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CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

9:00am MST

AppDeveloperCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Mark Fussell, Program Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G BackstageCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Program Co-Chair & Avantika Iyer Community Member Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Cilium + eBPF Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Bill Mulligan, Program Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Amber Graner, Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Cloud Native University | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Christophe Sauthier, Program Co-Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A Data on Kubernetes Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks: Kubernetes and DoK: The Next 10 Years - Melissa Logan & Adam Durr, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A EnvoyCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Matt Turner, Program Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Observability Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Anna Kapuscinska, Austin Parker & Eduardo Silva, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E OpenFeature Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Andrew Maclean, OpenFeature Community Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D Platform Engineering Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Paula Kennedy & Stacey Potter, Event Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G ArgoCon | Welcome + Project Update - Pratik Wadher, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

9:10am MST

Platform Working Group Update - Atulpriya Sharma with Abby Bangser & Colin Griffin, Platform Working Group Leads Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G Cloud-Native Curriculum for Diverse Student Cohorts - Zara Ahmad-Post, University of Arizona Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A Making Envoy Resilient to Sudden Increases in Load - Boteng Yao, Google Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Observability Projects Updates - Project Maintainers Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E How to Rollout an Update for a CNI Without Breaking the World Wide Web - Jen Luther Thomas, Tigera Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

9:45am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: How I've Become a Certified Argo Project Associate and How You Can Too! - Al-Hussein Hameed Jasim, Tetra Pak Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Insightful Traffic Monitoring: Harnessing Cilium for Comprehensive Network Observability - Sudheendra Murthy & Adithya Yavanamanda, eBay Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Attack, Defense & Danger in the Age of AI - Shane Lawrence, Shopify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A AI Assisted Hands-on Learning - the Future of Education - Michael Forrester, Kodekloud Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A Simplify Stream Data Processing with Declarative, Scalable K8s Native Technologies - Derek Wang & Vigith Maurice, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A Profiling Mastery: Decode Your Data and Elevate Observability - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

9:55am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Future is Backstage: Building a Better Platform from the Framework Up - Tom Barkan-Benkler, Spotify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Sponsored Keynote: Promoting Common Standards Without Sacrificing Tenant Autonomy - Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

10:00am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Where User Experience and Open Source Thrives - Christian Hernandez, Akuity & Jacob Feldman, CoreWeave Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

10:05am MST

Sponsored Keynote: AI-Enhanced Internal Developer Portals: The Future of Platform Engineering - Ben Wilcock, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Sponsored Keynote: Make Workloads, Not Infrastructure - Will Stewart, Northflank Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

10:10am MST

Sponsored Keynote: Argo is Winning Everywhere - Paul Stovell, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

10:15am MST

Sponsored Keynote: eBPF: Now Turing Complete! - Liz Rice, Isovalent, now part of Cisco Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Sponsored Keynote: Advancing Cloud Native AI Innovation Through Open Collaboration - Yuan Tang, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Sponsored Keynote: Collecting and Processing OTEL Data at Scale - Anurag Gupta, Chronosphere Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Sponsored Keynote: Containerization – It’s Not Just for CPUs Anymore: Introducing a Kubernetes-based Serverless Platform for AI Data Applications - Nathan Goulding, Vultr Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G ⚡ Lightning Talk: Intro to the CNCF App Development WG - Daniel Oh & Mauricio Salatino, WG Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

10:20am MST

Sponsored Keynote: How Intuit Uses Argo, GitOps, and AI to Boost Developer Velocity - Edward Lee, Intuit Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD

10:25am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Evolution of MLOps - Alex Yeh, GMI Cloud Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Sponsored Keynote: IBM Instana's Automated Resource Optimization Powered by IBM Turbonomic - Joe Sforza, IBM Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Sponsored Keynote: Application Networking is Broken - Platform Engineering to the Rescue! - Sanjeev Gupta, IBM Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

10:30am MST

Sponsored Keynote: The Twelve-Factor App, Rebooted: Essentials for Cloud Native Development - Vish Abrams, Heroku Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G

10:40am MST

eBPF for Creating Least Privileged Policies; What Do I Need to Know to Prepare for the Next CVEs? - Natalia Reka Ivanko & John Fastabend, Isovalent, now part of Cisco Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Making Students Industry Ready with CNCF Ecosystem as a Catalyst - Nancy Chauhan, CNCF Ambassadors Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A But Wait! There's...Still More‽ - Observability Data Volumes and Strategies for Managing Them - Éamon Ryan, Grafana Labs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

11:15am MST

Top 5 Success Factors for Cloud-Native Enablement and Common Pitfalls to Avoid - Kunal Kushwaha & Chad M. Crowell, Civo Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A Extending Envoy: A Guide to Custom Extensions with Envoy Gateway - Huabing Zhao, Tetrate & Guy Daich, SAP Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Panel: Kubernetes and GPU Trends for AI in Financial Services - Olyvia Rakshit, Avesha; Toshal Khawale, JP Morgan Chase; Bijit Ghosh, Deutsche Bank; Manoj Agrawal, Royal Bank of Canada Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

11:45am MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Adding MxN Streaming Support for Envoy External Processing Filter - Yanjun Xiang, Google Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

11:50am MST

Panel: Insights from Internal Developer Portal Rollouts in Large Enterprises - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Red Hat; Srinivas Peri, Adobe; Serena Chechile, JPMC; Jay Cox, American Airlines; Lilit Yenokyan, Roku Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Panel: Building the Future of Your Project: How to Engage Students Into Open Source - Zainab Husain, OCAD University; Calum Murray & Leo Li, University of Toronto; Corey Leong, Valencia College; Ali Ok, Red Hat... Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

11:55am MST

Kubernetes as Your DBA - Karen Jex, Crunchy Data Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

12:10pm MST

OpenFeature Summit | Closing Remarks - Andrew Maclean, OpenFeature Coummunity Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

12:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Deep Dive Into Envoy Metrics - Mark Campbell-Vincent, HashiCorp Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

12:20pm MST

Data on Kubernetes Day | Closing Remarks - Melissa Logan & Adam Durr, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

12:25pm MST

Cloud Native University | Closing Remarks - Christophe Sauthier, Program Co-Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A EnvoyCon | Closing Remarks - Alyssa Wilk, Google Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

12:45pm MST

Panel: Measuring the Impact of Platform Engineering - Mallory Haigh, Humanitec; Nathen Harvey, Google Cloud; Kirk Hoganson, BambooHR; Heather Joslyn, The New Stack; Guillaume Caya Letourneau, Workleap Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

12:55pm MST

Optimizing LLM Efficiency One Trace at a Time on Kubernetes - Aditya Soni, Forrester & Seema Saharan, Autodesk Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 B

1:25pm MST

Cloud Native StartupFest | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Kelsey Hightower, Program Co-Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A Istio Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Iris Ding & Keith Mattix, Event Co-Chairs Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Kubernetes on Edge Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Mars Toktonaliev, Program Chair Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A OpenTofu | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Sebastian Stadil, Program Chair Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

1:30pm MST

Your Cheat Code for API Authorization - Omri Gazitt, Aserto Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G The Lego Approach: Leveraging Reusability for a Seamless User Experience - Ashna Malhotra & Mesut Yilmazyildirim, Booking.com Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Dressing-up Your Cluster for AI in Minutes with a Portable Network CR - Sunyanan Choochotkaew & Tatsuhiro Chiba, IBM Research Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Where’s the Auto in Auto-Instrumentation? A Look at Current Automation Strategies with OTel - Joshua Lee, Altinity Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Crossing the Chasm: The Journey of The New York Times IDP from Conception to Early Majority - David Grizzanti, New York Times Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

1:35pm MST

Vanishing Point: Reimagining the Meaning of a Mesh - Mitch Connors, Microsoft & Justin Pettit, Google Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Keyboards, Kiosks, and Kubernetes. Oh My! - Andrew Gracey, SUSE Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

2:05pm MST

Boosting Training and Inference Performance via Topology-Aware Scheduling of Heterogeneous Resources - He Cao, ByteDance Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Measure What Matters - Jamie Danielson, Honeycomb Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

2:10pm MST

The Perfect Storm: Production Kubernetes Running on Ocean Vessels - Raghushankar Vatte, ZEDEDA Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A Mutually Assured Development - Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D Panel: The $100B Opportunity for the Cloud-Native Ecosystem: A VC Perspective - Wei Lien Dang, Unusual Ventures; Astasia Myers, Felicis Ventures; Natalie Vais, Spark Capital; Erik Nordlander, GV (Google Venture... Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

2:40pm MST

Sponsored Keynote: From “Edge-Compatible” to “Edge-Native” - Saad Malik, Spectro Cloud Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A ⚡ Lightning Talk: A Tale of Three Configs: On Best Practices with OpenTofu Structuring - Ronny Orot, env0 Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D Scale the Adoption and Delivery of Backend Plugins Using the New Backstage Framework - Avantika Iyer & Emma Indal, Spotify Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Unlocking Advanced Processing Capabilities with OpenTelemetry - Aunsh Chaudhari, Splunk & Anthony Mirabella, AWS Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Secure Your Systems the Better Way Using Policy-as-Code - Adriana Villela, Dynatrace & Marino Wijay, Kong Inc. Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

2:45pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Sail-Operator: Making Seamless Istio Upgrades Easy - Francisco Herrera Lira & Daniel Grimm, Red Hat Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

2:50pm MST

Sponsored Keynote: Accelerated Readiness with Global Compliance Patterns: The Winning Security Story - Keith Basil, SUSE Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

3:00pm MST

Sponsored Keynote: Scaling Kubernetes Deployment at the Edge with Argo and More - Colin Bowern, Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A

3:20pm MST

Whoops! How Not to Accidentally Delete Everything - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Decentralized Federated Machine Learning: Empowering Edge Devices with Kubernetes - Haardik Dharma, NYU & Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A The Road to Observability Everywhere at Monday.Com - David Gohberg, monday.com Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

3:55pm MST

Introducing Dagger Modules: Open Source CI/CD Building Blocks You Already Know How to Write - Jeremy Adams, Dagger Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G Ephemeral Environment Practices - the Good, Bad, and Ugly - Luke Philips & David Grizzanti, The New York Times Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD Backstage Adoption Deep Dive - Navigating the Pitfalls - Himanshu Mishra, Harness Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Migrating a Monolith to Kubernetes with Istio: Our Journey at Adobe - Edward Adasiak & Rahul Tripathi, Adobe Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Edge DC Energy Efficiency: A K8s Workload Allocation Optimizer with Generic Server Power Model - Ying-Feng Hsu, Osaka University Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A Distributed Tracing: All the Warning Signs Were Out There!!! - Vijay Samuel & Sandeep Raveesh, eBay Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E Panel: Ask the Devs! - Ronny Orot & Arel Rabinowitz, env0; Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift & Mey Beisaron, Forter & International Tech Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

4:55pm MST

Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be? - Emily Omier, Omier Consulting; William Morgan, Buoyant; Tyler Jewell, Lightbend; Mark Fussell, Diagrid & Avi Press... Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A

5:00pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: LLM-Driven Applications: Intro to LLM Agents in Kubernetes - Calum Murray, University of Toronto Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G ⚡ Lightning Talk: Global Tenant Management Using Argo - Alex Van Boxel, Collibra Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD ⚡ Lightning Talk: Ranking Argo CD Settings in a Tier List - Gerald Nunn, Red Hat Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B ⚡ Lightning Talk: How the Radius Dashboard Leverages Backstage to Build Visualizations of Cloud-Native Applications - Will Tsai & Ryan Nowak, Microsoft Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H ⚡ Lightning Talk: Making IoT Simple: Leveraging Akri & Nephio in a Hybrid Cloud Environment - Vitumbiko Mafeni, Internet Infra System Research Center - IISTRC Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A Panel: Platform Adoption Strategies: Critical Roles When Investing in Platforms - Danielle Cook, StackGen; Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat; Simon Forster, CNCF Ambassador Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G

5:15pm MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Searching for Serverless Candidates in the Jungle of Microservices - Yash Bhatnagar, Google Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G ⚡ Lightning Talk: Orchestrating Scalable DAGs on Argo Workflows Using Fabric8s - Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz & Shivay Lamba, Couchbase Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B ⚡ Lightning Talk: Countercultural: Backstage for Consultants - Lizzie Salita, Booz Allen Hamilton Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H ⚡ Lightning Talk: No-Code Migration of Workloads to Retail Edge for Lowest Costs and Best Performance - Olyvia Rakshit, Avesha & Ari Weil, Akamai Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A ⚡ Lightning Talk: Observability Migration Worst Case Scenarios - Bill Hineline, Chronosphere Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E

5:25pm MST

AppDeveloperCon | Closing Remarks - Evan Anderson, Program Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151 G ArgoCon | Closing Remarks - Christian Hernandez, Event Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B ArgoCon | Closing Remarks - Dan Garfield, Event Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD BackstageCon | Closing Remarks - Bryan Landes, Event Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H Cilium + eBPF Day | Closing Remarks - Bill Mulligan, Program Co-Chair Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Closing Remarks - Amber Graner, Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A Istio Day | Closing Remarks - Iris Ding & Keith Mattix, Program Co-Chairs Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C Kubernetes on Edge Day | Closing Remarks - Mars Toktonaliev, Program Chair Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 A Observability Day | Closing Remarks - Anna Kapuscinska, Austin Parker & Eduardo Silva, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E OpenTofu Day | Closing Remarks - Sebastian Stadil, Program Chair Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 D

5:30pm MST

Cloud Native StartupFest | Closing Remarks - Kelsey Hightower, Program Co-Chair Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom A Platform Engineering Day | Closing Remarks - Vijay Chintha & Paula Kennedy, Program Co-Chairs Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G