09:00 • BackstageCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks, Bajaji Sivasubramanian, Bryan Landes, & Blair Fraser, Program Co-Chairs
09:10 • Unlocking Backstage’s Potential: Driving Adoption and Maturity With Your Developer Community - Stanley Nicholl, Spotify
09:40 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Backstage Way of Cost Engineering: How To Save 30k USD and More - Long Zhang & Kristina Kondrashevich, Electrolux Group
09:55 • Sponsored Keynote: The Future is Backstage - Pia Nilsson, Spotify
10:40 • Instrumenting Observability for an IDP on Backstage Using OpenTelemetr - Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz & Haardik Dharma, NYU
11:15 • Driving Monorepo Adoption With Backstage - Chau Vu, Zipline
11:50 • Panel: What Do Cars, Clothes, Wardrobes and MRI Machines Have in Common? - Scott Guymer, Philips; Remi Higuchi, H&M group; David Terol, Philips; Jan Magnusson, Ikea; Martin Wanerskar, Volvo Cars
13:30 • High Performance Backstage for High Performing Organizations - Avantika Iyer & Jack Palmer, Spotify
14:05 • Exemplar-y Backstage Templates - Brent Swisher, ITHAKA
14:40 • Security Behind the Curtains With Event Monitoring - Paul Schultz, Red Hat
15:20 • From Click To Chaos: Linking Argo Workflows and Backstage for Automated Testing - Chris Heisz & Luke Beamish, Neo4j
15:55 • Fixing Resource Labeling: Tying Infrastructure Metadata To Backstage With Terraform - Michael Reichenbach, 1KOMMA5°
16:30 • The Hitchhiker's Guide To Upgrading Backstage: Don't Panic! - Debabrata Panigrahi & Jenil Jain, Harness
17:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: How Silverflow Uses Backstage To Streamline Engineering and Compliance - Daniel O'Neill, Silverflow B.V.
17:15 • BackstageCon | Closing Remarks - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Bryan Landes & Blair Fraser, Program Co-Chairs
09:00 • Cloud Native University | Welcome + Opening Remarks
09:10 • The Absolute Beginner's Guide To Cloud Native - Kyle Penfound, Dagger & Cortney Nickerson, Kubeshop
09:45 • Streamline Your App Development With the Power of Cloud Native Tools - Julia Furst Morgado, Veeam & Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid
10:40 • AI/MLOps for Busy People: A Field Guide To Implementing Cloud Native AI/ML - Zara Ahmad-Post, DigitalOcean
11:15 • Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain: A Beginner’s Guide To SLSA, SBOM, and Beyond - Yash Pimple, Chainguard & Yash Sharma, Meshery
11:50 • Proxies, Gateways, and Service Mesh. Why Are Words So Confusing? - Abdel Sghiouar, Google Cloud
12:25 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Gems of Kubernetes: Lesser-Known Features You Should Be Using - Saranya Nambiar, University of Leicester | Taikun
13:30 • Kubernetes the Hard Way: A Live Journey - Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock) & Lucy Sweet, Uber
14:05 • Panel: Activating Community To Grow in Cloud Native - Lisa Tagliaferri, Chainguard; Divya Mohan, SUSE
14:50 • (What If We Learned To) Learn and Share Differently - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud
15:20 • Bridging the Cloud Native OpenTelemetry Education Gap - Shivay Lamba, Couchbase & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz
15:55 • Building a Cloud Native Curriculum for Real-World Readiness - Marko Mudrinić, Kubermatic GmbH & University Union
16:30 • Teaching Kubernetes To Over 1000 Learners: Key Lessons and Insights - Joseph Page & Max-Emilien Dauvert-Latre, Octo Technology
17:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Bringing Cloud Native To the Classroom: Empowering the Next Generation of Technologists - Nikita Verma, Independent
17:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: The Numbers and Narrative of Cloud Native Growth - Thiago GIl, Dotted
17:25 • Cloud Native University | Closing Remarks
09:00 • Data on Kubernetes Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Beyond Databases: Kubernetes as an AI Foundation, Melissa Logan & Adam Durr, Program Co-Chairs
09:10 • Postgres on Kubernetes for the Reluctant DBA - Karen Jex, Crunchy Data
09:45 • Mastering Kafka Workload Balancing With Strimzi’s Cruise Control Integration - Paolo Patierno, Red Hat
10:40 • Pains and Gains: Lessons From Orchestrating Volumes for Remote Storage in Cloud Native AI Scenarios - Zhihao Xu & Yashi Su, Alibaba Cloud
11:15 • Write-Through Object Cache for Fleets of Global Edge Clusters - Ryan Beisner, NVIDIA
11:45 • Taming PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes: Strategies for Dynamic Management - Sergey Pronin, Percona
12:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Navigating the Complexities of Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes: The Essential Role of Software-Defi - Padmarajan Narayanan, Rakuten Cloud
12:25 • Data on Kubernetes Day | Closing Remarks
13:25 • Kubeflow Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks
13:35 • Kubeflow Ecosystem: Past, Present, Future - Ricardo Martinelli de Oliveira, Red Hat
14:10 • Speed up Your ML Workloads With Kubernetes Powered In-memory Data Caching - Rasik Pandey & Akshay Chitneni, Apple
14:50 • Empowering ML Workloads With Kubeflow: JAX Distributed Training and LLM Hyperparameter Optimization - Hezhi Xie, Independent & Sandipan Panda, DevZero
15:20 • Streamlining Competitive Data Science at CERN: Running ML Challenges With Kubeflow - Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu & Hannes Hansen, CERN
15:55 • Using Training-Operator To Schedule Distributed Edge-Cloud Collaborative AI Applications - Bincheng Wang, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd & Ming Tang, DaoCloud
16:30 • Panel: Simplifying the AI/ML Lifecycle With Kubeflow: An Insight Into the Community - Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat; Chase Christensen, tiledb; Julius von Kohout, DHL Data & Analytics; Tarek Abouzeid, Telia; Amber Graner, Kubeflow Project
17:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Kubeflow Profiles Automation for Declarative User-management at Scale - Kimonas Sotirchos & Manos Vlassis, Canonical
17:20 • Kubeflow Summit | Closing Remarks
09:00 • Platform Engineering Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks
09:10 • Platform Engineering Day | Project Updates
09:25 • Sponsored Keynote: Stop Building Portals, and Start Delivering Workloads. For Realz - Will Stewart, Northflank
09:32 • Sponsored Keynote: Platform Engineering with a Product Management Mindset: 10x Your DevEx - Jabed Amin, Cortex
09:39 • Sponsored Keynote: Containerization Beyond CPUs – A Kubernetes-based Serverless Platform for AI Native Applications - Nathan Goulding, Vultr
09:46 • Sponsored Keynote: The End of Localhost: A Platform Team's Guide to Securing Agentic Software Development at Scale - Louis Bichard, GitPod
10:00 • So You Want To Hire for Platform Engineering? - Hazel Weakly, Nivenly Foundation
10:40 • Platform-as-a-Product: First Insights From CNCF Platform Working Group's Ongoing Research - Dominik Kress, Giant Swarm & Michael Luskind, MiKind
11:15 • From Build To Boom: Using GTM To Drive Internal Platform Adoption - David Stenglein, Missing Mass, LLC & Erica Hughberg, Tetrate
12:45 • Panel: Are You Ready for Platform Adoption, or Are You Setting Yourself up for Failure? - Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador; Leena Mooneeram, Chainalysis; Ana Margarita Medina, Upbound
13:30 • Platform Abstractions an Asset or Liability? - Let’s Understand the Abstraction Debt Trap - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies
14:05 • "I Choo-choo-choose You"; or How To Build Modern Platforms in a 200 Year Old Industry - Roberth Strand & Manfred Bjørlin, Sopra Steria
15:20 • Scaling the Sound: Fleet Management at Spotify - Sanjana Seetharam, Spotify
15:55 • Platform Engineering for Architects - Crafting Platforms as a Product - Max Körbächer, Liquid Reply & Hilliary Lipsig, Red Hat
16:25 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: If You Think Building Platforms Is Hard, Try Selling Them! - Ram Iyengar, The Linux Foundation
16:40 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Project Zero Day: Building the Ultimate Container Defense System - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne
16:55 • Panel: Building Thriving Communities in Platform Engineering: Collaboration, Innovation, and Growth - Matteo Bianchi, GitHub; William Rizzo, Mirantis; Cortney Nickerson & Kelly Revenaugh, Kubeshop; Bart Farrell, Learnk8s
17:30 • Platform Engineering Day | Closing Remarks
09:00 • Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks
09:10 • The State of GenAI & ML in the Cloud Native Ecosystem - Alejandro Saucedo, Zalando SE
09:45 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Scalable and Observable RAG for Question-Answering in a Box - Selvi Kadirvel, Elotl
10:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Introducing LLM Instance Gateways for Efficient Inference Serving - Abdel Sghiouar, Google Cloud
10:40 • Serving the Future: KServe’s Next Chapter Hosting LLMs & GenAI Models (with Fun Drawings!) - Alexa Griffith & Tessa Pham, Bloomberg
11:15 • Manage Cloud Native LLM Workloads Across Edge and Cloud Seamlessly Using KubeEdge and WasmEdge - Vivian Hu, Second State & Fei Xu, Huawei Cloud
11:50 • Panel: Engaging the Kubeflow Community: Building an Enterprise-Ready AI/ML Platform - Yuan Tang, Red Hat; Andrey Velichkevich, Apple; Andreea Munteanu, Canonical; Johnu George, Nutanix
13:30 • Accelerate Your AI/ML Workloads With Topology-Aware Scheduling in Kueue - Michał Woźniak, Google & Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, inc
14:05 • Cluster Management for Large Scale AI and GPUs: Challenges and Opportunities - Claudia Misale & David Grove, IBM
14:40 • Objection! AI Security Mistakes on Trial With Kubeflow and Confidential Computing - Annie Talvasto, Waovo & Karl Ots, EPAM Systems
15:20 • From Toil To Triumph: Harnessing Agentic AI To Streamline Infrastructure as Code - Jodee Varney, Outshift by Cisco
15:55 • AI, CERN, and the Quest for GPU Custody: How CERN Leverages DRA for Efficient GPU Sharing - Diana Gaponcic, CERN & Jan-Philip Gehrcke, NVIDIA
16:30 • Open Source Tools To Empower Ethical and Robust AI Systems - Vicente Herrera & Alberto Rodríguez Fernandez, Control Plane
17:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Benchmarking Your Distributed ML Training on the K8s Platform - Liang Yan, CoreWeave
17:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: {”spec”: “nodeSelector”: "EuroHPC"} - Diego Ciangottini, INFN
17:25 • Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Closing Remarks
10:40 • The Past, the Present, and the Future of Platform Engineering - Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
11:15 • Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers - Stéphane Di Cesare, DKB - Deutsche Kreditbank & Cat Morris, Syntasso
12:45 • Panel: Platform as a Product as a Transformation Enabler Within One of the Top 4 Banks in the UK - Chris Plank, NatWest Bank & Sapphire Mason-Brown, Syntasso
13:30 • DORA Metrics in Practice: Our DORA Metrics Journey at StackGen - Danielle Cook, StackGen & Cesar Rodriguez, appCD
14:05 • The Story of Lemonade's T-env: Scaling a Platform To Improve the Velocity of Hundreds of Developers - Ramiro Berrelleza, Okteto & Nir Gilboa, Lemonade
14:40 • Platform Perseverance: Taming 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters - Marcy Paramonova & Stéphane Cusin, Banque Pictet & Cie SA
15:20 • Platform Engineering and DevEx for Your On-Prem LLM - Hannah Foxwell, Kortensia
15:55 • Building Platforms With Empathy and YAML at the LEGO Group - Mads Høgstedt Danquah & Christian Trolle Mikkelsen, The LEGO Group
16:25 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Save Thousands of DevOps Hours: Unleashing the Power of Self-Service - Ofir Sharony, MyHeritage
16:40 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: 10 Quick Tips on How To Internally Market Your Platform - Christina Kraus, meshcloud
16:55 • Panel: Navigating the Platform Revolution: From Bottom-Up Innovation To Product Thinking - Antoine Bermon, SNCF; Kanika Gera, Adobe ; Lou Bichard, Gitpod
09:00 • ArgoCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Katie Lamkin-Fulsher, Program Committee Member
09:05 • ArgoCon | Project Updates - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy
09:20 • ArgoCon | Project Updates
09:50 • Sponsored Keynote: GitOps Promotion Across Multi-cloud and Edge - Christian Hernandez, Akuity
10:00 • Sponsored Keynote: Why We Are Betting on Argo - Colin Bowern, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy
10:40 • Defining SLOs and SLIs for ArgoCD: A Metrics-Driven Approach To Observability - Eve Ben Ezra & Serhiy Martynenko, The New York Times
11:15 • Automated Resilience: Using Argo Events for Real-Time Incident Remediation - Darko Janjić, Pipekit
12:30 • Argo Trivia!
12:55 • A Million Ways To Promote Changes Between Environments - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
13:30 • One Engine To Rule Them All: Unifying Cloud Workloads With Argo Workflows - Sebastian Beyvers, Giessen University
14:05 • Argo CD Ephemeral Access in Action: Lessons Learned While Running at Scale - Leonardo Luz Almeida & Katie Lamkin-Fulsher, Intuit
14:40 • Set It To Auto: Using Argo CD Autopilot To Simplify Everything
15:20 • Scaling Argo CD: From Symptoms To Solution - Alexandre Gaudreault, Intuit
15:50 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Extending Argo CD CLI Functionality With Plugin Support: Build Your Custom Plugins Now! - Nitish Kumar, Akuity
16:05 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Mitigating Privilege Escalation in Multi-Tenant Argo CD - Anand Francis Joseph, Red Hat
16:20 • Argo at Scale: Navigating Complex Multi-Dimensional Deployments Across Hundreds of Clusters - Carlos Santana, AWS & Mike Tougeron, Adobe
16:50 • Redefining the Multi-Cluster Story of Argo CD - Jann Fischer, Red Hat
17:15 • ArgoCon | Closing Remarks
09:00 • Observability Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks
09:10 • Observability Day | Project Updates
10:00 • Sponsored Keynote: The Future of Observability: Trends, AI, and New Relic’s Vision for a Smarter Stack - Harry Kimpel, New Relic
10:10 • Sponsored Keynote: TBA, Chronosphere
10:45 • Operationalizing Observability: The Invisible Parts - Hazel Weakly, Nivenly Foundation
11:20 • Observability by Design: Leveraging OpenTelemetry Weaver To Take Control of Your Observability - Josh Suereth, Google & Laurent Querel, F5
12:55 • Encrypted Telemetry in Transit - Jason Plumb, Splunk
13:30 • SLOs as an Organisational 'Check Engine' Light - Cail Young, Octopus Deploy
14:05 • Putting the Experience in UX: The Importance of Making Data Accessible - Adriana Villela, Dynatrace & Tim Banks, Caylent
14:40 • Transmissions From the Tweet Factory: How Observability Transformed Mobile Performance at Twitter - Hanson Ho, Embrace
15:20 • The Art and Craft of No-touch Instrumentation - Michele Mancioppi, Dash0
15:55 • OTel-y Oops: Learning From Our Observability Blunders - Joe Stephenson & Rodney Karemba, Akamai Technologies
16:30 • The State of OpenTelemetry Profiling- Damien Matthieu, Elastic & Felix Geisendoerfer, Datadog
17:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Who Are You? Solving the Container ID Resolution With Cgroupv2 - Vincent Boulineau, Datadog
17:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: From HAR To OpenTelemetry Trace: Redefining Your Observability - Antonio Jimenez Martinez, Cisco ThousandEyes
17:25 • Observability Day | Closing Remarks
10:45 • Beyond Root Cause Analysis for K8s: What Your Logs Should Be Telling You - Ronit Belson, Sawmills
11:20 • From Logs To Insights: Real-time Conversational Troubleshooting for Kubernetes With GenAI - Tiago Reichert & Lucas Duarte, AWS
12:55 • From Sampling To Full Visibility: Scaling Tracing To Trillions of Spans - Sonam Gupta, SigLens & Sudeep Kumar, Salesforce Inc
13:30 • OpenTelemetry at Delivery Hero: The Good, the Bad and the Vendor-Agnostic - Elena Kovalenko, Delivery Hero
14:05 • From Chaos To Clarity: Scaling Observability at Dropbox With Centralized Logging Solution - Alok Ranjan, Dropbox Inc
14:40 • From Splunk To OTEL: Scaling Observability at MSCI With a Four-Person Team - Aftab Khan & Zach Arnold, MSCI
15:20 • Customize Your Own OpenTelemetry Collector: An Introduction To OCB - Evan Bradley, Dynatrace & Pablo Baeyens, Datadog
15:55 • Demystifying Monitoring and Debugging on Windows Containers - Mansi Kulkarni, Red Hat & Ritika Gupta, Microsoft
16:30 • Beyond the Ephemeral: Mastering Serverless Metrics at Scale With Shopify - Pedro Tanaka & Filip Petkovski, Shopify
17:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Unlocking Customer-Centric Observability: A Case Study of OpenTelemetry To Reduce MTTD < 3 Mins - Kokilavani Kathiresan, Intuit
17:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Empowering OpenTelemetry Users With the OTTL Playground: Simplified Data Transformation and Testing - Edmo Vamerlatti Costa, Elastic
10:40 • Progressive Delivery With Argo Rollouts and Kubernetes Gateway API for Multi-Directional Traffic - Lin Sun, solo.io
11:15 • Panel: Native OCI Integration - Leveraging Argo CD Source Content in a Brand New Way - Andrew Block & Ishita Sequeira, Red Hat; Michael Crenshaw, Intuit; Blake Pettersson, Akuity; Shiwei Zhang, Microsoft
12:55 • Autoscaling and Progressive Delivery - A Match Made in Heaven - Anastasiia Gubska, BT Group & Kostis Kapelonis, Codefresh by Ocotopus Deploy
13:30 • Scale GitOps With the Argo CD Agent and Open Cluster Management - August Simonelli, Red Hat
14:05 • Argo Workflow Templates: A Practical Deep-Dive - Tim Collins, Pipekit & Becky Pauley, Jetstack Consult
14:40 • Multi Cluster Magics With Argo CD and Cluster Inventory - Nick Eberts, Google & Christian Hernandez, Akuity
15:20 • The Hidden Dangers of Defaults: Securing Multi-Tenant Argo CD Installations - Regina Voloshin, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy & Dag Bjerre Andersen, Doubble ApS
15:50 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Scaling Time Series Analysis With Argo Workflows: Patterns and Practices - Anjelica Ambrosio, Akuity
16:05 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Are You Sure It Works? Double Check Your Workflow Spec With Validating Webhooks - Will Wang, Bloomberg
16:20 • Continuous Delivery & Resource Health for SpinKube/WASM Applications With ArgoCD - Luke Philips, The New York Times & Radu Matei, Fermyon
16:50 • No More Pipelines: Reconciling Environment Promotion Via Commit Statuses With Argo CD - Michael Crenshaw & Zach Aller, Intuit
09:00 • Kubernetes on Edge Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks
09:10 • Chaos To Control: Kubernetes Resiliency at the Edge - Julia Furst Morgado, Veeam & Candida Valois, Scality
09:45 • Seamless List-Watch Improvements Across Data Center and Massive Unstable Network Edge - Fei Xu, Huawei Cloud & Huan Wei, Hangzhou HarmonyCloud Technologies Co., Ltd
10:15 • Sponsored Keynote: TBA, Spectro Cloud
11:00 • From Weeks To Minutes: How Focke & Co Packaged Factory Edge K8s Across 20k+ Machines - Alexandre Boutet, Focke & CO & Dmitry Shevrin, Spectro Cloud
11:35 • Thinking Outside the Classroom: Building an Edge Device To Monitor Atmospheric Conditions. - Hadijat Sanni & Jubril Oyetunji, Students
12:10 • Kubernetes Cross-Zone/Region Simplified: Harnessing Bacalhau for Efficient Distributed Compute - David Aronchick, Expanso
12:35 • Kubernetes on Edge Day | Closing Remarks
12:50 • Cloud Native Telco Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks
12:55 • Panel: Are We There Yet? Native Kubernetes Networking for Telecom Workloads - Gergely Csatari, Nokia; Lionel Jouin, Ericsson; Doug Smit & Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google
13:35 • A Telco Game Changer: Sylva Embraces GitOps - Guillaume Nevicato, Orange & Cedric Yhuel, Oracle
14:10 • Kubenet: Harnessing Kubernetes for Network Automation - Wim Henderickx, Nokia & Ashan Senevirathne, Swisscom
14:40 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: What Operators are Looking for in a Cloud Native Data Plane - Benoit Gaussen, Orange
15:20 • Unlocking Telco Innovation with CAMARA: Bridging the Gap Between Telcos and (Cloud) Developers - Markus Kummerle, Deutsche Telekom & Jill Lovato, The Linux Foundation
15:55 • With Great Networks Come Great Carbon Savings: OpenSource + AI for RAN Optimization - Marco González, Ericsson & Prakash Rao Bethapudi, Accenture
16:30 • Just Claim It: Simplifying Network Automation with NetBox Operator - Lea Brühwiler & Joel Studler, Swisscom
17:05 • Automating Kubernetes Resource Management Over GitOps for the Telco Cloud RAN Prime Time - Liam Fallon, Ericsson & István Kispál, Nokia
17:30 • Cloud Native Telco Day | Closing Remarks
09:00 • OpenTofu | Welcome + Opening Remarks
09:15 • Breaking Down the TofuLith. How We Reduced Lead Times for Multi-Tenant Infra Changes by 90% - Mike Hodgins, FundApps
09:45 • Ask the Devs! - Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift; Arel Rabinowitz, env0; James Humphries, Spacelift
10:15 • Sponsored Keynote: From Fork to Future: OpenTofu’s Role in Shaping Community-Driven IaC - Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/Spacelift
10:40 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Seamless at Scale: Enterprise Migration to OpenTofu Without Missing a Beat - David Jackson, Fidelity Investments
11:00 • Enabling Developer Autonomy through IaC and Policy-as-Code: A Case Study at TV4 Play - David Stevens, TV4 Media AB
11:30 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Locals Only: Patterns and Anti-Patterns in OpenTofu Local Variables - Robbie Glenn, Glennium
11:45 • Don't Stop at the Cloud - Connecting all the Dots with Infrastructure-as-Code - Anuraag Agrawal, CurioSwitch
12:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Breaking New Ground with OpenTofu Exclusive Features - Ronny Orot, env0
12:25 • OpenTofu Day | Closing Remarks
13:25 • Linkerd Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Flynn, Program Chair
13:35 • Scaling Progressive Delivery at EarnIn: Leveraging Linkerd for Advanced Deployments With Gateway API - Kush Trivedi & Joe Brinkman, EarnIn
14:10 • Choosing a Service Mesh - Alex McMenemy & Dimple Thoomkuzhy, Compare the Market
14:50 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Meshin’ With WebAssembly: Taking Linkerd Beyond Containers - Joonas Bergius, Cosmonic
15:20 • The Future of Linkerd: 2.18 and Beyond - Oliver Gould, Buoyant
15:55 • Abstracting Multi-Cluster Topologies With CAPI and Linkerd for Internal Developer Platforms - William Rizzo, Mirantis
16:30 • Federated Services: Straightforward Multicluster - Alex Leong, Buoyant
17:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Upgrading Linkerd With Flux - Stuart Golightly & Haydn Stokes, Compare the Market
17:15 • Benchmarking Journey Through Service Meshes - Dominik Táskai, adesso Hungary
17:25 • Linkerd Day | Closing Remarks - William Morgan, Linkerd Community Member
09:00 • EnvoyCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Matt Turner, Program Chair
09:10 • Securing Every Bit at Uber - David Bell & Ronak Jain, Uber
09:45 • Adventures in Rate Limiting: Spotify’s Journey Writing a Scalable Envoy Rate Limiter (in Golang!) - Oliver Soell & Peter Marsh, Spotify
10:40 • Envoy Proxy: Evolved for Serving LLMs - Vaibhav Katkade & Andres Guedez, Google
11:45 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Dynamic Modules: A New Era of High-Performance Envoy Extensions - Takeshi Yoneda, Tetrate
12:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Introducing ORCA: Load Balancing With Endpoint Provided Load Data - Misha Efimov, Google
12:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Understanding Memory Allocation Management in Envoy. Current and Future - Kateryna Nezdolii, Docker
12:25 • EnvoyCon | Closing Remarks - Matt Turner, Program Chair
13:25 • OpenFeature Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks
13:35 • OpenFeature’s Positive Impact on Confidence at Dynatrace - Simon Schrottner & Todd Baert, Dynatrace
14:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Bridge Infrastructure & Application - OpenFeature for Dynamic Feature Management in K8 Deployments - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe & Aditi Gupta, Disney Plus Hotstar
14:30 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Look Into the Hooks of OpenFeature! - Saurav Jain, Apify
14:50 • Canary Deployments Are a Myth - True Progressive Delivery Occurs Via OpenFeature - Bob Walker, Octopus Deploy
15:20 • Challenges in Distributed Feature Flag Evaluation and How To Solve Them - Lukas Reining & Christopher Bohlen, codecentric AG
15:55 • Flag-tastic and Fearless: Feature Flags Meet Kubernetes for Deployments That Sing - Aditya Soni, Forrester & Anshika Tiwari, AWS
16:25 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: OpenFeature Multi-Provider: Enabling New Feature Flagging Use-Cases - Jonathan Norris, DevCycle
16:45 • Beyond Boolean: Solving Hard Problems in Feature Flag Architecture at Scale - Ryan Feigenbaum, GrowthBook
17:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: The Permutations and Combinations of Managing Features: Beyond the Toggle - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne
17:25 • OpenFeature Summit | Closing Remarks
09:00 • CiliumCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Hemanth Malla, Program Co-Chair & Denis Jannot, Cilium Community Member
09:10 • That’s Just My Cup of Tea: Configuring Cilium for Performance and Scale - Liz Rice, Isovalent at Cisco & Neha Aggarwal, Microsoft
09:45 • High-Scale Networking for ML Workloads With Cilium - Luigi Zhou, G-Research
10:15 • Sponsored Keynote: TBA, Isovalent at Cisco
10:40 • Improving Network Efficiency: The Power of Integrating Delegated IPAM With Cilium - Tamilmani Manoharan & Will Daly, Microsoft
11:15 • Simplifying Multi-Cluster Networking With Cilium and MCS-API: A Technical Deep Dive - Arthur Outhenin-Chalandre, Ledger & Marco Iorio, Isovalent at Cisco
11:45 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Agentic Bee: How To Get AI Agents To Talk To Tetragon - Himal Kumar, FlowPulse.AI
12:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Mastering Zero Downtime Migrations Between Cilium Identity Allocation Modes - Anton Ippolitov, Datadog
12:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: High Availability for Cilium Egress Gateway - Angelo Conforti, Corner Banca SA
12:25 • CiliumCon | Closing Remarks - Hemanth Malla, Program Co-Chair & Denis Jannot, Cilium Community Member
13:25 • Istio Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks
13:35 • A New Frontier: Sidecarless Service Mesh on Windows With Istio's Ambient Mesh - Keith Mattix & Mitch Connors, Microsoft
14:10 • Meshy Adventures: Surviving and Thriving in the Wild World of Istio at Scale - Yashwanth Vempati & Venkat Gattupalli, eBay
14:50 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Troubleshooting Istio Ambient With Kiali 2.0 - Josune Cordoba & Hayk Hovsepyan, Red Hat
15:20 • Navigating the Maze of Multi-Cluster Istio: Lessons Learned at Scale - Pamela Hernandez, BlackRock
15:55 • A Service Mesh Benchmark You Can Trust - Denis Jannot, solo.io
16:30 • GenAI Platform: Challenges of Authentication and Authorization in a Multi-Tenancy Environment - Lize Cai & Ahmad Hassan, SAP
17:00 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: How To Get Istio Help - Rob Salmond, Superorbital
17:15 • ⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimise Your Mesh With Istio Sidecar - Maggie Slukova, GetYourGuide
17:25 • Istio Day | Closing Remarks