Keynote: From Inference to Agents: Where Open Source AI Is Headed - Panel (ASL)

Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Mumbai, India (18-19 June, 2026), Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Keynote: From Inference to Agents: Where Open Source AI Is Headed - Jonathan Bryce, CNCF; Brian Stevens, Red Hat; Mark Collier, PyTorch Foundation; Lin Sun, Solo.io Speakers: Brian Stevens, Lin Sun, Jonathan Bryce, Mark Collier As AI systems move from training to real-world deployment, two forces are rapidly reshaping the landscape: the explosive growth of AI inference and the emergence of agentic AI. In this fireside chat, we’ll explore how the rapidly expanding inference market is driving new infrastructure needs, why the broader AI ecosystem will likely span multiple open source foundations rather than consolidating in one place, and the rise of agentic systems and what their autonomy, orchestration, and runtime requirements mean for the next generation of open source collaboration.