Red Hat at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026
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Keynote
Sandbox Your Agents
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 | 9:55am - 10:00am MST
Jessica Forrester, Senior Distinguished Engineer
AI Agents offer unequalled automation tooling for rapid software development, but with unfettered power comes great headaches, namely how to scope and secure them in cloud native stacks. A problematic agent with too much access, either through choice or a lack of knowledge, can take down entire production stacks and wipe databases. In this talk, we explore how using core community building blocks like Confidential Containers and OpenShell, alongside emerging technology across the cloud native ecosystem, allows anyone to isolate their agentic workloads and software development processes at scale with secure, containerized sandboxes.
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall DE
OpenShell Project
OpenShell is an open-source, kernel-enforced sandbox runtime through collaboration with NVIDIA and integrated into Red Hat AI to safely run autonomous AI agents.
Confidential Containers Project
Confidential Containers is a new CNCF sandbox project that enables cloud-native confidential computing by taking advantage of a variety of hardware platforms and technologies.
Demo
Agent Sandboxing with OpenShell on OpenShift
Wednesday, November 11, 2025 | 1:30pm - 1:50pm MST
Mrunal Patel, Distinguished Engineer
OpenShift Commons Gathering
Monday, November 9 | 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Pencil us in! Red Hat’s OpenShift Commons Gathering takes place on November 9!
Where users, partners, customers, contributors and upstream project leads come together to collaborate and work together across the OpenShift Cloud Native ecosystem. Schedule coming soon.
Registration for this event is FREE.
Proud Sponsor of CNCF-hosted co-located events
Monday, November 9
Platinum Sponsor
Agentics Day: MCP + Agents
Platinum Sponsor
Cloud Native AI & Inference Day
Gold Sponsor
BackstageCon
theCUBE
Red Hat is proud to be the Headline sponsor of theCUBE at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. Watch live broadcasts and on-demand conversations during and after the event.
Networking Event
Join Red Hat to kick off KubeCon 2026 in Salt Lake City at the Red Hat Party! Immediately following the KubeCon Welcome Party, mingle with industry peers and explore AI's transformation of the IT landscape.
🗓️ Tuesday, November 10
🕰️ 7:45pm - 10:30pm MST
📍 Flanker Kitchen & Sporting Club
Space is limited, registration opening soon!
Introducing Lightwell
A joint venture between Red Hat and IBM, Lightwell helps enterprises address vulnerable third-party open source dependencies when normal upgrades create compatibility, certification, release, audit, or production risk.
Speaking Sessions
Tuesday, November 10 |
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9:55 AM MST |
Keynote: Sandbox Your AgentsJessica Forrester, Senior Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat |
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11:30 AM MST |
Next Generation DevOps: Reshaping the Cloud Native DevOps Infinity Loop with AIRey Lejano, Solutions Architect / K8s SIG Docs co-chair / CNCF Ambassador, Red Hat SIG Network Intro and UpdatesSurya Seetharaman, Principle Software Engineer, Red Hat Guilherme Cassolato, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Austin Abro, OSS Maintainer, Defense Unicorns Bowei Du, Software Engineer, Google |
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12:20 PM MST |
Beyond Model Serving: Running Production LLMs on Kubernetes with KServeJooho lee, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Johnu George, Technical Director, Nutanix CRI-O: Plug It, Tune It, Share It — Extending and Accelerating Your RuntimeSohan Kunkerkar, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Ayato Tokubi, Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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2:30 PM MST |
Neurodiversity Community GatheringRyan Etten, Senior Architect & Team Lead, Red Hat Diana Todea, Developer Relations Engineer, VictoriaMetrics |
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2:50 PM MST |
Podman ContribfestMohan Boddu, Engineering Manager, Red Hat Matt Heon, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Set Sail with Istio: Developing a Production Service MeshFrancisco Herrera Lira, Principal Quality Engineer / Istio Test and Release Mantainer, Red Hat Faseela Kundattil, Experienced Cloud-native Developer, Ericsson Ian Rudie, Principal Software Engineer, Open Source, Solo.io Steven Jin, Software Engineer, Microsoft |
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4:40 PM MST |
Ground Control to Major Tom: We Need your Public Cloud in our Private CloudAndrew Block, Distinguished Architect, Red Hat Mike Wilson, Principal Architect, Adobe Agents on the Platform: Four Perspectives on the Conversation We're Already Having in PrivateKasper Borg Nissen, Principal Developer Advocate, Dash0 Juraci Paixão Kröhling, Software Engineer, OllyGarden Joseph Sandoval, Principal Product Manager, Adobe Jed Salazar, Head of Security, Edera Alexa Griffith, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Multicluster AMA: The Community AnswersAugust Simonelli, Product Manager, Red Hat Laura Lorenz, Software Engineer, Google Liqian Luo, Partner Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft Kubernetes 101: New Contributor OrientationRey Lejano, Solutions Architect / K8s SIG Docs co-chair / CNCF Ambassador, Red Hat Kat Cosgrove, Kubernetes Maintainer, Independent Kaslin Fields, DevRel Engineer, Google Arpit Agrawal, Documentation Engineer, Harness Chris Short, Principal Trainer, KodeKloud |
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5:30 PM MST |
KubeVirt's Architectural Leap: Pluggability, AI Hardware, and Maturing GovernanceVladik Romanovsky, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Itamar Holder, Principal Software Engineer, KubeVirt maintainer, Red Hat Authorized? It Depends.Rita Zhang, Principal Software Engineer, CoreWeave David Eads, Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat Micah Hausler, Micah Hausler, AWS Peter Engelbert, Software Engineer, Microsoft Ben Petersen, Product Manager on Azure Upstream, Microsoft |
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Wednesday, November 11 |
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10:45 AM MST |
KubeVirt Summit Opening RemarksAndrew Burden, Community Facilitator, KubeVirt | Red Hat Ryan Hallisey, Software Engineer, Nvidia |
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11:00 AM MST |
Cache Me If You Can: LLM Inference with llm-d (with fun drawings)Alexa Griffith, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat etcd ContribfestJosh Berkus, Senior Principal Program Manager, Red Hat Ivan Valdes Castillo, Site Reliability Engineer, Inmar Intelligence Siyuan Zhang, Software Engineer, Google Marek Siarkowicz, Staff Software Engineer, Google |
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11:50 AM MST |
A Decade of AI on Kubernetes: Kubeflow’s Journey to CNCF GraduationAndrey Velichkevich, Kubeflow Steering Committee, Kubeflow Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Principal AI Architect FSI | Safety & Security, Red Hat Alexander Perlman, Distinguished Engineer, Capital One Christian Heusel, DevOps Engineer, Contractor Shivay Lamba, Senior ML engineer, Qualcomm SIG-Node: Intro and Deep DiveSergey Kanzhelev, Staff Software Engineer, Google Mrunal Patel, Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat Dawn Chen, Software Engineer, Google Peter Hunt, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Tim Allclair, Software Engineer, Google |
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12:00 PM MST |
Neurodivergent Minds with Wings: Engineering Independence at WorkDiana Todea, Developer Relations Engineer, VictoriaMetrics Ryan Etten, Senior Architect & Team Lead, Red Hat |
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12:05 PM MST |
Optimized Switchover Timing for Live Migration of Memory-Intensive WorkloadsAseef Imran, Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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1:20 PM MST |
Beyond QEMU/KVM: Re-Architecting KubeVirt for Heterogeneous Virtualization BackendsVladik Romanovsky, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Harshit Gupta, Senior Software Enginner, Microsoft |
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1:40 PM MST |
Building Reproducible AgentOps Pipelines with Kubeflow and MLflowAlyssa Goins, Software Engineer, Red Hat Ana Biazetti, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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2:20 PM MST |
Kubernetes Localization in the AI Era: Contributors Still MatterNatali Vlatko, Director of Open Source Software Engineering, Cisco Seokho Son, Principal Researcher / Special Fellow, ETRI Rey Lejano, Solutions Architect / K8s SIG Docs co-chair / CNCF Ambassador, Red Hat Divya Mohan, Lead Open Source Advocate, SUSE |
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3:10 PM MST |
From Pod Creation to First PacketSurya Seetharaman, Principle Software Engineer, Red Hat Your CI's Mistaken IdentityAndrew McNamara, Software Engineer, Red Hat Maia Iyer, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Gateway API Project Update: – Building the Future of TrafficEvaline Ju, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Norwin Schnyder, Senior Cloud Software Engineer, Airlock Ricardo Katz, Software Engineer / Gateway API Maintainer, Red Hat Lior Lieberman, Senior Engineering Lead, Google Grant Spence, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Achieving Cross-Cloud Portability with the Kubernetes Resource OrchestratorMichael McCune, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Daniel Bruno, Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer, Uber Sitesh Pattanaik, Software Engineer, AWS Bridget Kromhout, Product Manager, Microsoft Jesse Butler, Principal PMT, AWS |
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4:10 PM MST |
The Next Era of Kubernetes Operator Lifecycle ManagementRashmi Gottipati, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Jordan Keister, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Attila Mészáros, Staff Software Engineer, Apple Joe Lanford, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat From Curious to Contributor: Ship Your First Backstage PRHope Hadfield, Software Engineer, Red Hat André Wanlin, Senior Customer Success Engineer, Spotify Stephen Glass, Principal Software Engineer, AT&T |
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5:00 PM MST |
CoHDI: Bridging Kubernetes and Disaggregated Memory for Memory-Aware LLM InferenceNaoki Oguchi, Senior Director, Fsas Technologies Inc. Hidetsugu Sugiyama, Chief Architect, Red Hat Composing Inference on Kubernetes: Gateway, Schedule, Serve, ObserveKarena Angell, Senior Principal Technical Strategist, Global Engineering, Red Hat Sean Horgan, Product Manager, Google Reduce vLLM Pod Cold Starts with KServe Kernel CachingJooho lee, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Vishwa Hiren Gandhi, Software Engineer, Oracle The Future of Kubernetes Eviction and Node LifecycleFilip Křepinský, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Lucy Sweet, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic Ryan Hallisey, Software Engineer, Nvidia |
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Thursday, November 12 |
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11:00 AM MST |
WG-Workload Aware Scheduling: An IntroductionKevin Hannon, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Andrey Velichkevich, Kubeflow Steering Committee, Kubeflow Heba Elayoty, Software Engineer, Microsoft Matt Matejczyk, Software Engineer, Google SIG Storage Intro and Deep DiveXing Yang, Tech Lead, VMware by Broadcom Hemant Kumar, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Michelle Au, Software Engineer, Google Tell Us How You’re Using Argo CD: A Community ContribFest SessionNitish Kumar, Argo CD Maintainer, Akuity Inc. Dan Garfield, VP OSS, Octopus Deploy Alexandre Gaudreault, Staff Software Developer & Argo Maintainer, Intuit Kanika Rana, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Michael Crenshaw, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Intuit |
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11:35 AM MST |
Agentic Inference at ScaleMaroon Ayoub, Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Red Hat Sean Horgan, Product Manager, Google |
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11:50 AM MST |
SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep DiveLaura Lorenz, Software Engineer, Google Stephen Kitt, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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1:50 PM MST |
Explore TAG Workloads Foundation: Core Runtime, Batch Scheduling, and MoarMarlow Warnicke, Senior software engineer, Nvidia Yuan Tang, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat; Project Lead at Argo, Red Hat; Project Lead at Argo, Kubeflow, and KServe Stephen Rust, Principal Architect, Akamai Cloud Paco Xu, Lead of Open Source Team, DaoCloud Rajas Kakodkar, Tech Lead at CNCF TAG Workload Foundation | Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom Agentic Helm HackathonAndrew Block, Distinguished Architect, Red Hat Scott Rigby, Helm Maintainer George Jenkins |
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2:40 PM MST |
From Black-Box to Auditable AI-Grid: A Deterministic Governance Layer with Hybrid CloudFatih E. Nar, Distinguished Chief Architect, Red Hat Andrew Hendrickson, Chief, Office of Engineering & Technology, FCC |
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CNCF Add-Ons
Maintainer Summit
The CNCF Maintainer Summit is an exclusive event for the people behind projects to gather face-to-face, collaborate, and celebrate the projects that make "Cloud Native." Come join us where we work upstream together to help drive a better cloud native ecosystem for everyone.
Sunday, November 8 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
You must be eligible to attend.
Featured Sessions |
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11:00 AM MST |
Handling Vulnerability Reports in the Age of AI-Generated SubmissionsJoel Smith, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Mo Khan, Software Engineer, Microsoft |
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11:45 AM MST |
Agentic SDLC for Open Source Projects: What Maintainers Need to KnowKarena Angell, Senior Principal Technical Strategist, Global Engineering, Red Hat Joseph Sandoval, Principal Product Manager, Adobe |
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