Co-chairs: Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Thiago Gil, Yuan Tang
April 1, 2025
London
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. Today Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day is welcoming the AI/ML and High Performance Computing (HPC) communities. Since 2022 there have been multiple dedicated events (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, make the best use of scarce and expensive hardware accelerators and efficiently manage LLMs and other model types. 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?
What’s new and different this year is the carefully curated selection of topics, chosen by dedicated reviewers and chairs to ensure a fresh and diverse perspective on observability. This year’s event brings new voices, emerging technologies, and real-world use cases that reflect the latest industry trends—offering attendees valuable insights they won’t find elsewhere.
What will the day look like?
We will have a full day with 10 full sessions and 4 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 successes and challenges of running AI/ML 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 Ricardo Rocha, who is looking forward to listening to end user stories (both challenges and successes) because it is extremely important to understand what works and for which use cases.