• Istio at KubeCon North America 2025: Let’s Connect in Atlanta! • Celebrate Istio at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. • Nov 7, 2025|By Francisco Herrera, for the Istio Community Get ready for a packed agenda ofIstio activities at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025, including Istio Day sessions on AI-ready service meshes, multicluster Ambient Mesh, hands-on workshops, contributor opportunities, and chances to meet maintainers and fellow community members in person. • Istio Day and Key Sessions Join us atIstio DayonMonday, November 10 2025- a full-day, community-focused event. • Istio Day will feature sessions on AI readiness for service meshes, scaling Istio across multicluster environments with Ambient Mesh, validating and testing Istio setups, optimizing autoscaling, running stateful workloads like databases in Istio, and zero-downtime migrations to modern Gateway APIs. • Attendees will also have hands-on workshops and opportunities to meet maintainers and contributors.
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- Istio will headline KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta with a full‑day “Istio Day” on November 10. The day will feature sessions on AI‑ready service meshes, multicluster Ambient Mesh, autoscaling, stateful workloads, and zero‑downtime migration to Gateway APIs, plus hands‑on workshops and networking with maintainers. A TOC session will update on AI inference, Ambient Multicluster, and Default Deny, previewing the 2026 roadmap. New contributors can join the “ContribFest” to learn how to submit their first Istio pull request. The conference will also highlight related sessions on Gateway APIs, AI proxies, and secure gRPC, with a dedicated Istio kiosk for in‑person interaction.
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