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11:00am • CRI-O Features for Fun and Profit - Peter Hunt & Sohan Kunkerkar, Red Hat
11:55am • Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting - Moderated by Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, The Linux Foundation
2:00pm • Vitess: Introduction, New Features and Running in Production - Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale; Derek Perkins, Nozzle; Sudhi Vijayakumar, Backblaze
2:55pm • CoreDNS Plugins: A Deep Dive - John Belamaric, Google & Yong Tang, Ivanti
4:00pm • Rook: Intro and Deep Dive with Ceph Storage - Travis Nielsen, Annette Clewett, Blaine Gardner & Subham Rai, IBM
11:00am • Thanos: Intro and Updates - Ben Ye, Amazon Web Services
11:55am • What's New in Operator Framework?! - Bryce Palmer, Rashmi Gottipati & Lalatendu Mohanty, Red Hat; Attila Meszaros, Apple
2:00pm • Are Your Microservices Truly Scaling? A Framework for Unlocking the Stateful Backend - Matthew Penaroza, PingCAP
2:55pm • What’s Going on in the Containerd Neighborhood? - Phil Estes, AWS; Samuel Karp, Google; Akihiro Suda, NTT; Michael Brown, IBM; Kirtana Ashok, Microsoft
4:00pm • Meet the CNCF Code of Conduct Committee - Bill Mulligan & Carla Gaggini, Isovalent at Cisco; Josh Berkus, Red Hat; Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft; Tim Pepper, CISA
4:55pm • WG Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next - Marcin Wielgus, Google & Kevin Hannon, Red Hat
11:00am • Bloomberg's Journey to Manage a Multi-Cluster Training Application with Karmada - Yifan Zhang & Wei-Cheng Lai, Bloomberg
11:55am • WG Serving: Accelerating AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes - Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA & Yuan Tang, Red Hat
2:00pm • Exploring KubeEdge: Architecture, Use Cases, and Project Graduation Updates - Yin Ding, Google & Hongbing Zhang, Daocloud
2:55pm • Nothing but NATS - Going Beyond Cloud Native - Byron Ruth & Kevin Hoffman, Synadia
4:00pm • Ten Years of gRPC: Looking Back and Looking Forward - Kevin Nilson, Google & Israel Shapiro, Broadcom
11:00am • 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
11:55am • Love thy (Noisy) Neighbor: Strategies for Mitigating Performance Interference in Cloud-Native Systems - Jonathan Perry, PerfPod
2:00pm • Supercharge Your Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics - Vamshi Krishna Samudrala & Sravan Akinapally, American Airlines
2:55pm • The Key Value of etcd Over Custom Resources: Scalability - Jef Spaleta, Isovalent at Cisco
4:00pm • The Node Tetris Rabbit Hole: Why Your Binpacking Might Be Underperforming - Hannah Taub, Adobe Inc.
4:55pm • Service Profiling Based Management and Scheduling in K8s - Jia Deng, Cong Xu & Mingmeng Luo, Bytedance
11:00am • How We Scale a Distributed SQL Database to 1 PB - Jinpeng Zhang, PingCAP
11:55am • Kubernetes on Multisites – A Story About Stateful App, Hybrid Clouds, and High Availability - Florian Coulombel, Dell Technologies & Jan Šafránek, Red Hat
2:00pm • Object Storage Is All You Need - Justin Cormack, Docker
2:55pm • Object, Block, or File Storage? Choosing the Right Cloud Storage to Integrate Into Kubernetes - Mitch Becker & Tom McDonald, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4:00pm • Privacy in the Age of Big Compute - Sal Kimmich, Confidential Computing Consortium, Linux Foundation
4:55pm • Goodbye etcd! Running Kubernetes on Distributed PostgreSQL - Denis Magda, Yugabyte
11:00am • Shopify’s Open Source Approach to Network Monitoring with eBPF, Vector and ClickHouse - Sebastian Rabenhorst & Matt Franklin, Shopify
11:55am • Accessibility at KubeCon: Deaf Voices in Cloud Native - Alfonso Torres, DeafTech; Jay Jackson, CallRevu; Destiny O'Connor, Women Blessing Women; Travis Johnson, Convo Communications; Rob Koch, Slalom Build
2:00pm • 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
2:55pm • Tick, TAG, TOC - Keeping Cloud Native Running - Karena Angell, Red Hat; Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom; Alex Chircop, Akamai; Ricardo Aravena, Snowflake; Marina Moore, Edera
4:00pm • SPIFFE the Easy Way: Universal X509 and JWT Identities Using cert-manager - Tim Ramlot & Ashley Davis, Venafi
11:00am • 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 International
11:55am • Kubernetes Upgrades: Less Pain, More Gain (and Maybe a Little Swearing) - Jago Macleod, Google
2:00pm • Micro-Segmentation and Multi-Tenancy: The Brown M&Ms of Platform Engineering - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata & Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity International
2:55pm • Modernization of Intuit Payroll Enterprise Using Event Driven Architecture - Hema Maarimuthu & Vigith Maurice, Intuit
4:00pm • Medical Research Computing Infrastructure on Hybrid Kubernetes - Jennings Zhang, Boston Children's Hospital
9:00am • Keynote: Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
9:10am • Keynote: A Decade of Kubernetes and Cloud Native – Are We There Yet? - Joseph Sandoval, Adobe; Lachlan Evenson, Microsoft; Bailey Hayes, Cosmonic; Kelsey Hightower
9:25am • Keynote: Honoring the Past to Forge Ahead - Gail Frederick, CTO and SVP, Heroku
9:30am • Sponsored Keynote: Kubernetes in the Second Decade: Balancing Innovation with Stability - Jago Macleod, Engineering Director, Kubernetes & GKE, Google
9:35am • Keynote: Four Cloud Native Technology Areas to Watch For - Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io & Karena Angell, Chief Architect, Red Hat
9:50am • Keynote: Graduated Project Updates
10:05am • Keynote: Kubernetes Family Feud: A Decade of Architecture and Evolution - Hosted by Tim Hockin, Distinguished Engineer, Google
10:20am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:00am • Better Together! GPU, TPU and NIC Topological Alignment with DRA - John Belamaric, Google & Patrick Ohly, Intel
11:55am • Building Massive-Scale Generative AI Services with Kubernetes and Open Source - John McBride, OpenSauced
2:00pm • Bloomberg’s Journey to Improve Resource Utilization in a Multi-Cluster Platform - Yao Weng & Leon Zhou, Bloomberg
2:55pm • Cloud-Native AI: Wasm in Portable, Secure AI/ML Workloads - Miley Fu, Second State
4:00pm • Best Practices for Deploying LLM Inference, RAG and Fine Tuning Pipelines on K8s - Meenakshi Kaushik & Shiva Krishna Merla, NVIDIA
4:55pm • Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Slurm with Kubernetes in a Kubernetes Native Way - Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA & Angel Beltre, Sandia National Laboratories
11:00am • Upgrade Safely: Avoid the Pitfalls of Kubernetes Versioning - Rob Scott, Google
11:55am • What Containerd 2.0 Means for You - Samuel Karp, Google
2:00pm • The Policy Engines Showdown - Gabriel L. Manor, Permit.io; Andres Aguiar, Okta; Omri Gazitt, Aserto; Pauline Jamin, Agicap; Tyler Schade, Geico; Joy Scharmen, StrongDM
2:55pm • OpenSearch: Navigating Innovation and Community Collaboration for 2025 and Beyond - Anandhi Bumstead, Anirudha Jadhav & Pallavi Priyadarshini, Amazon Web Services
4:00pm • Why Perfect Compliance Is the Enemy of Good Kubernetes Security - Michele Chubirka, Google
11:00am • 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
11:55am • Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - The Cloud Native Control Plane Framework - Jared Watts & Mark Anderson-Trocme, Upbound
2:00pm • KubeVirt: Enhancements and the Road Ahead - Vladik Romanovsky & David Vossel, Red Hat
2:55pm • Strimzi: Data Streaming on Kubernetes with Apache Kafka - Jakub Scholz, Red Hat & Yaodong Yang, Strimzi Kafka Contributor
4:00pm • Running a Highly Available Identity and Access Management with Keycloak - Ryan Emerson & Kameswararao Akella, Red Hat
11:00am • Achieving and Maintaining a Healthy CI with Zero Test Flakes - Antonio Ojea, Michelle Shepardson & Benjamin Elder, Google
11:55am • Working Together to Improve Security Visibility in Kubernetes - Rita Zhang & Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft
2:00pm • Contributing to Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - SIG ContribEx Style! - Kaslin Fields, Google; Priyanka Saggu, SUSE; Madhav Jivrajani, UIUC; Nabarun Pal, Independent
2:55pm • Building a More Resilient Future with Advanced Cloud Provider Testing - Michael McCune, Red Hat & Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft
4:00pm • Pushing Authorization Further: CEL, Selectors and Maybe RBAC++ - Mo Khan & Rita Zhang, Microsoft; Jordan Liggitt, Google
4:55pm • Navigating the Future: Exploring the Latest in Kubernetes Dashboard Development - Marcin Maciaszczyk & Sebastian Florek, Plural
