CRI-O Features for Fun and Profit - Peter Hunt & Sohan Kunkerkar, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C 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, Snowflake Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E 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 B 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 B Upgrade Safely: Avoid the Pitfalls of Kubernetes Versioning - Rob Scott, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B 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 H Still Don't Do What Charlie Don't Does - Making CRD Changes Safer - Nick Young, Isovalent Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Powering Automatic Authorization in Envoy Through Live Traffic Inspection - Dom Del Nano, Pixie core maintainer Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G CLBO: ClashLoopBackOff | Attendee Edition Salt Palace | Level 1 | Halls A-C + 1-5 | Project Pavilion, Solutions Showcase Tutorial: OpenTelemetry Hands-on - Automatic and Manual Instrumentation for Java and Python Apps - Tobias Angerstein, Novatec Consulting GmbH & Tiffany Jernigan, Independent Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G 🚨 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

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Building Massive-Scale Generative AI Services with Kubernetes and Open Source - John McBride, OpenSauced Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD Improving Service Availability: Scaling Ahead with Machine Learning for HPA Optimization - Avni Sharma & Estela Ramirez, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Accessibility at KubeCon: Deaf Voices in Cloud Native - Alfonso Torres, DeafTech; Jay Jackson, CallRevu; Destiny O'Connor, Women Blessing Women; Anastasiia Gubska, BT Group; Travis Johnson, Convo Communications... Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting - Moderated by Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, The Linux Foundation Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes - Mofi Rahman & Abdel Sghiouar, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Seeing Double? Implementing Multicast with eBPF and Cilium - Louis DeLosSantos, Isovalent at Cisco Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E 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 A Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - The Cloud Native Control Plane Framework - Jared Watts & Mark Anderson-Trocme, Upbound Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E WG Serving: Accelerating AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes - Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA & Yuan Tang, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B 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 B Love thy (Noisy) Neighbor: Strategies for Mitigating Performance Interference in Cloud-Native Systems - Jonathan Perry, PerfPod Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B What Containerd 2.0 Means for You - Samuel Karp, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Kubernetes Upgrades: Less Pain, More Gain (and Maybe a Little Swearing) - Jago Macleod, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Share the Ride: Robust Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes at Uber - Sashank Appireddy & Apoorva Jindal, Uber Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Rogue No More: Securing Kubernetes with Node-Specific Restrictions - Anish Ramasekar, Microsoft & James Munnelly, Apple Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

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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 AD 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 2 | 255 E Can You Put a Price Tag on Open Source? - Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic & Bob Killen, CNCF Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Testing Kubernetes Without Kubernetes: A Networking Deep Dive - John Howard, Solo.io Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Object Storage Is All You Need - Justin Cormack, Docker Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Faster Containerized LLM Serving via Knowledge Sharing - Junchen Jiang, University of Chicago & Zhou Sun, Mooncake Labs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Are Your Microservices Truly Scaling? A Framework for Unlocking the Stateful Backend - Matthew Penaroza, 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 B Exploring KubeEdge: Architecture, Use Cases, and Project Graduation Updates - Yin Ding, Google & Hongbing Zhang, Daocloud Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B KubeVirt: Enhancements and the Road Ahead - Vladik Romanovsky & David Vossel, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E Vitess: Introduction, New Features and Running in Production - Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale; Derek Perkins, Nozzle; Sudhi Vijayakumar, Backblaze Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Supercharge Your Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics - Vamshi Krishna Samudrala & Sravan Akinapally, American Airlines Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B 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 H The Missing Talk About API Versioning & Evolution in Your Developer Platform - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Sergiusz Urbaniak, Independent Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD 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 G The Policy Engines Showdown - Gabriel L. Manor, Permit.io; Andres Aguiar, Okta; Omri Gazitt, Aserto; Pauline Jamin, Agicap; Tyler Schade, Geico; Joy Scharmen, StrongDM Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Tutorial: Simplify and Optimize Your YAML with YAMLScript - Ingy döt Net, YAML LLC Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G 🚨 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

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Cloud-Native AI: Wasm in Portable, Secure AI/ML Workloads - Miley Fu, Second State Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD Enabling Fault Tolerance for GPU Accelerated AI Workloads in Kubernetes - Arpit Singh & Abhijit Paithankar, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E How GoTo Financial Automates Upgrading 60+ Istio Service Mesh Seamlessly! - Didi Yudha Perwira & Zufar Dhiyaulhaq, GoTo Financial Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B Thousands of Gamers, One Kubernetes Network - Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Girish Moodalbail, NVIDIA Inc Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E 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 A OpenSearch: Navigating Innovation and Community Collaboration for 2025 and Beyond - Anandhi Bumstead, Anirudha Jadhav & Pallavi Priyadarshini, Amazon Web Services Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B Building a More Resilient Future with Advanced Cloud Provider Testing - Michael McCune, Red Hat & Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B CoreDNS Plugins: A Deep Dive - John Belamaric, Google & Yong Tang, Ivanti Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Nothing but NATS - Going Beyond Cloud Native - Byron Ruth & Kevin Hoffman, Synadia Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B Strimzi: Data Streaming on Kubernetes with Apache Kafka - Jakub Scholz, Red Hat & Yaodong Yang, Strimzi Kafka Contributor Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E 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 B Modernization of Intuit Payroll Enterprise Using Event Driven Architecture - Hema Maarimuthu & Vigith Maurice, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H This Platform Goes to 11: Boost Developer Productivity with Lessons from Salesforce - Joe Kutner, Salesforce Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Practical Supply Chain Security: Implementing SLSA Compliance from Build to Runtime - Enguerrand Allamel, Ledger Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

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Best Practices for Deploying LLM Inference, RAG and Fine Tuning Pipelines on K8s - Meenakshi Kaushik & Shiva Krishna Merla, NVIDIA Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD Divide and Conquer: Master GPU Partitioning and Visualize Savings with OpenCost - Kaysie Yu & Ally Ford, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E 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 B Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Topology Aware Routing: Understanding the Tradeoffs - Rob Scott, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Privacy in the Age of Big Compute - Sal Kimmich, Confidential Computing Consortium, Linux Foundation Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A 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 B The Node Tetris Rabbit Hole: Why Your Binpacking Might Be Underperforming - Hannah Taub, Adobe Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B Medical Research Computing Infrastructure on Hybrid Kubernetes - Jennings Zhang & Rudolph Pienaar, Boston Children's Hospital Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Migratory Patterns: Making Architectural Transitions with Confidence and Grace - Pete Hodgson, PartnerSlate Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B SPIFFE Deployments in Non-Kubernetes Environments - Nadin El-Yabroudi & Eli Nesterov, SPIRL Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Why Perfect Compliance Is the Enemy of Good Kubernetes Security - Michele Chubirka, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B 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 G 🚨 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

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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 AD Distributed Multi-Node Model Inference Using the LeaderWorkerSet API - Abdullah Gharaibeh & Rupeng Liu, Google Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E With Great Flexibility Comes Great Complexity: Inspect Your Gateway API Configuration - Mattia Lavacca, Kong & Gaurav Ghildiyal, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E Goodbye etcd! Running Kubernetes on Distributed PostgreSQL - Denis Magda, Yugabyte Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Navigating the Future: Exploring the Latest in Kubernetes Dashboard Development - Marcin Maciaszczyk & Sebastian Florek, Plural Salt Palace | Level 3| 355 B Rook: Intro and Deep Dive with Ceph Storage - Travis Nielsen, Annette Clewett, Blaine Gardner & Subham Rai, IBM Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Running a Highly Available Identity and Access Management with Keycloak - Ryan Emerson & Kameswararao Akella, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E Ten Years of gRPC: Looking Back and Looking Forward - Kevin Nilson, Google & Israel Shapiro, Broadcom Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B 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 B Reducing Cloud Cost for Multi-Tenancy Kubernetes Platform - Simon Ting & Sravan Akinapally, American Airlines Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Zero Downtime Upgrades at Scale: How Okta Manages Hundreds of Clusters Daily - Jérémy Albuixech & Kahou Lei, Okta Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD SPIFFE the Easy Way: Universal X509 and JWT Identities Using Cert-Manager - Tim Ramlot & Ashley Davis, Venafi Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G
 

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