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November 6-9
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Michael Friedrich

GitLab
Senior Developer Evangelist
Nuremberg area, Germany

https://dnsmichi.at

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Michael Friedrich is a Senior Developer Evangelist at GitLab, focussing on Observability, DevSecOps, AI. He loves to educate everyone and regularly speaks at events and meetups. Michael created o11y.love as an Observability learning platform, and shares technology trends and insights into day-2-ops, Chaos Engineering, eBPF, OpenTelemetry and AI/MLOps in his opsindev.news newsletter. When not traveling and working remotely, he enjoys building LEGO models.

2:00pm CST

Badge Pick-Up West Center Lobby - McCormick Place (Level 3)

7:30am CST

Badge Pick-Up West Center Lobby - McCormick Place (Level 3)

9:00am CST

AppDeveloperCon Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED W178AB (Ground Level) BackstageCon Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED W196ABC (Ground Level) Observability Day Hosted by CNCF - Full Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED W176ABC (Ground Level)

7:00pm CST

Cloud Native Gangster’s Speakeasy Hosted by Solo.io, Snyk and Teleport - SOLD OUT Mae District

9:00am CST

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Priyanka Sharma, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:25am CST

Keynote: Windy City Whirlwind: Stirring Up the Cloud Native Ecosystem - Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:40am CST

Keynote: Blueprint Banter: Cloud Native Conversations by the Fireside - Taylor Dolezal, Cloud Native Computing Foundation; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Mike Bowen, Blackrock; Cailyn Edwards, Shopify; Mukulika Kapas... W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:55am CST

Sponsored Keynote: Orchestrating Innovation: How We Keep the Music Going with API Enhancements - David Eads, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:05am CST

Keynote: Environmental Sustainability in the Cloud Is Not a Mythical Creature - Frederick Kautz, TestifySec; Rimma Iontel, Red Hat; Tammy McClellan, Microsoft; Marlow Weston, Intel; Niki Manoledaki, Grafana Lab... W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:20am CST

Sponsored Keynote: Achieving Performance, Security, and Efficiency at Scale with Cloud Native and Open Source - Mahesh Thiagarajan, Executive Vice President of OCI Security & Developer Platform, Oracle W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:25am CST

Keynote: CNCF Graduated Project Updates W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:40am CST

Keynote: Closing Remarks W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:45am CST

Solutions Showcase Hall F | Level 3 | West Building

11:15am CST

Humans of Cloud Native Panel – Finding Your Way in #TeamCloudNative - Mitch Connors, Aviatrix; Miranda Jaramillo, The Trevor Project; Bart Farrell, CNCF Ambassador; Whitney Lee, VMware W184 (Ground Level) All You Need to Know About Prometheus in 2023: Decade of Monitoring - Julien Pivotto, O11y & Ben Kochie, Reddit W190 (Ground Level) CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG Updates and Information - Marlow Weston, Intel & Niki Manoledaki, Grafana Labs W196AB A Practical Guide to Debugging Browser Performance with OpenTelemetry - Purvi Kanal, Honeycomb W180 (Ground Level)

12:10pm CST

SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Han Kang, Richa Banker & David Ashpole, Google; Damien Grisonnet, Red Hat W196C (Ground Level) A Tale of Two Flamegraphs: Unlocking Performance Insights in a Diverse Application Landscape - Ryan Perry, Grafana Labs W180 (Ground Level) Harnessing Argo & Flux: The Quest to Scale Add-Ons Beyond 10k Clusters- Joaquin Rodriguez, Microsoft & Priyanka Ravi, Weaveworks W175 (Ground Level) SECURITY HUB: 🚩 An Introduction to Cloud Native Capture the Flag - Andrew Martin & Kevin Ward, ControlPlane W470AB (Level 4)

12:45pm CST

Lunch 🍲 Hall F | Level 3 | West Building

2:30pm CST

Rise of the Global Cloud Native Community: The Untold Stories - Ashutosh Kumar, Elastic & Rajas Kakodkar, VMware W176 (Ground Level) From Non-Tech to CNCF Ambassador: You Can Do It Too! - Julia Furst, Veeam W181 (Ground Level) Sustainable Scaling of Kubernetes Workloads with In-Place Pod Resize and Predictive AI - Vinay Kulkarni, eBay & Haoran Qiu, UIUC W184 (Ground Level) Observability TAG Updates: Enhancing Kubernetes Observability and Query Language Standardization - Alolita Sharma & Matt Young, Apple & Ken Finnigan, Lumigo W196AB Reducing AI Job Cold Start Time from 15 Mins to 1 Min - Tao He, Google W185 (Ground Level) Observability in the Cloud Native Era - Why Is It Still so Hard? - Sharone Zitzman, RTFM Please; Jason Yee, Datadog; Charity Majors, honeycomb.io; Itiel Shwartz, Komodor W180 (Ground Level) Cloud Native Application Threat Modeling and Adversary Emulation : Techniques and Tools - Rafik Harabi, Sysdig W375CD (Level 3) SECURITY HUB: Hacking the Kubernetes Secure Software Supply-chain with .zip Domains - John McBride, Opensauced & Sean McGinnis, AWS W471AB (Level 4)

3:25pm CST

Build in Observability While Developing - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb.io W180 (Ground Level) Arbitrary Code & File Execution in R/O FS – Am I Write? - Golan Myers, WithSecure W375AB (Level 3) SECURITY HUB: 🚩 An Introduction to Cloud Native Capture the Flag - Andrew Martin & Kevin Ward, ControlPlane W470AB (Level 4) Wolfi: Intro to the Linux Undistro Helping Build Small, up-to-Date, CVE Free Cloud Images - James Rawlings, Chainguard W375CD (Level 3)

4:30pm CST

Chaos Mesh: Overview, Practice and Future - Zhou Zhiqiang, Individual & Saiyam Pathak, Civo W187 (Ground Level)

5:25pm CST

Intro + Deep Dive: Kubernetes SIG Scalability - Wojciech Tyczyński, Google & Marcel Zięba, Isovalent W192 (Ground Level) Collecting Low-Level Metrics with eBPF - Mauricio Vásquez Bernal, Microsoft W180 (Ground Level)

6:00pm CST

🎉 #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFest sponsored by AMD and FluxNinja Hall F | Level 3 | West Building

9:00am CST

Keynote: Opening Remarks W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:05am CST

Keynote: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once - Hemanth Malla, Senior Software Engineer, Datadog & Laurent Bernaille, Principal Engineer, Datadog W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:20am CST

Keynote: United In The Cloud: Where Inclusion 'Winds' Around The World - Nikhita Raghunath, VMware; Divya Mohan, SUSE; Akihiro Suda, NTT Corporation; Carolina Valencia, Krol Cloud; Destiny O'Connor, Deaf and Hard... W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:35am CST

Keynote: Architecting Your Future the Cloud Native Way! - Aparna Subramanian, Director of Production Engineering, Shopify W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:50am CST

Sponsored Keynote: Containers Might be Ephemeral, But Can Your Business Afford to Be? - Chris Wiborg, Vice President, Product and Solutions Marketing, Veritas W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:55am CST

Keynote: Kubernetes Project Updates W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:10am CST

Sponsored Keynote: Community-Powered Kubernetes LTS: Ensuring Stability and Compatibility While Driving Innovation - Jeremy Rickard, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:15am CST

Keynote: Awards Ceremony W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:25am CST

Keynote: Closing Remarks W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:30am CST

Coffee Break ☕ Hall F | Level 3 | West Building Solutions Showcase Hall F | Level 3 | West Building

11:00am CST

Kyverno: Overview and What's New - Chip Zoller, Nirmata & Zach Swanson, Wayfair W187 (Ground Level) OpenTelemetry: What's Next? Logs, Profiles, and More - Morgan McLean, Splunk; Ted Young, Lightstep; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace W192 (Ground Level) AI Hub: Kick-Off & Welcome - Annie Talvasto, CNCF Ambassador & VSHN Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Ballroom C eBPF for Observability: Data Overload Panacea or Pain - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals; Shahar Azulay, groundcover; Valeri Pliskin, Datadog; Anna Kapuścińska, Isovalent W180 (Ground Level) Tutorial: Exploring the Power of Metrics Collection with OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes - Pavol Loffay & Benedikt Bongartz, Red Hat; Anthony Mirabella, AWS; Matej Gera, Coralogix; Anusha Reddy Narapureddy, Apple W183 (Ground Level)

11:05am CST

AI Hub: Keynote: Scaling AI with Cloud Native - Ricardo Rocha, CERN Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Ballroom C

11:30am CST

AI Hub: Unconference Pitches and Talk Selections - Ilan Ilan Rabinovitch, Product & Community Leader & Jono Bacon, Community Leadership Core Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Ballroom C

11:55am CST

Design Metric Programs to Respect Contributor Expectations and Promote Safety - Sophia Vargas, Google W176 (Ground Level) Mastering LLM Delivery in Private Clouds: A Journey to Seamless Deployments with Kubernetes and OCI - Autumn Moulder & Marwan Ahmed, Cohere W185 (Ground Level) Gateway API: The Most Collaborative API in Kubernetes History Is GA - Rob Scott, Google & Nick Young, Isovalent W178 (Ground Level) Everything Is Code: Embracing GitOps at Spotify - Tim Hansen, Spotify W184 (Ground Level)

12:30pm CST

Lunch 🍲 Hall F | Level 3 | West Building

2:30pm CST

Learning Kubernetes by Chaos – Breaking a Kubernetes Cluster to Understand the Components - Ricardo Katz, VMware & Anderson Duboc, Google Cloud W181 (Ground Level) AI Hub: Welcome Back, From Transformers to Text Generation Inference + Text Generation Inference Kubernetes Demo - Guillaume Salou, Hugging Face Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Ballroom C Introducing Logs in OpenTelemetry: What It Unlocks and How to Use It - Morgan McLean, Splunk & Dan Jaglowski, observIQ W180 (Ground Level) Kube-Costbusters: Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters for Efficiency and Epic Savings! - Rachel Leekin & Antoinette Mills, AWS W179 (Ground Level) Empowering Users Through Platform Engineering: Unleashing the Potential of Self-Service Tooling - Ana Margarita Medina & Adriana Villela, Lightstep W375E (Level 3) Five Years of Cloud Native Rust - Alex Leong, Buoyant W375AB (Level 3)

3:25pm CST

Rising Together: The Story of Building an Emerging Community - Angel Ramirez, Cuemby & Samantha Upegui, FHCN W176 (Ground Level) Introducing CloudEvents Discovery - David Baldwin, Independent W190 (Ground Level) Jaeger the Future with OpenTelemetry and Metrics - Pavol Loffay, Red Hat W196C (Ground Level) Kube of Thoughts – Scaling Generative AI Models with Kubernetes and Inference Decision Trees - Asheesh Goja, Amazon Web Services W185 (Ground Level)

4:30pm CST

Roadmap to Becoming a CNCF Ambassador - Eric D. Schabell, Chronosphere & Katie Greenley, CNCF W176 (Ground Level) Dungeons and Deployments: Leveling up in Kubernetes - Noah Abrahams, Oracle; Natali Vlatko, Cisco; Kat Cosgrove, Dell; Seth McCombs, AcuityMD W175 (Ground Level) Improving the Security of Software Supply Chains with Notary Project - Toddy Mladenov, Microsoft & Milind Gokarn, Amazon W187 (Ground Level) Turning up Performance to 11: Cilium, NetKit Devices, and Going Big with TCP - Daniel Borkmann, Isovalent W178 (Ground Level) Survive eBPF Deployment with Bpfd - Andrew Stoycos, Red Hat & Shane Utt, Kong W194 (Ground Level) Tutorial: OpenTelemetry 101: Let's Instrument! - Paige Cruz, Chronosphere W183 (Ground Level)

5:25pm CST

Keptn Lifecycle Toolkit Updates and Deep Dive - Giovanni Liva & Anna Reale, Dynatrace W187 (Ground Level) SIG Autoscaling Updates and Feature Highlights - Guy Templeton, Skyscanner & Marcin Wielgus, Google W190 (Ground Level) The Hidden Heroes Behind AI: Making Sense of GPUs and TPUs in K8s - David Porter, Google & Evan Lezar, NVIDIA W175 (Ground Level)

6:15pm CST

Documentary Film - eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel W181 (Ground Level)

9:00am CST

Keynote: Opening Remarks W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:05am CST

Keynote: A Vision for Vision - Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - Tim Hockin, Distinguished Engineer, Google W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:20am CST

Sponsored Keynote: Open Source and Cloud Native: A Shining Path to a Brighter Financial Future - Dr. Angel Diaz, VP Technology Capabilities & Innovation, Discover Financial Services W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:25am CST

Keynote: Incubating Project Updates W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:40am CST

Keynote: Threading the Labyrinth of Software Supply Chain Security in Open Source - Frederick Kautz, Director of R&D, TestifySec W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

9:55am CST

Sponsored Keynote: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Nathan Taber, Head of Product, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:00am CST

Keynote: Hot Dog! The Technical Oversight Committee is on a Roll! - Duffie Cooley, Isovalent; Ricardo Aravena, TruEra; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Pushkar Joglekar, Independent; Catherine Paganini, Buoyant W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:15am CST

Keynote: Closing Remarks W375 (Skyline Ballroom) (Floor 3)

10:30am CST

Solutions Showcase Hall F | Level 3 | West Building

11:00am CST

OpenTelemetry Tracing for Monoliths - Phillip Carter, Honeycomb W180 (Ground Level) Environmentally Sustainable AI via Power-Aware Batch Scheduling - Atanas Atanasov, Intel & Daniel Wilson, Boston University W179 (Ground Level) 🚨 Contribfest: Getting Started Contributing to Cilium - Bill Mulligan & Joe Stringer, Isovalent W186 (Ground Level)

11:55am CST

Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro & Deep Dive - Charlie Egan, Styra & Sertaç Özercan, Microsoft W192 (Ground Level) Simplifying Backstage - Breaking the Code Barrier - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotify W190 (Ground Level)

2:00pm CST

Tools for Resolving Difficult Conflicts in Open Source Communities and Projects - Lisa-Marie Namphy, Cockroach Labs; Christian Frank, FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management; Jordana Fung, Independent W176 (Ground Level) eBPF + Wasm: Lightweight Observability on Steroids - Michael Yuan, WasmEdge & Yusheng Zheng, eunomia-bpf W181 (Ground Level) Bringing Cloud Native WASM to the mainstream with WASM Working Group - Shivay Lamba, Meilisearch & Kevin Hoffman, Cosmonic W196AB Cilium: From Service Mesh to Kubernetes and Beyond with eBPF - James McShane, SuperOrbital; Hemanth Malla, Datadog; Liz Rice & Thomas Graf, Isovalent W194 (Ground Level) Getting Buildpacks Ready for the Multi-Architecture Future - Terence Lee, Heroku (Salesforce) & Juan Bustamante, VMware W187 (Ground Level) Achieving Real-Time Generative AI During Gameplay for Games Running on Kubernetes - Ishan Sharma, Google W184 (Ground Level)

2:55pm CST

Dragonfly V2.1.0 - Intro, Updates and Practice in AI Model Distribution - Wenbo Qi, Ant Group In Virtual Platform Learnings from Sustainably Steering the Kubernetes Project - Nabarun Pal, VMware & Bob Killen, Google W196AB Accelerate Your GenAI Model Inference with Ray and Kubernetes - Richard Liu, Google Cloud In Virtual Platform FATE-LLM: Empowering Large Language Models with Federated Learning - Fangchi Wang & Layne Peng, VMware In Virtual Platform K8sGPT: Balancing AI's Productivity Boost with Ethical Considerations in Cloud-Native - Alex Jones, AWS W184 (Ground Level) Kubernetes DoS Protection at Google Scale - Andrew Sy Kim, Google W183 (Ground Level) The Complexity on Scaling ML Pipelines on Kubernetes Using Tekton - Tommy Li, IBM W178 (Ground Level)