KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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9:00am MST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Priyanka Sharma, Executive Director, CNCF; Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF; Joanna Lee, VP of Legal and Strategic Programs, CNCF; Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:00am - 9:10am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Speakers

Joanna Lee

VP of Legal and Strategic Programs, CNCF

Joanna Lee is the Vice President of Strategic Programs and Legal at CNCF and the Linux Foundation, where she manages strategic programs that are designed to support the health, growth, and sustainability of open source ecosystems. Joanna also oversees legal and policy initiatives... Read More →

Priyanka Sharma

Executive Director, cncf

Priyanka is the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) which serves as the vendor-neutral home for 100+ of the fastest-growing open source projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. She is also a co-creator of the Inclusive Naming Initiative... Read More →

Jim Zemlin

Executive Director, The Linux Foundation

Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate the adoption of Linux and support the... Read More →

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO, Linux Foundation (CNCF)

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:00am - 9:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:10am MST

Keynote: Multicluster Batch Jobs Dispatching with Kueue at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, Lead Platforms Infrastructure, CERN & Marcin Wielgus, Staff Software Engineer, Google

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:10am - 9:25am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

With the skyrocketing demand for GPUs and problems with obtaining the hardware in requested quantities in desired locations, the need for multicluster batch jobs is stronger than ever.

During this talk we will show how you can automatically find the needed capacity across multiple clusters, regions or clouds, dispatch the jobs there and monitor their status. We will discuss the setup in both fixed-size on-prem environments, fully autoscaled clusters running on clouds and mixed, hybrid environments. In the end we will present what a recent effort for a multicluster setup looks like at CERN, do a quick (but impressive) demo, and share the lessons learned during the deployment.

Speakers

Ricardo Rocha

Lead Platforms Infrastructure, CERN

Ricardo leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led for several years the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training... Read More →

Marcin Wielgus

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Marcin Wielgus is a Staff Software Engineer at Google. Marcin joined the company in 2010 and since then he has been working on various projects, ranging from Android applications to recommendation engines. He started contributing to Kubernetes before the 1.0 release and currently... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:10am - 9:25am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:25am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Open Source-powered Cloud Native Creates the Future - Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, Chief Executive Officer, SUSE

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:25am - 9:30am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

When Kubernetes first started out it was a place of potential and early adopters jumped all over it because of the openness. Now, more than 10 years later – an eternity in software – the cloud native space approaches adulthood where early adopters still abound, but large regulated industries are now depending on its technologies, and everyone in between wants to find their place in this world. Along the way, edge solutions, AI, virtualization, and other technologies started building on top of them. SUSE has always been at the heart of the open source community, and CEO DP van Leeuwen says he sees that commitment only getting deeper in future. SUSE developers have made significant contributions for decades, and DP will explain why he believes so passionately in open, community-based standards based on Kubernetes for the new innovations in AI and the edge.

Speakers

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen

CEO, SUSE

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen (“DP”) is Chief Executive Officer of SUSE and a member of the Management Board of SUSE S.A.Prior to joining SUSE, DP worked at Red Hat for 18 years holding a number of senior executive positions. From 2010 to 2021, he was Red Hat’s General Manager in Asia... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:25am - 9:30am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:30am MST

Keynote: Take a Peek Under the Hood of Cloud-Native AI at Scale - Chen Goldberg, Senior Vice President of Engineering, CoreWeave & Peter Salanki, Chief Technology Officer, CoreWeave

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:30am - 9:45am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Training large-scale foundation models on Kubernetes brings a new set of challenges compared to traditional workloads. With tens of thousands of interconnected GPUs, even small hardware failures can lead to significant performance bottlenecks. This talk will dive into real-world lessons learned while building Kubernetes clusters at scale, including tackling hardware failures, optimizing GPU scheduling, and improving observability. We'll also explore how CNCF projects and Kubernetes provide the best platform for managing the complex infrastructure required for generative AI, making it easier to monitor and maintain AI workloads with the right observability tools. Attendees will walk away with actionable insights into how to navigate these challenges and build robust, scalable systems for training foundation models.

Speakers

Peter Salanki

Chief Technology Officer, CoreWeave

Peter Salanki is the Chief Technology Officer of CoreWeave, where he spearheads the development of innovative cloud solutions tailored for high-performance workloads. Originally from Sweden, Peter was recruited at just 18 to become Director of Engineering at Bahnhof AB before moving... Read More →

Chen Goldberg

Senior Vice President of Engineering, CoreWeave

Chen Goldberg has more than 25 years of expertise leading global engineering teams, product R&D initiatives, and high-profile customer engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises. She is Senior Vice President of Engineering at CoreWeave, joining the executive team to lead and grow engineering... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:30am - 9:45am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:45am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Build Intelligent Applications with an Open, Flexible, and Data Driven AI Platform - Sudha Raghavan, Senior Vice President of Oracle Cloud Development Platform, Oracle

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:45am - 9:50am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

In today’s technology landscape defined by rapid advancements in AI and data technologies, both openness and flexibility are imperatives for driving innovation. Cloud-native and open-source technologies empower developers to build and run massively scalable AI services and applications on a flexible platform. With the platform, developers can leverage familiar open-source tools, data technologies, and AI models of their choice on the cloud native platform.

Join Sudha Raghavan, SVP of the Oracle Cloud Development Platform, as she shares key insights, best practices, and the tangible benefits of using open source technologies to build AI platforms and cloud native applications at Oracle, deployed at scale across several cloud environments.

Speakers

Sudha Raghavan

Senior Vice President of OCI Developer Platform, Oracle

Sudha Raghavan is a senior vice president at Oracle, responsible for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) developer platform. In her role, she oversees the engineering organization for OCI's cloud-native services, which are used by tens of thousands of developers globally. With over... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:45am - 9:50am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:50am MST

Keynote: Paving the Way for AI Through Platform Engineering - Kasper Borg Nissen, Staff Platform Engineer, Lunar

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:50am - 10:00am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

In today’s ever-evolving world, organizations struggle to integrate AI efficiently. Is AI a department, a team, or a tool for a select few? No, it should be woven into the fabric of the business. Drawing from the principles of platform engineering in cloud native ecosystems, we explore how organizations can reuse experiences and investments in cloud native and platform engineering to democratize AI, enabling every team to access its potential. Real-world examples, like Lunar, demonstrate how businesses can implement AI without needing complex infrastructure and harness the power of AI through simplified platforms and evolutionary architectures.

Speakers

Kasper Borg Nissen

Staff Platform Engineer, Lunar

Kasper is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador, and co-founder of the Nordic meetup alliance, Cloud Native Nordics, where he serves as Community Lead. He works as Staff Platform Engineer at Lunar. He has worked at Lunar for almost 8 years, and is one of the architects behind... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:50am - 10:00am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

10:00am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Future of GenAI: Cloud Native Blueprints with OPEA - Shirley Bailes, Director of Software Ecosystem Strategy, Intel

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:00am - 10:05am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Enterprises are eager to adopt generative AI to boost productivity. The Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a Linux Foundation project, offers a framework of composable microservices for creating advanced GenAI systems, including LLMs, data stores, and prompt engines. OPEA provides blueprints for popular workflows, such as ChatQnA, CodeGen, and RAG systems, all designed to simplify deployment of cloud native architectures. Featuring a user-friendly pipeline definition language for Kubernetes, this keynote will cover how to get started running GenAI applications on a K8s cluster utilizing a microservices architecture for component flexibility.

Speakers

Shirley Bailes

Director of Software Ecosystem Strategy, Intel

Shirley Bailes has been involved in developer communities and building open source programs for over 15 years. She is the Director of Software Ecosystem Strategy in Intel's Office of the CTO, where she leads thought leadership and strategic initiatives to accelerate startup innovation... Read More →

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:00am - 10:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

10:05am MST

Keynote: NVIDIA Case Study: The Many Facets of Building + Delivering AI in the Cloud Native Ecosystem - Chris Lamb, Vice President, Computing Software Platforms, NVIDIA Corporation

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:05am - 10:20am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

NVIDIA provides accelerated computing, networking infrastructure and platforms at the vanguard of today’s most rapidly evolving fields (artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems, virtual world simulation, etc) among operating cloud services, a global gaming network, and powering the development effort to creating the next wave - all of which are powered by the Cloud Native Ecosystem and enabled by CNCF community software in some form!

This keynote provides a glimpse into how we use, derive from, and contribute to a wide variety of CNCF projects to build, deliver, and advance technologies’ most rapidly advancing fields. We’ll also offer our perspective of the state of the ecosystem, call attention to remaining challenges, and help inspire further community collaboration to power the AI revolution onward!

Speakers

Chris Lamb

Vice President, Computing Software Platforms, NVIDIA

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:05am - 10:20am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

10:20am MST

Keynote: Engineering the Future of Generative AI Platforms on Kubernetes - Aparna Sinha, SVP, Head of AI Product, Capital One

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:20am - 10:35am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

The evolution of machine learning and AI has raised the stakes on how technology organizations extend their enterprise platforms to deploy generative AI applications at scale. In this keynote, Capital One’s SVP, Head of AI Product – and early contributor to Kubernetes at Google – Aparna Sinha, will share considerations and principles for leveraging Kubernetes and other open source technologies to create open enterprise platforms that power generative AI applications. Attendees will walk away with actionable insights and best practices on areas including:

Extending existing machine learning platforms to create modern generative AI platforms
New platform layers that need to be built on top of Kubernetes when evolving machine learning platforms for generative AI
In-house vs. third party build and deployment components and decisions
Risk and governance implications and considerations
Articulating platform requirements to enable co-creation and contribution from user communities

Speakers

Aparna Sinha

SVP, Head of AI Product, Capital One

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:20am - 10:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

10:35am MST

Keynote: Closing Remarks

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:35am - 10:45am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:35am - 10:45am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions