[TOC Artificial Intelligence Initiatives Meeting] 2025-10-10

[riaankleinhans]

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Agenda

[joshhalley]

Presentation Scheduled:

Sri Aradhyula CAIPE: Community AI Platform Engineering Multi-Agent Systems https://github.com/cnoe-io/ai-platform-engineering

[joshhalley]

CNCF TOC Initiatives - | Meeting Notes 📆

General Items 💬

• Nov 10-13: KubeCon NA Atlanta 2025 🎉🥳👏🤝❄️🥶
  *** This Sunday - Deadline for Kubecon Europe CFP ***

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 are currently working on updating the papers
  • Currently working on bi-weekly call cadence
• Agentics standards paper under final review
  • Feedback provided and updated
• New MCP Paper submitted by Satarupa (meeting series being organized by Sec / Compliance TAG)
  • Tag lead allocated, cadence being organised for calls

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 - AI TOC Lead
• Josh Halley - AI TCG
• Arun Gupta - AI TCG
• Boris Kurtktchiev - AI TCG
• Julio Perez - AI TCG
• Ron Petty - AI TCG
• Sri Aradhyula - Cisco Outshift (Todays Presenter)
• Hasith - Cisco Outshift (platform engineering lead)
• Marisol - Working on AI Sustainability Framework document with Payam
• Payam Mohajeri - Accenture (Working on sustainability paper)
• Raghu Shankar - Involved in a lot of AI CN research at the moment
• Nina Polshakova - Solo (Working on Agent Gateway)
• Prasanth Baskar - 8 Gears
• Victor Lu - Independent
• Nimisha Mehta - Convluent
• Amandeep Singh - Data Science Entrepreneur (working on vLLM)
• Shubham Bakshi
• Sunny Whang
• Arthur Drazdov - Cisco
• Hasith Kalpage - Cisco Outshift

Scribes:

• @joshhalley @raravena80

Agenda: 📑

• Team discussed an update of ongoing deliverables, upcoming conferences, and different ongoing initiatives
• Sri and Hasith presented an overview of the Community AI Platform Engineering Project (https://github.com/cnoe-io/ai-platform-engineering) including a live demonstration.

Past Meetings 📅