F5 is sponsoring food & bev this time - thank you F5!!
As usual:
1. RSVP's close 48 hrs before the event. Please make it easy on us by RSVP'ing only if you intend to show up.
2. Don't be late! You'll get locked out, and that's no fun!
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Agenda
6:00 pm: food / drinks / networking
6:20 pm: Talk #1: KubeCon summary with Gary Singh and Michael O'Leary
7:00 pm: Who is hiring? Who is looking?
7:10 pm: Talk #2: Cloud-Native Course Feedback Assistant with Jay Gala and Karan Thakkar
7:50 pm: Talk #3: agentgateway and kagent with Nina Polshakova
8:30 pm: Finish
Speakers & topics
1\. KubeCon summary\, with Gari Singh and Michael O'Leary
KubeCon has grown into a huge event and there's no easy way to summarize K8s developments - but we'll try!
Gari is the PM behind GKE and he's running Google Container Days. Expect updates about hosted K8s platforms, customer trends, and of course AI capabilities.
Michael is a Solution Architect at F5 and has taught K8s fundamentals. Expect analysis of trends and likely network-centric updates.
2\. Cloud\-Native Course Feedback Assistant with Jay and Karan
This project details a multi-cloud MLOps platform designed to automatically ingest, process, and analyze Northeastern's course feedback surveys, using AWS and GCP.
Jay Gala(https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaygala25) and Karan Thakkar(https://www.linkedin.com/in/thakkaran) are Northeastern students and long-time members of this group. They completed a project last year and will present what they learned about AI and real-world applications.
3\. Secure\, Observable\, and Declarative: AI Agents with agentgateway and kagent with Nina Polshakova
AI infrastructure introduces unique challenges that demand intelligent request batching, model-aware load balancing, and token-based rate limiting. These are capabilities that traditional proxies were never designed to handle. Enter agentgateway: a purpose-built data plane for AI workloads. As part of the CNCF kgateway project, agentgateway supports open standards such as Gateway Inference Extensions and the Gateway API. When combined with kagent, the Kubernetes-native, declarative agent framework, you can define, deploy, and secure AI agents and their interactions directly in Kubernetes
In this session, I’ll examine what makes AI traffic unique, share lessons learned from existing proxies, and discuss the tradeoffs in building a data plane optimized for AI workloads with native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication. I’ll also show how agentgateway secures and observes AI traffic, while kagent enables declarative management and orchestration of agents in Kubernetes, demonstrating how the two tools work seamlessly together.
About our sponsors
F5 is Mike's employer, but also a great partner for this Meetup. We deliver and secure every app.
Hybrid/Remote option
Sorry, this event is in-person only, so please join us in Cambridge!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
90 Broadway, 90 Broadway, Cambridge, us
