Join Us at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

Enjoy Paris in spring while immersing yourself in all things cloud native at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event in Paris, March 19‒22, 2024.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) flagship conference draws adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud-native communities around the world. Learn and connect with fellow developers over four days of in-person and virtual events, including keynotes, conference sessions, tutorials, and parties—you’ll want to swing by ours at Le Perchoir for the most delicious macarons you’ve ever tasted.

As a Diamond sponsor, we’ve got lots going on at this year’s event:

• Join our Intel Open Ecosystem team and global open ecosystem experts as we lead sessions and demos focused on GenAI, Kubernetes, technical leadership, resource allocation management, and more. See the full list of Intel activities below.
• Stop by our booth at #H5 to get your event passport, start collecting pins, and enter to win cool prizes!
• Stop by our second booth at #J17 to check out demos from our Intel® Software team and to learn how they’re helping organizations like American Airlines master Kubernetes at scale.

Register for the conference today. You can find the full conference schedule here

Social Events

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lunch: Join this special program for a discussion around diversity, equity, and inclusion. Seating is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Thursday, March 21
• Community Social Hosted by Intel: The fun doesn’t stop when the expo floor closes. Join us at Le Perchoir, one of Paris’s tastiest restaurants, for delicious Parisian cuisine and, weather permitting, possibly the best rooftop view in town. Thursday, March 21

Co-located Events

Istio Day

• Welcome and Opening Remarks: Tuesday, March 19
• Closing Remarks: Tuesday, March 19

Cloud-Native AI Day

• Panel: Beyond the Clouds: Charting the Course for AI in the Cloud-Native World: With Kubernetes being the de facto orchestration platform choice for AI, have you wondered how AI can benefit from cloud native technologies? Join this discussion to learn about the benefits and how they can extend beyond the horizon of cloud native and AI integration. Tuesday, March 19

Cloud-Native WebAssembly (WASM) Day

• Pathfinder to GPU Offload in WASM: Building off work integrating CPU-based OpenMP with WASM, this talk aims to investigate GPU offloading models and to assess the feasibility of integrating one or more of them with WASM. See why integration with WASM would mean more secure, portable, and cloud compatible AI applications. Tuesday, March 19

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Sessions

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

• Beyond Default: Harnessing CPU Affinity for Enhanced Performance Across Your Workload Portfolio: Gain clarity on CPU affinity beyond default settings to attain optimal performance across diverse workloads and maximize computational efficiency. Wednesday, March 20
• Cloud-Native LLM Deployments Made Easy Using LangChain: Learn how to transition your trained AI models to working applications smoothly and efficiently by deploying an end-to-end large language model (LLM) containerized LangChain application in a cloud-native environment. Wednesday, March 20
• DRAcon: Demystifying Dynamic Resource Allocation—from Myths to Facts: This session will demystify dynamic resource allocation (DRA), a new approach for describing resource requirements in a Kubernetes cluster. To move forward to beta and beyond, we need your feedback. Join to share whether you think it’s ready in its current form, who wants to use it for what, and how we can solve some of the open challenges. Wednesday, March 20
• Savoir Faire: Cloud-Native Technical Leadership: Technical leadership requires a balance of ingredients, continued practice, and skills refinement to create valuable change. Learn from panelists who will share their real-world experiences, insights, and the methods they use as cloud native technical leaders in a diverse, international community. Wednesday, March 20
• Sponsored Session: American Airlines Increases Velocity Leveraging K8s at Scale and Autonomous App-Level Optimization: American Airlines will share how their partnership with Intel® Software solved the trade-off between new features and performance optimization and how they used automation to improve performance metrics and lower K8s costs. Wednesday, March 20
• Tutorial: Cloud-Native Sustainable Large Language Model (LLM) Inference in Action: Join this tutorial for insights on integrating environmental sustainability with cloud native technology solutions. This session promises valuable insights into the future of eco-friendly cloud computing. Wednesday, March 20

• Keynote: The Cloud Native News Show: AI Breakthroughs Revealed  Welcome to “The Cloud Native News Show,” your one-stop destination for the latest cloud native and AI headlines. With exclusive interviews, insightful analyses, and behind-the-scenes access to CNCF maintainers, "The Cloud Native News Show” promises to deliver the pulse of the rapidly evolving CNCF ecosystem. In this special AI edition, their expert correspondents will provide coverage of groundbreaking innovations, from revolutionary features to the game-changing use of LLMs in Kubernetes. 

Thursday, March 21, 2024

• Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN): Challenges of Kubernetes for Composable Disaggregated Computing: Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) Global Forum is now under development for an infrastructure of composable disaggregated computing in a data-centric manner, called Data-Centric Infrastructure (DCI). In this session, experts will discuss the current gap that needs Kubernetes DRA enhancement and elaborate on using Kubernetes in composable disaggregated computing. Thursday, March 21
• Leverage Contextual and Structured Logging in K8s for Enhanced Monitoring: This session will dive deep into changes in the Kubernetes logging infrastructure and how they relate to the Go ecosystem. For contributors, we’ll raise some points for better collaboration with the working group. Thursday, March 21

• Unlocking the TAG-Runtime Magic: Where Cloud-Native, Workloads, and AI Join Forces!: Learn everything you need to know to get involved with the CNCF-TAG Runtime in this session featuring advice from experts at Intel, Microsoft, Truera, and VMware. Discover the hottest developments and gain the know-how to dive into open source projects and become a vital part of the vibrant CNCF community.

Friday, March 22, 2024

• Swap Smart, Save Big: Intel experts will demonstrate container memory usage monitoring in detail and discuss various swapping options. System-wide swapping has reached beta in Kubernetes 1.28, acting when a node’s memory is running low. Container-specific swapping options allow using memory to specific limits to help keep overall system performance steady by keeping more RAM free. Friday, March 22

Demos at the Intel Booth #H5

Between sessions, stop by Intel booth #H5 to catch a technical demo from our Kubernetes experts.

You can find us at booth #H5 on Wednesday, March 20, 10:45‒20:00 (GMT+1); Thursday, March 21, 10:30‒17:00 (GMT+1); Friday, March 22, 10:30‒14:30 (GMT+1).

Sharing and Isolating GPU Resources for AI Workloads with Kubernetes DRA

Dynamic resource allocation (DRA), a recent Kubernetes API, is an alternative to device plugins and provides more-flexible access to GPU resources in a Kubernetes cluster. Find out how DRAs allow for easier deployment of multiple nondemanding workloads on the same GPU—or one demanding workload on multiple GPUs— with a GPU resource driver from Intel for Kubernetes in Intel® Developer Cloud.

Deploy LLM Serving and Fine-Tuning Services Using BigDL-LLM on Kubernetes

If you are using an LLM, optimization and serving are necessary steps in your workflow. BigDL, a distributed deep learning framework, has a BigDL-LLM library that can help you accomplish this with ease. Come see it in action as we demonstrate the creation of serving and fine-tuning its services and deployment on Kubernetes.

GenAI: Paint Your Dreams with Optimum for Intel and OpenVINO™ Toolkit

Accelerate the end-to-end process of building, optimizing, containerizing, and deploying generative AI (GenAI) models with the OpenVINO™ toolkit. Attendees will gain insights into running Stable Diffusion and advanced transformer models on CPUs and GPUs with an emphasis on flexibility and edge deployment, including its support for Hugging Face Optimum for Intel.

Confidential Computing with ACon Attested Containers

Incorporating confidential computing into your data pipeline can help keep your data secure within the CPU. We will demonstrate how a workload is launched on Intel® Trust Domain Extensions into an ACon trust domain virtual machine that provides an attestation to a demo-relying party. The party evaluates the attestation and sends a secret into the container using a secure channel.

WASM GPU Offload APIs for Accelerated Computation

Developers can now deploy WASM to securely develop once and then deploy across multiple architectures. See how to integrate WASM tools—WASI-NN and WebGPU—in AI, HPC, and visualization applications to offload to the GPU and accelerate computation.

Sessions at the Intel Booth #H5 

Stop by for swag, check out a demo, and stay for a session to learn more about everything from OpenTofu to confidential containers.
 

Register Today!

Don’t miss out on this great event! Register for the conference today. You can find the full conference schedule here