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Red Hat at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

November 12, 2024 - November 15, 2024 Salt Lake City, UTSalt Palace Convention Center
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Red Hat at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

Visit the Red Hat Booth #D1 onsite in the sponsor showcase to speak with our open source experts. As the largest open source company in the world, we build and support open source products from open source projects. With open source, we equip our customers for success.

Connect to discuss AI, security, developer tools, Red Hat OpenShift®, and talk all things open with our team.

Keynote

Application Development’s Great Cloud Native Disruption

Thursday, November 14 | 10:05 a.m. MST

Colin Walter, Senior Principal Software Engineer
Preethi Thomas, Senior Manager, Engineering

Artificial Intelligence is exposing technological and operational gaps in our industry faster than ever. Newer workloads are forcing application developers to innovate in ways that open source is uniquely positioned to help guide. This talk will discuss the current state of open source technologies and how application developers can collectively harness and contribute to transparent, open innovation and guide the next generation of cloud native development.

OpenShift Commons Gathering

Tuesday, November 12 | 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Pencil us in! Red Hat’s OpenShift Commons Gathering takes place November 12!

Red Hat OpenShift Commons

Join our community of OpenShift users to get the most out of your application platform. Highlights include:

  • Looking forward with Red Hat OpenShift: learn the latest in Red Hat innovations in OpenShift, virtualization, AI, and more.
  • Go from Zero to DevEx Hero with Internal Developer Portals: Explore how Deloitte enhanced compliance and integrated AI in their developer experience.
  • Virtualization AND OpenShift? Dive into how New York University modernized their virtualization and dipped their toe into the world of GitOps.

Registration for this event is FREE.

Co-located events

Proud sponsor of co-located events

Diamond Sponsor

BackstageCon

Tuesday, November 12 | 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Keynote: AI-Enhanced Internal Developer Portals: The Future of Platform Engineering

Speaker: Ben Wilcock

2 additional Red Hat talks

Diamond Sponsor

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

Tuesday, November 12 | 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Keynote: Advancing Cloud Native AI Innovation Through Open Collaboration

Speaker: Yuan Tang

1 additional Red Hat talk

Platinum Sponsor

ArgoCon

Tuesday, November 12 | 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Lightning Talk: Ranking Argo CD Settings in a Tier List

Speaker: Gerald Nunn

Full Schedule

Networking Events

Celebrate after hours with Red Hat and our partners. Join us for an evening of fun and networking. We look forward to seeing you there! 

KubeCon Community Event with Dell, Red Hat, and Equinix

🗓️ Tuesday, November 12

🕰️ 6:00pm - 8:00pm

📍 Lake Effect - 155 W 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Kubecon After Dark with AWS, Red Hat, and Veeam

🗓️ Wednesday, November 13

🕰️ 8:00pm - 11:00pm

📍 Edison House - 335 S 200 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Speaking Sessions

Tuesday, November 12

5:30 p.m. MST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Kubectl Debug Lacks an IDE Option. Let’s Fix That!

(Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B)

Mario Loriedo,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Wednesday, November 13

11:15 a.m. MST

Tutorial: A Mad Scientist's Guide to Automating CNI with Generative AI

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G)

Doug Smith,

Principal Engineer, Red Hat

SIG Network Intro and Updates

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 B)

Dan Winship,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Nadia Pinaeva,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Antonio Ojea,

Software Engineer, Google

Shaun Crampton,

Distinguished Engineer, Tigera

Damam Arora,

Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom

12:10 p.m. MST

Can Your Kubernetes Network Handle the Heat? Building Resilience with AI Chaos

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E)

Surya Seetharaman,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Lior Lieberman,

Site Reliability Engineer, Google

2:30 p.m. MST

SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 B)

Stephen Kitt,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson,

Principal Engineer, Google

Laura Lorenz,

Software Engineer, Google

Ryan Zhang,

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

3:25 p.m. MST

Optimizing Load Balancing and Autoscaling for Large Language Model (LLM) Inference on Kubernetes

(Salt Palace | Level 2 | 225 E)

David Gray,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

SIG-Node: Intro and Deep Dive

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 B)

Mrunal Patel,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Dawn Chen,

Principal Software Engineer, Google

Sergey Kanzhelev,

Staff Software Engineer, Google

4:30 p.m. MST

From Observability to Performance

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E)

Nadia Pinaeva,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Antonio Ojea,

Software Engineer, Google

Distributed Tracing with Jaeger and OpenTelemetry

(Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A)

Pavol Loffay,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Jonah Kowall,

SVP Product and Design, Paessler

SIG Instrumentation Introduction and Deep Dive

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 B)

Damien Grisonnet,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Richa Banker,

Software Engineer, Google

Han Kang,

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

David Ashpole,

Senior Software Engineer, Google

5:25 p.m. MST

Squashing Trampoline Pods: The Future of Securely Enabling Hardware Extensions

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 B)

David Eads,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Joe Betz,

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Workload Identity Federation – Stop Using Long-Lived Credentials

(Salt Palace | Level 2 | 254 B)

Anjali Telang,

Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Benjamin Dronen,

Kubernetes Platform Engineer, Ford Motor Company

Thursday, November 14

10:05 a.m. MST

Application Development's Great Cloud Native Disruption

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE)

Colin Walters,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Preethi Thomas,

Senior Manager, Engineering, Red Hat

11:00 a.m. MST

What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize ... and How You Can Help!

(Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A)

Arda Guclu,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Eddie Zaneski,

Staff OSS Engineer, Defense Unicorns

Navigating the Cgroup Transition: Bridging the Gap Between Kubernetes and Uber Expectations

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B)

Sohan Kunkerkar,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

2:30 p.m. MST

Unlocking Potential of Large Models in Production

(Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 E)

Yuan Tang,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Adam Tetelman,

Principal Product Architect, NVIDIA

Solving the Kubernetes Networking API Rubik's Cube

(Salt Palace | Level 2 | 251 AD)

Doug Smith,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Surya Seetharaman,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Shane Utt,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Lior Lieberman,

Site Reliability Engineer, Google

How the Tables Have Turned: Kubernetes Says Goodbye to Iptables

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E)

Dan Winship,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Casey Davenport,

Tigera

Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Oh My! What Is the TAG App Delivery Doing to Support You

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E)

Daniel Oh,

Senior Principal Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Abby Bangser,

Principal Engineer, Syntasso

Roberth Stand,

Principal Cloud Native Architect, Spra Steria

Ryan Nowak,

Incubations Architect, Microsoft

Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 B)

Hemant Kumar,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Saad Ali,

Senior Engineering Manager, Google

Michelle Au,

Software Engineer, Google

Zing Yang,

Tech Lead, VMware by Broadcom

Exceeded Your Validation Cost Budget? Now What?

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom H)

Joel Speed,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

3:25 p.m. MST

Elastic Data Streaming: Autoscaling Apache Kafka

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A)

Jakub Scholz,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Cloud Native Storage: The CNCF Storage TAG Projects, Technology & Landscape

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E)

Raffaele Spazzoli,

Senior Principal Architect, Red Hat

Alex Chircop,

Chief Product Architect, Akamai

Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Updates

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 B)

David Eads,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

John Belamaric,

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

4:30 p.m. EST

Microsegment Your Network Like Mastercard with AdminNetworkPolicy

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E)

Surya Seetharaman,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

John Zaiss,

Principal Software Engineer, Mastercard

Gateway API: What's New, What's Next?

(Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A)

Guilherme Cassolato,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Nick Young,

Senior Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

Christine Kim,

Developer Relations, Isovalent at Cisco

Mattia Lavacca,

Software Engineer, Kong

Navigate Cross SIG Collaborations with SIG Docs

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 B)

Rey Lejano,

Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Savitha Raghunathan,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Xander Grzywinski,

Open Source Program Manager, Defense Unicorns

Divya Mohan,

Principal Technology Advocate, SUSE

5:25 p.m. MST

Navigating Failures in Pods with Devices: Challenges and Solutions

(Salt Palace | Level 2 | 250 AD)

Mrunal Patel,

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat

Sergey Kanzhelev,

Staff Software Engineer, Google

Engaging the KServe Community, The Impact of Integrating a Solutions with Standardized CNCF Projects

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A)

Taneem Ibrahim,

Senior Engineering Manager, Red Hat

Adam Tetelman,

Principal Product Architect, NVIDIA

Johnu George,

Staff Engineer, Natanix

Tessa Pham,

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

Andreea Munteanu,

AI Product Manager, Canonical

Scaling and Safeguarding the Heart of Kubernetes: Deep Dive Into

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 335 E)

James Blair,

Specialist Architect, Red Hat

Wenjia Zhang,

Engineering Manager, Google

Marek Siarkowicz,

Senior Software Engineer, Google

Wei Fu,

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Ivan Valdes Castillo,

Independent

Andrew Block,

Distinguished Architect, Red Hat

Matt Farina,

Distinguished Engineer, SUSE

Pod Power: Liberating Kubernetes Users from Container Resource Micromanagement

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 B)

Peter Hunt,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Dixita Narang,

Software Engineer, Google

Friday, November 15

9:35 a.m. MST

Four Cloud Native Technology Areas to Watch For

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE)

Karena Angell,

Senior Principal Chief Architect, Red Hat

Lin Sun,

Head of Open-Source, solo.io

11:00 a.m. MST

CRI-O Features for Fun and Profit

(Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C)

Peter Hunt,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Sohan Kunkerkar,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

11:55 a.m. MST

Kubernetes on Multisites – A Story About Stateful App, Hybrid Clouds, and High Availability

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom A)

Jan Šafránek,

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Florian Coulombel,

Senior Software Engineer, Dell Technologies

WG Serving: Accelerating AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes

(Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom B)

Yuan Tang,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Eduardo Arango Gutierez DE,

Senior Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA

What's New in Operator Framework?!

(Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A)

Lalatendu Mohanty,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Bryce Palmer,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Rashmi Gottipati,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Attila Meszaros,

Senior Software Engineer, Apple

2:00 p.m. MST

KubeVirt: Enhancements and the Road Ahead

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E)

Vladik Romanovsky,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

David Vossel,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

2:55 p.m. MST

Tick, TAG, TOC - Keeping Cloud Native Running

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom B)

Karena Angell,

Senior Principal Chief Architect, Red Hat

Marina Moore,

Edera

Alex Chircop,

Chief Architect, Akamai

Ricardo Aravena,

Cloud Native Lead, Snowflake

Rajas Kakodkar,

Staff Software Engineer, Broadcom

Thousands of Gamers, One Kubernetes Network

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | 155 E)

Surya Seetharaman,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Girish Moodalbail,

Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA

Building a More Resilient Future with Advanced Cloud Provider Testing

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 B)

Michael McCune,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Bridget Kromhout,

Principal Product Manger, Microsoft

Strimzi: Data Streaming on Kubernetes with Apache Kafka

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E)

Jakub Scholz,

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Lixin Yao,

Staff Software Engineer, Apple

4:00 p.m. MST

Meet the CNCF Code of Conduct Committee

(Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A)

Josh Berkus,

Kubernetes Community Manager, Red Hat

Bill Mulligan,

Community Pollinator, Isovalent at Cisco

Carla Gaggini,

Head of Global Community Events, Isovalent at Cisco

Jeremy Rickard,

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Tim Pepper,

Senior Technical Advisor, Open Source Software Security, CISA

Running a Highly Available Identity and Access Management

(Salt Palace | Level 3 | 355 E)

Kamesh Akella,

Principal Software Quality Engineer, Red Hat

Ryan Emerson,

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Tutorial: Stop Kubernetes' Revolving Door: A Hands-on Tutorial to Secure a Kubernetes Cluster

(Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G)

Savitha Raghunathan,

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Rey Lejano,

Solutions Architect, Red Hat

Mahé Tardy,

Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco

4:55 p.m. MST

WG Batch Updates: What's New and What Is Next

(Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency Ballroom A)

Kevin Hannon,

Kubernetes Developer, Red Hat

Marcin Wielgus,

Staff Software Engineer, Google

theCUBE

Red Hat is a proud sponsor of theCUBE at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024. Watch live broadcasts and on-demand conversations during and after the event.

Partner Pod Sessions

Join Red Hat and out partners at Booth #D1!

Red Hat will be hosting a variety of partner demo sessions at the Red Hat booth.

Wednesday, November 13

11:00 a.m.  - Openshift Virtualization on AWS • AWS

11:30 a.m. - Accelerating Migrations to Openshift Virtualization with GitLab • GitLab

12:00 p.m. - OpenShift Virtualization VMs Need Data Protection Too • Veeam Software

1:30 p.m. - Unlock the Power of OpenShift Virtualization on Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift • Dell Technologies

2:00 p.m. - Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes: Enterprise Scale PostgreSQL on OpenShift • Crunchy Data

2:30 p.m.  - Providing Disaster Recovery for OpenShift Virtualization VMs with NetApp Trident • NetApp

3:00 p.m. - Accelerate OpenShift Adoption with StackGen • StackGen

3:30 p.m. - A Fully Resilient OpenShift Virtualization Architecture: Beyond the Thun-DR-Dome • Trilio

4:00 p.m. - Evolve your Business with Intel Validated Patterns • Intel Corporation

4:30 p.m.  - Building GitHub projects on OpenShift and Arm64 using ActionsRunnerController • Ampere Computing

5:00 p.m. - AI-Powered Observability with Elastic into your Kubernetes Ecosystem • Elastic

Thursday, November 14

11:00 a.m.  - Elevate your productivity by leveraging managed OpenShift • IBM

11:30 a.m. - Open Shift, AI and virtualization • CyberArk

12:00 p.m. - Run EDB Postgres AI in Red Hat OpenShift • EnterpriseDB

1:30 p.m. - Universal Microsegmentation: Enhancing Security for Containers, VMs, and Bare Metal with Calico • Tigera

2:00 p.m. - Storage Considerations for OpenShift Virtualization • Portworx by Pure Storage

2:30 p.m.  - Kubernetes Security Essentials: Protecting Your Clusters from Threats • Dynatrace

3:00 p.m.  -  Why OpenShift on Google Cloud • Google

3:30 p.m. - Fraud detection with confidential GPUs • NVIDIA

4:00 p.m. - Red Hat Developer Hub – Managed solution to hosting an internal developer portal • CDW

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Cloud Native Rejekts

Sunday, November 10 - Monday, November 11 | 9:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. MST

Venue: Kiln, Salt Lake City
Talk: A Day in the Life of Kubernetes Release with Tools, Challenges, and Operations
Speaker: Meha Bhalodiya

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