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Wednesday, April 2
 

09:00 BST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:00 - 09:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Speakers
avatar for Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO, Linux Foundation (CNCF)
Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:00 - 09:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

09:26 BST

Keynote: Into the Black Box: Observability in the Age of LLMs - Christine Yen, CEO and Cofounder, Honeycomb
Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:26 - 09:41 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
LLMs can provide a quick injection of magic into an existing product (or product concept)! Most of us looking to build on LLMs aren't ML engineers or AI experts, after all, and this new wave of LLM offerings makes it easy for any of us to build something delightful.

But once that product or feature is shipped, in production, in front of users, the problems all collapse back into something that feels awfully familiar: performance challenges, questionable accuracy, and unhappy or confused users.

This talk will assert that building on LLMs is just like buliding on top of any other sort of black box in our architecture (APIs, DBs, etc)—this one just happens to be inherently unpredictable and probablistic.

We'll cover how to leverage observability best practices (like SLOs!) in this highly parameterized and rapidly evolving world, with nondeterministic outputs and a bunch of perceived risks—and you'll emerge more confident and ready to deal with this new AI-driven world.
Speakers
avatar for Christine Yen

Christine Yen

CEO/Cofounder, Honeycomb
Christine is the CEO/cofounder of Honeycomb, an observability tool for teams who build and manage software that matters. She cares deeply about bridging the gap between devs and ops with technological and cultural improvements—and thinks that observability is really just a way... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:26 - 09:41 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions, Observability

09:42 BST

Sponsored Keynote: To Be Announced
Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:42 - 09:47 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:42 - 09:47 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

09:48 BST

Keynote: AI Enabled Observability Explainers - We Actually Did Something With AI! - Vijay Samuel, Principal MTS, Architect, eBay
Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:48 - 10:03 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
If folks think that this will be yet another hand wavy AI talk, prepared to be disappointed! Over the last few quarters, the Observability platform team at eBay has embarked on the journey of building "Explainers" for telemetry signals. "So, you are just shoving data into an LLM, big deal!" - one might say. The approach that we took was slightly different. Yes, an LLM does know how to interpret an OTEL trace waterfall but does it do it predictably? No! For various reasons. This is where AI and Engineering have a beautiful marriage. For each signal, we have carefully married crafty algorithms and LLMs to create more predictable and accurate AI enabled experiences. Some of which include explaining traces, metrics and logs.

We have also cumulated these building block explainers to create compound explainers that can explain dashboards. This talk describes how things like critical path detection along with LLMs are better than just giving entire traces to the LLMs and more.
Speakers
avatar for Vijay Samuel

Vijay Samuel

Principal MTS, Architect, eBay
Vijay Samuel works with eBay's Reliability Engineering as its architect. During his time at eBay Vijay has transformed eBay's observability platform into a cloud native offering that is primarily built on top of open source technologies. He loves to code in Go and play video game... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 09:48 - 10:03 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions, Observability

10:04 BST

Sponsored Keynote: To Be Announced
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:04 - 10:09 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:04 - 10:09 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

10:10 BST

Keynote: The Observability Platform Engineering Advantage: From Zero-Code to Monitoring as Code - Kasper Borg Nissen, Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:10 - 10:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Observability is often an afterthought in platform engineering and many organizations settle for a "good enough" approach, leading to fragmented data, complex query languages, and vendor lock-in. But a cohesive observability strategy is critical, not just for applications running on the platform, but also for the platform itself and the services it depends on.

Enter OpenTelemetry, a CNCF project that unifies observability data across traces, logs, and metrics, reducing metadata fragmentation and vendor-specific lock-in. With zero-code instrumentation, developers can collect insights effortlessly, while platform engineers can enforce observability as code, enabling scalable, repeatable monitoring.

This session explores how platform engineers can bridge the gap between developers, operators, and observability by integrating OpenTelemetry into cloud-native stacks. You'll learn how to simplify instrumentation, leverage monitoring as code with OpenTelemetry Operator and Perses (CNCF Sandbox project), and optimize observability across multiple layers of your platform. By embracing open standards, you can enhance visibility, reduce complexity, and build a more resilient, insight-driven platform.
Speakers
avatar for Kasper Borg Nissen

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 →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:10 - 10:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

10:26 BST

Keynote: Empowering Accessibility Through Kubernetes: The Future of Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation - Rob Koch, Principal, Slalom Build
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:26 - 10:41 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Communication barriers exclude millions of people from fully participating in everyday interactions. For the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, the absence of scalable, real-time sign language interpretation remains a persistent challenge. In this session, we will demonstrate a forward-looking AI-powered application that translates sign language into spoken language, deployed and orchestrated on Kubernetes. This application leverages generative AI (LxMs) to scale for multiple users, representing a step toward a future where communication is accessible to all.
Using the sign language translation use case, the session will demonstrate how Kubernetes is well positioned to support AI workloads, how it optimizes cluster resources for video and language processing, and how it integrates seamlessly with generative AI use-cases.
Speakers
avatar for Rob Koch

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 →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:26 - 10:41 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions, AI + ML

10:42 BST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:42 - 10:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Wednesday April 2, 2025 10:42 - 10:45 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions
 
Thursday, April 3
 

09:00 BST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
Thursday April 3, 2025 09:00 - 09:05 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Thursday April 3, 2025 09:00 - 09:05 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

09:06 BST

Keynotes To Be Announced
Thursday April 3, 2025 09:06 - 09:27 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Thursday April 3, 2025 09:06 - 09:27 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

09:28 BST

Keynote: Awards Ceremony
Thursday April 3, 2025 09:28 - 09:38 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Thursday April 3, 2025 09:28 - 09:38 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

09:39 BST

Keynotes To Be Announced
Thursday April 3, 2025 09:39 - 10:10 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Thursday April 3, 2025 09:39 - 10:10 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

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
avatar for Audun Fauchald Strand

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.
avatar for Hans Kristian Flaatten

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

10:25 BST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Thursday April 3, 2025 10:25 - 10:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Thursday April 3, 2025 10:25 - 10:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions
 
Friday, April 4
 

09:00 BST

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
Friday April 4, 2025 09:00 - 09:05 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Friday April 4, 2025 09:00 - 09:05 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

09:06 BST

Keynote: LLM-Aware Load Balancing in Kubernetes: A New Era of Efficiency - Clayton Coleman, Distinguished Engineer, Google & Jiaxin Shan, Software Engineer, Bytedance
Friday April 4, 2025 09:06 - 09:21 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Traditional load balancing approaches, including round robin or those relying on metrics like QPS are often ineffective when applied to LLM serving. LLM requests vary significantly in computational demands due to prompt length, the model differences and their autoregressive nature, leading to unpredictable request running times. Moreover, the emergence of model multiplexing techniques (e.g., LoRA) introduces new complexities that necessitate LLM-aware load balancing strategies.
In this talk, we introduce a new set of Kubernetes APIs for routing to LLM workloads that allow configuration of serving objectives and priorities for each use case. These APIs integrate seamlessly with Gateway API, and an included extension means that support for these APIs can easily be plugged into many Gateway API implementations to enable turnkey LLM routing support.
This talk will show this project in action, demonstrating the significant improvements it can enable across a variety of real world examples.
Speakers
avatar for Jiaxin

Jiaxin

Software Engineer, Bytedance
Jiaxin works at ByteDance Infrastructure Lab, focusing on serverless and AI infrastructure. He is also a co-chair of Kubernetes WG-Serving, Jiaxin drives innovations and contributes to the future of scalable AI systems.
avatar for Clayton Coleman

Clayton Coleman

Distinguished Engineer, Google
Architect, engineer, and strategic visionary for application platforms in the cloud. Core contributor to Kubernetes and OpenShift, the open source platform as a service and the containerized cluster manager. I helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 09:06 - 09:21 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions, AI + ML

09:22 BST

Keynotes To Be Announced
Friday April 4, 2025 09:22 - 09:42 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Friday April 4, 2025 09:22 - 09:42 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

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
avatar for Michael Lieberman

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 →
avatar for Eddie Knight

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

09:59 BST

Keynotes To Be Announced
Friday April 4, 2025 09:59 - 10:10 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Friday April 4, 2025 09:59 - 10:10 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions

10:10 BST

Keynote: Science at Light Speed: Cloud Native Infrastructure for Astronomy Workloads - Carolina Lindqvist, System Specialist, EPFL
Friday April 4, 2025 10:10 - 10:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is a global collaboration for constructing the world’s largest radio telescope. This presentation shows how the Swiss SKA Regional Center (CHSRC) unit within the global SKA Regional Center Network (SRCNet) collaboration uses Kubernetes as a service management plane and leverages its ecosystem to build a novel infrastructure to support data- and compute-intensive astronomy use cases. The main focus is on an example setup of a Kubernetes cluster, showing how cloud-native tools are leveraged to interact with external storage and compute services, and demonstrating how to build infrastructure suitable for multiple sites. It is applicable both for beginners who seek guidance for where to start their cloud-native journey as well as intermediate Kubernetes users who wish to see examples of cloud-native use cases from within a scientific organisation.
Speakers
avatar for Carolina Lindqvist

Carolina Lindqvist

System Specialist, EPFL
Carolina Lindqvist is a System Specialist at the EPFL SCITAS department for Scientific Computing and High Performance Computing (HPC). She works with Kubernetes infrastructure for scientific use cases. Before joining SCITAS, Carolina worked at the Blue Brain Project, startups and... Read More →
Friday April 4, 2025 10:10 - 10:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
  Keynote Sessions, Emerging + Advanced

10:25 BST

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Friday April 4, 2025 10:25 - 10:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
Friday April 4, 2025 10:25 - 10:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Auditorium
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