KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025

As Generative AI reshapes the tech landscape, its tools and solutions often feel overwhelming and disconnected - like scattered elements waiting to be forged into something greater. What does a complete GenAI platform look like? And how does it differ from application-focused platforms many organizations already run?

We’ll guide you through a practical transmutation of your platforms to add GenAI features. We’ll first define the base elements needed to deploy LLM inference on Kubernetes. We’ll then blend key elements into the MVP stage, adding core enterprise AI components like an AI Gateway, shared interfaces via Dapr, and KServe-based deployment strategies. Finally, we’ll tackle advanced features - intelligent load balancing for LLMs, observability patterns, and cost optimizations.

More than a tools showcase, this session is packed with real lessons from enterprise GenAI platform engineers, to help transmute your platform into the philosopher’s stone for AI innovation.

Migrating to Kubernetes offers numerous benefits, but few organizations start from "greenfields" circumstances. Many have critical services running on existing platforms, each leveraging unique capabilities. Transitioning these services to Kubernetes can be a complex and non-trivial challenge.

At Canva—a leading design and collaboration platform serving 220 million monthly active users—we recently undertook an ambitious project to migrate over 400 services from Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to Kubernetes (EKS). These services now span 15,000 pods across two clusters on a typical day.

In this talk, we’ll share the strategies, tools, and processes Canva developed to achieve a (mostly) seamless migration with minimal disruption to our teams and users. Whether you're planning your own migration or just curious about what it takes to migrate at this scale, this session will provide practical insights and lessons learned.

Recently,the health of open-source projects,particularly,vendor diversity and neutrality,has become a key topic of discussion. Many projects have faced challenges due to a lack of vendor diversity,threatening their sustainability. It is increasingly clear that setting up the right governance structure and project team during a project’s growth is critical.
KubeEdge,the industry's first cloud-native open-source edge computing project,has grown from its initial launch in 2018 to achieving CNCF graduation this year. Over the past few years, KubeEdge has evolved from a small project into a diverse, collaborative and multi-vendor community.
In this session, we will discuss the KubeEdge graduation journey, focusing on key strategies in technical planning, community governance, developer growth, and project maintenance that enabled its transformation into a thriving ecosystem. Join us to explore how to build a multi-vendor and diverse community, and how to expand into different industries.

Finally, the first KubeCon Japan is here, but it is an only start point. Japanese communities and companies are collaborating in CNCF Japan Chapter “Cloud Native Community Japan (CNCF)” to accelerate cloud native momentum in Japan and expand collaboration with other communities like FinOps Foundation and LF AI. In the talk, achievements of CNCJ since KubeDay Japan and forecast will be introduced.