Kubecon NA Atlanta 2025 blogpost

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+title: "Istio at KubeCon North America 2025: Let’s Connect in Atlanta!"
+description: Celebrate Istio at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025.
+publishdate: 2025-11-07
+attribution: "Francisco Herrera, for Istio Community"
+keywords: [Istio Day,Istio,conference,KubeCon,CloudNativeCon]
+---
+
+An amazing lineup of Istio activities awaits you in Atlanta, Georgia at [KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)!
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+{{< image width="100%"
+    link="./kubecon.png"
+    alt="KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, November 10-13, 2025, Atlanta, Georgia. #KubeCon"
+    >}}
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+- Join us at [Istio Day](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/istio-day/) on Monday, November 10th, at our co-located event. We have an exciting program planned and can't wait to see you there.
+- Get the latest at the TOC Istio Session: [Istio Project Updates: AI Inference, Ambient Multicluster & Default Deny](https://sched.co/27NoI) to hear about new features, see what the community has been working on, and get a preview of the roadmap for next year.
+- Become a contributor at Istio Contribfest: [From Farm (Fork) To Table (Feature): Growing Your First (Free-range Organic) Istio PR](https://sched.co/27Nku) to learn more about the project and see how you can contribute your first PR.
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+- Add the following KubeCon sessions to your schedule, all of which have an Istio flavor:
+    - [Istio: Set Sailing With Istio Without Sidecars | Project Lightning Talk](https://sched.co/27d4r)
+    - [Lessons Applied Building a Next-generation AI Proxy](https://sched.co/27FWf)
+    - [Automated Rightsizing for Istio DaemonSet Workloads | Poster Session](https://sched.co/27FYD)
+    - [Gateway API: Table Stakes](https://sched.co/27No3)
+    - [Know Before You Go! Speedrun Intro To Gateway API | Project Lightning Talk](https://sched.co/27FcW)
+    - [Return of the Mesh: Gateway API's Epic Quest for Unity](https://sched.co/27FYA)
+    - [5 Key Lessons From 8 Years of Building Kgateway | Project Lightning Talk](https://sched.co/28yGT)
+    - [GAMMA in Action: How Careem Migrated To Istio Without Downtime](https://sched.co/27FX9)
+    - [Taming Rollout Risks in Distributed Web Apps: A Location-Aware Gradual Deployment Approach](https://sched.co/27FVh)
+    - [End-to-End Security With gRPC in Kubernetes](https://sched.co/27FVP)
+    - [On-Call the Easy Way With Agents](https://sched.co/28D66)
+
+- Visit the Istio Kiosk in the Project Pavilion: Stop by any time during the event to meet the maintainers, chat with fellow users, and get your questions answered.
+
+Follow us on [X](https://x.com/istiomesh), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/istio/) or [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/istio.io) to get live updates from the event. See you soon!