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9:00am • Project Lightning Talk: Opening + Welcome - Jorge Castro, CNCF
9:07am • Welcome and Introduction: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landscape - Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso, CNCF Ambassador
9:24am • TAG Storage: CNCF Storage TAG and the Cloud Native Storage Landscape | Project Lightning Talk
9:31am • Kubernetes (SIG Storage): What's Coming in Kubernetes Storage | Project Lightning Talk
9:38am • Buildpacks: Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks | Project Lightning Talk
9:45am • Vitess: Arewefastyet: Benchmarking Vitess and Mentorship Stories | Project Lightning Talk
9:52am • Strimzi: Strimzi and the Future of Apache Kafka on Kubernetes | Project Lightning Talk
9:59am • Jaeger: Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry | Project Lightning Talk
10:06am • Kepler: How's Things Going in Kepler? | Project Lightning Talk
10:13am • OpenTelemetry: OpenTelemetry in Five Minutes | Project Lightning Talk
10:20am • Prometheus: Celebrating Prometheus 3.0: All You Need To Know! | Project Lightning Talk
10:27am • OpenTelemetry: The OpenTelemetry Hero’s Journey: Working with Open Source Observability | Project Lightning Talk
10:34am • Inspektor Gadget: eBPF for Observability, Made Easy and Approachable | Project Lightning Talk
10:41am • OpenTelemetry: The Future of Network Monitoring, eBPF for Low-Level Insights | Project Lightning Talk
10:48am • Fluentd: Fluent Bit - What's New? | Project Lightning Talk
10:55am • Project Lightning Talk: Break
11:10am • Crossplane: The Many Layers of Crossplane - A Lightning Tour | Project Lightning Talk
11:17am • k8gb: Global Load Balancing, the Kubernetes Way | Project Lightning Talk
11:24am • gRPC: The gRPC "Standard Library" | Project Lightning Talk
11:31am • KubeStellar: Multi-Cluster Configuration Management with KubeStellar | Project Lightning Talk
11:38am • wasmCloud: Declarative WebAssembly Orchestration for Cloud Native Applications | Project Lightning Talk
11:45am • SIG Auth & SIG Storage: Secret Guardians - (Secrets Store) CSI Driver and Sync Controller | Project Lightning Talk
11:52am • Open Cluster Management: Scheduling AI Workload Among Multiple Clusters | Project Lightning Talk
11:59am • KubeSlice: Migrate Kubernetes Services With Confidence! | Project Lightning Talk
12:13pm • Eraser: Cleaning Up Vulnerable Images from Kubernetes Nodes | Project Lightning Talk
12:20pm • Linkerd: Adding Federated Services to Linkerd - Design Considerations and Debates | Project Lightning Talk
12:27pm • Istio: Why Choose Istio in 2025 | Project Lightning Talk
12:34pm • Kuma: What’s New in Kuma? | Project Lightning Talk
12:39pm • Project Lightning Talk: Break
1:30pm • Project Overview: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landscape - Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso, CNCF Ambassador
1:47pm • Accelerating Adoption: What’s New in Envoy Gateway and Why It Matters | Project Lightning Talk
1:54pm • Knative: Eventing Advances | Project Lightning Talk
2:01pm • Kubernetes (SIG-CLI): How Do We Improve kubectl Without Breaking Users? | Project Lightning Talk
2:08pm • Metal3: Metal3 Magics! What's New and Exciting? | Project Lightning Talk
2:15pm • Harbor: Harbor and the World of SBOMs | Project Lightning Talk
2:22pm • SlimToolkit: Improving DX with Containers - Making it Easy to Understand, Optimize, and Debug Your Containers | Project Lightning Talk
2:29pm • Kyverno: Level Up Your Cluster - 5 Kyverno Policies You Need Now! | Project Lightning Talk
2:36pm • Open Policy Agent (OPA): That's One Small Bump for OPA, but One Giant Leap for Policy as Code | Project Lightning Talk
2:43pm • Falco: Evolution of Real Time Cloud Security with Falco | Project Lightning Talk
2:50pm • Copa: Project Copacetic - Directly Patch Container Image Vulnerabilities | Project Lightning Talk
2:57pm • OpenFGA: The Cloud Native Way to Implement Fine Grained Authorization | Project Lightning Talk
3:04pm • Meshery: Visualizing Kubernetes Resource Relationships with Meshery | Project Lightning Talk
3:09pm • Project Lightning Talk: Break
3:18pm • Flux: What's Flux and What's New? | Project Lightning Talk
3:25pm • CNCF Runtime TAG: CNCF Runtime TAG and the Cloud Native Runtime Landspace: AI, WASM, OS, Edge, Workloads, and More | Project Lightning Talk
3:32pm • CRI-O: First Class AI Model Teleportation - OCI Volume Mounts in CRI-O and Kubernetes | Project Lightning Talk
3:39pm • WasmEdge: Cross-Platform, High-Performance, Lightweight, Embeddable Multi-Modal LLM Runtime | Project Lightning Talk
3:46pm • TAG Contributor Strategy: Beyond the Checkbox: Humanizing Accessibility | TAG Lightning Talk
3:53pm • Project Lightning Talk: Closing - Jorge Castro, CNCF
5:30pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: `Kubectl Debug` Lacks an `IDE` Option. Let’s Fix That! - Mario Loriedo, Red Hat
5:35pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: CloudEvents as APIs - Evan Anderson, Stacklok
5:40pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Effortless, Sidecar-Less Mutual TLS and Rich Authorization Policies up and Running in 5 Minutes - Lin Sun, solo.io
5:45pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Evaluating Scheduler Efficiency for AI/ML Jobs Using Custom Resource Metrics - Dmitry Shmulevich, NVIDIA
5:50pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Future-Proofing Kubernetes: Impact of Storage Version Migration and Meaning of Resource Version (RV) - Nilekh Chaudhari, Microsoft
5:55pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Is Everyone O-KEDA? “Exciting” Lessons Learned in Our Journey to Use KEDA Pod Autoscaling - Brian Davis, Red Canary
6:00pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Minimizing Data Loss Within the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector - Alex Kats, Capital One
6:05pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Running Kind Clusters with GPU Support Using Nvkind - Evan Lezar, NVIDIA
6:10pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Safer Cluster Upgrades with Mixed Version Proxy - Richa Banker, Google
