This is an AI-infrastructure-heavy cycle, and with physical DC/WAN systems treated as core, the program yields a strong Core tier: optics and topology, RDMA/lossless fabrics, hardware transports, programmable-dataplane work, and cloud-native datapath all land squarely in scope. I've pushed pure LLM-serving-algorithm and application-QoE work down or out, and reserved Wildcards for genuinely off-axis novelty.
Program source is the expanded technical-sessions schedule (titles, authors, and full abstracts; no PDF/slide/recording links were present in the pasted program text, so no Links field is included below — every write-up is grounded in the abstract only). USENIX Security is enormous (380+ accepted papers plus Enigma industry talks across three days); this is a tight cut toward the PM's stated interests — physical DC/WAN networking, cloud-native networking, network security, and identity/authentication — with most of the program (ML/AI privacy, blockchain internals, mobile-app privacy measurement, hardware fault injection unrelated to networking) left out.
A triage of NSDI '25 papers for a PM working on physical DC networking, cloud-native networking, network security, and identity. Picks are grouped into Core, Adjacent, and Wildcard tiers. Links point to the USENIX presentation page for each paper, which carries the open-access PDF (and, where posted, slides and video). The program text supplied did not contain per-item pdf:/video: links, so these URLs were resolved against the public USENIX proceedings; slide/video availability varies by paper.