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 • 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 • What's New in gRPC - Kevin Nilson, Google
3:45pm • KubeEdge DeepDive: Architecture, Use Cases, and Project Graduation Updates - Fei Xu, Huawei Cloud & Hongbing Zhang, DaoCloud
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 • Keynotes to be Announced
11:00am • Coffee Break ☕
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 - Subalakshmi S, 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
2:55pm • 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
4:20pm • Coffee Break ☕
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
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 - Bill Mulligan, Isovalent at Cisco & Neeraj Bisht, Flipkart
4:50pm • Contributing to Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - How ContribEx Enhances the Journey! - Nabarun Pal, Independent & Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock)
5:40pm • End to End LLMOps with Kubeflow - Johnu George & Gavrish Prabhu, Nutanix