Schedule

178 sessions · Tuesday — Main Conference Day 1

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10:15 Accelerating Thanos at Scale: Faster and Cheaper Queries With Parquet E103-105 · Giedrius Statkevičius 10:15 Gateway API: Bridging the Gap from Ingress to the Future Auditorium · Nick Young, James Strong, Katarzyna Łach, Rostislav Bobrovsky, Norwin Schnyder 10:15 SIG Contributor Experience: Guiding Contributors Through the Project G102-103 · Nabarun Pal, Priyanka Saggu, Arpit Agrawal, Mario Fahlandt 10:15 Vitess: More Data, No Problems F002-005 · Matt Lord, Rohit Nayak 10:15 When DNS Blinks: Scaling and Hardening CoreDNS in Critical Cloud Infrastructure E106-108 · Yong Tang, John Belamaric 11:00 Dapr in the AI Era: Orchestrating Complex Multi-agent Workflows With Automatic Recovery E103-105 · Yaron Schneider 11:00 Helm 4 Is Here. So, Now What? Auditorium · Andrew Block, Scott Rigby, Robert Sirchia 11:00 In Falco's Nest: The Evolution of Cloud Native Runtime Security G102-103 · Iacopo Rozzo, Aldo Lacuku 11:00 WIT Happens: Exploring the Latest Evolution of the SPIFFE and WIMSE Workload Identity Standards. E106-108 · Noah Stride, Arndt Schwenkschuster 13:30 10 Years of Cilium: Connecting, Securing, and Simplifying the Cloud Native Stack Auditorium · Bill Mulligan, Paul Arah, Marcelo Mello, Neha Aggarwal 13:30 Continuous AI Conformance: The kOps Approach F002-005 · Arnaud Meukam, Janet Kuo, Justin Santa Barbara, Ciprian Hacman 13:30 Multi-cluster Orchestration System: Karmada Updates and Use Cases G102-103 · Hongcai Ren, Tessa Pham, Wei-Cheng Lai, Zongqing Li 13:30 What's Coming Next in Containerd 2.3? E103-105 · Mike Brown, Krisztian Litkey 13:30 What's New in gRPC E106-108 · Kevin Nilson, John Feig 14:15 Crossplane - The Cloud Native Framework for Platform Engineering Auditorium · Jared Watts, Adam Wolfe Gordon 14:15 etcd 3.6 Updates and 3.7 Roadmap F002-005 · Arka Saha, Josh Berkus 14:15 Kubeflow in Cloud Native AI: Orchestrating the Next Wave of Agentic AI and LLMOps E103-105 · Johnu George, Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Antonin Stefanutti, Alexander Perlman, Michael Zazula 14:15 OpenCost - Cost and Resource Management Deep Dive G102-103 · Rajith Attapattu 14:15 What Happens in Kubernetes SIG Scalability: Intro + DeepDive E106-108 · Wojciech Tyczyński 15:15 From Static Tokens to Attestation: The Evolution of Secure Node Joining F002-005 · Ciprian Hacman, Jack Francis, Michael McCune, Josephine Pfeiffer, Justin Santa Barbara 15:15 OpenTelemetry Project Update and 'Ask the Experts' G102-103 · Pablo Baeyens, Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Marylia Gutierrez, Severin Neumann 15:15 SIG API Machinery: SIG Updates and Deep Dive in the AI/ML Era E103-105 · Stefan Schimanski 15:15 The 10x DevOps Engineer’s Toolkit: Argo CD + AI-Driven MCP Automation Auditorium · Alexander Matyushentsev, Leonardo Luz Almeida 15:15 What's New With Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! E106-108 · Marly Salazar, Yugo Kobayashi, Eddie Zaneski, Maciej Szulik, Arda Guclu 16:00 OpenTelemetry Collector SIG: Project Updates G102-103 · Jade Guiton, Dmitrii Anoshin, Alex Boten, Evan Bradley, Antoine Toulme 16:00 SIG Network: The State of Networking for AI on Kubernetes E103-105 · David Martin, Haiyan Meng, Bowei Du, Kellen Swain, Nadia Pinaeva 16:00 Volcano: Orchestrating the Full AI Lifecycle – From Training To Inference and Agents E106-108 · Chen Zicong, Hajnal Máté
10:15 API-Driven Infrastructure as Code: Kubernetes APIs as the Contract Bridge Between Teams Hall 7 | Room C · Florian Hopfensperger, Yury Tsarev 10:15 No Pain No Drain: Lessons From Node Drains at Scale Forum · Ryan Hallisey, Natalie Bandel 11:00 API is the New SSH: Forging a Zero-Trust VM Platform on Kubernetes Hall 7 | Room C · Evangelista Tragni 11:00 Flipping the Curve: A Platform Engineer's Guide to Unlocking the Silent 80% F002-005 · Michael Reichenbach 11:00 No Shame, Just Pain: How We Migrated Away From Kubernetes 1.16 in 2025 Forum · Jannis Relakis, Michael Seiwald-McCarty 13:30 Bringing Cloud Native PaaS To Space: Onboard Edge Computing for Satellites Hall 7 | Room C · Adele Karam Hankache, Sergiu Weisz 13:30 Enterprise-Scale Migrations Using Agentic Workflows with Human-in-the-loop Forum · Alvaro Saurin, Jose M Navarro 14:15 Amplifying End User Voices: Platform Architects on the Future of Kubernetes Hall 7 | Room C · Rajas Kakodkar, Zach Shepherd, Kevin Klues, Elias Tarn, Dawn Chen 14:15 Leveling up with Radius: Custom Resources and Headlamp Integration for Real-World Workloads Forum · Nuno Guedes, Will Tsai 14:15 Operators in Action: Making Kubernetes Work for You Elicium 2 · Verena Traub 15:15 LLM Inference at Scale: Orchestrating Prefill-Decode Disaggregation Forum · Zhonghu Xu 16:00 Moving Spotify’s Infrastructure Management Up the Stack from Kubebuilder to Kro and K-poperator Forum · Alexander Buck, Tomas Aschan
09:15 Project Pavilion Kiosks | Tuesday Morning Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 09:55 Project Pavilion Tour wtih Atulpriya Sharma, CNCF Ambassador Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 10:30 🚩 An Introduction to Capture The Flag Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Fabian Kammel, John Kjell 12:45 Project Demo: Urunc: Fine-Grained Sandboxing for AI Agents Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 13:25 Project Demo: Shipwright ❤️ Tekton Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Build Containers in Tekton Pipelines 14:05 Project Demo: Cartography: Inventorying AI Agents in the Cloud Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 14:10 Project Pavilion Kiosks | Tuesday Afternoon Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 14:45 Project Demo: Kyverno: New Policy Types Demo and Deep Dive Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 15:00 Project Pavilion Tour with Joseph Sandoval, CNCF Ambassador Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 15:15 Project Demo: ASK Kubernetes Maintainers Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 15:15 Celebration of Newly Graduated Projects + Project Birthdays 🎉 Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 16:00 Technical Oversight Committee: Ask the Experts Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 17:10 Open Source After Hours: Demos and Dragons Welcome Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 17:15 Introducing SeeBOM as Your Tool to Make SBOMs Actionable Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion 17:24 You Spent How Much? Controlling Your AI Spend with Istio and agentgateway Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Mitch Connors 17:33 Intro to Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Abdel Sghiouar 17:42 Darnit: An Agentic AI Framework for Security and Compliance Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion · Michael Lieberman
09:45 Solutions Showcase Hall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 09:50 Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Hall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 09:50 Sponsored Demo: Tailor-Made Nodes on GKE with Compute Classes Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 10:00 Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Cloud Native vs. Platform Native vs. Cloud Agnostic Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Ruckus Voxi 10:00 Learning Lounge: AI Runs on Open Source and Real Humans: Why You Need Linux and Cloud Native Skills to Power AI at Scale Hall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Christophe Sauthier 10:18 Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Kubernetes and the Answer is… 42! Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Jan Stomphorst 10:20 Sponsored Demo: Running HA Kubernetes on Interruptible Infrastructure at Picnic Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 10:45 Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Kubernetes: The API of Everything Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Tibo Beijen 10:50 Sponsored Demo: Expectations vs. Reality: Scaling the Dream of Zero-CVE Images Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 10:53 Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: A Simple and Practical Guide to Observability in Kubernetes Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Diana Todea 11:11 Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Introduction to GitOps Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Chris Plank 11:19 Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Platform Engineering - About Tools, Techniques, People and Culture Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Max Körbächer 11:30 Sponsored Demo: API Collaboration in Postman: Your Git Repo is now the Single Source of Truth for your APIs Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 11:30 Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Hall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 11:37 Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: How Kubernetes Actually Ships: An Educator's Guide to Core Releases, SIGs, and Staying Current Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Michael Forrester and Mumshad Mannambeth 12:00 Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: The AI-Hiker’s Guide to Cloud Native AI Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Cansu Kavili Örnek and Anneli Sara Banderby 12:00 Sponsored Demo: Securely Connecting Agentic IDEs to SaaS MCPs in the Enterprise Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 12:00 Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Hall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 12:15 Learning Lounge: Starting Your Kubestronaut Journey with the KCNA, CKA and CKAD Hall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · James Spurin 12:18 Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: AI + Kubernetes: What Beginners Need to Know in 2026 Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Michael Forrester 12:30 Sponsored Demo: Autonomous Kubernetes Resource Management in Production Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 13:00 Learning Lounge: What Platform Engineers Need to Know About Developer Experience Hall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Max Körbächer 13:00 Sponsored Demo: CSI WON’T SAVE YOU Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater · Why “CSI Support” is not a storage strategy and you are being setup to fail 13:00 Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Hall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 13:30 Sponsored Demo: Stop React2Shell & Shai Hulud: Live Demo of Curation with Compliant Version Selection Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 13:30 Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Running State of the Art Inference with Istio and LLM-D Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Jackie Maertens 14:00 Sponsored Demo: Context is All You Need: The Art and Science of Information Design Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 14:00 Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Zero-Downtime Migration from ingress-nginx to Istio in a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Platform at Bloomberg Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Joe Abellard 14:30 Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: The Good, The Ugly, and The Bad: Leaving Sidecars Behind with Istio Ambient Mesh Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater · Alfonso Ming and Jorge Turrado 14:45 Learning Lounge: Don’t Cross Wires - Cross-Skill: Aligning Teams Around Smart Learning Paths Hall 1-5 | Bridge Zone | Learning Lounge · Mary Campbell, Randi Armour 14:45 Sponsored Demo: Running Containers under Systemd: Exploring Podman Quadlet Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 14:45 Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Hall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 15:00 Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Panel: Tales From the Mesh: Horrors and Successes of Running Istio in Production Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Cloud Native Theater 15:15 Sponsored Demo: Beyond Grep: Interactive, Offline Analysis of Kubernetes Failures Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 15:45 Sponsored Demo: From Symptom to Root Cause: A Cross-Layer Approach to Kubernetes Troubleshooting Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 16:15 Sponsored Demo: Closing the Loop: Leveraging Agentic AI for Real-Time Diagnosis and Secure Remediation Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 16:15 Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Hall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 16:45 Sponsored Demo: Cherry Picking your Cluster: Building a Modular CaaS with Dell Automation Platform ​ Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 17:15 Sponsored Demo: Beyond Training: Volcano for Inference & Agents Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Demo Theater 17:15 Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Hall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase 17:45 Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos Hall 1-5 | Solutions Showcase
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