Public Talks

This repository contains the slides, videos, and supporting files for my public talks on various conferences, meetups, and classes.

If you'd like to invite me to speak at an event you are organizing, feel free to reach out.

Quick Summary

Delivered keynotes to audiences of up to 9,000+ attendees, regular presentations, panels, podcasts, and university lectures at major venues including KubeCon (North America, Europe, China), Open Data Science Conference, PlatformCon, PyData Global, IBM TechXchange, Red Hat Summit, ArgoCon, Cloud Native AI Day, and Purdue University. Served in roles ranging from keynote speaker and lecturer to panel moderator and participant.

List (in chronological order)

Keynotes

Title	Venue	Role	Date	Location
Anchoring Trust in the Age of AI: Identities Across Humans, Machines, and Models	KubeCon North America	Sponsored Keynote Speaker	Nov 11th, 2025	Atlanta
Welcome + Opening Remarks	KubeCon North America	Invited Keynote Speaker	Nov 11th, 2025	Atlanta
Advancing Cloud Native AI Innovation Through Open Collaboration	Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day North America	Sponsored Keynote Speaker	Nov 12th, 2024	Salt Lake City
Building for the Road Ahead: An Ode to Maintainers, the Life Blood of Our Ecosystem	KubeCon North America	Invited Keynote Speaker	Oct 26th, 2022	Detroit
When Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes Meets PaddlePaddle	Wave Summit	Invited Keynote Speaker	Dec 12th, 2021	Virtual

Other Sessions

Title	Venue	Role	Date	Location
Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day: Welcome + Opening Remarks	Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day Europe	Speaker and Program Chair	March 23rd, 2026	Amsterdam
Project Lightning Talk: Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform for Both Predictive and Generative AI	KubeCon Europe	Speaker	March 23rd, 2026	Amsterdam
Explore TAG Workloads Foundation: Advancing Cloud Native Execution From Core Runtime To Applications	KubeCon Europe	Speaker	March 25th, 2026	Amsterdam
Advancing Kubernetes AI Conformance: Current State and Roadmap	KubeCon Europe	Speaker	March 26th, 2026	Amsterdam
Navigating the Rapid Evolution of Large Model Inference: Where does Kubernetes Fit?	KubeCon North America	Speaker	Nov 12th, 2025	Atlanta
Introducing TAG Workloads Foundation: Advancing the Core of Cloud Native Execution	KubeCon North America	Speaker	Nov 11th, 2025	Atlanta
KServe Next: Advancing Generative AI Model Serving	Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day North America	Speaker	Nov 10th, 2025	Atlanta
Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day: Closing Remarks	Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day North America	Speaker and Program Chair	Nov 10th, 2025	Atlanta
KServe Deep Dive: Evolving Model Serving for the Generative AI Era	IBM TechXchange	Invited Speaker	Oct 6th, 2025	Orlando
Embracing Partnership and Open Collaboration in the Cloud-Native and AI Model Serving Communities	Red Hat Summit	Panel Moderator	May 20th, 2025	Boston
Kubeflow Ecosystem: What’s Next for Cloud Native AI/ML and LLMOps	KubeCon Europe	Speaker	April 3rd, 2025	London
Advancements in AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes From WG Serving and Ecosystem Projects	KubeCon Europe	Speaker	April 2nd, 2025	London
Panel: Engaging the Kubeflow Community: Building an Enterprise-Ready AI/ML Platform	Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day Europe	Panelist	April 1st, 2025	London
Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day Welcome + Opening Remarks	Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day Europe	Speaker and Program Chair	April 1st, 2025	London
WG Serving: Accelerating AI/ML Inference Workloads on Kubernetes	KubeCon North America	Speaker	Nov 15th, 2024	Salt Lake City
Unlocking Potential of Large Models in Production	KubeCon North America	Speaker	Nov 14th, 2024	Salt Lake City
Kubernetes Working Group Serving	Kubernetes Podcast from Google	Invited Speaker	Oct 31st, 2024	Virtual
KServe Essentials: Building a Production-Ready Cloud-Native Model Serving Platform	IBM TechXchange	Invited Speaker	Oct 21st, 2024	Las Vegas
Engineering Cloud Native AI Platform	PlatformCon	Speaker	June 10th, 2024	Virtual
Highly Scalable Inference Platform for Models of Any Size	Open Data Science Conference	Speaker	April 24th, 2024	Boston
Production-Ready AI Platform on Kubernetes	KubeCon Europe	Speaker	March 22nd, 2024	Paris
Cloud Native AI Day: Welcome + Opening Remarks	Cloud Native AI Day Europe	Speaker	March 19th, 2024	Paris
Beyond Prototypes: Production-Ready ML Systems with Metaflow and Argo	KubeCon North America	Speaker	Nov 7th, 2023	Chicago
Automating Map-building Pipelines for Safe Autonomous Driving with Argo Workflows at TuSimple	ArgoCon	Speaker	Sep 20th, 2022	Mountain View
Managing Thousands of Automatic Machine Learning Experiments With Argo and Katib	ArgoCon	Speaker	Sep 20th, 2022	Mountain View
Data Science in the Cloud-Native Era	Open Data Science Conference	Invited Speaker	April 19th, 2022	Boston
Unveil The Secret Ingredients for Argo CD at Enterprise Scale	KubeCon China	Invited Speaker	Dec 9th, 2021	Virtual
Bridging into Python Ecosystem with Cloud-Native Distributed Machine Learning Pipelines	ArgoCon	Speaker	Dec 8th, 2021	Virtual
Towards Cloud-Native Distributed Machine Learning Pipelines at Scale	PyData Global	Speaker	Oct 29th, 2021	Virtual
Introducing Couler: Unified Interface for Constructing and Managing Workflows	Argo Workflows Community Meeting	Invited Speaker	Sep 16th, 2020	Virtual
Large Scale Distributed Deep Learning with Kubernetes Operators	KubeCon Europe	Invited Panelist and Speaker	May 22nd, 2019	Barcelona
Considerations for Large Scale Analytics in Production	School of Management, Purdue University	Invited Lecturer	Nov 28th, 2018	West Lafayette
TensorFlow Overview - Why Should Statisticians Care?	Department of Statistics, Purdue University	Invited Lecturer	Oct 18th, 2017	West Lafayette
Introduction to TensorFlow	American Statistical Association Conference	Invited Speaker	Mar 3rd, 2017	Chicago

Short Videos

• Why is open, transparent data important to LLMs? - Red Hat
• The Power of Community | IBM TechXchange Community Day Kickoff
• Using llm-d to Serve Large Models - Red Hat Community