11:30am • Empower Your Platform Journey with Platforms Working Group - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies
12:20pm • Into Containerd; Through the Eyes of a Contributor - Akhil Mohan, VMware by Broadcom
2:55pm • KubeEdge DeepDive: Architecture, Use Cases, and Project Graduation Updates - Shubham Singh, Independent
3:45pm • What's New in gRPC - Kevin Nilson, Google
4:50pm • Kyverno: An Introduction and Deep Dive - Sachin Agarwal & Vishal Choudhary, Nirmata; Avinash Kumar Gupta, Razorpay; Anushka Mittal, Independent
5:40pm • Introduction to Vitess: Scalable Database for Modern Applications - Manan Gupta & Harshit Gangal, PlanetScale
9:30am • Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
9:55am • Keynote: And the Service Is Now Part of the Mesh! A Case Study of Service Mesh Adoption at Flipkart - I V Prasad Reddy & Purushotham Malipedda, Flipkart
10:15am • Keynote: GenAI + Kubernetes - Old School Reliability Saves the Day for Modern Workloads! - Aparna Subramanian, Director of Production Engineering, Shopify & Sumedh Degaonkar, Production Engineering Manager, Shopify
10:35am • Keynote: The Cloud Native Story So Far: What Worked, What Didn’t and What Will! - Nikhita Raghunath, Principal Software Engineer, Broadcom
10:50am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:30am • Welcome | CNCF Project Lightning Talks - Jorge Castro, CNCF
11:35am • LitmusChaos Evolution: The Latest Innovations and Security Enhancements To Chaos Engineering | Project Lightning Talk
11:42am • Pick Cilium! Lessons Learned From Writing 20+ Cloud Native Case Studies about Cilium | Project Lightning Talk
11:49am • Karmada: Project Introduction and Updates | Project Lightning Talk
11:56am • Introduction to Kyverno, the Cloud Native Policy Engine | Project Lightning Talk
12:03pm • Contributing to Submariner - How to Get Started | Project Lightning Talk
12:10pm • Wasm Powered Open source LLMs and AI Agent | Project Lightning Talk
12:17pm • What's happening with CAPIBM | SIG Lightning Talk
12:24pm • Intro to the CNCF App Development Working Group | WG Lightning Talk
12:31pm • Taking a Quick Look at New Features in Argo CD v2.12 | Project Lightning Talk
12:38pm • Buildpacks : Quietly Redefining the Build Experience | Project Lightning Talk
12:45pm • The gRPC Well Known Protos | Project Lightning Talk
12:52pm • Keptn: Supercharge Your Deployments! | Project Lightning Talk
2:55pm • Multi-Node Finetuning LLMs on Kubernetes: A Practitioner’s Guide - Ashish Kamra & Boaz Ben Shabat, Red Hat
3:45pm • Optimizing 5G Networks: Deploying AI/ML Workloads with the AIMLFW of O-RAN SC - Subhash Kumar Singh, Samsung
4:50pm • PepsiCo’s Smart Edge Computing Delivers Anomaly Detection & Proactive Problem Solving to Boost Sales - Praseed Naduvath & Amit Mele, PepsiCo
5:40pm • GenAI Recipes For Cloud Native Deployment - Arun Gupta, Intel & Kaushal Desai, Infosys
11:30am • Configuring Object Store for Vector Database Applications - Jiffin Tony Thottan, IBM
12:20pm • Data Protection Considerations for Elastic Cloud-Native Applications - Pankaj Ahire, Veritas Technologies
2:55pm • Ensuring Seamless Service Continuity in 5G: Enhancing Kubernetes Disaster Recovery for Telecom - Saurabh Swaraj, Grace Hanusha, Sunil N, Ganesh Chandrasekaran & Karthikeyan Subramaniam, Samsung
3:45pm • WebAssembly Profiling with Pprof and Wzprof - Rajiv Ranjan Singh, A.P. Moller - Maersk & Naman Lakhwani, Independent
4:50pm • Reimagining Kubernetes Pods: Nested Containers with CRI-O - Sohan Kunkerkar, Red Hat Inc
5:40pm • Effortless Clustering: Rethinking ClusterAPI with Systemd-Sysext - Sayan Chowdhury, Microsoft
11:30am • Scaling and Safeguarding the Heart of Kubernetes: Deep Dive Into etcd - Arka Saha, VMware by Broadcom
12:20pm • Rook: Intro and Deep Dive with Ceph Storage - Subham Rai, Yati Padia & Parth Arora, IBM; Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso
2:55pm • Safeguarding SLAs and Building Resilient Systems: A Sneak Peek to Chaos Engineering Probes - Saranya Jena, Vedant Shrotria & Amit Das, Harness; Siddharth Vijay, Baazi Games
3:45pm • Cilium: Connecting, Observing, and Securing Kubernetes and Beyond with eBPF - Amit Gupta, Isovalent at Cisco & Neeraj Bisht, Flipkart
4:50pm • Contributing to Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - How ContribEx Enhances the Journey! - Nabarun Pal & Arvind Parekh, Independent; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen; Priyanka Saggu, SUSE;
5:40pm • End to End LLMOps with Kubeflow - Johnu George, Gavrish Prabhu, Ajay Nagar & Aishwarya Raimule, Nutanix; Krishna Durai, Meta
9:30am • Keynote: Opening Remarks
9:45am • Keynote: End User Evolution: Cloud Native Adoption Stories from India and Beyond - Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom; Aparna Subramanian, Shopify; Bob Killen, CNCF; Achyuta Ghosh, nasscom; Sudheesh Sudhakaran, VMware by Broadcom
10:00am • Keynote: Unity in Diversity: Making Cloud Native Ubiquitous - Divya Mohan & Priyanka Saggu, SUSE; Nabarun Pal, Independent; Bhavani Indukuri, Zscaler; Sandeep Kanabar, Gen
10:15am • Keynotes to be Announced
10:50am • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:30am • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Safer Cluster Upgrades with Mixed Version Proxy - Richa Banker, Google
11:35am • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Non-Intrusive Multi-Tenant Auth & Authz with Istio, OAuth2Proxy, and OPA - Adarsh Kumar Singh & Raghuram Sripada, Hitachi Vantara
11:40am • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Have No Fear When Boskos Is Here - Amulya Meka, IBM
11:45am • ⚡ Lightning Talk: From Creation to Termination: Your Pod's Digital Footprint - Subha Seenivasan, Google
11:50am • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Enhancing Hyperparameter Optimization with Advanced Parameter Distributions - Shashank Mittal, Kubeflow
12:20pm • Cell-Based Kubernetes - The Secret to Scalable, Repeatable and Resilient Cloud Architecture - Shweta Vohra, Booking.com & Saiyam Pathak, Loft Labs
2:55pm • Azimuth- AstraZeneca’s Cloud Native Machine Learning Platform - Nithin R, AstraZeneca
3:45pm • Trust in Green: Towards a Cloud Native Approach for Building Sustainable and Reliable Enterprise AI - Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat
4:50pm • Guardians of the MLOps Galaxy: Simplifying Deployments with Buildpacks - Suman Chakraborty, Broadcom & Aditya Soni, Forrester Research
5:40pm • Scaling Private LLM Model Services with Kserve and Modelcar OCI: A Real-World Implementation - Mayuresh Krishna, initializ
