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09:00 • Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
09:26 • Keynote: Into the Black Box: Observability in the Age of LLMs - Christine Yen, CEO and Cofounder, Honeycomb
09:42 • Sponsored Keynote: To Be Announced
09:48 • Keynote: AI Enabled Observability Explainers - We Actually Did Something With AI! - Vijay Samuel, Principal MTS, Architect, eBay
10:04 • Sponsored Keynote: To Be Announced
10:10 • Keynote: The Observability Platform Engineering Advantage: From Zero-Code to Monitoring as Code - Kasper Borg Nissen, Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0
10:26 • Keynote: Empowering Accessibility Through Kubernetes: The Future of Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation - Rob Koch, Principal, Slalom Build
10:42 • Keynote: Closing Remarks
15:15 • The Great Sidecar Debate - William Morgan, Buoyant
16:15 • Taming the Traffic: Selecting the Perfect Gateway Implementation for You - Spencer Hance, Google; Arko Dasgupta, Tetrate; Christine Kim, Isovalent at Cisco; Kate Osborn, NGINX/F5; Mike Morris, Microsoft
17:00 • Uncharted Waters: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Networking - Miguel Duarte Barroso, Red Hat & Lionel Jouin, Ericsson Software Technology
17:45 • Making the Leap: What Gateway API Needs To Support Ingress-NGINX Users - Rob Scott, Google & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco
11:15 • Lessons Learned From Architecting the Highest-scale Operational Systems in the World - Artur Bergman, Fastly
12:00 • Leveraging Internal Knowledge: Building AiKA at Spotify - Majd Salman & Jofre Mateu Matesanz, Spotify
14:30 • Many Cooks, One Platform: Balancing Ownership and Contribution for the Perfect Broth - Lian Li, lianmakesthings
15:15 • More Data Please: Hands on Green Cloud Experiments - Leonard Pahlke, BWI GmbH & Antonio Di Turi, Data Reply
16:15 • Making CRDs Delightful: Beyond the Pitfalls - Evan Anderson, Stacklok, Inc
17:00 • Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects (Redux) - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso
17:45 • Scale Smarter Not Harder: How Extending Cluster Autoscaler Saves Millions - Rahul Rangith & Ben Hinthorne, Datadog
11:15 • "Izzy Saves the Birthday" - A Story-Driven Live Demo Exploring the Magic of Service Mesh - Lin Sun, solo.io & Faseela Kundattil, Ericsson Software Technology
12:00 • Explain How Kubernetes Works With GPU Like I’m 5 - Carlos Santana, AWS
14:30 • Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
15:15 • Yes You Can Run LLMs on Kubernetes - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud
16:15 • K8s in Wonderland: Why Many of Unknown Code in My Workload? - Hoon Jo, Megazone
17:00 • Learning Kubernetes Through the Lens of Metrics - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE & Mario Jason Braganza, Janusworx
17:45 • Logs, Metrics, Traces and Mayhem: An Interactive Observability Adventure Game - Jay Clifford & Tom Glenn, Grafana Labs
11:15 • A Comparative Analysis of Kueue, Volcano, and YuniKorn - Wei Huang, Apple & Shiming Zhang, DaoCloud
12:00 • KubeEdge Graduation Journey: Creating a Diverse and Collaborative Open Source Community From Scratch - Yue Bao, Huawei & Hongbing Zhang, DaoCloud
14:30 • Navigating the Waters: Balancing Open Source Activities in Corporate Environments - Kim McMahon, Sidero Labs & Amanda Katona, NetApp Instaclustr
15:15 • The Bricks That Make Us – How the LEGO Group Avoids 50 Mediocre Kubernetes Implementations - Thomas Øther Rasmussen & Paul Farver, The LEGO Group
16:15 • OSS = Open Source ... Strategy!? Google Is Doubling Down on K8s in the AI Era, and You Should Too! - Jago Macleod, Google
17:00 • Why Allyship Matters and Your Role in Creating a More Diverse Cloud Native Community - Catherine Paganini, Buoyant; Milad Vafaeifard, Epam Systems; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen; Anastasiia Gubska, BT Group; Rob Koch, Slalom Build
17:45 • Museum of Weird Bugs: Our Favorites From 8 Years of Service Mesh Debugging - Alex Leong, Buoyant
11:15 • Tutorial: Exploring Multi-Tenant Kubernetes APIs and Controllers With Kcp - Robert Vasek, Clyso GmbH; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom; Varsha Narsing, Red Hat; Marko Mudrinic, Kubermatic GmbH; Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI
14:30 • Tutorial: "Working Code Wins": Win Big With a Cloud Native Hackathon Starter Pack - Phill Morton, The Access Group & Abby Bangser, Syntasso
16:15 • Tutorial: Build, Operate, and Use a Multi-Tenant AI Cluster Based Entirely on Open Source - Claudia Misale, IBM Research; Olivier Tardieu & David Grove, IBM
17:45 • Kubernetes CRD Design for the Long Haul: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned - Christian Schlotter, Broadcom & Fabrizio Pandini, VMware by Broadcom
11:15 • Scaling GPU Clusters Without Melting Down! - Alay Patel & Ryan Hallisey, NVIDIA
12:00 • Slinky: Slurm in Kubernetes, Performant AI and HPC Workload Management in Kubernetes - Marlow Warnicke (Weston) & Tim Wickberg, SchedMD
14:30 • Scaling To Thousands of GPUs With Ease: Multi-Region Large Model Training on Kubernetes - Yongxi Zhang, Meng Duan & Rongrong Wu, China Mobile
15:15 • Production-Ready LLMs on Kubernetes: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Performance - Priya Samuel, Elsevier & Luke Marsden, MLOps Consulting
16:15 • Orchestrating AI Models in Kubernetes: Deploying Ollama as a Native Container Runtime - Samuel Veloso, Cast AI & Lucas Fernández, Red Hat
17:00 • Optimizing Training Performance for Large Language Model(LLM) in Kubernetes - William Wang, Huawei Cloud Technologies Co., LTD & Peng Gu, Tech Starup
17:45 • More Nodes, More Problems: Solving Multi-Host GPU/TPU Scheduling With Dynamic Resource Allocation - John Belamaric & Yash Sonthalia, Google
11:15 • Taking Care of Your Control Plane With API Priority and Fairness and Resource Quotas - Matteo Ruina & Ayaz Badouraly, Datadog
12:00 • Taming 50 Billion Time Series: Operating Global-Scale Prometheus Deployments on Kubernetes - Orcun Berkem & Alan Protasio, AWS
14:30 • Superpowers for Humans of Kubernetes: How K8sGPT Is Transforming Enterprise Ops - Alex Jones, AWS & Anais Urlichs, JP Morgan Chase
15:15 • The Life (or Death) of a Kubernetes API Request, 2025 Edition - Abu Kashem, Red Hat Inc. & Stefan Schimanski, Upbound
16:15 • Where’s All My Memory Gone? Mapping K8s Memory Metrics To Physical Resources - Mahé Tardy, Isovalent at Cisco
17:00 • The Next Generation of DaemonSet Autoscaling - Adam Bernot, Google Cloud & Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs
17:45 • Scaling Shopify's Search: Enhancing Elasticsearch Resilience With Kubernetes and KEDA - Leila Vayghan, Shopify
11:15 • Stateful Superpowers: Explore High Performance and Scaleable Stateful Workloads on K8s - Alex Chircop & Chris Milsted, Akamai
12:00 • Streamlined Efficiency: Unshackling Kubernetes Image Volumes for Rapid AI Model and Dataset Loading - Esteban Rey, Microsoft & Yifan Yuan, AlibabaCloud
14:30 • The Future of Data on Kubernetes: From Database Management To AI Foundation - Melissa Logan, Constantia; Nimisha Mehta, Confluent; Gabriele Bartolini, EDB; Akshay Ram, Google
15:15 • Trino and Data Governance on Kubernetes - Sung Yun & Aki Sukegawa, Bloomberg
16:15 • Unleashing the Power of Init Containers: Reducing Database Management Toil at Yelp - Muhammad Junaid Muzammil, Yelp
17:00 • Kubernetes Backup Legitimized: CSI Changed Block Tracking Has Arrived - Mark Lavi, Carl Braganza & Prasad Ghangal, Veeam; Xing Yang, VMware by Broadcom
17:45 • Flink on Karmada: Building Resilient Data Pipelines on Multi-Cluster K8s - Michas Szacillo, Bloomberg & Hongcai Ren, Huawei
10:45 • Coffee Break ☕
10:45 • Solutions Showcase
12:30 • Lunch 🍲
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Enhancing Research and Data Delivery With the Data Delivery System (DDS) - Álvaro Revuelta M., SciLifeLab Data Centre & Valentin Georgiev, Uppsala Universtet
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Effortlessly Build High-Performance AI/ML Pipelines With Accelerator Chaining and K8s Native Tech - Kazuki Yamamoto, NTT & Derek Wang, Intuit
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Catch More Hackers With Koney: Automated Honeytokens for Cloud Native Apps - Mario Kahlhofer, Dynatrace & Matteo Golinelli, University of Trento
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Introducing the Last Level Cache Alignment Feature in Kubernetes for Performance Optimization - Charles Wong, AMD
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Helmless: Fast Serverless Deployments Without the Overhead of Kubernetes and Terraform - Michael Reichenbach, 1KOMMA5°
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: A New Approach To Cluster Infrastructure Management for Kubernetes Service Providers - Pascal Fries & Sascha Rauch, ATIX AG
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Extensible Kubernetes CRDs Via Inheritance for Modularity and Reuse - Nik Dijkema & Mostafa Hadadian, University of Groningen
15:45 • Coffee Break ☕
18:15 • 🎉 #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest
11:15 • OpenFeature Update From the Maintainers - Thomas Poignant, Adevinta & Lukas Reining, codecentric AG
12:00 • Standardizing CI/CD Observability With OpenTelemetry: Insights From the CI/CD Observability SIG - Dotan Horovits, OpenObservability Talks & Adriel Perkins, Liatrio
14:30 • Cloud Native Storage and Data: The CNCF Storage TAG Projects, Technology & Landscape - Raffaele Spazzoli, Red Hat; Alex Chircop, Akamai
15:15 • Simplifying Apache Kafka on Kubernetes With Strimzi - Lukáš Král & Gantigmaa Selenge, Red Hat
16:15 • SIG Cloud Provider Deep Dive: Testing Cloud Controller Managers - Michael McCune, Red Hat; Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft; Walter Fender, Google
17:00 • Jaeger V2: OpenTelemetry at the Core of Modern Distributed Tracing - Jonah Kowall, Paessler & Pavol Loffay, Red Hat
17:45 • Beyond CloudEvents: Endpoints, Messages, Schemas – CNCF XRegistry - Manuel Ottlik, HDI Global SE & Clemens Vasters, Microsoft Corporation
11:15 • OpenTelemetry Project Update - Daniel Gomez Blanco, Skyscanner; Severin Neumann, Independent; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Trask Stalnaker, Microsoft; Pablo Baeyens, Datadog
12:00 • Wasm I Right or Wasm I Wrong? a Review of the Wasm Ecosystem - Taylor Thomas, Cosmonic & David Justice, Microsoft
14:30 • Enhancing CRI-O With CDI: Streamlining Device Integration in Kubernetes - Harshal Patil, Red Hat
15:15 • SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive - Sergey Kanzhelev & Dixita Narang, Google; Francesco Romani & Peter Hunt, Red Hat
16:15 • The State of Backstage in 2025 - Ben Lambert, Camila Loiola, Fredrik Adelöw, Patrik Oldsberg & Vincenzo Scamporlino, Spotify
17:00 • How To Gateway With Ingress - 140 Days InGate - Marco Ebert, Giant Swarm & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco
17:45 • Buildpacks: Pragmatic Solutions To Quick and Secure Image Builds - Juan Bustamante, DBAccess & Aidan Delaney, Bloomberg
11:15 • Advancements in AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes From WG Serving and Ecosystem Projects - Yuan Tang, Red Hat & Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA
12:00 • SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Damien Grisonnet & Pranshu Srivastava, Red Hat; Yongrui Lin & Richa Banker, Google
14:30 • A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata; Rita Zhang, Microsoft; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Joe Betz, Google
15:15 • Simplifying the Networking and Security Stack With Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon - Bill Mulligan & Anna Kapuścińska, Isovalent at Cisco; Dorde Lapcevic, Google; Amir Kheirkhahan, DBSchenker
16:15 • Kubernetes Data Protection WG Deep Dive - Dave Smith-Uchida, Veeam
17:00 • Leveraging the Little Known Features of Artifact Hub - Matt Farina, SUSE
17:45 • Attesting and Verifying Your Software Supply-Chain With In-toto - Alan Chung Ma, Keytos & Justin Cappos, New York University
11:15 • Prometheus 3.0 Has Released – Deep Dive Into Features and Roadmap - Richard Hartman, Grafana Labs
12:00 • What's New With Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! - Eddie Zaneski, Defense Unicorns; Marly Salazar, Integral Ad Science; Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns
14:30 • Mastering Efficiency in Argo CD: Scaling Smarter, Not Costlier - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity
15:15 • What's New in Knative Eventing: Security, Discovery, Integrations, and JobSink - Pierangelo Di Pilato & Christoph Stäbler, Red Hat
16:15 • Flux Ecosystem Evolution - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane & Sanskar Jaiswal, Kong
11:15 • Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Travis Nielsen, Blaine Gardner & Madhu Rajanna, IBM, Artem Torubarov & Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso
12:00 • KEDA: Unlocking Advanced Event-Driven Scaling for Kubernetes - Zbynek Roubalik, Kedify & Jorge Turrado, SCRM Lidl International Hub
14:30 • Scalable DNS With CoreDNS Plugins: A Deep Dive - Yong Tang, Ivanti & John Belamaric, Google
15:15 • What's New in gRPC - Kevin Nilson, Google
16:15 • Dapr in 2025: Durable Execution for AgenticAI Systems and Becoming the Backbone of App Platforms - Yaron Schneider, Diagrid