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November 6-9
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11:15am CST

15,000 Minecraft Players Vs One K8s Cluster. Who Wins? - Justin Head, Super League Gaming & Cornelia Davis, Spectro Cloud W176 (Ground Level) Journey Through Time: Understanding Etcd Revisions and Resource Versions in Kubernetes - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE W181 (Ground Level) 10 Years of Keycloak - What's Next for Cloud-Native Authentication and OIDC? - Alexander Schwartz, Red Hat & Takashi Norimatsu, Hitachi, Ltd. W187 (Ground Level) CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG Updates and Information - Marlow Weston, Intel & Niki Manoledaki, Grafana Labs W196AB SIG Security: Unravelling the Kubernetes Security Audit Together - Rey Lejano, SUSE; Savitha Raghunathan, Red Hat; Ala Dewberry, VMware; Pushkar Joglekar, Independent W196C (Ground Level) What's New in SIG-Windows - Mark Rossetti, Microsoft & Aravindh Puthiyaparambil, Red Hat W192 (Ground Level) The Future of Interactive Data Science at Scale with Jupyter and Kubeflow - Andrey Velichkevich & Zachary Sailer, Apple W185 (Ground Level) Multi-Network, New Level of Cluster Multi-Tenancy - Maciej Skrocki, Google & Doug Smith, Red Hat, Inc. W178 (Ground Level) A Practical Guide to Debugging Browser Performance with OpenTelemetry - Purvi Kanal, Honeycomb W180 (Ground Level) Deploying Kubernetes in Classified Environments - Vlad Ungureanu & Ali Monfre, Palantir Technologies W179 (Ground Level) Tutorial: Building Cloud-Native Applications Using WebAssembly and Containers - Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj & Melissa Klein, Fermyon; Ralph Squillace, Microsoft W183 (Ground Level) 🚨 Contribfest: Accelerate New Features and Learn to Contribute Alongside the Crossplane Maintainer Team - Jared Watts & Nic Cope, Upbound W186 (Ground Level)

12:10pm CST

A Practical Guide to eBPF Licensing: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the GPL - Jef Spaleta & Bill Mulligan, Isovalent W176 (Ground Level) It’s Never Too Late for PKI Fundamentals: Building a Mental Model - Jackie Elliott, Microsoft W181 (Ground Level) API Machinery Dual Maintainer Track - Federico Bongiovanni & Leila Jalali, Google; Stefan Schimanski, Upbound W190 (Ground Level) Smart Global Replication Using Reinforcement Learning - Benjamin Bengfort, Rotational Labs W185 (Ground Level) Disaster Recovery with Very Large Postgres Databases - Gabriele Bartolini, EDB & Michelle Au, Google W179 (Ground Level) Building, Scaling, and Growing Internal Developer Platform for Companies Inside Companies - Joshua Bezaleel Abednego & Giri Kuncoro, GoTo Financial W375E (Level 3) Harnessing Argo & Flux: The Quest to Scale Add-Ons Beyond 10k Clusters- Joaquin Rodriguez, Microsoft & Priyanka Ravi, Weaveworks W175 (Ground Level) A Wind of Change for Threat Detection - Melissa Kilby, Apple W375AB (Level 3) Challenge to Implementing “Scalable” Authorization with Keycloak - Yoshiyuki Tabata, Hitachi, Ltd. W375CD (Level 3) SECURITY HUB: The Quest for CNCF Ecosystem Security - Eddie Knight, Sonatype W471AB (Level 4) Sponsored: From Desktop to Production, Build Applications Everywhere, All at Once on Kubernetes - Matt Farina & Rey Lejano, Rancher by SUSE W184 (Ground Level)

2:30pm CST

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) Conquering Challenges in Building TiCDC: A High-Performance Change Data Capture Service for TiKV - Charles Zheng, Netflix W187 (Ground Level) Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - the Cloud Native Control Plane Framework - Jared Watts & Nic Cope, Upbound W190 (Ground Level) Exploring KEDA's Graduation and Advancements in Event-Driven Scaling - Zbynek Roubalik, Kedify W196C (Ground Level) High-Volume Data and APIs: The Year in SIG-Apps - Maciej Szulik, Red Hat & Janet Kuo, Google W192 (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) High Performance, Low Latency Networking for Edge & Telco - Dan Daly & Nupur Jain, Intel; Vipin Jain, AMD; Ian Coolidge, Google; Nabil Bitar, Bloomberg W178 (Ground Level) Advancing Memory Management in Kubernetes: Next Steps with Memory QoS - Dixita Narang, Google & Antti Kervinen, Intel W179 (Ground Level) All Cloud-Native Services Are Vulnerable — Block Exploits with Security Behavior Analytics - David Hadas, IBM Research & Roland Huß, Red Hat W375AB (Level 3) 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) Tutorial: Cloud Native Essentials: A 101 Tutorial to Start Your Cloud Native Journey - Rey Lejano, SUSE & Eamon Bauman, Red Hat W183 (Ground Level)

3:25pm CST

From Classroom to Cluster: Embracing Kubernetes as a Student and Contributing to Its Development - Nitish Kumar, Faeka Ansari & Grace Nguyen, Independent; Meha Bhalodiya, Red Hat; Leonard Pahlke, Liquid Reply W181 (Ground Level) Improving Kubernetes Security with the Konnectivity Proxy - Michael McCune, Red Hat & Joseph Anttila Hall, Google W192 (Ground Level) Platforms All the Way Down; Always Has Been. - Josh Gavant, Red Hat; Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Colin Griffin, Krumware; Srinivas Peri, Adobe; Joe Natale, Discover W196AB Unlocking the Full Potential of GPUs for AI Workloads on Kubernetes - Kevin Klues, NVIDIA In Virtual Platform Take It to the Edge: Creating a Globally Distributed Ingress with Istio & K8gb - Jimmi Dyson, D2iQ W178 (Ground Level) Build in Observability While Developing - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb.io W180 (Ground Level) Break Through Cluster Boundaries to Autoscale Workloads Across Them on a Large Scale - Ying Zhang, Zendesk & XingYan Jiang, DaoCloud W179 (Ground Level) Scalable User Authentication for Kubernetes Clusters with OpenID Connector - Nathan Brahms & Shashwat Sehgal, P0 Security W175 (Ground Level) Arbitrary Code & File Execution in R/O FS – Am I Write? - Golan Myers, WithSecure W375AB (Level 3) SECURITY HUB: From Threats to Trust: Safeguarding Sensitive Data in K8s - Moritz Eckert, Edgeless Systems W471AB (Level 4)

4:30pm CST

Cloud Native Taiwan User Group: Governance of Open-Source Communities in Non-English Region - Phil Huang, Microsoft & Ching Kuo, Mirantis W176 (Ground Level) Demystifying Service Mesh: Separating Hype from Practicality - Brian Redmond & Ally Ford, Microsoft W181 (Ground Level) Zero-Downtime Live Migration of Stateful VMs on Kubernetes - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs W184 (Ground Level) Cluster API Deep Dive: Improving Performance up to 2k Clusters - Fabrizio Pandini & Stefan Büringer, VMware W196AB Demystify Helm Support in Argo CD - Alexander Matyushentsev & Remington Breeze, Akuity W190 (Ground Level) Real-Time Caching for Cloud Native Applications with Redis - Madelyn Olson, AWS W185 (Ground Level) Service via BGP with Metallb and Calico - Evangelista Tragni & Francesco Grimaldi, Desotech SRL W178 (Ground Level) E2E Observability for Connected Vehicle Service via Distributed Tracing - Kota Endo, KDDI Corporation & Masanori Itoh, Toyota Motor Corporation W180 (Ground Level) KMM: Your Swiss Army Knife for Kernel Modules on Kubernetes - Quentin Barrand, Red Hat & Hersh Pathak, Intel W375CD (Level 3) Clean up on Aisle Cloud! - Sara Johnson, Boeing In Virtual Platform SECURITY HUB: Making Kubernetes Quantum-Safe: What Can We Do to Protect Ourselves Now? Paul Schweigert & Michael Maximilien, IBM W471AB (Level 4) Tutorial: Demystifying Cilium: Learn How to Build an eBPF CNI Plugin from Scratch - Adam Sayah, Solo.io W183 (Ground Level)

5:25pm CST

Journey to Becoming an OpenTelemetry Approver - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb.io W181 (Ground Level) On-Demand Systems and Scaled Training Using the JobSet API - Abdullah Gharaibeh, Google & Vanessa Sochat, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory W375CD (Level 3) Operator Design for HPC: Patterns for Orchestrating Large Scale Compute Intensive Applications - Luca Montechiesi & Min Tsao, Siemens EDA W184 (Ground Level) Intro + Deep Dive: Kubernetes SIG Scalability - Wojciech Tyczyński, Google & Marcel Zięba, Isovalent W192 (Ground Level) Observing a Large Language Model in Production - Phillip Carter, Honeycomb W185 (Ground Level) AdminNetworkPolicy: A New Kubernetes-Native API for Comprehensive Cluster-Wide Network Security - Surya Seetharaman, Nadia Pinaeva & Andrew Stoycos, Red Hat; Yang Ding, VMware W178 (Ground Level) Collecting Low-Level Metrics with eBPF - Mauricio Vásquez Bernal, Microsoft W180 (Ground Level) How CERN Developers Benefit from Kubernetes and CNCF Landscape - Antonio Nappi, CERN W179 (Ground Level) Streamlining Infrastructure with Crossplane: A Transformation Story - Clément Blaise, Consensys & Jared Watts, Upbound W175 (Ground Level) Securing Kubernetes: Migrating from Long-Lived to Time-Bound Tokens Without Disrupting Existing Apps - Yuan Chen & James Munnelly, Apple Inc. W375AB (Level 3)

11:00am CST

Apply the Can Opener of Enlightenment: Lifting the Lid off Kubernetes Networking - Joe Thompson, HashiCorp W181 (Ground Level) Kyverno: Overview and What's New - Chip Zoller, Nirmata & Zach Swanson, Wayfair W187 (Ground Level) Rook: Intro and Deep Dive with Ceph Storage - Travis Nielsen, Annette Clewett & Blaine Gardner, IBM; Dmitry Mishin, San Diego Supercomputer Center UCSD W196AB Advancing Real-Time Performance at the Edge Cloud: DDS & Real-Time Publish Subscribe Open Standards - Kyoungho An & Protima Banerjee, Real-Time Innovations (RTI) W178 (Ground Level) Best Practices: Improving Batch Scheduling Performance at Scale Using MCAD and KWOK - Vishakha Ramani & Sara Kokkila-Schumacher, IBM Research W179 (Ground Level) Running Large-Scale Scheduling Simulations with Virtual Kubelet - David Morrison, Applied Computing Research Labs W175 (Ground Level) GoTo Financial’s Story: Towards 10k ArgoCD Apps to Support Billions of $ Transactions - Yudi Andrean Phanama & Giri Kuncoro, GoTo Financial W184 (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)

11:55am CST

Beyond Passwords: Keycloak's Contributions to IAM(Identity and Access Management) + Security - Soojin Lee & Hoon Jo, Megazone W181 (Ground Level) Patterns of Multi-cluster Kubernetes - George Hantzaras & Dan Mckean, MongoDB W180 (Ground Level) Scale Your MySQL Database by Migrating to Vitess - Matt Lord & Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale W196AB Leveraging Cluster-API for Production-Ready Multi-Regional Infrastructures - Shotaro Gotanda & Kotaro Inoue, LY Corporation W175 (Ground Level) Everything Is Code: Embracing GitOps at Spotify - Tim Hansen, Spotify W184 (Ground Level) Eraser: Cleaning up Vulnerable Images from Kubernetes Nodes - Peter Engelbert & Ashna Mehrotra, Microsoft W375AB (Level 3)

2:30pm CST

Kubeburned Out? How to Get Things Done Efficiently Within the Kubernetes Community - Sascha Grunert, Red Hat & Carlos Tadeu Panato Junior, Chainguard W176 (Ground Level) Learning Kubernetes by Chaos – Breaking a Kubernetes Cluster to Understand the Components - Ricardo Katz, VMware & Anderson Duboc, Google Cloud W181 (Ground Level) Flux 2.0 and Beyond: Amplifying GitOps with OCI and Cosign - Kingdon Barrett & Sanskar Jaiswal, Weaveworks W194 (Ground Level) Project Maintainers Explain Cert-Manager in 5 Levels of Difficulty - Tim Ramlot, Maël Valais & Ashley Davis, Venafi W196C (Ground Level) Secure Transport for Your Software Supply Chain with TUF - Marina Moore, New York University & Trishank Kuppusamy, Datadog W196AB Migrating Hybrid Big Data Platforms at Scale to Kubernetes - Sunil Govindan, Cloudera W185 (Ground Level) The Way We Build the Largest Public and Private Cloud Infrastructure in Vietnam - Trong Vinh Nguyen & Duc Nguyen Cong, Viettel W178 (Ground Level) Kube-Costbusters: Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters for Efficiency and Epic Savings! - Rachel Leekin & Antoinette Mills, AWS W179 (Ground Level) On the Right Tack: Kubernetes at Uber Scale - Aditya Bhave & Apoorva Jindal, Uber Technologies W175 (Ground Level) Five Years of Cloud Native Rust - Alex Leong, Buoyant W375AB (Level 3) Tutorial: Mastering Etcd Observability: A Comprehensive Guide to Metrics, Monitoring, and Incident Handling - Bogdan Kanivets & Vivek Patani, Apple W183 (Ground Level)

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) Network Policy API: Intro and Project Update - Andrew Stoycos, Surya Seetharaman & Dan Winship, Red Hat; Yang Ding, VMware W187 (Ground Level) SIG Scheduling Updates - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Kensei Nakada, Mercari W192 (Ground Level) Kube of Thoughts – Scaling Generative AI Models with Kubernetes and Inference Decision Trees - Asheesh Goja, Amazon Web Services W185 (Ground Level) Kepler: Project Update and Deep Dive - Marcelo Amaral & Tatsuhiro Chiba, IBM W180 (Ground Level) Efficient Resource Utilization for Batch Compute on Kubernetes - Amit Kumar & Kevin Xu, Uber W375E (Level 3) Kubernetes on a Budget: How to Get Pay-per-Use Right - Vasuki Prasad & Karim Lakhani, Intuit W375CD (Level 3) Supercharge Your AI Platform with KubeRay: Ray + Kubernetes - Archit Kulkarni, Anyscale & Winston Chiang, Google W175 (Ground Level) Achieving Functional Quality in a Multi-Cloud Runtime - Artur Souza & Yaron Schneider, Diagrid W184 (Ground Level)

4:30pm CST

Roadmap to Becoming a CNCF Ambassador - Eric D. Schabell, Chronosphere & Katie Greenley, CNCF W176 (Ground Level) Improving the Security of Software Supply Chains with Notary Project - Toddy Mladenov, Microsoft & Milind Gokarn, Amazon W187 (Ground Level) SIG Cluster Lifecycle Intro & Future - Vince Prignano, Red Hat & Cecile Robert-Michon, Microsoft W190 (Ground Level) SIG Testing: Intro and Updates - Mahamed Ali, Cisco W192 (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) Gen3: Advancing Biomedical Research with an Open Source Cloud-Native Platform - Jawad Qureshi, University of Chicago & Colin Griffin, Krumware W375E (Level 3) Journey Of Building Our Kubernetes Platform: Successes, Failures, And Valuable Lessons Learned - Maryam Tavakkoli, Relex Solutions In Virtual Platform Turbocharging Compilation Times: Kubernetes Orchestration with Distributed Compilation Tools - Diogo Guerra, CERN W184 (Ground Level) K8s Auth{N,Z} at Robinhood - Learning from Reductions, Migrations and Designing Automation - Sujith Katakam & Karen Tu, Robinhood Markets, Inc. W375AB (Level 3) Securing Identity and Authorization in Microservices - Atul Tulshibagwale, SGNL W375CD (Level 3)

5:25pm CST

Software Delivery in Regulated Environments: Critical Infrastructure Needs a Community Approach - Austen Bryan, Defense Unicorns & Steven Ollek, US Air Force W176 (Ground Level) Service Proxy, API Gateway, Service Mesh: What’s the Difference? What Do I Need? - Ahmet Soormally & Carol Cheung, Tyk Technologies W181 (Ground Level) Make Underlay CNI to Be Powerful and Simple - Lan Weizhou & Qiuping Dai, Daocloud W178 (Ground Level) Node Size Matters - Running K8s as Cheaply as Possible - Alex Meijer & Michael Dresser, Stackwatch W179 (Ground Level) How We Optimized Our Developer Experience with Telepresence - Frank Gu, Voiceflow W375E (Level 3) The Next Frontier: Exploring the Confidentiality of Kubernetes Control Planes - Jens Freimann, Red Hat W375AB (Level 3)

9:55am CST

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

11:00am CST

“The Stars Look Very Different Today”: Kubernetes and Cloud Native at the SKA Observatory - Rohini Joshi, SKA Observatory W181 (Ground Level) Contour Project Update: Highlighting New Features and Community Contributions - Sunjay Bhatia, VMware & Nigel Brown, Intuit W194 (Ground Level) The Best Practice of Machine Learning Platform Storage Based on CubeFS - Leon Chang, OPPO In Virtual Platform OpenTelemetry Tracing for Monoliths - Phillip Carter, Honeycomb W180 (Ground Level) gRPC Tapping Filter with Hardware Accelerated in Service Mesh - Yizhou Xu, Intel & Devan Nair, Ericsson W183 (Ground Level)

11:55am CST

Don’t Lose Your Sleep Over It: Verifying Your Kubernetes Clusters with Kivi - Bingzhe Liu & Gangmuk Lim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign W181 (Ground Level) Leveraging SPIRE for All Your Production Identity Needs - Ryan Turner, Uber & Chirag Kapadia, Uber Technologies, Inc W194 (Ground Level) Beyond Prototypes: Production-Ready ML Systems with Metaflow and Argo Project - Savin Goyal, Outerbounds & Yuan Tang, Akuity W185 (Ground Level) Reliable RPCs Over Hybrid Clouds and the End-to-End Argument - Wenbo Zhu & Vinod Lasrado, Google Inc. W179 (Ground Level) Beyond the Cluster: Harnessing the Power of Kubernetes Namespaces - Victor Varza & Aneci Adrian, Adobe Inc W375E (Level 3) Sustainability and Efficiency: Environmentally-Friendly Software Development with Kube-Green - Davide Bianchi, Mia-Platform W184 (Ground Level) RBACdoors: How Cryptominers Are Exploiting RBAC Misconfigs - Greg Castle & Vinayak Goyal, Google W375CD (Level 3) Service Mesh Journey at DoorDash: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Hochuen Wong, DoorDash W183 (Ground Level) Under the Hood: Exploring Istio's Lock Contention and Its Impact on Expedia's Compute Platform - Raghav Grover & Timothy Ehlers, Expedia W175 (Ground Level)

2:00pm CST

Revolutionizing Kube Scalability Testing with KWOK - Wei Huang & Weiwei Yang, Apple W179 (Ground Level) Untangling Your Service Mesh with Feature Gates - Niranjan Shankar, Microsoft W175 (Ground Level)

2:55pm CST

Lifting the Hood - to Take a Look at the Kubernetes Resource Management Evolution - Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel & Mike Brown, IBM W181 (Ground Level) Nix, Kubernetes, and the Pursuit of Reproducibility - Josh Rosso, Reddit W375AB (Level 3) Dragonfly V2.1.0 - Intro, Updates and Practice in AI Model Distribution - Wenbo Qi, Ant Group In Virtual Platform Unveiling the Impact of Chaos Litmus Probes on SLOs: Enhancing Resilience in Kubernetes Environments - Saranya Jena, Harness & Amit Das, Harness.io In Virtual Platform Efficient Edge Computing: Unleashing the Potential of AI/ML with Lightweight Kubernetes - Ricardo Noriega De Soto, Red Hat & Alex Mevec, Lockheed Martin W185 (Ground Level) FATE-LLM: Empowering Large Language Models with Federated Learning - Fangchi Wang & Layne Peng, VMware In Virtual Platform The Complexity on Scaling ML Pipelines on Kubernetes Using Tekton - Tommy Li, IBM W178 (Ground Level) Automate Production-Ready Cluster Using Crossplane Compositions and Kyverno - Dolis Sharma, Nirmata W194 (Ground Level)

4:00pm CST

Kubernetes Confessions: Tales of Overspending and Redemption - Becky Pauley & David Collom, Venafi Jetstack Consult W375CD (Level 3) The Journey Along the Way to Data-locality on Cloud for AI/ML - Shawn Sun & Lu Qiu, Alluxio W185 (Ground Level)