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11:15am • The State of Cloud Native Business Value in 2024 - Danielle Cook, StackGen; Simon Forster, Stackegy; Catherine Paganini, Buoyant; Colin Griffin, Krumware; Robbie Glenn, Glennium
12:10pm • Best Friends Keep No Secrets: Going Secretless with cert-manager - Ashley Davis & Tim Ramlot, Venafi
2:30pm • Guiding Kubernetes: The Steering Committee's Role in Project Evolution - Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns
3:25pm • How to Get Started Contributing in the CNCF - Destiny O'Connor, Women Blessing Women & Riaan Kleinhans, Linux Foundation
4:30pm • How to Expand Your IDP: The New Building Blocks of Backstage - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify
5:25pm • XRegistry - Looking Beyond CloudEvents - Calum Murray, University of Toronto
11:15am • The Spice Must Flow Green: CNCF's Environmental Sustainability TAG - Marlow Warnicke (Weston), SchedMD & Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs
12:10pm • Dapr's Road Ahead: GenAI APIs, Distributed Scheduling at Scale and What It Means for Your Platform - Yaron Schneider, Diagrid
2:30pm • Kubernetes Data Protection WG Deep Dive - Dave Smith-Uchida, Veeam
3:25pm • Life of a Packet: Ambient Edition - John Howard, Solo.io & Keith Mattix, Microsoft
4:30pm • Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry - Jonah Kowall, Paessler & Pavol Loffay, Red Hat
5:25pm • Understanding How OpenTelemetry Network Uses eBPF for Network Observability - Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz & Jonathan Perry, PerfPod
11:15am • Using Notary Project to Ensure Authenticity and Integrity of Artifacts Within the Enterprise - Toddy Mladenov, Microsoft & Tjark Rasche, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH
12:10pm • Emissary-Ingress: Version 4 and the Road Ahead - Flynn, Buoyant
2:30pm • Kubernetes WG Device Management - Advancing K8s Support for GPUs - John Belamaric, Google; Patrick Ohly, Intel; Kevin Klues, NVIDIA
3:25pm • OpenTelemetry Project Update - Alolita Sharma, Apple; Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Grafana Labs; Ted Young, ServiceNow; Morgan Mclean, Splunk; Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace
4:30pm • CNI Updates and Direction! - Michael Zappa, Microsoft & Lionel Jouin, Ericcson
5:25pm • Observability TAG Round-up and What’s New for AI Observability - Alolita Sharma, Apple & Chris Larsen, Netflix
11:15am • All Your Routes Are Ready, More or Less - Dave Protasowski
12:10pm • Can Your Kubernetes Network Handle the Heat? Building Resilience with AI Chaos - Lior Lieberman, Google & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat
2:30pm • Cilium, eBPF, WireGuard: Can We Tame the Network Encryption Performance Gap? - Daniel Borkmann & Anton Protopopov, Isovalent
3:25pm • Extending the Gateway API: The Power and Challenges of Policies - Kate Osborn, NGINX
4:30pm • From Observability to Performance - Nadia Pinaeva, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google
5:25pm • Building Resilience for Large-Scale AI Training: GPU Management, Failure Detection, and Beyond - Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan, Microsoft & Ace Eldeib, Cohere
11:15am • Unlocking Cost Savings & New Possibilities: Your Guide to Prometheus Remote Write 2.0 - Callum Styan, Grafana Labs & Bartłomiej Płotka, Google
12:10pm • Towards Zero Change Incidents: Intuit's Strategy for Implementing AI-Driven Progressive Delivery - Avik Basu & Saravanan Balasubramanian, Intuit
2:30pm • Unifying Observability: Correlating Metrics, Traces, and Logs with Exemplars and OpenTelemetry - Kruthika Prasanna Simha & Charlie Le, Apple
3:25pm • Using OpenTelemetry for Deep Observability Within Messaging Queues - Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava & Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz
4:30pm • Watching the Watchers: How We Do Continuous Reliability at Grafana Labs - Nicole van der Hoeven, Grafana Labs
5:25pm • The OTTL Cookbook: A Collection of Solutions to Common Problems - Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb & Evan Bradley, Dynatrace
11:15am • All-Your-GPUs-Are-Belong-to-Us: An Inside Look at NVIDIA's Self-Healing GeForce NOW Infrastructure - Ryan Hallisey & Piotr Prokop PL, NVIDIA
12:10pm • Automated Multi-Cloud Large Scale K8s Cluster Lifecycle Management - Sourav Khandelwal, Databricks
2:30pm • Better Pod Availability: A Survey of the Many Ways to Manage Workload Disruptions - Zach Loafman, Google
3:25pm • Cash App's Journey Into a Multi-Cluster Ecosystem - Rachel Sheikh, Cash App
4:30pm • End User TAB Town Hall - Moderated by Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
5:25pm • Creating Paved Paths for Platform Engineers - Ritesh Patel, Nirmata; Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Viktor Farcic, Upbound; Nicholas Morey, Akuity; Praseeda Sathaye, Amazon
9:00am • 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
9:10am • Keynote: Multicluster Batch Jobs Dispatching with Kueue at CERN - Ricardo Rocha, Lead Platforms Infrastructure, CERN & Marcin Wielgus, Staff Software Engineer, Google
9:25am • Sponsored Keynote: Open Source-powered Cloud Native Creates the Future - Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, Chief Executive Officer, SUSE
9:30am • 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
9:45am • 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
9:50am • Keynote: Paving the Way for AI Through Platform Engineering - Kasper Borg Nissen, Staff Platform Engineer, Lunar
10:00am • Sponsored Keynote: The Future of GenAI: Cloud Native Blueprints with OPEA - Shirley Bailes, Director of Software Ecosystem Strategy, Intel
10:05am • 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
10:20am • Keynote: Engineering the Future of Generative AI Platforms on Kubernetes - Aparna Sinha, SVP, Head of AI Product, Capital One
10:35am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
10:45am • Relaxation Station
10:45am • Solutions Showcase
10:45am • Coffee Break ☕
10:55am • Project Pavilion Tour with Jorge Castro
12:45pm • Network Nook Table Talks: Platform Engineering & AI Platforms
12:45pm • Lunch 🍲
1:15pm • Project Pavilion Tour with Orlin Vasilev, CNCF Ambassador
4:00pm • Coffee Break ☕
5:20pm • End User Project Pavilion Tour with Jorge Castro & Bob Killen, CNCF
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS03): Unleashing the Power of Init and Sidecar Containers in Kubernetes - Carlos Sanchez & Natalia Angulo, Adobe
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS07): Unleashing the Power of Prediction to Proactively Scale Control Plane Components - Anubhav Aeron & Ryan Tay, Intuit
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS08): Unveiling Anomalies: eBPF-Based Detection in High-Volume Encrypted Network Traffic - Ben Smith-Foley, Rensselaer Center for Open Source
6:00pm • 🎉 #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest Sponsored by CDW
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS05): Revolutionizing Windows Container Startup Performance - Tina Wu & Taylor Hope, Microsoft
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS06): What's Happening with SPIFFE and WIMSE? - Daniel Feldman, Qusaic
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS02): 0.0.0.0 Day: Exploiting Localhost APIs from the Browser - Mic McCully, Oligo
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS09): Kubernetes as a Geographically Distributed System - Chris Friesen, Wind River Systems
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS10): Accepting Mortality: Strategies for Ultra-Long Running Stateful Workloads in K8s - Sebastian Beyvers & Maria Hansen, Giessen University
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS01): Climatik: Cloud Native Sustainable LLM via Power Capping - Chen Wang, IBM & Vincent Hou, Bloomberg L.P.
6:00pm • 🪧 Poster Session (PS04): Optimizing Pod Affinity in Kubernetes: A Mathematical Approach to Workload Placement - Jack Xue, Microsoft
6:10pm • Project Pavilion Tour with Aditya Soni, CNCF Ambassador
11:15am • Behind Schedule: Pod Resource Configuration from Beginning to... Huh? - Joe Thompson, Independent
12:10pm • Beyond 'Can You Mentor Me?' - Crafting the Contribution Ladder - Nitish Kumar, Akuity; Wenjia Zhang, Google; Jared Watts, Upbound; Carol Valencia, Elastic; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom
2:30pm • Choose Your Own Adventure: The Observability Odyssey - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
3:25pm • Create & Distribute a Plugin for Kubernetes (Kubectl) in Few Minutes? Easy! 🙂 - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud & Gaëlle Acas, Doctolib
4:30pm • DNS Deep Dive in Kubernetes with CoreDNS - Jingming Guo, Airbnb
11:15am • Architecting Tomorrow: The Heterogeneous Compute Resources for New Types of Workloads - Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel Finland
12:10pm • Building Reliable Cross-Cloud Kubernetes Clusters on Spot Instances with Drafter and PVM - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs
2:30pm • Cloud Native Sustainability Speedrun: Tools from Infrastructure to Application Level - Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs & Saloni Narang, Kubesimplify
3:25pm • Deep Dive Into Generic Control Planes and Kcp - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound & Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI
4:30pm • Experience in Designing & Implementing a Cloud Native Framework for Farm Data Analytics - Braulio Dumba, IBM & Gloire Rubambiza, Cornell University
5:25pm • Workload Identity Federation – Stop Using Long-Lived Credentials - Benjamin Dronen, Ford Motor Company & Anjali Telang, Red Hat
11:15am • Advanced Model Serving Techniques with Ray on Kubernetes - Andrew Sy Kim, Google & Kai-Hsun Chen, Anyscale
12:10pm • AI and ML: Let’s Talk About the Boring (yet Critical!) Operational Side - Rob Koch, Slalom Build & Milad Vafaeifard, Epam
2:30pm • Architecting the Future of AI: From Cloud-Native Orchestration to Advanced LLMOps - Lily (Xiaoxuan) Liu, Anyscale
3:25pm • A Tale of 2 Drivers: GPU Configuration on the Fly Using DRA - Alay Patel & Varun Ramachandra Sekar US, Nvidia
4:30pm • Making Kubernetes Simpler for Accelerated Workloads - Susan Wu, Google; Lucy Sweet, Uber; Mitch McKenzie, Weave; Aditya Shanker, Crusoe; Rebecca Weekly, Geico
11:15am • TUF: Secure Distribution Beyond Software - Marina Moore, Independent
12:10pm • AI for Policy and Policy for AI! - Poonam Lamba, Google; Boris Kurktchiev, Nirmata; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Ronald Petty, RX-M; Jimmy Ray, Capital One
2:30pm • Harbor Project - The Maintainers Session What We Have Accomplished! - Orlin Vasilev, SUSE & Vadim Bauer, 8gears Container Registry
3:25pm • Mastering ApplicationSet: Advanced Argo CD Automation - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity
4:30pm • Linkerd Update: Ingress, Egress, IPv6, Enhanced Multicluster, Rust, and More - William Morgan, Buoyant
5:25pm • Container Image Workflows at Scale with Buildpacks - Jesse Brown & Terence Lee, Heroku
11:15am • SIG Network Intro and Updates - Daman Arora, VMware by Broadcom; Shaun Crampton, Tigera; Nadia Pinaeva & Dan Winship, Red Hat; Antonio Ojea, Google;
12:10pm • SIG Scheduling Intro & Updates - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Kensei Nakada, Tetrate.io
2:30pm • SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive - Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson & Laura Lorenz, Google; Ryan Zhang, Microsoft; Stephen Kitt, Red Hat
3:25pm • SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive - Sergey Kanzhelev & Dawn Chen, Google; Mrunal Patel, Red Hat
4:30pm • SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Han Kang, David Ashpole & Richa Banker, Google; Damien Grisonnet, Red Hat
5:25pm • Squashing Trampoline Pods: The Future of Securely Enabling Hardware Extensions - Joe Betz, Google & David Eads, Red Hat
