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.

9:00am PDT

Breakfast 🥐

9:00am PDT

Registration + Badge Pickup

10:15am PDT

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

10:30am PDT

Keynote: State of gRPC

10:40am PDT

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

11:00am PDT

Keynote: Industry Trends & gRPC

11:20am PDT

Coffee Break ☕️

11:40am PDT

An Introduction To Google Cloud Platform - Peisi Le, Google

11:40am PDT

Protobuf Editions - Mike Kruskal, Google

11:40am PDT

Should You Use gRPC in Your AI Tooling Stack? - Jennifer Amah, Ostrom

11:40am PDT

Using gRPC Swift for Container Agents in Apple Containerization - Agam Dua, Apple

11:40am PDT

Getting Started With GRPC-Go: Hands-On Codelab - Easwar Swaminathan, Google

11:40am PDT

Getting Started With GRPC-Python: Hands-On Codelab - Sergii Tkachenko, Google LLC

12:10pm PDT

Building GRPC-Rust Services With Confidence Via Deterministic Simulation Testing - Lucio Franco, Polars

12:10pm PDT

Bringing HTTP/3 To gRPC at Cloudflare Scale - Lucas Pardue, Cloudflare

12:10pm PDT

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; Prasanna Srinivasan Narasimhan & Jenny Zhang

12:10pm PDT

Kubernetes and GKE for Beginners - Richard Belleville, Google LLC

12:30pm PDT

Lunch 🥪

1:30pm PDT

Tossing Our Caps: gRPC Governance Changes and the Path To CNCF Graduation - Richard Belleville, Google LLC

1:30pm PDT

Using a Service Mesh With gRPC - Eric Anderson, Google

1:30pm PDT

gRPC API Management With a Kubernetes Native API Management Platform - Gayangi Seneviratne, WSO2

1:30pm PDT

Handling Traffic Spikes Through Automated Prioritized Load Shedding - Benjamin Fedorka, Netflix

1:30pm PDT

Bootstrapping XDS for Multi-Zone gRPC Systems: Early Wins and Hard Lessons - Ashish Kumar & Jason Pham, Mastercard Inc

1:30pm PDT

Getting Started With GRPC-Java: Hands-On Codelab - Eric Anderson, Google

2:00pm PDT

Introducing GRPC-Rust - Cathy Zhao & Easwar Swaminathan, Google; Lucio Franco, Polars

2:00pm PDT

Managing Contextual Metadata Across a gRPC Ecosystem - Nicholas Hagen, Netflix

2:00pm PDT

Architecting Real-Time Systems With gRPC Streaming: Scalable Bi-Directional Communication - Rahul Raja, Linkedin

2:00pm PDT

Building High-Performance AI-Powered Quote Generation With gRPC - Vani Panguluri, Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge

2:30pm PDT

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

3:00pm PDT

Birds of a Feather - Protobuf - Eric Anderson, Google

3:00pm PDT

Birds of a Feather - Rust - Cathy Zhao, Google

3:00pm PDT

Birds of a Feather - Service Mesh - Richard Belleville, Google LLC

3:00pm PDT

Birds of Feather - AI - Jung-Yu (Gina) Yeh, Google Inc

3:00pm PDT

Birds of Feather - Load Balancing - Easwar Swaminathan, Google

3:20pm PDT

Coffee Break ☕️

3:40pm PDT

Building Production-Ready LLM Integrations With MCP Over gRPC - Mehrdad Afshari, Signeen Inc.

3:40pm PDT

Load Balancing in gRPC - Easwar Swaminathan, Google

3:40pm PDT

Tuning gRPC for High Performance: Deadlines, Batching, and KeepAlives - Rahul Raja, Linkedin

3:40pm PDT

Experiences With Integration of Io_uring Into GRPC-C++ - Vignesh Babu, Google LLC & Minwoo Ahn, Google

3:40pm PDT

Getting Started With GRPC-Rust: Hands-On Codelab - Cathy Zhao, Google

4:10pm PDT

Exposing gRPC Services as MCP Servers - Johannes Brüderl, Redpanda Data

4:10pm PDT

What's New With GRPC's Observability? - Yash Tibrewal, Google

4:10pm PDT

Building a gRPC Proxyless World: How Reddit Scaled Resilience With XDS - Shadi Altarsha, Reddit & Sotiris Nanopoulos, Reddit Inc

4:30pm PDT

Happy Hour