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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024, happening in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12 – 15.

In its ninth year, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 is taking place for the first time in the Silicon Slopes. The schedule, which was curated by a program committee of 93 community members and 22 track chairs led by co-chairs – Joseph Sandoval of Adobe, Nikhita Raghunath of VMware, and Kasper Nissen of Lunar – offers insights into the biggest trends and technologies impacting the cloud native ecosystem today. From a monumental 1937 submissions, attendees will choose from 218 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and breakout sessions, with 87 CNCF project maintainer-hosted sessions aimed at technologists across industries and skill sets. Attendees will also have access to over 40 CNCF Project Lightning Talks on Tuesday, which is included in the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon only pass.

The community-curated schedule will include talks from diverse community members, including:

- From Vectors to Pods: Integrating AI with Cloud Native – Rajas Kakodkar, Broadcom; Kevin Klues, NVIDIA; Joseph Sandoval, Adobe; Ricardo Rocha, CERN; Cathy Zhang, Intel

- Running WebAssembly (Wasm) Workloads Side-by-Side with Container Workloads – Jiaxiao Zhou, Microsoft

- Experience in Designing & Implementing a Cloud Native Framework for Farm Data Analytics – Braulio Dumba, IBM & Gloire Rubambiza, Cornell University

- The Maintainer Monologues – Sarah Christoff, Defense Unicorns; Karen Chu, Fermyon; Jason Hall, Chainguard; Scott Rigby, Independent; Ryan Nowak, Microsoft

- Creating Paved Paths for Platform Engineers – Ritesh Patel, Nirmata; Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Viktor Farcic, Upbound; Nicholas Morey, Akuity; Praseeda Sathaye, Amazon

- Distributed Multi-Node Model Inference Using the LeaderWorkerSet API – Abdullah Gharaibeh & Rupeng Liu, Google

- Better Together! GPU, TPU and NIC Topological Alignment with DRA – John Belamaric, Google & Patrick Ohly, Intel

- Kubernetes Workspaces: Enhancing Multi-Tenancy with Intelligent Apiserver Proxying – James Munnelly & Andrea Tosatto, Apple

- Kubernetes Upgrades: Less Pain, More Gain (and Maybe a Little Swearing) – Jago Macleod, Google

CNCF and other organizations will host numerous CNCF-hosted and sponsor-hosted co-located events as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, which will happen on November 12. The following CNCF-hosted co-located events are included in the All-Access pass.

AppDeveloperCon
ArgoCon
BackstageCon
Cilium + eBPF Day
Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day
Cloud Native StartupFest
Cloud Native University
Data on Kubernetes Day
EnvoyCon
Istio Day
Kubernetes on Edge Day
Observability Day
OpenFeature Summit
OpenTofu Day
Platform Engineering Day
WasmCon

CNCF-hosted co-located events sponsorship opportunities close on Tuesday, October 1 at 11:59 PM MDT. Interested organizations can contact sponsor@cncf.io(link sends e-mail) to secure a sponsorship.

CNCF is offering two types of registration for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. Standard pricing is available until August 26 at 23:59 MDT:

- All-access registration includes access to all CNCF-hosted co-located events, happening on Tuesday, November 12, AND the main KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America event. WasmCon is also included and will take place on Monday, November 11 & Tuesday, November 12.

- In-person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America only registration.