gRPC Conf 2025: Full Schedule

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 🥐

Tuesday August 26, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am PDT

Breaks

Experience Level Any

10:15am PDT

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

Tuesday August 26, 2025 10:15am - 10:30am PDT

Valley Oak

Tuesday August 26, 2025 10:15am - 10:30am PDT
Valley Oak

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

10:30am PDT

Keynote: State of gRPC

Tuesday August 26, 2025 10:30am - 10:40am PDT

Valley Oak

Tuesday August 26, 2025 10:30am - 10:40am PDT
Valley Oak

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

11:00am PDT

Keynote: Industry Trends & gRPC

Tuesday August 26, 2025 11:00am - 11:20am PDT

Valley Oak

Tuesday August 26, 2025 11:00am - 11:20am PDT
Valley Oak

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

11:20am PDT

Coffee Break ☕️

Tuesday August 26, 2025 11:20am - 11:40am PDT

TBA

Tuesday August 26, 2025 11:20am - 11:40am PDT
TBA

Breaks

Experience Level Any

12:40pm PDT

Lunch 🥪

Tuesday August 26, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PDT

TBA

Tuesday August 26, 2025 12:40pm - 1:40pm PDT
TBA

Breaks

Experience Level Any

1:40pm PDT

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

Tuesday August 26, 2025 1:40pm - 2:10pm PDT

Western Sycamore

gRPC is a mature project used by countless companies across numerous industries. It's time for gRPC reach graduated status in the CNCF. In this talk, we'll cover some governance changes we're making to achieve that goal. We'll cover the new Contributor Ladder, Steering Committee, and everything in between.

Speakers

Richard Belleville

Software Engineer, Google LLC

Richard Belleville is a software engineer on the gRPC team at Google. He is a contributor to the Gateway API project, focusing on the GRPCRoute resource. In his free time, he tinkers on a server rack at home running Kubernetes.

Tuesday August 26, 2025 1:40pm - 2:10pm PDT
Western Sycamore

Ecosystem + Tooling

Experience Level Any

1:40pm PDT

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

Tuesday August 26, 2025 1:40pm - 2:10pm PDT

Red Willow

This talk shares how users can securely expose their gRPC services to external consumers using a Kubernetes-native API management gateway built on Envoy Proxy and the Kubernetes Gateway API specification. While gRPC offers major performance advantages for internal communication, exposing it at the edge introduces a unique set of challenges around security, routing, and protocol translation.

We will walk through how the gateway architecture solves these challenges in a production environment, allowing users to publish gRPC APIs externally with confidence. In addition to native gRPC routing, we will discuss how our platform enables users to layer critical Quality-of-Service (QoS) features like authentication, rate limiting, retries, and policy enforcement on top of their gRPC APIs for external consumption.

Speakers

Gayangi Seneviratne

Software Engineer, WSO2

Gayangi Seneviratne is a Software Engineer at WSO2, where she is a member of the API Management team. She primarily works on the WSO2 Kubernetes Gateway product and has played a key role in designing and developing several of its core features, including gRPC implementation.

Tuesday August 26, 2025 1:40pm - 2:10pm PDT
Red Willow

Implementation

Experience Level Any

1:40pm PDT

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

Tuesday August 26, 2025 1:40pm - 2:40pm PDT

Freemont Cottonwood Second Floor - Conference Room

This hands-on codelab walks participants through the foundational steps of adopting xDS to manage multi-zone gRPC systems. From static configurations to dynamic discovery, load balancing, failover, and observability — this lab will demonstrate how xDS enables smarter and more resilient gRPC traffic management across clusters and failure domains.

Speakers

Ashish Kumar

Principal Software Engineer, Mastercard

Ashish Kumar is Principal Software Engineer and part of gRPC special interest group. He has been leading service discovery working group, with an aim to build xDS enabled service discovery that can run anywhere.

Jason Pham

Software Engineer, Mastercard

Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard. ~5 years in Payment Network architecting and building services at the Edge.

Tuesday August 26, 2025 1:40pm - 2:40pm PDT
Freemont Cottonwood Second Floor - Conference Room

Codelabs

Experience Level Any

2:10pm PDT

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

Tuesday August 26, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm PDT

Valley Oak

As the adoption of Rust continues to expand across various development domains, the gRPC team is committed to supporting its user base by providing robust tools. This session will offer a comprehensive introduction to gRPC-Rust. We will explore how Rust's characteristics, including its focus on performance, memory safety, and concurrency, can be utilized in conjunction with gRPC's efficient, language-agnostic RPC framework to develop microservices.

Attendees will learn the foundational aspects of defining gRPC services in Rust, implementing both clients and servers, handling common communication patterns such as streaming, and integrating with the broader Rust ecosystem. The session aims to provide a clear understanding of how gRPC-Rust can be applied in the development of scalable and efficient distributed systems.

Speakers

Cathy Zhao

Software Engineer Intern, Google

Cathy is a rising Junior at Brown University majoring in Applied Math and Computer Science. She is the SWE intern on the gRPC-Rust team this summer and helped to develop some load balancing policies in Rust and also helped Kevin with gRPConf. Fun fact about her is that she likes painting... Read More →

Lucio Franco

Software Engineer, Polars

Lucio is the core maintainer and creator of the Tonic gRPC project in Rust. He is also a maintainer of many other important open source projects in Rust including Tokio and Prost. He has been at Polars since 2025 and before that worked at AWS working on Rust open source.

Easwar Swaminathan

Software Engineer, Google

Easwar is a software engineer on the gRPC-Go team in Google. In a previous iteration, he was a software engineer on the Cloud Databases team in Google. His interests include networking, distributed systems and Go among others

Tuesday August 26, 2025 2:10pm - 2:40pm PDT
Valley Oak

gRPC in-production

Experience Level Any

2:40pm PDT

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

Tuesday August 26, 2025 2:40pm - 3:05pm PDT

Valley Oak

Come take a look at what's in store for gRPC in 2025 and beyond. Discover the most impactful recent updates in the gRPC ecosystem and how you can take advantage of them.

Speakers

Richard Belleville

Software Engineer, Google LLC

Tuesday August 26, 2025 2:40pm - 3:05pm PDT
Valley Oak

gRPC in-production

Experience Level Any

3:40pm PDT

Coffee Break ☕️

Tuesday August 26, 2025 3:40pm - 4:00pm PDT

Breaks

Experience Level Any

4:00pm PDT

Load Balancing in gRPC - Easwar Swaminathan, Google

Tuesday August 26, 2025 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT

Valley Oak

In this session, we will cover the following:
- Basics of client-side load balancing support in gRPC:
- Here, we will cover the interaction between the gRPC channel and the load balancing policy. We will also go over the load balancing API in gRPC that allows our users to implement their own policies.
- Overview of supported load balancing policies:
- gRPC ships with a bunch of load balancing policy implementations. We will go through a subset of them and talk about ideal deployment scenarios for each of them.
- Custom load balancing policy support in gRPC:
- gRPC supports configuration of custom load balancing policies on the client by the control plane.

Speakers

Easwar Swaminathan

Software Engineer, Google

Tuesday August 26, 2025 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT
Valley Oak

Implementation

Experience Level Any

5:00pm PDT

Happy Hour

Tuesday August 26, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PDT

TBA

Tuesday August 26, 2025 5:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
TBA

Breaks

Experience Level Any

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