I’ll be speaking at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon NA 2026 in Salt Lake City next week, talking about containerd again! I like tpo post the talks that are most interesting to me (and some of my booth schedule) in case anyone wants to find me and join me. If you do, please reach out and let me know.

Like always, this can easily change at the event. So if you don’t see me at any given talk, you can find me at another one or find me online.

Sunday, November 8, 2026 (maintainer summit)

Start time End time Title Speaker Location
10:15am 10:50am Reviewing AI-Generated PRs When Every Bug Is a CVE: Envoy’s Playbook Rohit Agrawal, Databricks & Kateryna Nezdolii, Isovalent Salt Palace, Level 2, 250 A-C
11:00am 11:35am Handling Vulnerability Reports in the Age of AI-Generated Submissions Joel Smith, Red Hat & Mo Khan, Microsoft Salt Palace, Level 2, 250 A-C
1:35pm 2:10pm Steering the Ship: Ask the Kubernetes Steering Committee Kat Cosgrove, VillageSQL; Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns; Paco Xu, DaoCloud; Rita Zhang, CoreWeave; Priyanka Saggu, SUSE Salt Palace, Level 2, 250 A-C
2:20pm 4:35pm Unconference
5:30pm 6:30pm Reception

Monday, November 9, 2026 (day 0 events)

I may or may not actually go to anything on Day 0.

Start time End time Title Speaker Location
1:30pm 1:55pm MINT: A Fresh Take on Early Vulnerability Triage Jessy Ayala, UC Irvine Salt Palace, Level 2, 255 BC
5:30pm 6:30pm Reception

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Start time End time Title Speaker Location
11:30am 12:00pm Steering the Ship: Ask the Kubernetes Steering Committee Kat Cosgrove, VillageSQL; Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns; Paco Xu, DaoCloud; Michael McCune, Red Hat Salt Palace, Level 2, 251 A-C
11:30am 12:00pm Mythos vs Maintainers: Drowning in the Vulnerability Tsunami Fabian Kammel, ControlPlane & John Kjell, Docker Hyatt Regency, Level 2, Salt Lake Ballroom DE
12:20pm 12:50pm LTS, EOL, CVEs: Solutions for Stress-Inducing Scenarios Bridget Kromhout & Lachlan Evenson, Microsoft Salt Palace, Level 2, 255 BC
12:20pm 12:50pm The Latest in GPU, TPU, NIC and Other Device Support - WG Device Management John Belamaric & Morten Torkildsen, Google Salt Palace, Level 2, 250 D-F
12:20pm 12:50pm CRI-O: Plug It, Tune It, Share It — Extending and Accelerating Your Runtime Sohan Kunkerkar & Ayato Tokubi, Red Hat Salt Palace, Level 2, 251 A-C
2:50pm 3:20pm How Kubernetes Handles AI Generated Security Reports Vyom Yadav, Canonical & Nathan Herz, NVIDIA Salt Palace, Level 2, 250 D-F
3:30pm 5:30pm Google booth Solutions Showcase
6:00pm 7:30pm KubeCrawl Solutions Showcase

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Start time End time Title Speaker Location
10:15am 11:00am containerd booth Solutions Showcase
11:50am 12:20pm SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive Sergey Kanzhelev, Google; Mrunal Patel, Red Hat; Dawn Chen, Google; Peter Hunt, Red Hat; Tim Allclair, Google Salt Palace, Level 2, 251 D-F
11:50am 12:20pm How Anthropic Almost Melted GKE (And the PRs That Saved It) Maciek Różacki, Google & Jian Cheung, Anthropic Salt Palace, Level 1, Grand Ballroom H
2:00pm 4:00pm OCI in-person meeting Hyatt Regency, Level 5, Canyonlands
2:20pm 2:50pm When GPUs Become NUMA Nodes: Challenges Running Kubernetes with Memory-Coherent Hardware Kevin Klues & Balbir Singh, NVIDIA Salt Palace, Level 1, Room 151
4:10pm 4:40pm Goodbye Webhooks, Hello CEL: Using Native Validating and Mutating Admission Policies in Kubernetes Greg Bray, Google Cloud Salt Palace, Level 2, 255 EF
4:10pm 4:40pm Governing and Scaling Agents in Heterogeneous Environments Antonio Ojea, Google & Tomás Tormo, Nearform Hyatt Regency, Level 2, Salt Lake Ballroom C
4:10pm 4:40pm Scaling AI Model Distribution with Dragonfly: From HuggingFace to Production GPU Clusters Pavan Madduri, W.W. Grainger & Wenbo Qi, Ant Group Salt Palace, Level 2, 251 D-F
5:00pm 5:30pm Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Updates John Belamaric & Jordan Liggitt, Google Salt Palace, Level 2, 250 A-C

Thursday, November 12, 2026

Start time End time Title Speaker Location
11:00am 11:30am containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive Wei Fu, Microsoft & Samuel Karp, Google Salt Palace, Level 2, 251 A-C
1:50pm 2:20pm Anthropic’s Kubernetes Scheduler for Frontier AI: What Worked, What Broke Decheng Dai, Anthropic Salt Palace, Level 1, Grand Ballroom ACE
2:40pm 3:10pm Securing the Agentic Future: Distributing LLM Weights and Sandboxed AI Agents via Harbor Chenyu Zhang, Ant Group & Yan Wang, Broadcom Salt Palace, Level 2, 255 BC