[TOC Artificial Intelligence Initiatives Meeting] 2025-11-21

[riaankleinhans]

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Recurring Items

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

Agenda

[joshhalley]

Presentation Planned:

Jesse from the Volcano Project (https://github.com/volcano-sh/volcano) to share an overview of the project and the latest and greatest with the community.

@raravena80 @JesseStutler

[joshhalley]

CNCF TOC Initiatives - | Meeting Notes 📆

General Items 💬

• KCD Suisse Romande - CNCF Community - Dec 4th - 5th
• Kubecon Amsterdam - March 23rd - 26th
• Further events: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/09/26/announcing-h1-2026-kcds/

Meeting Etiquette 👔

Planned Meetings 📅

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

November 21st, 2025

Attendance: ✋ (PLEASE ADD YOURSELF)

• Kevin Wang - Huawei (Vice Chair TOC)

• Riaan Kleinhans - CNCF Program Manager

• Ricardo Aravena - AI TOC Liaison

• Josh Halley - AI TCG

• Arun Gupta - AI TCG

• Boris Kurtktchiev - AI TCG

• Julio Perez - AI TCG

• Ron Petty - AI TCG

• Adam Dickinson - Demand Base (involved in Canu)

• Annie Talvasto

• Jesse Chen - Volcano

• Nina Polshakova - Solo

• Prasanth Baskar (8 Gears)

• Raghu Shankar

• Yujia Lin (Discover)

• Victor Lu

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 🔥

• 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]

• Scheduling Whitepaper (Ownership has been assumed by the TAG Workloads team)

• 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

• 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

• Cloud Native Agentics standards paper under final review

  • Feedback provided and updated - waiting for next steps (Review to continue in Dec)

• 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)

Scribes:

• @joshhalley @raravena80

Agenda: 📑

• Team discussed an update of on community activities and, upcoming conferences
• Jesse planned to present the Volcano project

Past Meetings 📅