11:30 • Ask the Experts: CNCF CTO and TOC Members Open Q&A - Hosted by Chris Aniszczyk & Lin Sun
12:10 • Add Single-sign-on To Your Applications With Keycloak and Learn About Its Latest Features - Takashi Norimatsu, Hitachi & Marek Posolda, Red Hat
14:10 • KubeVirt Community: Let's Talk Multiarch Support! - Howard Zhang, Arm
14:50 • Kubernetes SIG Node Intro and Deep Dive - Narang Dixita Sohanlal, Google; Paco Xu, DaoCloud; Hironori Shiina, Independent
15:50 • Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q&A - Derek Su, SUSE
16:30 • Prometheus 3.0 and the New Governance: Setting the Project up for the Next Decade - Josue Abreu, Grafana Labs
17:10 • Sailing Multi-host Inference for LLM on Kubernetes - Kay Yan, DaoCloud
11:30 • Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform - Whitney Lee, Datadog & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
12:10 • Safeguarding Your Applications - Achieving Zero Downtime During Kubernetes Upgrades - Kazuki Uchima & Kakeru Ishii, Google Cloud
14:10 • Access AI Models Anywhere: Scaling AI Traffic With Envoy AI Gateway - Dan Sun, Bloomberg & Takeshi Yoneda, Tetrate.io
14:50 • Zero-Extraction Cold Starts: How FUSE-Streaming Slashed ComfyUI Cold Starts by 10x - Fog Dong, BentoML
15:50 • Platform Engineering Day 2: Why Service Iterations Are the Crux of Developer Platforms - Puja Abbassi, Giant Swarm
16:30 • Exploring Tenant-centric Strategies To Simplify Multi-cluster and Multi-cloud Complexities - Wei Huang & Fan Yang, Apple
17:10 • Standardizing on Multi-Cluster App Topologies for Platforms With Linkerd - William Rizzo, Mirantis & Erick Bourgeois, Independent
09:30 • Keynote: Community Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
09:42 • Keynote: Platform Alchemy: Transforming Kubernetes Into Generative AI Gold - Alexa Griffith, Bloomberg & Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid
09:54 • Keynote: Service Mesh is Evolving into the Service Network - Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io
10:01 • Keynote: From ECS To Kubernetes (and Sometimes Back Again): A Pragmatist's Guide To Migration - Marc Hildenbrand, Canva
10:13 • Sponsored Keynote: Challenging to the Innovative Infrastructure for the AI Revolution - Yuichi Saotome, VP, Platform BG Executive Director, Fujitsu Limited
10:20 • Keynote: Cloud Native Darwinism: Continuous Evolution of Platforms for Competitive Edge - Masaya Aoyama, Senior Software Engineer, CyberAgent
10:32 • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:30 • A Journey and Lessons Learned To Enable IBM AIU Accelerators in Kubernetes - Takuya Mishina & Tatsuhiro Chiba, IBM Research
12:10 • Beyond Stock Outs: Scaling Inference on Mixed GPU Hardware With DRA - John Belamaric & Bo Fu, Google
14:10 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Embracing Culture and Breaking Language Barriers: A Story of Fostering Global Opensource Communities - Sreeram Venkitesh, DigitalOcean
14:17 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimizing Web Applications by Offloading Heavy Processing To Kubernetes Jobs - Asami Okina, Craftsman Software, Inc.
14:24 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: From Kernel To Kubernetes: Mapping eBPF-Detected Processes To Pods - Yuki Nakamura, mapbox
14:31 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Enhanced Service Redirection: eBPF Ensures the High Availability of Node-Local DNS - Weizhou Lan, Daocloud
14:38 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Practical Monitoring for Knative Serving - Kazuki Higashiguchi, Autify
14:45 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Providing Sufficient PVCs for Your StatefulSets: Creating New Volumes Larger Than the PVCTemplate - Kaoru Esashika, Cybozu, Inc.
14:52 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: What's New in Prometheus-Operator? - Ashwin Sriram, IIT-BHU
14:59 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: VexLLM: Silence Negligible CVE Alerts Using LLM - Akihiro Suda, NTT
15:50 • Scaling AI Responsibly: Building Ethical, Sustainable, and Cloud Native AI Systems - Amita Sharma & Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat; Mohit Suman, Salesforce; Shamsher Ansari, Platform9
16:30 • Optimizing Data Locality and GPU Utilization for Training Workloads in Kubernetes - Bin Fan, Alluxio
17:10 • Addons Need Love Too: Maintaining Addons for Better Cluster Security - Stevie Caldwell & Andy Suderman, Fairwinds
11:30 • Never Underestimate Memory Architecture - Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs
12:10 • New Cache Hierarchy for Container Images and OCI Artifact in Kubernetes Clusters Using Containerd - Toru Komatsu & Hidehito Yabuuchi, Preferred Networks, Inc.
14:10 • No More Disruption: PlayStation Network’s Approaches To Avoid Outages on Kubernetes Platform - Tomoyuki Ehira & Shuhei Nagata, Sony Interactive Entertainment
14:50 • Streamlined Baremetal Deployment: A Journey of Custom Controllers Integrated With OpenStack - Mitsuhiro Tanino & Masanori Kuroha, LY Corporation
15:50 • The Grand Adventure of Production Apps: Build, Break, and Survive! ~ A Kawaii Manga Journey Through - Aoi Takahashi, Independent
16:30 • Breaking Limits: Highly-Isolated and Low-Overhead Wasm Container - Soichiro Ueda, Kyoto University & Ai Nozaki, The University of Tokyo
17:10 • 2-Node Kubernetes: A Reliable and Compatible Solution - Xin Zhang & Guang Hu, Microsoft
11:30 • Kubeflow Ecosystem: Unleash the Power of Cloud Native AI - Andrey Velichkevich & Luciano Resende, Apple; Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, Inc; Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat
12:10 • WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next? - Michał Woźniak, Google & Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, Inc
14:10 • What's New in Open Source Kubernetes? - Kaslin Fields, Google
14:50 • Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph - Satoru Takeuchi, Cybozu, Inc.
15:50 • Envoy Gateway Policies: Unlocking the Full Power of Envoy Proxy for API Gateways - Huabing Zhao, Tetrate.io
16:30 • Containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive - Akihiro Suda & Kohei Tokunaga, NTT; Kirtana Ashok, Microsoft; Akhil Mohan, VMware by Broadcom
09:30 • Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks
09:37 • Keynote: Make Cloud-Native Ubiquitous: KubeEdge's Graduation Journey with Innovation and Collaborative - Yue Bao, Huawei Cloud Computing Technology Co., Ltd. & Hongbing Zhang, DaoCloud
09:49 • Keynote: From Legacy to Lift-Off: How Tokyo Gas Accelerated Innovation with Kubernetes, Argo CD, and Istio - Yusuke Sugiyama, Software Engineer, Tokyo Gas
09:56 • Keynote: Engineering Without Limits: A Decade of Kubernetes Powering PlayStation’s Evolution - Chris McEniry & Swathi Somanchi, Sony
10:03 • Keynote: Expanding Cloud Native Ecosystem From Japan - Yuichi Nakamura, Linux Foundation Japan Evangelist, Governing board of CNCF
10:10 • Keynote: Spirit of Wa : Let’s Upstream - Yuiko Mori, NEC; Akihiro Suda, NTT Corporation; Naoki Oguchi, Fsas Technologies; Kohei Ota, Apple
10:22 • Keynote: Unleashing AI Infrastructure and Platforms: Accelerating Innovation Through the Open Source Ecosystem - Sunyanan Choochotkaew, Staff Research Scientist, IBM Research
10:34 • Keynote: Towards Desired State of World — Everyone Benefits from CNCF Ecosystem - Masaki Kimura, Engineer, Hitachi
10:44 • Keynote: Closing Remarks
11:30 • Project Lightning Talks: Opening - Carla Gaggini & Mitch Connors, CNCF Ambassadors
11:37 • Project Lightning Talk: Expanding your GitOps with New Pluggable PipeCD - Shinnosuke Sawada-Dazai, Maintainer
11:44 • Project Lightning Talk: OTel 2025: The Latest Milestones and What’s Next - Greg Leffler, Contributor
11:51 • Project Lightning Talk: How Kubernetes Observes Containers: The Role of Container Runtime and cAdvisor in Metrics Collection - Ayato Tokubi, Maintainer
11:58 • Project Lightning Talk: First Step to Open Source Contribution? 5 Tips I Learned from Mentorship - Suhyen Im, Contributor
12:05 • Project Lightning Talk: Understanding Cilium's eBPF kube-proxy Replacement for High Performance Networking - Yusuke Suzuki
12:12 • Project Lightning Talk: Open Cluster Management turns 1.0.0 - Hip Hip Hooray! - August Simonelli, Supporter
12:19 • Project Lightning Talk: Intro to Kubernetes SIG ContribEx - Kaslin Fields, Co-chair
12:26 • Project Lightning Talks: Closing - Carla Gaggini & Mitch Connors, CNCF Ambassadors
14:10 • BGP Peering Patterns for Kubernetes Networking at Preferred Networks - Sho Shimizu, Preferred Networks, Inc. & Yutaro Hayakawa, Isovalent at Cisco
14:50 • Green OpenTelemetry: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too - Adriana Villela, Dynatrace
15:50 • The Future of Prometheus Exposition Format - Arthur Sens, Grafana Labs
16:30 • From Moon Prism Power To eBPF Super Saiyan: A Guide To Cloud Native Security & Observability - Carla Gaggini, Isovalent at Cisco & Kenta Tada, Toyota Motor Corporation
11:30 • Should Our Project Join the CNCF? - Lenka Bočincová, Red Hat
12:10 • Bridging Cultures: Kubernetes Upstream Training and Japan's Open Source Journey - Shu Muto & Ziyi Xie, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.; Masahiro Kitamura, LY Corporation; Junya Okabe, University of Tsukuba; Masaki Kimura, Hitachi
14:10 • Full Lifecycle API Management in Kubernetes With Envoy and WebAssembly - Brandon Kang, Akamai Technologies & Mostafa Radwan, Datadog
14:50 • Mastering Authorization: Integrating Authentication and Authorization Data in Cloud Native Apps - Yoshiyuki Tabata, Hitachi, Ltd.
15:50 • Practical Cloud Native Compliance Automation With OSCAL Compass - Chris Butler, Red Hat & Takumi Yanagawa, IBM Research
16:30 • Your SBOM Is Lying To You – Let’s Make It Honest - Justin Cappos & Yuchen Zhang, New York University