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Tuesday, June 10
 

09:00 HKT

Keynote: Introductory Remarks - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:00 - 09:10 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
Speakers
avatar for Jim Zemlin

Jim Zemlin

Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing and open source software. Today, as executive director of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate the adoption of Linux and support the... Read More →
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:00 - 09:10 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions

09:12 HKT

Keynote: Community Opening Remarks - Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:12 - 09:22 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
Speakers
avatar for Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk

CTO, CNCF
Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation... Read More →
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:12 - 09:22 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions

09:24 HKT

Keynote: Crossplane Is the Answer! but What Is the Question? - Amit Dsouza, Odyssey Cloud & Cortney Nickerson, Nirmata
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:24 - 09:34 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
Why consider Crossplane when so many IaC tools exist—Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Config Connector, and KRO? What unique challenges does it solve, and is it always the right choice?
Join Cortney & Amit as they explore why Crossplane is gaining traction, not just as an IaC tool but as a Platform Engineering enabler. Learn how Crossplane extends the Kubernetes API to manage both infrastructure and applications declaratively, empowering platform teams.
Beyond provisioning, security and compliance are critical. Discover how the Crossplane + ArgoCD + Kyverno stack enables GitOps-driven automation, ensuring deployments align with organizational compliance and security policies.
Through real-world use cases, we’ll explore:
Where does Crossplane fit among IaC tools?
When is Crossplane NOT the right choice?
How can it enable scalable, self-service platforms?
How does it integrate with ArgoCD & Kyverno for GitOps and security?
Speakers
avatar for Amit DSouza

Amit DSouza

Co-founder, Odyssey Cloud
Amit Dsouza is an IT professional with over 13 years of experience in the industry. He is a co-founder of Odyssey Cloud, Australia. With experience in Fortune 500 companies & startups, he has worked in various locations including Australia, Singapore, & India. Amit specializes in... Read More →
avatar for Cortney Nickerson

Cortney Nickerson

Head of Community, Nirmata
Cortney is Head of Community at Nirmata. As a CNCF and Civo Ambassador, co-organizer of CNCF Bilbao Community, and speaker and organizing member of various KCD events, she is a recognized voice in the cloud native space. Initially, a non-techie, she turned techie as employee 7 at... Read More →
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:24 - 09:34 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions, Platform Engineering

09:36 HKT

Sponsored Keynote: Towards Clouds of AI Clusters - Bill Ren, Huawei Chief Open Source Liaison Officer, Board member of CNCF
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:36 - 09:41 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
AI is quickly becoming the most important workload in our clouds. However, AI is not like other cloud native workloads. Whereas before, clouds could manage elastic resources that easily and cheaply scaled out, AI workloads do not readily support this. AI hardware infrastructure is moving towards large clusters of processors, is not readily scaled out, is not readily available on-demand, and is much more expensive. This requires significant changes to how we build and
manage our clouds, from the operating system up to our cloud native infrastructure. This talk will highlight how this evolution towards clouds of AI clusters is happening through projects such as Linux, Volcano, and Karmada.


Speakers
avatar for Bill Ren

Bill Ren

Chief Open Source Liaison Officer，Board member of CNCF, Huawei
Bill Ren holds an EMBA and Master Degree from Peking University, and a CS Bachelor Degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since Joining Huawei in 2000, Bill served as an Intelligent Network Research and Development Engineer, Product Manager and Architect of India Branch, General... Read More →
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:36 - 09:41 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions

09:43 HKT

Keynote: An Optimized Linux Stack for GenAI Workloads - Michael Yuan, WasmEdge
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:43 - 09:53 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
Running GenAI workloads on Linux is a challenge due to the complexity of AI runtime toolchains and dependencies of heterogeneous GPU devices. The problem is especially acute in containers where the host and guest OSes must have compatible versions of GPU drivers and application software stacks.

CNCF’s Flatcar Linux project aims to simplify containerized Linux deployment. It has an immutable system that can be optimized for both host and guest systems. Furthermore, it supports cross-platform and cross-GPU Wasm workloads. As Wasm runtimes such as WasmEdge and LlamaEdge support a wide range of AI models, Flatcar Linux has become a good candidate for running GenAI workloads in containers.

In this talk, we will cover the basics of Flatcar and its support for Wasm runtimes. We will also discuss WasmEdge’s support for portable AI models and inference applications. Finally, we will give a demo of a complete GenAI app running in Flatcar across GPUs and CPUs.
Speakers
avatar for Michael Yuan

Michael Yuan

Founder, Second State
Dr. Michael Yuan is a maintainer of WasmEdge Runtime (a project under CNCF) and a co-founder of Second State. He is the author of 5 books on software engineering published by Addison-Wesley, Prentice-Hall, and O'Reilly. Michael is a long-time open-source developer and contributor... Read More →
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:43 - 09:53 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions, Emerging + Advanced
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Presentation Language English

09:55 HKT

Keynote: Scaling Model Training with Volcano: iFlytek’s Kubernetes Breakthrough - Dong Jiang, Platform Architect, iFlytek & Xuzheng Chang, Software Engineer, Huawei Cloud
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:55 - 10:00 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
Training massive AI models at scale is tough—but doing it efficiently in Kubernetes is even tougher. In this keynote, we’ll share how iFlytek tackled key challenges in large-scale model training, including low GPU utilization, fragile workflows, and resource contention across teams. By leveraging Volcano, they boosted GPU usage by over 40%, and cut failure recovery time by 70%. This talk offers a quick but powerful look at how intelligent scheduling and orchestration can unlock performance, reliability, and fairness in multi-tenant AI platforms.
Speakers
avatar for Xuzheng Chang

Xuzheng Chang

Software Engineer, Huawei Cloud
Xuzheng Chang is a maintainer of the Volcano community, with in-depth research and practical experience in the fields of batch computing and cloud-native AI scheduling. Xuzheng has spearheaded several significant features within the Volcano community. Actively contributing to open-source... Read More →
avatar for Dong Jiang

Dong Jiang

Platform Architect, iFlytek
Tuesday June 10, 2025 09:55 - 10:00 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions

10:02 HKT

Keynote: The Future of AI in Hong Kong: From Local Innovation to Global Influence - Prof. Yike Guo, HKUST Provost and HKGAI Director & Roby Chen, CEO and Founder, DaoCloud
Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:02 - 10:12 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
The release of HKGAI V1 marks a new chapter in the development of AI in Hong Kong. Leveraging the strengths of both local connectivity and global outreach, the HKGAI team embraces the open-source community to tackle challenges ranging from optimizing high-performance computing clusters to exploring cutting-edge AI models. Looking ahead, Hong Kong aims to further integrate resources from mainland China and the international community, deepening technological innovation and application expansion, and contributing a "Hong Kong Solution" to global AI standards and use cases.
Speakers
avatar for Yike Guo

Yike Guo

HKUST Provost and HKGAI Director
Professor Guo Yike assumed office as the Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on December 1, 2022. He is concurrently a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and also the Director of Hong Kong Generative AI Research... Read More →
avatar for Roby Chen

Roby Chen

CEO, DaoCloud
Roby Chen, Founder and CEO of DaoCloud, Master of Computer Science from Fudan University, CNCF Ambassador, has a deep understanding of cloud-native business models and technologies. Roby is an evangelist of open source cloud computing technology, gaining valuable experience in building... Read More →
Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:02 - 10:12 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions

10:13 HKT

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:13 - 10:15 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:13 - 10:15 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions, Platform Engineering
 
Wednesday, June 11
 

09:00 HKT

Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks - Keith Chan, Director of Strategic Planning, The Linux Foundation APAC
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:00 - 09:10 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
Speakers
avatar for Keith Chan

Keith Chan

Director of Strategic Planning, The Linux Foundation APAC
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:00 - 09:10 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions

09:12 HKT

Keynote: Optimizing AI Workload Scheduling: Bilibili's Journey To an Efficient Cloud Native AI Platform - Long Xu, Bilibili & Kevin Wang, Huawei
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:12 - 09:22 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
As China's leading video platform, Bilibili faces 4 key challenges in multi-cluster AI workloads management:
1. Workload Diversity: Training/inference/video processing workloads have different scheduling requirements.
2. Cross-Cluster Complexity: Managing workloads across multiple Kubernetes clusters in expanding IDCs with SLAs.
3. Performance Demands: Minimal startup latency and best scheduling efficiency for short-running tasks e.g. video processing.
4. Efficiency-QoS Balance: maximizing resource utilization while ensuring priority workload stability.

This talk will share experiences and delve specific optimization techniques:
1. Leveraging and optimizing CNCF projects such as Karmada and Volcano to build a unified, high-performance AI workload scheduling platform.
2. Integrating technologies such as KubeRay to schedule various AI online and offline workloads.
3. Maximizing resource efficiency through online and offline hybrid scheduling, tidal scheduling and other technologies.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Wang

Kevin Wang

Technical Expert, Lead of Cloud Native Open Source, Huawei
Kevin Wang has been an outstanding contributor in the CNCF community since its beginning and is the leader of the cloud native open source team at Huawei. Kevin has contributed critical enhancements to Kubernetes, led the incubation of the KubeEdge, Volcano, Karmada projects in CNCF... Read More →
avatar for Long Xu

Long Xu

Senior Software Engineer, Bilibili
Long Xu is a Senior Software Engineer in the Infrastructure Department at Bilibili. He has rich experiences in the Kubernetes field, including scheduling, autoscaling and system stability.
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:12 - 09:22 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions, AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Presentation Language Chinese

09:24 HKT

Keynote: Key Cloud Native Technologies in its Next Decade - Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:24 - 09:34 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
When we started CNCF in 2015 to help advance container technology, Kubernetes was the seeding technology to provide a de facto container orchestration platform for all cloud native applications. Almost a decade later, the community has exploded with 200+ open source projects building on top of cloud native technologies. Looking ahead, what challenges will we have in the next decade? What gaps remain for users and contributors? And how do we evolve to meet the demands of an increasingly complex and connected world?

Let us review some of the key CNCF projects today and lay out some possible avenues for where cloud native is going for the next decade, AI, agentic network, sustainability and beyond.

Speakers
avatar for Lin Sun

Lin Sun

Head of Open Source & CNCF TOC, Solo.io
Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical... Read More →
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:24 - 09:34 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Presentation Language English

09:36 HKT

Keynote: Who Owns Your Pod? Observing and Blocking Unwanted Behavior at eBay With eBPF - Jianlin Lv, eBay & Liyi Huang, Isovalent at Cisco
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:36 - 09:46 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
Kubernetes admins often struggle to understand pod activities, both for regular pods and those with various privileges. This session explores two use cases that highlight why Tetragon, an eBPF-based observability and enforcement tool, for pod security:
1.Replacing Auditbeat with Tetragon: Learn how Auditbeat rules mapped to Tetragon tracing policies, identifying functionality gaps, and how eBay contributed back to the community
2.Auditing Container Process Permissions: See how Tetragon helped analyze pod behavior and determine if applications could migrate to more restrictive pod security policies, ensuring adherence to the principle of least privilege
We also cover deployment challenges, such as integrating with SIEM platforms, resource utilization, and implementing runtime enforcement for unwanted pod behavior. This talk provides practical insights into using Tetragon for observability, policy refinement, and improving overall pod security posture in Kubernetes environments.
Speakers
avatar for Jianlin Lv

Jianlin Lv

Senior Linux Kernel Development Engineer, eBay
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jianlin-lv-25650141/
avatar for Liyi Huang

Liyi Huang

customer success architect, Isovalent at Cisco
senior solution architect @isovalent.com
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:36 - 09:46 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions, Observability

09:48 HKT

Keynote: How We Save $900 per Day with Self-Hosted AI: Building Scalable Local LLM Infrastructure - Vivian Hu, Product Manager, Second State & Lv Yi, CTO, 5miles
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:48 - 09:58 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
While SaaS AI providers like OpenAI offer convenient LLM services, they come with significant drawbacks: high costs, lack of customization, lack of privacy, and usage limitations that can throttle high-volume applications.

This presentation shows how a leading e-commerce web site deployed a highly customized suite of LLM applications on private cloud infra, reducing costs by 90% while maintaining complete control over scalability and quality of service. We'll discuss the technology stack for orchestrating inference workloads on cloud GPUs, and explore practical strategies for building stable, scalable, high-performance AI apps on your own private cloud infra.
Speakers
avatar for Lv Yi

Lv Yi

CTO, 5miles
Lv Yi is the CTO of 5miles, a leading e-commerce platform in the United States. With 19 years in IT, he is a cloud native enthusiast who previously served as a mobile business expert at AsiaInfo. In 2012, he led Zhangyue's systems evolution toward microservices architecture. At 5miles... Read More →
avatar for Vivian Hu

Vivian Hu

Product Manager, Second State
Vivian Hu is a Product Manager at Second State and a columnist at InfoQ. She is a founding member of the WasmEdge project. She organizes Rust and WebAssembly community events in Asia.
Wednesday June 11, 2025 09:48 - 09:58 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions

10:00 HKT

Keynote: Building a Large Model Inference Platform for Heterogeneous Chinese Chips Based on VLLM - Haiwen Zhang, China Mobile & Kante Yin, DaoCloud
Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 10:10 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
With the growing demand for heterogeneous computing power, Chinese users are gradually adopting domestic GPUs, especially for inference. vLLM, the most popular open-source inference project, has drawn widespread attention but does not support domestic chips.Chinese inference engines are still developing in functionality, performance, and ecosystem. In this session, we’ll introduce how to adapt vLLM to support domestic GPUs,enabling acceleration features like PageAttention, Continuous Batching, and Chunked Prefill. We’ll also cover performance bottleneck analysis and chip operator development to maximize hardware potential.
Additionally, Kubernetes has become the standard for container orchestration and is the preferred platform for inference services. We’ll show how to deploy the adapted vLLM engine on Kubernetes using the open-source llmaz project with a few lines of code, and explore how llmaz handles heterogeneous GPU scheduling and our practices for monitoring and elastic scaling.
Speakers
avatar for Haiwen Zhang

Haiwen Zhang

Senior Software Engineer, China Mobile (Suzhou) Software Technology Co., Ltd.
The author has rich experience in cloud-native and AI inference development, currently works at China Mobile, focusing on the research and development of cloud-native and AI inference related products. He shared experiences of service mesh at some technical conferences such as the... Read More →
avatar for Kante Yin

Kante Yin

Software Engineer, DaoCloud
Kante is a senior software engineer and an open source enthusiast from DaoCloud, his work is mostly around scheduling, resource management and LLM inference. He actively contributes to upstream Kubernetes as SIG-Scheduling Maintainer and helps in incubating several projects like Kueue... Read More →
Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 10:10 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions, AI + ML
  • Content Experience Level Any
  • Presentation Language Chinese

10:10 HKT

Keynote: Closing Remarks
Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:10 - 10:15 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:10 - 10:15 HKT
Level 16 | Grand Ballroom I
  Keynote Sessions, Platform Engineering
 
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