Co-chairs: Amber Graner, Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Yuan Tang
November 12, 2024
Salt Lake City, Utah
Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day brings together a diverse range of technical enthusiasts, open source contributors, practitioners, researchers and end users. All united in a common goal: Enhancing Kubernetes as the ultimate infrastructure management tool for research, training, and production. Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day is welcoming the AI/ML and High Performance Computing (HPC) communities. Since 2022 there have been multiple dedicated events (Kubeflow Summit, Batch / HPC and Cloud Native AI days) but given the overlap in requirements, projects and end user interests it became clear we all fit better together.
Who will get the most out of attending this event?
The Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day is aimed at seasoned practitioners as well as those new to the batch computing and MLOps worlds. Anyone looking for solutions and best practices to provide cost effective and efficient infrastructure to scale out batch computing, training and inference workloads, and make the best use of scarce and expensive hardware accelerators, will find inspiration here.
This event will also help practitioners of MLOps interact with maintainers of Cloud Native AI projects and foster collaboration between the two worlds.
What is new and different this year?
This time we join the HPC and AI/ML communities in a single event. No need to jump from one event to the other if you want to listen to that particular item on batch computing without missing that awesome session on optimizing inference for chatbot applications.
What will the day look like?
We will have a full day with 11 full sessions and 3 lightning talks and enough time for questions during the sessions and discussion in the break-outs. We will be hearing from researchers, project maintainers and many end users reporting on the successes and challenges of running AI/ML and HPC workloads on top of cloud native infrastructure. While the sessions will be engaging, there will be ample time during coffee breaks and lunch for hallway tracks and networking sessions, helping attendees engage with speakers, maintainers of projects and end users.
Should I do any homework first?
No formal prep is required, but consider going through the schedule in advance so you can prepare to ask or raise particular topics of interest to you or your organization. This is a unique opportunity to meet and learn from some of the industry’s best practitioners and a good chance to also raise your particular requirements and help set the path for our community.
Submitted by the co-chairs, who are eager to hear about progress in batch and inference in Kubernetes as well as real-world use cases and success stories.Don’t forget to register for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024.