5:30pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: A Secure Software Supply Chain for Open Policy Agency (OPA) Policies - Omri Gazitt, Aserto
5:35pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: A Tiny Talk on Tiny Containers - Eric Gregory, Mirantis
5:40pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Choose Your Own Abstraction: Iterating on Developer Experience - Rosemary Wang, HashiCorp
5:45pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Dynamically Proxy Helm Charts as OCI Artifacts - Vadim Bauer, 8gears Container Registry
5:50pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Empowering the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Cloud Native and Open Source - Jon Zeolla, Seiso & Rob Koch, Slalom Build
5:55pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: From Novice to Keptn Contributor: Empowering My Journey in Cloud Native Communities - Yash Pimple
6:00pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Generative AI for Platform Engineering - Jeremy Lewi, Sailplane AI
6:05pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Open Source, Kubernetes & CNCF from the Eyes of a Designer - Gaby Moreno Cesar, IBM
6:10pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Simple Things with Silly Names - Matthias Bertschy, ARMO
6:15pm • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, and What We’re Doing About It - Tim Hockin, Google
11:15am • 15,000 Minecraft Players Vs One K8s Cluster. Who Wins? - Justin Head, Super League Gaming & Cornelia Davis, Spectro Cloud
12:10pm • A Practical Guide to eBPF Licensing: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the GPL - Jef Spaleta & Bill Mulligan, Isovalent
2:30pm • Rise of the Global Cloud Native Community: The Untold Stories - Ashutosh Kumar, Elastic & Rajas Kakodkar, VMware
3:25pm • Navigating Open Source Project Hurdles to Achieve Community Empowerment - Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy, Sysdig & Bob Killen, Google
4:30pm • Cloud Native Taiwan User Group: Governance of Open-Source Communities in Non-English Region - Phil Huang, Microsoft & Ching Kuo, Mirantis
5:25pm • Service Mesh Battle Scars: Technology, Timing, and Tradeoffs - Keith Mattix, Microsoft; John Howard, Google; Lin Sun, solo.io; Thomas Graf, Isovalent; Flynn, Buoyant
11:15am • Multi-Network, New Level of Cluster Multi-Tenancy - Maciej Skrocki, Google & Doug Smith, Red Hat, Inc.
12:10pm • Kubernetes for Edge Computing: A Guide to Building Resilient and Scalable Applications - Yin Ding, Google & Tina Tsou, Arm
2:30pm • High Performance, Low Latency Networking for Edge & Telco - Dan Daly & Nupur Jain, Intel; Vipin Jain, AMD; Ian Coolidge, Google; Nabil Bitar, Bloomberg
3:25pm • Take It to the Edge: Creating a Globally Distributed Ingress with Istio & K8gb - Jimmi Dyson, D2iQ
4:30pm • Service via BGP with Metallb and Calico - Evangelista Tragni & Francesco Grimaldi, Desotech SRL
5:25pm • AdminNetworkPolicy: A New Kubernetes-Native API for Comprehensive Cluster-Wide Network Security - Surya Seetharaman, Nadia Pinaeva & Andrew Stoycos, Red Hat; Yang Ding, VMware
11:15am • A Practical Guide to Debugging Browser Performance with OpenTelemetry - Purvi Kanal, Honeycomb
12:10pm • A Tale of Two Flamegraphs: Unlocking Performance Insights in a Diverse Application Landscape - Ryan Perry, Grafana Labs
2:30pm • 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
3:25pm • Build in Observability While Developing - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb.io
4:30pm • E2E Observability for Connected Vehicle Service via Distributed Tracing - Kota Endo, KDDI Corporation & Masanori Itoh, Toyota Motor Corporation
5:25pm • Collecting Low-Level Metrics with eBPF - Mauricio Vásquez Bernal, Microsoft
11:15am • 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
12:10pm • Sponsored: From Desktop to Production, Build Applications Everywhere, All at Once on Kubernetes - Matt Farina & Rey Lejano, Rancher by SUSE
2:30pm • Sustainable Scaling of Kubernetes Workloads with In-Place Pod Resize and Predictive AI - Vinay Kulkarni, eBay & Haoran Qiu, UIUC
3:25pm • How the Record-Breaking, Cloud Native AI Supercomputer Was Built - Peter Salanki, CoreWeave
4:30pm • Zero-Downtime Live Migration of Stateful VMs on Kubernetes - Felicitas Pojtinger, Loophole Labs
5:25pm • Operator Design for HPC: Patterns for Orchestrating Large Scale Compute Intensive Applications - Luca Montechiesi & Min Tsao, Siemens EDA
11:15am • 10 Years of Keycloak - What's Next for Cloud-Native Authentication and OIDC? - Alexander Schwartz, Red Hat & Takashi Norimatsu, Hitachi, Ltd.
12:10pm • All Things in-Toto: Supply Chain Attestations, Policies and Adoption Stories, Oh My! - Santiago Torres-Arias, Purdue University & Marcela Melara, Intel Corporation
2:30pm • Conquering Challenges in Building TiCDC: A High-Performance Change Data Capture Service for TiKV - Charles Zheng, Netflix
3:25pm • Avoid an Ill Wind and Catch the Jet Stream – Using Falco to Detect Attackers & Compliance Violations - Jason Dellaluce, Leonardo Grasso & Luca Guerra, Sysdig; Melissa Kilby, Apple; Carlos Tadeu Panato Junior, Chainguard
4:30pm • Chaos Mesh: Overview, Practice and Future - Zhou Zhiqiang, Individual & Saiyam Pathak, Civo
5:25pm • Cloud Custodian - State of the Mop - Kapil Thangavelu, Stacklet
11:15am • What's New in SIG-Windows - Mark Rossetti, Microsoft & Aravindh Puthiyaparambil, Red Hat
12:10pm • What's Happening with Ingress-Nginx! - James Strong, Chainguard & Ricardo Katz, VMware
2:30pm • High-Volume Data and APIs: The Year in SIG-Apps - Maciej Szulik, Red Hat & Janet Kuo, Google
3:25pm • Improving Kubernetes Security with the Konnectivity Proxy - Michael McCune, Red Hat & Joseph Anttila Hall, Google
4:30pm • Inflections and Reflections from Kubernetes SIG ContribEx on Community Growth & Sustainability - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE; Madhav Jivrajani, VMware; Kaslin Fields, Google
5:25pm • Intro + Deep Dive: Kubernetes SIG Scalability - Wojciech Tyczyński, Google & Marcel Zięba, Isovalent
11:15am • From Māori to Deaf Engineers, Welcoming all Contributors - Jay Tihema, ii.nz; Catherine Paganini, Buoyant; Jay Jackson, TotalCX; Destiny O'Connor, Independent
12:10pm • WG Batch: What’s New and What Is Next? - Marcin Wielgus, Google & Maciej Szulik, Red Hat
2:30pm • Policy-Based Kubernetes Governance, Risk, and Compliance - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Poonam Lamba, Google; Anca Sailer, IBM; Robert Ficcaglia, SunStone Secure
3:25pm • Open and Secure: Lessons Learned in Five Years of TAG Security Assessments - Justin Cappos, NYU & Andres Vega, M42
11:15am • CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG Updates and Information - Marlow Weston, Intel & Niki Manoledaki, Grafana Labs
12:10pm • Cloud Native Storage:the CNCF Storage TAG, Projects, Technology & Landscape - Raffaele Spazzoli, Red Hat & Alex Chircop, Akamai
2:30pm • Observability TAG Updates: Enhancing Kubernetes Observability and Query Language Standardization - Alolita Sharma & Matt Young, Apple & Ken Finnigan, Lumigo
3:25pm • Platforms All the Way Down; Always Has Been. - Josh Gavant, Red Hat; Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Colin Griffin, Krumware; Srinivas Peri, Adobe; Joe Natale, Discover
4:30pm • Cluster API Deep Dive: Improving Performance up to 2k Clusters - Fabrizio Pandini & Stefan Büringer, VMware
11:15am • SIG Security: Unravelling the Kubernetes Security Audit Together - Rey Lejano, SUSE; Savitha Raghunathan, Red Hat; Ala Dewberry, VMware; Pushkar Joglekar, Independent
12:10pm • SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive - Han Kang, Richa Banker & David Ashpole, Google; Damien Grisonnet, Red Hat
2:30pm • Exploring KEDA's Graduation and Advancements in Event-Driven Scaling - Zbynek Roubalik, Kedify
3:25pm • Envoy Maintainer Q&A
4:30pm • Emissary-Ingress: Self-Service APIs and the Kubernetes Gateway API - Hamzah Qudsi, Ambassador Labs & Flynn -, Buoyant
9:00am • Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Priyanka Sharma, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
9:25am • Keynote: Windy City Whirlwind: Stirring Up the Cloud Native Ecosystem - Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
9:40am • 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, Intuit
9:55am • Sponsored Keynote: Orchestrating Innovation: How We Keep the Music Going with API Enhancements - David Eads, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
10:05am • 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 Labs
10:20am • 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
10:25am • Keynote: CNCF Graduated Project Updates
10:40am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
12:10pm • Challenge to Implementing “Scalable” Authorization with Keycloak - Yoshiyuki Tabata, Hitachi, Ltd.
2:30pm • Cloud Native Application Threat Modeling and Adversary Emulation : Techniques and Tools - Rafik Harabi, Sysdig
3:25pm • Wolfi: Intro to the Linux Undistro Helping Build Small, up-to-Date, CVE Free Cloud Images - James Rawlings, Chainguard
4:30pm • KMM: Your Swiss Army Knife for Kernel Modules on Kubernetes - Quentin Barrand, Red Hat & Hersh Pathak, Intel
5:25pm • On-Demand Systems and Scaled Training Using the JobSet API - Abdullah Gharaibeh, Google & Vanessa Sochat, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:00am • Running Large-Scale Scheduling Simulations with Virtual Kubelet - David Morrison, Applied Computing Research Labs
11:55am • Leveraging Cluster-API for Production-Ready Multi-Regional Infrastructures - Shotaro Gotanda & Kotaro Inoue, LY Corporation
2:30pm • On the Right Tack: Kubernetes at Uber Scale - Aditya Bhave & Apoorva Jindal, Uber Technologies
3:25pm • Supercharge Your AI Platform with KubeRay: Ray + Kubernetes - Archit Kulkarni, Anyscale & Winston Chiang, Google
4:30pm • Dungeons and Deployments: Leveling up in Kubernetes - Noah Abrahams, Oracle; Natali Vlatko, Cisco; Kat Cosgrove, Dell; Seth McCombs, AcuityMD
5:25pm • The Hidden Heroes Behind AI: Making Sense of GPUs and TPUs in K8s - David Porter, Google & Evan Lezar, NVIDIA
11:00am • Code, Chaos, and Cash: (Mis)Adventures in Open-Source Wonderland - Anusha Hegde, Nirmata & Kiran Mova, VMware
11:55am • Design Metric Programs to Respect Contributor Expectations and Promote Safety - Sophia Vargas, Google
2:30pm • Kubeburned Out? How to Get Things Done Efficiently Within the Kubernetes Community - Sascha Grunert, Red Hat & Carlos Tadeu Panato Junior, Chainguard
3:25pm • Rising Together: The Story of Building an Emerging Community - Angel Ramirez, Cuemby & Samantha Upegui, FHCN
4:30pm • Roadmap to Becoming a CNCF Ambassador - Eric D. Schabell, Chronosphere & Katie Greenley, CNCF
5:25pm • Software Delivery in Regulated Environments: Critical Infrastructure Needs a Community Approach - Austen Bryan, Defense Unicorns & Steven Ollek, US Air Force
11:00am • eBPF for Observability: Data Overload Panacea or Pain - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals; Shahar Azulay, groundcover; Valeri Pliskin, Datadog; Anna Kapuścińska, Isovalent
11:55am • Patterns of Multi-cluster Kubernetes - George Hantzaras & Dan Mckean, MongoDB
2:30pm • Introducing Logs in OpenTelemetry: What It Unlocks and How to Use It - Morgan McLean, Splunk & Dan Jaglowski, observIQ
3:25pm • Kepler: Project Update and Deep Dive - Marcelo Amaral & Tatsuhiro Chiba, IBM
4:30pm • Logging Deep Dive and Best Practices - Eduardo Silva, Calyptia
5:25pm • Remote Control for Observability Using the Open Agent Management Protocol - Jacob Aronoff, Lightstep from ServiceNow & Andy Keller, observIQ
11:00am • Apply the Can Opener of Enlightenment: Lifting the Lid off Kubernetes Networking - Joe Thompson, HashiCorp
11:55am • Beyond Passwords: Keycloak's Contributions to IAM(Identity and Access Management) + Security - Soojin Lee & Hoon Jo, Megazone
2:30pm • Learning Kubernetes by Chaos – Breaking a Kubernetes Cluster to Understand the Components - Ricardo Katz, VMware & Anderson Duboc, Google Cloud
3:25pm • Phippy’s Field Guide to Wasm - Karen Chu & Matt Butcher, Fermyon
4:30pm • Security Showdown: The Overconfident Operator Vs the Nefarious Ne’er-Do-Well - Whitney Lee, VMware & Lewis Denham-Parry, Chainguard
5:25pm • Service Proxy, API Gateway, Service Mesh: What’s the Difference? What Do I Need? - Ahmet Soormally & Carol Cheung, Tyk Technologies
6:15pm • Documentary Film - eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel
11:00am • 🚨 Contribfest: Istio: Hands-on Development and Contribution Workshop - Lin Sun & Steven Landow, Solo.io; Faseela Kundattil, Ericsson Software Technology; Eric Van Norman, IBM
2:30pm • 🚨 Contribfest: OpenTelemetry Contribfest - Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace; Tyler Helmuth, Honeycomb; Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Grafana Labs; Alex Boten, Lightstep; Anthony Mirabella, AWS
4:30pm • 🚨 Contribfest: Help Us Help Users Secure Cloud, Container, and Kubernetes with Falco - Thomas Labarussias & Mike Coleman, Sysdig
11:00am • Kyverno: Overview and What's New - Chip Zoller, Nirmata & Zach Swanson, Wayfair
11:55am • KubeEdge: Extending Kubernetes to the Edge with Real-World Industry Examples - Yin Ding, Google & Kevin Wang, Huawei
2:30pm • How NATS Is Designed to Deliver AI Workloads at the Edge - Byron Ruth & Jeremy Saenz, Synadia
3:25pm • Network Policy API: Intro and Project Update - Andrew Stoycos, Surya Seetharaman & Dan Winship, Red Hat; Yang Ding, VMware
4:30pm • Improving the Security of Software Supply Chains with Notary Project - Toddy Mladenov, Microsoft & Milind Gokarn, Amazon
5:25pm • Keptn Lifecycle Toolkit Updates and Deep Dive - Giovanni Liva & Anna Reale, Dynatrace
11:00am • Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive - Xing Yang, VMware & Michelle Au, Google
11:55am • Kubernetes SIG Node Intro and Deep Dive - Sergey Kanzhelev, Google & Mrunal Patel, Red Hat
2:30pm • Minikube Project Update - Medya Ghazizadeh, Google
3:25pm • Introducing CloudEvents Discovery - David Baldwin, Independent
4:30pm • SIG Cluster Lifecycle Intro & Future - Vince Prignano, Red Hat & Cecile Robert-Michon, Microsoft
5:25pm • SIG Autoscaling Updates and Feature Highlights - Guy Templeton, Skyscanner & Marcin Wielgus, Google
11:00am • OpenTelemetry: What's Next? Logs, Profiles, and More - Morgan McLean, Splunk; Ted Young, Lightstep; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace
11:55am • Kubernetes Infra SIG: Intro and Updates - Arnaud Meukam, VMware & Benjamin Elder, Google
2:30pm • Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Updates - John Belamaric, Google & Davanum Srinivas, Amazon Web Services
3:25pm • SIG Scheduling Updates - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Kensei Nakada, Mercari
4:30pm • SIG Testing: Intro and Updates - Mahamed Ali, Cisco
11:00am • Linkerd for the Enterprise: VM Support, Flat Networks, Gateway API, and More - William Morgan, Buoyant
11:55am • Keeping Helm Reliable and Usable - Matt Farina, SUSE; Karena Angell, Red Hat; George Jenkins, Bloomberg; Ian Zink, Independent
2:30pm • Flux 2.0 and Beyond: Amplifying GitOps with OCI and Cosign - Kingdon Barrett & Sanskar Jaiswal, Weaveworks
3:25pm • Forging a Stronger Bond Between Etcd and Kubernetes - Marek Siarkowicz & Wenjia Zhang, Google; James Blair, Red Hat
4:30pm • Survive eBPF Deployment with Bpfd - Andrew Stoycos, Red Hat & Shane Utt, Kong
5:25pm • Istio: The Past, Present and Future of the Project and Community - Louis Ryan, solo.io & John Howard, Google
11:00am • Rook: Intro and Deep Dive with Ceph Storage - Travis Nielsen, Annette Clewett & Blaine Gardner, IBM; Dmitry Mishin, San Diego Supercomputer Center UCSD
11:55am • Scale Your MySQL Database by Migrating to Vitess - Matt Lord & Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale
2:30pm • Secure Transport for Your Software Supply Chain with TUF - Marina Moore, New York University & Trishank Kuppusamy, Datadog
3:25pm • What’s New in Harbor, and How Can You Make Harbor Even Better? - Yan Wang, VMware & Vadim Bauer, 8gears Container Registry
4:30pm • Flavors of Certificates in Service Mesh: The Whys and Hows! - Iris Ding, Intel & Faseela Kundattil, Ericsson Software Technology
9:00am • Keynote: Opening Remarks
9:05am • Keynote: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once - Hemanth Malla, Senior Software Engineer, Datadog & Laurent Bernaille, Principal Engineer, Datadog
9:20am • 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 of Hearing Working Group
9:35am • Keynote: Architecting Your Future the Cloud Native Way! - Aparna Subramanian, Director of Production Engineering, Shopify
9:50am • Sponsored Keynote: Containers Might be Ephemeral, But Can Your Business Afford to Be? - Chris Wiborg, Vice President, Product and Solutions Marketing, Veritas
9:55am • Keynote: Kubernetes Project Updates
10:10am • Sponsored Keynote: Community-Powered Kubernetes LTS: Ensuring Stability and Compatibility While Driving Innovation - Jeremy Rickard, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure
10:15am • Keynote: Awards Ceremony
10:25am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:00am • An Offer You Can't Refuse: Discovering Chicago Film Sets with MLOps in Kubernetes - Annie Talvasto, VSHN & Adi Polak, Treeverse
11:55am • Beyond Prototypes: Production-Ready ML Systems with Metaflow and Argo Project - Savin Goyal, Outerbounds & Yuan Tang, Akuity
2:00pm • Data on Kubernetes Operator Maturity - Melissa Logan, Constantia.io; Michelle Au, Google; Robert Hodges, Altinity; Gabriele Bartolini, EDB
2:55pm • Efficient Edge Computing: Unleashing the Potential of AI/ML with Lightweight Kubernetes - Ricardo Noriega De Soto, Red Hat & Alex Mevec, Lockheed Martin
4:00pm • The Journey Along the Way to Data-locality on Cloud for AI/ML - Shawn Sun & Lu Qiu, Alluxio
11:00am • The Future of Kubernetes Auth and Policy Config: Common Expression Language - Mo Khan, Microsoft & Jordan Liggitt, Google
11:55am • Open Policy Agent (OPA) Intro & Deep Dive - Charlie Egan, Styra & Sertaç Özercan, Microsoft
2:00pm • What's New in gRPC - Kevin Nilson & Gina Yeh, Google; Richard Belleville, Independent
2:55pm • Real-World Knative: Success Stories from Production Environments - Naina Singh, Red Hat; Norris Sam Osarenkhoe, SVA; Andrew Senetar, CoreWeave; Adolfo García Veytia, Chainguard; Ricardo Rocha, CERN
4:00pm • What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! - Eddie Zaneski, Chainguard; Marly Puckett, Lyell Immunopharma; Maciej Szulik, Red Hat
11:00am • What's up with Kubernetes Long Term Support? - Jeremy Rickard, Microsoft
11:55am • Kubernetes SIG Docs: Docs Drive Adoption -- Help Wanted - Divya Mohan, SUSE & Natali Vlatko, Cisco
2:00pm • Bringing Cloud Native WASM to the mainstream with WASM Working Group - Shivay Lamba, Meilisearch & Kevin Hoffman, Cosmonic
2:55pm • Learnings from Sustainably Steering the Kubernetes Project - Nabarun Pal, VMware & Bob Killen, Google
4:00pm • Releasing Kubernetes and Beyond: Flexible and Fast Delivery of Packages - Grace Nguyen, University of Waterloo; Adolfo Garcia Veytia, Chainguard; Jim Angel, Google; John Anderson, Ditto
9:00am • Keynote: Opening Remarks
9:05am • Keynote: A Vision for Vision - Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - Tim Hockin, Distinguished Engineer, Google
9:20am • 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
9:25am • Keynote: Incubating Project Updates
9:40am • Keynote: Threading the Labyrinth of Software Supply Chain Security in Open Source - Frederick Kautz, Director of R&D, TestifySec
9:55am • Sponsored Keynote: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Nathan Taber, Head of Product, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services
10:00am • 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
10:15am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
