[TOC Artificial Intelligence Initiatives Meeting] 2025-11-07
Host: Note Taker:
Recurring Items
- LF Antitrust Policy
- TAG Folder
- TOC SubProjects Folder
- Welcome new meeting attendees
Agenda
Sujay Solomon scheduled to provide an update on Open Telemetry Generative AI Semantic Conventions.
CNCF TOC Initiatives - | Meeting Notes 📆
General Items 💬
- Nov 10-13: KubeCon NA Atlanta 2025 🎉🥳👏🤝❄️🥶
- CFP Closed for Kubecon EU and AI sub-sessions
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 🔥
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Security Whitepaper (Deep submitted 3/3 papers)
- https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1939 [CNAI Security Whitepaper - Evolving Encryption Landscape]
- https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1940 [CNAI Security Whitepaper - Model and Data Security]
- https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1942 [CNAI Security Whitepaper - AI Agents]
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Scheduling Whitepaper (Ownership has been assumed by the TAG Workloads team)
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Sustainability Whitepaper - Payam and Marisol are currently working on updating the papers
- Currently working on bi-weekly call cadence
- Final review underway: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EM_yRpY16zIkPMoCUR8qHfz510PKw_dc-36sNjhm5N4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.a2csx0fpflu3
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Data on Kubernetes - Data Analytics and AI/ML Workloads
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s6pbkJKoZrO8vR4t0_-nk1Mx4UCup4szZrBDKF7_ymA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.funeck30ev26
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Cloud Native Agentics standards paper under final review
- Feedback provided and updated - waiting for next steps
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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.
November 7th, 2025
Attendance: ✋ (PLEASE ADD YOURSELF)
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Riaan Kleinhans - CNCF Program Manager
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Ricardo Aravena - AI TOC Liaison
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Josh Halley - AI TCG
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Arun Gupta - AI TCG
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Boris Kurtktchiev - AI TCG
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Julio Perez - AI TCG
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Ron Petty - AI TCG
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Aaron Abbott - Google
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Marisol Palmero - Independent
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Nina Polshakova - Solo
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Orcun Berkem - AWS
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Ronald Petty
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Sujay Solomon - Google
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Payam Mohajeri - Accenture
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Deep Patel - Cisco
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Ricardo Aravena (CNCF TOC)
Scribes:
- @joshhalley @raravena80
Agenda: 📑
- Team discussed an update of on community activities and, upcoming conferences
- Sujay and Aaron presenting GenAI Semantic Conventions