09:00 • Project Lightning Talk: Opening + Welcome - Jorge Castro, CNCF
09:07 • Project Lightning Talk: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landscape
09:24 • Project Lightning Talk: The Super Fast TAG Runtime Wasm Review - Taylor Thomas, Wasm WG Chair
09:31 • Project Lightning Talk: Kubewarden: Leveraging and Extending CEL for your Cluster Security - Victor Cuadrado juan, Maintainer
09:38 • Project Lightning Talk: CRI-O: Container Runtime Intensifies - Sascha Grunert, Maintainer
09:45 • Project Lightning Talk: Spiderpool Updates For AI Workloads: DRA, NRI, and RDMA Observability - Weizhou Lan, Maintainer and Technical Lead
09:52 • Project Lightning Talk: What’s New in Kuma: Advanced Service Mesh Capabilities - Marcin Skalski, Maintainer
09:59 • Project Lightning Talk: ORAS: Create and Distribute a Multi-platform Image with Security Posture - Feynman Zhou, Maintainer
10:06 • Project Lightning Talk: A Security Engineer’s Guide to TAG Security - Brandt Keller, Technical Lead
10:13 • Project Lightning Talk: Notary: Securing Binary Artifacts with Fine-grained Control - Shiwei Zhang, Maintainer
10:20 • Project Lightning Talk: Kairos Timelapse: 12 Months of Open Source in 5 Minutes - Dimitris Karakasilis, Maintainer
10:27 • Project Lightning Talk: Maturing Bare Metal Provisioning With Metal3 - Lennart Jern, Maintainer
10:34 • Project Lightning Talk: What's New in K3s? (and How You Can Help!) - Manuel Buil, Maintainer
10:41 • Project Lightning Talk: external-secrets: Zero Trust Secrets Management with ESO - Moritz Johner, Maintainer
10:48 • Project Lightning Talk: Protect your Kubernetes Clusters with Ratify and Attestations - Yi Zha, Maintainer
10:55 • Project Lightning Talk: Break
11:10 • Project Lightning Talk: What's New in Istio? - Mitch Connors, Maintainer
11:17 • Project Lightning Talk: Harbor and LFX Mentorship Projects - Orlin Vasilev, Maintainer, Community Manager
11:24 • Project Lightning Talk: API Management in the CRD World: What Linkerd Has Learned - Alex Leong, Tech Evangelist
11:31 • Project Lightning Talk: Streamlining the Crossplane Journey to Production - Jared Watts, Maintainer, Steering Committee
11:38 • Project Lightning Talk: Karmada Updates and Use Cases - Hongcai Ren, Maintainer
11:45 • Project Lightning Talk: Multi-Arch KubeVirt and CDI - C. A. Fillekes, WG Chair
11:52 • Project Lightning Talk: Scheduling AI Workload Among Multiple Clusters - August Simonelli, Supporter
11:59 • Project Lightning Talk: Kubernetes Ontologies With Meshery - Yash Sharma, Maintainer
12:06 • Project Lightning Talk: Multi-Cluster Configuration Management with KubeStellar - Andy Anderson, Maintainer
12:13 • Project Lightning Talk: Capsule: Launching Multi-Tenancy to New Kubernetes Horizons - Dario Tranchitella, Technical Lead
12:20 • Project Lightning Talk: What's New in k8gb: CNCF's Multicluster Global Balancer - Bradley Andersen, Community Manager
12:27 • Project Lightning Talk: Empowering Federated Learning with Multi-Cluster Management for Privacy and Efficiency - Meng Yan, Software Engineer
12:34 • Project Lightning Talk: Simplifying Cloud-Native Security: eBPF-Powered Encryption in Sidecarless Service Mesh - ChangYe Wu, Maintainer
12:41 • Project Lightning Talk: Kubeflow Helm Chart - Krzysztof Romanowski, Maintainer
12:46 • Project Lightning Talk: Break
13:30 • Project Lightning Talk: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the CNCF Landscape
13:47 • Project Lightning Talk: Project Copacetic - Ashna Mehrotra, Maintainer
13:54 • Project Lightning Talk: Empowering Data Protection for Stateful Applications on Kubernetes with Kanister - Pavan Navarathna, Technical Lead
14:01 • Project Lightning Talk: What's New in Kubernetes Storage - Xing Yang, Co-chair SIG Storage
14:08 • Project Lightning Talk: Prometheus 3.0 Speedrun - Richard Hartmann, Maintainer
14:15 • Project Lightning Talk: Detect and Respond to Threats in Your Cloud Infrastructure With Falco - Luca Guerra, Maintainer
14:22 • Project Lightning Talk: Chaos Unleashed: LitmusChaos and Its Journey Towards CNCF Graduation - Vedant Shrotria, Maintainer
14:29 • Project Lightning Talk: Perses Update - Augustin Husson, Maintainer
14:36 • Project Lightning Talk: Transforming your Application Behavior to Kubernetes Objects - Amir Malka, Maintainer
14:43 • Project Lightning Talk: Kepler Project Updates - Kaiyi Liu, Maintainer
14:50 • Project Lightning Talk: Quick Intro to CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry - Dotan Horovits, SIG lead
14:57 • Project Lightning Talk: The BIPOC Initiative: Building an Inclusive Cloud Native Future - William Rizzo
15:04 • Project Lightning Talk: Extend Large Language Model Training Beyond Single Kubernetes Cluster - William Wang, Technical Lead and Maintainer
15:09 • Project Lightning Talk: Break
15:18 • Project Lightning Talk: Vitess: Unlimited Database Scalability - Deepthi Sigireddi, Technical Lead
15:25 • Project Lightning Talk: Start Building Distributed Applications with Ease Using Building Block APIs - Marc Duiker, Community Manager
15:32 • Project Lightning Talk: Flux - What is it & What's New with Image Automation? - Tamao Nakahara, Community Maintainer
15:39 • Project Lightning Talk: Container Builds at Scale with Buildpacks - Joe Kutner, Maintainer
15:46 • Project Lightning Talk: Strimzi – What's New and What's Next - Lukáš Král, Maintainer
15:53 • Project Lightning Talk: Essential Resources for gRPC Development - Jung-Yu (Gina) Yeh, Maintainer
16:00 • Project Lightning Talk: OpenFGA: The Cloud Native Way to Implement Fine Grained Authorization - Andres Aguiar, Maintainer
16:07 • Project Lightning Talk: You Can Score It! Shift Down to the Platform. Do Not Shift Left to the Developers. - Mathieu Benoit, Core Maintainer
16:14 • Project Lightning Talk: Stir to Combine: Creating Porter Mixins - Sarah Christoff, Maintainer
16:21 • Project Lightning Talk: Revolutionizing Legacy Migrations with Konveyor AI - Jonah Sussman, Developer / Approver
16:28 • Project Lightning Talk: Sailing multi-host inference with LWS - Kante Yin, Maintainer
09:00 • Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
09:26 • Keynote: Into the Black Box: Observability in the Age of LLMs - Christine Yen, CEO and Cofounder, Honeycomb
09:42 • Sponsored Keynote: To Be Announced
09:48 • Keynote: AI Enabled Observability Explainers - We Actually Did Something With AI! - Vijay Samuel, Principal MTS, Architect, eBay
10:04 • Sponsored Keynote: To Be Announced
10:10 • Keynote: The Observability Platform Engineering Advantage: From Zero-Code to Monitoring as Code - Kasper Borg Nissen, Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0
10:26 • Keynote: Empowering Accessibility Through Kubernetes: The Future of Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation - Rob Koch, Principal, Slalom Build
10:42 • Keynote: Closing Remarks
15:15 • The Great Sidecar Debate - William Morgan, Buoyant
16:15 • Taming the Traffic: Selecting the Perfect Gateway Implementation for You - Spencer Hance, Google; Arko Dasgupta, Tetrate; Christine Kim, Isovalent at Cisco; Kate Osborn, NGINX/F5; Mike Morris, Microsoft
17:00 • Uncharted Waters: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Networking - Miguel Duarte Barroso, Red Hat & Lionel Jouin, Ericsson Software Technology
17:45 • Making the Leap: What Gateway API Needs To Support Ingress-NGINX Users - Rob Scott, Google & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco
11:15 • Lessons Learned From Architecting the Highest-scale Operational Systems in the World - Artur Bergman, Fastly
12:00 • Leveraging Internal Knowledge: Building AiKA at Spotify - Majd Salman & Jofre Mateu Matesanz, Spotify
14:30 • Many Cooks, One Platform: Balancing Ownership and Contribution for the Perfect Broth - Lian Li, lianmakesthings
15:15 • More Data Please: Hands on Green Cloud Experiments - Leonard Pahlke, BWI GmbH & Antonio Di Turi, Data Reply
16:15 • Making CRDs Delightful: Beyond the Pitfalls - Evan Anderson, Stacklok, Inc
17:00 • Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects (Redux) - Daniel Bryant, Syntasso
17:45 • Scale Smarter Not Harder: How Extending Cluster Autoscaler Saves Millions - Rahul Rangith & Ben Hinthorne, Datadog
11:15 • "Izzy Saves the Birthday" - A Story-Driven Live Demo Exploring the Magic of Service Mesh - Lin Sun, solo.io & Faseela Kundattil, Ericsson Software Technology
12:00 • Explain How Kubernetes Works With GPU Like I’m 5 - Carlos Santana, AWS
14:30 • Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform - Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
15:15 • Yes You Can Run LLMs on Kubernetes - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud
16:15 • K8s in Wonderland: Why Many of Unknown Code in My Workload? - Hoon Jo, Megazone
17:00 • Learning Kubernetes Through the Lens of Metrics - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE & Mario Jason Braganza, Janusworx
17:45 • Logs, Metrics, Traces and Mayhem: An Interactive Observability Adventure Game - Jay Clifford & Tom Glenn, Grafana Labs
11:15 • A Comparative Analysis of Kueue, Volcano, and YuniKorn - Wei Huang, Apple & Shiming Zhang, DaoCloud
12:00 • KubeEdge Graduation Journey: Creating a Diverse and Collaborative Open Source Community From Scratch - Yue Bao, Huawei & Hongbing Zhang, DaoCloud
14:30 • Navigating the Waters: Balancing Open Source Activities in Corporate Environments - Kim McMahon, Sidero Labs & Amanda Katona, NetApp Instaclustr
15:15 • The Bricks That Make Us – How the LEGO Group Avoids 50 Mediocre Kubernetes Implementations - Thomas Øther Rasmussen & Paul Farver, The LEGO Group
16:15 • OSS = Open Source ... Strategy!? Google Is Doubling Down on K8s in the AI Era, and You Should Too! - Jago Macleod, Google
17:00 • Why Allyship Matters and Your Role in Creating a More Diverse Cloud Native Community - Catherine Paganini, Buoyant; Milad Vafaeifard, Epam Systems; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen; Anastasiia Gubska, BT Group; Rob Koch, Slalom Build
17:45 • Museum of Weird Bugs: Our Favorites From 8 Years of Service Mesh Debugging - Alex Leong, Buoyant
11:15 • Tutorial: Exploring Multi-Tenant Kubernetes APIs and Controllers With Kcp - Robert Vasek, Clyso GmbH; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom; Varsha Narsing, Red Hat; Marko Mudrinic, Kubermatic GmbH; Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI
14:30 • Tutorial: "Working Code Wins": Win Big With a Cloud Native Hackathon Starter Pack - Phill Morton, The Access Group & Abby Bangser, Syntasso
16:15 • Tutorial: Build, Operate, and Use a Multi-Tenant AI Cluster Based Entirely on Open Source - Claudia Misale, IBM Research; Olivier Tardieu & David Grove, IBM
17:45 • Kubernetes CRD Design for the Long Haul: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned - Christian Schlotter, Broadcom & Fabrizio Pandini, VMware by Broadcom
11:15 • Scaling GPU Clusters Without Melting Down! - Alay Patel & Ryan Hallisey, NVIDIA
12:00 • Slinky: Slurm in Kubernetes, Performant AI and HPC Workload Management in Kubernetes - Marlow Warnicke (Weston) & Tim Wickberg, SchedMD
14:30 • Scaling To Thousands of GPUs With Ease: Multi-Region Large Model Training on Kubernetes - Yongxi Zhang, Meng Duan & Rongrong Wu, China Mobile
15:15 • Production-Ready LLMs on Kubernetes: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Performance - Priya Samuel, Elsevier & Luke Marsden, MLOps Consulting
16:15 • Orchestrating AI Models in Kubernetes: Deploying Ollama as a Native Container Runtime - Samuel Veloso, Cast AI & Lucas Fernández, Red Hat
17:00 • Optimizing Training Performance for Large Language Model(LLM) in Kubernetes - William Wang, Huawei Cloud Technologies Co., LTD & Peng Gu, Tech Starup
17:45 • More Nodes, More Problems: Solving Multi-Host GPU/TPU Scheduling With Dynamic Resource Allocation - John Belamaric & Yash Sonthalia, Google
11:15 • Taking Care of Your Control Plane With API Priority and Fairness and Resource Quotas - Matteo Ruina & Ayaz Badouraly, Datadog
12:00 • Taming 50 Billion Time Series: Operating Global-Scale Prometheus Deployments on Kubernetes - Orcun Berkem & Alan Protasio, AWS
14:30 • Superpowers for Humans of Kubernetes: How K8sGPT Is Transforming Enterprise Ops - Alex Jones, AWS & Anais Urlichs, JP Morgan Chase
15:15 • The Life (or Death) of a Kubernetes API Request, 2025 Edition - Abu Kashem, Red Hat Inc. & Stefan Schimanski, Upbound
16:15 • Where’s All My Memory Gone? Mapping K8s Memory Metrics To Physical Resources - Mahé Tardy, Isovalent at Cisco
17:00 • The Next Generation of DaemonSet Autoscaling - Adam Bernot, Google Cloud & Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs
17:45 • Scaling Shopify's Search: Enhancing Elasticsearch Resilience With Kubernetes and KEDA - Leila Vayghan, Shopify
11:15 • Stateful Superpowers: Explore High Performance and Scaleable Stateful Workloads on K8s - Alex Chircop & Chris Milsted, Akamai
12:00 • Streamlined Efficiency: Unshackling Kubernetes Image Volumes for Rapid AI Model and Dataset Loading - Esteban Rey, Microsoft & Yifan Yuan, AlibabaCloud
14:30 • The Future of Data on Kubernetes: From Database Management To AI Foundation - Melissa Logan, Constantia; Nimisha Mehta, Confluent; Gabriele Bartolini, EDB; Akshay Ram, Google
15:15 • Trino and Data Governance on Kubernetes - Sung Yun & Aki Sukegawa, Bloomberg
16:15 • Unleashing the Power of Init Containers: Reducing Database Management Toil at Yelp - Muhammad Junaid Muzammil, Yelp
17:00 • Kubernetes Backup Legitimized: CSI Changed Block Tracking Has Arrived - Mark Lavi, Carl Braganza & Prasad Ghangal, Veeam; Xing Yang, VMware by Broadcom
17:45 • Flink on Karmada: Building Resilient Data Pipelines on Multi-Cluster K8s - Michas Szacillo, Bloomberg & Hongcai Ren, Huawei
10:45 • Coffee Break ☕
10:45 • Solutions Showcase
12:30 • Lunch 🍲
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Enhancing Research and Data Delivery With the Data Delivery System (DDS) - Álvaro Revuelta M., SciLifeLab Data Centre & Valentin Georgiev, Uppsala Universtet
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Effortlessly Build High-Performance AI/ML Pipelines With Accelerator Chaining and K8s Native Tech - Kazuki Yamamoto, NTT & Derek Wang, Intuit
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Catch More Hackers With Koney: Automated Honeytokens for Cloud Native Apps - Mario Kahlhofer, Dynatrace & Matteo Golinelli, University of Trento
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Introducing the Last Level Cache Alignment Feature in Kubernetes for Performance Optimization - Charles Wong, AMD
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Helmless: Fast Serverless Deployments Without the Overhead of Kubernetes and Terraform - Michael Reichenbach, 1KOMMA5°
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: A New Approach To Cluster Infrastructure Management for Kubernetes Service Providers - Pascal Fries & Sascha Rauch, ATIX AG
13:30 • 🪧 Poster Session: Extensible Kubernetes CRDs Via Inheritance for Modularity and Reuse - Nik Dijkema & Mostafa Hadadian, University of Groningen
15:45 • Coffee Break ☕
18:15 • 🎉 #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest
11:15 • OpenFeature Update From the Maintainers - Thomas Poignant, Adevinta & Lukas Reining, codecentric AG
12:00 • Standardizing CI/CD Observability With OpenTelemetry: Insights From the CI/CD Observability SIG - Dotan Horovits, OpenObservability Talks & Adriel Perkins, Liatrio
14:30 • Cloud Native Storage and Data: The CNCF Storage TAG Projects, Technology & Landscape - Raffaele Spazzoli, Red Hat; Alex Chircop, Akamai
15:15 • Simplifying Apache Kafka on Kubernetes With Strimzi - Lukáš Král & Gantigmaa Selenge, Red Hat
16:15 • SIG Cloud Provider Deep Dive: Testing Cloud Controller Managers - Michael McCune, Red Hat; Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft; Walter Fender, Google
17:00 • Jaeger V2: OpenTelemetry at the Core of Modern Distributed Tracing - Jonah Kowall, Paessler & Pavol Loffay, Red Hat
17:45 • Beyond CloudEvents: Endpoints, Messages, Schemas – CNCF XRegistry - Manuel Ottlik, HDI Global SE & Clemens Vasters, Microsoft Corporation
11:15 • OpenTelemetry Project Update - Daniel Gomez Blanco, Skyscanner; Severin Neumann, Independent; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Trask Stalnaker, Microsoft; Pablo Baeyens, Datadog
12:00 • Wasm I Right or Wasm I Wrong? a Review of the Wasm Ecosystem - Taylor Thomas, Cosmonic & David Justice, Microsoft
14:30 • Enhancing CRI-O With CDI: Streamlining Device Integration in Kubernetes - Harshal Patil, Red Hat
15:15 • SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive - Sergey Kanzhelev & Dixita Narang, Google; Francesco Romani & Peter Hunt, Red Hat
16:15 • The State of Backstage in 2025 - Ben Lambert, Camila Loiola, Fredrik Adelöw, Patrik Oldsberg & Vincenzo Scamporlino, Spotify
17:00 • How To Gateway With Ingress - 140 Days InGate - Marco Ebert, Giant Swarm & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco
17:45 • Buildpacks: Pragmatic Solutions To Quick and Secure Image Builds - Juan Bustamante, DBAccess & Aidan Delaney, Bloomberg
11:15 • Advancements in AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes From WG Serving and Ecosystem Projects - Yuan Tang, Red Hat & Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA
12:00 • SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Damien Grisonnet & Pranshu Srivastava, Red Hat; Yongrui Lin & Richa Banker, Google
14:30 • A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata; Rita Zhang, Microsoft; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Joe Betz, Google
15:15 • Simplifying the Networking and Security Stack With Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon - Bill Mulligan & Anna Kapuścińska, Isovalent at Cisco; Dorde Lapcevic, Google; Amir Kheirkhahan, DBSchenker
16:15 • Kubernetes Data Protection WG Deep Dive - Dave Smith-Uchida, Veeam
17:00 • Leveraging the Little Known Features of Artifact Hub - Matt Farina, SUSE
17:45 • Attesting and Verifying Your Software Supply-Chain With In-toto - Alan Chung Ma, Keytos & Justin Cappos, New York University
11:15 • Prometheus 3.0 Has Released – Deep Dive Into Features and Roadmap - Richard Hartman, Grafana Labs
12:00 • What's New With Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! - Eddie Zaneski, Defense Unicorns; Marly Salazar, Integral Ad Science; Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns
14:30 • Mastering Efficiency in Argo CD: Scaling Smarter, Not Costlier - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity
15:15 • What's New in Knative Eventing: Security, Discovery, Integrations, and JobSink - Pierangelo Di Pilato & Christoph Stäbler, Red Hat
16:15 • Flux Ecosystem Evolution - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane & Sanskar Jaiswal, Kong
11:15 • Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Travis Nielsen, Blaine Gardner & Madhu Rajanna, IBM, Artem Torubarov & Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso
12:00 • KEDA: Unlocking Advanced Event-Driven Scaling for Kubernetes - Zbynek Roubalik, Kedify & Jorge Turrado, SCRM Lidl International Hub
14:30 • Scalable DNS With CoreDNS Plugins: A Deep Dive - Yong Tang, Ivanti & John Belamaric, Google
15:15 • What's New in gRPC - Kevin Nilson, Google
16:15 • Dapr in 2025: Durable Execution for AgenticAI Systems and Becoming the Backbone of App Platforms - Yaron Schneider, Diagrid
14:15 • KubeCon FamilyFortune, Episode 2 - Tim Hockin, Google & Lucy Sweet, Uber
15:00 • Cloud Native Wheel of Fortune: 5 Spins for 5 Topics! - Steve Wade, Independent & Matteo Bianchi, GitHub
16:45 • ⚡Lightning Talk: High Availability With '503: Unavailable' - Robert-Jan Huijsman, Reboot
16:50 • ⚡Lightning Talk: Kueue: Save Some QPS for the Rest of Us! How To Manage 100k Updates Per Second - Patryk Bundyra, Google
16:55 • ⚡Lightning Talk: Observability Diet: Your 5-Step Plan To Trim the Data Fat - Pranay Prateek, SigNoz
17:00 • ⚡Lightning Talk: Resource Roulette: Winning the Kubernetes Allocation Game - Daniele Polencic, Learnk8s
17:05 • ⚡Lightning Talk: Rust Here, Rust There, Rust Everywhere! How a Crab Conquers the Cloud Native Landscape. - Sascha Grunert, Red Hat
17:10 • ⚡Lightning Talk: Scaling To the Stars: Simulating Massive Clusters With KWOK - Soumya Balakrishnan, NVIDIA
17:15 • ⚡Lightning Talk: Scheduling Success: Precision Updates for Continuous Manufacturing Operations - Raul - Mihail Galescu, Bosch Connected Industry
17:20 • ⚡Lightning Talk: Solving Real-World Edge Challenges With K0s, NATS, and Raspberry Pi Clusters - Prashant Ramhit, Mirantis, Inc.
17:25 • ⚡Lightning Talk: There Is a New Volume Type in Town! - Mario Loriedo, Red Hat
17:30 • ⚡Lightning Talk: Extending Envoy With WebAssembly - Yuki Ito, newmo, Inc.
14:15 • 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
15:00 • 🤔🔧 "Can You Maintain 1000 Apps? WasmCloud & K8s: The Ultimate Golden Template - Liam Randall, Cosmonic
16:00 • A Day in the Life of a Kubernetes Engineer - Rajas Kakodkar & Nikhita Raghunath, Broadcom; Amine Hilaly, AWS; Shane Lawrence, Shopify; Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0
16:45 • A Journey To Modernizing a Regulated Cloud Control Plane - Pranita Praveen, Macquarie Group Pty Ltd & Steven Borrelli, Upbound
17:30 • Automating Kubernetes Cluster Updates: Achieving Zero Downtime Effortlessly - Haitao Zhang, CloudPilot AI; Baofa Fan, DaoCloud; Ling Ling, Independent; Wei Jiang, Huawei
11:00 • Extending Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM) Beyond Kubernetes Workloads - Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI & Nabarun Pal, Broadcom
11:45 • Building a 5* Kubernetes Hotel - Dean Fuller, Fidelity International & Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity International
14:15 • Set Your Developers Free: Fleet Management at Spotify - Tim Hansen, Spotify
15:00 • Breaking Free From the Cloud: Banking on Self-Hosted Kubernetes - Kārlis Akots Gribulis & Per Hedegaard Christiansen, Saxo Bank
16:00 • How We Progressively Deliver Changes To Kubernetes Using Canary Deployments and Feature Flags - Bob Walker, Octopus Deploy
16:45 • How Do You Measure Developer Productivity? - Jennifer Riggins, The New Stack; Cat Morris, Syntasso; Akshaya Aradhya, Oscilar; Laura Tacho, DX; Helen Greul, Multiverse.io
17:30 • Cloudy With a Chance of Kubernetes: Going From One To Three Cloud Providers - Laurent Bernaille & Maxime Visonneau, Datadog
11:00 • Starting and Scaling a Platform Engineering Team - Camille Fournier, Independent & Ian Nowland, Junction Labs
11:45 • Platform Engineering Loves Security: Shift Down To Your Platform, Not Left To Your Developers! - Maxime Coquerel, Royal Bank of Canada - RBC & Mathieu Benoit, Humanitec
14:15 • Simplify Kubernetes Operator Development With a Modular Design Pattern - Mostafa Hadadian & Alexander Lazovik, University of Groningen
15:00 • Building a Platform Framework: Lessons Learned From Developing a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Operator - Cat Morris & Jake Klein, Syntasso
16:00 • Practical Zombie Hunting for Kubernetes Users - Holly Cummins, Red Hat
16:45 • From Hours To Minutes: The Evolution of Platform Engineering at Decathlon - Adrien Gillard & Christophe Furmaniak, Decathlon
17:30 • From Metal To Apps: LinkedIn’s Kubernetes-based Compute Platform - Ahmet Alp Balkan & Ronak Nathani, LinkedIn
11:00 • OTel Sucks (But Also Rocks!) - Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden & Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace
11:45 • Pushing the Limits of Prometheus at Etsy - Chris Leavoy, Etsy & Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs
14:15 • How To Adopt OpenTelemetry in an Enterprise Where Incumbent Vendor Tools Reign Supreme - Chris Weldon, Wolters Kluwer
15:00 • How To Rename Metrics Without Impacting Somebody’s Observability - Bartłomiej Płotka, Google & Arianna Vespri, Independent
16:00 • Limitless Possibilities, Consistent Design: Crafting Dashboards With Perses DAC - Nicolas Takashi, Coralogix & Antoine Thébaud, Amadeus
16:45 • Observability Pipeline Query Languages: Present and the Future - Jacek Migdal, Quesma
17:30 • Optimizing Metrics Collection & Serving When Autoscaling LLM Workloads - Vincent Hou, Bloomberg & Jiří Kremser, kedify.io
11:00 • A Practical Guide To Cloud Native Solutions: Demonstrating ROI and Business Impact - Danielle Cook, StackGen & Simon Forster, Stackegy
11:45 • Building a Ubiquitous Cloud Native: Beyond the Intersectionality - Carol Valencia, Elastic; Pawel Piwosz, Tameshi; Satyam Soni, Devtron Inc.; Anita Ihuman, MetalBear; Audra Montenegro, CNCF
14:15 • 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
15:00 • 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
16:00 • Navigating the Inevitable: Kubernetes Breaking Changes Behind the Scenes - Marko Mudrinić, Kubermatic GmbH
16:45 • OTel Me How To Get My Open Source Community Taken Seriously: Lessons Learned as an OTel Maintainer - Reese Lee, New Relic & Adriana Villela, Dynatrace
17:30 • Challenges of and Solutions for Migrating Spark From Legacy Hadoop Clusters To Kubernetes - Peter Christensen & Neha Singla, Apple
11:00 • Tutorial: Mind Your Pod's Business: Network Isolation Workshop - Surya Seetharaman & Miguel Duarte Barroso, Red Hat; Keith Burdis, Goldman Sachs
14:15 • Tutorial: Rock, Paper, Scissors! Build an AI-powered Interactive Game With Argo CD and Kubeflow - Natale Vinto, Daniel Oh, Roberto Carratala & Alex Soto Bueno, Red Hat; Hind Azegrouz, Intel
16:00 • Tutorial: Unlock the Future of Kubernetes and Accelerators (and all Specialized Hardware) with DRA - Rey Lejano, Red Hat
17:30 • Generative AI Model Data Pre-Training on Kubernetes: A Use Case Study - Alexey Roytman, IBM & Anish Asthana, Red Hat
11:00 • Development Environments on Kubernetes: Lessons From Six Years at Internet Scale - Christian Weichel & Alejandro de Brito Fontes, Gitpod
11:45 • Dancing With the Pods: Live Migration of a Database Fleet While Serving Millions of Queries - Jayme Bird & Manish Gill, ClickHouse
14:15 • Beyond Security: Leveraging OPA for FinOps in Kubernetes - Sathish Kumar Venkatesan, Royal Bank of Canada
15:00 • A Huge Cluster or Multi-Clusters? Identifying the Bottleneck - Paco Xu, DaoCloud & Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs
16:00 • Defusing the Kubernetes API Performance Minefield - Madhav Jivrajani, UIUC & Marek Siarkowicz, Google
16:45 • Live Migrating Stateful Batch Containers To Decrease Cluster Cost - Chris Battarbee & Ece Kayan, Metoro
17:30 • Chaos Engineering Practice Under Ultra-large-scale Cloud Native Edge Computing - Yue Bao, Huawei & yue li, DaoCloud
11:00 • A Practical Guide To Benchmarking AI and GPU Workloads in Kubernetes - Yuan Chen, NVIDIA & Chen Wang, IBM Research
11:45 • AI Pipelines With OPEA: Best Practices for Cloud Native ML Operations - Ezequiel Lanza, Intel & Melissa McKay, JFrog
14:15 • AI Workload Preemption in a Multi-Cluster Scheduling System at Bloomberg - Leon Zhou & Wei-Cheng Lai, Bloomberg
15:00 • Autonomous AI Agents in Production: Slashing Cloud Cost Root Cause Analysis From Hours To Minutes - Ilya Lyamkin, Spotify
16:00 • Balancing Cost and Efficiency: Day2 Optimization of Multi-Cluster AI Infrastructure - Kevin Wang, Huawei
16:45 • Building & Operating a Large-scale HPC AI Cluster on Kubernetes - Kalyan Saladi & Chandan Avdhut, Meta Platforms Inc.
17:30 • Efficient Transparent Checkpointing of AI/ML Workloads in Kubernetes - Radostin Stoyanov, University of Oxford & Adrian Reber, Red Hat
11:00 • Identity-based Trust - Till Death Do We Part? - John Kjell, TestifySec & Kairo De Araujo, Independent
11:45 • IAM, Agent: Identity for Autonomous AI - Matthew Bates, Cofide
14:15 • Mind the Gap: Bridging Supply Chain Policy With Git-less GitOps and GUAC - Michael Lieberman, Kusari & Andrew Martin, ControlPlane
15:00 • SPIFFE in Practice: Universal Identity for WebAssembly Workloads - Joonas Bergius, Cosmonic & Colin Murphy, Adobe
16:00 • 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
16:45 • Redefining Access Control: Scaling Policy as Code for Humans and AI Agents - Raz Cohen, Permit.io
17:30 • Weaving a VEX Feed Through the Kubernetes Project - Adolfo García Veytia, Stacklok
11:00 • From the Observability TAG: Designing a Common Query Language for Observability Data - Alolita Sharma, Apple & Pereira Braga, Google
11:45 • The Key To Security: Externalized Service Account Key Management - Mo Khan & Rita Zhang & Stanislav Láznička & Anish Ramasekar, Microsoft
14:15 • Securing the Gateway: A Deep Dive Into Envoy Gateway's Advanced Security Policy - Huabing (Robin) Zhao, Tetrate
15:00 • Kubernetes WG Device Management - GPUs, TPUs, NICs and More With DRA - Kevin Klues, NVIDIA & Patrick Ohly, Intel
16:00 • etcd V3.6.0 and etcd-operator V0.1.0 - Benjamin Wang, VMware by Broadcom; Ivan Valdes Castillo, Independent; Siyuan Zhang, Google; Arka Saha, VMware By Broadcom; Ciprian Hacman, Microsoft
17:30 • Helm 4 You - Matt Farina, SUSE & Andrew Block, Red Hat
11:00 • Kubeflow Ecosystem: What’s Next for Cloud Native AI/ML and LLMOps - Johnu George, Nutanix; Andrey Velichkevich, Apple; Amber Graner, Kubeflow Project; Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent; Yuan Tang, Red Hat
11:45 • WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next? - Marcin Wielgus, Google
14:15 • Redesigning Ingress: Docker’s Transition To the Next-Gen Gateway API - Kateryna Nezdolii & Ryan Hristovski, Docker
15:00 • Istio: The Past, Present and Future of the Project and Community - Lin Sun, solo.io
16:00 • Guiding Kubernetes: The Steering Committee's Role in Project Evolution - Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns & Paco Xu, DaoCloud
16:45 • SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive - Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson & Laura Lorenz, Google; Stephen Kitt, Red Hat; Ryan Zhang, Microsoft
17:30 • How We Solved TLS at Scale: Self-Service, Multi-Tenant Cert-manager - Erik Godding Boye, Zenior & Tim Ramlot, Venafi, a CyberArk Company
11:00 • Expanding the Contributor Pipeline Through Inclusion - Khallai Taylor, E.ON Digital Technology; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen; Stéphane Este-Gracias, ITQ; Nancy Chauhan, Independent
11:45 • Wasm Whiplash: WasmCloud's Wild Ride To Standards - Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic
14:15 • SIG Network Intro and Updates - Dan Winship & Nadia Pinaeva, Red Hat; Bowei Du, Google; Daman Arora, Broadcom
15:00 • Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q&A - David Ko, SUSE
16:00 • Driving Chaos Engineering Forward: What’s New and Next With LitmusChaos - Sarthak Jain & Saranya Jena, Harness
16:45 • Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive - Xing Yang, VMware by Broadcom & Jan Šafránek, Red Hat
17:30 • Harbor Project - The Maintainers Session - Orlin Vasilev, SUSE & Vadim Bauer, 8gears Container Registry
11:00 • SIG API Machinery Maintainer's Track: The Kubernetes Building Blocks - Federico Bongiovanni, Google
11:45 • TUF-en up Your Software Supply Chain - Marina Moore, Edera & Kairo De Araujo, Independent
14:15 • Multi-cluster Orchestration System: Karmada Updates and Use Cases - Hongcai Ren, Huawei & Joe Nathan Abellard, Bloomberg
15:00 • In the Eye of Falco: Transforming Your View of Linux Kernel Security - Luca Guerra, Jason Dellaluce, Aldo Lacuku & Leonardo Grasso, Sysdig; Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud
16:00 • Kubespray: Driving Cost-Efficiency for AI on Kubernetes - Antoine Legrand, Conny GmbH & Mohamed Zaian, New Work SE
16:45 • Vitess: Schema Changes at Scale - Deepthi Sigireddi & Shlomi Noach, PlanetScale
17:30 • Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro & Deep Dive - Charlie Egan, Styra
11:00 • The Immediate and Lasting Benefits of TAG Security Assessments - Eddie Knight, Sonatype & Ben Hirschberg, ARMO
11:45 • SIG Security: Succession Planting for a Flowering Future - Cailyn Edwards, Okta; Iain Smart, AmberWolf; Rory McCune, Datadog; Mahé Tardy, Isovalent at Cisco
14:15 • Linkerd Update: Gateway API, Client-Specific Policy, Federated Services, Multicluster, Rust, & More! - Oliver Gould, Buoyant
15:00 • Emissary-ingress: Version 4 and the Road Ahead - Flynn, Buoyant
16:00 • Unlocking the Future of Kubernetes Policy as Code With Kyverno - Vishal Choudhary & Frank Jogeleit, Nirmata
16:45 • SIG Docs and You: Modernizing API Reference Generation - Kat Cosgrove & Xander Grzywinski, Independent
17:30 • Containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive - Maksym Pavlenko, NVIDIA; Akihiro Suda, NTT; Laura Brehm, Docker; Samuel Karp, Google; Jiaxiao Zhou, Microsoft
09:00 • Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
09:06 • Keynote: LLM-Aware Load Balancing in Kubernetes: A New Era of Efficiency - Clayton Coleman, Distinguished Engineer, Google & Jiaxin Shan, Software Engineer, Bytedance
09:22 • Keynotes To Be Announced
09:43 • Keynote: Cutting Through the Fog: Clarifying CRA Compliance in Cloud Native - Eddie Knight, OSPO Lead, Sonatype & Michael Lieberman, CTO, Kusari
09:59 • Keynotes To Be Announced
10:10 • Keynote: Science at Light Speed: Cloud Native Infrastructure for Astronomy Workloads - Carolina Lindqvist, System Specialist, EPFL
10:25 • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:00 • Beyond Kubernetes: Adapting To Specialized Application Workloads - Rags Srinivas, Independent; Dawn Chen, Google; Sachi Desai, Microsoft; Vara Bonthu, AWS; Erin Boyd, Nvidia
11:45 • Into the Shopfloor: Moving Manufacturing Execution Systems To Kubernetes - Manuel Peuster & Andrei Traian Cucuruzac, Bosch Connected Industry
13:45 • Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting - Moderated by Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, The Linux Foundation
14:30 • Breaking Barriers: Bringing Application Developers Closer To the CNCF - Thomas Vitale, Systematic & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid
15:15 • Wait! Can Your Pod Survive a Restart? - Aya Ozawa, CloudNatix Inc.
11:00 • "Surviving Day2 : Picking the Right Tool To Secure Your Kubernetes Habitat" - Bruno Gabriel da Silva, Sysdig & Henrique Santana, AWS
11:45 • Demystifying Why the World Is Built on Kubernetes: Learning To Leverage Bespoke CRDs and Controllers - Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Sebastien Blanc, Port
13:45 • No Code Needed: From Emojis To Glory on the Contribution Ladder - Nancy Chauhan, Student & Carol Valencia, Elastic
14:30 • The Ultimate Container Challenge: An Interactive Trivia Game on OCI, Podman, Docker... - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud & Sherine Khoury, Red Hat
15:15 • Taming the Beast: Advanced Resource Management With Kubernetes - Lucy Sweet, Uber & Dawn Chen, Google
11:00 • The Missing Metrics: Measuring Memory Interference in Cloud Native Systems - Jonathan Perry, PerfPod
11:45 • The State of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry Interoperability - Arthur Sens, Grafana & Juraj Michálek, Swiss RE
13:45 • Smooth Scaling With the OpAMP Supervisor: Managing Thousands of OpenTelemetry Collectors - Evan Bradley, Dynatrace & Andy Keller, observIQ
14:30 • Compliance at the Speed of Innovation: Leveraging AI-Driven Automation for Real-Time Regulatory Read - Larry Carvalho, RobustCloud LLC; Simon Metson, EnterpriseDB; Robert Ficcaglia, Sunstone Secure, LLC; Anca Sailer, Red Hat / IBM; Yuji Watanabe, IBM Japa
15:15 • From Chaos To Control: Migrating Access Control To OpenFGA in a Multi-Tenant World - Jo Guerreiro, Grafana Labs & Poovamraj Thanganadar Thiagarajan, Okta
11:00 • Quantum-Ready Kubernetes: How Do We Get There? - Nikhita Raghunath & Natalie Fisher, Broadcom; Paul Schweigert, IBM; Ricardo Rocha, CERN ; Tomas Gustavsson, Keyfactor
11:45 • Testing AI Containers for Digital Twins in Science: A Cloud-HPC Workflow - Matteo Bunino, CERN & Diego Ciangottini, INFN
13:45 • Thousands of Virtual Kubelets: 1-to-1 Mapping a Supercomputer To Kubernetes With Supernetes - Dennis Marttinen, Aalto University
14:30 • Transparent, Infra-Level Checkpoint and Restore for Resilient AI/ML Workloads at Scale - Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan, Microsoft & Bernie Wu, MemVerge
15:15 • Why Don’t We Have Both? Track Build- and Run-time Information for Security With Kubescape and GUAC - Jeff Mendoza, Kusari & Ben Hirschberg, ARMO
11:00 • Consistent Volume Group Snapshots, Unraveling the Magic - Leonardo Cecchi, EDB & Xing Yang, VMware by Broadcom
11:45 • Data Gravity and Kubernetes: Managing Large-Scale Data Ingest With Minimal Latency - Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Quasitech Innovations Private Limited & Arya Soni, Zupee
13:45 • Don't Let Your Kubernetes Cluster Go Wild: Ensuring Etcd Reliability - Arka Saha, VMware by Broadcom & Chun-Hung (Henry) Tseng, Google
14:30 • Data Processing Efficiency: Optimizing Batch Workloads on Kubernetes With Custom Schedulers - Sigmar Stefánsson, NetApp & Hichem Kenniche, NetApp Instaclustr
15:15 • Authz as a Dev Workflow: Architecting Better Cloud Native Apps - Dan "phrawzty" Maher, Cerbos
11:00 • Ensuring Quality in Kubernetes: The Graduation Process From Alpha To GA - Antonio Ojea & Benjamin Elder, Google
11:45 • Beyond Classical Cryptography: Building Quantum-Resistant Cloud Native Infrastructure With SPIFFE - Andrés Vega, M42 & Hugo Landau, Messier42
13:45 • Bridge the Gap To OSS Adoption With Documentation: A Kubernetes Story - Rey Lejano, Red Hat; Natali Vlatko, Cisco; Divya Mohan, SUSE
14:30 • Discover CNCF TAG Runtime: Advancing Cloud-Native Innovation from AI to Edge - Ricardo Aravena, Snowflake; Stephen Rust, Akamai; Rajas Kokodkar, Broadcom; Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel; Danielle Tal, Microsoft