Schedule

110 sessions · Thursday — Main Conference Day 3

All Sat 22 Mon 23 Tue 24 Wed 25 Thu 26 Fri 27

📚 Tutorials

10:00 📚 Tutorial: KV-Cache Wins You Can Feel: Building AI-Aware LLM Routing on Kubernetes Elicium 1 · Tyler Michael Smith, Kay Yan, Vita Bortnikov, Maroon Ayoub → 12:45 📚 Tutorial: Your Application, Batteries Included: Packaging for Deterministic, Secure, and Portable Delivery Elicium 1 · Brandt Keller, Austin Abro, Merijn Keppel, Jessica Keppel-Drost →

🚨 Contribfest

10:00 🚨 Contribfest: kcp: From Zero To Your First Pull Request G106 · Karol Szwaj, Nelo-T. Wallus → 10:00 🚨 Contribfest: Podman/Buildah Contribfest G107 · Ashley Cui, Matt Heon → 12:45 🚨 Contribfest: Supercharge Your Open Source Impact: Backstage ContribFest Live! 🚀 G107 · André Wanlin, Emma Indal, Heikki Hellgren, Elaine Bezerra →

Ai + Ml

10:00 Achieving Resilient Multi-Cluster AI Inference on Kubernetes With Karmada and KubeRay Auditorium · Wei-Cheng Lai, Han-Ju Chen → 10:45 AI Agents & Platform Engineering: Efficiency Boost or New Source of Trouble? Auditorium · Hasith Kalpage, Vincent Caldeira, Sara Qasmi, Idit Levine, Carlos Santana → 10:45 CANCELED: Building a Scalable and Cost-Effective MLOps Platform at PepsiCo Using CNCF Tools Hall 8 | Room D · Chaitanya G → 12:45 Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors Auditorium · Mauro Morales, Jordan Karapanagiotis → 13:30 Optimizing Error Recovery for Cost-Efficient Distributed AI Model Training with Kubernetes Elicium 2 · Radostin Stoyanov, Andrey Velichkevich, Viktória Spišáková → 13:30 Virtualizing Large Scale GPU Cluster for Sovereign AI: Petasus AI Cloud Journey with Kubernetes Auditorium · Jian Li → 14:15 From Logs to Decisions: Autonomous AI Agents for Real-Time Kubernetes Threat Response Elicium 1 · Willem Berroubache →

Cloud Native Experience

10:00 To Upstream or Not? Why Becoming the Maintainer of Your Dependencies Matters Hall 7 | Room B · Christos Markou → 12:45 Navigating the Gateway API Maze: 40+ Implementations, 55+ Features, and a Path to Portability Hall 7 | Room B · Beka Modebadze, Christine Kim → 13:30 Metal3.io’s Path to CNCF Incubation: Governance, Processes, and Community Hall 7 | Room B · Kashif Khan, Dmitry Tantsur → 14:15 From Jenkins to Tekton: Our Journey Toward a Kubernetes-Native CI/CD with ArgoCD Elicium 2 · Mustafa Barış Ege, Özge Aygül → 14:15 How Statistical Offices Move to Cloud Native Technology Hall 7 | Room B · Frédéric Comte, Trygve Tatsuya Falch →

Connectivity

10:00 An Immersive and Visual Journey Into Kubernetes Networking Elicium 2 · Benoit Entzmann →

Data Processing + Storage

10:00 Beyond Stateless: Distributed Transactions with Autoscaling and Consistency on Kubernetes Hall 7 | Room A · Jumpei Nishitani → 10:00 Scaling Valkey the Right Way: Kubernetes at XL Scale Hall 8 | Room E · Sarthak Aggarwal, Madelyn Olson → 10:45 From Idle to Savings: Building a Global Scheduler for Cost‑Efficient Data Processing on K8s Hall 7 | Room A · Rainie Li, Ang Zhang → 10:45 Redis on EC2 to Valkey on Kubernetes: A Zero-Downtime Case Study Hall 8 | Room E · Joe Heyburn → 13:30 How Telemetry Data Moves: Lessons From Building a High-Performance Open Source Agent Hall 8 | Room E · Eduardo Silva → 14:15 How Many Spark Applications Can Your Etcd Really Handle? Hall 8 | Room E · João Soares, João Azevedo →

Emerging + Advanced

10:00 From Chaos to Control: A Prescription for Managing Apps on Private Cellular Networks Hall 7 | Room C · Luis Ariza → 10:45 Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V Your Pods: WG Checkpoint Restore in Kubernetes Elicium 2 · Peter Hunt, Adrian Reber, Radostin Stoyanov, Viktória Spišaková → 10:45 Multi-Network Step-by-Step: Enabling SR-IOV Support From Kubernetes Network (DRA) Drivers Hall 7 | Room C · Masaharu Kanda, Lionel Jouin → 12:45 Beyond the Edge: Cloud Native Application Management Under Extreme Network Conditions Hall 7 | Room C · Tobias Nöthlich, Maximilian Nitsch → 13:30 A Unified Management and Control Plane for Cloud Native Robots With KubeEdge Hall 7 | Room C · Sitong Mao, Huan Wei, Yin Ding →

Experiences

11:30 Network Nook Meetup: Share + Continue the Conversation Hall 1-5 | Tram Zone | Network Nook → 12:45 BoF: AI Infrastructure and Platform: LLMs, Agentic AI G106 → 13:30 BoF: Infrastructure Optimization for GPUs / Inference / Training / Networking G106 → 14:15 BoF: AI Observability G106 →

Inclusion + Accessibility

10:00 Kubernetes Book Club Gathering G104 - 105 | Community Hub → 11:15 Your Voice on Stage: The Iterative Pitch Lab G104 - 105 | Community Hub → 12:30 Non-Code Contribution Crash Course G104 - 105 | Community Hub → 13:30 Peer Group Mentoring G104 - 105 | Community Hub →

Keynote Sessions

08:00 Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks Hall 12 · Jorge Castro → 08:05 Keynote: The Cloud Native Feedback Loop: How End Users and Developers Drive CNCF Projects Forward ▶ Hall 12 · Karena Angell, Katie Gamanji, Chad Beaudin, Ahmed Bebars → 08:22 Sponsored Keynote: Universal Mesh: Connect and Secure Everything Hall 12 · Baptiste Assmann → 08:29 Keynote: How Ubisoft Orchestrates Global Multiplayer Games with Agones ▶ Hall 12 · Jean-François Hubert, Mark Mandel → 08:34 Keynote: From Cloud-Native Apps to Cloud-Native Platforms ▶ Hall 12 · Abby Bangser → 08:46 Sponsored Keynote: From Cloud Native to Accelerator Native: Kubernetes as the Distributed OS for Accelerated Workloads and Frameworks ▶ Hall 12 · Jago Macleod → 08:53 Keynote: Agents as First-Class Users in Production Hall 12 · Mathias Biilmann → 08:58 Keynote: Building Autonomous Networks for the AI Era Hall 12 · Gergely Csatari → 09:03 Keynote: Live Demo Showcase Hall 12 → 09:20 Keynote: Closing Remarks Hall 12 →

Maintainer Track

10:00 A Bug’s-Eye View: Kubernetes SIG Security Explains It All E106-108 · Ian Coldwater, Tabitha Sable, Rory McCune, Iain Smart, Mahé Tardy → 10:00 Addressing Non-Deterministic Scheduling: Introducing the Node Readiness Controller F002-005 · Ajay Sundar Karuppasamy, Sreeram Venkitesh, Karthik K N, Priyanka Saggu → 10:00 Advanced Kyverno Patterns : Automating Platform Security and Operations Amtrium 1+2 · Frank Jogeleit, Johannes Sonner → 10:00 Advancing Kubernetes AI Conformance: Current State and Roadmap E103-105 · Yuan Tang, Mario Fahlandt, Janet Kuo → 10:00 Cert-manager – Project Update: Beyond 2026 G102-103 · Tim Ramlot, Maël Valais → 10:45 Beyond Image Pull-Time: Ensuring Runtime Integrity With Image Layer Signing F002-005 · Toddy Mladenov, Dallas Delaney → 10:45 Dragonfly V2.4.0 - Intro, Updates, Data Distribution in AI Infrastructure G102-103 · Wenbo Qi, Chenyu Zhang → 10:45 Evolution or Revolution: Istio as the Network Platform for Cloud Native Amtrium 1+2 · Mitch Connors, Daniel Grimm → 10:45 How To (Not) Fork Headlamp E106-108 · Joaquim Rocha → 10:45 Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q&A E103-105 · David Ko, Divya Mohan → 12:45 AI'm at the Gate! Introducing the AI Gateway Working Group in Kubernetes E106-108 · Morgan Foster, Nir Rozenbaum, Shachar Tal → 12:45 Discover Cortex: High Scalability Metrics in 2026 F002-005 · Friedrich Gonzalez, Charlie Le → 12:45 Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform for Both Predictive and Generative AI G102-103 · Filippe Spolti, Jooho Lee → 12:45 KubeVirt's Evolution: Governance, Features, and Community Growth E103-105 · Sreeja Varnam, Luboslav Pivarc → 12:45 Prometheus V3 One Year In: OpenMetrics 2.0 and More! Hall 8 | Room E · Jan Fajerski, Bartłomiej Płotka → 12:45 Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem Elicium 2 · Stefan Prodan → 13:30 Buildpacks: Towards 1.0, AI and Other Things E106-108 · Aidan Delaney → 13:30 CRI-O: Faster Pulls, Better Metrics, and a Future Beyond Images F002-005 · Sohan Kunkerkar, Ayato Tokubi → 13:30 Envoy in the Era of Agentic Workloads G102-103 · Yan Avlasov, Erica Hughberg → 13:30 Harbor Project - The Maintainers Session E103-105 · Yan Wang, Vadim Bauer → 14:15 Beyond the Cloud: Managing Baremetal the Kubernetes Way Using Metal3.io: Sylva Project as a Use-case E106-108 · Ádám Rozmán, Nicolas Belouin → 14:15 Emissary-ingress: Version 4 and What Comes Next G102-103 · Flynn → 14:15 SIG Docs and You: The New Chapter of the Kubernetes API Reference Generator F002-005 · Kat Cosgrove, Lavish Pal, Rey Lejano → 14:15 WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next? E103-105 · Yuki Iwai, Kevin Hannon →

Observability

10:00 Cutting Metrics Traffic, Cutting Costs: The AZ-Aware Observability Blueprint Hall 8 | Room D · Iris Dyrmishi, Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer → 14:15 18 Bluetooth Controllers Walk into a Bar: Observability & Runtime Configuration with CNCF Tools Auditorium · Simon Schrottner, Manuel Timelthaler → 14:15 Collisions in the Dark: Illuminating the 95% of Kubeflow You Can't See Hall 7 | Room A · Amine Lahouel, Laura Llinares → 14:15 Day-2 Reality Check: Taming Wasteful Telemetry Forum · Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Elena Kovalenko → 14:15 The Fourth Pillar Arrives: OpenTelemetry Profiling Alpha in Action Hall 8 | Room F · Felix Geisendörfer, Florian Lehner →

Operations + Performance

12:45 Scaling the Kubernetes Ecosystem: Uber's Approach to Cluster Lifecycle Management Hall 8 | Room D · Silvio Simunic, Vadim Plakhtinskii → 12:45 Spin-Up, Test, Tear-Down: How Trivago Runs Developer Preview Environments at Scale Hall 7 | Room A · Armin Aminian, Jan Wozniak → 13:30 Making Topology-Aware Scheduling Practical for AI Workloads: From Discovery to Simulation at Scale Hall 8 | Room D · Weizhou Lan → 13:30 Redefining SLIs for LLM Inference: Managing Hybrid Cloud with vLLM & LLM-D Hall 7 | Room A · Christopher Nuland, Hilliary Lipsig → 14:15 Is the Agent in the Room with Us Right Now? Hall 7 | Room C · Nick Rutigliano, Andrew Halaney → 14:15 K8s-sigs NFD × SYLVA: Declarative Image-to-Node Compatibility for Telco Clouds. Hall 8 | Room D · Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, Chaoyi Huang →

Platform Engineering

10:00 Enforce VIP Access Only Through Node Attestation Forum · Alice Frosi, Jakob Naucke → 10:00 Stop Flying Blind: Real-Time, Enforceable Cluster-Wide Quotas with Kyverno and KRO Hall 8 | Room G · Mariam Fahmy, Adam Crowder → 10:45 Kill the Ticket Queue: A CNCF Blueprint for Self-Service Platforms Forum · Bhavani Indukuri, Aparna Prabhu → 10:45 Taming Complexity: Building Observable Workflows With Dapr and OpenTelemetry Hall 8 | Room G · Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Kasper Borg Nissen → 12:45 Evolving Policy Management with Agentic AI: Kyverno MCP and Kagent for Multi-Cluster Governance Forum · Shuting Zhao, Dahu Kuang → 12:45 The Accidental Platform Team: Kubernetes Operators at Swisscom Hall 8 | Room G · Fabian Schulz, Jelena Malic → 13:30 Freedom Through Boundaries: Building Configurations That Age Well Forum · Bogdan Stancu → 13:30 Three Shades of Isolation: A Multi-tenancy Fortress Hall 8 | Room G · Braulio Dumba, Paolo Dettori → 14:15 Platform Engineering 2.0: Just-Enough Kubernetes and AI-Native DevOps Hall 8 | Room G · Shweta Vohra →

Project Opportunities

09:45 Security Slam Awards Ceremony ▶ Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion → 10:15 Project Demo: Podman and Bootc, Two Sandbox Projects That Change How You Build and Deploy Operating Systems Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion → 10:45 End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Town Hall Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion → 11:30 Project Demo: etcd: Hunting Distributed System Bugs with Deterministic Simulation Testing Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion → 12:00 Project Demo: OPA: How to Optimize Your Policy Development Experience Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion → 12:30 Project Demo: Kubeflow SDK: Expanding the Python Experience Across Kubeflow Hall 1-5 | Gouda Zone | Project Pavilion →

Security

10:00 SPIFFE Meets OAuth: Federated Identity for Cloud Native Workloads Hall 8 | Room F · Yoshiyuki Tabata → 10:45 Tailor Made: Dynamic Fine-Grained Authorization for API Traffic Hall 8 | Room F · Erica Hughberg, Andres Aguiar → 12:45 The Shared Service Blueprint: A Guide to Multi-Tenancy, Illustrated With KEDA Hall 8 | Room F · Aya Igarashi → 13:30 SB💣💣M: Making SBOMs Play Together Hall 8 | Room F · Jacopo Bufalino, Agathe Blaise →

Solutions Showcase

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