[TOC Artificial Intelligence Initiatives Meeting] 2025-09-26

[riaankleinhans]

Host: Note Taker:

Recurring Items

• LF Antitrust Policy
• TAG Folder
• TOC SubProjects Folder
• Welcome new meeting attendees

Agenda

[joshhalley]

Presenter Session Planned:

Dotan Horovits to share a 30 minuteupdate on the Opensearch project and new innovations around its usability as a vector store in the context of AI.

@raravena80

[joshhalley]

CNCF TOC Initiatives - | Meeting Notes 📆

General Items 💬

• Nov 10-13: KubeCon NA Atlanta 2025 🎉🥳👏🤝❄️🥶

Meeting Etiquette 👔

Proposing Agenda Items…

• Anyone can propose small-ish items
• Ask/discuss with the group when to schedule
  • Folks may add to meetings on-the-fly (as time permits)
• Follow the CNCF Code of Conduct
• The group can also schedule meetings other days per request. Reach out to the leads on the CNCF Slack (#toc-artificial-intellicence-initiaves) for more information.

Pending items 🔥 (Old-ish)

• Security Whitepaper (Deep indicated that its going through its final reviews)

• Scheduling Whitepaper (Team to liase with the TAGs to see if one of them want to take ownership)

• Sustainability Whitepaper - Payam and Marisol have volunteered to drive this one forward to completion

• Agentics standards paper submitted for publishing

• New MCP Paper submitted by Satarupa (will be chaperoned by the Sec / Compliance TAG)

Declined or postponed items ❌

Completed items ✔️🙏 (Can be revisited)

Planned Meetings 📅

Meetings are usually on the second and fourth Friday of the month.

September 26th, 2025

Attendance: ✋ (PLEASE ADD YOURSELF)

• Riaan Kleinhans - CNCF Program Manager

• Ricardo Aravena - Snowflake

• Josh Halley - AI TCG

• Arun Gupta - AI TCG

• Boris Kurtktchiev - AI TCG

• Julio Perez - AI TCG

• Ron Petty - AI TCG

• Dotan Horovits - Todays Presenter (Open Search)

• Yujia Lin

• Satarupa Deb

• Raghu Shankar

• Nina Polshakova

• Joel Roberts

• Andrey Velichkevich

• Payam Mohajeri

• Marisol Palmero

• Victor Lu

Scribes:

Agenda: 📑

• Dotan Presented an updated on the Open Search project for the community
• Satarupa: Raised questions around governance of the MCP paper which was submitted
• Satarupa: Topic of Responsible AI was raised and which efforts are happening at the moment within the CNCF
• Arun suggested following up around how this can be steered into a cloud native angle (AI & Data is a broader domain of this)
• Victor indicated that there was a bunch of earlier efforts being driven by Adel in the domain of responsible AI
• Payam to setup series of calls Tuesday afternoon

Past Meetings 📅