KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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9:00am MST

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Friday November 15, 2024 9:00am - 9:10am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Speakers

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 →

Friday November 15, 2024 9:00am - 9:10am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:10am MST

Keynote: A Decade of Kubernetes and Cloud Native – Are We There Yet? - Joseph Sandoval, Adobe; Lachlan Evenson, Microsoft; Bailey Hayes, Cosmonic; Kelsey Hightower

Friday November 15, 2024 9:10am - 9:25am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Our panelists come together to reflect on Kubernetes’ remarkable ten-year journey and to ask the pressing question: are we there yet and what’s still ahead? Our panelists will explore the original promises of Kubernetes and cloud native - from infrastructure abstraction to seamless scalability - and honestly assess which goals we’ve achieved and which remain elusive.

Moving beyond the hype cycles our speakers will examine what “done” really means for cloud native, which problems we still need to solve, and whether we’re asking the right questions as we build toward the next decade.

Speakers

Kelsey Hightower

Retired Distinguished Engineer, Author, Advisor, and Open Source Contributor

Kelsey Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go... Read More →

Lachlan Evenson

Principal Product Manager - Azure, Microsoft

Lachlan is a Principal Program Manager on the open source team at Azure. As a cloud native ambassador, emeritus Kubernetes steering committee member and release lead, Lachlan has deep operational knowledge of many Cloud Native projects. He spends his days building and contributing... Read More →

Bailey Hayes

CTO, Cosmonic

Bailey Hayes is the CTO at Cosmonic. She believes the future is in distributed systems and WebAssembly (Wasm). She wears many hats in the open source ecosystem from standards to implementations as the W3C WebAssembly WASI Subgroup co-chair, Bytecode Alliance TSC Director, and maintainer... Read More →

Joseph Sandoval

Principal Product Manager, Adobe

Joseph Sandoval, a seasoned tech expert with 25 years in various roles running distributed systems, infrastructure platforms and thrives on empowering developers to scale their applications. An advocate for OpenSource software, he harnesses its transformative power to champion change... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 9:10am - 9:25am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:25am MST

Keynote: Honoring the Past to Forge Ahead - Gail Frederick, CTO and SVP, Heroku

Friday November 15, 2024 9:25am - 9:30am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Twelve-Factor was published by Heroku founder Adam Wiggins over a decade ago and served as a guiding principle for many software engineers and tech founders of SaaS companies. In that time, cloud-native and Kubernetes has fundamentally transformed technology. As we look to the next decade of technology innovation and the millions of apps we’ll build and run – how durable are these Twelve-Factors? In this talk, Gail will reflect on the journey of the Twelve-Factors, Heroku’s journey as a platform designed around these twelve-factors and what that means for the future, and working with the community.

Speakers

Gail Frederick

CTO and SVP, Heroku

Gail Frederick is CTO and SVP of Heroku (Salesforce) and stewards the opinionated magic that is Heroku’s developer platform. Prior to Heroku, Gail led engineering for Salesforce DX and was VP Engineering at eBay, where she was the 2019 winner of the John Donahoe Award, eBay’s... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 9:25am - 9:30am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:30am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Kubernetes in the Second Decade: Balancing Innovation with Stability - Jago Macleod, Engineering Director, Kubernetes & GKE, Google

Friday November 15, 2024 9:30am - 9:35am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Kubernetes has come a long way since Google introduced the project to the world a decade ago. We are so proud of what Kubernetes has become. But like the rest of the technology landscape, the explosive growth of Batch, ML, and GenAI workloads alongside existing, often business-critical, workloads creates new challenges for end users running on Kubernetes.

In previous technology cycles, the most likely outcome would be the rise of a new platform. However, due to the declarative API, the modular and extensible nature of the platform, and the strength of the ecosystem, Kubernetes can evolve in ways that were more difficult for previous platforms.

Google is significantly re-focusing and increasing our already industry-leading investment in Kubernetes to refactor, extend, and even re-invent significant aspects of Kubernetes to meet the needs of the next decade. This is the fundamental challenge: innovation to address new opportunities without disruption to the installed base.

Speakers

Jago Macleod

Engineering Director, Google

Jago Macleod is an Engineering Director at Google, where he leads much of the Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) team, which gives him the opportunity to work with some of Google Cloud’s largest customers. Prior to working at Google, Jago helped make the smart homes that... Read More →

KubeCon NA 2024 Balancing Innovation & Stability pptx

Friday November 15, 2024 9:30am - 9:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:35am MST

Keynote: Four Cloud Native Technology Areas to Watch For - Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io & Karena Angell, Chief Architect, Red Hat

Friday November 15, 2024 9:35am - 9:45am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

As part of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), we've been busy reviewing projects that are coming into the CNCF, promoting projects from various stages (sandbox, incubation and graduation) and identifying areas of greater collaboration. Along with the reviews, we are innovating the technical review processes, and collecting end user feedback. We would like to take you through four key cloud native technology areas to watch for in the next few years, reflecting what we see in the cloud native ecosystem.

Speakers

Lin Sun

CNCF TOC member and Head of Open-Source at solo.io, solo.io

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical... Read More →

Karena Angell

Senior Principal Chief Architect, Red Hat

Karena Angell is a Senior Principal Chief Architect at Red Hat focusing on cloud native application workloads for Kubernetes, open source software projects, as well as solutions for the 'open' hybrid cloud.

KCNA24 TOC Keynote.pptx pdf

Friday November 15, 2024 9:35am - 9:45am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

9:50am MST

Keynote: Graduated Project Updates

Friday November 15, 2024 9:50am - 10:05am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Friday November 15, 2024 9:50am - 10:05am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

10:05am MST

Keynote: Kubernetes Family Feud: A Decade of Architecture and Evolution - Hosted by Tim Hockin, Distinguished Engineer, Google

Friday November 15, 2024 10:05am - 10:20am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Kubernetes is 10 years old! While its growth has been remarkable, it has also accrued technical debt, familiar to long-standing members, and there are still many issues that remain as top concerns.

In this fun Family Feud-style format, team leads and a moderator will engage experienced community members in discussing these architectural and design issues. By polling the community ahead of time, we aim to surface the most pressing, or at least bothersome, concerns. Two teams, each headed by a captain on stage, will compete in the typical Family Feud style.

After attending this session, participants will gain awareness of early design and architectural decisions and compromises, understanding which have been fixed and how to work around others. Along the way, attendees might enjoy a hearty laugh or two, appreciating the collective wisdom of the community members polled.

Speakers

Rags Srinivas

Architect/Advocate

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas (@ragss) is an Architect/Advocate enabling developers to build scalable and available systems. With a background in app development and infrastructure, he has gravitated towards distributed systems. He specializes in Cloud Computing, specifically multi-cloud.Rags... Read More →

Tim Hockin

Distinguished Engineer, Google

Friday November 15, 2024 10:05am - 10:20am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions

10:20am MST

Keynote: Closing Remarks

Friday November 15, 2024 10:20am - 10:30am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Friday November 15, 2024 10:20am - 10:30am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE

Keynote Sessions