Kubeflow Community Showcase 2026: GenAI and MLOps in Action
as the organisers put it
Virtual Event - Kubeflow Community Showcase 2026 is a half-day virtual event highlighting real-world use cases and innovations. Learn how the community applies Kubeflow to Generative AI, MLOps, and LLMOps across cloud, hybrid, and edge environments through demos, practical solutions, and success stories.
who it's for
Kubeflow users, MLOps engineers, machine learning engineers, platform engineers, data engineers, open source contributors
topics
Kubeflow Notebooks v2; Workspaces and WorkspaceKinds CRDs; GPU and TPU notebook lifecycle; KServe with vLLM; Milvus vector database; Kubeflow Pipelines cron ingestion; TrainJob resource recommenders; Headlamp plugin for Kubeflow; SparkConnect interactive sessions; Semantic Operator for text-to-SQL; Kubeflow community distribution; Kubeflow enhancement proposals
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening/Intro | Chase Christensen | 05m |
Cubeflow announces it is a graduated project with an updated mission to be the cloud‑native AI platform that unifies ML and cloud‑native ecosystems, and it… | ||
| AI Workspaces for the Modern Era – Kubeflow Notebooks v2 | Mathew Wicks, Siyuan Zhang | 33m |
Kubeflow Notebooks v2 launches as a beta with a ground-up rewrite that adds Workspaces and WorkspaceKinds CRDs, decouples admin-defined image configs and pod… | ||
| Agentic RAG on Kubeflow | Rohit Kumar, Santhosh T | 15m |
Project Flow implements an agentic RAG pipeline on Kubeflow that runs on KServe + vLLM for model serving, uses Milvus vector DB and Kubeflow Pipelines (cron… | ||
| Automatic Resource Configuration for Kubeflow TrainJobs | Vassilis Vassiliadis | 34m |
Feature adds a simple plugin protocol where an external Kubernetes controller (a recommender) mutates TrainJob resources and Kubeflow Trainer enforces… | ||
| Kubeflow Community Distribution | Julius von Kohout | 14m |
Kubeflow creates an official community distribution (renamed from kubeflow manifest) managed by a new distribution committee with three voter groups… | ||
| Interactive Spark at Your Fingertips: Integrating SparkConnect into Kubeflow Noteboo... | Vikas Saxena | 24m |
Shows how to run real interactive Spark inside Kubeflow Notebooks by deploying a SparkConnect server via the Spark Operator and controlling sessions from the… | ||
| Closing the Observability Gap: Building a Kubeflow Plugin for Headlamp | Alok Dangre | 16m |
A Headlamp plugin built in TypeScript with the Headlamp Plugin SDK surfaces Kubeflow resources as tangible UI objects: five components, 16 CRDs, and 39 detail… | ||
| Stop AI Agents from Guessing SQL with Semantic Operator on Kubernetes | Manabu McCloskey | 35m |
Semantic Operator runs Apache Ossie semantic models as Kubernetes CRDs and turns certified metrics and dimensions into deterministic, governed SQL… | ||
| Contributing to the Kubeflow Ecosystem - Evolving from beginner to pro OSS contr... | Christian Heusel | 09m |
Steps for first contributions focus on concrete, small wins: fix a UI bug, pick an easy issue, or test a release candidate like the QFlow notebooks merge… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Chase Christensen, Tarek Abouzeid | 01m |
Session ends by directing people to https://kubecon.io and the project community page with a listed community calls schedule and calendar and channels for… | ||
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