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
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
11:00am • GitOps at Production Scale with Flux - Leigh Capili, Flox & Priyanka Ravi, G-Research
11:55am • Cilium: Connecting, Observing, and Securing Kubernetes and Beyond with eBPF - Ahmed Bebars, The New York Times; Joe Stevens, Ascend.io; Bill Mulligan & Anna Kapuscinska, Isovalent at Cisco;
2:30pm • Celebrating Prometheus 3.0: A Deep Dive with the Maintainers - Richard Hartman & Josh Abreu, Grafana Labs
3:25pm • Peak Innovation and Cloud Tweaks: Falco’s Ongoing Runtime Security Development - Jason Dellaluce, Leonardo Grasso & Luca Guerra, Sysdig; Carlos Tadeu Panato Junior, Chainguard; Melissa Kilby, Apple
4:30pm • Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro, Deep Dive & V1.0 Update - Charlie Egan, Styra & Rita Zhang, Microsoft
5:25pm • The Path to Helm 4 - Matt Farina, SUSE & Andrew Block, Red Hat
11:00am • What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! - Eddie Zaneski, Defense Unicorns & Arda Guclu, Red Hat
11:55am • Cluster API Deep Dive - Roadmap to API Graduation - Christian Schlotter, Broadcom & Vince Prignano, Apple
2:30pm • Bare Metal Kubernetes with KOps: Gathering Community Wisdom - Justin Santa Barbara, Google & Ciprian Hacman, Microsoft
3:25pm • Intro & Deep Dive - Kubernetes Infrastructure - Arnaud Meukam, Independent & Mahamed Ali, Cisco
4:30pm • Gateway API: What's New, What's Next? - Christine Kim & Nick Young, Isovalent at Cisco; Mattia Lavacca, Kong; Guilherme Cassolato, Red Hat
5:25pm • Securing the Future of Ingress-Nginx - James Strong, Isovalent & Marco Ebert, Giant Swarm
11:00am • Artifact Hub: Discover, Analyze, and Share Cloud Native Artifacts - Matt Farina, SUSE
11:55am • 0.1 to 1.16: How Has Knative Fulfilled Its Vision? - Calum Murray, University of Toronto & Evan Anderson, Stacklok
2:30pm • Cortex Intro: Multi-Tenant Scalable Prometheus - Charlie Le, Apple & Daniel Blando, Amazon
3:25pm • Elevate Your Kubernetes Policy Game with Kyverno! - Charles-Edouard Breteche, Nirmata; Lanting Chiang & Karen Tu, Robinhood Markets, Inc.
4:30pm • Secure Release Processes with in-Toto Policy Verification - John Kjell, TestifySec & Aditya Sirish A Yelgundhalli, New York University
5:25pm • Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q+A - Phan Le, SUSE
11:00am • Cooperative Scheduling for Stateful Systems - Michael Youssef & Zhantong Shang, LinkedIn
11:55am • Database DevOps: CD for Stateful Applications - Stephen Atwell, Harness.io & Christopher Crow, Pure Storage
2:30pm • Distributed Cache Empowers AI/ML Workloads on Kubernetes Cluster - Yuichiro Ueno & Toru Komatsu, Preferred Networks, Inc.
3:25pm • Elastic Data Streaming: Autoscaling Apache Kafka - Jakub Scholz, Red Hat
4:30pm • Elevating Kubeflow Spark Operator's Future: Best Practices and Enhancements - Vara Bonthu, AWS & Chaoran Yu, Apple Inc
5:25pm • Engaging the KServe Community, The Impact of Integrating a Solutions with Standardized CNCF Projects - Adam Tetelman, NVIDIA; Taneem Ibrahim, Red Hat; Johnu George, Nutanix; Tessa Pham, Bloomberg; Andreea Munteanu, Canonical
9:00am • Keynote: Opening Remarks - Kasper Borg Nissen, Staff Platform Engineer, Lunar
9:05am • Keynote: Above the Clouds: Mountainous Achievements with End Users - Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, CNCF
9:25am • Keynote: Centralizing & Simplifying Enterprise AI Workflows with Envoy AI Gateway - Alexa Griffith, Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg
9:30am • Keynote: Awards Ceremony
9:40am • Sponsored Keynote: A New Frontier for Kubernetes Network Security - Idit Levine, Founder and CEO, Solo.io & Keith Babo, VP of Product, Solo.io
9:45am • Keynote: Cloud Native’s Next Decade: Stable, Secure, and...Ready for Disruption? - Nikhita Raghunath, Principal Engineer, Broadcom
10:00am • Sponsored Keynote: A Developer’s Guide to Securing Your Software Supply Chain - Toddy Mladenov, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft
10:05am • Sponsored Keynote: Application Development’s Great Cloud Native Disruption - Colin Walters, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat & Preethi Thomas, Senior Manager, Engineering, Red Hat
10:10am • Keynote: Open Source Security Is Not A Spectator Sport - Justin Cappos, Professor, NYU & Santiago Torres Arias, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
10:25am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:00am • How We Made OpenTelemetry Be Our Fitness Tracker for Your CI/CD Pipelines! - Nicolas Woerner, Clario & Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace
11:55am • From Chaos to Calm: Building a Unified and Scalable CI/CD Pipeline at Akamai - Tomer Patel, Akamai Technologies Inc.
2:30pm • Mastering Cell-Based Architecture: Practical Solutions and Best Practices - Shweta Vohra, Booking.com & Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2
3:25pm • You're Overpaying for CI - Kyle Penfound, Dagger
4:30pm • Bring the Joy Back to Deployments! - Murriel McCabe, Google Cloud & Elizabeth Ponce, Airbnb
5:25pm • Navigating Failures in Pods with Devices: Challenges and Solutions - Sergey Kanzhelev, Google & Mrunal Patel, Red Hat
11:00am • Yahoo’s Kubernetes Journey from on-Prem to Multi-Cloud at Scale - Nandhakumar Venkatachalam & Payal Patel, Yahoo
11:55am • Scratching the Surface: Simulating K8s in MIT Scratch - Mitch Connors, Microsoft & Jude Connors, Independent
2:30pm • Solving the Kubernetes Networking API Rubik's Cube - Doug Smith & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat; Shane Utt, Kong; Lior Lieberman, Google
3:25pm • TLS and MTLS: Introduction to Modern Security - Andrew Davis, Independent & Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)
4:30pm • Understanding Kubernetes Networking in 30 Minutes - Ricardo Katz, Broadcom & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco
5:25pm • Why Serverless Is Trending Again - Matt Butcher, Fermyon & Jay Jenkins, Akamai
11:00am • From Vectors to Pods: Integrating AI with Cloud Native - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom; Kevin Klues, NVIDIA; Joseph Sandoval, Adobe; Ricardo Rocha, CERN; Dawn Chen, Google
11:55am • Democratizing AI Model Training on Kubernetes with Kubeflow TrainJob and JobSet - Andrey Velichkevich, Apple & Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, Inc.
2:30pm • Unlocking Potential of Large Models in Production - Yuan Tang, Red Hat & Adam Tetelman, NVIDIA
3:25pm • Unlocking the Future of GPU Scheduling in Kubernetes with Reinforcement Learning - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe Systems & Aditi Gupta, Disney Plus Hotstar
4:30pm • Which GPU Sharing Strategy Is Right for You? A Comprehensive Benchmark Study Using DRA - Kevin Klues & Yuan Chen, NVIDIA
5:25pm • Managing and Distributing AI Models Using OCI Standards and Harbor - Steven Zou & Steven Ren, VMware by Broadcom
11:00am • SPIRE: Intro & In-Depth Exploration of the Upcoming Forced Rotation and Revocation Feature - Agustín Martínez Fayó & Marcos Yacob, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
11:55am • CNCF TAG Network: Intro & Deep Dive - Lee Calcote, Layer5
2:30pm • Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Oh My! What Is the TAG App Delivery Doing to Support You - Daniel Oh, Red Hat; Roberth Strand, Sopra Steria; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft; Abby Bangser, Syntasso
3:25pm • Cloud Native Storage: The CNCF Storage TAG Projects, Technology & Landscape - Alex Chircop, Akamai & Raffaele Spazzoli, Red Hat
4:30pm • Fluent Bit: Better Pipelines for Observability - Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere
5:25pm • Scaling and Safeguarding the Heart of Kubernetes: Deep Dive Into etcd - Wenjia Zhang & Marek Siarkowicz, Google; James Blair, Red Hat; Ivan Valdes Castillo, Independent; Wei Fu, Microsoft
11:00am • SIG-Apps: Powering Applications with High-Volume Data and APIs - Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns & Janet Kuo, Google
11:55am • SIG Autoscaling Projects Update - Jack Francis, Microsoft
2:30pm • Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive - Michelle Au, Google; Xing Yang, VMware by Broadcom; Hemant Kumar, Red Hat
3:25pm • Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Updates - John Belamaric, Google & David Eads, Red Hat
4:30pm • Navigate Cross SIG Collaborations with SIG Docs - Rey Lejano & Savitha Raghunathan, Red Hat; Divya Mohan, SUSE; Xander Grzywinski, Defense Unicorns
5:25pm • What's New in SIG-Windows - Mark Rossetti, Microsoft & Aravindh Puthiyaparambil, Softdrive
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
