AI
Project Lightning Talk: Next-Gen AI Orchestration With Volcano On Kubernetes - Zhonghu Xu, Principal Engineer
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Topic
Networking
Moving packets between services and to users — CDN, DNS, ingress, VPC design, eBPF, and modern proxy architectures.
- CDN
- DNS
- load balancing
- edge computing
- ingress controllers
- network policies
- VPC design
- transit gateway
- private link
- SD-WAN
- network automation
- BGP
- network troubleshooting
- network performance
- eBPF networking
- Envoy
- NGINX
- API networking
- gRPC
- WebSocket infrastructure
41
Talks
1
Conferences
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
41 talksThe Shell Awakens: Cloud Native Workflows for Particle Physicists
containers and orchestrationnetworkingobservability
From NLB Sprawl To Mesh Efficiency: How Skyscanner Handles 60M Requests Per Minute With Istio - John Clark, Skyscanner & Steven Thwaites, Solo.io
containers and orchestrationnetworkingobservability
Sponsored Keynote: From Pilot to Production: Scaling and Optimizing Agentic Workloads on Kubernetes - Idit Levine, Founder & CEO, Solo.io & Keith Babo, Chief Product Officer, Solo.io
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Evolution or Revolution: Istio as the Network Platform for Cloud Native
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Keynote: Building Autonomous Networks for the AI Era - Gergely Csatari, Senior Open Source Specialist, DMTS, Nokia
containers and orchestrationnetworkinginfrastructure as code
When DNS Blinks: Scaling and Hardening CoreDNS in Critical Cloud Infrastructure - Yong Tang, Ivanti & John Belamaric, Google
networkingcontainers and orchestration
Not Yet Another Envoy Implementation - Exploring Kgateway To Write Your Own GatewayAPI Backend - Ricardo Katz, Red Hat
networkingcontainers and orchestration
Beyond the Edge: Cloud Native Application Management Under Extreme Network Conditions - Tobias Nöthlich & Maximilian Nitsch, D3TN GmbH
networkingcloud architecturecontainers and orchestration
📚 Tutorial: DRA-matically Simple: On-Demand GPUs for MLOps - Doug Smith & Miguel Duarte Barroso, Red Hat
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Project Lightning Talk: Get To Where You're Going With Kgateway - David Jumani, Maintainer
networkingcontainers and orchestration
SIG Network: The State of Networking for AI on Kubernetes - David Martin, Red Hat; Haiyan Meng & Bowei Du & Kellen Swain, Google; Nadia Pinaeva, NVIDIA
networkingcontainers and orchestration
10 Years of Cilium: Connecting, Securing, and Simplifying the Cloud Native Stack - Bill Mulligan & Paul Arah, Isovalent at Cisco; Marcelo Mello, Celonis; Neha Aggarwal, Microsoft
networkingcontainers and orchestrationobservability
Envoy in the Era of Agentic Workloads - Yan Avlasov, Google & Erica Hughberg, Tetrate
containers and orchestrationnetworkingcloud architecture
Project Lightning Talk: Translating Ebpf Into Business Value: Lessons From The Cilium Website - Bill Mulligan, Maintainer
networkingcontainers and orchestration
Keynote: From Inference to Agents: Where Open Source AI Is Headed - Jonathan Bryce, CNCF; Brian Stevens, Red Hat; Mark Collier, PyTorch Foundation; Lin Sun, Solo.io
containers and orchestrationcloud architecturenetworking
Agentic Networking: Securing AI Agents on Kubernetes - Haiyan Meng, Google & Evaline Ju, IBM
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Emissary-ingress: Version 4 and What Comes Next - Flynn, Buoyant
containers and orchestrationnetworking
The Latest in GPU, TPU, NIC and Other Device Support - WG Device Management - John Belamaric, Google & Patrick Ohly, Intel
containers and orchestrationnetworking
From Static Tokens to Attestation: The Evolution of Secure Node Joining - Ciprian Hacman & Jack Francis, Microsoft; Michael McCune & Josephine Pfeiffer, Red Hat; Justin Santa Barbara, Google
containers and orchestrationnetworking
What's New in gRPC - Kevin Nilson & John Feig, Google
networkingobservabilitycloud architecture
An Immersive and Visual Journey Into Kubernetes Networking - Benoit Entzmann, Feesh
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Gateway API: Bridging the Gap from Ingress to the Future - Nick Young & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco; Katarzyna Łach & Rostislav Bobrovsky, Google; Norwin Schnyder, Airlock
networkingcontainers and orchestration
Why Is It So Hard to Run a 5G Core on Kubernetes—And What Needs to Change for 6G - Joel Studler, Swisscom & Ashan Senevirathne, Telstra
containers and orchestrationnetworkingcloud architecture
Demystifying the Kubernetes Network Stack (From Pod to Pod) - Simone Rodigari, Microsoft
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Project Lightning Talk: Envoy Today: What's New In Managing Cloud-Native And AI Workload Traffic? - Karol Szwaj, Maintainer
containers and orchestrationnetworkingcloud architecture
Sponsored Keynote: Universal Mesh: Connect and Secure Everything - Baptiste Assmann, Director of Product, HAProxy Technologies
networkingcontainers and orchestrationcloud architecture
Linkerd: Reliable Production in an AI/MCP World - William Morgan, Buoyant
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Project Lightning Talk: Optimize Sidecarless Service Mesh With A Brand-New Rust-Based Proxy - Zengzeng Yao, Maintainer
containers and orchestrationnetworking
From Chaos to Control: A Prescription for Managing Apps on Private Cellular Networks - Luis Ariza, Beanters
containers and orchestrationnetworkingcloud architecture
Smart Routing at Scale: How Spotify's XDS Control Plane Cut 75% of Cross-Zone Traffic - Yannick Epstein & Anya Hristova, Spotify
networkingcontainers and orchestrationfinops and cost optimization
Building the Next Generation of Multi-Cluster with Gateway API - Mike Morris, Microsoft & Alan Grosskurth, Google
containers and orchestrationnetworking
From "It Works!" to "It's Secure!": Hardening Your First Kubernetes Cluster - Paul Zerdilas-Herrera, Nutanix & Leon Schulze, Palo Alto Networks
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Project Lightning Talk: K3s Lightning Update - Manuel Buil, Maintainer
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Project Lightning Talk: MCP Routing In Linkerd - Flynn, Technical Evangelist
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Keynote: The Future of Cloud Native Is… Agentic - Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io
containers and orchestrationcloud architecturenetworking
Multi-Network Step-by-Step: Enabling SR-IOV Support From Kubernetes Network (DRA) Drivers - Masaharu Kanda, NTT, Inc. & Lionel Jouin, Red Hat
networkingcontainers and orchestration
Kubernetes Network Driver Unpacked: Modularity, Trade-offs and the Road Ahead - Lionel Jouin & Sebastian Scheinkman, Red Hat; Antonio Ojea, Google; Sunyanan Choochotkaew, IBM
networkingcontainers and orchestration
Kube-Oddities - The Quirks That Keep Kubernetes Interesting - Marcus Noble, Monzo & Márk Sági-Kazár, Independent
containers and orchestrationnetworking
Intelligent Routing for Optimized Inference - Antonio Berben, Solo.io & Felipe Vicens, Telefonica
networkingcontainers and orchestrationcloud architecture
Dragonfly V2.4.0 - Intro, Updates, Data Distribution in AI Infrastructure - Wenbo Qi & Chenyu Zhang, Ant Group
containers and orchestrationnetworkingdatabase and storage