Chris Aniszczyk
CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure
The Linux Foundation
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 (CNCF). Furthermore, he's a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups. At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. For many years he served on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors representing the committer community and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. In a previous life, he bootstrapped a consulting company, made many mistakes, lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and Linux related projects
Conference Sessions
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Keep Cloud Native Moving: Building Japan's Platform for Open Innovation
Jul 29, 2026 • 9:30 AM-9:45 AM
1F | Main Hall
Cloud native has become the operating model for modern software, but AI is redefining what comes next. As organizations build sovereign AI platforms, deploy inference at scale, and introduce autonomous agents into production, the demands on cloud native infrastructure are rapidly scaling. From Kubernetes and platform engineering to observability, networking, and distributed systems, the cloud native ecosystem is becoming the foundation for trustworthy AI. Japan offers a unique perspective on this transformation. With nearly one million cloud native developers and an infrastructure strategy that blends on-premises systems, hybrid cloud, and cloud native technologies, Japanese organizations are demonstrating that there is no single path to modernization. As AI adoption accelerates, these strengths position Japan to help shape the next generation of intelligent infrastructure. In this keynote, Jonathan Bryce and Chris Aniszczyk will explore how the CNCF community is enabling the next wave of AI infrastructure, why open source collaboration matters more than ever, and how every developer, from first-time contributors to experienced maintainers, can help keep cloud native moving.
Mohammad Mikal Bin Amrul Halim Gan
Platform Engineer
Softbank Corp.
Mohammad Mikal is a Platform Engineer driving the design and implementation of next-generation cloud-native infrastructure. He excels at bridging the gap between executive vision and hands-on technical execution.
Conference Sessions
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Infinite Agents, Finite Kubernetes
Jul 29, 2026 • 9:47 AM-9:50 AM
1F | Main Hall
The rise of autonomous agents introduces a radically volatile workload profile: short-lived, heavy-compute pods that demand instant GPU/CPU access and vanish. In this keynote, we deconstruct a fundamental Infrastructure paradox: infinite agent demand versus strictly finite physical compute, space, and power. Using a simple trade-off curve as our focal point, we present an architectural vision to safely scale for the autonomous future.
Jonathan Bryce
Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure
The Linux Foundation
Jonathan Bryce is the Executive Director of Cloud & Infrastructure at the Linux Foundation, where he leads both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the OpenInfra Foundation—two of the largest and most influential open source communities in the world. With over 15 years of open source leadership, Jonathan co-founded the OpenStack project, guiding its evolution into a global ecosystem that supports a multi-billion-dollar market and serves as the de facto standard for open cloud infrastructure. Before his open source career, Jonathan spent over a decade in data center infrastructure and co-founded one of the industry’s earliest cloud computing companies, which grew into a billion-dollar business following its acquisition by Rackspace. Passionate about open collaboration, infrastructure innovation, and empowering users, contributors, and ecosystems worldwide, Jonathan frequently speaks at international conferences on open source strategy, infrastructure modernization, cloud-native technologies, and open source AI initiatives.
Conference Sessions
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Keep Cloud Native Moving: Building Japan's Platform for Open Innovation
Jul 29, 2026 • 9:30 AM-9:45 AM
1F | Main Hall
Cloud native has become the operating model for modern software, but AI is redefining what comes next. As organizations build sovereign AI platforms, deploy inference at scale, and introduce autonomous agents into production, the demands on cloud native infrastructure are rapidly scaling. From Kubernetes and platform engineering to observability, networking, and distributed systems, the cloud native ecosystem is becoming the foundation for trustworthy AI. Japan offers a unique perspective on this transformation. With nearly one million cloud native developers and an infrastructure strategy that blends on-premises systems, hybrid cloud, and cloud native technologies, Japanese organizations are demonstrating that there is no single path to modernization. As AI adoption accelerates, these strengths position Japan to help shape the next generation of intelligent infrastructure. In this keynote, Jonathan Bryce and Chris Aniszczyk will explore how the CNCF community is enabling the next wave of AI infrastructure, why open source collaboration matters more than ever, and how every developer, from first-time contributors to experienced maintainers, can help keep cloud native moving.
Jaewoo Choi
DevOps Engineer
Hyundai AutoEver
Jaewoo is a DevOps Engineer at Hyundai Autoever, focused on GitOps and cloud-native developer experience. He recently joined the Argo CD maintainer team after contributing to the project. In his free time, he enjoys going to the gym and running outdoors.
Conference Sessions
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Out of the Box, at Multi-Region Scale: How Hyundai Scales Its Platform
Jul 29, 2026 • 10:21 AM-10:24 AM
1F | Main Hall
Hyundai Motor Group runs its global platform on hCloud, its own in-house private cloud, and provides open source tooling for its CI/CD pipelines. A single Argo CD instance now manages 5,000+ Applications across 300+ Kubernetes clusters worldwide, growing by hundreds of new Applications every month, while a multi-region Harbor registry holds 60k+ artifacts across 5k+ repositories, replicated across 3 regions to balance data-residency regulation with performance.
Aya Igarashi
Software Engineer
Preferred Networks, Inc.
Aya Igarashi is a Software Engineer at Preferred Networks, Inc. She has been working on platform development based on Kubernetes since 2016. Aya is passionate about open-source technologies, focusing on cloud-native projects. She is also a co-organizer of the Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo, which has been held 70 times over the past 8 years.
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Building a Multi-Tenant AI Platform with the CNCF Ecosystem
Jul 29, 2026 • 9:57 AM-10:07 AM
1F | Main Hall
As AI technology advances, a multi-tenant computing infrastructure has become essential for supporting diverse user workloads. Building a multi-tenant platform to handle various workloads, including AI and ML, relies heavily on Kubernetes' powerful extensibility and careful integration with CNCF ecosystem technologies. In this session, we will share the design philosophy behind our Kubernetes platform. We will provide a high-level overview of our platform's architecture and discuss how we leverage cloud-native projects to orchestrate complex workloads. Attendees will gain practical insights into building infrastructure that keeps pace with the evolving open-source landscape.
Takao Indoh
Director
Fujitsu Limited
Takao Indoh is Director of the OSS development team in Fujitsu's OSS business division and serves as a member of the CNCF Governing Board. Since joining Fujitsu in 2001, he has been providing Linux support services for mission-critical systems and has actively contributed to several open source communities, helping customers realize their business and technical requirements through open source technologies.
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The Next Evolution of Kubernetes: GPU-Centric Infrastructure for AI Workloads
Jul 29, 2026 • 9:52 AM-9:55 AM
1F | Main Hall
With the emergence of generative AI and Agentic AI, the role of Kubernetes is shifting from CPU-based cloud infrastructure to GPU-centric infrastructure. Faced with constraints such as explosively growing computational demand, GPU shortages, and soaring electricity costs, Kubernetes must optimize the use of available resources to sustainably scale AI workloads. In the case of Agentic AI in particular, a single request generates numerous downstream tasks, resulting in unpredictable computational demands, making it increasingly difficult to address these challenges with traditional cloud design philosophies alone. In this presentation, we will introduce Fujitsu's perspective on the new challenges facing cloud-native infrastructure in the AI era, along with our solution based on Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure.
Ryoji Kobayashi
DevOps Engineer
Subaru Corporation
Ryoji Kobayashi is a DevOps Engineer in the ADAS Development Department at Subaru Corporation. He is responsible for the design, development, and operation of on-premises Kubernetes-based AI model development platforms for next-generation EyeSight. His work focuses on GPU infrastructure, cloud native technologies, and extending AI platforms from model development to edge deployment.
Conference Sessions
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How Subaru Accelerated AI Model Development for Next-Generation EyeSight with Kubernetes
Jul 29, 2026 • 10:09 AM-10:14 AM
1F | Main Hall
Subaru is developing AI models in-house to further improve the recognition accuracy of next-generation EyeSight. As AI development activities expanded, the team faced several challenges, including large ML container images, manual deployment operations, and increasingly complex machine learning workflows. To address these challenges, Subaru built a Kubernetes-based AI model development platform using cloud native technologies such as Harbor, Envoy Gateway, MetalLB, Argo CD, Helm, and Argo Workflows. These improvements reduced container image pull time from approximately three hours to three minutes, enabled GitOps management for 25 application definitions, and automated machine learning workflows. In this session, Subaru will share how it used Kubernetes and CNCF technologies to address key challenges in AI model development and accelerate its development workflow.
LeRenzo Malcom
Staff Software Engineer
Enpal
Software engineer at Enpal!
Conference Sessions
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What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) ? : Green Tech and the Modernization of the Grid
Jul 30, 2026 • 10:16 AM-10:19 AM
1F | Main Hall
The Grid Is Becoming a Distributed System Energy systems face pressure from geopolitical shocks, electrification, extreme weather, and digital infrastructure. The grid needs more than new generation; it needs flexibility. Japan makes this challenge tangible. Its energy self-sufficiency rate is around 15%, while roughly 70% of electricity generation depends on fossil fuels. Yet Japan targets 40–50% renewable electricity by FY2040 as demand rises from data centers, semiconductor manufacturing, and electrification. As solar, batteries, EVs, and heat pumps spread, valuable grid resources are moving into homes and cities. Virtual Power Plants coordinate these devices as one software-defined energy asset, shifting demand, storing renewable energy, and improving resilience. This keynote explores why the grid behaves like a distributed system, and how cloud-native patterns can help operate it. The next power plant may be one million homes, batteries, and EVs, coordinated by software.
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What is a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) ? : Green Tech and the Modernization of the Grid
Jul 30, 2026 • 2:50 PM-3:20 PM
5F | 502
Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) are reshaping the energy grid by turning thousands of distributed IoT devices—solar systems, batteries, EV chargers—into one coordinated, cloud-native asset. At Enpal, we operate one of Europe’s largest residential solar fleets and are building a next-generation VPP platform to orchestrate it. This talk explores what it really means to build a power plant in software—and why developing for IoT looks nothing like typical cloud app development. You’ll learn: How the electrical grid works (with examples!) How a Virtual Power Plant works—from household solar to market bidding How Enpal’s IoT and cloud systems coordinate to optimize energy use and revenue in real time What design patterns (Kubernetes, KubeEdge, Dapr, event streaming) make it possible to treat 100,000+ homes like a distributed cluster How VPPs make money—through flexibility markets, load shifting, and price arbitrage
Yu Misaki
Infrastructure Engineer
independent
Engineer with a background spanning backend development, ML, and infrastructure, currently focused on enterprise AWS environments. Earned Golden Kubestronaut certification (12th in Japan at the time) in January 2026. Maintains a Raspberry Pi home lab and writes about the cloud native learning journey on Zenn. Other certifications include AWS SAP, GCP PCA, LPIC-2, and JDLA Deep Learning for Engineer.
Conference Sessions
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⚡Lightning Talk: 1 Year, 15 Certs, Zero Kubernetes at Work: How I Became a Golden Kubestronaut
Jul 29, 2026 • 3:04 PM-3:09 PM
3F | 313+314
The speaker never set out to collect certifications. He just thought Kubernetes looked cool. It started with watching a colleague deploy workloads and seeing nodes scale up automatically — all visible in real time through k9s. That curiosity led to CKA — which took two attempts. But passing revealed how much the next exams overlapped, so he kept going and earned Kubestronaut. Then a new question: "What about all the CNCF technologies I've never touched?" A Raspberry Pi home lab turned unfamiliar tools into genuine interests — and before he knew it, all 15 certifications were done in 14 months, without ever using Kubernetes at work. This lightning talk traces that unplanned chain reaction. Attendees will learn: All you need is curiosity — no production experience or employer support required One step leads to the next — each exam opens a door to the next; momentum builds naturally The hardest part is the first step — don't aim for 15; just try the one that interests you
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1 Year, 15 Certs, a Raspberry Pi Home Lab: How I Became a Golden Kubestronaut
Jul 30, 2026 • 9:44 AM-9:47 AM
1F | Main Hall
It started with watching a colleague deploy workloads and seeing nodes scale up automatically — all visible in real time through k9s. That curiosity led to CKA — which took two attempts. But passing revealed how much the next exams overlapped, so he kept going and earned Kubestronaut. Then a new question: "What about all the CNCF technologies I've never touched?" A Raspberry Pi home lab turned unfamiliar tools into genuine interests — and before he knew it, all 15 certifications were done in 14 months. This lightning talk traces that unplanned chain reaction. Attendees will learn: 1. All you need is curiosity — no experience required 2. One step leads to the next — each exam opens a door to the next; momentum builds naturally 3. The hardest part is the first step — don't aim for 15; just try the one that interests you
Yuichi Nakamura
Head of OSPO/Master OSS Strategist
Hitachi, Ltd.
Yuichi Nakamura, Ph.D has been engaged with OSS over 20 years, contributed to SELinux, given presentations in many OSS events. He launched ecosystem of business and OSS contribution model based on Keycloak, and leading OSPO in Hitachi. He is one of the first Japan evangelists of the Linux Foundation and launched Cloud Native Community Japan as CNCF Japan Chapter with community colleagues. He is also a board of the Linux Foundation, governing board of CNCF.
Conference Sessions
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Navigating the Identity Abyss in the AI‑Native Era
Jul 30, 2026 • 10:04 AM-10:14 AM
1F | Main Hall
As AI-native systems become mainstream, a growing number of standards around identities are emerging to support governance of Agentic AI ecosystems like MCP – even small misusage of standards can lead to a major incident. The keynote introduces two key CNCF initiatives with strong activities in Japan, that is helpful to navigate the complex landscape. First, IAM White Paper, which provides practical guidance for building secure identity foundations for cloud native systems including AI platforms. Second, Keycloak, a leading open-source IAM solution that is actively implementing the latest standards for Agentic AI. Join us to explore how the cloud native community is building trust, security, and interoperability for the AI-native era.
Kazuki Sato
Software Engineer
NTT Docomo Business, Inc.
Kazuki Sato is a software engineer at NTT Docomo Business, Inc., specializing in cloud-native distributed systems and GPU infrastructure. He serves as Lead Architect for GoAT (GPU over APN Testbed), developing nationwide distributed AI platforms leveraging IOWN APN. He also holds a Maritime Officer license — making him one of the rare engineers who handles both physical and digital containers, at least in theory.
Conference Sessions
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How CNCF Projects United Two Countries' Engineers to Solve AI's Power-and-Land Problem
Jul 30, 2026 • 10:21 AM-10:24 AM
1F | Main Hall
As AI's appetite for compute keeps growing, a single urban data center hits a hard physical wall — not racks, but power and land. No amount of expansion at one site solves it. It's a challenge the whole world shares, and one that hits especially hard in Japan, where land is scarce. So instead of expanding one site, NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS distributed GPUs across Japan. Over a wide-area L2 network built on IOWN APN (All-Photonics Network) technology, we operate eight data centers — more than 2,000 km from Sapporo to Fukuoka — as a single Kubernetes cluster. But a fast network alone isn't enough. The real challenge is making that distributed capacity usable as one: multiple tenants in secure isolation, existing workloads running as-is, with the feel of a single site. We made that real with cloud native technologies — above all, KubeVirt. What matters most is who built it: engineers from Japan and Korea, brought together by open source. Because Kubernetes and KubeVirt gave us a shared language, NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS and SK Telecom could design as equals across a national border. Our takeaway: a challenge the whole world shares can be addressed on the common ground of CNCF, where companies and countries co-create a solution together. This one was built by engineers in Japan and Korea — and from here in Japan, we want to take this distributed architecture to a world facing the same wall.
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Beyond the DC Walls: Building a Nationwide GPU Fabric with KubeVirt and Wide-Area L2
Jul 30, 2026 • 4:30 PM-5:00 PM
5F | 503
Cloud-native AI infrastructure faces a "physical wall" of power and land limits. To solve this, NTT and SKT built a "Nationwide GPU Fabric", merging a 1,000km+ high-speed L2 network (IOWN APN) with Kubernetes and KubeVirt to operate distributed DCs (Sapporo to Fukuoka) as a single cluster. We deep-dive into the architecture, performance, and future of GPU orchestration beyond a single DC. Distributed vs. Traditional DCs: Achievable workloads and trade-offs across a 1,000km+ fabric from Sapporo to Fukuoka. Fabric-Aware Topology Alignment: We demonstrate how our solution maps long-haul IOWN APN constraints into KubeVirt VMs, maintaining high-performance GPU peer communication (NCCL) across 1,000km as a single, virtualized cluster. DRA Feature: We share KubeVirt’s static limits and the potential of DRA for dynamic orchestration. Attendees walk away with a concrete blueprint to shatter the "walls" of a single DC — a scalable solution for global urban AI infrastructure challenges.
Alolita Sharma
Engineering Leader, AI Observability Platform Services
Apple
Alolita Sharma is a OpenTelemetry maintainer and GC member. Also she is a CNCF End-User TAB & GB member. She leads Apple’s AIML observability teams. She contributes to open source, open standards at OpenTelemetry, Unicode, W3C. She has been co-chair of CNCF's Observability TAG and has served on the boards of the OSI, SFLC.in and Unicode Consortium. Previously Alolita led observability and search engineering teams at AWS and has managed engineering teams at IBM, PayPal, Twitter, Wikipedia.
Conference Sessions
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OpenTelemetry Celebrates Graduation and the Next Era of Agentic Observability
Jul 30, 2026 • 9:54 AM-9:57 AM
1F | Main Hall
Seven years after the unification of OpenTracing and OpenCensus, OpenTelemetry celebrates its CNCF graduation—having successfully conquered production security and scale, stabilized semantic conventions, and unified all four core data signals into a single interoperable fabric. As OpenTelemetry enters its next frontier, we are thrilled to unveil a new era of intelligent observability—propelling native support for Agentic AI, high-efficiency OTel-Arrow transport, continuous profiling, and smart, entity-driven sampling. Come celebrate and join in to build the next generation of open-source observability.
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Standardizing Industrial IoT observability with OpenTelemetry
Jul 30, 2026 • 11:30 AM-12:00 PM
3F | 315
What happens when “observability” meets industrial “IoT”? In this session, we will dive into where OpenTelemetry can be used in IIoT environments. We will also cover how to use OTel’s flexible architecture to observe industrial equipment, inform preventative maintenance, and ensure quality control (QC). Join in to learn about how to configure the OpenTelemetry Collector to handle industrial protocols (e.g., MQTT, OPC-UA) alongside standard OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) to bridge “shop floor” data to cloud-native “top floor” pipelines. And learn to leverage OpenTelemetry metrics and traces for preventative maintenance and real-time QC alerting.
Jeffrey Sica
Head of Projects
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Jeffrey (@jeefy) is Head of Projects at the CNCF, with a focus on improving community and project automation. Before that, he worked at Red Hat and the University of Michigan focusing on Cloud Native technologies and CI/CD patterns. Jeffrey has been a contributor to upstream Kubernetes, helping in SIG-Contribex, SIG-Release, and SIG-UI. He passionately advocates for open source development and recognizing and alleviating burnout.
Conference Sessions
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Where Will Cloud Native Take You?
Jul 30, 2026 • 9:30 AM-9:35 AM
1F | Main Hall
The cloud native community is more than open source projects, it's a place for individuals to learn new skills, build a professional network, and accelerate a\ career. Whether your first step is earning a certification, joining a local community, fixing documentation, or contributing code, every new participant brings fresh ideas and energy that keep cloud native moving. In this keynote, Jeffrey Sica will share practical ways to get involved and show how building your cloud native journey can help shape both your career and the future of the global community.
Ziyi Xie
Technology Strategy Specialist
NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
Ziyi Xie is an AI Technology Strategy Specialist at NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd. She is also a CNCF Ambassador and an organizer of Cloud Native Community Japan, Kubernetes Upstream Training Japan, and Cloud Native Security Japan. She has spoken at the Kubernetes Contributor Summit, KubeDay Japan, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan.
Conference Sessions
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Take the First Step, Grow with Cloud Native Community Japan
Jul 30, 2026 • 9:49 AM-9:52 AM
1F | Main Hall
Cloud Native Community Japan (CNCJ) connects people across Japan through local meetups, topic-focused communities, collaboration with related organizations, and programs that help newcomers explore upstream contribution. This session introduces the many ways to get involved—from taking a first step into the cloud native community to sharing experiences and contributing to the wider CNCF ecosystem. It also highlights CNCJ’s latest activities and new opportunities to connect, collaborate, and make an impact both locally and globally.
Ryota Yonekura
Senior SRE Engineer
PowerX
SRE/Infrastructure Engineer at PowerX, with a background in backend engineering. Developing cloud and edge Kubernetes platforms, including k0s-based edge Kubernetes clusters. M.S. in Computer Science, The University of Tokyo. Interested in low-level systems, software architecture, and competitive programming.
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Large-Scale Edge Management with Kubernetes: The Tech Behind Stable Operation of 200 EV Chargers
Jul 30, 2026 • 9:59 AM-10:02 AM
1F | Main Hall
PowerX operates more than 200 EV chargers around Japan, and keeping them running reliably is the single most critical challenge for our service. Managing software across a large number of edge devices while maintaining reliability has always been a major burden for our SRE team. In particular, achieving consistent operations in an environment where devices with limited resources are intermixed proved especially difficult. In this keynote, we'll summarize the solution we put into practice to address these challenges: building a large-scale edge management system on top of Kubernetes. Why did we choose Kubernetes from among the many available options, and why did we then adopt k0s specifically? How did we design a hybrid cluster connecting the cloud (GKE) with the edge? How do we efficiently collect metrics from resource-constrained devices, and how do we switch between OpenTelemetry's push-based and pull-based approaches to ensure observability?
Shota Yoshimura
Senior Platform Engineer
LY Corporation
Shota Yoshimura is a Platform Engineer at LY Corporation, where he develops and operates one of Japan’s largest private Kubernetes platforms. His work focuses on Kubernetes as a Service, platform reliability, observability, and secure operations at scale. He is also active in the cloud native community and has spoken at major cloud native and observability events in Japan, including Observability Conference and CloudNative Days.
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From 5 to 1,300+ Clusters: Declarative Scaling for Private Kubernetes
Jul 29, 2026 • 10:16 AM-10:19 AM
1F | Main Hall
LY Corporation operates one of Japan’s largest private Kubernetes platforms, managing more than 1,300 clusters and 40,000+ nodes with only 15 platform engineers. This 3-minute keynote will share how LY uses Kubernetes custom resources and controllers to define infrastructure declaratively and automate cluster provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and recovery across OpenStack-based private infrastructure. Using the platform architecture diagram as the focal point, the talk will show how declarative automation reduced provisioning from weeks to hours, enabled zero-downtime operations, and turned Kubernetes into a self-service platform for product teams.
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Scaling In Kubernetes Safely on On-Prem KaaS Across 1,300+ Clusters and 40,000+ Nodes
Jul 29, 2026 • 12:10 PM-12:40 PM
5F | 501
Many Kubernetes talks focus on scaling out to support growth, but large platforms also need safe ways to scale in. This is especially true for on-premises Kubernetes as a Service, where unused node capacity affects hardware procurement, rack capacity, and long-term operations. This talk shares how we built a custom controller to consolidate underutilized worker nodes safely across 1,300+ clusters and 40,000+ nodes. At this scale, underutilized nodes were no longer isolated inefficiencies but a meaningful capacity problem. We needed a more conservative model than a general-purpose autoscaler could provide, so the controller uses observed node usage, seven-day peak metrics, minimum replica guarantees, and machine-group-level safety checks before taking action. We will also cover safeguards including graceful shutdown expectations, DaemonSet termination ordering, and node deletion behavior designed to minimize user impact.
Ted Young
Developer Programs Director
Grafana Labs
OpenTelemetry co-founder
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Project Lightning Talk: New Frontiers for OpenTelemetry – A Roadmap for the Future
Jul 29, 2026 • 11:49 AM-11:54 AM
3F | 313+314
OpenTelemetry (OTel) has become the industry standard for observability. In this session, we will highlight how OTel is shaping the future of observability with architectural, protocol, and ecosystem updates aimed at handling complex cloud-native environments and cutting-edge agentic systems. We will touch upon key initiatives in OTel including GenAI observability with standardized semantic conventions and instrumentation, high cardinality support with Arrow and dynamic configurations, profiling signal support and OTel Blueprints. Join in to learn about what’s in progress and what’s coming!
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OpenTelemetry Celebrates Graduation and the Next Era of Agentic Observability
Jul 30, 2026 • 9:54 AM-9:57 AM
1F | Main Hall
Seven years after the unification of OpenTracing and OpenCensus, OpenTelemetry celebrates its CNCF graduation—having successfully conquered production security and scale, stabilized semantic conventions, and unified all four core data signals into a single interoperable fabric. As OpenTelemetry enters its next frontier, we are thrilled to unveil a new era of intelligent observability—propelling native support for Agentic AI, high-efficiency OTel-Arrow transport, continuous profiling, and smart, entity-driven sampling. Come celebrate and join in to build the next generation of open-source observability.
