Intel at KubeCon
North America 2023
November 6-9, 2023
Chicago, Illinois
Kubernetes* experts from Intel presented their current open source projects aimed at advancing sustainability and cloud native computing. When working together, technology becomes a force for good, helping us to solve the world’s most critical challenges.
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Social Events
Networking Community Party Hosted by Intel
Off-site Location: Fatpour Tap Works* McCormick
Wednesday, November 8, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. central standard time (CST)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lunch
Join this special program featuring discussion around diversity, equity, and inclusion. More details to be announced.
Seating is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Wednesday, November 8, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (CST)
Co-located Events
Istio* Day
Lessons from Scaling AI-Powered Translation Services Using Istio*
Iris Ding, Intel; Tim Gallant, Lilt
Monday, November 6
10:25 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. (CST)
Kubernetes* AI + HPC Day
Lightning Talk: Environmentally Sustainable AI via Power-Aware Batch Scheduling
Atanas Atanasov, Intel
Monday, November 6
12:20 p.m. - 12:25 p.m. (CST)
Cloud-Native Wasm Day
Exploit Parallelism for AI Workloads with Wasm and OpenMP*
Atanas Atanasov and Andrew Brown, Intel
Monday, November 6
1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (CST)
EnvoyCon
Tracing HTTP/2 Traffic Using a gRPC Tapping Filter with Hardware Acceleration
Yizhou Xu, Intel; Devan Nair, Ericsson*
Monday, November 6
4:25 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. (CST)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Sessions & Keynote
Keynote: Environmental Sustainability in the Cloud Is Not a Mythical Creature
Marlow Weston, Intel; Rimma Iontel, Red Hat*; Tammy McClellan, Microsoft*; Niki Manoledaki, Grafana Labs; Frederick Kautz, TestifySec
Tuesday, November 7
9:40 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. (CST)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Environmental Sustainability TAG Updates and Information
Marlow Weston, Intel; Niki Manoledak, Grafana Labs
Tuesday, November 7
11:00 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. (CST)
All Things In-Toto: Supply Chain Attestations, Policies, and Adoption Stories, Oh My!
Marcela Melara, Intel; Santiago Torres-Arias, Purdue University
Tuesday, November 7
11:55 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (CST)
Advancing Memory Management in Kubernetes: Next Steps with Memory QoS
Antti Kervinen, Intel; Dixita Narang, Google*
Tuesday, November 7
2:30 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. (CST)
High Performance, Low Latency Networking for the Edge & Telecommunications
Dan Daly and Nupur Jain, Intel; Vipin Jain, AMD*; Ian Coolidge, Google; Nabil Bitar, Blomberg;
Tuesday, November 7
2:30 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. (CST)
Environmentally Sustainable AI via Power-Aware Batch Scheduling
Atanas Atanasov, Intel; Daniel Wilson, Boston University
Thursday, November 9
11:00 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. (CST)
gRPC Tapping Filter with Hardware Accelerated in Service Mesh
Yizhou Xu, Intel; Devan Nair, Ericsson
Thursday, November 9
11:00 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. (CST)
Lifting the Hood to Take a Look at the Kubernetes Resource Management Evolution
Alexander Kanevskiy, Intel; Mike Brown, IBM*
Thursday, November 9
2:55 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (CST)
Kernel Module Management (KMM): Your Swiss Army Knife* for Kernel Modules on Kubernetes
Hersh Pathak, Intel; Quentin Barrand, Red Hat
Tuesday, November 7
5:25 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (CST)
Flavors of Certificates in Service Mesh: The Whys and Hows
Iris Ding, Intel; Faseela Kundattil, Ericsson
Thursday, November 9
4:00 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. (CST)
Demos
Federated Learning with OpenFL in an Intel Attested Confidential Environment
OpenFL enables secure AI model training across locations without sharing sensitive data. This demo shows enhanced security using Red Hat OpenShift* and Intel® Software Guard Extensions for encrypted training, ensuring data privacy.
Generative AI with Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit and Red Hat OpenShift*
Generative AI transforms AI, creating data and solving complex problems. This demo shows how Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit accelerates building and deploying generative AI models on Intel hardware (CPUs and GPUs).
Open, Secured, and Accelerated Istio Service Mesh
Istio is an open source service mesh for secure, efficient service management. Intel® Managed Distribution of Istio* Service Mesh enhances performance, security, and extensions using Intel hardware. This demo offers insights provided by this service mesh.
AI Workloads Can Have It All: Scalable, Confidential, and Sustainable
Orchestrating AI workloads in cloud native environments is challenging. This demo illustrates a retail checkout or security surveillance AI pipeline, including video processing, scalable microservices, and trusted execution environments for confidentiality. It can help to save up to 20% of power.
Up Next
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024
March 19-22, 2024, Paris, France
Adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities attend this Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conference.