KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan

Sunyanan Choochotkaew is a staff research scientist at IBM Research, specializing in distributed computing and performance acceleration on cloud platforms. She contributes to various open-source projects, where she holds the role of maintainer and top contributor, including Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) and Multi-NIC CNI. She is an organizer of the CNCF Community Group in Japan (CNCJ), and played a leader role in organizing the CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Week in Tokyo 2024. Sunyanan has served as a program committee member and an organizing committee member for several conferences in the fields of HPC, AI, and networking, and has also served as an associate editor for IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems.

Masaki Kimura is an engineer at Hitachi, Ltd., focusing on the development and improvement of Kubernetes. He has contributed to promoting the raw block volume feature and the CSI feature stable and the CrossNamespaceVolumeDataSource feature alpha. He has also authored several Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs) that are currently under discussion within the community. In addition to his technical work, he is interested in expanding the community of Kubernetes contributors in Japan. He shares his knowledge by giving presentations on the Kubernetes features at various OSS and cloud native events and serves as a tutor at Kubernetes Upstream Training Japan.

Masaya Aoyama is a Senior Software Engineer and Product Owner of a managed Kubernetes platform at CyberAgent, Inc. He also serves as a Technical Advisor to 3-shake, Inc. and CREATIONLINE, Inc., both of which are CNCF member companies. Since 2017, he has been an active leader and contributor in Japan’s Cloud Native communities, organizing numerous conferences and meetups throughout the country. Notably, he has served as a Co-Chair of “CloudNative Days”, Japan’s largest conference series in this field, for more than seven years. As a Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the CNCF Japan Chapter (CNCJ), he continues to foster and grow the local community. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed “Kubernetes Perfect Guide”, widely regarded as the most popular Kubernetes book in Japan.