gRPC Conf 2025

gRPC Conf 2025

In-Person
August 26, 2025

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Please note that all session times are listed below in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), UTC -7.

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9:00am PDT

Breakfast 🥐 Registration + Badge Pickup

10:15am PDT

Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Kevin Nilson, gRPC Maintainer Valley Oak

10:30am PDT

Keynote: State of gRPC Valley Oak

10:40am PDT

Overview of gRPC - Jung-Yu (Gina) Yeh, Google Inc Valley Oak

11:00am PDT

Keynote: Industry Trends & gRPC Valley Oak

11:20am PDT

Coffee Break ☕️ TBA

11:40am PDT

An Introduction To Google Cloud Platform - Peisi Le, Google Valley Oak Protobuf Editions - Mike Kruskal, Google Coast Live Oak Should You Use gRPC in Your AI Tooling Stack? - Jennifer Amah, Ostrom Red Willow Using gRPC Swift for Container Agents in Apple Containerization - Agam Dua, Apple Western Sycamore Getting Started With GRPC-Go: Hands-On Codelab - Easwar Swaminathan, Google Big Maple Leaf First Floor - Conference Room Getting Started With GRPC-Python: Hands-On Codelab - Sergii Tkachenko, Google LLC Freemont Cottonwood Second Floor - Conference Room

12:10pm PDT

Building GRPC-Rust Services With Confidence Via Deterministic Simulation Testing - Lucio Franco, Polars Western Sycamore Bringing HTTP/3 To gRPC at Cloudflare Scale - Lucas Pardue, Cloudflare Coast Live Oak Evolving Critical Systems With GRPC: Bidirectional at Scale — What Works, What Hurts, What’s Next? - Thiyagarajan Velappan, Mastercard Inc., ; Eric Robins, Mastercard ; Ravi Cherukuru, Mastercard International... Red Willow Kubernetes and GKE for Beginners - Richard Belleville, Google LLC Valley Oak

12:30pm PDT

1:30pm PDT

Tossing Our Caps: gRPC Governance Changes and the Path To CNCF Graduation - Richard Belleville, Google LLC Western Sycamore Using a Service Mesh With gRPC - Eric Anderson, Google Valley Oak gRPC API Management With a Kubernetes Native API Management Platform - Gayangi Seneviratne, WSO2 Red Willow Handling Traffic Spikes Through Automated Prioritized Load Shedding - Benjamin Fedorka, Netflix Coast Live Oak Bootstrapping XDS for Multi-Zone gRPC Systems: Early Wins and Hard Lessons - Ashish Kumar & Jason Pham, Mastercard Inc Freemont Cottonwood Second Floor - Conference Room Getting Started With GRPC-Java: Hands-On Codelab - Eric Anderson, Google Big Maple Leaf First Floor - Conference Room

2:00pm PDT

Introducing GRPC-Rust - Cathy Zhao & Easwar Swaminathan, Google; Lucio Franco, Polars Valley Oak Managing Contextual Metadata Across a gRPC Ecosystem - Nicholas Hagen, Netflix Western Sycamore Architecting Real-Time Systems With gRPC Streaming: Scalable Bi-Directional Communication - Rahul Raja, Linkedin Coast Live Oak Building High-Performance AI-Powered Quote Generation With gRPC - Vani Panguluri, Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge Red Willow

2:30pm PDT

GRPC: New Features and the Road Ahead - Richard Belleville, Google LLC Valley Oak

3:00pm PDT

Birds of a Feather - Protobuf - Eric Anderson, Google Coast Live Oak Birds of a Feather - Rust - Cathy Zhao, Google Western Sycamore Birds of a Feather - Service Mesh - Richard Belleville, Google LLC Big Maple Leaf First Floor - Conference Room Birds of Feather - AI - Jung-Yu (Gina) Yeh, Google Inc Valley Oak Birds of Feather - Load Balancing - Easwar Swaminathan, Google Red Willow

3:20pm PDT

Coffee Break ☕️

3:40pm PDT

Building Production-Ready LLM Integrations With MCP Over gRPC - Mehrdad Afshari, Signeen Inc. Coast Live Oak Load Balancing in gRPC - Easwar Swaminathan, Google Valley Oak Tuning gRPC for High Performance: Deadlines, Batching, and KeepAlives - Rahul Raja, Linkedin Red Willow Experiences With Integration of Io_uring Into GRPC-C++ - Vignesh Babu, Google LLC & Minwoo Ahn, Google Western Sycamore Getting Started With GRPC-Rust: Hands-On Codelab - Cathy Zhao, Google Big Maple Leaf First Floor - Conference Room

4:10pm PDT

Exposing gRPC Services as MCP Servers - Johannes Brüderl, Redpanda Data Coast Live Oak What's New With GRPC's Observability? - Yash Tibrewal, Google Valley Oak Building a gRPC Proxyless World: How Reddit Scaled Resilience With XDS - Shadi Altarsha, Reddit & Sotiris Nanopoulos, Reddit Inc Red Willow

4:30pm PDT