I’ll be speaking at KubeCon EU 2025 in London tomorrow! As I like to do, here’s what I’m thinking of attending at the conference this week.

One small caveat: this schedule is subject to change as there’s quite a lot to see in the catalog!

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Start time End time Title Speaker Location
11:15am 11:45am A Comparative Analysis of Kueue, Volcano, and YuniKorn Wei Huang, Apple & Shiming Zhang, DaoCloud Level 1, Hall Entrance N10, Room G
12:00pm 12:30pm Wasm I Right or Wasm I Wrong? a Review of the Wasm Ecosystem Taylor Thomas, Cosmonic & David Justice, Microsoft Level 3, ICC Capital Suite 14-16
2:30pm 3:00pm A Practical Guide To Kubernetes Policy as Code Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata; Rita Zhang, Microsoft; Andy Suderman, Fairwinds; Joe Betz, Google Level 3, ICC Capital Suite 7-9
2:30pm 3:00pm Enhancing CRI-O With CDI: Streamlining Device Integration in Kubernetes Harshal Patil, Red Hat Level 3, ICC Capital Suite 14-16
3:15pm 3:45pm The Bricks That Make Us – How the LEGO Group Avoids 50 Mediocre Kubernetes Implementations Thomas Øther Rasmussen & Paul Farver, The LEGO Group Level 1, Hall Entrance N10, Room G
3:15pm 3:45pm SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive Sergey Kanzhelev & Dixita Narang, Google; Francesco Romani & Peter Hunt, Red Hat Level 3, ICC Capital Suite 14-16
3:15pm 3:45pm The Security Challenges of Running Untrusted Code in Production on Kubernetes at Internet Scale Christian Weichel & Alejandro de Brito Fontes, Gitpod Level 0, ICC Auditorium
4:15pm 4:45pm Orchestrating AI Models in Kubernetes: Deploying Ollama as a Native Container Runtime Samuel Veloso, Cast AI & Lucas Fernández, Red Hat Level 1, Hall Entrance S10, Room A
4:15pm 4:45pm Where’s All My Memory Gone? Mapping K8s Memory Metrics To Physical Resources Mahé Tardy, Isovalent at Cisco Level 1, Hall Entrance S10, Room C
5:15pm 5:45pm More Nodes, More Problems: Solving Multi-Host GPU/TPU Scheduling With Dynamic Resource Allocation John Belamaric & Morten Torkildsen, Google Level 1, Hall Entrance S10, Room A
6:15pm 7:45pm KubeCrawl

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Start time End time Title Speaker Location
10:15am 12:00pm Google booth
2:00pm 3:00pm containerd booth
3:00pm 3:30pm Hot Takes: Kubernetes Paintainers Bring the Heat Ian Coldwater, Docker; Marly Salazar, Integral Ad Science; Taylor Dolezal, Cloud Native Computing Foundation; Kat Cosgrove & Xander Grzywinski, Independent Level 1, Hall Entrance N10, Room H
4:00pm 4:30pm Navigating the Inevitable: Kubernetes Breaking Changes Behind the Scenes Marko Mudrinić, Kubermatic GmbH Level 1, Hall Entrance N10, Room H
5:30pm 6:00pm containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive Maksym Pavlenko, NVIDIA; Akihiro Suda, NTT; Laura Brehm, Docker; Samuel Karp, Google; Jiaxiao Zhou, Microsoft Platinum Suite, Level 3, Room 3-4

Friday, April 4, 2025

Start time End time Title Speaker Location
11:00am 11:30am Beyond Kubernetes: Adapting To Specialized Application Workloads Rags Srinivas, Independent; Dawn Chen, Google; Sachi Desai, Microsoft; Vara Bonthu, AWS; Erin Boyd, Nvidia Level 1, Hall Entrance N10, Room E
11:00am 11:30am Container Runtimes… on Lockdown: The Hidden Costs of Multi-tenant Workloads Lewis Denham-Parry, Edera & Caleb Woodbine, ii.nz Level 1, Hall Entrance S10, Room D
11:45am 12:15pm Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Updates John Belamaric, Google & Davanum Srinivas, AWS Level 3, ICC Capital Suite 10-12
1:45pm 2:15pm Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting Moderated by Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, The Linux Foundation Level 1, Hall Entrance N10, Room E
2:30pm 3:00pm Discover CNCF TAG Runtime: Advancing Cloud-Native Innovation from AI to Edge Ricardo Aravena, Snowflake; Stephen Rust, Akamai; Rajas Kokodkar, Broadcom; Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel; Danielle Tal, Microsoft Platinum Suite, Level 3, Room 1-2
3:15pm 3:45pm AI Beyond Autocomplete: Using LLMs To Create 1000 Kubernetes Controllers Justin Santa Barbara & Walter Fender, Google Level 0, ICC Capital Hall, Room I
3:15pm 3:45pm Using eBPF for Non-invasive, Performant, Instant Network Monitoring Mario Macías & Marc Tudurí, Grafana Level 0, ICC Auditorium
3:15pm 3:45pm Taming the Beast: Advanced Resource Management With Kubernetes Lucy Sweet, Uber & Dawn Chen, Google Level 1, Hall Entrance N10, Room F