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Wednesday, April 2
 

11:15 BST

First Day Foresight: Anomaly Detection for Observability - Prashant Gupta & Kruthika Prasanna Simha, Apple
Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
Picture this! You are deploying an application on a cloud platform, and you want to ensure seamless performance for the application from day one. Early anomaly detection is crucial for identifying issues before they escalate and maintaining system reliability. Ideally, you will leverage historical data to train an ML model for real-time anomaly detection. However, the complexity of training and deploying ML models makes them impractical at launch. What if you could skip training and still spot anomalies in your application health metrics the moment your system is live?

In this session you’ll learn about the benefits of using pre-trained ML models for day one anomaly detection. We’ll discuss how to deploy lightweight, unsupervised pre-trained models using cloud-native tools like Kubeflow for model fine-tuning. Attendees will learn techniques to setup and refine models to detect anomalies and observe application health from the first deployment.
Speakers
avatar for Kruthika Prasanna Simha

Kruthika Prasanna Simha

Machine Learning Engineer, Apple
Kruthika is a software engineer at Apple specializing in building ML enabled observability solutions. She holds a Masters in Computer Engineering and has specialized in ML. Kruthika is on a mission to identify how the ML and cloud-native worlds converge towards bigger and better ML... Read More →
avatar for Prashant Gupta

Prashant Gupta

Senior Software Engineer, Apple Inc
Prashant is a software engineer at Apple, specializing in building ML-enabled observability solutions focused on reducing MTTD and MTTR. He holds a master’s degree in Machine Learning and NLP and enjoys exploring how these domains intersect with Observability, Automation, and Root... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:15 BST

Taking Care of Your Control Plane With API Priority and Fairness and Resource Quotas - Matteo Ruina & Ayaz Badouraly, Datadog
Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
In a Kubernetes multi-tenant environment, cluster administrators face the challenge of keeping the platform stable amid competing and diverse workloads. A single misbehaving user can overload the Control Plane or use much more than their share of resources.

API Priority and Fairness (APF) and Resource Quotas are the Kubernetes tools for administrators to address these concerns. APF provides a fine-grained classification to throttle API Server requests, while Resource Quotas provides constraints that limit resource consumption per namespace. However, tuning them to be effective and not too restrictive at the same time can be complex.

In this session, we will talk about what we learned implementing both across hundreds of clusters and thousands of workloads. We will cover our setup and configuration, the challenges we faced and our tips to address them, the drawbacks you need to be aware of, and how to reuse what we learned for your own clusters.
Speakers
avatar for Matteo Ruina

Matteo Ruina

Senior Software Engineer, Datadog
Matteo is a Senior Software Engineer at Datadog in the Compute Control Plane team, where he has been managing hundreds of self-hosted Kubernetes control planes since 2022. Prior to Datadog, Matteo worked at Skyscanner on Kubernetes, operators and progressive rollout controllers... Read More →
avatar for Ayaz Badouraly

Ayaz Badouraly

Senior Software Engineer, Datadog
Ayaz Badouraly is a Senior Software Engineer at Datadog in the Compute Control Plane team. With his background on Site Reliability Engineering, his current work focuses on the availability and scalability of Kubernetes control planes. He also enjoys understanding counterintuitive... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
  Operations + Performance
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:15 BST

Dashboards & Dragons: Crafting SLOs To Tame the AI Platform Chaos - Alexa Griffith & Ankita Chaudhari, Bloomberg
Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B
Scaling a Kubernetes platform is no fairy tale—it’s a quest with unexpected twists, chaos, and the occasional missing treasure map. In this talk, we’ll recount our journey taming the complexity of multi-cluster platforms with SLIs, SLOs, and observability dashboards.
From defining meaningful metrics to designing actionable SLO dashboards, we’ll share insights, lessons learned, and practical tips for maintaining platform reliability — regardless of if you’re deploying in the cloud, on-prem or in a hybrid environment. Through real-life lessons and battle-tested strategies, we’ll dive into the role of SLIs and SLOs in helping ensure platform robustness, discuss how to design platform observability, and highlight best practices for maintaining reliability at scale. You’ll leave equipped with the knowledge to design observability practices that ensure your AI workloads run smoothly, even at scale. Join us as we demystify SLI/SLO strategies with practical examples from our AI platform.
Speakers
avatar for Ankita Chaudhari

Ankita Chaudhari

Senior Technical Product Manager, Bloomberg
Ankita is a Senior Technical Product Manager for the AI Platforms team in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg. She focuses on the product strategy and development of cutting-edge solutions that power GenAI workloads at scale. She drives initiatives that involve optimizing performance... Read More →
avatar for Alexa Nicole Griffith

Alexa Nicole Griffith

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg LP
Alexa Griffith is a Senior Software Engineer on Bloomberg’s Cloud Native Compute Services organization. She works on building an inference platform for ML workflows and the open source project KServe. She enjoys solving engineering challenges at scale and writing code in Go. She... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:00 BST

Slinky: Slurm in Kubernetes, Performant AI and HPC Workload Management in Kubernetes - Marlow Warnicke (Weston) & Tim Wickberg, SchedMD
Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A
Kubernetes was designed for microservices. With AI rapidly advancing, Kubernetes must adapt to also support both AI training and multi-node inference. It needs to improve not only at scheduling these workloads within the cluster, but also at fine-grained resource assignment on the nodes.

High Performance Computing (HPC) systems use workload managers such as Slurm. Slurm, the most used HPC workload manager with over two decades of development, excels at gang scheduling, fair usage, job planning, and batch scheduling.

We will show the current state of Slinky, a fully open-source toolset designed to integrate Slurm with Kubernetes and to solve the difficulties of getting AI clusters working more performantly and efficiently. Slinky includes a Slurm operator, a Slurm client library, and a metrics exporter. Here, we will outline our architecture and discuss the challenges of achieving the fine-grained control needed in Kubernetes for full functionality for AI and HPC workloads.
Speakers
avatar for Tim Wickberg

Tim Wickberg

CTO, SchedMD LLC
Tim Wickberg is the Chief Technology Officer of SchedMD, and is responsible for the technical direction and development of the open-source Slurm Workload Manager.
avatar for Marlow Warnicke (Weston)

Marlow Warnicke (Weston)

Principal Cloud Architect, SchedMD
Marlow is a Principal Cloud Engineer working on scheduling at SchedMD. She also is a chair for the CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG. Marlow has expertise in resource management, the AI/ML Kubernetes cloud compute ecosystem, embedded systems, high performance compute system tools... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A
  AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:00 BST

From 0 To Production-Grade With Kubernetes Native Development - Thomas Vitale, Systematic & Kevin Dubois, Red Hat
Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
This session will give you an overview of cloud native fundamentals from a Java developer’s perspective. You will learn step-by-step how to get your application to production on Kubernetes without sacrificing your developer experience.

Kevin and Thomas will cover:
- Building and deploying containers easily, featuring Buildpacks, Podman, and Knative.
- Optimizing your application’s performance in cloud native and serverless environments.
- Coding and testing cloud native Java applications with Podman Desktop and Microcks.
- Enabling observability for your cloud native applications using OpenTelemetry to pinpoint errors and performance issues in production.
- Integrating with other services using Kubernetes Service Bindings.

This session will help you develop better cloud-native Java applications, including a comprehensive understanding of the development and operational perspectives in a Kubernetes environment.
Speakers
avatar for Thomas Vitale

Thomas Vitale

Software Architect, Systematic
Thomas is a software engineer focused on building cloud native solutions. He is the author of the "Cloud Native Spring in Action" book and plays an active role in the community as a CNCF Ambassador and Co-Chair of the CNCF App Development Working Group. A strong advocate of open... Read More →
avatar for Kevin Dubois

Kevin Dubois

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat
Kevin is a Java Champion, software engineer, author and international speaker with a passion for Open Source, Java, and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. He currently works as developer advocate at Red Hat where he gets to enjoy working with Open Source projects and... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
  Application Development
  • Content Experience Level Any

12:00 BST

KubeEdge Graduation Journey: Creating a Diverse and Collaborative Open Source Community From Scratch - Yue Bao, Huawei & Hongbing Zhang, DaoCloud
Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
Recently,the health of open-source projects,particularly,vendor diversity and neutrality,has become a key topic of discussion. Many projects have faced challenges due to a lack of vendor diversity,threatening their sustainability. It is increasingly clear that setting up the right governance structure and project team during a project’s growth is critical.
KubeEdge,the industry's first cloud-native open-source edge computing project,has grown from its initial launch in 2018 to achieving CNCF graduation this year. Over the past few years, KubeEdge has evolved from a small project into a diverse, collaborative and multi-vendor community.
In this session, we will discuss the KubeEdge graduation journey, focusing on key strategies in technical planning, community governance, developer growth, and project maintenance that enabled its transformation into a thriving ecosystem. Join us to explore how to build a multi-vendor and diverse community, and how to expand into different industries.
Speakers
avatar for Yue Bao

Yue Bao

Senior Software Engineer, Huawei
Yue Bao serves as a software engineer of Huawei Cloud. She is now working 100% on open source, focusing on lightweight edge for KubeEdge. She is the maintainer of KubeEgde and also the tech leader of KubeEdge SIG Release and Node. Before that, Yue worked on Huawei Cloud Intelligent... Read More →
avatar for Hongbing Zhang

Hongbing Zhang

KubeEdge TSC Member, Chief Operating Officer, DaoCloud
Hongbing Zhang is Chief Operating Officer of DaoCloud. He is a veteran in open source areas, he founded IBM China Linux team in 2011 and organized team to make significant contributions in Linux Kernel/openstack/hadoop projects. Now he is focusing on cloud native domain and leading... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 12:00 - 12:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:30 BST

🪧 Poster Session: Catch More Hackers With Koney: Automated Honeytokens for Cloud Native Apps - Mario Kahlhofer, Dynatrace & Matteo Golinelli, University of Trento
Wednesday April 2, 2025 13:30 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
Techniques to deceive hackers are not new. Placing honeytokens, such as a fake "passwords.txt" file in your container, wastes hackers' time and provides strong indicators of compromise when accessed. But do you set traps in your workloads? Probably not. Manually injecting a fleet of decoys into your applications and detecting access attempts to them isn't straightforward.

Kubernetes offers a great foundation into which we can easily integrate traps to detect hackers. This poster will introduce Koney, an operator that lets you define so-called deception policies for your clusters. Koney automates the setup, rotation, and teardown of honeytokens and fake API endpoints, and uses eBPF to detect, log, and forward alerts when your traps have been accessed.

Our poster will cover prior research on cyber deception, discuss why this concept is still rarely applied in practice, and how using cloud-native design patterns may finally accelerate the adoption of cyber deception.
Speakers
avatar for Mario Kahlhofer

Mario Kahlhofer

Senior Research Scientist, Dynatrace
Mario is passionate about Cyber Security and Data Science, and is currently researching methods to detect hackers in cloud-native environments. In his spare time, Mario enjoys running, mountain biking, and tinkering with electronics.
avatar for Matteo Golinelli

Matteo Golinelli

PhD Student, University of Trento
Matteo Golinelli is a PhD student in cybersecurity at the University of Trento, Italy. He is mainly interested in web and cloud security and is focused on web caches and complex interactions between HTTP entities.
Wednesday April 2, 2025 13:30 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
  🪧 Poster Sessions, Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:30 BST

🪧 Poster Session: Helmless: Fast Serverless Deployments Without the Overhead of Kubernetes and Terraform - Michael Reichenbach, 1KOMMA5°
Wednesday April 2, 2025 13:30 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
Discover how helmless.io, an open-source solution, simplifies serverless deployments with Helm Charts and CI/CD pipelines. It delivers the GitOps-style workflows and velocity of Kubernetes CICD, tailored for serverless environments like AWS Fargate and Google Cloud Run—without the complexity of managing Kubernetes itself.

This poster showcases real-world results, including a tenfold increase in deployment frequency and a 95% reduction in change lead time, powering hundreds of Google Cloud Run containers in production for over a year. Visuals include architecture diagrams, before-and-after comparisons, key metrics, and a roadmap for extending to other cloud providers.

Attendees will learn how to improve serverless workflows, reduce complexity, and adopt a cloud-agnostic GitOps approach, while contributing to the future of this innovative, developer-friendly solution.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Reichenbach

Michael Reichenbach

Senior Platform Engineer, 1KOMMA5°
Michael is a Senior Platform Engineer at 1KOMMA5°, leveraging over ten years of experience building developer-centric platforms. Michael has pioneered Helm-based deployments for Google Cloud Run, introduced service catalogues, and implemented Backstage in multiple organizations... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 13:30 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
  🪧 Poster Sessions, Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:30 BST

🪧 Poster Session: Introducing the Last Level Cache Alignment Feature in Kubernetes for Performance Optimization - Charles Wong, AMD
Wednesday April 2, 2025 13:30 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
The increasing complexity and diversity of computing workloads are driving System-On-Chip (SoC) architectures towards modular designs to meet growing performance demands. These modular SoCs incorporate specialized optimizations such as split cache structures to enable higher core density. However, to fully leverage these hardware-level advancements, corresponding optimizations are required in the software layer. Kubernetes must adapt to capture these hardware optimizations effectively. We introduce a new Kubernetes feature, “prefer-align-cpus-by-uncorecache”, designed to automatically align workloads with the Last-Level-Cache in modular SoCs. This enhancement improves workload performance by reducing latency and optimizing resource utilization, bridging the gap between advance hardware capabilities and orchestration efficiency. This session will elaborate on how the feature assigns CPU resources and the potential performance improvements it can deliver to users.
Speakers
avatar for Charles Wong

Charles Wong

Software System Design Engineer, AMD
Charles Wong is a Software Engineer and has worked at AMD for 2 years. His work focuses on optimization of Kubernetes on AMD hardware.
Wednesday April 2, 2025 13:30 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
  🪧 Poster Sessions, Operations + Performance
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

Scaling To Thousands of GPUs With Ease: Multi-Region Large Model Training on Kubernetes - Yongxi Zhang, Meng Duan & Rongrong Wu, China Mobile
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A
With the development of large model technology, industry-leading large models now have the capability to train at a scale of up to 100,000 GPUs. This scale often exceeds the capacity limits of a single K8s cluster. A feasible solution is to adopt a multi-K8s cluster joint training approach.
To achieve multi-K8s cluster joint training, two key challenges need to be addressed: adapting single K8s cluster training tasks to run in a multi-K8s cluster environment, and ensuring the synchronization and efficient transmission of training parameters and checkpoint data across clusters.
In this presentation, we will share China Mobile’s practical experience in achieving parallel training on cross-region multi-K8s clusters, utilizing over 10,000 GPUs with Kubeflow’s Training Operator and VolcanoJob, with no modifications required. Additionally, we will introduce optimized methods to accelerate cross-region data synchronization during training.
Speakers
avatar for Rongrong Wu

Rongrong Wu

China Mobile Cloud
avatar for Meng Duan

Meng Duan

Senior Software Engineer, China Mobile Cloud
I work as a software engineer in the Cloud Native team at China Mobile Cloud, participating in the architectural design of the Cloud Native infrastructure for China Mobile Cloud. Throughout my career, I have made contributions to the CNCF open-source community and have held positions... Read More →
avatar for Yongxi Zhang

Yongxi Zhang

Senior Software Engineer, China Mobile (Suzhou) Software Technology Co., Ltd.
I am a Software Engineer in the Cloud Native team at Ecloud,I works on Multi-cluster Kubernetes within the Multi-cluster Kubernetes project.Throughout my career, I have made some contributions to the open-source community. In particular, I have contributed to Clusterpedia, a renowned... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A
  AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

Navigating the Waters: Balancing Open Source Activities in Corporate Environments - Kim McMahon, Sidero Labs & Amanda Katona, NetApp Instaclustr
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
Achieving a balance between corporate goals and open source activities is essential for organizations that offer and rely on both commercial and open source technologies. This balance can be hard to achieve when you have goals, needed results, and resource constraints all pulling in different directions.

In this session, open source industry veterans Amanda and Kim will share best practices built from a decade in the Linux, Kubernetes, Apache, and open source operating system communities. Key topics will include:
* How to take organizational goals and craft a plan to support both open source and corporate products.
* How to take users on a journey to determine the technologies (open source or otherwise) that are best for them.
* How to communicate to your leadership and organization what you do, why you are doing it, and what you hope to accomplish.
Speakers
avatar for Amanda Katona

Amanda Katona

Director of Developer and Open Source Engagement, NetApp Instaclustr
Amanda is a driven community and partnership builder. She creates, and nurtures end-to-end ecosystems that support some of the most innovative technologies on the market. She oversaw Harbor, Contour, and Antrea Sandbox donations, and Harbor's promotion to Graduated. She's also provided... Read More →
avatar for Kim McMahon

Kim McMahon

Head of Marketing, Sidero Labs
Kim McMahon is well-known in the open source and cloud native ecosystem as a marketer of open source and growing healthy and productive communities. She led the marketing and community activities at several Linux Foundation projects including CNCF and RISC-V, building member participation... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
Our hero, a running app in a K8s prod environment, knows they are destined for greater things! They’re serving end users, but the value of the cloud is not realized. Hero’s devs toil on custom integrations, deployment is brittle and slow, and security and governance are HARD. Hero longs for a developer platform with consistent and repeatable system building blocks.

It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero’s transformation from a lost and confused app to one built on a solid foundation that abstracts away complexity and promotes innovation. In their fifth KubeCon ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they build an Internal Developer Platform, enabling the devs to have self-service access to widely used system capabilities. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects and build a platform before the session time elapses?
Speakers
avatar for Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate, Upbound
Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author. He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.
avatar for Whitney Lee

Whitney Lee

Developer Advocate, CNCF Ambassador
Whitney is a CNCF Ambassador who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, she has created and delivered two KubeCon keynotes, a VMware Explore keynote, and countless fun, funny, and informative community conference keynotes. You can... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
  Cloud Native Novice
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

The Future of Data on Kubernetes: From Database Management To AI Foundation - Melissa Logan, Constantia; Nimisha Mehta, Confluent; Gabriele Bartolini, EDB; Akshay Ram, Google
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D
The Data on Kubernetes (DoK) ecosystem has expanded beyond persistent storage to support critical data workloads including databases and AI/ML operations. While databases remain the primary DoK use case per the 2024 DoK Report, organizations increasingly use Kubernetes to power next-gen data infrastructure and AI initiatives.

Panelists from the Data on Kubernetes Community will discuss:

* The evolution of workload patterns from basic stateful services to advanced AI/ML deployments

* Critical considerations for running production database workloads, which remain the #1 use case

* Emerging patterns in AI/ML operations, including batch scheduling, preemption, and gang scheduling

* Technical approaches to common challenges, including feature maturity and integration with existing tools

* Strategies for optimizing resource utilization and reducing infrastructure costs for data-intensive workloads
Speakers
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avatar for Melissa Logan

Melissa Logan

CEO, Constantia
Melissa Logan is a technology industry veteran and CEO of Constantia.io, a technology marketing agency she founded in 2018. With over 25 years of experience, she specializes in developing marketing and community strategies for enterprise technology and open source organizations. Prior... Read More →
avatar for Gabriele Bartolini

Gabriele Bartolini

CloudNativePG maintainer, EDB
Gabriele, a passionate open-source advocate, has played a pivotal role in shaping PostgreSQL's global growth. His focus on enhancing business continuity for large-scale databases aligns with his advocacy for stateful workloads in cloud-native environments since 2019. As a co-founder... Read More →
avatar for Nimisha Mehta

Nimisha Mehta

Software Engineer, Confluent
Nimisha is a Software Engineer working on Confluent's Kubernetes Platform team. She has been in the cloud infra space for over 5 years, and has been an end-user of Kubernetes and many other open source technologies. Apart from learning about distributed systems and infrastructure... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D
  Data Processing + Storage
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

Superpowers for Humans of Kubernetes: How K8sGPT Is Transforming Enterprise Ops - Alex Jones, AWS & Anais Urlichs, JP Morgan Chase
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
Humans cannot scale like software, and our ability to diagnose and triage is finite. Imagine the burden of operating dozens of tenants across multiple clusters. It’s going to take a team, no lone hero can keep the lights on and the customers happy.

Until now.

The CNCF project, K8sGPT has unlocked a fast track for managing clusters, triaging issues and identifying a problem before they impact users. Using AI to simplify complex errors, we demonstrate how this project is elevating humans to scale at a rate never seen before, and able to do more with less.

Never before has there been a crisper example of getting AI to focus on the toil so humans can do the things we’re good at - problem solving.

Our Enterprise adopters share of how they’ve used K8sGPT to lower the bar to entry, uplifting the skills of their teams.
We chart a course together, presenter and audience, as we reset the expectation of what great looks for operating Kubernetes at planet scale.
Speakers
avatar for Alex Jones

Alex Jones

Principal Engineer, AWS
Alex works at AWS. When he's not obsessing over customers via the delivery of high quality products and tools, he's working passionately on open-source. Alex lives in the UK and has two kids.
avatar for Anais Urlichs

Anais Urlichs

Platform Engineer, JP Morgan Chase
Anaïs is a Platform Engineer at JPM Chase, where she contributes to the company’s cloud implementation. Before working as Platform Engineer, Anais worked for 7 years as Developer Advocate. Most recently, as part of the open source team at Aqua Security, her work was focused on... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
  Operations + Performance
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

Many Cooks, One Platform: Balancing Ownership and Contribution for the Perfect Broth - Lian Li, lianmakesthings
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
When I started contracting with the Dutch government to build a new internal developer platform, I found myself navigating competing demands from different teams. Development teams wanted support tailored to their processes, neighboring infrastructure teams aimed to protect their areas of responsibility, and management expected visible progress. These conflicting priorities kept pulling my team in multiple directions, making it challenging to stay aligned and focused.

Since I have a background in Developer Relations, I soon made it my goal to engage all involved parties, giving users a sense of ownership and collaboration, while keeping the platform cohesive.

In this talk, I’ll share the tools and processes that helped address these challenges. I’ll provide practical insights for aligning diverse stakeholders. If you’ve ever faced the challenge of “too many cooks” this session will show how to turn competing demands into a recipe for success.
Speakers
avatar for Lian Li

Lian Li

Cloud Native Human, lianmakesthings
Lian always wanted to save the world. After leaving law school, she decided to work with computers instead. While in Web Dev, she started attending tech events, and soon fell in love with the community. In her roles as Consultant and DevRel, Lian combined technical knowledge with... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

15:15 BST

The Bricks That Make Us – How the LEGO Group Avoids 50 Mediocre Kubernetes Implementations - Thomas Øther Rasmussen & Paul Farver, The LEGO Group
Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
Striking the balance between Autonomy and Governance is surprisingly difficult. At The LEGO Group, developers are free to choose the tools they believe suit their task best. Limiting this autonomy will stifle developer creativity and lead to shadow IT, so how can you leverage Platform Engineering without becoming a Kragle-wielding Lord Business?

More than 100 product teams run their applications in LEGO factories across the globe, and that requires good communication between infrastructure-, platform-, and application teams. This session will focus on how the LEGO Container Platform Team successfully onboards new applications, engages with developers, and keeps them happy.
Speakers
avatar for Paul Farver

Paul Farver

Platform Engineer, The LEGO Group
Paul has been working with Kubernetes since 2018, and has a passion for developer experience. He has been with The LEGO Group for 2 years, and spends most lunches trying to get his co-workers to laugh rather than eating. Outside of work, he sings classical choir, and plays D&D
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Thomas Øther Rasmussen

Platform Engineer, The LEGO Group
What do you do when you love learning new things? Become a teacher of course! After all, if you learn how to teach others, perhaps you might be able to teach yourself too. With that mindset, Thomas' knowledge and experience has spread far and wide, not just in the Cloud Native landscape... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

15:15 BST

Deep Dive To AI Agent Observability - Guangya Liu, IBM & Karthik Kalyanaraman, Langtrace AI
Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
OpenTelemetry has emerged as a powerful framework for observability in cloud-native applications, but how does it apply to the intricate needs of AI Agent observability? This session explores the journey of leveraging OpenTelemetry to monitor, trace, and analyze AI Agents. We’ll cover key challenges such as capturing metrics for multi-agent systems, tracing inference workflows, and correlating AI-specific data like model performance and decision latency.

Attendees will gain insights into extending OpenTelemetry to address AI-specific requirements, integrating with popular observability tools, and building actionable insights for production-grade AI systems. Through practical demonstrations and real-world use cases, this talk will showcase how OpenTelemetry provides transparency, reliability, and optimization for AI-driven architectures running on Kubernetes. Join us to unlock the potential of OpenTelemetry for AI Agent observability.
Speakers
avatar for Guangya Liu

Guangya Liu

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Guangya Liu is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) for IBM Instana. He is the technical leader driving the IBM Instana development and customer support. He is also the open source leader for IBM Instana team, driving the cloud-native open source contribution to integrate with... Read More →
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Karthik Kalyanaraman

Co-Founder & CTO, Langtrace AI
Karthik Kalyanaraman is the co-founder and CTO of Langtrace AI. Prior to Langtrace, Karthik built and scaled products at Coinbase, HP and VMware. Karthik is a thought leader and has deep experience in infrastructure and observability.
Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

15:15 BST

The Life (or Death) of a Kubernetes API Request, 2025 Edition - Abu Kashem, Red Hat Inc. & Stefan Schimanski, Upbound
Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
This presentation takes an in-depth look at the path of an API request (e.g. a user sends a request to create a Pod through kubectl create). We take a deep dive into the phases a request passes through, in a chronological order, starting with its arrival at the k8s API Server, and ending in its departure carrying a response to the caller.

This talk will not dive into any code snippets, but rather will use easy to understand diagrams that dig deep into k8s architecture, and side by side, it will show the related observability artifacts (log, audit, metrics snapshot, and error messages) and clarify their implications. To our knowledge, no kubecon talk has covered this topic from an operator's perspective.

After attending this talk, the audience, whether they are an admin, an SRE, or a DevOps professional, will walk away with a much clearer understanding of "how things work in Kubernetes"; the new insights will make them more effective at finding root causes for complex cluster issues.
Speakers
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Stefan Schimanski

Senior Principal Engineer, Upbound
Stefan is a Senior Principal Engineer at Upbound working on control planes, Kubernetes, kcp, and as a tech-lead in Sig API Machinery. He contributed a major part of the CRD feature set. Stefan is a 2nd time GoogleSummer of Code mentor with CNCF, loves to teach and help people to learn... Read More →
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Abu Kashem

Software Engineer, Red Hat Inc.
Abu is a Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc., working on Kubernetes Control Plane technology, he is a maintainer of sig-api-machinery, he is also an active contributor to the API Priority and Fairness feature of the k8s APIServer
Wednesday April 2, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
  Operations + Performance
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:15 BST

OSS = Open Source ... Strategy!? Google Is Doubling Down on K8s in the AI Era, and You Should Too! - Jago Macleod, Google
Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
Kubernetes is Ten Years Old… Yikes - maybe it’s time to bail and find the next new hotness before it’s too late? Is it Ray? Or wait maybe it’s Spark or Run:ai or WASM or… ? Turns out it’s a trick question - all of these and more will play a role in the next hockey stick growth graph. And Kubernetes has a key role to play too.

I lead Open Source Kubernetes at Google. In this talk I’ll share our open source strategy and how it changed recently. I'll present the strategic framework and supporting pillars. I’ll share where we will focus our energy in the Kubernetes project in the next couple of years, and some concrete goals and risks. And I'll share how we rationalize work in open source in a world of limited resources.

The world has never changed so fast. Fortunately, the Kubernetes community created an extensible platform that is (just about) ready for the next trillion core hours. It’s not time to jump ship - we’re doubling down on Kubernetes and we think you will too.
Speakers
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Jago Macleod

Engineering Director, Kubernetes & GKE, Google
Jago Macleod is an Engineering Director at Google, where he leads Open Source Kubernetes and GKE Release and Upgrades, 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 may eventually... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:15 BST

Asimov's Zeroth Law of Robotics: Observability for AI - Nicole van der Hoeven, Grafana Labs
Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
A robot may not harm humans. A robot must obey humans. A robot must protect its own existence. These are Isaac Asimov's three Laws of Robotics, created to govern the ethical programming of artificial intelligences. From the Butlerian Jihad to Skynet to cylons, we've been immortalizing our collective nightmares about artificial intelligence for years. But there's an unmentioned law that comes as a prerequisite to all of that: a robot must be observable.

In this talk, I discuss the different types of AI, the factors that make observing AI different from observing applications, and the telemetry signals specific to AI that we might want to listen to. How do we deal with large data sets? How do we observe for model drift? How do we take into account the costs of LLMs? How can we use distributed tracing to follow event sequences? Part cautionary tale and part technical demo, this talk shows how to instrument and monitor AI apps using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, OpenLit, and more.
Speakers
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Nicole van der Hoeven

Senior Developer Advocate, Grafana Labs
Nicole is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs and a performance engineer with over a decade of experience in breaking software and learning to build it back up again. She has lived in the Philippines, the US, Australia, the Netherlands, and Portugal, helping teams all over... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:15 BST

Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Sign and Verify All the Things - Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft
Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
You're a cluster operator facing evolving supply chain threats. You're getting hit with rate-limits causing service availability issues. A configuration change made it into production and deployed unapproved images. Someone got access to your registry and tampered with an image. How do we handle these threat vectors? Digital signing and policy enforcement can help! In this talk, we'll look at how CNCF projects like ORAS, Notary, Flux, and Kyverno can be used together to ensure that everything in your production clusters, from images to configuration YAML, comes from a trusted source and has been digitally signed to ensure it hasn't been tampered with and. how to do this with a registry you control. You'll leave this session with knowledge of how these tools work together to enable you to protect your clusters, some of the gaps, and how you can address them. Jeremy will walk through a complete end-to-end experience and provide a Github repo with samples to take home.
Speakers
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Jeremy Rickard

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
Jeremy Rickard is a principal software engineer at Microsoft where he works on the Azure Container Upstream team. He is currently a co-chair for SIG Release and serves on both the CNCF and the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committees. He was also the Kubernetes 1.20 Release Lead.
Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 16:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:00 BST

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
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
Despite many DEI initiatives, diversity in open source is still lacking. That's not only bad for underrepresented groups, it's also bad for OSS (studies have shown time and again that diverse teams produce better outcomes). While there isn't much you can do about the industry's hiring practices, you can help make a difference!

As companies scale back on DEI efforts, community-driven change becomes essential—and that’s where allies come in. Minorities are, by definition, in the minority, and their advocacy alone has limits. Allies have the power to amplify underrepresented voices, raise awareness among peers, and advocate for change. When allies take a stand for inclusivity, accessibility, and ethical responsibility, they hold the power to influence the industry's values and priorities.

Join this panel with CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing WG members to learn how you can drive meaningful change and contribute to a more diverse, inclusive, and innovative open-source community.
Speakers
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Catherine Paganini

CTO, Buoyant
Catherine Paganini is co-chair of the TAG Contributor Strategy, founder of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing WG and Cloud Native Glossary, and Head of Marketing and Community at Buoyant, the creator of the CNCF graduated service mesh. A marketing leader passionate about open source, Catherine... Read More →
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Rob Koch

Principal, Slalom Build
A tech enthusiast who thrives on steering projects from their initial spark to successful fruition, Rob Koch is Principal at Slalom Build, AWS Hero, and Co-chair of the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group. His expertise in architecting event-driven systems is firmly rooted... Read More →
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Sandeep Kanabar

Lead Software Engineer, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)
Hailing from India, Sandeep is a passionate software engineer working at Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock). A frequent meetup speaker, Sandeep enjoys sharing his lessons learned from 15+ years in the tech space with the community. He's a staunch advocate for diversity and inclusion and... Read More →
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Anastasiia Gubska

SRE/DevOps Engineer, BT Group
Anastasiia Gubska, a Deaf CNCF Ambassador and SRE/DevOps Engineer at BT Group, develops and implements best practices for software delivery at the UK-based multinational telecommunications company. Passionate about discovering new communities and embracing diverse cultures, Anastasiia... Read More →
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Milad Vafaeifard

Lead Software Engineer, Epam Systems
Milad Vafaeifard, a Lead Software Engineer at EPAM Systems, has 9+ years of web design and development expertise. Deaf but undeterred, he is the creative force behind Sign Language Tecn YouTube channel focused on tech content for the signing tech community. Deeply committed to creating... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:00 BST

Learning Kubernetes Through the Lens of Metrics - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE & Mario Jason Braganza, Janusworx
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
Metrics are often seen as tools for monitoring CPU, memory, or I/O—but Kubernetes metrics offer so much more. They provide a window into your cluster’s inner workings.

Did you know Kubernetes metrics can tell you which (alpha, beta, stable) features are enabled in your cluster? Or reveal how many pods a kubelet is running, how many are waiting to be scheduled, or how much byte space container logs are consuming? They can even track mirror pods, live goroutines, or the latest etcd compaction revision. These seemingly small data points hold huge insights—and that’s just scratching the surface.

In this talk, Priyanka and Jason will explore Kubernetes metrics, their different types, and how to use them for actionable insights. You'll also learn how to add custom metrics to Kubernetes components.

Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned contributor, this session will transform how you understand Kubernetes metrics.

Join us to see Kubernetes through a new lens—metrics! 📈🔍
Speakers
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Priyanka Saggu

Kubernetes GitHub Admin, SIG Contribex Technical Lead, 1.31 Emeritus Advisor, 1.29 Release Lead, SUSE
Priyanka Saggu is a Kubernetes Engineer at SUSE, and has made significant contributions to Kubernetes project via Release, ContribEx, Testing and CLI SIGs. She's the Emeritus Advisor for Kubernetes 1.31 release cycle, Release Lead for Kubernetes 1.29, Kubernetes GitHub Admin, and... Read More →
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Mario Jason Braganza

Kubernetes New Org Membership Coordinator – SIG Contributer Experience, Janusworx
Jason Braganza is an IT consultant with 20+ years of experience in designing solutions for SMBs. Passionate about FOSS, he mentors youth in Linux, communication, and blogging through the Linux Users' Group of Durgapur.A recipient of the Kubernetes Contributor award 2024, Jason serves... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
  Cloud Native Novice
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:00 BST

Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects (Redux) - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
Building on my KubeCon EU 2022 talk, "From Kubernetes to PaaS to... err, what's next," I aim to introduce platform engineering to the software developer and architect communities.

My primary goal is for developers to understand "what good looks like" with a successful platform build and help them understand how a platform can influence the SDLC (for better or worse!)

Key takeaways from the session:
- Explore how platform architecture influences software architecture and vice versa
- Learn why the principles of coupling and cohesion apply to platform components (and configuration) in the same way as they do with software components
- Understand what to expect from an effective platform, including how applications are built, shipped, and run
- Learn about key platform metrics grounded in developer experience frameworks such as DORA, SPACE, and DevEx
Speakers
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Daniel Bryant

Platform Engineer and Head of Product Marketing, Syntasso
Daniel Bryant is a platform engineer and the Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso. Daniel is a long-time coder, platform engineer, and Java Champion, and he contributes to several open source projects. He also writes for InfoQ, O’Reilly, and The New Stack, and regularly presents... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:45 BST

Museum of Weird Bugs: Our Favorites From 8 Years of Service Mesh Debugging - Alex Leong, Buoyant
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
Over the past 8 years we've fixed a lot of bugs in Linkerd. Many of these were straightforward, but some of them manifested in strange ways, or only showed up in unique situations, or otherwise surprised us. Some of them were just plain funny. In this talk we run through a couple of our favorites: the most interesting, weird, and memorable bugs we've found and fixed Linkerd. We describe how they originally manifested (usually in someone else's production system), how we went about tackling them (often by educating the reporter on how to construct a useful bug report), and the sometimes long and windy path to finally fixing them.
Speakers
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Alex Leong

Software Engineer, Buoyant
Alex is a software engineer at Buoyant and core maintainer of Linkerd, the open source service mesh for cloud native applications. Prior to Buoyant, she worked at Twitter on core API infrastructure. She enjoys roller derby, woodworking, and type safety.
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:45 BST

Scaling Shopify's Search: Enhancing Elasticsearch Resilience With Kubernetes and KEDA - Leila Vayghan, Shopify
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
Millions of merchants across the globe use Shopify to sell their products. The cornerstone of this commerce platform is the search infrastructure, which hosts more than two petabytes of data, providing search for millions of users.
This session explains how Shopify improved their search infrastructure resiliency while increasing write performance for Elasticsearch clusters. This was done by isolating production writes from bursts of maintenance writes that degraded search availability for all users. This approach leverages Kubernetes native mechanisms to host production workloads on isolated Google Cloud nodepools protecting them from the heavy writes that are sent to autoscalable nodepools that are dedicated for maintenance tasks. Using Kubernetes based Event Driven Autoscaling (KEDA), an autoscaler that responds to events such as bursts of writes, allowed maintenance nodepools to scale only when needed. Using KEDA saved 40% in costs and improved production write performance by 65%.
Speakers
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Leila Vayghan

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Shopify
Leila is a site reliability engineer at Shopify, where she supports millions of merchants to grow by designing and building a reliable infrastructure. Leila has completed her master’s degree on the availability of stateful applications running on Kubernetes and has presented her... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
  Operations + Performance
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:45 BST

The API Gateway Maturity Matrix: Where Do You Rank? - Joel Hans, ngrok
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B
Every API needs a front door, but many organizations struggle to define what "done" means for their API gateway implementation. Is authentication and rate limiting enough? What about multi-region failover or self-service development environments?

In this talk, we'll build on the CNCF's Cloud Native Maturity Model to create a practical framework for API gateway evolution across five key phases: Build (choosing fundamentals), Operate (implementing CI/CD), Scale (mastering multi-region), Improve (balancing control with velocity), and Adapt (enabling advanced patterns).

Through real-world examples and interactive audience polling, we'll identify where most organizations get stuck and discuss concrete solutions using popular tools. You'll walk away with a clear assessment of your current API gateway maturity and practical tips for implementing critical capabilities like GitOps workflows, nuanced rate limiting, and self-service developer environments.
Speakers
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Joel Hans

Senior Developer Educator, ngrok
Joel Hans is a senior developer educator at ngrok. He’s been sharing know-how on infrastructure and networking for more than a decade, with stints in companies doing open source, observability, cloud native tooling, and more. Away from how-to guides and demo apps, you can find him... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any
 
Thursday, April 3
 

10:10 BST

Keynote: Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government - Hans Kristian Flaatten, Lead Platform Engineer, Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration & Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer, NAV
Thursday April 3, 2025 10:10 - 10:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Who said that Government Tech has to be boring? In Norway the largest administration has been using Kubernetes for over 7 years! StatefulSets had just been introduced (alpha) and RBAC was still in beta. During this time we moved from quarterly releases to thousands of continuous releases each week across our fleet of cloud native applications!

Could we replicate the success we had at NAV for other agencies? Could we provide them with a fully managed platform as a service to let them focus on building new and innovative services for their users and not reinventing the wheel by building yet another platform?

In this session Audun and Hans Kristian will share their experience building and operating one of the largest platforms of its kind in Norway providing a fully fledged application development platform for more than a 100 product teams. And how they set an ambitious goal of being able to provide their platform as a service to other agencies.
Speakers
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Audun Fauchald Strand

Principal Software Engineer, and Director of Platforms, NAV
Principal Engineer at NAV. Worked for FINN.no before that. Loves to increase developer speed and make developers happy.
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Hans Kristian Flaatten

Lead Platform Engineer, Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration
CNCF Abassasor, Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud, Grafana Champion and Platform Engineer at the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) working on NAIS - a platform built to increase development speed by providing the best experience to build, run and operate applications... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 10:10 - 10:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions, Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:00 BST

A Practical Guide To Cloud Native Solutions: Demonstrating ROI and Business Impact - Danielle Cook, StackGen & Simon Forster, Stackegy
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
Navigating the cloud-native landscape can be daunting, especially when deciding whether to buy a commercial solution, invest in open source technologies, plan significant process change, or undertake building platforms. But once you’ve evaluated the technologies, run POCs, and planned out your processes, how do you convince your business to invest? In this practical session, we’ll give real world case studies of companies evaluating technologies and transformation and how they were able to convince “upper management” of the benefits.

We will spend the session going through the different materials and frameworks to create business alignment and even provide templates for calculating ROI, including development and operational efficiency, cost savings, and business agility metrics.

Whether you're a startup or an enterprise, this session will equip you with actionable steps to use when you present cloud native solutions for budget and investment.
Speakers
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Simon Forster

Technical Architect and CNCF Ambassador, Stackegy
Simon Forster is a CNCF Ambassador and cloud native technology architect and engineer based in London. Simon has extensive experience working in heavily regulated financial institutions on the design, delivery and security of critical cloud native applications. He has a specific focus... Read More →
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Danielle Cook

StackGen, VP
Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:00 BST

Starting and Scaling a Platform Engineering Team - Camille Fournier, Independent & Ian Nowland, Junction Labs
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
This talk will take highlights from our book to discuss the basics of starting and scaling Platform Engineering teams. We will cover highlights including: when to start, the skills the team needs, how to set out a successful product and execution strategy, and dealing with challenging stakeholders in order to create success. The audience will leave this talk with concrete takeaways that will help them wherever they are on the platform engineering journey, and clear ideas for what success looks like.
Speakers
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Camille Fournier

Author, CTO, Open Athena AI
Camille Fournier is a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur, who has held technology executive positions at companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 50. She has participated in numerous open source foundations and projects including CNCF, FINOS, and Apache ZooKeeper, and is the... Read More →
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Ian Nowland

Co-founder, Junction Labs
Ian Nowland has been in the software industry for 25 years. He is currently a co-founder at a seed stage startup, Junction Labs, building tools for platform teams. Prior to that, he co-authored a book on Platform Engineering with Camille Fournier. This included his learnings from... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 11:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:45 BST

AI Pipelines With OPEA: Best Practices for Cloud Native ML Operations - Ezequiel Lanza, Intel & Melissa McKay, JFrog
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B
The Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) is an open source project intended to assist organizations with the realities of enterprise-grade deployments of GenAI apps. Beginning from scratch is a costly endeavor, and the ability to quickly iterate on a solution and determine its viability for your organization is essential to ensure you are making the best moves forward.

During this session, Ezequiel and Melissa will introduce you to the OPEA platform and how to empower your team to build, deploy, and manage AI pipelines more effectively. Attendees will gain insights into best practices for handling complex AI/ML workloads, automating dependency management, and integrating Kubernetes for efficient resource utilization. With a focus on real-world applications, this talk not only showcases the transformative potential of these tools but also encourages attendees to explore new ways to contribute, innovate, and collaborate in driving the future of AI adoption in enterprise environments.
Speakers
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Melissa McKay

Head of Developer Relations, JFrog
Melissa is the Head of Developer Relations for JFrog. She currently serves on the CNCF Governing Board, and the Technical Steering Committee of OPEA. She loves sharing her knowledge with the community as a developer, speaker, and author. Melissa has been recognized as a Java Champion... Read More →
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Ezequiel Lanza

Open Source AI Evangelist, Intel
Passionate about helping people discover the exciting world of artificial intelligence, Ezequiel is a frequent AI conference presenter and the creator of use cases, tutorials, and guides that help developers adopt open source AI tools.
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B
  AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:45 BST

Building a Ubiquitous Cloud Native: Beyond the Intersectionality - Carol Valencia, Elastic; Pawel Piwosz, Tameshi; Satyam Soni, Devtron Inc.; Anita Ihuman, MetalBear; Audra Montenegro, CNCF
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
Communities are the backbone of innovation and collaboration, but how do diverse geographies, cultures, problems, and challenges influence the way these communities operate? Leaders from Latam, Africa, Europe, and India will share their unique stories, solutions, and insights, highlighting both the similarities and differences in community building across regions. The discussion will focus on improving guidelines for supporting underrepresented groups, developing strategies to strengthen local chapters, breaking down silos, and addressing regional challenges.

A CNCF Community Manager will moderate the discussion, sharing challenges raised by organizers worldwide and exploring how approaches to community building vary across regions. By the end of this panel, attendees will be inspired to cultivate respectful and inclusive communities for everyone. KubeCon, in particular, embodies a unique blend of cultures and languages.
Speakers
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Carolina Valencia

Customer Architect, Elastic
Carol is a passionate software developer dedicated to implementing secure cloud-native practices. She actively contributes to CNCF projects and the Kubernetes community as an open-source contributor. She enjoys learning new technologies and creating material, some of which she shares... Read More →
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Anita Ihuman

Developer Adbocate, MetalBear
Anita is a developer advocate and technical writer specializing in cloud native and DevOps engineering. She champions the growth and adoption of cloud-native solutions in Africa as an organizer of Kubernetes Community Days(KCD) Nigeria and the CNCF Abuja community group. She is an... Read More →
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Audra Montenegro

Community Program Manager | KCDs & CNCGs, CNCF
Audra Montenegro has spent nearly ten years organizing global events, with seven of those years working on content for large tech conferences and small summits with O’Reilly Media. Currently she is a Community Program Manager at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) running... Read More →
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satyam soni

OSS Developer, Devtron Inc.
Satyam is OSS Developer at Devtron, Google Summer of Code Mentee 2024 at OpenSUSE,Kubernetes Release Notes Lead and Shadow v.130 & v1.31, CNCF Ambassador, and Cloud Native Community Groups New Delhi Organizer. He focuses on developing and contributing to open-source software. He holds... Read More →
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Pawel Piwosz

Cloud Solution Architect, Tameshi
Docker Captain. DevOps Institute Ambassador. CD.Foundation Ambassador. AWS Community Builder. Engineer, leader, mentor, speaker. My focus is on CALMS. I am building better understanding of DevOps as driver for the organization. I am devoted to Serverless and CI/CD. I authored... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:45 BST

Journey at the New York Times: Is Sidecar-Less Service Mesh Disappearing Into Infrastructure? - Lin Sun, Solo.io & Ahmed Bebars, The New York Times
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
At The New York Times, we manage a multi-tenant Kubernetes architecture across diverse regions, leveraging projects like Istio, OPA, and Karpenter. With Istio ambient mode now generally available, we’re exploring whether it’s time to eliminate sidecars in our production environment and allow the service mesh to integrate seamlessly into our infrastructure for multiple teams.

In this talk, we’ll take you through our journey of collaborating with the Istio and cloud-native community to build a sidecar-less architecture from scratch, utilizing the broader cloud-native stack we already have. We’ll share the technical challenges we encountered, practical tips for adopting Istio ambient mode, and the tangible benefits we’ve realized along the way. Join us to discover how we’re reshaping our cloud-native architecture for simplicity and efficiency.

Speakers
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Ahmed Bebars

Principal Engineer, The New York Times
As a Principal Engineer on the Developer Platforms mission at The New York Times, I specialize in Cloud Infrastructure technologies, focusing on developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is crafting a secure runtime environment that empowers service... Read More →
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Lin Sun

CNCF TOC member and Head of Open-Source, 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 →
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
  Connectivity
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:45 BST

Pushing the Limits of Prometheus at Etsy - Chris Leavoy, Etsy & Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
A deep dive into the journey of pushing Prometheus beyond its performance limits. This talk offers an insider's perspective on scaling a single Prometheus instance using a powerhouse 128-core machine with 4TB of RAM, and processing a staggering 500 million metrics at its peak. It’s a story packed with lessons, insights, and actionable takeaways from operating one of the industry's largest Prometheus servers.

The talk will go through:
- Breaking Boundaries: Explore the challenges encountered in Prometheus' design and how they navigated them.
- Diagnosing Bottlenecks: Discover how to combine observability signals—metrics, profiles, and traces—to pinpoint and overcome performance roadblocks.
- Building Resilience: Uncover strategies to optimize metrics volume and enhance Prometheus' reliability under load.

This session isn’t just about pushing technology to the edge—it’s about learning to work smarter, build better systems, and create a more resilient observability stack.
Speakers
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Bryan Boreham

Distinguished Engineer, Grafana Labs
Bryan Boreham is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on highly scalable storage for metrics, logs and traces. Bryan's career has ranged from charting pie sales at a bakery to real-time pricing of billion-dollar bond trades. A contributor to many Open Source projects... Read More →
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Chris Leavoy

Staff Observability Engineer, Etsy
Chris Leavoy is a Staff Engineer who leads Etsy's Observability practice. From the good old days of MRTG to modern-day Cloud Native, Chris has a long track record of helping large enterprises wrangle their distributed systems. Bryan Boreham is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:45 BST

Building a 5* Kubernetes Hotel - Dean Fuller, Fidelity International & Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity International
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
When Fidelity International's public cloud journey began to slow it became clear that our barrier to cloud was too high and with lower cognitive load platforms readily available on premises (CloudFoundry) why would anyone move? This sparked the realisation that we needed to build a public cloud container hosting platform that could provide that experience our developers had become used to for so many years, what was born was known as the "Kubernetes Hotel". Abstracting much of the K8s infrastructure complexity from our internal developers it allowed them to focus on the business logic and leaving the platform team to do the heavy engineering. In this talk we'll explore the high's and low's of the K8s hotel business, how our MVP was more of a motel and what we believe a 5* K8s hotel might look like as we progress further on our journey.
Speakers
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Rachael Wonnacott

Associate Director - Container Platform Engineering, Fidelity International
Rachael has spent the last decade focused on platform engineering. She places a conscious emphasis on improving flow and is on the quest to smooth the application lifecycle for developers in the enterprise. With a background in astrophysics, Rachael brings her scientific approach... Read More →
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Dean Fuller

Director of Developer Platform Engineering, Fidelity International
Dean Fuller has spent the last 20 years working in the technology infrastructure domain, always looking for opportunities to challenge approach and focusing on value and quality of the outcomes. Today Dean oversees the Developer Platform Engineering group at Fidelity International... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:15 BST

🪧 Poster Session: Migrate Smarter, Not Harder: Mastering Object Storage With Chorus - Artem Torubarov & Andrei Ivashchenko, Clyso GmbH
Thursday April 3, 2025 13:15 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
This poster session showcases Chorus, an open-source tool that simplifies migrating and backing up object storage, like S3 or Swift. It begins with a quick overview of Chorus's features, followed by a live demonstration of its capabilities in action.

Attendees will explore two key migration strategies and their impact on disaster recovery goals—Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO):

1. Zero-downtime migration: Avoids downtime (zero RTO) during normal operations but risks non-zero RPO if updates are lost during unexpected issues.
2. Zero-RPO migration: Ensures no data loss (zero RPO), even during failures, but requires planned downtime, resulting in non-zero RTO.

The session provides practical insights, trade-offs, and best practices for large-scale S3 migrations. It also empowers users to move beyond vendor-locked solutions with guidance on adopting cloud-native object storage tools like Rook.
Speakers
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Artem Torubarov

Software engineer, Clyso GmbH
Senior software engineer with over 10 years of experience. I’m a passionate advocate for Go, Kubernetes, and the CNCF ecosystem. Most part of my careed developed deistributed backend applications. Currently, I work at Clyso, focusing on storage technologies, including running Ceph... Read More →
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Andrei Ivashchenko

Tech Lead, Clyso GmbH
Research, development and stuff
Thursday April 3, 2025 13:15 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
  🪧 Poster Sessions, Data Processing + Storage
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:15 BST

🪧 Poster Session: Navigating the CNCF Wilderness: A Survival Guide To Container Signing and Verification - Ivan Wallis, CyberArk
Thursday April 3, 2025 13:15 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
Confused about what container and artifact signing tools to use? Fear not! This session is your trusty map and compass for navigating the tricky terrain of container signing and verification. We’ll explore the current projects available, uncover advantages and disadvantages of them, and dodge common pitfalls lurking along the way especially when it comes to deploying in production. Packed with practical tips and a dash of adventure specifically around the Sigstore cosign and Notary Project projects, this session will help you tame the complexities of container signing and build trust in your software supply chain. Areas of focus include key management, PKI, signing and runtime enforcement policy, auditing and observability, and most importantly how to achieve a secure deployment leveraging enterprise infrastructure.
Speakers
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Ivan Wallis

Architect, Cloud Native Solutions at Venafi, CyberArk
For more than 20+ years, Ivan has been a trusted advisor to some of the largest enterprise customers with PKI, code signing, SSH, TLS, and cryptographic systems, and is passionate about helping security teams acquire and implement machine identity management solutions. He closely... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 13:15 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
  🪧 Poster Sessions, Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:15 BST

🪧 Poster Session: Optimising OpenCRVS Deployment With Kubernetes: Lessons for DPI Adoption in the Global South - Andrew Amstrong Musoke, Upanzi DPI Network & Samuel Emmanuel, Carnegie Mellon University-Africa (Upanzi Network)
Thursday April 3, 2025 13:15 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
Open source Digital Public Infrastructure, DPI is the leading approach for lowering the barrier of digital transformation for governments in the global south and boosting inclusive socio-economic development.
Lower technical skills, heterogeneous digital infrastructure and fragmented digital sovereignty significantly hinder the adoption and scalability of critical public services like OpenCRVS, a project for civil registration and vital statistics.
Learn how a Kubernetes based architecture addresses these challenges, using OpenCRVS as a case study to demo a shift from inefficient, manual deployments with artisanal scripts to an out-of-box and automated process while reducing the resource footprint. Explore the practical strategies employed to optimize and deploy OpenCRVS in a heterogenous air-gapped environment, reducing development and deployment times from months to days while enhancing security and maintainability. The lessons we gleaned are recommendations for DPIs in general.
Speakers
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Andrew Amstrong Musoke

Research Engineer, Upanzi DPI Network
Andrew is a Cloud and DevSecOps engineer aspiring to architect affordable, scalable and secure cloud solutions to accelerate the digitalization of Africa.He is currently exploring DPI deployability as a research engineer with CMU in Rwanda. He also has a passion for capacity building... Read More →
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Samuel Emmanuel

Research Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University-Africa, Carnegie Mellon University-Africa (Upanzi Network)
Samuel Eneojo Emmanuel is a Research Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University-Africa (Upanzi Network), focusing on Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs) and Digital Public Goods (DPGs). He is passionate about cloud-native technologies, AIOps, and their applications in Africa. With a... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 13:15 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
  🪧 Poster Sessions, Emerging + Advanced
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:15 BST

🪧 Poster Session: Reliable K8s Resource Submission & Bookkeeping - Tiancheng Yin & Yao Lin, Bloomberg
Thursday April 3, 2025 13:15 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
At Bloomberg, we maintain a cloud-native container orchestration platform for general utility compute. This internal service offering has seen rapid growth, which imposes challenges related to the reliability of resource submission and post-deployment status tracking.

Creating resources in a cluster is easy. Developers could build an API that performs resource creation against the Kubernetes API server. However, it gets complicated if and when the API needs to support large volumes of resource creation requests in multiple clusters.

In this talk, we will explore our current implementation of resource submission and bookkeeping, which utilizes in-cluster pull agents and source-of-truth. We will then compare this to our proposed solution, which involves a highly available PostgreSQL database, a Kubernetes resource watcher, and Apache Kafka. We will conclude our talk with a proposed design that allows for more reliable resource submission and post-deployment status tracking.
Speakers
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Yao Lin

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg
Yao Lin is a senior software engineer at Bloomberg, where she has worked for six years. She works as a platform engineer on the company's workflow orchestration platform, which is built on Kubernetes and hosts Argo Workflows as its orchestration back-end. This multi-tenant platform... Read More →
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Tiancheng Yin

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg
Gabriel Yin is a senior software engineer on the Workflow Orchestration Platform engineering team at Bloomberg, which is built on Kubernetes and hosts Argo Workflows as its orchestration back-end. With years of experience in data science, he is now building a general utility compute... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 13:15 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrances S8 - S9, N8 - N9
  🪧 Poster Sessions, Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:15 BST

Cloud Native Communities in Action: How Japan Shaped Its Path To KubeCon - Ota Kohei, Apple; Shu Muto, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.; Yuichi Nakamura, Hitachi, Ltd.; Sunyanan Choochotkaew, IBM Research; Noriaki Fukuyasu, The Linux Foundntion
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
This session will discuss the importance of local communities in bridging the gap between local developers and the global cloud-native ecosystem.

Since the beginning of KubeCon history back in 2015, adding new regions to the KubeCon calendar is a rare milestone, and we imagine many attendees may wonder what it takes to bring this flagship event to their own regions.

By focusing on the Japanese community’s journey, we will examine the ongoing efforts to build strong networks while facing challenges like language, timezone and regional barriers that continue to hinder international engagement.

This panel will also share the unique challenges faced by Asian communities, such as linguistic and cultural differences, and what lessons attendees can take back to strengthen their own regional ecosystems—and perhaps even host KubeCon in their region one day.
Speakers
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Noriaki Fukuyasu

VP of Japan Operations, The Linux Foundation
VP of Japan Operations at Linux Foundation.
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Yuichi Nakamura

Head of OSPO, Hitachi,Ltd
Yuichi Nakamura,Ph.D has been engaged with OSS over 20 years, contributed to SELinux, given presentations in many OSS events such as Linux Security Summit, Embedded Linux Conference and KubeCon. He also launched ecosystem of business and OSS contribution model based on Keycloak in... Read More →
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Kohei Ota

Senior Field Engineer, Apple
Kohei Ota is a Senior Field Engineer at Apple. He is one of the Japanese localization leads for Kubernetes SIG Docs, and prev KubeCon speaker and co-chair of KubeDay Japan 2024. Beyond his professional roles, Kohei is instrumental in organizing CloudNative Days, the most prominent... Read More →
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Shu Muto

Principal Software Engineer, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
Shu Muto is a maintainer for the Kubernetes Dashboard since Autumn 2019 and a chair for SIG UI. Previously, he contributed to the OpenStack Dashboard and its plugins as a core developer from 2015. Shu also develops WebRTC applications. He organizes Kubernetes Upstream Training Japan... Read More →
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Sunyanan Choochotkaew

Staff Research Scientist, IBM Research
Sunyanan Choochotkaew is a staff research scientist at IBM Research - Tokyo, specializing in distributed computing and performance acceleration on cloud platforms. She holds the role of maintainer of Kepler project. She has made contributions to Environmental Sustainability TAG, operator... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:15 BST

KubeCon FamilyFortune, Episode 2 - Tim Hockin, Google & Lucy Sweet, Uber
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Join us for a rousing game of Family Fortune (Family Feud to our friends across the pond)! We will have silly questions with even sillier answers, as we try to guess what our global community of Kubernauts think.
Speakers
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Tim Hockin

Distinguished Software Engineer, Google
Tim has spent most of his career at Google, where he works on Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). He is one of the technical leads of the Kubernetes project, and has been part of it since before it was publicly announced. He mostly pays attention to topics like APIs, networking... Read More →
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Lucy Sweet

Senior Software Engineer, Uber
Lucy is a Senior Software Engineer at Uber Denmark who works on platform infrastructure
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:15 BST

How To Adopt OpenTelemetry in an Enterprise Where Incumbent Vendor Tools Reign Supreme - Chris Weldon, Wolters Kluwer
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
OpenTelemetry isn't just an amazing set of tools and standards for observability - it's a useful ecosystem that's helped Wolters Kluwer to evolve our company from a monitoring strategy based on tool proliferation to an observability strategy with fewer, more purpose-specific tools.

In this session, you'll learn about Wolters Kluwer's 3-year journey to address high mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) by adopting an observability strategy based on OpenTelemetry. We'll cover the technical tradeoffs for how we transitioned our portfolio of monolith and microservice applications from vendor-locked tools to open standards and a narrowed tool selection. We'll review challenges we encountered along the way, and how our platform-as-a-product mindset is helping to drive adoption of these open standards across the organization and improving our MTTR.
Speakers
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Chris Weldon

Director of Platform Engineering, Wolters Kluwer
As the Director of Platform Engineering at Wolters Kluwer, Chris cares about having positive impact on the developer, operations, and SRE communities. By combining his prior experience as a systems administrator and as a software engineer, he helps craft easy-to-use solutions that... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:15 BST

Conveying the Importance of Platform as a Product in the Cloud Native Ecosystem - Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat; Danielle Cook, StackGen; Simon Forster, Stackegy; Colin Griffin, Krumware
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1
A problem in the cloud native community is explaining the value of cloud native to stakeholders. Yet AI and other emerging technologies are driving the need for cloud native and the support platforms provide. Implementing a Platform as a Product can increase the value to the diverse teams and businesses by delivering features faster and with a methodology that can support self-service and focuses on a user-centric approach.

By defining a platform as a product and not a project, they establish themselves as core business and an asset the business will invest in and iterate on over time, driving up the ability to provide capabilities for a business to deliver value to all customers.

Panellists will discuss a product approach to platforms, how they can be managed, iterated on, and mature within the organization. They will draw on materials such as the Platforms Whitepaper, Platform Maturity Model, and new content about Platform as a Product built by the Platform Working Group.
Speakers
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Colin Griffin

CEO, Krumware
Colin Griffin is CEO at Krumware, and a Co-Chair of the CNCF Platforms Working Group. Colin Griffin is a software engineer by trade, specializing in cloud-native application and infrastructure development; with an emphasis on developer enablement and platform engineering. He founded... Read More →
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Valentina Rodriguez Sosa

Principal Architect, Red Hat
Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat, focusing on the developer journeys in Kubernetes and emerging technologies. She loves contributing to the community, such as co-organizing KCD NY, and the industry and has spoken at conferences such as O'Reilly... Read More →
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Simon Forster

Technical Architect and CNCF Ambassador, Stackegy
Simon Forster is a CNCF Ambassador and cloud native technology architect and engineer based in London. Simon has extensive experience working in heavily regulated financial institutions on the design, delivery and security of critical cloud native applications. He has a specific focus... Read More →
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Danielle Cook

StackGen, VP
Danielle Cook has worked in the cloud native industry since 2016 helping organizations adopt the technologies that make cloud native enterprise ready. She co-authored and launched the CNCF Cloud Native Maturity Model in 2021, is a co-chair of the CNCF Cartografos Working Group and... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:15 BST

Set Your Developers Free: Fleet Management at Spotify - Tim Hansen, Spotify
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
Migrations, security patches, and dependency upgrades are a necessary toil, but not one that your developers have to suffer through. Learn about Spotify’s approach to managing its fleet of over 10,000 software components — and how we patched the Log4J vulnerability across most of our software in 6 hours.

Fleet Management has freed our developers to focus on impactful software development — rather than the toil of dependency upgrades and migrations. Through automation, our percentage of software that’s up-to-date jumped from 10% to 80%, and security vulnerabilities were cut in half. Spotify orchestrates hundreds of changes, across thousands of repositories, and releases them to production — all without developer intervention.
Speakers
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Tim Hansen

Staff Engineer, Spotify
Tim is a staff engineer at Spotify who works in the Platform organization to decrease infrastructure toil for Spotify developers, focused on the open-source Backstage platform. Prior to this, he worked in FinOps at Spotify, focused on reducing cloud infrastructure costs.
Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 14:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

15:00 BST

Cloud Native Wheel of Fortune: 5 Spins for 5 Topics! - Steve Wade, Independent & Matteo Bianchi, GitHub
Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Reimagine the traditional conference talk in this dynamic, audience-driven session. You'll choose five topics from a curated list of 10 hot cloud-native themes.

Our catalogue includes cloud-native security, eBPF, cloud sustainability, GitOps, Platform Engineering, Networking, Service mesh, and the Kubernetes Release Cycle, but you can also add your proposal. The choice is yours!

Matteo and Steve will guide you through each chosen subject, offering expert insights, real-world applications, and actionable takeaways. This rapid-fire format promises a high-energy, engaging experience tailored to your interests.

This session offers a unique blend of breadth and depth, allowing you to explore multiple facets of the cloud native ecosystem in a compact timeframe. You'll expand your knowledge and hone your ability to quickly grasp and apply diverse cloud-native concepts - an invaluable skill in today's rapidly evolving tech landscape.
Speakers
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Steven

Cloud Native Consultant & Trainer, Independent
Steve Wade founded The Cloud Native Club, a global community for cloud-native enthusiasts, and maintains the Flux Terraform Provider. As an experienced conference speaker, independent cloud-native consultant, and trainer, Steve shares his expertise worldwide. He has held platform... Read More →
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Matteo Bianchi

Solutions Engineer, GitHub
Matteo is a CNCF Ambassador and Cloud Native aficionado, a former startup CTO, DevRel and current Solution Engineer. Kubernetes open source contributor, part of the release team since v.1.31, Comms Release Lead for v.1.32 and Release Lead Shadow for v.1.33Hacker, builder and problem... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

15:00 BST

Hot Takes: Kubernetes Paintainers Bring the Heat - Ian Coldwater, Docker; Marly Salazar, Integral Ad Science; Taylor Dolezal, Cloud Native Computing Foundation; Kat Cosgrove & Xander Grzywinski, Independent
Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes of one of the world's largest open source projects? Join us for a spicy twist on the traditional panel format, where Kubernetes SIG leads tackle increasingly challenging questions about project governance, technical architecture decisions, and community building - all while braving progressively hotter…hot sauces!

Modeled after the popular "Hot Ones" interview format, this session features technical leaders from across Kubernetes sharing candid insights about the joys and challenges of OSS maintenance. As the heat builds, they'll reveal the inside story of key technical decisions, discuss strategies for building consensus across competing interests, and share invaluable advice for aspiring contributors.

Whether you're a current maintainer, a new contributor, or just curious about Kubernetes development, watch these brave maintainers bring the heat - literally and figuratively!
Speakers
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Ian Coldwater

Senior Principal Security Architect, Docker
Ian Coldwater is co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Security, a longtime community organizer, and a security researcher specializing in hacking and hardening Kubernetes, containers, and cloud native infrastructure. When they're not busy making good trouble, they like to read all the docs... Read More →
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Kat Cosgrove

Open Source Advocate, Independent
Kat is a Developer Advocate focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. In particular, her specialties are approachable 101-level content and deep dives on the history of technology, with a focus on DevOps and cloud native. She was the Kubernetes... Read More →
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Taylor Dolezal

Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem at CNCF, is an experienced technologist with a passion for cloud native technologies. He has a rich background in software development, infrastructure management, and open source and is deeply committed to community-building and knowledge sharing... Read More →
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Xander Grzywinski

Open Source Program Manager, Independent
Xander is an open source program manager with experience at a wide array of companies. Previously he worked in various roles on platform and open source teams at Microsoft, Twitter, Apple, and HashiCorp. When not at a computer, you'd most likely find him at a pottery wheel.
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Marly Salazar

Staff Engineer, Integral Ad Science
I am a software engineer with a heavy background in legacy and on premises systems, and migrating those to the cloud, modernizing and automating them. I have been working on the kubernetes project for a year and a half, primarily on kubectl.
Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

15:00 BST

Building a Platform Framework: Lessons Learned From Developing a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Operator - Cat Morris & Jake Klein, Syntasso
Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
Running multi-cluster Kubernetes environments introduces significant operational complexities that challenge even skilled engineering teams. In developing Kratix, an open source platform framework to manage these complexities, we encountered technical, organisational, and strategic challenges that reshaped our approach to building reliable, customer-centric software.

As founding engineer and product manager of Kratix, we have found that while technical expertise is crucial, it often falls short in solving complex, cross-cluster issues. We learnt the importance of diverse perspectives, customer involvement, and embracing existing CNCF projects.

By sharing our successes and setbacks, we aim to equip you with a holistic approach to managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, fostering resilience and adaptability in an evolving technological landscape.
Speakers
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Cat Morris

Staff Product Manager, Syntasso
Cat is the Product Manager at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. She has worked in tech for over 10 years, the last 6 have been in Platform Engineering across all kinds of domains. She specialises in bringing Product... Read More →
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Jake Klein

Staff Software Engineer, Syntasso
Jake has over five years of experience working in the Kubernetes and the platform space. He started his career working on CloudFoundry, a popular CNCF Platform as a Service project. He then went on to work at Weaveworks where he worked on the open source project EKSctl, which is a... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 15:00 - 15:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:00 BST

Navigating the Inevitable: Kubernetes Breaking Changes Behind the Scenes - Marko Mudrinić, Kubermatic GmbH
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
You're looking forward to a new feature, waiting for the release day like it’s Christmas morning. Suddenly, the feature is dropped from the release. Even worse, a feature you heavily depend on is unexpectedly deprecated or removed. What now? Negative emotions take over, you feel sad, frustrated, and even angry at the project and its maintainers. Fortunately, this doesn't happen too often. But it does happen.

The Kubernetes maintainers strive to make users satisfied, but they also have to prioritize the health of the project and the well-being of the maintainers. To do that, they sometimes have to make breaking changes, even on short notice, as hard as it might be. In this talk, we'll dive into some of those decisions, see what went on behind the scenes, and talk a bit about Kubernetes policies. Finally, we'll explore _your_ options as an end user, how you can be better informed, how you can provide feedback on proposed changes, and how you can help the project!
Speakers
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Marko Mudrinić

Senior Software Engineer, Kubermatic GmbH & University Union
Marko is a Senior Software Engineer at Kubermatic, working on the development of Kubernetes, kcp, and platforms for managing Kubernetes clusters at scale. He currently serves as a Subproject Lead for Kubernetes Release Engineering, a Senior Release Manager, and a Tech Lead for SIG... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:00 BST

Limitless Possibilities, Consistent Design: Crafting Dashboards With Perses DAC - Nicolas Takashi, Coralogix & Antoine Thébaud, Amadeus
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
Managing dashboards can be overwhelming, especially for diverse teams with specific goals. This talk explores how Perses and Dashboard-as-Code (DAC) streamline large-scale dashboard management. DAC boosts efficiency, reduces costs, and enables consistent, customizable dashboards—even in complex setups.

We’ll dive into DAC fundamentals and the Go and Cue SDKs that power it. Discover percli, a new CLI tool for seamless Perses interactions. Learn how community-driven mixins, shared dashboards, panels, and PromQL integration make Perses adaptable to any observability stack.

A live demo will showcase how Perses DAC fosters collaboration and simplifies dashboard management at any scale. Whether you oversee dozens or thousands, this session offers tools and insights to transform your approach. Join us to see Perses DAC in action!
Speakers
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Nicolas Takashi

Observability Tech Lead, Coralogix
Nicolas is a Software Engineer with a Platform Engineer role at Coralogix. He's mostly interested in topics related to the observability ecosystem, as well as Kubernetes and distributed systems. He is also an open-source contributor to projects such as Prometheus Operator, Perses... Read More →
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Antoine Thébaud

Senior Software Engineer, Amadeus
Antoine Thébaud is an experienced developer specializing in observability, with a strong focus on monitoring. At Amadeus, he contributes significantly to the development and optimization of a cloud-ready monitoring platform relying on Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos. Antoine is... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G
  Observability
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:00 BST

A Day in the Life of a Kubernetes Engineer - Rajas Kakodkar & Nikhita Raghunath, Broadcom; Amine Hilaly, AWS; Shane Lawrence, Shopify; Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1
In the cloud native universe, Kubernetes engineers are the unsung heroes--who wrangle YAML, tame logs and brave production crises. While AI steals the spotlight, challenges of managing Kubernetes remain in the shadows. Platform engineers, often grappling with relentless war room calls rarely get the stage they deserve.
For the first time, we’ll dive into the untold stories of platform engineers: triumphs and the grit it takes to navigate the complexities of Kubernetes. This is a celebration of the human side of cloud native, told through anecdotes, technical insights and lessons learned from the trenches.

Join industry experts as they explore:
- Critical skills for resolving production issues
- Successes & failures that define their journeys
- Balancing ecosystem health
- Secure practices for AI workloads
- Reducing Kubernetes complexity

Join us for unfiltered insights, empowering stories and actionable takeaways to inspire your Kubernetes journey—you, too, deserve to be heard.
Speakers
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Kasper Borg Nissen

Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0
Kasper is a Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0, where he is thrilled to step into the observability space. He looks forward to promoting open standards with OpenTelemetry and Perses, helping teams gain deeper insights into their systems. Previously, Kasper served as a Staff Platform... Read More →
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Shane Lawrence

Sr Staff Engineer, Shopify
Shane is a Senior Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer at Shopify, where he's working on a multi-tenant platform that allows developers to securely build scalable apps and services for crafters, entrepreneurs, and businesses of all sizes.
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Nikhita Raghunath

Principal Engineer, Broadcom
Nikhita is a Principal Engineer at Broadcom, past co-chair of KubeCon and a maintainer of the Kubernetes project. She is the vice chair of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee and has won the CNCF Top Committer Award in 2021 for her technical contributions. She was also a member... Read More →
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Amine Hilaly

Software Engineer, AWS
Amine is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services working on the Kubernetes and Open source related projects for about three years. Amine is a Go, open-source, and Kubernetes fanatic.
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Rajas Kakodkar

Senior Member of Technical Staff | Tech Lead TAG Runtime CNCF, Broadcom
Rajas is a senior member of technical staff at Broadcom and a tech lead of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group, Runtime. He is actively involved in the AI working group in the CNCF. He is a Kubernetes contributor and has been a maintainer of the Kube Proxy Next Gen Project. He has also... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:00 BST

Open Source Malware or a Vulnerability? The Philosophical Debate and How To Mitigate - Brian Fox, Sonatype; Madelein van der Hout, Forrester Research Inc.; Santiago Torres-Arias, Purdue University
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
As open source software is increasingly important in modern software development, the security challenges continue to evolve. Vulnerabilities are largely understood, but open source malware poses a uniquely hidden threat. But when does a planted vulnerability transform a package into malware? This talk will discuss and debate the nuances between open source vulnerabilities and malware, as well as discuss the before diving into what’s most important: how to stay secure with open source.

Traditional SCA and endpoint security tools do not detect open source malware, which increases the challenge. In this panel, key experts — from software engineering acad to influential analysts and open source security veterans — will dive into the different types of open source malware and why it’s so pervasive, outline practical strategies for mitigating threats and discuss the responsibility of enterprises and developers in safeguarding the software supply chain.
Speakers
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Brian Fox

Co-founder and CTO, Sonatype
Co-founder and CTO, Brian Fox is a Governing Board member for the Opensource Security Foundation, a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former Chair of the Apache Maven project. As a direct contributor to the Maven ecosystem, including the maven-dependency-plugin and maven-enforcer-plugin... Read More →
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Madelein van der Hout

Senior Analyst Cybersecurity & Risk, Forrester Research Inc.
Madelein is a senior analyst on the security and risk (S&R) team, focusing on European security consulting firms, European CISO strategy work, and security operating model and organizational research. She supports security executives and professionals in building and maturing their... Read More →
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Santiago Torres-Arias

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
Santiago Torres-Arias is an assistant professor at Purdue’s ECE department, where researches Secure Systems, Applied Cryptography and Software Supply Chain security. Santiago is the team lead of in-toto, a framework to secure the SDLC, as well as PolyPasswordHasher, a password storage... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
  Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:45 BST

⚡Lightning Talk: High Availability With '503: Unavailable' - Robert-Jan Huijsman, Reboot
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 16:50 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Traditionally, we think "high availability" ("HA") means "very rarely responds '503: Unavailable'". Our applications and platforms have a lot of code to support that. For example, Knative contains a "Queue-Proxy" that holds requests while an application is scaling up - so that it doesn't have to respond "503: Unavailable" while the application is unavailable!

However, users don’t care about HTTP return codes - they care when their request is answered. Can we deliver a great user experience without the complexity of buffering in-flight requests?

We recently took a different approach to HA: an application (built using Envoy, Istio, and gRPC) that doesn't hesitate to return "503: Unavailable" and expects clients to retry. We found this approach reduces complexity drastically, while maintaining all the metrics our users care about. In this talk we'll discuss which applications might see benefits from this approach, the pitfalls we had to avoid, and whether we're still "Highly Available".
Speakers
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Robert-Jan Huijsman

Founding Engineer, Reboot
My passion is building systems - especially computer systems and the human systems (organizations) that build them. I studied computer science in Amsterdam, worked at Google (Spanner, Firebase) in Silicon Valley, ran my own intercontinental startup (Tracis), and am now the entire... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 16:50 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Application Development
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:45 BST

OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons Learned as an OTel Maintainer - Reese Lee, New Relic & Adriana Villela, Dynatrace
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
One of the core parts of any open source project is community – after all, you need people to write the code, and people to use the code. However, you also need people to: raise awareness about the project, drive the adoption and implementation of the project, and to connect these intersecting groups.

There are, of course, many ways to do this and build a thriving project community. In this session, Reese Lee and Adriana Vilella will share how they support and help build the OpenTelemetry (OTel) community through their work as a Maintainer of the End User SIG, including:
* Improving the project via collaborations with other OTel SIGs
* Driving contributions to the project
* Demonstrating business value to end users
* Driving adoption through connecting end users and contributors

Reese and Adriana will also share some of the misadventures that happened along the way, and make sure attendees leave equipped with strategies they can implement today to build and grow their open source communities.
Speakers
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Adriana Villela

Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace
Adriana Villela is a Principal Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Previously, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale... Read More →
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Reese Lee

Senior Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic
Reese Lee is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic, where she is focused on enabling customers and colleagues on OSS via workshops, blog posts, and documentation. She enjoys figuring out solutions to technical problems, learning about interesting user stories and use... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
  Cloud Native Experience
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:45 BST

From Hours To Minutes: The Evolution of Platform Engineering at Decathlon - Adrien Gillard & Christophe Furmaniak, Decathlon
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
The platform engineering mindset is spreading like wildfire. As a way to accelerate business and empower developers, it is quickly becoming a “must-have”.

However there are still few real world feedbacks of the process. That’s why we offer attendees a look at Decathlon’s journey into platform engineering.
From its inception (when we did not call it platform engineering yet), to its current state where users are able to deploy infrastructure (including workloads, databases, service exposure) to host their applications, in full autonomy, while keeping strong standardization.

We will share how we can now provide our internal users with their environments in 20 minutes, and discuss the challenges we faced and the choices we had to make. We will also look into the next steps and improvements we intend for the future.
Speakers
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Adrien Gillard

Senior Ops Engineer, Decathlon
After a dozen years in the IT industry and nearly half working with containers and Kubernetes, for IT hosters and service providers, Adrien acquired experience on a spectrum from on-premises datacenters to serverless functions in public clouds. He currently works at Decathlon, the... Read More →
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Christophe Furmaniak

Staff Engineer, Decathlon
Christophe started as a passionate and responsible developer and this led him to pay close attention to all aspects of the project lifecycle, from the developer's workstation right through to deployment on production environments. His current main areas of interest are related to... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:45 BST

How Do You Measure Developer Productivity? - Jennifer Riggins, The New Stack; Cat Morris, Syntasso; Akshaya Aradhya, Oscilar; Laura Tacho, DX; Helen Greul, Multiverse.io
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
Engineering is a science, so we know we can't improve what we don't measure. But many ways of measuring developer productivity focus too much on output, and aren’t trusted by developers.
So how should we measure developer productivity, and quantify the impact of processes, tools, Gen AI and culture on the developer experience (DevEx)?
Then, how do you take this data and turn it into something that's actionable and effective? Should we collect quantitative vs qualitative measurements? What about business impact? Cognitive load? Is there a way to measure the maturity of your platform strategy?
Join this panel to learn how from those who have been working with a Platform-as-a-Product mindset for years now. Join Multiverse's (ex-Backstage) Helen Greul, Oscilar’s (ex-GitHub, Netflix) Akshaya Aradhya, DX's Laura Tacho and Syntasso's Cat Morris in this epic panel hosted by The New Stack's Jennifer Riggins.
Speakers
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Jennifer Riggins

Technology Journalist, The New Stack
Jennifer Riggins is a tech storyteller, journalist, writer, and event and podcast host, helping to share the stories where culture and technology collide and to translate the impact of the tech we are building. She has been a working writer since 2003, and is currently based in L... Read More →
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Cat Morris

Staff Product Manager, Syntasso
Cat is the Product Manager at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. She has worked in tech for over 10 years, the last 6 have been in Platform Engineering across all kinds of domains. She specialises in bringing Product... Read More →
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Helen Greul

VP Engineering at Multiverse, Multiverse.io
Helen is an engineering leader, speaker and a strong advocate for creating developer ecosystems that empower teams to thrive. Her journey has taken her from hands-on coding to steering engineering and platform teams, providing her with a holistic perspective on the challenges and... Read More →
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Akshaya Aradhya

VP of Engineering, Oscilar
Akshaya is a seasoned engineering executive with deep, technical knowledge about data, cloud, platform, machine learning, AI and infrastructure. Prior to joining Oscilar, she had worked at companies like GitHub, Netflix, LiveRamp and Intuit.She is passionate about building high performing... Read More →
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Laura Tacho

CTO, DX
Laura Tacho is CTO at DX, a developer intelligence platform. She previously led teams at companies like CloudBees, Aula Education, and Nova Credit, and is a Docker Captain alumni.
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:45 - 17:15 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

16:50 BST

⚡Lightning Talk: Kueue: Save Some QPS for the Rest of Us! How To Manage 100k Updates Per Second - Patryk Bundyra, Google
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:50 - 16:55 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
What if you had to update 100,000 objects every second? How do we avoid choking up the API server with such a load? Is directly modifying etcd objects even a viable option? In Kueue, we asked those questions a lot, and honestly, using standard CustomResourceDefinitions alone couldn’t keep up with the demands of this scale. In this session we will showcase how we combined the best of both worlds: CRDs and the good old K8s API Aggregation Layer to handle the dynamic positioning of up to 100,000 jobs in the queue.

Attendees will also gain valuable insights into system design decisions when dealing with such a scale and practical lessons for addressing similar challenges. We will delve into the pros and cons of both CRDs and the Aggregation Layer, providing clear guidance on when and why to use each. Finally, attendees will see how the K8s API Aggregation Layer extension works in practice and receive hands-on knowledge on choosing the right tool for the job.
Speakers
avatar for Patryk Bundyra

Patryk Bundyra

Software Engineer, Google
Patryk is a Software Engineer at Google working on Kueue, an open-source SIG project. Member of the Kubernetes Batch Working Group, always willing to collaborate and share his knowledge.
Thursday April 3, 2025 16:50 - 16:55 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:00 BST

⚡Lightning Talk: Resource Roulette: Winning the Kubernetes Allocation Game - Daniele Polencic, Learnk8s
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:00 - 17:05 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
In this lightning talk, we'll challenge the conventional wisdom of setting static requests and limits for Kubernetes workloads. As applications evolve and usage patterns fluctuate, predefined resource allocations become obsolete, leading to either resource waste or performance bottlenecks.

In just 5 minutes, you'll learn:

- Quick techniques to identify resource misconfigurations
- Simple tricks for implementing adaptive resource management
- Easy-to-apply strategies for balancing cost and performance
Speakers
avatar for Daniele Polencic

Daniele Polencic

Instructor, Learnk8s
Daniele teaches containers and Kubernetes at Learnk8s. Daniele is a certified Kubernetes administrator by the Linux Foundation. In the last decade, Daniele trained developers for companies in the e-commerce, finance and public sector.
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:00 - 17:05 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Application Development
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:30 BST

⚡Lightning Talk: Extending Envoy With WebAssembly - Yuki Ito, newmo, Inc.
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 17:35 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
As a Cloud Native network proxy, Envoy has been widely used as a sidecar for Service Mesh, API Gateway, and many other cases. To deal with many custom requirements, Envoy has some extension points, one of which is the WebAssembly plugin feature.
In this Lightning Talk, the speaker, who is writing some WebAssembly plugins for Envoy and using them in a production environment, introduces the basics of the WebAssembly plugin for Envoy and explains how to write it using SDK by sharing some real-world examples.
Speakers
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Yuki Ito

Software Architect, newmo, Inc.
Yuki is a software architect who promotes Platform Engineering, including API Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD, and so on, for newmo, Inc. He also acts as a Google Cloud Champion Innovator in the fields of Serverless App Development and Modern Architecture.
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 17:35 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  ⚡ Lightning Talks, Application Development
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:30 BST

Generative AI Model Data Pre-Training on Kubernetes: A Use Case Study - Alexey Roytman, IBM & Anish Asthana, Red Hat
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N11
Large Language Models (LLM) require preprocessing vast amounts of data, a process that can span days due to its complexity and scale, often involving PetaBytes of data. This talk demonstrates how Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP) simplify LLM data processing with flexibility, repeatability, and scalability. These pipelines are being used daily at IBM Research to build indemnified LLMs tailored for enterprise applications.
Different data preparation toolkits are built on Kubernetes, Rust, Slurm, or Spark. How would you choose one for your own LLM experiments or enterprise use cases and why should you consider Kubernetes and KFP?
This talk describes how open source Data Prep Toolkit leverages KFP and KubeRay for scalable pipeline orchestration, e.g. deduplication, content classification, and tokenization.
We share challenges, lessons, and insights from our experience with KFP, highlighting its applicability for diverse LLM tasks, such as data preprocessing, RAG retrieval, and model fine-tuning.
Speakers
avatar for Alexey Roytman

Alexey Roytman

Software Architect, IBM
I am a Software Architect at IBM Research. I take pleasure in tackling technical challenges and discovering/ implementing innovative solutions. With over 20 years in my career, I have amassed experience in developing various middleware and cloud components. I have a keen interest... Read More →
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Anish Asthana

Associate Manager, Engineering, Red Hat
Anish is an engineering manager at Red Hat in the OpenShift AI organization. He is working on making machine learning easier for the wider community by building a platform out with cloud capabilities at the core. Most recently, his interests have been focused on the Distributed Workloads... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N11
  AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:30 BST

Chaos Engineering Practice Under Ultra-large-scale Cloud Native Edge Computing - Yue Bao, Huawei & yue li, DaoCloud
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A
Fast growing technologies, such as 5G networks, industrial Internet, and AI, are giving edge computing an important role in driving digital transformation. As each new technology brings benefits, it brings challenges. First, there are massive heterogeneous edge devices and it encompass a broad range of device types. Second, Edge devices are often located in unstable and complex physical and network environments, such as limited bandwidth, high latency, etc. How to overcome these challenges and build a stable, large-scale edge computing platform needs to be resolved.
KubeEdge is an open source edge computing framework that extends the power of kubernetes from central cloud to edge. Now, Kubernetes clusters powered by KubeEdge, can stably support 100,000 edge nodes and manage more than one million pods.
In this session, we will share the Key challenges of manage massive heterogeneous edge nodes and tell how using ChaosMesh to makes KubeEdge more Reliable in large-scale edge nodes.
Speakers
avatar for Yue Bao

Yue Bao

Senior Software Engineer, Huawei
Yue Bao serves as a software engineer of Huawei Cloud. She is now working 100% on open source, focusing on lightweight edge for KubeEdge. She is the maintainer of KubeEgde and also the tech leader of KubeEdge SIG Release and Node. Before that, Yue worked on Huawei Cloud Intelligent... Read More →
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yue li

Software Quality Engineer, DaoCloud
work at DaoCloud as Quality Director, more than 20 years IT industry experience, China Mobile, Siemens, HP, EMC, and startup company. Newcomer in Cloud Native and open source fans. Would like to adopt open source projects to improve enterprise software quality with fast release.
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A
  Operations + Performance
  • Content Experience Level Any

17:30 BST

Cloudy With a Chance of Kubernetes: Going From One To Three Cloud Providers - Laurent Bernaille & Maxime Visonneau, Datadog
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
Over the past five years, Datadog expanded from operating in a single region to six regions across three cloud providers. Kubernetes facilitated this expansion by abstracting the differences between cloud environments. However, we encountered several interesting challenges as some implementation details leaked through the abstraction.

This talk will begin with our rationale for adopting a multi-cloud strategy and the constraints it introduced. We will then share our insights on leveraging Kubernetes, the disparities among cloud provider implementations, and how these inconsistencies sometimes breached the Kubernetes abstraction. Finally, we will discuss how our platform teams created additional abstractions hiding most of these differences and the few remaining details that we have to expose to teams deploying on our platform.
Speakers
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Maxime Visonneau

Engineering Manager, Datadog
Maxime is an experienced systems and software engineer known for his passion in building robust infrastructures for small to large businesses. Having successfully led his startup to acquisition by Twitter in 2021. He is currently leading teams in charge of the Kubernetes platform... Read More →
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Laurent Bernaille

Principal Engineer, Datadog
Laurent Bernaille worked several years as a consultant specializing in cloud, containers, and automation and helped organizations migrate to the public cloud and adopt containers. He is now Principal Engineer at Datadog and works closely with infrastructure teams, which are responsible... Read More →
Thursday April 3, 2025 17:30 - 18:00 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any
 
Friday, April 4
 

09:43 BST

Keynote: Cutting Through the Fog: Clarifying CRA Compliance in Cloud Native - Eddie Knight, OSPO Lead, Sonatype & Michael Lieberman, CTO, Kusari
Friday April 4, 2025 09:43 - 09:58 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
With the final release of the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act, it would be fair to have concern about its implications to both the software you create and the resources you depend on. Much like London’s notorious fog, the hype and fear around the CRA have obscured the path our community is on.

In their role as leaders of CNCF’s Technical Advisory Group for Security and as maintainers of the OpenSSF Security Baseline, speakers Eddie Knight and Michael Lieberman are uniquely equipped to shed light on both the benefits and complexities of CRA.

This talk will be a light-hearted exploration of how cloud technology, open source projects, and end users can all benefit from the CRA— and how software creators can avoid falling on the wrong side of the law.
Speakers
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Michael Lieberman

CTO, Kusari
Michael Lieberman is co-founder and CTO of Kusari where he helps build transparency and security in the software supply chain. Michael is an active member of the open-source community, co-creating the GUAC and FRSCA projects and co-leading the CNCF’s Secure Software Factory Reference... Read More →
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Eddie Knight

OSPO Lead, Sonatype
Eddie Knight is a Software and Cloud Engineer with a background in banking technology. When he isn’t playing with his 2-year-old son, he combines his passion and job duties by working to improve the security of open source software.Eddie helps lead CNCF's Security Technical Advisory... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 09:43 - 09:58 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions, Security
  • Content Experience Level Any

11:45 BST

Type-safe Feature Flagging in OpenFeature: Lessons Learned From Using Feature Flags at Google - Michael Beemer, Dynatrace & Florin-Mihai Anghel, Google
Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
Feature flags are a great way to release software faster while minimizing deployment risks. They allow for controlled releases of new or complex features. However, a common issue with most feature flag SDKs in use today is that they rely on hardcoded strings to identify feature flags, leaving code vulnerable to typos or references to stale flags. This can lead to a mismatch between flags used in code and flags configured in your flag management system, resulting in unexpected application behavior.

In this talk, we will discuss a solution to this challenge using OpenFeature, a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging. Inspired by lessons learned at Google, we've designed the OpenFeature CLI to seamlessly integrate into your development workflow. We'll demonstrate how strongly typed feature flag accessors, created with the CLI, can be used to overcome these issues while also significantly improving the developer experience.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Beemer

Michael Beemer

Senior Product Manager, Dynatrace
Michael co-founded the OpenFeature project, helping to bring standardization to the feature flagging community. He is a Senior Product Manager at Dynatrace with years of experience in the observability space working as a Consultant, DevOps Engineer, Software Developer, and Product... Read More →
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Florin-Mihai Anghel

Software Engineer, Google
Software Engineer with a passion for everything that connects people and can improve the world.
Friday April 4, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
  Application Development
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:45 BST

How Millennium Bcp Leverages Radius To Empower Developer + Operator Collaboration - Nuno Guedes, Millennium bcp & Jonathan Smith, Microsoft
Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
Collaboration between developers and operators is essential to building scalable, resilient application platforms, but achieving this alignment is often easier said than done. In this session, learn how Millennium bcp, Portugal’s largest privately-owned bank, has successfully bridged this gap using Radius, a CNCF sandbox project. By adopting Radius as a universal language for their application platform, Millennium bcp has streamlined the application lifecycle and enhanced team collaboration.

We’ll explore how Radius helps decouple applications from infrastructure to foster operational flexibility and how GitOps tools like Flux complement Radius to enable declarative management of resources, ensuring consistency and reliability across environments.

Whether you’re a developer, operator, or platform engineer, this session will provide practical strategies, actionable insights, and inspiration for building cohesive, future-ready application platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Nuno Guedes

Nuno Guedes

Cloud Compute Lead, Millennium bcp
I am the Cloud Compute Lead at Millennium bcp, Portugal's largest privately-owned bank, with several years of experience in designing and leading the implementation of cloud-based solutions prioritizing containers. In addition to the Cloud Compute team, I am responsible for the Infrastructure... Read More →
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Jonathan Smith

Product Manager, Azure Open Source Incubations, Microsoft
Jonathan Smith is a veteran product leader at Microsoft focused most recently on early incubations including: the Parallel Computing Platform, Cloud Engineering Systems, IoT, and cloud-based production of film and television content. Jonathan currently leads product management for... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H
  Platform Engineering
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:45 BST

From Chaos To Control: Building ML Platform - George Markhulia & Steve Larkin, Volvo Cars
Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A
One of the most significant challenges facing the ML community in large organizations is the fragmentation of the data ecosystem, compounded by organizational silos and an inconsistent technology landscape. Tackling these barriers is critical to enabling efficient, scalable, and impactful machine learning solutions. At Volvo Cars, George and Steve are deeply committed to breaking silos, empowering users and enabling collaboration via the MLOps.

In this session, they will share their experience of designing and implementing ML platform on Kubernetes that bridges these gaps. The talk will cover architectural choices, key lessons learned, and best practices to address data accessibility, streamline workflows, and ensure seamless integration across diverse teams. Attendees will also gain insights into how this cloud-native platform enables faster experimentation, greater reproducibility, knowledge sharing and scalable deployment of ML models across the organization.
Speakers
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Steve Larkin

ML Platform Engineer, Volvo Cars
With over 20 years in the software industry Steve has worked with a diverse set of technologies from creating some of the first smartphones to building data and machine learning platforms for enterprises. Originally from the UK he now lives in Malmö, Sweden with his family.
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George Markhulia

Engineering Manager, Volvo Cars
With extensive experience in technical problem-solving, software engineering, and data streaming, George is a tech lead with a robust background in technology and operational excellence. His career journey includes MLOps, Android Automotive infotainment, backend systems, and analytical... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A
  AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:45 BST

Optimizing Model Serving on Kubernetes With Model Streaming - Ekin Karabulut & Ronen Dar, Run:ai
Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
Deploying large language models in Kubernetes environments faces a critical challenge: the cold start problem.When auto-scaling workloads with tools like Knative, the latency from loading large model weights into GPU memory slows response times, degrades performance, and increases costs.Traditional methods rely on loading weights sequentially into CPU memory then to the GPU,which is slow and inefficient.This talk introduces Run:ai Model Streamer, an open-source tool that mitigates cold starts by streaming model weights to GPU memory while reading them from storage in parallel.It integrates seamlessly into inference engine containers and Kubernetes workflows, enabling parallelized weight streaming without modifying weight formats, making it an easy-to-adopt solution for Kubernetes-based AI deployments.We’ll share benchmarking results comparing storage backends like GP3 SSDs, IO2 SSDs, and S3, highlighting performance improvements, cost savings, and best practices from these experiments.
Speakers
avatar for Ekin Karabulut

Ekin Karabulut

Data Scientist & Developer Advocate, Run:ai
Ekin is a data scientist at Run:ai. She specialized in the privacy implications of federated learning with DNNs. Through her journey, she focused on distributed training techniques and observed inefficiencies in GPU usage both in research and industry settings. She thus established... Read More →
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Ronen Dar

CTO and Co-Founder, Run:ai
Ronen Dar, PhD, is the co-founder and CTO of Run:ai. Ronen has been responsible for building the Run:ai Atlas platform and the technology that powers the platform, from GPU API-level virtualization to advanced K8s-based scheduling capabilities.
Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
  AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

13:45 BST

No Code Needed: From Emojis To Glory on the Contribution Ladder - Nancy Chauhan, Student & Carol Valencia, Elastic
Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
Non-code contributions are essential for the success and sustainability of open-source projects. They promote broader inclusion and accessibility, strengthen project governance, incorporate diverse perspectives to enhance usability and communication and facilitate collaboration across the ecosystem.

The abundance of materials and websites can feel overwhelming when you’re new to the CNCF ecosystem. We will explore the steps to help newcomers create their first PR, guiding them through contributions to projects such as documentation, whitepapers, release projects, governance, and leadership. This includes localization, which allows diverse cultures and language communities to engage with and benefit from the project.

This talk will provide attendees a clear roadmap for non-code contributions, making the journey more visible and accessible, while enabling the next generation of leaders to emerge and thrive in non-code roles.
Speakers
avatar for Carolina Valencia

Carolina Valencia

Customer Architect, Elastic
Carol is a passionate software developer dedicated to implementing secure cloud-native practices. She actively contributes to CNCF projects and the Kubernetes community as an open-source contributor. She enjoys learning new technologies and creating material, some of which she shares... Read More →
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Nancy Chauhan

Student, Cornell University
I like hacking through software engineering problems. I have been developing solutions for software reliability and also like to break complicated concepts into easier tech content (blogs and videos).I have also worked in Dev Advocacy, amid the crossover of two things I like the most... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 14:15 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
  Cloud Native Novice
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

Unlocking How To Efficiently, Flexibly, Manage and Schedule Seven AI Chips in Kubernetes - Xiao Zhang, DaoCloud & Mengxuan Li, The 4th paradigm, Ltd
Friday April 4, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
There are more and more AI accelerator manufacturers emerged in recent years. Data centers often face scenarios where multiple AI accelerators from different vendors exist at the same time, such as Nvidia and AMD, Intel, etc..
Therefore, managing these heterogeneous devices face bigger challenges. The CNCF sandbox project HAMi (Heterogeneous AI Computing Virtualization Middleware) was officially born for this purpose.
This session will focus on efficiently managing heterogeneous AI chips through HAMi in Kubernetes clusters
* A unified scheduler which capable of topology-aware, numa-aware, supports binpack and spread schedule policy on 7 AI accelerators.
* Virtualization on 6 AI accelerators
* Task priority
* Memory oversubscription on k8s GPU tasks
* Observability in two dimensions: allocated resources and real usage
* HAMi+Volcano/Koordinator for collaborative orchestration and scheduling capabilities on AI batch tasks
* HAMi+Kueue for practice in training and inference scenarios
Speakers
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xiaozhang

Senior Software Engineer, DaoCloud
Xiao Zhang is the leader of the Container team (focus on infra, AI, Multi-Cluster, Cluster - LCM, OCI). He is also an active community contributor and cloud native enthusiast. He is currently a member of Kubernetes / Kubernetes-sigs, maintainer of Karmada, kubean, HAMi, and cloudtty... Read More →
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Mengxuan Li

System Architect, The 4th paradigm, Ltd
Member of volcano community Founder and maintainer of CNCF sandbox project HAMi Responsible for the development of gpu virtualization mechanism on volcano. It have been merged in the master branch of volcano, and will be released in v1.8.
Friday April 4, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
  AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

Breaking Barriers: Bringing Application Developers Closer To the CNCF - Thomas Vitale, Systematic & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid
Friday April 4, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
Being an application developer in the cloud native age is challenging. Developers new to cloud native who land on the CNCF Landscape feel overwhelmed. When using a platform that doesn’t consider the developer experience, things can get even worse. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The solution lies in the cloud native ecosystem itself.

This session covers 5 friction points that developers face and presents solutions with cloud native tools.

- Unreproducible Dev Environment. Do you need a cloud environment? Or can you run everything locally?
- Inefficient Project Onboarding and Collaboration. How do teams share configurations, tools, and common practices?
- Cumbersome Inner Dev Loop. How do you achieve efficient development workflows?
- Complex Service Integrations. How can you integrate external services without worrying about infrastructure concerns?
- Kubernetes Steep Learning Curve. Do you need Kubernetes in your local environment? How can you build production-ready containers?
Speakers
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Mauricio Salatino

Ecosystem Engineer, Diagrid
Mauricio works as an Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project and Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative. He published a book titled... Read More →
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Thomas Vitale

Software Architect, Systematic
Thomas is a software engineer focused on building cloud native solutions. He is the author of the "Cloud Native Spring in Action" book and plays an active role in the community as a CNCF Ambassador and Co-Chair of the CNCF App Development Working Group. A strong advocate of open... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
  Application Development
  • Content Experience Level Any

14:30 BST

The Ultimate Container Challenge: An Interactive Trivia Game on OCI, Podman, Docker... - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud & Sherine Khoury, Red Hat
Friday April 4, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
Containers are now part of our daily lives as Devs and Ops for more than 10 years now. And yet, do we know them as well as we think we do?

With a mix of quiz and live demos, come learn and/or improve your knowledge, about the various existing formats of containers, best practices to secure them, store them, use them on various platforms and... put them on diet!

In this fun and dynamic talk, come compete throughout the quiz and explore the wonderful world of containers.

You will discover or dig into several CNCF and open source projects like Harbor, Skopeo, Oras, Podman, Docker and many more!

Icing on the cake: the first will win some swags.
Speakers
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Aurélie Vache

Developer Advocate, OVHcloud
Aurélie Vache is a Developer Advocate at OVHcloud. She is Docker Captain, CNCF ambassador, Cloud GDE, WTM Ambassador & GitPod Hero. Developer and Ops for over 19 years. Mentor and promote diversity and accessibility in technology. She created a new visual way for people to learn... Read More →
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Sherine Khoury

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
I've been in the world of tech for nearly 20 years now... Gosh that sounds old! From Dev (Go, Java), to QE, OPS, Infra and SRE, my diverse experiences reflect my passion for learning and exploration. At my day job at Red Hat, I contribute to the OpenShift Kubernetes distribution... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 14:30 - 15:00 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
  Cloud Native Novice
  • Content Experience Level Any

15:15 BST

Authz as a Dev Workflow: Architecting Better Cloud Native Apps - Dan "phrawzty" Maher, Cerbos
Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
Every request in a cloud-native application needs authorization, but let's be honest: most developers see it as a pain-point rather than an advantage. This talk explores why authorization belongs in your application's critical path, and how making it a core part of the development process improves developer experience.
We'll look at how CNCF authorization projects and open standards from the OpenID Foundation are rethinking authorization from the ground up. Through real-world examples, we'll show how modern authorization patterns fit into existing workflows, help catch access control bugs early, and make developers' lives easier.
Attendees will leave with practical patterns for building maintainable access control logic, strategies for testing authorization rules effectively, and proven approaches for embedding security into your development workflow from the start. Whether you're building new systems or improving existing ones, you'll learn how to make authorization work for you.
Speakers
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Dan Maher

Open Source Engineer, Cerbos
Dan has worked in a variety of environments from start-ups to global corporations, including stints as a founder, university lecturer, and a day labourer. Today, Dan is a global core member of the DevOpsDays conference series, Senior DevRel Manager at Cerbos, and full time open source... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C
  Application Development
  • Content Experience Level Any

15:15 BST

Wait! Can Your Pod Survive a Restart? - Aya Ozawa, CloudNatix Inc.
Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
Restartability is key for cloud-native applications to leverage Kubernetes' core capabilities, including self-healing, automated rollouts, autoscaling, and maintenance eviction. However, achieving robust restartability requires careful application design and precise Kubernetes manifest configurations.

In this session, we will dive into Pod restartability with two practical demonstrations: "HTTP Server" and "Operator with Leader Election". Key topics include:
- The Pod lifecycle focuses on request handling during startup and termination.
- How health probes (readiness, liveness, and startup) change Pod behavior.
- Signal handling and a graceful shutdown implementation.
- Best practices for Pod Disruption Budgets (PDBs) and their common pitfalls

By the end, you’ll gain actionable insights to make your cloud-native applications more resilient, fully aligned with Kubernetes’ self-healing capabilities, and ready for seamless restarts with minimal downtime.
Speakers
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Aya Ozawa

Member of Technical Staff, CloudNatix Inc.
Aya Ozawa is a member of technical staff at CloudNatix. She has been working on platform development based on Kubernetes since 2016. Aya is passionate about open-source technologies, focusing on cloud-native projects. She is also a co-organizer of the Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo, which... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E
  Application Development
  • Content Experience Level Any

15:15 BST

Using eBPF for Non-invasive, Performant, Instant Network Monitoring - Mario Macías & Marc Tudurí, Grafana
Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Traditionally, monitoring your network connections required from devices being able to export the flows data. With the rise of software-defined networks, the responsibility of providing observability capabilities relied on the SDN providers or on software-based packet analyzers that often have a noticeable impact on the cluster’s performance.

eBPF is presented as an efficient, non-invasive mechanism to observe different layers of clusters’ network, from L3 to L7, and automatically extract relevant information without having to redeploy neither the network infrastructure nor applications.

Our talk explains the Grafana journey to provide plug and play network and services observability: how we connect to different layers of your services infrastructure to provide from how network packets flow through your system to the details of the L7 service/client requests and responses, and how the low-level network information is matched with Kubernetes metadata for improved user data navigation.
Speakers
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Mario Macías

Staff Software Engineer, Grafana
I love programming since I was 12 years old. I’m a software engineer with 20 years of experience. During that time, I’ve been a scientific researcher, Ph.D student, university teacher, backend developer, and book writer. During the last 7 years I've focused on monitoring and observability... Read More →
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Marc Tudurí

Senior Software Engineer, Grafana
Marc Tuduri is Prometheus contributor, OpenTelemetry member and Software Engineer at Grafana.
Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Connectivity
  • Content Experience Level Any
 
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