KubeCon EU 2025 Summary

Just finished the KubeCon EU 2025 and will end my vocation tomorrow, I’m going to write down something to summarize my KubeCon trip.

So before the KubeCon, I took a view of the schedule and sponsors, different from KubeCon China, very few sponsors and most of the sessions are AI related, the KubeCon EU is really a more grander and diverse event, also more people as usual, the attendee number is over 13,000, which is a new record. I think the community will publish a transparency report on this later, just like they did before, let’s see.

In regard to the event itself, because I’m focused on AI stuff these days, I have more eyes on AI sessions, however, I would like to say that most of the AI sessions of this KubeCon are not that attractive, a big part of them are projects we’re familiar with, a bit tired of that. I do hope to see more innovations to tackle AI challenges, I guess we need to wait more time before they’re ready. The most interesting session I’ve heard is about how run.ai accelerates the model downloading via loading model weights directly to GPU memory, which is highly related to what I’m doing right now.

Actually it’s the most relaxed KubeCon I’ve ever attended since I only have one lighting talk and no booth this time, I can enjoy the whole session. However, I don’t understand why the lighting talk speakers can not get a free ticket.

The rest is all about social. Have great talks with all the guys across the community, like the Kueue, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, vLLM. KubeCon is always about sharing and connecting, I really enjoy the time with all the friends and community members.

Looking forward to the next KubeCon HK in June, I will have a keynote this time, can’t wait to back to work now.

Photo with Kubeflow guys: