Cloud Native Computing Foundation Unveils Schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023

CNCF's flagship event will bring together thousands of open source and cloud native enthusiasts

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023, happening in Chicago, Illinois, and virtually from November 6 – 9.

Exactly seven years after the inaugural KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2016 event in Seattle, the conference is back in the United States with a stellar lineup curated by event co-chairs – Aparna Subramanian, of Shopify, Frederick Kautz, and Nikhita Raghunath of VMware. With the help of the program committee consisting of 119 community members and 22 track chairs, they have reviewed an incredible 1871 submissions – the most to date – to develop a diverse and informative schedule this year. Attendees will be able to choose from 196 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and breakout sessions both in-person and virtually, with 97 CNCF project maintainer-hosted sessions featuring content that will appeal to technologists across industries and experience levels.

"With Kubernetes crossing the chasm, we are now truly in the era of enterprise considerations and innovative tech. There is an increased focus on security, availability, and cost-efficiency. At the same time, cutting-edge work and research into fields like AI, WASM, and environmental sustainability have been breaking new ground," said Nikhita Raghunath, Staff Software Engineer, VMware, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Co-Chair. "With all the wonderful talks that dive deeper into all of these topics, I hope that you can take away key learnings on how to architect the future of your cloud native platforms and journeys! Come to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and witness the next generation of cloud native!"

Join #TeamCloudNative for three or four days – if you join us for the co-located events – to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. The community-curated schedule will include talks from community members spanning all walks of life, including:

• On-Demand Systems and Scaled Training Using the JobSet API - Abdullah Gharaibeh, Google & Vanessa Sochat, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Kube of Thoughts – Scaling Generative AI Models with Kubernetes and Inference Decision Trees - Asheesh Goja & Vidyasagar Ananthan, Amazon Web Services
• The Way We Build the Largest Public and Private Cloud Infrastructure in Vietnam - Trong Vinh Nguyen & Duc Nguyen Cong, Viettel
• eBPF for Observability: Data Overload Panacea or Pain - Frederic Branczyk, Polar Signals; Shahar Azulay, Groundcover; Valeri Pliskin, Datadog; Anna Kapuścińska, Isovalent
• Burden to Bliss: Eliminate Patching and Upgrading Toil with Cluster Autoscaler at Scale - Shaikh Israil, Oracle America Inc
• Roadmap to Becoming a CNCF Ambassador - Eric D. Schabell, Chronosphere & Katie Greenley, CNCF
• Apply the Can Opener of Enlightenment: Lifting the Lid off Kubernetes Networking - Joe Thompson, HashiCorp
• A Wind of Change for Threat Detection - Melissa Kilby, Apple

CNCF and other organizations will be hosting a number of CNCF-hosted and sponsor-hosted  co-located events as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, which will happen on November 6. The following CNCF-hosted co-located events are included in the All-Access pass. Sponsor-hosted co-located events can be added individually when registering:

• AppDeveloperCon
• ArgoCon
• BackstageCon
• CiliumCon
• Cloud Native Telco Day
• Cloud Native Wasm Day
• DBaaS DevDay
• Data on Kubernetes Day (DoK Day)
• EnvoyCon
• Istio Day
• Kubernetes AI + HPC Day
• Kubernetes on Edge Day
• Multi-TenancyCon
• Observability Day

CNCF-hosted co-located events sponsorship opportunities close on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM CDT. Interested organizations can contact [email protected] to secure a sponsorship.

The Dan Kohn Scholarship (includes Diversity, Need-Based, Maintainer, and Student Scholarship) applications for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America are due September 3 for in-person conference scholarships and October 15 at 23:59 PST for virtual conference scholarships.

For the full KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 agenda, please visit the schedule.

Registration
As we announced for the last KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event, we are now offering three types of registration. Standard pricing is available until September 8 at 23:59 CDT:

• In-person all access registration includes access to all CNCF-hosted co-located events, which are happening on Monday, November 6, AND the main KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event.
• In-person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America only registration
• And virtual registration which includes the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon keynotes and breakout sessions to be accessed online.

Thank You to Our Sponsors
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is made possible with support from our Diamond Sponsors: AWS, Discover, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, Rancher by SUSE, Red Hat, and Veritas; Platinum Sponsors: Arm, Canonical, Crowdstrike, Datadog, Dell Technologies, F5, Fortinet, GitLab, Google Cloud, IBM, incident.io, Intel, JFrog, Kasten by Veeam, OpenSearch, Outshift by Cisco, Portworx by Pure Storage, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Snyk, Sonatype, Sony, Splunk, Sysdig, Teleport, Uptycs, VMware, Wiz; and many more Gold, Silver, Start-Up, and End User Sponsors.

Additional Resources

• CNCF Newsletter
• CNCF Twitter
• CNCF Website
• Learn About CNCF Membership
• Learn About the CNCF End User Community

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors, and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. For more information, please visit www.cncf.io.

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