Cloud Native AI Summit
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Lauri Apple
Andrew Block

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Lauri Apple & Andrew Block

Shopware AG · Red Hat

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Lauri Apple

Product manager, Kubernetes contributor, open source advisor · Shopware AG

Long-time open source contributor with +10 years of experience developing initiatives and strategies for more effective development.

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Andrew Block

Distinguished Architect, Red Hat · Red Hat

Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat who works with organizations to adopt Open Source solutions with a focus on Cloud Native, security and emerging technologies. Andrew is the author of multiple technical publications and frequently shares his knowledge and experiences related to relevant industry topics. He is a recognized leader, maintainer and contributor within the Open Source community, and partners with organizations to incorporate Open Source practices and their benefits.

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Develop Today, Deploy Tomorrow: An Interoperability Spec for AI Models

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Packaging solves distribution. It doesn’t solve interoperability. While OCI artifacts and projects like ModelPack provide a foundation for packaging AI models, moving those models from a developer laptop into production Kubernetes environments still requires stitching together metadata, trust, provenance, and deployment workflows. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how the CNCF Developer Experience TAG is building a lightweight interoperability profile that complements existing standards rather than replacing them. By walking through each component in detail and illustrating the concepts in a live demo, we’ll package, sign, publish, validate, and deploy an AI model from local development to Kubernetes inference using today’s cloud native tooling. Audience members will leave with a practical blueprint for cloud native AI delivery and a better understanding of how OCI, GitOps, Sigstore, Model Openness Framework, and emerging interoperability standards fit together.

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