11:00am • Welcome + Opening Remarks - Mitch Connors & Faseela K, Program Chairs
11:25am • Istio Ambient Service Mesh Made Simple - Lin Sun, Solo.io
11:55am • Fine-Grained Policies RBAC with NGAC - José Carlos Chávez, Tetrate
12:25pm • Sponsored Keynote: Istio Ambient Mesh as Managed Infrastructure - Justin Pettit, Google
12:35pm • Istio Roadmap Updates - Istio Technical Oversight Committee Members John Howard, Google & Eric Van Norman, IBM
1:10pm • Pre-Sail Checks: Do You Need a Checklist Before Sailing to Production with Istio? - Simon Green & Ram Vennam, Solo.io
1:40pm • Break ☕ + Networking
1:50pm • Ambient Q+A
2:30pm • Achieving Fault Tolerance in Istio with Observability-Driven Load Management - Tanveer Gill, FluxNinja
3:00pm • Untangling Your Istio Mesh with Feature Gates - Niranjan Shankar, Microsoft
3:30pm • Coffee Break ☕ + Networking
3:40pm • Identity Theft Is Not a Joke, Jim! How Istio Ambient Mesh Safeguards Our Pod Identities - Marino Wijay, Solo.io
4:15pm • Multiplayer Istio: Collaborative WASM Plugins with Intel and Layer5 - Lee Calcote, Layer5 & Xin Huang, Intel
4:45pm • Closing Remarks- Mitch Connors, Program Chair
10:30am • Opening Remarks - Iris Ding, Program Committee Member
10:45am • Debunking the Istio Is Complex Meme - Christian Posta, Solo.io
11:15am • Using Istio to Build Better Service Level Objectives - Chris Dutra, JP Morgan
11:45am • Expanding Horizons: Advanced Deployment Strategies in Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Environments - Fran Perea Rodríguez, Red Hat & Eduardo Bonilla, Solo.io
12:15pm • Break ☕ + Networking
12:30pm • Tracing CI/CD with OpenTelemetry - John Howard, Google
12:40pm • Life of a Request in Istio Ambient Mesh - Gregory Hanson, Solo.io
12:50pm • Best-Practices for Securing Egress Traffic with Istio - Niranjan Shankar, Microsoft
1:00pm • The Security Evolution of GRPC Services in the Mesh - Amim Knabben, VMware
1:30pm • A Look at Istio's Journey with the Gateway API - Keith Mattix, Microsoft & John Howard, Google
2:00pm • Break ☕ + Networking
2:10pm • Istio's Multicluster Networking Modes: Connecting Clusters Beyond Borders - Abdul Basit, Rakuten Symphony
2:40pm • Demystifying Load Balancing in Istio - Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, Independent & Jimmy Song, Tetrate
3:10pm • Build Reliable Applications with Kubernetes and Istio Using Application Archetypes - Ameer Abbas & Steve McGhee, Google
3:40pm • Bridging the Gap: Gradual Istio Implementation for Your Platform - John Keates, Wehkamp Retail Group
4:10pm • Traffic Dialling - Venkata Krishna Murthy Vadrevu & Nandan B N, Intuit
4:40pm • SLATE: Globally Optimizing Request Routing - Aditya Prerepa & Gangmuk Lim, UIUC
4:55pm • Closing Remarks - Mitch Connors, Program Chair