Schedule
578 sessions across 6 days
Project Opportunities
07:30Maintainer Summit Hosted by CNCFForum08:00Project Lightning Talk: Opening/IntroElicium 2 · Robert Sirchia, Core Maintainer08:07Project Lightning Talk: A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF LandscapeElicium 2 · Katherine Druckman08:24Project Lightning Talk: Container2Wasm: Running Containers On Wasm EnvironmentsElicium 2 · Kohei Tokunaga08:31Project Lightning Talk: How To Run Kubernetes Pods On My Slurm-Based HPC CenterElicium 2 · Diego Ciangottini08:38Project Lightning Talk: CNCF Sandbox Project K8Up Under The HoodElicium 2 · Aarno Aukia08:45Project Lightning Talk: Mini BreakElicium 208:52Project Lightning Talk: Translating Ebpf Into Business Value: Lessons From The Cilium WebsiteElicium 2 · Bill Mulligan08:59Project Lightning Talk: Finally Incubated! What Comes Next For Metal3?- Ádám Rozmán, MaintainerElicium 209:06Project Lightning Talk: Beyond Guardrails: Resource Lifecycle Automation With KyvernoElicium 2 · Ammar Yasser09:13Project Lightning Talk: How To Add A New Language Feature To OPAElicium 2 · Charlie Egan09:20Project Lightning Talk: Forensics With FalcoElicium 2 · Gerald Combs09:27Project Lightning Talk: What’S New In Kairos, 2026 EditionElicium 2 · Mauro Morales09:34Project Lightning Talk: A Maintainer’s Tour Of Tag Security And ComplianceElicium 2 · Marina Moore09:41Project Lightning Talk: Blocking Vulnerable Workloads Out (And Catching What Got In)Elicium 2 · Alessio Greggi09:46Project Lightning Talk: BreakElicium 210:03Project Lightning Talk: What's Exciting Now In Bootc, And What's Next?Elicium 2 · Colin Walters10:10Project Lightning Talk: Bare Metal Provisioning With TinkerbellElicium 2 · Jacob Weinstock10:17Project Lightning Talk: Harbor UpdateElicium 2 · Prasanth Baskar10:24Project Lightning Talk: Visualize And Manage Your Cloud-Native Infrastructure With MesheryElicium 2 · Yash Sharma10:31Project Lightning Talk: KubeEdge Everywhere: From Graduation To Global AdoptionElicium 2 · Yue Bao10:38Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD Source Hydrator: Rendered Manifests Made Easy!Elicium 2 · Michael Crenshaw10:45Mini BreakElicium 210:52Project Lightning Talk: Multi-Cluster Orchestration System: Karmada Updates And Use CasesElicium 2 · Joe Nathan Abellard10:59Project Lightning Talk: Namespace Multi-Tenancy, But All The Problems Related To ItElicium 2 · Hristo Hristov11:06Project Lightning Talk: Multi-Cluster Configuration Management With KubeStellarElicium 2 · Andy Anderson11:13Project Lightning Talk: Scheduling at the Edge of Reason: Multi-Cluster AI & OCMElicium 2 · August Simonelli11:20Project Lightning Talk: Argo Workflows 4, What'S New And What'S NextElicium 2 · Alan Clucas11:27Project Lightning Talk: What Can Crossplane Actually Do? A Real World Field GuideElicium 2 · Jonasz Łasut-Balcerzak11:34Project Lightning Talk: Optimize Sidecarless Service Mesh With A Brand-New Rust-Based ProxyElicium 2 · Zengzeng Yao11:41Project Lightning Talk: Urunc: The New Kid In The Block Of Sandboxed Container RuntimesElicium 2 · Charalampos Mainas12:16Project Lightning Talk: A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF LandscapeElicium 2 · Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso12:33Project Lightning Talk: Next-Gen AI Orchestration With Volcano On KubernetesElicium 2 · Zhonghu Xu12:40Project Lightning Talk: kcp: Scaling The Kubernetes Control Plane For The Multi-Cluster EraElicium 2 · Jan Willies12:47Project Lightning Talk: Envoy Today: What’s New In Managing Cloud-Native And AI Workload Traffic?Elicium 2 · Karol Szwaj12:54Project Lightning Talk: MCP Routing In LinkerdElicium 2 · Flynn13:01Project Lightning Talk: Let’s Deploy etcd OperatorElicium 2 · Arka Saha13:08Project Lightning Talk: Get To Where You're Going With KgatewayElicium 2 · David Jumani13:15Project Lightning Talk: FluxCD - Gitops For All SizesElicium 2 · Matheus Pimenta13:22Project Lightning Talk: K3s Lightning UpdateElicium 2 · Manuel Buil13:29Project Lightning Talk: k0s - CNCF Sandbox Distro UpdatesElicium 2 · Jussi Nummelin13:36Project Lightning Talk: Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform For Both Predictive And Generative AIElicium 2 · Yuan Tang13:43Project Lightning Talk: Hami: Dynamic, Smart, Stable GPU-Sharing Middleware In KubernetesElicium 2 · Mengxuan Li13:50Project Lightning Talk: Still Burning GPUs On Debugging? Scale AI In One LineElicium 2 · Anna Kramar13:55Project Lightning Talk: BreakElicium 214:10Project Lightning Talk: Modelpack: Standardizing The Packaging And Distribution Of AI/Ml ModelsElicium 2 · Andrew Block14:17Project Lightning Talk: OpenFGA For Agents: Safe Delegation In 5 MinutesElicium 2 · Andres Aguiar14:24Project Lightning Talk: Run Your Data Layer In K8s With VitessElicium 2 · Matt Lord14:31Project Lightning Talk: What's New And Exciting In Kagent?Elicium 2 · Peter Jausovec14:38Project Lightning Talk: PipeCDv1 Is Here! Leverage The Power Of Plugin ArchitectureElicium 2 · Khanh Tran14:45Project Lightning Talk: Perses General OverviewElicium 2 · Augustin Husson14:52Project Lightning Talk: Safe By Design: AI-Powered Auto-Healing For SREsElicium 2 · Arik Alon14:59Project Lightning Talk: OpenCost: Cost And Resource ManagementElicium 2 · Rajith Attapattu15:06Project Lightning Talk: Fluent Bit V5Elicium 2 · Eduardo Silva15:13Project Lightning Talk: Konveyor AI for Every Language and the Future of App ModernizationElicium 2 · Shaaf Syed15:20Project Lightning Talk: Five Minutes by CloudNativePG RiverElicium 2 · Gabriele Quaresima15:27Project Lightning Talk: Scaling Kubescape to Thousands of NodesElicium 2 · Matthias Bertschy15:34Project Lightning Talk: From Idle to Ideal: Cross‑Cluster GPU Sharing with CoHDIElicium 2 · Takao Indoh15:41Project Lightning Talk: youki: What’s New and What’s Next?Elicium 2 · Yusuke Sakurai15:48Project Lightning Talk: ClosingElicium 2 · Robert Sirchia, Core Maintainer09:15Project Pavilion Kiosks | Tuesday MorningHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion09:55Project Pavilion Tour wtih Atulpriya Sharma, CNCF AmbassadorHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion10:30🚩 An Introduction to Capture The FlagHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Fabian Kammel, John Kjell12:45Project Demo: Urunc: Fine-Grained Sandboxing for AI AgentsHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion13:25Project Demo: Shipwright ❤️ TektonHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Build Containers in Tekton Pipelines14:05Project Demo: Cartography: Inventorying AI Agents in the CloudHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion14:10Project Pavilion Kiosks | Tuesday AfternoonHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion14:45Project Demo: Kyverno: New Policy Types Demo and Deep DiveHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion15:00Project Pavilion Tour with Joseph Sandoval, CNCF AmbassadorHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion15:15Project Demo: ASK Kubernetes MaintainersHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion15:15Celebration of Newly Graduated Projects + Project Birthdays 🎉Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion16:00Technical Oversight Committee: Ask the ExpertsHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion17:10Open Source After Hours: Demos and Dragons WelcomeHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion17:15Introducing SeeBOM as Your Tool to Make SBOMs ActionableHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion17:24You Spent How Much? Controlling Your AI Spend with Istio and agentgatewayHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Mitch Connors17:33Intro to Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Abdel Sghiouar17:42Darnit: An Agentic AI Framework for Security and ComplianceHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Michael Lieberman09:00Project Pavilion Kiosks | Wednesday MorningHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion09:40Project Pavilion Tour with Marino Wijay, CNCF AmbassadorHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion09:45Project Demo: OSCAL Compass Just Got Agentic: AI-Powered Compliance AuthoringHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion10:30🚩Capture The Flag ExperienceHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Fabian Kammel, John Kjell11:00Kubernetes Meet + GreetEurope Foyer11:45Project Pavilion Tour with Daniel Drack, CNCF AmbassadorHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion12:45Project Demo: Introducing Falco Operator 0.2.0Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion13:00Project Pavilion Kiosks | Wednesday AfternoonHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion13:15CoC Session: Restorative Justice: What It Is, and Why The Practice is Critical to CommunityHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion14:00Project Demo: CadenceHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion14:30Project Demo: Transforming KServe Into a Zero Trust Inference Platform with ModelkitsHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion09:45Security Slam Awards CeremonyHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion10:15Project Demo: Podman and Bootc, Two Sandbox Projects That Change How You Build and Deploy Operating SystemsHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion10:45End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Town HallHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion11:30Project Demo: etcd: Hunting Distributed System Bugs with Deterministic Simulation TestingHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion12:00Project Demo: OPA: How to Optimize Your Policy Development ExperienceHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion12:30Project Demo: Kubeflow SDK: Expanding the Python Experience Across KubeflowHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion
Cncf-Hosted Co-Located Events
08:00FluxCon Hosted by CNCFElicium 108:00KeycloakCon Hosted by CNCFHall 7 | Room A08:00Kubernetes on Edge Day Hosted by CNCFEmerald Room08:00WasmCon Hosted by CNCFE106-10808:00ArgoCon Hosted by CNCFAuditorium (Track 1) + G102-103 (Track 2)08:00BackstageCon Hosted by CNCFHall 8 | Room E08:00Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day Hosted by CNCFHall 7 | Room B (Track 1) + Room C (Track 2)08:00Cloud Native Telco Day Hosted by CNCFG104-10508:00Observability Day Hosted by CNCFForum (Ground Floor; Track 1) + E103-105 (1st Floor; Track 2)08:00Open Source SecurityCon Hosted by CNCFHall 8 | Room D08:00Platform Engineering Day Hosted by CNCFHall 8 | Room F (Track 1) + Room G (Track 2)12:25Agentics Day: MCP + Agents Hosted by CNCFHall 7 | Room A12:25CiliumCon Hosted by CNCFElicium 112:25KyvernoCon Hosted by CNFCE106-10812:25Open Sovereign Cloud Day Hosted by CNCFF002-00512:25OpenTofu Day Hosted by CNCFEmerald Room
Experiences
12:00Elekto Working SessionElicium Building | D50112:00OSPOlogy Day AmsterdamL103-10412:00Network Nook Meetup: 1st Time AttendeesHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Network Nook12:45Laughter WorkshopEurope Foyer14:15Laughter WorkshopEurope Foyer16:30🎉 #KubeCrawl + #CloudNativeFestHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase05:30Group Fun Run/Walknhow Amsterdam RAI | Hotel Lobby, Europaboulevard 2b, 1078 RV Amsterdam, Netherlands11:45Network Nook Meetup: Conference BuddiesHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Network Nook13:00Making Correct and Verifiable SBOMs MeetingL103-10416:30BoF | Beyond Nginx Ingress: Higress as the K8s Gateway for the AI EraF002-00517:15Documentary Premiere: Backstage: From Spreadsheet to StandardForum11:30Network Nook Meetup: Share + Continue the ConversationHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Network Nook12:45BoF: AI Infrastructure and Platform: LLMs, Agentic AIG10613:30BoF: Infrastructure Optimization for GPUs / Inference / Training / NetworkingG10614:15BoF: AI ObservabilityG106
Inclusion + Accessibility
13:30Peer Group MentoringC20310:00Merge + Meet: Kickoff Meeting for Underrepresented Groups and AlliesG104 - 105 | Community Hub11:30Deep Roots: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Community GatheringG104 - 105 | Community Hub13:00Kubernetes Contribution 101G104 - 105 | Community Hub15:00Women's Community GatheringG104 - 105 | Community Hub10:00Code and Brain: Health and Performance in High Cognitive Demand Tech CommunitiesG104 - 105 | Community Hub10:45Designing Slides You Can’t See (But Can Still Understand)G104 - 105 | Community Hub12:15🤟 Sign Language Crash CourseG104 - 105 | Community Hub13:30LGBTQ+ Community GatheringG104 - 105 | Community Hub14:45Neurodiversity at Work: Practical Tools, Open Source Paths, and Inclusive Community BuildingG104 - 105 | Community Hub10:00Kubernetes Book Club GatheringG104 - 105 | Community Hub11:15Your Voice on Stage: The Iterative Pitch LabG104 - 105 | Community Hub12:30Non-Code Contribution Crash CourseG104 - 105 | Community Hub13:30Peer Group MentoringG104 - 105 | Community Hub
Sponsor-Hosted Co-Located Event
06:00Red Hat OpenShift Commons GatheringStrandzuid, Europaplein 22 | 1078 GZ Amsterdam07:30Hands-On Workshop to Accelerate Platform Engineering on Kubernetes Hosted by Amazon Web ServicesLeonardo Royal Hotel Amsterdam, Paul van Vlissingenstraat 24, Amsterdam NH 1096 BK Room: Amstel 1-208:00Microsoft Azure Day with KubernetesHotel Casa Amsterdam, Eerste Ringdijkstraat 4, 1097 BC Amsterdam, Netherlands08:00KubeAuto Day: Making Kubernetes Smarter through AI-Driven Automation Hosted by Cast AIAmstel Boathouse, Amsteldijk 223, 1079 LK Amsterdam, Netherlands10:30Kubernetes Platform Blueprint: From Multitenancy to AI InfrastructureVDV Room | Van der Valk Hotel Amsterdam Zuidas, Tommaso Albinonistraat 200, 1083 HM Amsterdam, Netherlands11:00VM on Kubernetes Day: Bridging the gap between VMs and Containers Hosted by Portworx by Pure Storagenhow Hotel RAI | Saphron Ballroom, Europaboulevard 2b, 1078 RV Amsterdam, Netherlands11:30Hands-On Workshop to Build and Scale GenAI Inference on Kubernetes Hosted by Amazon Web ServicesLeonardo Royal Hotel Amsterdam, Paul van Vlissingenstraat 24, Amsterdam NH 1096 BK Room: Amstel 1-211:30SUSE Rancher Day Hosted by SUSERenaissance Hotel, Kattengat 1, 1012 SN Amsterdam13:00Hands-On Cloud Native Security Workshop Hosted by SysdigVan der Valk Hotel Amsterdam Zuidas, Tommaso Albinonistraat 200, 1083 HM Amsterdam, Netherlands13:00Stop the AGI Apocalypse: A Kubernetes CTF Hosted by Cloudsmith & ChainguardRosarium Amsterdam, Amstelpark 1, Europaboulevard, 1083 HZ Amsterdam, Netherlands13:00Securing Autonomous AI Agents in Production Hosted by TigeraApollo Hotel Amsterdam, Apollolaan 2, 1077 BA Amsterdam, Netherlands08:00AI Native Summit Hosted by ETSI ISG NFVVan der Valk Hotel Amsterdam – Zuidas, Tommaso Albinonistraat 200, 1083 HM Amsterdam
📚 Tutorials
10:15📚 Tutorial: 5 Stages of KubernetesElicium 1 · Rick Rackow13:30📚 Tutorial: AI on Kubernetes Without the Chaos: Building Reproducible ML Environments with Argo and KubeflowElicium 1 · Nourhan Mohamed15:15📚 Tutorial: Attack Defense: Leverage eBPF To Reveal Attack Flows With Rich ContextElicium 1 · Constanze Roedig, Markus Gierlinger, Teodor Janez Podobnik10:00📚 Tutorial: Building Intelligent Apps with RAG on Kubernetes: From Raw Data to Real-Time InsightsElicium 1 · Cedric Clyburn, Legare Kerrison13:15📚 Tutorial: DRA-matically Simple: On-Demand GPUs for MLOpsElicium 1 · Doug Smith, Miguel Duarte Barroso15:00📚 Tutorial: Full-Stack Observability on a Budget: A Guide to Strategic Sampling and Data OptimizationElicium 1 · Pavol Loffay10:00📚 Tutorial: KV-Cache Wins You Can Feel: Building AI-Aware LLM Routing on KubernetesElicium 1 · Tyler Michael Smith, Kay Yan, Vita Bortnikov, Maroon Ayoub12:45📚 Tutorial: Your Application, Batteries Included: Packaging for Deterministic, Secure, and Portable DeliveryElicium 1 · Brandt Keller, Austin Abro, Merijn Keppel, Jessica Keppel-Drost
🚨 Contribfest
10:15🚨 Contribfest: Get Started Contributing To bootcG107 · Joseph Marrero Corchado, Colin Walters10:15🚨 Contribfest: Improving Submariner in Support of Privacy-preserving Federated Statistics Research on KubernetesG106 · Stephen Kitt, Julien D.13:30🚨 Contribfest: Bring Agentic AI To Cloud Native, One PR at a Time With KagentG107 · Lin Sun, Eitan Yarmush, Dmytriy Rashko13:30🚨 Contribfest: Testing the Waters: Getting Started With KgatewayG106 · Nina Polshakova, Mayowa Fajobi, David Jumani, Steven Thwaites15:15🚨 Contribfest: Dive Into cert-manager and Start Contributing!G106 · Richard Wall, Mladen Rusev15:15🚨 Contribfest: Getting Started in the Tinkerbell PlaygroundG107 · Jacob Weinstock10:00🚨 Contribfest: Headlamp: Build Kubernetes Experiences Your Way!G107 · Joaquim Rocha, Santhosh Nagaraj13:15🚨 Contribfest: K3s ContribFest SessionG107 · Manuel Buil, Orlin Vasilev13:15🚨 Contribfest: Tell Us How You’re Using Argo CD: A Community ContribFest SessionG106 · Alexander Matyushentsev, Nitish Kumar, Leonardo Luz Almeida, Alexandre Gaudreault, Regina Voloshin15:00🚨 Contribfest: Kyverno Contribfest: Building the Future TogetherG106 · Jim Bugwadia, Charles-Edouard Brétéché15:00🚨 Contribfest: Prometheus New Contributor IntroductionG107 · Bryan Boreham, Saswata Mukherjee, Arianna Vespri, Ben Kochie10:00🚨 Contribfest: kcp: From Zero To Your First Pull RequestG106 · Karol Szwaj, Nelo-T. Wallus10:00🚨 Contribfest: Podman/Buildah ContribfestG107 · Ashley Cui, Matt Heon12:45🚨 Contribfest: Supercharge Your Open Source Impact: Backstage ContribFest Live! 🚀G107 · André Wanlin, Emma Indal, Heikki Hellgren, Elaine Bezerra
Ai + Ml
10:15Least-Privilege for AI: Authorizing Agents and MCP Tools with Agentgateway and KyvernoHall 8 | Room F · Luc Chmielowski, Nina Polshakova10:15When an Agent Acts on Your Behalf, Who Holds the Keys?Amtrium 1+2 · Mariusz Sabath, Maia Iyer11:00Breaking the Monolith: Decomposing and Governing Giant LLM Jobs Across ClustersElicium 2 · Kevin Wang11:00Locking Down Ray Serve: How to Secure Ur ML Models?Hall 8 | Room F · Kateryna Hrytsaienko11:00Your Models Are Vulnerable: How KitOps Turns KServe Into a Zero-Trust Inference PlatformAmtrium 1+2 · Brad Micklea, Gavrish Prabhu13:30Driving Adoption and Automation With MCP in Production at LiftoffAmtrium 1+2 · Tommy Nguyen13:30Make GenAI Production-Ready With Kubernetes PatternsHall 8 | Room F · Roland Huss, Bilgin Ibryam14:15Instrumenting Kueue Scheduling for ML TrainingHall 8 | Room F · Amy Chen, Gabriel Saba14:15To Swap or Not To Swap: Memory Management Design Patterns for AI Workloads in Kubernetes 1.34+Amtrium 1+2 · Nic Vermande15:15Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI (G/H200)Hall 8 | Room F · Luca Berton15:15Slinky Expanded: Slurm, Kubernetes, and DRAAmtrium 1+2 · Praveen Krishna, Marlow Warnicke16:00Securing the AI/ML Lifecycle With MLSecOps: Open Source Best PracticesAmtrium 1+2 · Bahaulddin Shammary, Andrey Shorov10:00GPUs on Kubernetes: What Actually Happens When You Request Nvidia.com/gpu: 1Hall 8 | Room G · Gulcan Topcu, Daniele Polencic10:00Sandbox Operator: Enabling Session-Aware, Efficient MCP Tool Execution in KubernetesAuditorium · Mingshan Zhao, Zhen Zhang10:45Fusing FinOps, Forecasting, and Kubernetes at ScaleHall 8 | Room G · Ankur Singh, Satyam Bhardwaj10:45Route, Serve, Adapt, Repeat: Adaptive Routing for AI Inference Workloads in KubernetesAuditorium · Nir Rozenbaum, Kellen Swain13:15REST in Peace: AI Needs to Be Async - Meet Asya🎭Auditorium · Artem Yushkovskiy14:00Enterprise Challenges with MCP AdoptionHall 7 | Room C · Christian Posta14:00Peeking Into the GPU Black Box: Continuous Profiling on Kubernetes With eBPFAuditorium · Zahari Dichev15:00Optimizing LLM Inference for the Rest of UsF002-005 · Abdel Sghiouar10:00Achieving Resilient Multi-Cluster AI Inference on Kubernetes With Karmada and KubeRayAuditorium · Wei-Cheng Lai, Han-Ju Chen10:45AI Agents & Platform Engineering: Efficiency Boost or New Source of Trouble?Auditorium · Hasith Kalpage, Vincent Caldeira, Sara Qasmi, Idit Levine, Carlos Santana10:45CANCELED: Building a Scalable and Cost-Effective MLOps Platform at PepsiCo Using CNCF ToolsHall 8 | Room D · Chaitanya G12:45Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on TractorsAuditorium · Mauro Morales, Jordan Karapanagiotis13:30Optimizing Error Recovery for Cost-Efficient Distributed AI Model Training with KubernetesElicium 2 · Radostin Stoyanov, Andrey Velichkevich, Viktória Spišáková13:30Virtualizing Large Scale GPU Cluster for Sovereign AI: Petasus AI Cloud Journey with KubernetesAuditorium · Jian Li14:15From Logs to Decisions: Autonomous AI Agents for Real-Time Kubernetes Threat ResponseElicium 1 · Willem Berroubache
Application Development
10:15Unifying Inner & Outer Loops To Bridge the Gaps Between Devs & Ops With Microcks + ScoreHall 8 | Room E · Laurent Broudoux, Mathieu Benoit11:00Virtual Power Plants (VPP): How They Work and What They AreHall 8 | Room E · LeRenzo Malcom, Mario Flores13:30From Open Source To Enterprise Scale and Back: A Journey With Road-RunnerHall 8 | Room E · Michael Kuhnt, Gabriel Adrian Samfira14:15Rust Vs. Go: Building a Container Network Stack From ScratchHall 8 | Room E · Matt Heon, Shivang K Raghuvanshi15:15The Developer’s Nightmare: How To Survive Compliance Checklists (and Still Ship Fast)Hall 8 | Room E · Alexandra Hou Aldershaab, Thomas Vitale16:00From Laptop to Cluster: Running AI Workloads Seamlessly from Podman to KubernetesHall 8 | Room E · Ashley Cui, Urvashi Mohnani13:15Durable Execution in DevOps: How Uniphar Built Reliable Systems with DaprHall 8 | Room E · Alice Gibbons, Vaclav (Oisin) Haken14:00Dynamic Mocking for Event-Driven APIs: A Cloud Native Approach With KubernetesHall 8 | Room E · Harshvardhan Parmar, Anushka Saxena15:00AI-Powered Cloud Native Modernization: From Real Challenges to Concrete SolutionsHall 8 | Room E · Savitha Raghunathan, Daniel Oh, Kenneth Kilty, Duncan Doyle
Cloud Native Experience
10:15What Survived Production: Operating Game Backends at Million-Player ScaleHall 7 | Room A · Berkay Uckac15:15How to Build Your Cloud Native Balance SheetHall 7 | Room A · Danielle Cook, Simon Forster10:00Building Cloud Native Culture in a Bank: With Open Source as a CompassHall 7 | Room B · Marcy Paramonova, Stéphane Cusin, Cie SA10:45From “No Time for GitOps” to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux the Human WayHall 7 | Room B · Lucas Hornung, Christian Matthaei13:15Evolving Baremetal-as-a-Service: Secure Multi-Cluster Networking and Service Identity AutomationHall 7 | Room B · Yushiro Furukawa, Mitsuhiro Tanino14:00From Creepers to Clusters: Evolving Minecraft Into a Cloud Native PlatformHall 7 | Room B · Jaden Walderich, Alex Mizerak15:00From Classroom To Container: Teaching Distributed Systems With CNCF & Cloud Native TechnologiesHall 7 | Room B · Matthias Haeussler15:45Merge Forward: Branching Inclusion, Merging BelongingHall 7 | Room B · Jay Jackson, Jay Tihema, Bhavani Indukuri, Catherine Paganini, Michiel van Pouderoijen16:30Sink or Swim? Team Lead and "Junior" SREs Debate "Trial by Fire" OnboardingHall 7 | Room B · Verena Traub, David Pech, Melody Sofia Eroshevich, Patrick Sieradzon, Petr Rais10:00To Upstream or Not? Why Becoming the Maintainer of Your Dependencies MattersHall 7 | Room B · Christos Markou12:45Navigating the Gateway API Maze: 40+ Implementations, 55+ Features, and a Path to PortabilityHall 7 | Room B · Beka Modebadze, Christine Kim13:30Metal3.io’s Path to CNCF Incubation: Governance, Processes, and CommunityHall 7 | Room B · Kashif Khan, Dmitry Tantsur14:15From Jenkins to Tekton: Our Journey Toward a Kubernetes-Native CI/CD with ArgoCDElicium 2 · Mustafa Barış Ege, Özge Aygül14:15How Statistical Offices Move to Cloud Native TechnologyHall 7 | Room B · Frédéric Comte, Trygve Tatsuya Falch
Cloud Native Novice
11:00Cloud Native Non-Functional Requirements: Building Scalable, Resilient and Secure ApplicationsHall 7 | Room A · Jakub Krzywda13:30Do You Trust Your PodDisruptionBudgets? You Shouldn’t!Elicium 2 · Kārlis Akots Gribulis13:30"Will it Kubernetes?" A Tinkerer’s Journey From Curiosity To CareerHall 7 | Room A · Niklas Frick14:15Choose Your Own Adventure: AI Meets Internal Developer PlatformHall 7 | Room A · Whitney Lee, Viktor Farcic16:00Demystifying the Kubernetes Network Stack (From Pod to Pod)Hall 8 | Room G · Simone Rodigari10:00From “It Works!” to “It’s Secure!”: Hardening Your First Kubernetes ClusterHall 7 | Room A · Paul Zerdilas-Herrera, Leon Schulze10:45Kube-Oddities - The Quirks That Keep Kubernetes InterestingHall 7 | Room A · Marcus Noble, Márk Sági-Kazár13:15Hello World, Meet the Spanimals: Observability for BeginnersHall 7 | Room A · Tiffany Jernigan, Matthias Haeussler15:00Kubernetes-Native ≠ Cloud Native: Avoiding Architecture TheaterHall 7 | Room A · Prerit Munjal15:45Ping SRE? I Am the SRE! Awesome Fun I Had Drawing a Zine for Troubleshooting Kubernetes DeploymentsHall 7 | Room A · René Dudfield16:30The Ultimate Kubernetes Challenge: An Interactive Trivia GameHall 7 | Room A · Aurélie Vache
Connectivity
10:15From NLB Sprawl To Mesh Efficiency: How Skyscanner Handles 60M Requests Per Minute With IstioHall 7 | Room B · John Clark, Steven Thwaites11:00Intelligent Routing for Optimized InferenceHall 7 | Room B · Antonio Berben, Felipe Vicens13:30Not Yet Another Envoy Implementation - Exploring Kgateway To Write Your Own GatewayAPI BackendHall 7 | Room B · Ricardo Katz14:15Kubernetes Network Driver Unpacked: Modularity, Trade-offs and the Road AheadHall 7 | Room B · Lionel Jouin, Sebastian Scheinkman, Antonio Ojea, Sunyanan Choochotkaew15:15Smart Routing at Scale: How Spotify’s XDS Control Plane Cut 75% of Cross-Zone TrafficHall 7 | Room B · Yannick Epstein, Anya Hristova16:00Building the Next Generation of Multi-Cluster with Gateway APIHall 7 | Room B · Mike Morris, Alan Grosskurth16:30Agentic Networking: Securing AI Agents on KubernetesElicium 1 · Haiyan Meng, Evaline Ju10:00An Immersive and Visual Journey Into Kubernetes NetworkingElicium 2 · Benoit Entzmann
Emerging + Advanced
13:30Ask the Experts: Behind the Electric Glider - Open Science, Edge Computing, and Real-Time Data in FlightHall 11 · Ricardo Rocha, Klaus Ohlmann15:15Towards Building an Open Source AI Reference Stack for EU Sovereign CloudHall 7 | Room C · Madhav Bhargava, Sanjay Chatterjee16:00Why Is It So Hard to Run a 5G Core on Kubernetes—And What Needs to Change for 6GHall 7 | Room C · Joel Studler, Ashan Senevirathne10:00The Future of Kubernetes Node LifecycleHall 8 | Room E · Lucy Sweet, Dawn Chen10:45The Shell Awakens: Cloud Native Workflows for Particle PhysicistsHall 8 | Room E · Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu, Hannes Hansen10:00From Chaos to Control: A Prescription for Managing Apps on Private Cellular NetworksHall 7 | Room C · Luis Ariza10:45Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V Your Pods: WG Checkpoint Restore in KubernetesElicium 2 · Peter Hunt, Adrian Reber, Radostin Stoyanov, Viktória Spišaková10:45Multi-Network Step-by-Step: Enabling SR-IOV Support From Kubernetes Network (DRA) DriversHall 7 | Room C · Masaharu Kanda, Lionel Jouin12:45Beyond the Edge: Cloud Native Application Management Under Extreme Network ConditionsHall 7 | Room C · Tobias Nöthlich, Maximilian Nitsch13:30A Unified Management and Control Plane for Cloud Native Robots With KubeEdgeHall 7 | Room C · Sitong Mao, Huan Wei, Yin Ding
Keynote Sessions
08:00Keynote: Welcome + Opening RemarksHall 12 · Jonathan Bryce, Chris Aniszczyk08:37Keynote: Rules of the Road for Shared GPUs: AI Inference Scheduling at WayveHall 12 · Mukund Muralikrishnan08:42Sponsored Keynote: From Complexity to Clarity: Engineering an Invisible KubernetesHall 12 · Jesse Butler08:49Keynote: Making Kubernetes for AI Optimized and ReproducibleHall 12 · Nathan Taber, Mark Chmarny08:56Keynote: From Inference to Agents: Where Open Source AI Is HeadedHall 12 · Jonathan Bryce, Brian Stevens, Mark Collier, Lin Sun09:03Keynote: The Future of Cloud Native Is… AgenticHall 12 · Lin Sun09:20Keynote: Orchestrating Document Data Extraction with Dapr AgentsHall 12 · Fabian Steinbach09:25Sponsored Keynote: Scaling Platform Ops with AI Agents: Troubleshooting to RemediationHall 12 · Jorge Palma, Natan Yellin09:32Keynote: Riding the Waves: Around the World in an Electric Glider - Powered by Nature, Data, and Open ScienceHall 12 · Ricardo Rocha, Klaus Ohlmann09:44Keynote: Closing RemarksHall 1208:00Keynote: Cloud Native in Europe: Regulation, Sovereignty, and the Future of Open CollaborationHall 12 · Jan Melen08:05Keynote: The CRA and What it Means for Open Source CommunitiesHall 12 · Greg Kroah-Hartman, Fellow08:12Keynote: Digital Sovereignty by Design: Turning Developer Intent into Portable, Enterprise-Scale AutomationHall 12 · Oskar Kristiansen08:19Keynote: Keeping Sovereignty on Track: Kubernetes Powering a National Railway Platform - Thomas Comtet, Senior Staff Engineer, SNCF & Yann Rotilio, Senior Staff EngineerHall 12 · Kubernetes Specialist08:24Sponsored Keynote: Inference and Sovereign AI: Scaling Cloud-Native AI with Control and ComplianceHall 12 · Karena Angell, Vincent Caldeira08:31Keynote: Building a Sovereign, Multi-Cloud Strategy with Cloud Native TechnologiesHall 12 · Goetz Reinhaeckel08:36Keynote: Powering the European Space Agency’s Space Missions with Open Source SoftwareHall 12 · Aaron Whitehouse08:41Sponsored Keynote: From Pilot to Production: Scaling and Optimizing Agentic Workloads on KubernetesHall 12 · Idit Levine, CEO, Keith Babo08:48Keynote: Awards CeremonyHall 1209:05Keynote: From Orbit to the Grid: Automating a Greener FutureHall 12 · Faseela K, Chris Holmes, Michael Reichenbach09:22Keynote: Closing RemarksHall 1208:00Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening RemarksHall 12 · Jorge Castro08:05Keynote: The Cloud Native Feedback Loop: How End Users and Developers Drive CNCF Projects ForwardHall 12 · Karena Angell, Katie Gamanji, Chad Beaudin, Ahmed Bebars08:22Sponsored Keynote: Universal Mesh: Connect and Secure EverythingHall 12 · Baptiste Assmann08:29Keynote: How Ubisoft Orchestrates Global Multiplayer Games with AgonesHall 12 · Jean-François Hubert, Mark Mandel08:34Keynote: From Cloud-Native Apps to Cloud-Native PlatformsHall 12 · Abby Bangser08:46Sponsored Keynote: From Cloud Native to Accelerator Native: Kubernetes as the Distributed OS for Accelerated Workloads and FrameworksHall 12 · Jago Macleod08:53Keynote: Agents as First-Class Users in ProductionHall 12 · Mathias Biilmann08:58Keynote: Building Autonomous Networks for the AI EraHall 12 · Gergely Csatari09:03Keynote: Live Demo ShowcaseHall 1209:20Keynote: Closing RemarksHall 12
Maintainer Track
10:15Accelerating Thanos at Scale: Faster and Cheaper Queries With ParquetE103-105 · Giedrius Statkevičius10:15Gateway API: Bridging the Gap from Ingress to the FutureAuditorium · Nick Young, James Strong, Katarzyna Łach, Rostislav Bobrovsky, Norwin Schnyder10:15SIG Contributor Experience: Guiding Contributors Through the ProjectG102-103 · Nabarun Pal, Priyanka Saggu, Arpit Agrawal, Mario Fahlandt10:15Vitess: More Data, No ProblemsF002-005 · Matt Lord, Rohit Nayak10:15When DNS Blinks: Scaling and Hardening CoreDNS in Critical Cloud InfrastructureE106-108 · Yong Tang, John Belamaric11:00Dapr in the AI Era: Orchestrating Complex Multi-agent Workflows With Automatic RecoveryE103-105 · Yaron Schneider11:00Helm 4 Is Here. So, Now What?Auditorium · Andrew Block, Scott Rigby, Robert Sirchia11:00In Falco's Nest: The Evolution of Cloud Native Runtime SecurityG102-103 · Iacopo Rozzo, Aldo Lacuku11:00WIT Happens: Exploring the Latest Evolution of the SPIFFE and WIMSE Workload Identity Standards.E106-108 · Noah Stride, Arndt Schwenkschuster13:3010 Years of Cilium: Connecting, Securing, and Simplifying the Cloud Native StackAuditorium · Bill Mulligan, Paul Arah, Marcelo Mello, Neha Aggarwal13:30Continuous AI Conformance: The kOps ApproachF002-005 · Arnaud Meukam, Janet Kuo, Justin Santa Barbara, Ciprian Hacman13:30Multi-cluster Orchestration System: Karmada Updates and Use CasesG102-103 · Hongcai Ren, Tessa Pham, Wei-Cheng Lai, Zongqing Li13:30What's Coming Next in Containerd 2.3?E103-105 · Mike Brown, Krisztian Litkey13:30What's New in gRPCE106-108 · Kevin Nilson, John Feig14:15Crossplane - The Cloud Native Framework for Platform EngineeringAuditorium · Jared Watts, Adam Wolfe Gordon14:15etcd 3.6 Updates and 3.7 RoadmapF002-005 · Arka Saha, Josh Berkus14:15Kubeflow in Cloud Native AI: Orchestrating the Next Wave of Agentic AI and LLMOpsE103-105 · Johnu George, Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Antonin Stefanutti, Alexander Perlman, Michael Zazula14:15OpenCost - Cost and Resource Management Deep DiveG102-103 · Rajith Attapattu14:15What Happens in Kubernetes SIG Scalability: Intro + DeepDiveE106-108 · Wojciech Tyczyński15:15From Static Tokens to Attestation: The Evolution of Secure Node JoiningF002-005 · Ciprian Hacman, Jack Francis, Michael McCune, Josephine Pfeiffer, Justin Santa Barbara15:15OpenTelemetry Project Update and 'Ask the Experts'G102-103 · Pablo Baeyens, Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Marylia Gutierrez, Severin Neumann15:15SIG API Machinery: SIG Updates and Deep Dive in the AI/ML EraE103-105 · Stefan Schimanski15:15The 10x DevOps Engineer’s Toolkit: Argo CD + AI-Driven MCP AutomationAuditorium · Alexander Matyushentsev, Leonardo Luz Almeida15:15What's New With Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help!E106-108 · Marly Salazar, Yugo Kobayashi, Eddie Zaneski, Maciej Szulik, Arda Guclu16:00OpenTelemetry Collector SIG: Project UpdatesG102-103 · Jade Guiton, Dmitrii Anoshin, Alex Boten, Evan Bradley, Antoine Toulme16:00SIG Network: The State of Networking for AI on KubernetesE103-105 · David Martin, Haiyan Meng, Bowei Du, Kellen Swain, Nadia Pinaeva16:00Volcano: Orchestrating the Full AI Lifecycle – From Training To Inference and AgentsE106-108 · Chen Zicong, Hajnal Máté10:00Lima Project Updates: Expanding the Focus To Hardening AIAmtrium 1+2 · Akihiro Suda, Anshuman Sahoo10:00Linkerd: Reliable Production in an AI/MCP WorldE103-105 · William Morgan10:00Serverless GPUs in Production: How Cerebrium Built a Globally Efficient Low-Latency AI Platform with KnativeF002-005 · Dave Protasowski, Elijah Roussos10:00SIG Scheduling Update: Transition From Pod To Workload SchedulingE106-108 · Kensei Nakada, Maciej Skoczeń10:00Strengthening CNCF Projects: Impact of Security Self-AssessmentsG102-103 · Eddie Knight, Bradley Andersen, Justin Cappos, Shuting Zhao, Orlin Vasilev10:45Fluent Bit V5: Pushing the Limits of Observability at ScaleF002-005 · Eduardo Silva10:45OpenFeature Update From the MaintainersE103-105 · Lukas Reining, André Silva, Thomas Poignant, Alexandra Oberaigner10:45SIG-Windows UpdatesE106-108 · Claudiu Belu, JR Valdes10:45Solving Industrial Challenges With KubeEdge: A Post-Graduation ReportAmtrium 1+2 · Yue Bao, Hongbing Zhang, Yin Ding10:45Sovereign Identities for Your Cloud Native Architecture With KeycloakG102-103 · Alexander Schwartz, Sebastian Łaskawiec13:15Improving Pod Disruption and Node LifecycleF002-005 · Filip Křepinský, Lucy Sweet, Ryan Hallisey13:15Open Policy Agent. (OPA) Intro & Deep DiveE103-105 · Charlie Egan, Anders Eknert13:15TAG Operational Resilience: Sustainability Month To Release GuidelinesAmtrium 1+2 · Mario Fahlandt, Alolita Sharma, Carol Valencia, Nabarun Pal, Saiyam Pathak13:15The KEP Lifecycle: How the Release Team Guides Enhancements To StabilityE106-108 · Kat Cosgrove, Sreeram Venkitesh, Rayan Das, Subhasmita Swain13:15The State of Backstage in 2026G102-103 · Ben Lambert, Patrik Oldsberg14:00How Will Customized Kubernetes Distributions Work for You? a Discussion on Options and Use CasesF002-005 · Michael McCune, Joel Speed, Bridget Kromhout, Jesse Butler, Bowei Du14:00Jaeger V2: The Maintainers' Guide To OpenTelemetry-Native TracingAmtrium 1+2 · Pavol Loffay14:00Operationalizing AI Workloads on Kubernetes With OpenKruiseE103-105 · Zhang Zhen, Vec Sun14:00The Next Chapter of Developer Experience: TAG DevEx in ActionE106-108 · Julien Semaan, Graziano Casto, Mona Borham, Kevin Dubois, Daniel Oh14:00The Road To Strimzi 1.0G102-103 · Jakub Scholz, Paolo Patierno15:00Kubernetes Data Protection WG Intro & Deep DiveAmtrium 1+2 · Dave Smith-Uchida15:00Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph StorageE103-105 · Artem Torubarov, Deepika Upadhyay, Niels de Vos15:00SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep DiveE106-108 · Stephen Kitt, Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson, Laura Lorenz15:00Steering the Ship: Ask the Kubernetes Steering CommitteeG102-103 · Kat Cosgrove, Maciej Szulik, Antonio Ojea15:45Explore TAG Workloads Foundation: Advancing Cloud Native Execution From Core Runtime To ApplicationsF002-005 · Stephen Rust, Yuan Tang, Marlow Warnicke, Kante Yin15:45Introduction To Tag InfrastructureAmtrium 1+2 · Kashif Khan, Dylan Page15:45Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep DiveG102-103 · Xing Yang, Jan Šafránek15:45SIG Apps Updates: Building the Next Generation of Kubernetes Workloads TogetherE103-105 · Maciej Szulik, Janet Kuo15:45Unleashing Event Driven Capabilities With KEDAE106-108 · Jorge Turrado, Zbynek Roubalik16:30Right-sized Access Control & Pull with ProofE103-105 · Stanislav Láznička, Lucas Käldström16:30The Latest in GPU, TPU, NIC and Other Device Support - WG Device ManagementE106-108 · John Belamaric, Patrick Ohly10:00A Bug’s-Eye View: Kubernetes SIG Security Explains It AllE106-108 · Ian Coldwater, Tabitha Sable, Rory McCune, Iain Smart, Mahé Tardy10:00Addressing Non-Deterministic Scheduling: Introducing the Node Readiness ControllerF002-005 · Ajay Sundar Karuppasamy, Sreeram Venkitesh, Karthik K N, Priyanka Saggu10:00Advanced Kyverno Patterns : Automating Platform Security and OperationsAmtrium 1+2 · Frank Jogeleit, Johannes Sonner10:00Advancing Kubernetes AI Conformance: Current State and RoadmapE103-105 · Yuan Tang, Mario Fahlandt, Janet Kuo10:00Cert-manager – Project Update: Beyond 2026G102-103 · Tim Ramlot, Maël Valais10:45Beyond Image Pull-Time: Ensuring Runtime Integrity With Image Layer SigningF002-005 · Toddy Mladenov, Dallas Delaney10:45Dragonfly V2.4.0 - Intro, Updates, Data Distribution in AI InfrastructureG102-103 · Wenbo Qi, Chenyu Zhang10:45Evolution or Revolution: Istio as the Network Platform for Cloud NativeAmtrium 1+2 · Mitch Connors, Daniel Grimm10:45How To (Not) Fork HeadlampE106-108 · Joaquim Rocha10:45Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q&AE103-105 · David Ko, Divya Mohan12:45AI'm at the Gate! Introducing the AI Gateway Working Group in KubernetesE106-108 · Morgan Foster, Nir Rozenbaum, Shachar Tal12:45Discover Cortex: High Scalability Metrics in 2026F002-005 · Friedrich Gonzalez, Charlie Le12:45Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform for Both Predictive and Generative AIG102-103 · Filippe Spolti, Jooho Lee12:45KubeVirt's Evolution: Governance, Features, and Community GrowthE103-105 · Sreeja Varnam, Luboslav Pivarc12:45Prometheus V3 One Year In: OpenMetrics 2.0 and More!Hall 8 | Room E · Jan Fajerski, Bartłomiej Płotka12:45Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source EcosystemElicium 2 · Stefan Prodan13:30Buildpacks: Towards 1.0, AI and Other ThingsE106-108 · Aidan Delaney13:30CRI-O: Faster Pulls, Better Metrics, and a Future Beyond ImagesF002-005 · Sohan Kunkerkar, Ayato Tokubi13:30Envoy in the Era of Agentic WorkloadsG102-103 · Yan Avlasov, Erica Hughberg13:30Harbor Project - The Maintainers SessionE103-105 · Yan Wang, Vadim Bauer14:15Beyond the Cloud: Managing Baremetal the Kubernetes Way Using Metal3.io: Sylva Project as a Use-caseE106-108 · Ádám Rozmán, Nicolas Belouin14:15Emissary-ingress: Version 4 and What Comes NextG102-103 · Flynn14:15SIG Docs and You: The New Chapter of the Kubernetes API Reference GeneratorF002-005 · Kat Cosgrove, Lavish Pal, Rey Lejano14:15WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next?E103-105 · Yuki Iwai, Kevin Hannon
Observability
10:15We Deleted Our Observability Stack and Rebuilt It With OTEL: 12 Engineers to 4 at 20K+ ClustersHall 8 | Room G · Yash Sharma, Kunju Perath11:00When OTTL Goes Off the Rails: Debugging Transformations with ConfidenceHall 8 | Room D · Edmo Vamerlatti Costa, Tyler Helmuth13:30The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of KubernetesHall 12 · Stevie Caldwell14:15Schema Inference and Automation: A New Era for Telemetry ManagementHall 12 · Nicolas Takashi, Arthur Silva Sens15:15OpenTelemetry Logs Driving a Major Shift: Events, Richer Data, and Smarter SemanticsElicium 2 · Robert Pająk15:15Smoothed and Anchored Rate Calculation in PromQLHall 12 · Björn Rabenstein16:00Observing Chaos: Real-Time Monitoring of AI-Driven Kubernetes DestructionF002-005 · Josh Halley, Ricardo Aravena16:00Retroactive Sampling with OpenTelemetry: Cut 90% Distributed Tracing Bandwidth UsageHall 12 · Roman Khavronenko, Zhu Jiekun13:15Istio's Ambient Mesh: The Real Cost of Sidecar-less TracingHall 12 · Mofesola Babalola, Hannah Olukoye14:00How Manual OTel Instrumentation Saves More Than Just MoneyHall 12 · Juliano Costa, Yuri Oliveira15:00GenAI Observability: Keeping GenAI Honest Without OversharingHall 12 · Liudmila Molkova15:45Enriching Telemetry Signals Through Lookups in the OTel CollectorHall 12 · João Duarte16:30DNS Tracing & Metrics Via eBPF in OpenTelemetryHall 12 · Endre Sara, Nikola Grcevski16:30Let Your Network Speak!G102-103 · Nadia Pinaeva, Joel Takvorian10:00Cutting Metrics Traffic, Cutting Costs: The AZ-Aware Observability BlueprintHall 8 | Room D · Iris Dyrmishi, Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer14:1518 Bluetooth Controllers Walk into a Bar: Observability & Runtime Configuration with CNCF ToolsAuditorium · Simon Schrottner, Manuel Timelthaler14:15Collisions in the Dark: Illuminating the 95% of Kubeflow You Can't SeeHall 7 | Room A · Amine Lahouel, Laura Llinares14:15Day-2 Reality Check: Taming Wasteful TelemetryForum · Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Elena Kovalenko14:15The Fourth Pillar Arrives: OpenTelemetry Profiling Alpha in ActionHall 8 | Room F · Felix Geisendörfer, Florian Lehner
Operations + Performance
10:151000 Services, 1 Year, 0 Downtime: Airbnb’s Zonal Cluster MigrationHall 8 | Room D · Sunny Beatteay11:00CANCELED: 5000 Kubernetes Clusters, 5 Minutes: Walmart’s Secret to Rapid Edge Deployments with ArgoHall 8 | Room G · Yug Gupta13:30A Tale of Two KEPs: How the Community is Taming Kubernetes' CrashLoopBackoffHall 8 | Room D · Yang Li14:15The Future of Kubernetes Scalability: Challenges of the GigaWatt Computing Power of the AI EraHall 8 | Room D · Maciek Różacki, Artur Rodrigues15:15From Alert Fatigue To Self-Healing: Building AI-Enabled Control Planes in BankingHall 8 | Room D · Nuno Guedes, Yury Tsarev16:00Declarative Edge Kubernetes: Immutable Clusters with Talos + ZarfHall 8 | Room D · Brandt Keller, Merijn Keppel10:00Generalizing Kubernetes Controller Sharding: Patterns That Work Beyond Simple OperatorsHall 8 | Room D · Motohiro Otsuka, Tomoyuki Nakamura10:45In-place Updates with Cluster API: The Sweet Spot Between Immutable and Mutable InfrastructureHall 8 | Room D · Fabrizio Pandini, Stefan Büringer13:15The Missing Half of Performance Profiling: Understanding Memory in Cloud Native SystemsElicium 2 · Dom Delnano14:00Banking on Reliability: Cloud Native SRE Practices in Financial ServicesElicium 2 · Clément Nussbaumer15:00The Hyperscale Uncertainty Principle: Debugging Tail Latency in a Trillion-Object SystemElicium 2 · Yashraj Kakkad16:30Pay Less for More: A Practitioner's Playbook for Kubernetes AutoscalingElicium 2 · Malgorzata Widelicka, Lukasz Ogrodowczyk12:45Scaling the Kubernetes Ecosystem: Uber's Approach to Cluster Lifecycle ManagementHall 8 | Room D · Silvio Simunic, Vadim Plakhtinskii12:45Spin-Up, Test, Tear-Down: How Trivago Runs Developer Preview Environments at ScaleHall 7 | Room A · Armin Aminian, Jan Wozniak13:30Making Topology-Aware Scheduling Practical for AI Workloads: From Discovery to Simulation at ScaleHall 8 | Room D · Weizhou Lan13:30Redefining SLIs for LLM Inference: Managing Hybrid Cloud with vLLM & LLM-DHall 7 | Room A · Christopher Nuland, Hilliary Lipsig14:15Is the Agent in the Room with Us Right Now?Hall 7 | Room C · Nick Rutigliano, Andrew Halaney14:15K8s-sigs NFD × SYLVA: Declarative Image-to-Node Compatibility for Telco Clouds.Hall 8 | Room D · Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, Chaoyi Huang
Platform Engineering
10:15API-Driven Infrastructure as Code: Kubernetes APIs as the Contract Bridge Between TeamsHall 7 | Room C · Florian Hopfensperger, Yury Tsarev10:15No Pain No Drain: Lessons From Node Drains at ScaleForum · Ryan Hallisey, Natalie Bandel11:00API is the New SSH: Forging a Zero-Trust VM Platform on KubernetesHall 7 | Room C · Evangelista Tragni11:00Flipping the Curve: A Platform Engineer's Guide to Unlocking the Silent 80%F002-005 · Michael Reichenbach11:00No Shame, Just Pain: How We Migrated Away From Kubernetes 1.16 in 2025Forum · Jannis Relakis, Michael Seiwald-McCarty13:30Bringing Cloud Native PaaS To Space: Onboard Edge Computing for SatellitesHall 7 | Room C · Adele Karam Hankache, Sergiu Weisz13:30Enterprise-Scale Migrations Using Agentic Workflows with Human-in-the-loopForum · Alvaro Saurin, Jose M Navarro14:15Amplifying End User Voices: Platform Architects on the Future of KubernetesHall 7 | Room C · Rajas Kakodkar, Zach Shepherd, Kevin Klues, Elias Tarn, Dawn Chen14:15Leveling up with Radius: Custom Resources and Headlamp Integration for Real-World WorkloadsForum · Nuno Guedes, Will Tsai14:15Operators in Action: Making Kubernetes Work for YouElicium 2 · Verena Traub15:15LLM Inference at Scale: Orchestrating Prefill-Decode DisaggregationForum · Zhonghu Xu16:00Moving Spotify’s Infrastructure Management Up the Stack from Kubebuilder to Kro and K-poperatorForum · Alexander Buck, Tomas Aschan10:00From GitOps to AIOps: Evolving RBI's Kubernetes Platform with Crossplane and Sharded KargoForum · Gabor Horvath, Ewald Überall10:45From Projects to Products: The Sociotechnical Journey Behind Sony’s Internal Cloud PlatformForum · Eugenia Bergman, Hagen Tonnies13:15How Much Platform Is Enough Platform?Forum · John Keates13:15Panel: How Platforms Can Save Junior Engineers (and Thus the Tech Industry)Hall 8 | Room D · Jennifer Riggins, Leena Mooneeram, Molly Clarke, Paula Kennedy13:15Platform Mesh: Breaking API Lock-In for True Multi-Cloud Service PortabilityHall 8 | Room G · Mirza Kopic, Mangirdas Judeikis14:00Ghost in the Platform: How the Dutch Tax Authority Built a Service To Scale K8s To 99+ ApplicationsForum · Jerry van Hulst, Marcel Kerker14:00OpenAPI Meets Kubernetes: Auto-Generating CRDs and Operators the Smart WayHall 8 | Room D · Sergiusz Urbaniak, Jose Vázquez González14:00Pull Request Wars: The Flux Awakens - Ephemeral Kubernetes Environments Strike BackHall 8 | Room G · Matteo Bianchi, Stefan Prodan15:00How to Build a European Cloud Orchestration Platform From Within an EnterpriseForum · Maximilian Techritz, Johannes Ott15:00One Controller to Rule Them All - Taming Multiple Orchestrators at Uber ScaleHall 8 | Room D · Srikar Paruchuru, Egor Grishechko15:00CANCELED: Saxo Service Blueprint: Bridging Legacy and Modern World With Kubernetes OperatorsHall 8 | Room G · Jinhong Brejnholt15:45Confidential Platforms for Regulated IndustriesHall 8 | Room D · William Rizzo15:45Inside Saxo Service Blueprint: Implementing Kubernetes Operators for Legacy Enterprise InfrastructureHall 8 | Room G · Oskar Kristiansen15:45Rabobank’s Path to Secure, Fast Kubernetes DeliveryForum · Beatrice Forslund, Koshin Verberne16:30Building a Kubernetes Platform That Scales From SaaS To Self-ManagedHall 8 | Room D · Florian Forster16:30Disaster Resilient Trino on Kubernetes: Multi-Cluster Setup With Karmada and Trino GatewayForum · Sung Yun, Antoine Marthey16:30Scaling Platform Engineering: Lessons From Europe’s Largest EnterprisesHall 8 | Room G · Cat Morris, Stéphane Di Cesare, Anna Kozachenko, Gayathri Thiyagarajan10:00Enforce VIP Access Only Through Node AttestationForum · Alice Frosi, Jakob Naucke10:00Stop Flying Blind: Real-Time, Enforceable Cluster-Wide Quotas with Kyverno and KROHall 8 | Room G · Mariam Fahmy, Adam Crowder10:45Kill the Ticket Queue: A CNCF Blueprint for Self-Service PlatformsForum · Bhavani Indukuri, Aparna Prabhu10:45Taming Complexity: Building Observable Workflows With Dapr and OpenTelemetryHall 8 | Room G · Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Kasper Borg Nissen12:45Evolving Policy Management with Agentic AI: Kyverno MCP and Kagent for Multi-Cluster GovernanceForum · Shuting Zhao, Dahu Kuang12:45The Accidental Platform Team: Kubernetes Operators at SwisscomHall 8 | Room G · Fabian Schulz, Jelena Malic13:30Freedom Through Boundaries: Building Configurations That Age WellForum · Bogdan Stancu13:30Three Shades of Isolation: A Multi-tenancy FortressHall 8 | Room G · Braulio Dumba, Paolo Dettori14:15Platform Engineering 2.0: Just-Enough Kubernetes and AI-Native DevOpsHall 8 | Room G · Shweta Vohra
Security
13:30What LLMs Do, and Don't, Know About Securing KubernetesHall 8 | Room G · Rory McCune14:15Real-World Supply-Chain SecurityHall 8 | Room G · Alex Leong15:15Privacy as Infrastructure: Declarative Data Protection for AI on KubernetesHall 8 | Room G · Joaquin Rodriguez, Krishnendu Dasgupta16:00Policy Engines for Kubernetes: Picking One Without Losing Your MindHall 7 | Room A · Nabarun Pal16:00When Multitenancy Goes Wrong: A Deep Dive Into Kcp’s First CVEElicium 2 · Marvin Beckers10:00Automate Once, Run Anywhere: The Docker Moment for Security WorkflowsHall 7 | Room C · Nancy Chauhan, Aseem Shrey10:00Automating and Scaling of Threat Modelling for Cloud Native ArchitectureElicium 2 · Hanna Papirna, Emma Yuan Fang10:00Hacking GPU Observability: eBPF & Ephemeral Containers in Action on KubernetesHall 8 | Room F · Brandon Kang10:45Bob and Alice Revisited: Understanding Encryption in KubernetesHall 7 | Room C · Jackie Maertens, Mitch Connors10:45Hack Me If You Can: Learning Kubernetes Security Through a Role-Play BattleHall 8 | Room F · Aoi Takahashi, Keita Mochizuki10:45Why Security of Kubernetes Comes Down to Linux SecurityElicium 2 · Marina Moore13:15Audit-Ready Kubernetes: How Chase UK Leveraged Policy as Code for Continuous ComplianceHall 7 | Room C · Jim Bugwadia, Nischay Goyal13:15How To Break Multi-Tenancy Again and Again ...and What We Can Learn From ItHall 8 | Room F · Lorin Lehawany, Sven Nobis14:00Invisible Guardrails: Enabling Developer Velocity With a Secure PlatformHall 8 | Room F · James Elías Sigurðarson, Vignir Hafsteinsson15:00Detect, Decide, Defend: Building Cloud Native Security That Fights BackHall 7 | Room C · Matthias Bertschy15:00Kubernetes Security at Shopify Scale: Automating Security Across an Infrastructure MonorepoHall 8 | Room F · Jie Wu, Pulkit Garg15:45Exploring NRI for Automated CA Trust InjectionHall 7 | Room C · Tsuzuki Tsuchiya, Kento Kubo15:45Kubernetes Third Party Audit ReviewHall 8 | Room F · Iain Smart, Amir Montazery, Rey Lejano, Tabitha Sable, Pietro Tirenna16:30Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Why Reverse Proxies Outperform VPNsHall 8 | Room F · Peter ONeill, Boris Kurktchiev16:30Why Isn't the Fix in My Container? Tracking CVE Propagation Across 10,000 ProjectsHall 7 | Room C · Mor Weinberger, Lior Kaplan10:00SPIFFE Meets OAuth: Federated Identity for Cloud Native WorkloadsHall 8 | Room F · Yoshiyuki Tabata10:45Tailor Made: Dynamic Fine-Grained Authorization for API TrafficHall 8 | Room F · Erica Hughberg, Andres Aguiar12:45The Shared Service Blueprint: A Guide to Multi-Tenancy, Illustrated With KEDAHall 8 | Room F · Aya Igarashi13:30SB💣💣M: Making SBOMs Play TogetherHall 8 | Room F · Jacopo Bufalino, Agathe Blaise
Solutions Showcase
09:45Solutions ShowcaseHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase09:50Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase09:50Sponsored Demo: Tailor-Made Nodes on GKE with Compute ClassesHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater10:00Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Cloud Native vs. Platform Native vs. Cloud AgnosticHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Ruckus Voxi10:00Learning Lounge: AI Runs on Open Source and Real Humans: Why You Need Linux and Cloud Native Skills to Power AI at ScaleHall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Christophe Sauthier10:18Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Kubernetes and the Answer is… 42!Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Jan Stomphorst10:20Sponsored Demo: Running HA Kubernetes on Interruptible Infrastructure at PicnicHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater10:45Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Kubernetes: The API of EverythingHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Tibo Beijen10:50Sponsored Demo: Expectations vs. Reality: Scaling the Dream of Zero-CVE ImagesHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater10:53Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: A Simple and Practical Guide to Observability in KubernetesHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Diana Todea11:11Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Introduction to GitOpsHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Chris Plank11:19Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Platform Engineering - About Tools, Techniques, People and CultureHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Max Körbächer11:30Sponsored Demo: API Collaboration in Postman: Your Git Repo is now the Single Source of Truth for your APIsHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater11:30Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase11:37Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: How Kubernetes Actually Ships: An Educator's Guide to Core Releases, SIGs, and Staying CurrentHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Michael Forrester and Mumshad Mannambeth12:00Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: The AI-Hiker’s Guide to Cloud Native AIHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Cansu Kavili Örnek and Anneli Sara Banderby12:00Sponsored Demo: Securely Connecting Agentic IDEs to SaaS MCPs in the EnterpriseHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater12:00Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase12:15Learning Lounge: Starting Your Kubestronaut Journey with the KCNA, CKA and CKADHall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · James Spurin12:18Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: AI + Kubernetes: What Beginners Need to Know in 2026Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Michael Forrester12:30Sponsored Demo: Autonomous Kubernetes Resource Management in ProductionHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater13:00Learning Lounge: What Platform Engineers Need to Know About Developer ExperienceHall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Max Körbächer13:00Sponsored Demo: CSI WON’T SAVE YOUHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater · Why “CSI Support” is not a storage strategy and you are being setup to fail13:00Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase13:30Sponsored Demo: Stop React2Shell & Shai Hulud: Live Demo of Curation with Compliant Version SelectionHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater13:30Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Running State of the Art Inference with Istio and LLM-DHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Jackie Maertens14:00Sponsored Demo: Context is All You Need: The Art and Science of Information DesignHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater14:00Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Zero-Downtime Migration from ingress-nginx to Istio in a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Platform at BloombergHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Joe Abellard14:30Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: The Good, The Ugly, and The Bad: Leaving Sidecars Behind with Istio Ambient MeshHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Alfonso Ming and Jorge Turrado14:45Learning Lounge: Don’t Cross Wires - Cross-Skill: Aligning Teams Around Smart Learning PathsHall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Mary Campbell, Randi Armour14:45Sponsored Demo: Running Containers under Systemd: Exploring Podman QuadletHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater14:45Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase15:00Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Panel: Tales From the Mesh: Horrors and Successes of Running Istio in ProductionHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater15:15Sponsored Demo: Beyond Grep: Interactive, Offline Analysis of Kubernetes FailuresHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater15:45Sponsored Demo: From Symptom to Root Cause: A Cross-Layer Approach to Kubernetes TroubleshootingHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater16:15Sponsored Demo: Closing the Loop: Leveraging Agentic AI for Real-Time Diagnosis and Secure RemediationHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater16:15Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase16:45Sponsored Demo: Cherry Picking your Cluster: Building a Modular CaaS with Dell Automation Platform Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater17:15Sponsored Demo: Beyond Training: Volcano for Inference & AgentsHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater17:15Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase17:45Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase09:30Solutions ShowcaseHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase09:35Sponsored Demo: Meet Klaudia: The Autonomous AI SRE Platform by KomodorHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater09:35Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase09:45Learning Lounge: Living Open Source Foundation - How Linux Foundation Education is Used to Open Source a CountryHall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Sander van Vugt, Chisha Mambwe10:00Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: Opening RemarksHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Kateryna Nezdolii10:05Sponsored Demo: Life After Ingress NGINX: How To Unify Kubernetes Traffic In One StackHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater10:10Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: Inside Spotify’s Envoy Architecture: What We Learned the Hard WayHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Leonardo da Mata10:29Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: External Processing, Internal Leverage: MCP Tool Calls to REST with EnvoyHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Jens Kat10:35Sponsored Demo: Simplifying GitOps Deployments with Amazon EKS CapabilitiesHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater10:48Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: The Next Generation of Envoy Extensibility: Dynamic Modules for Network, Listener, and HTTP FiltersHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Rohit Agrawal11:07Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: Zone Aware Routing With Per-Locality Load Awareness- Isaac Wilson, The Trade DeskHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater11:15Sponsored Demo: Ctrl+Alt+Deploy: Windows Workloads as a Service powered by kubeVirtHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater11:26Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: The Future of AI Traffic: What's New in Envoy AI Gateway 2026Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Xiaolin Lin11:45Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: From ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway at Zapier: The Benefits, Challenges, and Migration Lessons That MatterHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Kalen Wessel11:45Sponsored Demo: KubeHound: Identifying Attack Paths in Kubernetes Clusters at ScaleHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater12:00Learning Lounge: Knowledge is a Map, Not a BadgeHall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Nicola Noviello12:04Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: The End of a Decade, the Start of an Age: Reflecting on the Past, Present, and Future of EnvoyHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Erica Hughberg12:15Sponsored Demo: Building cross-cloud AI inference on Kubernetes with OSSHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater12:15Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase12:30Learning Lounge: Don’t Cross Wires - Cross-Skill: Aligning Teams Around Smart Learning PathsHall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Mary Campbell, Randi Armour12:45Sponsored Demo: Cloud-Native Hardening Beyond Defaults: Secure Hosting for Mission-Critical workloadsHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater12:45Cloud Native Theater | CNCF Members: Leaving Your Mark In The CommunityHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · David Palilonis, Jake Pineda, Danielle Cook13:15Sponsored Demo: Observability to Security: Cloud Native Networking with Cilium & Hubble TimescapeHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater13:30Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: Opening RemarksHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Edith Puclla13:40Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: Tuning Elastic on Kubernetes; How Assumptions On Your Persistency Can Wreak Havoc...Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Luuk Stolk and Artur Gromek13:45Sponsored Demo: The Path to AI Nirvana Is Through Unified IdentityHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater14:10Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: From PVC to Mount Point: Dissecting a Custom CSI Plugin to Master Dynamic Volume Provisioning on KubernetesHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Vivek Singh14:30Learning Lounge: The CKA Exam Has EvolvedHall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Are You Ready? -Chad M. Crowell14:30Sponsored Demo: 7 Things You Need to Run Production AI Workloads on K8sHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater14:30Gold Sponsor In-Booth DemosHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase14:40Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: From Billions of Rows to Sub-Second Queries for K8s StacksHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Victoriya Kalmanovich15:00Sponsored Demo: The theory and practice of sampling in OpenTelemetryHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater15:10Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: From VMs to Kubernetes in a Large Global Bank: A DBA's JourneyHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Gabriele Bartolini15:30Sponsored Demo: DriftlessAF: The Reconciliation Pattern That Builds 2,000 Container ImagesHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater15:40Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: KubeVirt Benchmarking at Scale: A Vendor-Neutral, End-to-End Testing Framework for Cloud-Native VirtualizationHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Bhumitra Nagar and Dhruv Bhatnagar09:30Solutions ShowcaseHall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase09:45Learning Lounge: CNPA or CNPE? Roles, Skills & Which One is Right For You?Hall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Alex Coma10:00Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Opening Remarks and Community UpdateHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Andrew Burden and Itamar Holder10:15Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Breaking the Performance Barrier: High-Performance AI Storage Virtualization with KubeVirtHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Jian Li10:45Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: KubeVirt on GB200: Virtualizing a Rack-Scale SupercomputerHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Fan Zhang11:25Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Achieving 10× Faster VM Migration to KubeVirt with Storage Offload in ForkliftHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Ryosuke Tatsumi11:55Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Measuring KubeVirt Performance and Scale with KWOKHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Sreeja Varnam12:00Learning Lounge: 3-2-1 Certify! - Everything You Want to Know About Exams, but Are Afraid to AskHall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Zuzanna Piskorz-Nałęcka12:10Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Bridging Islands: EVPN Overlays for Multi-Cluster KubeVirtHall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Miguel Duarte
Sponsored Sessions
⚡ Lightning Talks
15:45⚡ Lightning Talk: “Naming Things Is Hard”: A Guide to Naming Using Network ScienceAuditorium · Nick Travaglini15:52⚡ Lightning Talk: 10 Years of Building Platforms in the Public SectorAuditorium · Hans Kristian Flaatten15:59⚡ Lightning Talk: Avoiding CPU Throttling: How Go 1.25's Container-Aware Runtime Fixes GOMAXPROCSAuditorium · Adarsh K Kumar16:06⚡ Lightning Talk: From Learner To Contributor: A LFX Mentee’s Kubernetes StoryAuditorium · Lavish Pal16:13⚡ Lightning Talk: Going Global: Lessons From Internationalizing OpenTelemetry DocsAuditorium · Severin Neumann, Tiffany Hrabusa16:20⚡ Lightning Talk: How To Responsibly and Effectively Contribute To Open Source Using AIAuditorium · Tyler Helmuth16:27⚡ Lightning Talk: KRafting the Cloud: Building a Free, Open, and Accessible CloudAuditorium · Alex Bissessur16:34⚡ Lightning Talk: The $100K GPU Mystery: Why Your AI Training Dies at 99%Auditorium · Michael Ifeanyi16:41CANCELED: ⚡ Lightning Talk: Building the Cloud Native Ecosystem in Africa: Stories From the FieldAuditorium · Daniel Osarokutamwen, Ileriayo Adebiyi
🪧 Poster Sessions
12:15🪧 Poster Session: Efficient Inference for Training Hurricane Data and Predicting Future MovementHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Avery Yang12:15🪧 Poster Session: Fantastic KEPs – Part II: Writing and Contributing To Kubernetes EnhancementsHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Priyanka Saggu, Mario Jason Braganza12:15🪧 Poster Session: From FaaS To WaaS: Building Event-Driven Workloads With Wasm in KubernetesHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Brandon Kang, Nam Hai12:15🪧 Poster Session: Instant Kubernetes Runtime Anomaly Detection Via SBOBs (Bill of Behavior)Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Constanze Roedig, Matthias Bertschy12:15🪧 Poster Session: Kubernetes as the Universal GPU Control Plane for AI WorkloadsHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Satyam Soni, Rudraksh Karpe12:15🪧 Poster Session: Let’s Embrace Green Cloud Native EngineeringHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Henrik Rexed12:15🪧 Poster Session: LLMs, Logs, and Lost Prompts: Monitoring AI on KubernetesHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Ashok M, Kumar Soundarajan12:15🪧 Poster Session: Prompt Raider: The Ultimate AI-based CTFHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Alberto Rodríguez Fernandez12:15🪧 Poster Session: Reimagining Auto-Instrumentation: Prototyping Distributed Tracing Without Header Propagation on K8sHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Kenta Iijima12:15🪧 Poster Session: VM-Powered Kubernetes: Extreme Density & Sustainable EfficiencyHall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Poster Pavilion · Chen Zhang
Data Processing + Storage
15:45Keeping the Cloud Afloat with Deterministic Simulation TestingElicium 2 · Marcus Hodgson, Marek Siarkowicz15:45The Symbiosis of Storage and Workloads: Longhorn for Hyperconverged Block StorageHall 8 | Room E · Jinhong Kim, Jangseon Ryu16:30Snapshots Gone Wild: Taming Multi-PVC Chaos with VolumeGroupSnapshotHall 8 | Room E · Shubham Pampattiwar, Scott Seago10:00Beyond Stateless: Distributed Transactions with Autoscaling and Consistency on KubernetesHall 7 | Room A · Jumpei Nishitani10:00Scaling Valkey the Right Way: Kubernetes at XL ScaleHall 8 | Room E · Sarthak Aggarwal, Madelyn Olson10:45From Idle to Savings: Building a Global Scheduler for Cost‑Efficient Data Processing on K8sHall 7 | Room A · Rainie Li, Ang Zhang10:45Redis on EC2 to Valkey on Kubernetes: A Zero-Downtime Case StudyHall 8 | Room E · Joe Heyburn13:30How Telemetry Data Moves: Lessons From Building a High-Performance Open Source AgentHall 8 | Room E · Eduardo Silva14:15How Many Spark Applications Can Your Etcd Really Handle?Hall 8 | Room E · João Soares, João Azevedo
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