CNCF Toronto Holiday Meetup at Intuit

Join us for the 2025 CNCF Toronto Holiday Meetup, a festive celebration bringing together the Cloud Native Toronto community! This is your chance to connect with fellow Kubernauts, share knowledge, and enjoy the holiday spirit in a vibrant, collaborative atmosphere.

Event Highlights:

• We'll "wrap-up" an exciting year in the CNCF community.

• As always, we'll have a few lighting talks and demos sprinkled in and you may even see a Santa hat or two.

Details:

• Date: December 9th, 2025

• Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM EDT

• Location: Intuit Toronto - Suite 1900 (19th Floor), The Well, 486 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 0V2, Canada

• RSVP: Secure your spot by RSVPing now!

Meetup Schedule:

• 5:45 Start

• Welcome & Opening Remarks (20 minutes) - The CNCF Toronto Team

• Automated Multi-Environment Promotions with GitOps Promoter -- Speakers: Alfredo Garo, Alexandre Gaudreault

• Rebuilding a Modern ML Pipeline on Kubernetes -- Speakers: Aryan Dhar, Burak Yildiz

• Networking (30 minutes)

• Agentic Datasets on Kubernetes: Data Products with Active Workflows -- Speaker: Alexander Chernov

• Kagent — Bringing Agentic AI to Cloud Native -- Speaker: Jet Chiang

• Don’t Be a Grinch: Stop Hardcoding Your Permissions -- Speaker: Jakub Hertyk