Introduction to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group

Presentation will go into the history of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group, future roadmap, why it benefits both the LF & CNCF ecosystems and their users, and contributions needed going forward.

Decoding the Future with the CNCF Deaf & Hard of Hearing WG

Not even a year old, the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group (WG) has already made significant strides. Join the group's Co-Chair, Rob Koch, and Facilitator, Catherine Paganini, to learn how the group came to be, what it has achieved, and the roadmap that lies ahead. The session will delve into why inclusivity and accessibility in the tech world are important and how we can (and should!) be more mindful of biases when developing applications and documentation. Attendees will walk away with concrete ideas and strategies to make products more accessible and learn how the "curb-cut effect" inadvertently benefits us all. They will also learn about the resources the WG developed to help educate the community and how *they* can use them to help push for change beyond the CNCF ecosystem.

Bringing Teams Together: Empowering AI with Kubernetes (and Vice Versa)

AI is at the forefront of the tech industry. It's a field that encapsulates so many techniques and technologies across the entire tech stack. From the compute, storage, security, and networking layers to the data, visualization and application layer.
As a platform for infrastructure automation, Kubernetes plays a vital role in the AI space. Many companies use it to power their AI applications.
Yet it might sometimes feel that there is a disconnect between those operating kubernetes and those building AI apps on top of it.
In this talk we will try to demystify key terms in both worlds. We are aiming to educate both audiences on the other side's jargon. Audience will come out of this talk with a good understanding of what the other side means when they talk about their layer.

AI and ML: Let’s Talk about the Boring (Yet Critical!) Operational Side

As AI and ML become increasingly prevalent, it’s worth looking harder at the operational side of running these applications. We need a lot of compute and access to GPU workloads. We also need to be reliable, while providing rock-solid separation between datasets and training processes. And we need great observability in case things go wrong and must be simple to operate.

Let's build our ML applications on top of a service mesh instead of spending resources reimplementing the wheel – or, worse, the flat tire.

Join us for a lively, informative, and entertaining look at how a service mesh can solve real-world issues with ML applications while making it simpler and faster to actually get things done in the world of ML. Rob Koch, Principal at Slalom Build, will demonstrate how you can use Linkerd together with multiple clusters to develop, debug, and deploy an ML application in Kubernetes (including IPv6 and GPUs), with special attention to multitenancy and scaling.

Accessibility at KubeCon: Deaf Voices in Cloud Native

Never met a deaf person at a conference? That is not surprising. While there are lots of deaf engineers, until recently, most conferences — and virtually any other community activity — haven't been accessible to deaf community members. But for KubeCon, that all changed exactly a year ago!
During this discussion, deaf panelists from various countries will shed light on their unique experiences being deaf in tech and the impact that making KubeCon accessible has had on their lives and hopes for the future. Attendees will learn why the technology space is a great fit for deaf individuals, the benefits and opportunities deaf professionals bring to the table, and what it takes to be an accessible and welcoming community. Panelists will also debunk common misconceptions and empower *you* to take steps toward a more inclusive cloud native ecosystem.

Event-Driven Development

Introduce the audience the concept of event-driven architecture as well as showing the audience how they may migrate their legacy architecture into a more reactive ecosystem. Expected to walk the audience through architectural gaps in current workflow and figure out ways to fix the gaps. The presentation will show Kafka/Event Grid as the glue between all disparate systems, plus identify how Kafka may enhance your ecosystem more than just filling in the gaps. This talk, modeled off a real-world situation, is expected to give the audience inspiration to take steps in filling out the gaps in their current architecture into a system that is much more extensible and pluggable allowing Agile development teams work with ever changing shifts in business priorities.

Databases aren't a good store these days

This session will introduce real-time streaming patterns by introducing the concepts of static databases; and make the conference-goer think and dream in streams.

Introducing event-driven architectural patterns

This session would help you understand what the rage is all about with event-based patterns and help transform your thinking to better integrate your systems.

partcipation & discussion is encouraged