Serverless & runtimes

288 talks across 30 events, oldest first: 18 case studies where an organization reports its own experience, plus concept talks and tutorials.

Keywords: serverless, knative, faas, webassembly, wasm, containerd, cri-o, kata containers, gvisor, firecracker (edit under categories: in wiki.yaml).

Over time

Year	Talks	Case studies
2017	13	0
2018	45	2
2019	48	4
2020	26	1
2021	17	1
2022	20	0
2023	35	2
2024	47	5
2025	26	0
2026	11	3

Organizations with case studies

Google, T-Mobile, Oracle, Paybase, Capital One, Datadog, VMware, J. Giannuzzi, LY Corporation, Cerebrium Built

Talks by event

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2017 (Berlin)

• concept · Introduction to Containerd - Patrick Chanezon, Member of Technical Staff, Docker, Inc.. Introduces containerd, its architecture and role as a container runtime.
• concept · Fission: a Serverless Function Framework on Kubernetes [B] - Soam Vasani, Platform9 Systems, Inc.. Introduces Fission, a serverless function framework that runs on Kubernetes.
• concept · Serverless on Kubernetes with Kubeless [A] - Sebastien Goasguen, Bitnami & Nguyen Anh-Tu, Skippbox. Introduces Kubeless, a Kubernetes-native serverless framework.
• concept · Containerd: The Universal Container Runtime [I] - Justin Cormack, Docker

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)

• concept · Embedding the Containerd Runtime for Fun and Profit [I] - Phil Estes, IBM
• concept · Kata Containers: Hypervisor-Based Container Runtime - Xu Wang, HyperHQ & Samuel Ortiz, Intel
• concept · CRI-O: All the Runtime Kubernetes Needs, and Nothing More - Mrunal Patel, Red Hat
• concept · Pontoon: An Enterprise Grade Serverless Framework Using Kubernetes – As Used in VMware
• concept · Fission: Serverless Functions for Kubernetes [B] - Soam Vasani, Platform9 Systems
• concept · FaaS and Furious - 0 to Serverless in 60 Seconds, Anywhere - Alex Ellis, ADP
• concept · State of Serverless [B] - Mark Peek, VMware & Doug Davis, IBM
• concept · Building and Running an Enterprise-grade Serverless Platform on Kubernetes - Ying Huang
• tutorial · Building Serverless Application Pipelines [A] - Sebastien Goasguen, Bitnami. Hands-on building of serverless application pipelines.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)

• concept · Serverless Kubernetes Boosts AI Business - Jian Huang, Huawei
• concept · Intro: CNCF Serverless WG / CloudEvents - Doug Davis, IBM & Cathy Zhang, Huawei
• concept · Intro: containerd - Derek McGowan, Docker & Mike Brown, IBM
• concept · Deep Dive: containerd - Derek McGowan, Docker & Mike Brown, IBM
• concept · Serverless Kubernetes: Container in Cloud Native Way - Wei Zhang, Alibaba. Describes Alibaba's approach to serverless Kubernetes and running containers in a cloud-native way.
• concept · Smart Workload: Automated Routing, Scaling of K8s and Serverless Functions - Enlin Xu, Turbonomic
• concept · Serverless Workflow: Key to Wide Serverless Adoption - Cathy Zhang, Huawei. Argues serverless workflows are key to wider serverless adoption and explains how they work.
• concept · Serverless Computing for E-Commerce Applications on JD Kubernetes Platform - Yuan Chen
• concept · Botless: A Serverless Chatbot Framework - Scott Nichols, Google
• concept · Serverless Performance on a Budget - Erwin van Eyk, Platform9
• concept · More Than Secure: Containerd + KataContainers as Kubernetes Runtime - Lei Zhang, Alibaba
• concept · Deep Dive: CNCF Serverless WG / CloudEventsClemens Vasters, Microsoft & Cathy Zhang

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 (Copenhagen)

• case study · Container Isolation at Scale (Introducing gVisor) - Dawn Chen & Zhengyu He, Google — Google
• concept · Containerd, What Does it Mean for Me - Scott Coulton, Puppet (Any Skill Level)
• concept · containerd Deep Dive – Stephen Day, Docker (Intermediate Skill Level). A deep dive into containerd's architecture and design.
• concept · Source2Image Deep Dive – Ben Parees, Red Hat & Matt Moore, Google (Intermediate Skill Level). Deep dive into how Source2Image builds container images from source code.
• concept · Convergence of Serverless APIs & Compute - Sarah Allen, Google (Intermediate Skill Level)
• concept · Apache OpenWhisk: Building a Production-Ready Serverless Stack on/for Kubernetes - David Grove
• concept · Operating a Global-Scale FaaS on Top of Kubernetes - Chad Arimura & Matt Stephenson, Oracle
• concept · The Serverless and Event-Driven Future - Austen Collins, Serverless (Intermediate Skill Level)
• concept · Lightning Talk: The State Of FaaS on Kubernetes - Michael Hausenblas, Red Hat
• concept · Function Composition in a Serverless World - Erwin van Eyk & Timirah James, Platform9. Discusses composing functions in serverless architectures.
• concept · containerd Intro – Stephen Day, Docker (Any Skill Level)
• concept · Kata Containers: Getting Involved with the Kata Community - Anne Bertucio & Samuel Ortiz
• concept · Take Control of your Filesystems with containerd’s Snapshotters - Stephen Day, Docker, Inc.
• concept · Serverless WG BoF - Doug Davis, IBM (Any Skill Level)
• concept · Securing Serverless Functions via Kubernetes Objects - Sebastien Goasguen, Bitnami

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)

• case study · T-Mobile Store Locator Serverless Journey with Knative and Kubernetes - Ram Gopinathan, T-Mobile — T-Mobile
• concept · Intro: containerd - Mike Brown, IBM & Derek McGowan, Docker
• concept · Intro: CNCF Serverless WG / CloudEvents - Doug Davis, IBM & Cathy Zhang, Huawei
• concept · Intro: Knative Productivity BoF - Srinivas V. Hegde & Adriano Cunha, Google
• concept · Machine Learning Model Serving and Pipeline Using KNative - Animesh Singh & Tommy Li, IBM
• concept · Deep Dive: containerd - Derek McGowan, Docker & Phil Estes, IBM Cloud. Deep dive into containerd's architecture and recent developments.
• concept · Deep Dive: CNCF Serverless WG / CloudEvents - Clemens Vasters, Microsoft & Cathy Zhang, Huawei
• concept · Building Container Images on Your Kubernetes Cluster with Knative Build - Gareth Rushgrove, Docker
• concept · Kata and gVisor: A Quantitative Comparison - Xu Wang, hyper.sh
• concept · How to Build Deep Learning Inference Through Knative Server... - Huamin Chen & Yehuda Sadeh-Weinraub. Shows how to build deep learning inference on Knative serverless infrastructure.
• concept · Running Serverless HPC Workloads on Top of Kubernetes and Jupyter Notebooks - Christopher Woods
• concept · Deep Dive: Knative Productivity BoF - Jessie Zhu & Adriano Cunha, Google
• concept · Knative: Scaling From 0 to Infinity - Joseph Burnett & Mark Chmarny, Google
• concept · Birds of a Feather: Knative - Jessie Zhu, Google
• concept · Digital Transformation of Vision Banco Paraguay with Serverless... - Alex Ellis & Patricio Diaz
• concept · Distributed Tracing in Serverless Systems - Nitzan Shapira, Epsagon
• tutorial · Tutorial: Getting Your Hands Dirty with Knative - Bas Tichelaar & Adé Mochtar, Instruqt
• tutorial · Tutorial: KataContainers the Hard Way: Kubernetes + containerd... - Lei Zhang & Xu Wang

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 (Shanghai)

• concept · Build IoT Applications on a Serverless Platform Apache OpenWhisk - Ying Chun Guo, IBM
• concept · CNCF Serverless WG: Where Do We Go From Here? - Doug Davis, IBM
• concept · containerd - Lantao Liu, Google & Wei Fu, Alibaba
• concept · CNCF CloudEvents Project: A Step Towards Serverless Interop - Doug Davis, IBM
• concept · The Enemy Within: Running Untrusted Code with gVisor - Ian Lewis, Google. Describes how gVisor sandboxes untrusted code running in containers.
• concept · Go FaaSter: Cold Start Optimization in a Serverless Platform - Scott Zhou & Yanbo Li, Tencent
• concept · A New Secure Container Solution on Arm Platform: gVisor - Bin Lu, Arm
• concept · BuildKit: A Modern Builder Toolkit on Top of containerd - Tonis Tiigi & Akihiro Suda
• concept · Inside Knative Serving - Dominik Tornow, SAP & Andrew Chen, Google. An inside look at the design and internals of Knative Serving.
• concept · Building Cloud Integration Applications Through Knative and... Willem Jiang & Longchun Zhang
• concept · Enable Serverless Metrics in Apache OpenWhisk on Kubernetes with Prometheus - Ying Chun Guo, IBM
• concept · Serverless: Building a WeChat Mini-Program with 100 Million Users in 7 days - Tinafang & Masonlu
• concept · Build Serverless with K8s, Kata Containers and Bare Mental Cloud... Yifei Zhang & Huamin Tang
• concept · Evolving Deep Learning Platform with Knative - Ti Zhou, Baidu
• other · Lightning Talk: Back From the Future: A Time Traveler's Take on Serverless - Yunong Xiao, Tencent. Lightning talk giving a forward-looking view of serverless.

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)

• case study · Istio on Knative Lessons Learned: How Istio is Fit for Serverless Platform - Ying Chun Guo
• case study · Ouch! What I Learned From Being Hit by a Serverless, Ruby Boomerang! - Ewan Slater, Oracle — Oracle
• case study · Lessons Learned Migrating Kubernetes from Docker to containerd Runtime - Ana Calin, Paybase — Paybase
• concept · Serverless is Interesting But FaaS is Not Enough - Jonas Bonér, Lightbend Inc.
• concept · Extending Envoy with WebAssembly - John Plevyak & Dhi Aurrahman, Tetrate
• concept · Intro: CNCF Serverless WG/CloudEvents - Scott Nichols, Google & Klaus Deissner, SAP
• concept · Deep Dive: CNCF Serverless WG/CloudEvents - Clemens Vasters & Vlad Ionescu. CNCF Serverless WG deep dive with a CloudEvents-based deployment pipeline demo and architectural considerations.
• concept · The Serverless Landscape and Event Driven Futures - Dee Kumar, CNCF
• concept · Extending Knative for Fun and Profit - Matt Moore & Ville Aikas, Google
• concept · Birds of a Feather: Do You Really Need on Premises Serverless ? - Igor Khapov, IBM
• concept · Surviving Serverless Battle By Secure Runtime, CRI and RuntimeClass - Xiaoyu Zhang & Lei Zhang. Covers secure runtimes, CRI and RuntimeClass for running serverless workloads on Kubernetes.
• concept · FaaS is Not Only the Serverless: Stream Processing with Serverless - Jun Makishi & Kensaku Komatsu. Shows how Function-as-a-Service can be used for stream processing beyond typical serverless use cases.
• concept · Serverless Operations: From Dev to Production - Erwin van Eyk, Platform9. Covers operating serverless applications from development through production.
• concept · Intro + Deep Dive: Serverless WG - Scott Nichols, Google & Doug Davis, IBM
• concept · Delivering Serverless Experience on Kubernetes: Beyond Web Applications - Alex Glikson
• concept · Managing Edge Computing with Serverless - Lev Radomislensky, Iguazio
• concept · Intro + Deep Dive: containerd - Wei Fu, Alibaba & Mike Brown, IBM
• tutorial · Tutorial: Cloud-Agnostic Serverless - Sebastien Goasguen, TriggerMesh

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)

• case study · Serverless Platform for Large Scale Mini-Apps: From Knative to Production - Yitao Dong & Ke Wang
• concept · KubeFlow’s Serverless Component: 10x Faster, a 1/10 of the Effort - Orit Nissan-Messing, Iguazio
• concept · Extending containerd - Samuel Karp & Maksym Pavlenko, Amazon — Amazon. Covers the ways containerd can be extended, including plugins, snapshotters and runtime shims.
• concept · Introducing KFServing: Serverless Model Serving on Kubernetes - Ellis Bigelow & Dan Sun
• concept · KEDA: Event Driven and Serverless Containers in Kubernetes - Jeff Hollan, Microsoft
• concept · Advanced Model Inferencing Leveraging KNative, Istio & Kubeflow Serving - Animesh Singh & Clive Cox
• concept · Knative - The Security Platypus? - Ariel Shuper, Aqua Security
• concept · Let's Try All the CRI Runtimes: Part 2: Answering the Why Question! - Phil Estes, IBM. Compares CRI runtimes and explains why one might choose each.
• concept · Cloud Native Smart Contract with Knative - Jay Guo & Ying Chun Guo, IBM
• concept · CNCF's Serverless WG - Tell Me Where it Hurts - Doug Davis, Mark Peek, & Ruben Romero Montes
• concept · Containerd Mini-Summit - Phil Estes, Lantao Liu, Derek McGowan & Yu-Ju Hong. Containerd maintainers present a mini-summit on the project's status, features and roadmap.
• concept · CRI-O: Under the Hood - Mrunal Patel, Red Hat, Inc. & Sascha Grunert, SUSE. Deep dive into the internals and architecture of the CRI-O container runtime.
• concept · OpenFaaS Cloud + Linkerd: A Secure, Multi-Tenant Serverless Platform - Charles Pretzer & Alex Ellis
• tutorial · Introduction to CRI-O - Mrunal Patel, Red Hat, Inc. & Peter Hunt, Red Hat, Inc.
• tutorial · A Series of Fortunate CloudEvents - Ian Coffey, Salesforce. Live demo showing how CloudEvents and Knative Eventing interact.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual

• case study · Going Containerless with WebAssembly - Kevin Hoffman, Capital One — Capital One. Capital One describes its exploration of running workloads with WebAssembly instead of containers.
• concept · CRI-O: Development Process & How to Contribute - Urvashi Mohnani & Peter Hunt, Red Hat. Walks through the CRI-O development process and how to contribute to it.
• concept · Cloudstate—Towards Stateful Serverless - Jonas Bonér & James Roper, Lightbend
• concept · containerd Deep Dive - Akihiro Suda, NTT & Wei Fu, Alibaba
• concept · CNCF Serverless WG: CloudEvents and Serverless Workflow Updates - Tihomir Surdilovic, Red Hat
• concept · Service Mesh and Serverless Chatbots with Linkerd, K8s and OpenFaas - Sergio Méndez
• concept · Sponsor Demo: Knative, Kafka, Tekton, KubeVirt via OpenShift 4.5 w/ Red Hat Advanced Cluster Mngmnt
• concept · CRI-O: Deep Diving into the Security - Sascha Grunert, SUSE & Daniel Walsh, Red Hat
• concept · Kata Containers + Cloud-Hypervisor: Virtualization for Cloud Native - Samuel Ortiz, Intel
• concept · Serverless Integration on Kubernetes with Apache Camel K - Nicola Ferraro, Red Hat
• concept · Expanding Serverless to Scale-out Kubeflow Pipelines - Yaron Haviv, Iguazio
• concept · Using Argo and Knative to Orchestrate Media-intensive Services in 5G Edge - David Breitgand, IBM
• concept · Stateful Serverless and the Elephant in the Room - Stephan Ewen, Ververica. Explores the challenges of stateful serverless and how Flink approaches state.
• tutorial · Introduction to containerd - Phil Estes, IBM & Derek McGowan, Docker

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 - Virtual

• concept · Kata Containers Performance Evaluation and Optimization on Arm64 - Jia He, Arm
• concept · Taking Envoy Beyond C++ with WebAssembly - Idit Levine & Yuval Kohavi, Solo.io
• concept · Simplifying Windows Runtime and Deployment in Kubernetes - Michael Michael, Mark Rossetti. Covers work to simplify the Windows runtime and deployment experience in Kubernetes.
• concept · Serverless Workflow – New Approach to Container Orchestration - Tihomir Surdilovic
• concept · Serverless for ML Inference on Kubernetes: Panacea or Folly? - Manasi Vartak, Verta Inc
• concept · CNCF Serverless WG: CloudEvents and Serverless Workflow - Doug Davis, IBM & Tihomir Surdilovic
• concept · CRI-O: The Runtime Control Room - Sascha Grunert, SUSE, Peter Hunt, Urvashi Mohnani, Mrunal Patel
• concept · Leveraging Service Meshes for Accelerating Serverless Workflows - Paarijaat Aditya & Manuel Stein
• concept · Serverless or Servicefull - Sebastien Goasguen, Triggermesh
• concept · Introduction and Deep Dive into containerd - Michael Crosby & Derek McGowan, Phil Estes & Wei Fu
• concept · containerd: Rootless Containers 2020 - Akihiro Suda, NTT
• tutorial · Hands-On Stateful Serverless Applications with K8s and Stateful Functions - Seth Wiesman, Ververica

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2021

• concept · TAG-Runtime: The Open Source Workload Ecosystem - Kevin Wang, Huawei & Ricardo Aravena, Rakuten. Introduces CNCF TAG Runtime and its work on the open source workload ecosystem.
• concept · Run wasm applications on kubernetes edge cluster - Dingping Yuan & Tiejun Chen, VMware
• concept · Introduction to WasmEdge, A Cloud-native WebAssembly Runtime - Michael Yuan, WasmEdge. Introduces WasmEdge, a cloud-native WebAssembly runtime.
• concept · Compiler and Runtime Co-design to Support Webassembly-based FaaS - Wei Tang & He Jie, Ant Group. Ant Group engineers explain compiler and runtime co-design for a WebAssembly-based FaaS platform.
• concept · Build a modern FaaS platform with Cloud Native Serverless technologies - Benjamin Huo & Wanjun Lei
• concept · Achieving Faas + Dapr + K8S technology integration, and build a new Alibaba Cloud Se... Zhao Qingjie

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021

• case study · Ghosts in the Runtime: Who Ate My Capabilities & Other Mysteries- Laurent Bernaille & Eric Mountain, — Datadog. Datadog engineers walk through debugging a mystery where container processes lost Linux capabilities in their production clusters.
• concept · Cloud Native & WebAssembly: Better Together - Liam Randall & Ralph Squillace
• concept · Graduated Project Lightning Talk: containerd Project Update - Derek McGowan
• concept · CRI-O Still Loves Kubernetes - Sasha Grunert, Peter Hunt, Urvashi Mohnani & Mrunal Patel, Red Hat
• concept · Get In Containerds, We’re Going Securing: Kubern... I. Coldwater, T. Sable, S. Raghunathan, A. Small. A talk on securing Kubernetes container runtimes with containerd and the security practices around it.
• concept · CNCF Serverless WG - Serverless Workflow Project Deep Dive - Tihomir Surdilovic & Doug Davis
• concept · Introduction and Deep Dive Into Containerd - Kohei Tokunaga & Akihiro Suda, NTT Corporation

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021

• concept · Real-Time Data Anonymization the Serverless Way - Yuval Lifshitz & Huamin Chen, Red Hat. Shows how to anonymize data in real time using a serverless approach on Kubernetes.
• concept · What's New in CRI-O? - Mrunal Patel, Urvashi Mohnani, Sascha Grunert & Peter Hunt, Red Hat
• concept · Function to Container - Building a FaaS Experience - Evan Anderson, VMware
• concept · Cloud Native Apps with Server-Side WebAssembly - Liam Randall, Cosmonic. Explains how server-side WebAssembly can be used to build portable cloud native applications, with Cosmonic's wasmCloud as the example.

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022

• concept · What If... Kube-Apiserver Could be Extended Via WebAssembly? - Flavio Castelli, SUSE. Explores extending the Kubernetes API server with WebAssembly modules.
• concept · Running Containerd and k3s on MacOS - Akihiro Suda, NTT Corporation & Jan Dubois, SUSE
• concept · Empower Autonomous Driving with Cloud Native Serverless Technologies - Benjamin Huo & Xiuming Lu
• concept · CRI-O: Secure, Performant, and Boring... Peter Hunt, Urvashi Mohnani, Mrunal Patel & Sascha Grunert. Overview of CRI-O and its focus on being secure, performant and boring.
• concept · Crack the FaaS Cold Start and Scalability Bottleneck - Cathy Zhang & Rui Zang, Intel
• concept · Operating Prometheus in a Serverless World - Colin Douch, Cloudflare
• concept · Keep Calm and Containerd On! - Anusha Ragunathan, Intuit Inc
• concept · Create Your First CNCF Serverless Workflow Project with Kogito and Kna... Ricardo Zanini Fernandes
• concept · containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive - Derek McGowan, Apple
• concept · Overview and State of Knative - Mauricio Salatino, VMware & Carlos Santana, IBM

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

• concept · KEDA - Real Time And Serverless Scaling In Kubernetes - Zbynek Roubalik & Jeff Hollan
• concept · Cloud-Native WebAssembly: Containerization On the Edge - Michael Yuan, Second State
• concept · Knative: More Than Just Serverless Cont...Lance Ball, Naina Singh, Mauricio Salatino & Evan Anderson. Discusses Knative's capabilities beyond serverless.
• concept · NRI: Extending Containerd And CRI-O With Common Plugins - Krisztian Litkey, Intel & Mike Brown, IBM
• concept · A Containerd And Friends Update: What’s New...Phil Estes, Mike Brown, Maksym Pavlenko, Michael Zappa
• concept · Edge-Native Application Principles: Taking Your App Beyond the Cloud - Kate Goldenring, Amar Kapadia. Presents principles for designing edge-native applications that extend beyond the cloud.
• concept · Lightning Talk: Lightweight Dapr Microservices In WebAssembly - Vivian Hu, Second State
• concept · Who Knew Dogfood Could Taste This Good? A WebAssembly In Producti... Taylor Thomas & Brooks Townsend
• concept · Lightning Talk: Build a Twitter Translation Bot In 5 Minutes With Knative Functions - Lance Ball
• concept · CRI-O’s Senior Year - Peter Hunt, Urvashi Mohnani, Mrunal Patel, Red Hat

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023

• concept · Develop, Build & Deploy Lightweight AI Services with WebAssembly - Kinfey Lo, Vivian Hu, Jianbai Ye
• concept · Project Update and Deep Dive: Containerd - Wei Fu, Microsoft & Iceber Gu, DaoCloud
• concept · The State and Future of WebAssembly in Dapr - Loong Dai, Intel
• concept · Lightning Talk: How to Build a Serverless AIGC Platform on Kubernetes Using AIGC-Gateway - Yuan Mo
• concept · Run Serverless Workloads on Any Infrastructure with OpenFunction - Benjamin Huo & Wang YiFei
• concept · Node-Level Optimization in Large Cluster Powered by Containerd Plugin - Tianyi Tang, Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba Cloud presents a containerd plugin for node-level optimization in large clusters.
• concept · Enabling Zero Code Observability for Financial Applications Using WebAssembly - Casey Li. Shows how WebAssembly enables zero-code observability for financial applications.
• concept · Enhancing Node Stability Through Containerd and Kata Containers Interface... - Chao Wu & Peng Tao
• concept · Shuhe Accelerates AI Model Service Deployment with Knative - Peng Li, Alibaba Cloud & Wenzhe Wei
• concept · QuarkContainers: High Performance Secure Container for Serverless - Shaobao Feng, Huawei Cloud
• concept · WebAssembly-Based FaaS Framework with Distributed Machine Learning... - Wilson Wang & Michael Yuan. Presents a WebAssembly-based FaaS framework supporting distributed machine learning.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

• concept · Love, Death and Robots - with Wasm & K8s on Boston Dynamics Spot - Max Körbächer, Liquid Reply
• concept · Safe, Dynamic Middleware with Dapr and WebAssembly - Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid & Adrian Cole
• concept · Containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive - Maksym Pavlenko, Apple & Samuel Karp, Google
• concept · Processing of Amsterdam City Data with Vendor Agnostic Serverless Functions - M Suman & Z Roubalik
• concept · Use Knative When You Can, and Kubernetes When You Must - David Hadas & Michael Maximilien, IBM. Argues when to use Knative versus plain Kubernetes for workloads.
• concept · Knative's Road Ahead: A Project Update - Roland & Naina, Paul, David, Mauricio
• concept · CRI-O's Back, Alright! - Peter Hunt & Urvashi Mohnani, Red Hat
• concept · Cloud-Native Quantum: Running Quantum Serverless Workloads on Kubernetes - Schweigert & Maximilien
• concept · Experience with “Hard Multi-Tenancy” in Kubernetes Using Kata Containers - Shuo Chen, Databricks
• concept · Lightning Talk: GreenCourier: Towards Sustainable Serverless Computing - Mohak Chadha
• tutorial · Tutorial Hands on with WebAssembly Microservices & Kubernetes- J Zhou D Justice K Goldenring R Matei
• tutorial · Tutorial: Create and Deploy a Lightweight Microservice in WebAssembly - Tai Hung-Ying & Vivian Hu

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023

• case study · Adopting Server Side Apply in Knative - a Case Study - Dave Protasowski, VMware — VMware. VMware's Knative team reports on adopting Server Side Apply in Knative controllers and the lessons learned.
• case study · Real-World Knative: Success Stories from Production Environments.... Four guest speakers describe how their organizations use Knative in production.
• concept · Runwasi: WebAssembly Serverless for Containerd - Angel M De Miguel Meana & Francisco Cabrera
• concept · All Cloud-Native Services Are Vulnerable — Block Exploits with Security... David Hadas & Roland Huß. Argues that cloud-native services are all vulnerable and shows how to block exploits using security guardrails.
• concept · Phippy’s Field Guide to Wasm - Karen Chu & Matt Butcher, Fermyon
• concept · Delivering Backends Like Frontends with WebAssembly - Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic. Explains how WebAssembly lets backend services be built and delivered with a frontend-like workflow.
• concept · eBPF + Wasm: Lightweight Observability on Steroids - Michael Yuan & Yusheng Zheng
• concept · Pods and Circumstance: CRI-O’s Graduation Celebration - Sascha Grunert & Peter Hunt, Red Hat. CRI-O maintainers celebrate the project's CNCF graduation and review its status and features.
• concept · The Cloud-Native Workloads Journey Through the CNCF Tag-Runtime - Ricardo Aravena, TruEra. Overview of CNCF TAG Runtime activities and working groups and how to get involved.
• concept · What's New in Containerd 2.0 - Phil Estes, AWS & Derek McGowan, Independent
• concept · Bringing Cloud Native WASM to the mainstream with WASM Working Group - Shivay Lamba & Kevin Hoffman
• tutorial · Tutorial: Building Cloud-Native Applications Using WebAssembly and Containers

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev China 2024

• case study · Expanding Cloud Native Capabilities with WASM: A Case Study of Harbor... - Chenyu Zhang & Yan Wang
• concept · Containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive | Containerd：项目更新和深入探讨 - Akhil Mohan, VMware & Iceber Gu
• concept · LLM's Anywhere: Browser Deployment with Wasm & WebGPU - Joinal Ahmed & Nikhil Rana. Shows how to run large language models directly in the browser using WebAssembly and WebGPU.
• concept · Build Container Runtime Based on Sandbox API of Containerd - Shaobao Feng & Cai Wei
• concept · NanoVisor: Revolutionizing FaaS Cold Start Performance with Secure, Lightweight Cont...- Tianyu Zhou
• concept · WebAssembly on the Server | 服务端的WebAssembly - Vivian Hu, Second State. Introduces running WebAssembly on the server, using WasmEdge as the example runtime.
• concept · Accelerating Serverless AI Large Model Inference with Functionalized... - Yiming Li & Chenglong Wang
• concept · Leveraging Wasm for Portable AI Inference Across GPUs, CPUs, OS & Cloud...- Miley Fu & Hung-Ying Tai
• concept · How Fast Can Your Model Composition Run in Serverless Inference? - Fog Dong, BentoML & Wenbo Qi
• concept · Lightning Talk: Running Native WebAssembly AI Applications Everywhere - Tiejun Chen, VMware
• concept · Lightning Talk: WASM on Embedded Systems (RTOS) - Han Wu, University of Exeter
• concept · Lightning Talk: Empower WebAssembly and Container Both on RISC-V - Tiejun Chen, VMware
• concept · Project Lightning Talk: nerdctl: Docker-compatible CLI for containerd

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

• case study · Reimagining Knative: A Case Study on How Designers Shape Better Documentation
• concept · CRI-O Odyssey: Exploring New Frontiers in Container Runtimes - Julien Ropé & Sohan Kunkerkar
• concept · Unikernels in K8s: Performance and Isolation for Serverless Computing with Knative
• concept · Knative Functions Deep-Dive: Why You Should Use Knative Functions For Your Next Microservi...
• concept · Unlocking the TAG-Runtime Magic: Where Cloud-Native, Workloads, and AI Join Forces!. Overview of TAG-Runtime's work on cloud native workloads and AI.
• concept · Maximizing Go's Capabilities with the WebAssembly System Interface
• concept · Leveling up Wasm Support in Kubernetes - Matt Butcher, Fermyon
• concept · Faster, Safer, Serverless - Empowering Apache Spark Standalone Cluster on Kubernetes - Huichao Zhao. Explains how to run Apache Spark Standalone clusters on Kubernetes in a faster, safer, serverless fashion.
• concept · Fast and Efficient Log Processing with Wasm and eBPF - Michael Yuan, Second State. Shows how Wasm and eBPF can be combined for fast, efficient log processing.
• concept · Is Serverless Powerfully Powerless? - Jose Gomez-Selles & Kevin Dubois, Red Hat
• concept · What’s New in Containerd 2.0? - Wei Fu, Microsoft & Akhil Mohan, VMware by Broadcom
• concept · wasmCloud: Declarative WebAssembly Orchestration for Cloud Native Applications | Project Lightnin.... Presents wasmCloud for declarative WebAssembly orchestration of cloud native applications.
• tutorial · Tutorial: Cloud Native WebAssembly and How to Use It - Brooks Townsend & Michael Yuan

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024

• concept · Wasm Powered Open source LLMs and AI Agent | Project Lightning Talk. Lightning talk on running open source LLMs and AI agents with Wasm.
• concept · Into Containerd; Through the Eyes of a Contributor - Akhil Mohan, VMware by Broadcom
• concept · Invoking Serverless Functions via gRPC Service Mesh - K. Jayaprakasam, S. Sridharan & R. Belleville. Shows how to invoke serverless functions through a gRPC service mesh.
• concept · Reimagining Kubernetes Pods: Nested Containers with CRI-O - Sohan Kunkerkar, Red Hat Inc. Explores how CRI-O can run nested containers inside Kubernetes pods.
• concept · WebAssembly Profiling with Pprof and Wzprof - Rajiv Ranjan Singh & Naman Lakhwani

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City

• case study · From Silicon to Service: Ensuring Confidentiality in Serverless GPU Cloud Functions - Zvonko Kaiser
• case study · WASM + KWOK Wizardry: Writing and Testing Scheduler Plugins at Scale - D. Pejchev, J. Giannuzzi — J. Giannuzzi
• case study · Discover CNCF TAG Runtime: From AI, WASM, OS, Edge to Workloads in the Heart of Salt Lake City
• concept · Why Serverless Is Trending Again - Matt Butcher, Fermyon & Jay Jenkins, Akamai
• concept · 0.1 to 1.16: How Has Knative Fulfilled Its Vision? - Calum Murray & Evan Anderson
• concept · All Your Routes Are Ready, More or Less - Dave Protasowski. Explains how route readiness is determined and why it is eventually consistent in the networking layer.
• concept · Running WebAssembly (Wasm) Workloads Side-by-Side with Container Workloads - Jiaxiao Zhou, Microsoft
• concept · What Containerd 2.0 Means for You - Samuel Karp, Google
• concept · CRI-O Features for Fun and Profit - Peter Hunt & Sohan Kunkerkar, Red Hat. Walks through useful CRI-O features.
• concept · wasmCloud: Declarative WebAssembly Orchestration for Cloud Native Applications | PLT
• concept · Knative: Eventing Advances | Project Lightning Talk
• concept · CNCF Runtime TAG: CNCF Runtime TAG and the Cloud Native Runtime Landspace: AI, WASM, OS, Edge, Wo...
• concept · CRI-O: First Class AI Model Teleportation - OCI Volume Mounts in CRI-O and Kubernetes | PLT
• concept · WasmEdge: Cross-Platform, High-Performance, Lightweight, Embeddable Multi-Modal LLM Runtime | PLT. Presents WasmEdge as a lightweight, cross-platform, embeddable runtime for multi-modal LLMs.
• concept · Cloud-Native AI: Wasm in Portable, Secure AI/ML Workloads - Miley Fu & Michael Yuan, Second State
• concept · What’s Going on in the Containerd Neighborhood? - P. Estes, S. Karp, A. Suda, M. Brown, K. Ashok

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 (Hong Kong)

• concept · Project Lightning Talk: What's New in WasmEdge 0.15.0? - Michael Yuan, Maintainer. Maintainer overview of new features in WasmEdge 0.15.0.
• concept · Lightning Talk: Kata Confidential Containers Meet Persistent Stora... Andy Zhang & Archana Choudhary. Lightning talk on using persistent storage with Kata confidential containers.
• concept · Lightning Talk: WASM Vs Docker: Partners, Not Rivals - Pradumna V Saraf, Independent
• concept · Lightning Talk: Scaling AI With Wasm and Edge Computing - Miley Fu, WasmEdge. Lightning talk on using WasmEdge and Wasm to scale AI workloads at the edge.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London

• concept · Discover CNCF TAG Runtime: Advancing Cloud-Native Innovation from AI to Edge. Introduces CNCF TAG Runtime and its work spanning AI to edge.
• concept · Get WITty: Evolving Kubernetes Scheduling With the WebAssembly... Dejan Pejchev & Jonathan Giannuzzi
• concept · eBPF and Wasm: Unifying Userspace Extensions With Bpftime - Yusheng Zheng, eunomia-bpf
• concept · ​​SPIFFE in Practice: Universal Identity for WebAssembly Workloads - Joonas Bergius & Colin Murphy
• concept · What's New in Knative Eventing: Security, Discovery, Int... Pierangelo Di Pilato & Christoph Stäbler. Presents new Knative Eventing features covering security, discovery and integrations.
• concept · Enhancing CRI-O With CDI: Streamlining Device Integration in Kubernetes - Harshal Patil, Red Hat. Describes how CRI-O uses CDI to streamline device integration in Kubernetes.
• concept · Wasm I Right or Wasm I Wrong? a Review of the Wasm Ecosystem - Taylor Thomas & David Justice
• concept · Building WebAssembly Like It's 2011 - David Justice, Microsoft & Terence Lee, Heroku/Salesforce
• concept · Project Lightning Talk: CRI-O: Container Runtime Intensifies - Sascha Grunert, Maintainer
• concept · Project Lightning Talk: The Super Fast TAG Runtime Wasm Review - Taylor Thomas, Wasm WG Chair. Lightning talk giving a quick review of the TAG Runtime Wasm working group.
• concept · Wasm Whiplash: WasmCloud's Wild Ride To Standards - Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic
• concept · Lightning Talk: Rust Here, Rust There, Rust Everywhere! How a Crab Conquers the Cl... Sascha Grunert. Lightning talk surveying how Rust is being used across cloud native projects.
• concept · Lightning Talk: Extending Envoy With WebAssembly - Yuki Ito, newmo, Inc.
• concept · Containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive - M. Pavlenko, A. Suda, L. Brehm, S. Karp, J. Zhou. Project update and deep dive on containerd's recent developments and roadmap.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025

• concept · Lightning Talk: WASM Vs Docker: Partners, Not Rivals - Pradumna V Saraf, Independent

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025 (Tokyo)

• concept · Breaking Limits: Highly-Isolated and Low-Overhead Wasm Container - Soichiro Ueda & Ai Nozaki
• concept · Lightning Talk: Practical Monitoring for Knative Serving - Kazuki Higashiguchi, Autify
• concept · Containerd: Project Update and Deep Dive - Akihiro Suda, Kohei Tokunaga, Kirtana Ashok & Akhil Mohan. Containerd maintainers present a project update and deep dive.

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

• concept · Project Lightning Talk: WasmEdge: What's New In WasmEdge? - Miley Fu, Second State. Lightning talk on new features and updates in the WasmEdge project.
• concept · CRI-O: Thriving in a Changing World, One Container at a Time - Ayato Tokubi & Sohan Kunkerkar
• concept · What’s New in Containerd 2.2 - Derek McGowan, Docker & Phil Estes, AWS
• concept · Knative Project Update - Dave Protasowski, Independent

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026

• case study · From Cloud to AI: How Kata Containers 4.0 Reinvents the Sandbox for the... Fupan Li & Xuewei Niu
• concept · Road from Kata Containers to Confidential Containers + GPUs: From First Commit to... Zvonko Kaiser. Traces the road from Kata Containers to Confidential Containers with GPU support.
• concept · Redefining LLM Training Through Atomic Components and Serverless TaaS - Tan Pei Xiang

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

• case study · Exploring NRI for Automated CA Trust Injection - Tsuzuki Tsuchiya & Kento Kubo, LY Corporation — LY Corporation. LY Corporation explores using NRI to inject CA trust automatically into containers.
• case study · Serverless GPUs in Production: How Cerebrium Built a Globally... Dave Protasowski & Elijah Roussos — Cerebrium Built
• concept · CRI-O: Faster Pulls, Better Metrics, and a Future Beyond Images - Sohan Kunkerkar & Ayato Tokubi
• concept · Project Lightning Talk: Container2Wasm: Running Containers On Wasm Environments - Kohei Tokunaga
• concept · What's Coming Next in Containerd 2.3? - Mike Brown, IBM & Krisztian Litkey, Intel

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026

• concept · Beyond Wasm: How Dynamic Modules Let You Extend Envoy Proxy in Go, Rust, or… R. Agrawal & T. Yoneda
• concept · OTel Meets Wasm: Rethinking OpenTelemetry Collector Extensibility - Kotaro Inoue & Tsuzuki Tsuchiya
• concept · Running Wasm Inside Your Storage Cluster With CSI and Gateway API - Ho Kim & SangJoon Park