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This session gives updates on the latest developments in Cilium and showcases how its eBPF-powered stack is transforming and simplifying networking and runtime security in Kubernetes environments and beyond. \r\n\r\nYou’ll hear from Cybozu about why they chose Cilium for efficient networking, L4 load balancing, and network policy, and learn how it supported their migration of services from VMs to Kubernetes on bare metal and enabled secure, scalable operation of their platform in production.\r\n\r\nYou’ll also hear about community activities around the Cilium project and learn how to get involved, as the project moves into its second decade!", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T11:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T12:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "e48a182b-1cac-4e51-93b5-5e82408a6116", "59aeaa80-6768-41a5-8592-73d41bc1347e" ], "categoryItems": [ 477406, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/xnagseg~s93rGzGentSMsb4ThoG51G.pdf~kcj-cilium-maintainers.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84337, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228165", "title": "Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD at Scale: 5 Features You Should Not Miss!", "description": "As organizations scale their GitOps adoption with Argo CD, new challenges begin to emerge, such as monorepos' slow down reconciliation, artifact updates don't always trigger deployments, and safe rollouts or deletions across clusters become harder to control. 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Performance, scalability, and lifecycle management are now critical concerns for platform teams running Argo CD in production.\r\n\r\nIn this talk, I'll explore five powerful features that were introduced in the Argo CD recent releases, such as shallow clone feature, OCI registry webhooks support, etc. Together, these improvements make Argo CD faster, more event-driven and safer for large-scale deployments If you're running Argo CD in production or planning to scale, these updates will significantly change how you think about GitOps operations.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T11:35:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T11:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "a9201ed5-4442-4d8f-8036-0d44d01ddce4" ], "categoryItems": [ 477405, 477407, 477409 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1228166", "title": "Project Lightning Talk: What’s New in k0s: Lightweight Kubernetes Without Compromise", "description": "k0s, the zero-friction Kubernetes distribution, has been steadily evolving bringing fresh capabilities and smarter defaults without bloating its minimal footprint.\r\n\r\nIn this lightning talk, I’ll highlight the latest updates in the k0s project with k0s release 1.35, including the enhanced Windows support, updates to the storage, recent improvements in HA setup, multi-node bootstrapping, air-gapped deployments, and cloud-native enhancements.\r\n\r\nWhether you're running edge clusters or want a developer-friendly K8s distro that “just works,” k0s is worth a fresh look. 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We will touch upon key initiatives in OTel including GenAI observability with standardized semantic conventions and instrumentation, high cardinality support with Arrow and dynamic configurations, profiling signal support and OTel Blueprints. Join in to learn about what’s in progress and what’s coming! ", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T11:49:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T11:54:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "90ae44f4-528a-4dd2-8fbd-d1f8d84eb8ed" ], "categoryItems": [ 477405, 494499, 477409 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1228168", "title": "Project Lightning Talk: CoHDI: Dynamic Hardware Composition for AI‑Era Kubernetes Workloads", "description": "Kubernetes has traditionally been optimized for deploying workloads on homogeneous servers in cloud environments. 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One runs 100+ multi-tenant clusters with its entire stack running on Kubernetes. The other provisions isolated clusters per customer across SaaS, BYOC, and self-managed deployments. Both replaced days of manual toil with automated pipelines.\r\n\r\nKubernetes was designed for a single cluster. But scale ceilings, blast radius, tenant isolation, compliance, and cloud migrations force real businesses into managing 100s of clusters. Most companies should not start here: this talk covers why. But some have no choice.\r\n\r\nAttendees will leave with:\r\n- A decision framework for when multi-cluster is necessary versus premature.\r\n- What forced scale-out and how it was solved at two companies.\r\n- A tested pattern for managing 100s of Kubernetes clusters using Cluster API.\r\n- When to build custom operators versus compose existing tools.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T12:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "9566ce0e-7307-4fd9-a90f-d63a1c50131c", "df79559f-2b00-4c7f-a13d-6b4a188ee5ad" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434787, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228171", "title": "Project Lightning Talk: Longhorn: What's New & What's Next for Cloud Native Persistent Storage", "description": "Longhorn equips clusters with lightweight, cloud native capabilities, including incremental snapshots, disaster recovery, and RWX support—free from vendor dependencies. In this session, Divya Mohan explores this year's project updates and provides structured insights into the roadmap. The session also aims to outline actionable paths for new contributors by highlighting contribution opportunities within the project.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T12:15:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "8767b3ed-3c56-49d4-a6a8-41fc9e58d189" ], "categoryItems": [ 477405, 477401, 477409 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1194287", "title": "Ground Control to Cloud Native: Safe Deployments for a Growing SAR Satellite Constellation", "description": "When your Kubernetes deployments must avoid interrupting a live satellite link 500km above Earth, standard rollout strategies fall short. 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Second, how Argo Rollouts enables progressive delivery gated by real-time satellite pass schedules (AOS/LOS windows) from ground station APIs, ensuring releases never interrupt active communications.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T12:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "9eccecab-988d-4661-b408-8bf93968258f", "6bd55236-363d-4ba8-84f4-4011279365fa" ], "categoryItems": [ 434777, 434782, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iomgahqe~S3xpm6Dx2VaPqebt7qeFwC.pdf~kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026_ground-control-to-cloud-native.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78022, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1145821", "title": "AIOps: (near) Zero-Touch Production Rollout Fixes", "description": "Despite our best efforts in testing software, software rollouts can still go wrong, and the process to roll back and find a fix can be painful and complex. Tools like Argo Rollouts provide a robust foundation to ease the pain, but with AI we can revolutionize the developer experience around it. This session shows how you can elevate your release process by:\r\n\r\n* Analyzing rollout failures using AI agents that connect to your cluster to gather logs and metrics.\r\n* Employing intelligent, cloud based coding agents that can make code corrections based on the failure analysis and create automated PRs and timely notifications.\r\n* Embracing Human-in-the-Loop oversight by allowing developers to review and course correct if needed.\r\n\r\nThis strategic combination of Cloud Native tools leads to significantly reduced Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR) and a more resilient, productive developer experience. 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This is especially true for on-premises Kubernetes as a Service, where unused node capacity affects hardware procurement, rack capacity, and long-term operations.\r\n\r\nThis talk shares how we built a custom controller to consolidate underutilized worker nodes safely across 1,300+ clusters and 40,000+ nodes. At this scale, underutilized nodes were no longer isolated inefficiencies but a meaningful capacity problem. We needed a more conservative model than a general-purpose autoscaler could provide, so the controller uses observed node usage, seven-day peak metrics, minimum replica guarantees, and machine-group-level safety checks before taking action.\r\n\r\nWe will also cover safeguards including graceful shutdown expectations, DaemonSet termination ordering, and node deletion behavior designed to minimize user impact.\r\n", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T12:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "59c789f5-643d-4551-81d0-a03f8bcc09a7" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434781, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ujbatve~wECiLyJbNqemMN3AuMqZk1.pdf~scaling-in-kubernetes-safely-on-on-prem-kaas-across-1300-clusters-and-40000-nodes.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84332, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1193392", "title": "kube-scheduler-evaluator: Evaluating Kubernetes Schedulers at Hyperscaler Scale in Seconds", "description": "As AI/ML workloads grow in importance on Kubernetes, evaluating schedulers at scale is critical yet costly. Running tens of thousands of real jobs across thousands of nodes is expensive, and training jobs can take days — making real-time evaluation impractical. 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Rook is an open source cloud-native storage operator for Kubernetes. Rook integrates Ceph, a famous open source distributed storage, with Kubernetes. This session will cover various scenarios to show how Rook configures Ceph to provide stable block, shared file system, and object storage for your production data. 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The lack of RDMA observability means performance bottlenecks go unnoticed and hardware remains underutilized, and node-exporter’s provision of only node-level RDMA metrics can not meet these demands.\r\n\r\nRecently, Spiderpool has unlocked full RDMA observability. Multiple RDMA devices via SR-IOV are assigned to each pod, each with its own fixed IP address. This enables each pod’s RDMA traffic to be visible even at the switch’s link level. Additionally, Spiderpool collects RDMA metrics for each pod and node, and provides multi-layer Grafana dashboards aggregating metrics at the node, AI job, and pod levels. Especially in multi-tenant AI inference clusters, this helps identify hot applications and detect communication bottlenecks. 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It is invoked by Kubernetes and containerd to create and manage isolated Linux processes based on OCI bundles.\r\n\r\nWhile established runtimes like runc and crun are widely adopted, youki continues to evolve through active development and contributions.\r\n\r\nIn this session, we will explore youki's architecture and its path toward the 1.0.0 release, with a primary focus on improving compatibility with runc as a key requirement for real-world adoption.\r\n\r\nBeyond this, we will highlight additional efforts, including integration with libkrun for VM-based container isolation and the implementation of seccomp support natively in Rust to remove the dependency on libseccomp. 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If you choose to interact with a booth or access sponsored content, you are explicitly consenting to receipt and use of such data by the third-party recipients, which will be subject to their own privacy policies.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T13:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T14:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 494087 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84339, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1193536", "title": "Towards Sustainable Multi-Cluster Management in Real-World Academic Infrastructure", "description": "Research labs face distinct challenges: heterogeneous hardware, stateful services, and student operators who learned Kubernetes on the job—accumulating legacy no one dares untangle.\r\n\r\nOur environment: four bare-metal clusters over 100GbE—a 2PB Rook-Ceph lake, a 22-GPU cluster (7 types incl. 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Second, Kyverno-enforced isolation: PSS Restricted, default-deny NetworkPolicies, namespace-scoped RBAC—containing blast radius during and after migration. \r\n\r\nAttendees gain failure lessons, migration trade-offs, and a PR-based workflow to reduce knowledge loss across operator transitions.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ca8c24f8-8c00-41c9-937f-f7132f33f5fc", "88423c33-38b2-4630-a7d2-609798aa5c9d" ], "categoryItems": [ 434777, 434787, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/imraqvex~3Pi8NnavbhnA5LdgZw7ZPx.pdf~kubecon_cloudnativecon_japan_2026_-_towards_multi-cluster_management.pdf" }, { "questionId": 131411, "answerValue": "https://github.com/SmartX-Team" } ], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1192211", "title": "Your First Kubernetes Contribution: A Hands-on Guide to Documentation Localization", "description": "Many developers want to contribute to Kubernetes but struggle to find a practical starting point. 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By the end, attendees will know how to start contributing and how localization supports broader participation in the cloud native community.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "40512a16-7228-490a-af9f-55f125bc7cc0", "513a5d73-bdd1-4b10-ab51-7bf70c9cf92e" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 434783, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/imyaskem~DeNq4Yj2ftkn76w1VRdj5K.pdf~kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-your-first-kubernetes-contribution-a-hands-on-guide-to-documentation-localization.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78022, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1193018", "title": "Detecting Compromised CI with eBPF and Cilium Tetragon", "description": "CI/CD pipelines are a prime target for attackers. Recent incidents, such as the Trivy workflow compromise, show how CI can be abused to execute untrusted code and exfiltrate sensitive data.\r\n\r\nTetragon, the eBPF-based runtime security component of the Cilium project, is widely used to protect Kubernetes workloads. This talk shows how it can also be applied to CI environments such as GitHub Actions to detect compromised jobs and prevent data exfiltration.\r\n\r\nAfter a brief introduction to how Tetragon leverages eBPF, this talk demonstrates its use in GitHub Actions, providing runtime signals that reveal malicious behavior. You’ll see concrete examples of policies that observe process and network activity to detect unexpected outbound connections and identify compromised jobs in real time.\r\n\r\nAttendees will learn practical techniques to use Tetragon to detect and prevent malicious behavior in ephemeral CI environments.\r\n", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "e48a182b-1cac-4e51-93b5-5e82408a6116" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434784, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iynatheq~YV6wjQ3YUbMPRgD6M8Kx7Q.pdf~kcj-tetragon-in-ci.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78023, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1144619", "title": "Sustainability by Design: Leveraging DRA for Energy-Efficient Kubernetes Clusters", "description": "Imagine a city where every machine automatically chooses the cleanest, most efficient energy source before starting work—so the whole system runs smarter and greener. Today, Kubernetes schedules workloads with little awareness of energy use. Workloads rarely see the energy characteristics of the hardware they run on, especially accelerators, and even when they do, it seldom maps to user-facing cost or SLOs.\r\n\r\nDynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) brings this vision closer to reality. Device providers can expose energy consumption and efficiency as attributes, letting Kubernetes prioritize energy-efficient devices. Tools like Kepler can use these metrics to estimate node energy use, powering carbon-aware multi-cluster scheduling and energy-driven autoscaling (e.g., KEDA).\r\n\r\nWe’ll explore the challenges of treating energy as a schedulable resource, demo a proof-of-concept for energy-aware device selection and power capping, and look ahead to ideas like scheduling on remaining energy capacity.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "1da05926-3d41-44a9-8f7f-b1da38011707", "9235a799-bc39-4014-9d4b-7f47c6b1aac5" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434782, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/hnaztep~SiAjhou5okN43Ztgm4baXb.pdf~sustainability_by_design.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84333, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228192", "title": "Kubeflow 2026 State of the Union: Orchestrating the Full ML Lifecycle", "description": "Kubeflow has grown into a comprehensive ecosystem that powers end-to-end machine learning on Kubernetes. \r\n\r\nIn this session, we provide a holistic \"\"State of the Union\"\" update across all major working groups. We will walk the audience through the lifecycle of a modern model, demonstrating how the unified SDK and Notebook Workspaces simplify authoring. \r\n\r\nWe will then trace how these workloads transition into scalable Kubeflow Pipelines, undergo distributed training and hyperparameter tuning via Trainer v2 and Katib, and are finally cataloged in the Model Registry before being deployed via KServe.\r\n\r\nWe will conclude by outlining the upcoming project roadmap and providing updates on how we can improve core Kubeflow components or build integration bridges to adjacent OSS AI projects.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "e07fcc70-d688-44b7-afb5-fc36dde5bbea", "8fe1f888-5c03-471e-9cc2-f843bfdc6aab", "92db3c1b-32c7-4c81-a214-b433604b7e44" ], "categoryItems": [ 477406, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84337, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1236996", "title": "Becoming an Impactful CNCF Member", "description": "This session is your guide to becoming an impactful and effective CNCF member. We’ll cover the tangible benefits and responsibilities of membership, including providing project support, contributing code, fostering diversity, and participating in governing bodies. We will debunk common misconceptions and provide a clear framework for how a company, large or small, can actively shape the future of cloud native technologies. You will walk away with actionable steps and a deeper appreciation for the collaborative \"movement\" that drives innovation at the CNCF.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ee53e4bd-00d0-46f2-af99-5c20b8251333", "c6998fa6-18cb-4ee7-a06b-ff4a3942b4b1" ], "categoryItems": [ 474452, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ixrarzen~QZdC7t4pQY57KZ8vys665Q.pdf~kubecon-japan-yokohama-becoming-and-impactful-cncf-member.pdf" } ], "roomId": 85135, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1154416", "title": "The State of Cloud Native: The Shift Towards AI", "description": "With Kubernetes established as the foundation of platform deployment, the cloud native ecosystem continued to evolve to meet the demands of the growing end user community. 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The attendees will learn how core principles, such as openness, vendor neutrality, interoperability, and an open community, are becoming the driving forces behind this next wave of transformation and the shift towards AI.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "3ae805bb-fdb1-498c-a702-f6cc31e93833" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 434787 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1183851", "title": "⚡Lightning Talk: How Writing a Cluster Inventory API Plugin Led Me to Maintainership", "description": "A spec without implementers is just a document. 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You'll also see how a project with no implementers can grow into an ecosystem when the community shows up.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T14:55:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "c5304567-5340-4908-b37d-a1dc3a33277d" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 478460, 478463, 495848 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/itvaixfe~XotTCZ9hCH4ifw6cymcFjK.pdf~how-writing-a-cluster-inventory-api-plugin-led-me-to-maintainership.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1193296", "title": "Running Wasm Inside Your Storage Cluster with CSI and Gateway API", "description": "The cloud-native world has long embraced separating compute from storage. But AI workloads are exposing a new bottleneck: the network itself.\r\n\r\nVendors respond by preprocessing data to cut bandwidth, or integrating RDMA and specialized hardware for faster transfers. The first still saturates the network during preprocessing. The second trades openness for hardware lock-in.\r\n\r\nWe took a third path: running user-defined WebAssembly code directly inside the storage cluster, as close to the NVMe devices as possible. Unlike SQL pushdown, computation is free-form. Unlike a compute cluster, data never leaves the storage nodes.\r\nWe will share how we used CSI and Gateway API on Kubernetes to expose this as a cloud-native, open-source capability.\r\nAlong with the dead ends we hit, the benchmarks we ran, and the security boundaries we have not yet crossed.\r\n\r\nThe project is open source. 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Yet most teams glue raw Kubernetes resources together with templates, scripts, and custom controllers, leaving developers to navigate\r\ncomplexity the platform should hide. \r\n\r\nThis session reframes platform building as a two-step process: define your abstractions as composable primitives and let Kubernetes handle the rest. \r\n\r\nUsing kro (Kube Resource Orchestrator), attendees will see how to author self-service APIs that compose any Kubernetes resources, with dependency ordering, dynamic wiring, and status rollup handled automatically. \r\n\r\nThey’ll learn to design API surfaces for platform consumers, when to choose graph-based composition over writing operators, and how to ship opinionated golden paths without losing flexibility. \r\n\r\nAttendees will leave with a practical mental model for platform abstractions that scales with their organization.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "86ea2837-7a77-4388-a67c-942ae81893ae", "a0a28030-5c8d-4f77-8e6d-17f7b9f345d4" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434781, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iuntalke~KHQiJCdp9aBdg6wPsXx8RE.pdf~evolving-platform-primitives-kubecon-japan-2026-to-submit.pdf" }, { "questionId": 131411, "answerValue": "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kro" }, { "questionId": 131413, "answerValue": "https://kro.run/" } ], "roomId": 84332, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194881", "title": "Manufacturing Alerts to ReActive Agents: Self-Evolving AI Agents on K8S for Predictive Maintenance", "description": "Most predictive maintenance systems send alerts based on thresholds – notify when a sensor reading crosses a limit, then leave root-cause analysis and decision making to engineers.\r\n\r\nThis session presents the architecture of a self-evolving AI Agent system designed for manufacture domain on a Kubernetes-based platform. Rather than building a single monolithic agent, the speaker shows three key design decisions: (1) a ReAct-based cognitive architecture with a modular skills engine, (2) a hierarchical multi-agent deep search architecture using a multi-perspective pattern with cross-reference synthesis, and (3) a self-evolving mechanism where the agent detect repeated interaction patterns via reflection and autonomously registers new skills.\r\n\r\nAttendees will leave with a concrete architecture for building AI Agent systems that run as cloud native microservices on Kubernetes – designed to be modular, observable, and extensible across any industrial domain.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "354c5b4f-2bc6-4cd6-afa7-8fe30ccda5e8" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84333, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228196", "title": "Open Source Meets Production MaaS: GMI Inference Engine and Karmada for Global AI Inference", "description": "Global AI inference across 40+ regions and 5+ GPU vendors needs more than GPU capacity. It also needs a practical way to govern clusters, distribute control-plane artifacts, and maintain consistent operations at scale. GMI Inference Engine is GMI Cloud’s Kubernetes-native inference platform, with intelligent routing, heterogeneous resource abstraction, GPU page fault, and entropy-aware placement. This talk shows how GMI uses Karmada, a CNCF-incubating project, to improve multi-cluster governance, CRD distribution, failover readiness, and platform delivery for global AI services.\r\n\r\nAgenda\r\n\r\n1. Business challenges in running global AI inference across regions and GPU vendors\r\n\r\n2. Where Karmada helps: multi-cluster governance, CRD distribution, failover, and consistency\r\n\r\n3. Where GMI Inference Engine helps: routing, GPU awareness, elasticity, and placement\r\n\r\n4. How open-source Karmada supports GMI’s production platform\r\n\r\n5. Lessons learned and collaboration opportunities for the community", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "b32d9496-c021-4594-9c3f-5d0d2d88ee2f" ], "categoryItems": [ 477406, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ijyakiw~Q5HBTdxzB2CbMy2MqiPbUQ.pptx~kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-branded-powerpoint.pptx" } ], "roomId": 84337, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1194135", "title": "⚡Lightning Talk: Learning Kubernetes From Logs: Building a Foundation for Future Troubleshooting", "description": "A Deployment creates a ReplicaSet, which creates Pods, and eventually, the kubelet and containerd execute them. While this Kubernetes lifecycle is fundamental, understanding the theory differs greatly from observing it in practice. Few have witnessed these component interactions firsthand.\r\n\r\nIn this session, attendees will explore the behavior of basic resources and controllers from a logging perspective. The presentation will trace these behaviors using logs—from audit logs and kube-controller-manager logs, down to containerd logs. By focusing on fundamental resources like Deployments and Services, observing them through logs will significantly deepen participants' understanding of how Kubernetes operates under the hood.\r\n\r\nDrawing on years of experience supporting Google Kubernetes Engine, the speaker will share foundational knowledge applicable to troubleshooting clusters on any provider. Attendees will leave knowing exactly where to start looking to prepare for their next incident.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T14:57:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T15:02:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "fac47e20-354c-426c-b224-117c05915bd2" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 478460, 478464, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/xsanvev~SZrYZFjFPhFiXPD992Srbj.pdf~learning-kubernetes-from-logs.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1187775", "title": "⚡Lightning Talk: 1 Year, 15 Certs, Zero Kubernetes at Work: How I Became a Golden Kubestronaut", "description": "The speaker never set out to collect certifications. He just thought Kubernetes looked cool.\r\n\r\nIt started with watching a colleague deploy workloads and seeing nodes scale up automatically — all visible in real time through k9s. That curiosity led to CKA — which took two attempts. But passing revealed how much the next exams overlapped, so he kept going and earned Kubestronaut. Then a new question: \"What about all the CNCF technologies I've never touched?\" A Raspberry Pi home lab turned unfamiliar tools into genuine interests — and before he knew it, all 15 certifications were done in 14 months, without ever using Kubernetes at work.\r\n\r\nThis lightning talk traces that unplanned chain reaction. Attendees will learn:\r\n\r\n1. All you need is curiosity — no production experience or employer support required\r\n2. One step leads to the next — each exam opens a door to the next; momentum builds naturally\r\n3. The hardest part is the first step — don't aim for 15; just try the one that interests you", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T15:04:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T15:09:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "68b4e5f7-f400-4372-9d38-caad6e38f383" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 478460, 478464, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/igmaclet~ExwDmdcp1q1HHQMw2myJAU.pdf~kubecon2026_lt_misaki.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1191137", "title": "⚡Lightning Talk: From First Contribution to Maintainer: An OSS Journey Inside youki", "description": "OSS contributions can reshape how you learn and join a community. But for many engineers, the path from newcomer to maintainer remains a black box. How do you choose your first issue, build trust, and earn a role?\r\nIn this session, two engineers share how they became Reviewer and Maintainer of youki, an OCI-compliant container runtime written in Rust.\r\n- Moving from consumer to creator: How creating issues, not just claiming them, turns one-off contributions into sustained involvement.\r\n- Getting PRs merged with fewer round trips: How to grasp the reviewer's perspective, split changes effectively, and reach merge faster.\r\n- Earning a role: How a clear vision for the project builds the trust that leads to Reviewer and Maintainer status.\r\n- Scaling your impact: How Umbrella Issues bring in new contributors and move the project further than any single person can.\r\nEverything here comes from real PRs and review threads inside youki. 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On the other hand, as the codes fetched or generated by agents can not be treated as trusted product and we should keep our confidential data and infra control plane untouchable by the agent directly.\r\n\r\nBased on existing (proved) Kubernetes infrastructure, we (kata container developers, ant open source team, and Japan AI team) build the sandbox services with agent-sandbox, Kata Containers, dragonfly, and pvm kernel virtualization driver, which make the service not only secure, but also secure enough.\r\n\r\nLive demo will be shown in this session.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "05433fa4-5ae1-424b-a513-28d3bb92ae63", "9ea84c8d-51b3-47c1-888d-82c0e8c9e5f5" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434787, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1282579", "title": "Sponsored Demo: Secure, Portable, Operable: A Strategy for Modern Services", "description": "This session shows a practical way to build and operate microservices with the Canonical ecosystem. We’ll cover orchestration, operators, and building small, secure Ubuntu-based container images. We’ll also show how we can reduce container image size and attack surface, and how the same tooling can be used across Kubernetes and virtual machines. The focus is on real application delivery: services that are easier to deploy, monitor, scale, and maintain.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T16:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "f6d7ded0-f964-4b41-a0c7-6e50b85b5d81" ], "categoryItems": [ 434777, 494087, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1182975", "title": "I Tested 7 So You Only Need 1: Your First Gateway API Migration in 5 Minutes", "description": "Your team just heard Ingress NGINX retired. Someone has to migrate to Gateway API, and that someone is you. Where do you start?\r\n\r\nThis session is for beginners who never touched Gateway API. This PoC tested 7 implementations across 17 scenarios and distilled the simplest path for your first migration.\r\n\r\nThe core is a live 5-minute challenge on a split screen. One side runs continuous curl against a working Ingress endpoint. Then the Ingress gets deleted and curl starts failing. Using ingress2gateway, the config is converted, Gateway API resources are deployed with the same IP, and the same curl recovers without changing the URL. The audience watches the full cycle: working, broken, recovered.\r\n\r\nStructure: what changed and why (5 min), core concepts and why this path from 7 tested implementations (5 min), live 5-minute migration challenge (10 min), next steps and the Gateway Readiness Score (5 min), Q&A (5 min). Attendees leave ready to try on their own cluster.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "8140cd23-3625-4d94-a0d0-0280f87e6b06" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 434783, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iokhadte~hBr3fSYZGaxdwqykAepm8i.pdf~kccnc-japan2026-i-tested-7-so-you-only-need-1-your-first-gateway-api-migration-in-5-minutes_hoon-jokuberneteslab.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78022, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194844", "title": "Taming Billions of Rows: Data Lifecycle Management Lessons from a Cloud-Native Database Migration", "description": "As systems scale, data rarely disappears - only accumulates. For large-scale platforms, this creates a hidden but critical problem: unbounded data growth becomes a primary driver of infrastructure cost and migration risk.\r\n\r\nAt Mercari, one of our core MySQL tables reached billions-scale records as the platform expanded. During our migration to a cloud-native distributed database (TiDB), we discovered that historical, inactive data - not live traffic - had become a significant factor influencing cost and migration complexity.\r\n\r\nThis talk presents a real-world case study of designing and executing a large-scale data lifecycle management strategy, focusing on reducing the impact of dormant records that no longer contribute to active user workflows, while preserving full user-facing functionality and data accessibility.\r\n\r\nThis session focuses on practical patterns for managing data growth in cloud-native environments and highlights why data lifecycle management must be part of any scalable platform strategy - not an afterthought.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "877fe3ab-2f21-4bfa-aaa4-891ac91b59e8" ], "categoryItems": [ 434777, 434780, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ilzakid~BWRqJYjw6dzFitebuUcw8Q.pdf~taming_billions_of_rows_ruslan_kadyrov.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78023, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1140658", "title": "Turning Platform Engineering Work into Business Value Leadership Understands", "description": "Platform engineering teams are building powerful cloud native capabilities: internal platforms, automation, self-service infrastructure, and better developer experiences. But many struggle to explain why this work deserves investment.\r\n\r\nThis session shares real-world examples of organizations evaluating cloud native tools and platforms and how they successfully connected technical platform improvements to measurable business impact.\r\n\r\nWe’ll show how teams translated developer productivity, operational efficiency, and platform maturity into language executives use for funding decisions. You’ll see the exact materials, metrics, and framing that helped teams secure buy-in for cloud native investments.\r\n\r\nWhether you’re building an internal platform or modernizing infrastructure, this talk provides practical guidance on how to position your work as a business enabler - not just a technical upgrade.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "c6998fa6-18cb-4ee7-a06b-ff4a3942b4b1", "7a446444-2be9-4303-a857-9b91f30f5a70" ], "categoryItems": [ 434777, 434787, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84332, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194119", "title": "From Experiment to Enterprise: Scaling an AI Agent for Code Review", "description": "At enterprise scale, rolling out internal AI Agents in production becomes a platform challenge that spans confidentiality, governance, review quality, and cost. This session examines how Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Engineering Enablement team took a code review AI Agent from early experimentation to production rollout across more than 400 internal PlayStation repositories.\r\n\r\nThe talk explores the architectural and operational tradeoffs behind introducing AI-assisted reviews on a shared enterprise platform while protecting confidential code, satisfying security and compliance requirements, and scaling Kubernetes workloads to meet demand. It covers rollout and governance patterns, quality evaluation, cost control, and the operational boundaries between human judgment and AI-generated feedback.\r\n\r\nAttendees will leave with practical patterns for introducing and operating AI-assisted development workflows on a shared enterprise platform.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "e90936f2-5efe-4137-bb1b-f94fb57af4ae" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/inovtaj~BKmmVoMHf2WVivs63ZM6Uj.pdf~from-experiment-to-enterprise-scaling-an-ai-agent-for-code-review.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84333, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228194", "title": "Identities and Authentication for your Agents with Keycloak", "description": "AI agents and agentic workflows revolutionize the way we build applications, and the market is expanding rapidly. One of the developing standards of this integration is MCP.\r\n\r\nThe more capabilities we provide to agents and the more we integrate them, the more emphasis is on accurate and effective authorization for their activities. \r\n\r\nKeycloak supports the authorization part of MCP. In this session, we will introduce the different versions of MCP, the capabilities of Keycloak, and show you how to configure Keycloak for using is as an authorization server for agents.\r\n\r\nWe also summarize other AI-related capabilities of Keylcoak like dynamic client registration, CIMD, and leveraging existing workload identities. Then we’ll look ahead at what AI features are on the roadmap of Keycloak in the coming months.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "5c928637-3e99-4d75-b662-0e52bf5806af", "68ac17bc-add8-49d2-9604-7150a99b52b4" ], "categoryItems": [ 477406, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iovmaste~BTNVTpsKLrNsF9Hb6NdD6S.pdf~2026-07-29-kubeconjp2026_yokohama_v1_0.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84337, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1266421", "title": "Maintainer Meet-Up", "description": "The Maintainer Meetup is for CNCF Maintainers to share best practices, dive into contributing processes, and solve common problems across projects.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 477405 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 85135, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1194974", "title": "Beyond the Code: Fostering Shared Vision and Technical Leadership in CNCF Communities", "description": "For active contributors in the cloud-native ecosystem, the greatest challenge is often not code, but transitioning to a broader perspective: how to leverage influence to guide a project toward a healthier, sustainable community. True open-source leadership is never about power grabbing or acquiring titles; it is rooted in facilitating consensus and building a shared vision across a diverse, multi-vendor ecosystem.\r\nIn this panel, CNCF technical and community leaders will combine their macro-level perspectives with hands-on governance experience to deconstruct how to naturally establish technical influence by fostering consensus.\r\n\r\nKey topics to be covered:\r\n- The Mindset Shift: Evolving from a tactical \"issue solver\" to a strategic community steward.\r\n- Shared Vision: Transcending corporate interests for genuine, vendor-neutral consensus.\r\n- Navigating Conflicts: Resolving technical disagreements to keep projects moving forward.\r\n- Sustainability: Empowering others and building healthy mentorship pipelines.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T16:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "1b814ba0-bc81-4245-880a-097b1e7e3b75", "f081c79e-a563-49e9-a25b-634058cc046e", "9235a799-bc39-4014-9d4b-7f47c6b1aac5", "f44f5308-1287-4e6c-8f48-6ed26ea9f9d3", "3ae805bb-fdb1-498c-a702-f6cc31e93833" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434787 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1282583", "title": "Sponsored Demo: MCP Auth Demo: CIMD with Keycloak", "description": "\"As AI integrations mature, authorization has become a key architectural concern. The latest MCP authorization specification (2025-11-25 ver.) redefines how client identity is handled in dynamic environments, and Keycloak now supports these requirements.\r\nThis session explains the core ideas behind the latest MCP authorization model and what it requires from an authorization server. It focuses on the use of Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD) as a method for client identification, highlighting how dynamically provided client metadata influences authorization decisions and operational responsibilities.\r\nThe session includes a live demonstration showing how Keycloak supports the latest MCP authorization model in practice. Attendees will see how Keycloak processes CIMD-based client information and enforces authorization decisions, illustrating how MCP authorization flows can be implemented using standard Keycloak capabilities.\"", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T16:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T16:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "67e5098b-3a40-4ea1-b549-c932680caec8" ], "categoryItems": [ 494087, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/gxanyej~GxpKv4X6V3d6BEk7wKPgeT.pdf~kurosaka_kubeconjapan2026_demosession.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1194636", "title": "From Tool Calls to Context Fabric: Building AI-Native Observability for Platform Engineering", "description": "When an engineer asks \"Why is this service failing?\", the answer is rarely in one place. Metrics live in Prometheus, logs in Loki, anomaly signals elsewhere, and operational knowledge in runbooks. Existing AI approaches—RAG, Text-to-PromQL, single-tool copilots—each work well in one domain but struggle to connect signals across them. We present an AI context fabric for platform observability that links services, metrics, logs, anomalies, and documentation ahead of time using knowledge graphs, metadata caches, and cross-domain relationship modeling, all exposed to agents via Model Context Protocol (MCP). Instead of forcing agents to piece together raw, fragmented data, the fabric hands them grounded, cross-domain context. Our architecture combines a schema cache for instant metadata discovery, a documentation knowledge graph with semantic edges, and a metrics catalog—unified through MCP. The result: faster root cause analysis, sharper reasoning, and significantly lower token cost.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T16:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "b2fbaaf0-c0ca-4037-a8aa-4f63e8a53295", "0446009f-4e8f-401e-8cb4-15d1c7d669e8" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434785, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ibonfag~H9x168ctY39op51cx7ZQX4.pdf~kubecon.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78022, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1192985", "title": "Changing the Engine Mid-Flight: Zero-Downtime Ceph Upgrades", "description": "\"Upgrade Ceph in our telco cloud with zero downtime.\" That is a mandatory requirement every 1–2 years to ensure security patches, bug fixes, and continued support from vendors and the community. We have a Ceph Cluster version 18.x.x with 10–50 nodes deployed on bare-metal running 5G Core workloads (AMF, UPF,...).\r\nThis talk covers a first-hand Reef → Squid upgrade with three real failure scenarios:\r\n- Monitor quorum loss: root cause analysis, recovery sequence, and how to prevent quorum degradation during daemon rolling restarts\r\n- OSD storms triggered by rebalancing that threatened cluster stability\r\n- Incompatible client versions silently blocking the upgrade path\r\n\r\nBeyond failure recovery, we'll share the upgrade sequencing strategy we developed — covering pre-flight checks, daemon upgrade ordering (MGR → MON → OSD → MDS/RGW).\r\nAttendees leave with a reusable pre-upgrade checklist and sequencing framework for bare-metal Ceph in high-stakes environments.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T16:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "fd4dc983-7f6d-4c4e-80ce-c794769388d6" ], "categoryItems": [ 434774, 434780, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ciftabve~TkFtUe7fbfjMviHhd9hhLL.pdf~ceph_upgrade-kubecon_cloudnativecon_japan_2026.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78023, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1193847", "title": "Vulnerability Response for Large Open Source Projects", "description": "Vulnerability management is an evolving topic that was hard pre-coding agents and can now become overwhelming for security and authentication teams. Add to that multi-version support, multi-tenancy and separate deployment waves and you have the recipe for an unmitigated headache.\r\nJoin Grafana’s journey in this topic as we deep dive into how we handled CVE-2023-3128 three years ago and how we handle vulnerability classification and patch distribution, from our cloud environment to millions of Grafana instances worldwide, today.\r\nYou’ll learn how to distinguish between a vulnerability and an intended feature, how to orchestrate the rollout of a vulnerability patch and how to remain transparent to your community of users without placing their deployments at risk. When maintainers face increasing pressure from a high volume of pull requests and AI-generated vulnerability reports, there is a critical need to refine and advance our security practices.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T16:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "2ad95493-4752-4792-9479-a82a7fd216bf", "7a462349-eaba-4460-8f12-fdc87babfa85" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434784, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/wzalbep~3nGzWxJDgYHZ6mmkb3aVXA.pdf~kubecon-japan-2026-vulnerability-response-for-large-open-source-projects.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84332, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194013", "title": "From Model Serving to Distributed Inference: How llm-d Evolves AI Platforms on Kubernetes", "description": "This session explores how platform teams can evolve from basic model serving to production-grade distributed inference on Kubernetes. KAITO streamlines model onboarding and lifecycle management with curated presets, GPU node auto-provisioning, autoscaling, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, and support for runtimes such as vLLM. llm-d extends this foundation with inference-aware scheduling, KV-cache-aware routing, cross-node cache coordination, prefill/decode disaggregation, and workload-aware autoscaling. Rather than treating deployment and inference routing as separate concerns, this talk presents a practical reference architecture that brings both together on Kubernetes. It also explains how Gateway API Inference Extension can serve as a common interface, including InferencePool, Endpoint Picker, and Body Based Routing, and when teams should move from basic serving to distributed inference.\r\n", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T16:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "29eabf0a-4372-4f76-b8b9-4deb70ff2a79", "6a572cda-08cd-485a-9351-ca428ee76c11" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ibujbam~WcHMv9fPaghzriNgGpSBmT.pdf~from-model-serving-to-distributed-inference.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84333, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228185", "title": "SIG Scheduling Update: Transition from Pod to Workload Scheduling", "description": "\"Over the past year, SIG Scheduling has been redefining how Kubernetes approaches scheduling—moving from a Pod-centric model toward a holistic, Workload-aware architecture. This shift influences not only the scheduler internals, but also many external components which interact or integrate with kube-scheduler over a new set of APIs.\r\n\r\nIn this session, we will walk through the major scheduling enhancements introduced in recent releases and explain how they fit into the broader Workload-Aware Scheduling initiative. We will also share updates from related sub-projects, including Kueue and the Descheduler.\r\n\r\nFinally, we will present what is on the agenda for the future releases, summarize community contributions and outline opportunities to help in shaping the future of Kubernetes scheduling.\"", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T16:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "5e6253a6-1d36-4eb2-b781-f351f7bbb7ce", "653d9ce8-74a5-4cec-b934-772be6476abb" ], "categoryItems": [ 477406, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/gowhag~XRuFvy2qREeAzV9iHG79Qs.pptx~sig-scheduling-update-transition-from-pod-to-workload-scheduling.pptx" } ], "roomId": 84337, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1273970", "title": "Women's Community Gathering", "description": "Women’s Gatherings enable meaningful networking, peer mentorship, collaboration, and sustained engagement. 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To lower that barrier, the Cloud Native Taiwan User Group created Infra Labs, a community-supported platform that provides free infrastructure resources for students, developers, and open source communities in Taiwan.\r\n\r\nThis talk shares two connected stories: how a local community built shared infrastructure to support learning and collaboration, and how ChengHao Yang used Infra Labs to start learning Kubernetes in 2023, wrote 30 articles, contributed to Kubespray in 2024, became a reviewer, and later became a Kubespray maintainer in 2025. The session shows how community-built infrastructure can reduce barriers, create opportunities, and help grow the next generation of open source contributors.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T17:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "3a9bc282-2b55-4c04-84d1-ca5f5ea8cb88", "255e41a5-af23-411b-b380-e37a59718f44" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 434787, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1192547", "title": "From 165 Days to 30 Minutes: Breaking Enterprise Silos with Platform Engineering", "description": "How can an enterprise developer start coding in 30 mins instead of 165 days? Platform Engineering is often idealized in greenfield environments, but large enterprises face a labyrinth of legacy processes. At JAL Digital, 4,000 engineers supporting 500 systems were bound by silos—requiring 15 departments and 40+ forms for environment setup, hitting a staggering 165-day lead time.\r\nWe share our journey of transforming this rigid organization through a true cultural shift focusing on three pillars: Mixed Teams to end \"us vs. them\" conflicts, Autonomy as Fuel by letting teams choose their own tech like Backstage to ignite passion, and Small Wins by targeting high-friction bottlenecks first to gain trust.\r\nWe will demonstrate an architecture that automates legacy approvals into a \"one-click\" experience. This story is for every engineer—especially the next generation—trapped in bureaucracy. Learn practical, human-centric steps to build a platform developers actually want to use.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T17:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "237975f5-e2e8-47be-913c-17eb249fa234", "ad633688-1e65-41a9-aaed-df0463132801", "ebb3f7c1-7c6b-421a-9256-a656ace743c9" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 434781, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/invactek~hsjh64ZyKmfvQMgJSWH3Jz.pdf~from-165-days-to-30-minutes-breaking-enterprise-silos-with-platform-engineering.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78022, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194581", "title": "A Practical, Research‑Backed Introduction to Cloud‑Native Kernel‑Bypass Networking", "description": "As cloud‑native systems scale, achieving predictable low-latency and high-throughput networking has become a key challenge. Overheads introduced by conventional networking stacks increasingly limit performance for latency‑sensitive workloads.\r\n\r\nThis session serves as an introductory guide to kernel‑bypass technology, providing a structured path for understanding the topic from fundamentals to emerging research. It begins with core concepts and explains why kernel bypass can deliver significant performance improvements. The talk then introduces advances in user‑space TCP/IP stacks, including the speaker’s own research, and discusses essential design choices, trade‑offs, and experimental results approaching near‑hardware‑level performance.\r\n\r\nFinally, the session connects these ideas to practice by outlining Kubernetes‑oriented deployment models and integration challenges, helping attendees understand current capabilities and future directions of high‑performance cloud‑native networking.", "startsAt": "2026-07-29T17:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-29T17:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "82d1a241-6981-4621-803c-e85b2157e8ed" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 434786, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ynavjeo~s7WjomeDp9fFk1dAA8smsG.pdf~kubecon_cloudnativecon_japan_2026-yasukata.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78023, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1151826", "title": "Lessons From Five+ Years of Fluent Bit: Building a Global-Scale Observability Agent", "description": "Fluent Bit is a vendor-neutral telemetry agent for processing logs, metrics, and traces in resource-constrained environments. Over five years, it has grown from a lightweight log forwarder into a core component of global observability pipelines.\r\n\r\nIn production, non-UTF-8 inputs (e.g., GBK, Shift-JIS) are now a baseline requirement, not an edge case. This session shares lessons from maintaining Fluent Bit as a CNCF project: multi-telemetry support, edge performance constraints, and character encoding ambiguity. 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We cover JVM heap sizing under write pressure, threadpool tuning for bulk ingestion and search isolation, shard sizing, rollover strategies, and capacity planning for uneven traffic — with the specific mitigations we applied after hitting queue saturation, GC pauses, and hot shards in production.\r\nWe also cover index lifecycle management, retention tradeoffs, and monitoring signals that matter when OpenSearch sits in your request path.\r\nYou'll leave with concrete operational guidance well beyond basic deployment patterns.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T11:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T12:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "0ef6be5e-a6f7-458b-a845-ab36cc3c861b" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434782, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84332, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1185705", "title": "Pluggable Interception: Using ExtAuthz and ExtProc in gRPC using xDS", "description": "This talk introduces service extentions added in gRPC: ExtAuthz and ExtProc. 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It allows for sophisticated payload transformation, PII masking and message level filtering.\r\n\r\nThis enables \"Security as a Service\" model by decoupling complex logic from application and centralising it into pluggable , xDS managed services.\r\n\r\nThis session is a technical roadmap for developers looking to inject custom security , logging and business logic directly into gRPC data plane.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T11:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T12:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ac0dbe93-f5c6-405c-8028-2299dbfad460" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434778, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iwzakpev~WntFCEYB3jGaSnur6gVya1.pdf~pluggableinterceptionkubeconjapanfinal.pptx.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84333, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1282807", "title": "The Ultimate Kubestronaut Trivia Challenge !", "description": "Are you ready to put your stellar Kubernetes expertise to the test? Welcome to the exclusive Kubestronaut Trivia Challenge at KubeCon Japan! This isn't just any quiz; it’s a high-energy, fast-paced technical showdown designed exclusively for Kubestronauts.\r\n\r\nExpect questions that will challenge your deep understanding of the CNCF ecosystem, community lore, and everything it takes to achieve the 5-certification status.\r\n\r\nIMPORTANT ACCESS REQUIREMENTS: \r\nThis session is strictly reserved for the Kubestronauts. To gain entry and participate, you must be wearing your official Kubestronaut Jacket or your Golden Kubestronaut Beanie. \r\n\r\nCome show off your knowledge, connect with your peers, and above all, have an amazing time together. Let’s celebrate the community, share some laughs, and see who takes home the ultimate bragging rights. 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This talk explores those findings, then provides listeners with a clear path to success through several emergent tools and guidance from the Linux Foundation ecosystem.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T12:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "c3f720fd-8aec-4f6e-9fef-1e3b036457af" ], "categoryItems": [ 434777, 434784, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ikxaxned~YQcyAwNnQ1ZQpUiSgduk2D.pdf~scalable-security-and-compliance-in-the-age-of-ai-eddie-knight.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1191835", "title": "From Statsd to OpenTelemetry: Atlassian's Metrics Platform Migration at Scale", "description": "OpenTelemetry has become the industry standard for Observability: a single, vendor-neutral framework for metrics, traces and logs backed by CNCF. But adopting it is a different story when you already have a legacy but stable\r\nobservability platform that \"works\" from collection to pipeline processing to storage.\r\n\r\nAt Atlassian, the Observability team ran statsd as a bespoke metrics pipeline for years: high-performance statsd servers collecting and aggregating metrics from around 100k hosts across 14 regions. It served the team well but the cracks were showing: UDP-only ingestion, no support for traces or logs and standards increasingly out of step with where the ecosystem was heading.\r\n\r\nThis talk walks through why the team migrated to an OpenTelemetry Collector-based pipeline and landed everything in their metrics backend without downtime or data loss. It covers how they executed at scale and the strategy for full OTLP-native adoption and what it unlocks for unified Observability.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T12:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "e0302cb5-19f4-4dc0-bae8-c395f1982579", "0595591a-4f1d-4c9f-8853-b929cc5565fb" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434785, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/fuxla~RbEMSZTsipM5QyygCebkNp.pdf~from-statsd-to-opentelemetry-real.pdf" }, { "questionId": 131411, "answerValue": "https://github.com/atlassian-labs/atlassian-aggregation-processor" } ], "roomId": 78022, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228191", "title": "From User to Contributor: A Quick Guide to kubectl & kustomize", "description": "Have you ever wondered how kubectl and kustomize enhancements are designed and built? Curious why your favorite feature request wasn't accepted? \r\n\r\nIn this session, the SIG CLI maintainers will first provide an introduction to developing kubectl and kustomize commands. We will discuss conventions and patterns focused on usability, consistency, and testability. We will then dive into kubectl and kustomize command internals by walking through existing command structure. We will cover effective use of client-go (the library that powers communication with the Kubernetes API server) and other essential libraries for building versatile commands. We'll also share tips on how to best engage with the SIG CLI community, where to ask questions, and how to turn a one-time contribution into an ongoing role in the project.\r\nLeave this session ready to open your first pull request and become an active part of the Kubernetes community.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T12:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "c469f53f-9a09-4d40-9f55-941a2c6d1876", "6d808fb9-6635-49ee-aca2-7e57b02752ee" ], "categoryItems": [ 477406, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/gkabkeu~7DSsDfsXvJnS8vbDvBvau9.pdf~kubecon-japan-2026-sig-cli.pptx.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78023, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1192623", "title": "Score-Driven Multi-Cluster Management: An Evaluation Framework for Decision-Making", "description": "As large AI platforms scale across multiple clusters, static placement policies are reaching their limits. Decisions must reflect live conditions such as GPU utilization, power efficiency, and other operational metrics rather than fixed rules alone.\r\n\r\nIn this talk, we introduce the Dynamic Scoring Framework, a new Add-on for Open Cluster Management that brings real-time telemetry into multi-cluster placement and policy decisions. Lightweight agents collect metrics from sources such as Prometheus, evaluate them through modular scoring APIs, and feed results into the central hub. This hybrid design balances distributed scoring and centralized control for scalable, flexible decision-making.\r\n\r\nThrough an architecture deep dive and a demo of resource optimization with the framework, we show how score-based decisions improve resource efficiency in AI infrastructure. Attendees will learn score-based management patterns and how to apply them beyond AI workloads.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T12:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "5fc2dece-db4d-495c-ba96-52201b70d874", "fc739e18-77d8-40ea-b12f-ac03a3f3a39c" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434782, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/rcahxer~s1U4HgPPWZuxje7dkz887N.pdf~kubecon_yokohama_dsf.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84332, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194563", "title": "Breaking the Single-Network Barrier: A Cross-Domain Look at Kubernetes Multi-Networking", "description": "Kubernetes multi-network support has been a long-standing challenge, the journey toward native multi-network capabilities has been complex and slow. But why? This panel brings together experts from diverse domains to discuss scenarios such as high-performance networking with advanced capabilities like RDMA for AI/ML, telco, and cloud gaming, network isolation for security, compliance, and multi-tenancy, VM connectivity and connectivity to on-premises infrastructure such as datacenter VLANs or EVPN fabrics. Together, they will examine the architectural challenges of integrating multiple networks into Kubernetes, recent upstream developments such as the DRA feature, and how communities such as SIG Network and WG Device Management are driving progress across the ecosystem. Join this interactive session to learn where multi-network support stands today, where it's heading, and to engage directly with upstream contributors and maintainers to share questions and real-world use cases.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T12:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ce041b8f-3c8d-4c79-a99a-625c8e124f68", "1da05926-3d41-44a9-8f7f-b1da38011707", "7c786c7e-7286-4b53-b593-da1b018f3304", "75af455a-623a-4f36-8b6d-c3f4ae4dae6d", "400f198d-0118-43f8-84ab-e8294277551d" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434778, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84333, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194148", "title": "Designing a Hybrid AI Platform on Kubernetes", "description": "As generative AI and LLM adoption accelerates, cloud-based platforms face challenges including ongoing RAG costs, increased data transfer overhead, and security concerns around sensitive data. While shifting workloads on-premises is considered, this introduces new complexities such as GPU selection, OSS integration, and application and model lifecycle management.\r\nTo address these challenges, we designed a hybrid AI platform leveraging edge GPUs.\r\nIn this session, we present an implementation built on edge GPU servers running k3s, with Rancher for cluster and GPU workload management. We deployed dify on-premises as the AI development platform and built a hybrid AI Agent architecture combining local RAG with on-premises and cloud LLMs. Starting from natural language queries, the Agent interprets intent and interacts with business APIs when needed to generate responses. We share the overall architecture and key insights from development.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T12:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T12:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "02dfc23a-dd0d-41e3-9712-6ea29117dd32" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/gbatjek~BnaStQK66LuxSiDj6uMhQJ.pdf~designing-a-hybrid-ai-platform-on-kubernetes.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84337, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1221375", "title": "Lunch 🍲", "description": null, "startsAt": "2026-07-30T12:40:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T14:10:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": true, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 474450 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84339, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1276322", "title": "Project Pavilion | Thursday PM Project Tables", "description": "Thursday PM Project Tables | 13:30 - 15:50\r\n\r\nT-1\tKairos\r\nT-2\tHeadlamp\r\nT-3\tKeycloak\r\nT-4\tCommunity-Led Events + TCGs\r\nT-5\tkubeflow\r\nT-8\tOpenEverest\r\nT-7 youki", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T13:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 477405 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 86741, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1182713", "title": "Shared GPU Scheduling & Proactive Autoscaling: A Production Blueprint for 1000+ GPUs", "description": "SNOW Corp. operates 1,000+ A100 GPUs serving 200 million users across three top-ranked GenAI applications (Snow, Epik, B612), handling 1,200+ AI workflows subject to extreme traffic volatility from viral AI trends.\r\n\r\nThe core bottleneck was Kubernetes' native GPU scheduling, which treats GPUs as atomic resources — forcing a 2x over-provisioning penalty on Train-to-Inference pipelines with no reliable visibility into actual GPU saturation.\r\n\r\nThis talk covers integrating HAMi for vGPU virtualization and extending KEDA with a custom Consumer Saturation metric for proactive autoscaling, hiding warm-up latency by scaling before traffic arrives.\r\n\r\nWe’ll detail the implementation: scheduler config, Prometheus metrics, and multi-region scaling via Helm GitOps. Results: >50% GPU waste cut and 91% faster recovery during surges. You’ll get a production blueprint for efficient, shared GPU platforms.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "17ca55f8-f2e1-4f24-bffb-68a29db90df9", "5eef9c05-d59d-4964-9c2c-1da9bec726f8" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1193404", "title": "Runtime Security at Scale with eBPF: Hybrid Detection and Root Cause Analysis in CloudNative Systems", "description": "Modern Kubernetes workloads make it increasingly difficult to understand what is really happening at runtime. Traditional observability tools often miss critical low-level behaviours, especially across process execution.\r\nIn this talk, we present a kernel-level observability approach powered by Sauron eBPF that captures high-fidelity runtime signals directly from the Linux kernel. By tracking process lifecycle events, the system builds a unified, real-time view of workload behaviour.\r\nOn top of this telemetry, we introduce a Graph-AI analytics layer: data feed an AI engine that learns semantically meaningful node embeddings and models the process tree as a temporal graph. This allows the system to capture both node-level behaviour and inter-node temporal relationships, enabling the detection of anomalies that traditional approaches typically miss.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "ef9629e3-de74-4fbc-9ee5-f0d0a751780d", "814d3f03-df05-4a63-9849-3adb48f02159" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434784 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194062", "title": "Designing for High-cardinality Metrics", "description": "Large applications will overload your monitoring system. In Kubernetes, every pod created has the side effect of adding new series to your metrics. Even a simple rollout and rollback triples your cardinality!\r\n\r\nWhile Prometheus and OTel have solutions like recording rules, stream aggregation, and sharding, all of them come with tradeoffs.\r\n\r\nAt Reddit, we found these options insufficient until we decided to look at the problem from a different angle. We designed a stateless algorithm for collecting metrics, that doesn’t sacrifice accuracy or performance, and doesn’t spike cardinality as pods come and go. In production, it cut compute costs by 90%.\r\n\r\nThis talk is an intuitive and visual look at the algorithm, the challenges and experiments. You’ll learn about why it works where current options don’t, and will leave with a solid grasp of how to implement it in any time-series database.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "6d8cdf31-322e-4521-8b7a-125aaebd172e", "1195623d-c43b-4845-a671-8a6521169191" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434785, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 78022, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228193", "title": "Behind the CNCF IAM Whitepaper: AuthN & AuthZ in Cloud Native Systems", "description": "In March 2026, CNCF TAG Security and Compliance published the CNCF Identity and Access Management (IAM) Whitepaper, providing practical guidance on how authentication and authorization should be designed and implemented in cloud native systems.\r\n\r\nPresented by the authors of the whitepaper, this session explains the intent, scope, and architectural decisions behind the document. Rather than introducing IAM products or implementation details, the talk focuses on how the TAG structured authentication and authorization requirements into two reusable reference patterns, Basic and Advanced, and how each pattern defines its trust boundaries and enforcement responsibilities.\r\n\r\nBy sharing the reasoning behind these design choices, this session aims to help architects and developers apply the IAM Whitepaper as a shared architectural baseline when designing, reviewing, and evolving authentication and authorization mechanisms in cloud native systems.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "019f136c-483a-43d0-a034-003a2f5a1928", "e3f27567-a355-416a-865b-cbe93fea60f8" ], "categoryItems": [ 477406, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/hnabced~fprUKajGCStLzGQ74fFtPt.pdf~behind-the-cncf-iam-whitepaper_-authn-authz-in-cloud-native-systems-8.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78023, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1156110", "title": "The Evolution of GitOps in Platform Engineering", "description": "GitOps in 2017 as a simple model for application delivery, built around four core principles. Today, it has evolved into a central part of platform engineering, where teams operate large numbers of clusters and shared platform services.\r\n\r\nThis talk shows how GitOps has evolved over time, why early approaches break at scale, and how everything-as-code enabled automation while also creating configuration sprawl. Tools like Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize made scaling possible, but often hide the real state of a system.\r\n\r\nWe will look at the limits of Git as a state store and why file-based, pull-driven reconciliation does not scale well. This led to OCI-based delivery, Gitless GitOps, and new approaches that aim to provide a real, operable state store.\r\n\r\nPlatform teams need visibility, regulation like the Cyber Resilience Act requires a clear infrastructure supply chain, and AI-driven operations depend on access to the final, real manifests.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "0dd79b23-c53c-48ec-832a-508d1deb155e" ], "categoryItems": [ 434775, 434781, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ipsajor~NF9K1CSu1bUX2WVR3rbLoT.pdf~the-evolution-of-gitops-in-platform-engineering-artem-lajko.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84332, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1192943", "title": "Beyond Wasm: How Dynamic Modules Let You Extend Envoy Proxy in Go, Rust, or Any Language", "description": "Envoy powers Istio, Cilium Proxy, Envoy Gateway, and thousands of production deployments. But extending it is hard today. C++ filters mean maintaining a fork. WASM delivered sandbox overhead, limited extension points, and a stalling ecosystem.\r\n\r\nWe built Dynamic Modules to fix this and are now using it at Databricks and Netflix. They let you write Envoy extensions as shared libraries in Go, Rust, or any language with a C ABI. Near-native performance, no sandbox, no rebuild. Both companies are replacing C++ forks and Wasm with native Rust, cutting tail latency and memory use while shipping features faster.\r\n\r\nAs Envoy maintainers and co-authors, we cover how Go/Rust SDKs work across 12+ extension points including network filters, LB policies, and custom clusters. We'll have a live demo of a Rust TLS Transport Socket enabling kernel TLS (kTLS) which is impossible today with BoringSSL and what this means for Istio, Cilium, and Envoy Gateway users who need extensibility without C++ or WASM.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "6ddf7b4d-d365-4fe9-956f-aa66e1681707", "ca33ca73-512f-414a-9efc-30e57cd3deeb" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434778, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/itcahteb~WNbhKPtYVxou3zesqZE2qP.pptx~beyond-wasm_-extend-envoy-proxy-in-go-rust-or-any-language.pptx" } ], "roomId": 84333, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194934", "title": "Conformance for Inference: How We Reduced Bad Deploys on a GPU Platform", "description": "Inference on GPUs fails in repetitive ways: wrong image or artifact, mismatched CUDA or runtime, undersized GPU memory, bad resource requests, or a model that passes offline checks but regresses under real traffic. On a shared k8s GPU platform, those mistakes become multi-tenant incidents - noisy neighbors, OOMKills, SLO breaches, and rollbacks that waste accelerator time.\r\n\r\nThis talk describes how one team built conformance for inference workloads, checks applied before production traffic, covering container and model artifacts, GPU capacity and visibility contracts, health and readiness semantics, and minimum observability (metrics/traces where used). \r\n\r\nAttendees leave with a practical checklist they can reuse: \r\n- How to separate “builds” from “serving” conformance, \r\n- How to catch regressions early, and \r\n- How to align GPU scheduling and quotas with inference SLOs.\r\n\r\nWe will share what worked, what did not, what teams pushed back on, and a short checklist for platform and app owners.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T14:40:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "44ed8424-f4ec-4436-8689-075798521bc5", "afddaf93-f1f3-4f1e-8afc-4fe2f077a22e" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84337, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1273972", "title": "Peer Group Mentoring", "description": "Peer Group Mentoring allows participants to meet with experienced open source veterans across many CNCF projects. Mentees are paired with 2 – 8 other people in a pod-like setting to explore technical, community, career, and certification questions together.\r\n\r\nIf you're interested in attending as a Mentee, seats are first come first served.\r\nIf you're interested in being a Mentor, please sign up by July 10.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Japan26Mentor", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:10:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 474452 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 86635, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": false, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1193361", "title": "Shared Yet Isolated at Scale: Building Multi-Tenant Inference Platform on Kubernetes", "description": "As AI Agent adoption grows, so does LLM usage and the cost of running it. A self-hosted LLM inference platform is one approach enterprises are exploring to regain control over costs, security, and governance. But it comes with a real challenge: teams have different use cases, access patterns, and security requirements. Some only need an API endpoint, while others need full administrative control. Traditional namespace isolation falls short of meeting both. At the same time, high GPU utilization is critical to keeping cost per token low. Shared yet isolated, at scale - how do you resolve that contradiction?\r\nIn this talk, we share practical insights from building an LLM inference platform on Kubernetes - covering tenant isolation, dynamic and granular GPU allocation, and the trade-offs in between. We'll show how we resolved that contradiction, with practical patterns.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "19a36609-9871-4479-979c-dfa66187443b", "5e89f25c-00b7-4642-8ec8-a7a4f6acc4de" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iqyabcew~9jMfdtEo9q6dvVzTEtsu7L.pdf~kubeconyokohama2026_sharedyetisolatedatscale.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194977", "title": "Sealed for All: Multi-Party Confidential Computing, No Trust", "description": "As cross-organizational data collaboration becomes central to modern computing, protecting sensitive data and proprietary code during joint processing is a growing challenge. Confidential Computing (CC), based on hardware-enforced Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), enables data to be processed securely without being exposed. This session introduces \"Multi-Party Confidential Computing (MPCC),\" a concept where multiple data providers and application owners contribute their assets to a shared computation while keeping both data and applications confidential from one another. Rather than relying on access control or mutual trust, this model uses TEEs and file encryption to enforce runtime isolation between parties. The speakers will show how key mechanisms — attestation coordination across multiple TEEs, auditability after execution, and isolation from the underlying cloud — can be realized with open source technologies including Kata Containers and Confidential Containers. ", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "0358a997-a853-4814-8cab-c9da0c306525", "2bf80c4b-65da-4140-9b3c-c9c72b9afec1" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434784, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ibxatio~RvKhfNAzndLVMUPARjWvM5.pdf~sealed_for_all-multi-party_confidential_computing-no_trust_v18_distrib.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194861", "title": "Repurposing OpenTelemetry Traces as Test Data: Breaking the Cost Barrier in System Migration", "description": "Proving a new system matches the old one is the hardest part of legacy migration. Writing equivalence tests from scratch is slow and expensive.\r\n\r\nThe fix is to repurpose what the live system already emits: capture request/response pairs as OTel trace spans and treat them as ground truth for testing the replacement.\r\n\r\nA PoC on a Java-to-Go migration confirmed this works. Four CRUD endpoints were instrumented; the spans drove E2E tests covering all four.\r\n\r\nOTel's standard conventions don't capture HTTP response bodies, so observability traces aren't automatically useful for testing. Custom attributes are required.\r\n\r\nThe PoC also tested OBI (opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation), which traces without code changes. Basic coverage works. But adding custom attributes via eBPF is impractical, so OBI alone isn't enough for test-quality traces.\r\n\r\nYou'll leave knowing when OTel traces are sufficient for migration testing, when they're not, and whether OBI closes the gap.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "548932f7-7c0b-4dde-909b-3d87cb9414e9" ], "categoryItems": [ 434777, 434785, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/nlatrec~KMxurHkf8vMu5GQYSVpF48.pdf~repurposing-opentelemetry-traces-as-test-data_-breaking-the-cost-barrier-in-system-migration.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78022, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228186", "title": "WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next?", "description": "This session explores recent developments in the Kubernetes ecosystem designed to meet the growing demand for AI training and inference workloads. \r\n\r\nFirst, we survey the landscape of ecosystem projects, highlighting recent enhancements to the core Kubernetes Job API - the foundational building block for these initiatives - alongside the latest updates to JobSet.\r\n\r\nSecond, we demonstrate Kueue’s capabilities as a robust AI/ML platform, showcasing how features like Multi-Cluster dispatching, Fair Sharing, and Topology-Aware Scheduling maximize hardware utilization across tenants. \r\n\r\nFinally, we detail our collaboration with SIG Scheduling on \"Workload-Aware Scheduling,\" which aims to deeply integrate batch semantics into the core scheduler.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "69a16440-baad-4c14-b2cb-571dc00c2d33", "653d9ce8-74a5-4cec-b934-772be6476abb" ], "categoryItems": [ 477406, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iffadked~HSxouJDyzB1JzV1QqfTD3e.pdf~kubecon-japan-2026-wg-batch.pptx.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78023, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194625", "title": "Maximizing Launch Reliability: Controlled Lift-off for Reliable Application Startup on Kubernetes", "description": "Launch reliability is critical for applications on Kubernetes that restart frequently. Cold starts from cache initialization and JIT compilation can degrade performance and trigger startup failures, causing serious downtime during rollouts and reducing the effectiveness of horizontal pod autoscaling.\r\n\r\nThe recent Kubernetes feature In-place Pod Resize enables CPU bursting to improve launch reliability through infrastructure-level scaling. However, it does not address application-layer unreadiness and may introduce risks such as noisy neighbor issues or unexpected runtime behavior.\r\n\r\nIn this session, he will explore recent trends and practices for improving launch reliability and examine real-world In-place Pod Resize. Furthermore, he will propose a strategy using a purpose-built open source controller designed to mitigate these risks and ensure comprehensive readiness. You will leave this session with actionable insights to achieve reliable, production-grade launches on Kubernetes.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "7f7ccff7-6257-48a1-a0de-52cfc35d5b19" ], "categoryItems": [ 434774, 434782, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iqjagnen~MjtBLVhfuaQD27j5vgRANZ.pdf~maximizing-launch-reliability-controlled-lift-off-for-reliable-application-startup-on-kubernetes.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84332, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1193722", "title": "What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) ? : Green Tech and the Modernization of the Grid", "description": "Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) are reshaping the energy grid by turning thousands of distributed IoT devices—solar systems, batteries, EV chargers—into one coordinated, cloud-native asset. At Enpal, we operate one of Europe’s largest residential solar fleets and are building a next-generation VPP platform to orchestrate it.\r\n\r\nThis talk explores what it really means to build a power plant in software—and why developing for IoT looks nothing like typical cloud app development.\r\n\r\nYou’ll learn:\r\n\r\n1. How the electrical grid works (with examples!)\r\n\r\n2. How a Virtual Power Plant works—from household solar to market bidding\r\n\r\n3. How Enpal’s IoT and cloud systems coordinate to optimize energy use and revenue in real time\r\n\r\n4. What design patterns (Kubernetes, KubeEdge, Dapr, event streaming) make it possible to treat 100,000+ homes like a distributed cluster\r\n\r\n5. How VPPs make money—through flexibility markets, load shifting, and price arbitrage", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "1ad32dc6-adb2-436d-8944-968f177f15db" ], "categoryItems": [ 434777, 434788, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/xxagver~EB5zPDr7bYMf27TvfjL8u9.pdf~20260724_japan-keynote_v001.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84333, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194784", "title": "Who's Using That GPU? Identity-Aware Access Control for Kubernetes GPU Workloads", "description": "Who requested that GPU, why do they have it, and when will they give it back? In most clusters running DRA, nobody knows. Any user with basic RBAC can claim a GPU with no identity verification, no justification, and no expiry.\r\nThis talk fixes that. The speaker demos an open-source validating admission webhook that intercepts DRA ResourceClaim creation and enforces identity-aware policy: human authentication via Dex, group-based device class authorization, mandatory justification, team budget enforcement, and time-based constraints. SPIRE issues workload SVIDs to create a cryptographic identity chain from human to GPU device. A TTL controller automatically reclaims GPUs when sessions expire.\r\nThe live demo walks through five denial scenarios and a full approval-to-cleanup lifecycle using only CNCF-aligned tooling. Attendees leave with a deployable architecture and open-source repo.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T14:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "9f2aeabc-b39f-4b9a-b756-6d3ef0b5e1ca", "8b4fad4b-e6a6-4574-adfa-5a0666393e9a" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84337, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1221377", "title": "Coffee Break ☕", "description": null, "startsAt": "2026-07-30T15:20:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T15:50:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": true, "speakers": [], "categoryItems": [ 474450 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84339, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1192171", "title": "The Great Doubt: What Building an AI Agent Taught Us About Trust", "description": "When we started building an AI assistant for observability, we thought the hard part would be making it smart. We were wrong. The hard part was knowing when to trust it.\r\n\r\nAI agents hallucinate, forget context, and confidently give wrong answers. Traditional testing doesn't catch these failures. What's needed is evaluation grounded in systematic doubt.\r\n\r\nThis talk shares lessons from shipping an AI agent to production: how to build a golden dataset of use cases you must get right, how to use LLM-as-judge when there's no ground truth, and how to use OpenTelemetry traces to debug eval failures. You'll also hear what's still unsolved: evaluating multi-agent handoffs and closing the feedback loop between what users ask and what your evals cover.\r\n\r\nKyoto School philosopher Nishitani Keiji called this \"The Great Doubt\" (大疑): questioning every assumption until only what survives is real. For AI agents, that's not philosophy. It's the job.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "6d2e4808-6de1-4c66-9d6e-19079bf64f61" ], "categoryItems": [ 434777, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/yzacse~p6oXTjxTGjWZ3Y56zQkLrp.pdf~the-great-doubt-what-building-an-ai-agent-taught-us-about-trust_2026-07-28_22-44.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194921", "title": "Container Forensics for Kubernetes: Building an Evidence Pipeline with Open Source Tools", "description": "Your container just got compromised. But Kubernetes is ephemeral by design: the pod restarts in 30 seconds, and when it does, the memory, processes, and ephemeral filesystem are gone. How do you investigate something that no longer exists?\r\n\r\nThe cloud native ecosystem has gotten good at prevention and detection, but once an alert fires, actually figuring out what happened is still a gap.\r\n\r\nThis session walks through a forensics pipeline we built from open source tools, with a live demo of a simulated attack. Falco detects suspicious activity, Falco Talon automatically captures syscalls and network traffic, and we analyze the evidence in StratoShark, a Wireshark-style tool for system calls. We'll also show how the Kubernetes Checkpoint API can freeze container runtime state for offline inspection.\r\n\r\nAttendees will walk away knowing how to set up automated evidence capture with Falco Talon, analyze captures in StratoShark, and trigger forensic checkpoints in their clusters.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "3cdaa303-fd04-4b49-be1e-2ce7935138c1", "91810abf-245b-4698-9523-21a5f2474183" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434784, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/gqardef~Tb1BXveAgfz8H5RcJ46sUf.pdf~kubecon-japan-2026.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194684", "title": "OTel meets Wasm: Rethinking OpenTelemetry Collector Extensibility", "description": "OpenTelemetry Collector is a flexible, vendor-neutral telemetry pipeline, but extensibility is still more operationally expensive than it should be. The contrib distribution offers many community components, yet some teams cannot adopt the full binary as-is because they require tighter control over included functionality and security posture. Building a smaller collector with only the necessary components is possible, but in practice, it often means maintaining a custom build pipeline just to support relatively small extensions. This talk explores an alternative model for dynamically customizing the OpenTelemetry Collector with WebAssembly. Instead of rebuilding and redistributing the entire collector binary for each change, custom receiver, processor, and exporter logic can be introduced in a more decoupled way. The session examines what this model enables, where it fits, where it falls short, and what trade-offs emerge around safety, portability, performance, and operations.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "db463392-02f0-475f-98b8-dbda9a619ca2", "c4dbdad2-1099-41e0-ae32-6bbb879240bb" ], "categoryItems": [ 434774, 434785, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ccabgepu~GUgJkyvfVxn31PsaHGcJyd.pdf~otel-meets-wasm-rethinking-opentelemetry-collector-extensibility.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78022, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1228184", "title": "SIG API Machinery in the era of AI: updates", "description": "Will speak about SIG API Machinery advancements in 1.36 and 1.37, and how AI / ML is influencing the future and the roadmap of our SIG and the Kubernetes Control Plane.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "000d7bae-e300-4760-967b-0b9c253cf066" ], "categoryItems": [ 477406, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/jjaudse~UTLuaYKBRus2xYDz4eMEEW.pdf~sig-api-machinery-in-the-era-of-ai-kubecon-japan-2026.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78023, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": false }, { "id": "1194745", "title": "Is Your Kubernetes Disaster Recovery Actually Ready?", "description": "68% of organizations experienced data loss from disasters last year, costing an average of $4.5 million per incident. Yet a 2026 DR survey found that questions about Kubernetes DR received almost no responses, suggesting most teams do not know how container workloads are covered in recovery planning. In this session, the speaker takes an honest look at where Kubernetes DR stands today. \r\nThe talk walks through tools like Velero, Longhorn, and storage-level replication options, then covers architecture patterns from active-passive to GitOps-based recovery. But the core of this session is what remains broken: no atomic multi-PV snapshot for databases, no native cross-cluster failover, no standard for application-unit DR, and almost nobody tests DR end to end. \r\nThe session ends with open questions: Are we treating backup as DR? Who actually owns Kubernetes DR? Should there be a CNCF working group for DR standards? Attendees leave with a clearer picture of their own gaps.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "886ef1e9-cb8b-45ac-aafd-4be179cf87d4", "68cdaa2a-6879-4cce-bb00-b2b4ed495d75" ], "categoryItems": [ 434774, 434782, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84332, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1190934", "title": "CoHDI: A CNCF Sandbox Project for Dynamic Hardware Composability in Kubernetes", "description": "The CoHDI (Composable Hardware in Disaggregated Infrastructure) project enables the dynamic attachment and detachment of hardware resources, such as GPUs, in Kubernetes-based cloud native environments. Recently accepted as a CNCF Sandbox project, CoHDI marks an important step toward flexible and efficient infrastructure orchestration. This session introduces the paradigm established by CoHDI and its core value, including improved resource utilization and cross-vendor interoperability. It outlines CoHDI's internal architecture, focusing on three components: the Composable DRA Driver, Dynamic Device Scaler, and Composable Resource Operator. The talk explains Kubernetes integration and how CoHDI connects multi-vendor composable infrastructure into containerized platforms. Through real-world use cases such as on-demand GPU scaling, dynamic device reuse, and resource sharing in multi-tenant environments, it shows how CoHDI improves operational efficiency and concludes with future direction.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "3b662814-531d-4607-9f7b-f407064456ab", "4109df3f-74da-460b-87c0-170d82b18896", "5034505e-b3fa-4b2a-9195-28d1b4896a3b", "0d9ad513-f1d0-4ef3-b86a-83830fd16213", "e3b13f56-523c-4c25-82e5-4bbd11536ba8" ], "categoryItems": [ 434774, 434786, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/iioblau~EAtcDiqwZn8ydySC1SprPt.pdf~kubecon2026cohdi.pdf" } ], "roomId": 84333, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1177775", "title": "Architecting Secure Agentic Workflows on Kubernetes: A Financial Sector Case Study", "description": "As organizations move beyond basic LLM integrations toward autonomous agentic workflows, the infrastructure required to support these systems grows increasingly complex. Running multi-agent architectures in production introduces unique challenges around tool discovery, secure access, and traffic routing.\r\n\r\nThis session explores how to leverage Kubernetes and cloud-native abstractions to develop, test, and deploy AI agents at scale. Using a reference architecture leveraging the Kagenti project, we will demonstrate how to construct a secure, scalable agentic environment. The talk covers unifying tool access via an MCP Gateway, enforcing zero-trust workload identity with SPIFFE/SPIRE, and standardizing inter-agent communication.\r\n\r\nTo illustrate these concepts, we will walk through a real-world financial use case: an autonomous agent that securely accesses market data and executes simulated transactions using financial tools over MCP, demonstrating end-to-end cloud-native deployment.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T15:50:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T16:20:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "0ed2ceb9-abe1-4de0-ba1d-64da3a79ad5f", "72e83064-d18e-4278-9bc6-2a3e43549995" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434779 ], "questionAnswers": [], "roomId": 84337, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194393", "title": "Topology-Aware Scheduling for AI Training & Inference with Kueue", "description": "Kueue, the Kubernetes-native workload orchestrator, helps run AI workloads at scale with multi-tenant quota management and advanced scheduling. \r\n\r\nIn this session, we show through a case study at the Meta Superintelligence Lab how Kueue provided the right quota and scheduling layer for large-scale AI training and inference across complex, heterogeneous GPU topologies, enabling a shift from an in-house platform to an open-source stack on Kubernetes.\r\n\r\nWe then dive into Kueue’s multi-layer Topology-Aware Scheduling (TAS) for modern clusters with hierarchical network fabrics. We cover the main concepts and algorithms behind Hierarchical TAS, and show why multi-layer TAS was critical for this transition.\r\n\r\nWe close with other cutting-edge Kueue capabilities, including Workload-Aware Scheduler integration, elastic workloads, and multi-cluster job scheduling with MultiKueue.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T16:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T17:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "69a16440-baad-4c14-b2cb-571dc00c2d33", "eb468ed1-b4d0-4d76-9ed4-f0b202635065" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434779, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/ccacpetga~3kdpYuNWjFoLTykJKnFqMv.pdf~kubecon-japan-2026-tas-in-kueue.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78020, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1194198", "title": "AuthZEN in Practice: Standardizing Authorization for Cloud Native Platforms and Agents", "description": "As AI agents gain broader access to APIs and infrastructure, \"authorization\" is becoming central to both security and governance. Agentic AI systems highlight fine grained, real time authorization challenges that are shared more broadly by cloud native platforms.\r\nAuthorization has long been fragmented by vendor specific designs and implementation dependent interfaces. In January 2026, the OpenID Foundation finalized the AuthZEN Authorization API 1.0, defining a standard interface for authorization interactions. This specification has attracted strong interest, and multiple projects are now working toward supporting AuthZEN, including Keycloak, an open source IAM project.\r\nIn this session, Yoshiyuki Tabata introduces the core concepts of AuthZEN and presents an end to end demo using Keycloak. The demo walks through token issuance, authorization evaluation, and policy decision enforcement, using a simple agent driven scenario to show how AuthZEN can be applied in cloud native ecosystems.", "startsAt": "2026-07-30T16:30:00", "endsAt": "2026-07-30T17:00:00", "isServiceSession": false, "isPlenumSession": false, "speakers": [ "019f136c-483a-43d0-a034-003a2f5a1928" ], "categoryItems": [ 434776, 434784, 495847 ], "questionAnswers": [ { "questionId": 131049, "answerValue": "https://sessionize.com/download/xjappek~Gz4w41Fj4MoVcSAx9Zk2FT.pdf~authzen-in-practice-standardizing-authorization-for-cloud-native-platforms-and-agents.pdf" } ], "roomId": 78021, "liveUrl": null, "recordingUrl": null, "status": "Accepted", "isInformed": true, "isConfirmed": true }, { "id": "1189149", "title": "One Binary, Two Ecosystems: Embedding Prometheus Exporters with OCB", "description": "Prometheus exporters are typically consumed as scrape targets. But what changes when they can be embedded directly into custom OpenTelemetry Collector distributions built with the OpenTelemetry Collector Builder (OCB)? \r\n\r\nThis session explores how that shift creates a new operational model for observability teams, platform engineers, and users who rely on Prometheus exporters today. 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