Tim Hockin is a long term software engineer with Google Cloud and I would argue one of the fathers of Kubernetes. Brandon Royal is a product manager on GKE and has been behind the launch of multiple OSS projects like the Ray Operator for k8s, Agent Sandbox and our topic for today - Agent Substrate.

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• Kubernetes 1.37: Garhwal

• Kubernetes Podcast: Kubernetes 1.37 with Dipesh Rawat

• Kubernetes release & maintenance information: https://kubernetes.io/releases/

• BOMHort

• Google Open Source Blog: Adapting open source practices to an AI-first world: A retrospective on 2025

• Kubernetes-security-announce Google Group

• Kubernetes CVE RSS Feed

• Agent Substrate on GitHub

• Agent Sandbox

• Kubernetes Checkpoint & Restore Working Group

• spiffe.io

• HashiCorp Blog: SPIFFE: Securing the identity of agentic AI and non-human actors

• Kubernetes Podcast: Agent Sandbox and Lovable, with Jonathan Grahl

Dipesh Rawat is a Software Developer at IBM, CNCF Ambassador, CNCF Kubestronaut and SIG Docs Tech Lead. A contributor across multiple Kubernetes release cycles, he serves as the Release Lead for Kubernetes v1.37.

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• CNCF Announces Kubeflow's Graduation, Solidifying a Standard for Cloud Native AI Operations

• CNCF Announces Graduation of Cloud Native Buildpacks, Advancing the Standard for Container Builds

• Gateway API v1.6: TCPRoute and UDPRoute Graduate to Standard

• KubeCon EU CFP

• Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal

• Kubernetes 1.37 Sneak Peak Blog

Niki Manoledaki is a Staff Platform Engineer at Grafana Labs, A CNCF Ambassador and Green Software Foundation Champion, and a core maintainer of Project Kepler. We explore the recent rewrite of Project Kepler and the challenges of measuring sustainability in the era of AI.

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• Confidential Containers becomes a CNCF Incubating Project

• KEP-5972 Dynamic Pod Mutation: Optimistic Execution & Hierarchical Resource Delegation

• RedHat - Introducing asago: Open source AI safety and governance orchestration

• • Asago on GitHub

  • Asago website

• KubeCon NA 2026 Schedule

• CNCF Blog: Welcome CoHDI to the CNCF: Evolving Kubernetes into composable disaggregated infrastructures

• Project Kepler on GitHub

• CNCF Blog: Kepler, re-architected: Improved power accuracy and a community call to action!

• Green Software Foundation

• "Building Green Software" by Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, Sara Bergman

• Grafana Labs Blog: How Grafana Labs switched to Karpenter to reduce costs and complexities in Amazon EKS

• GreenIO New York Conference

• AI Energy Score Initiative on Hugging Face

• Dr Sasha Luccioni's: Power hungry processing: Watts driving the cost of AI deployment?