SIG Network: The State of Networking for AI on Kubernetes#

David Martin, Red Hat; Haiyan Meng, Bowei Du & Kellen Swain, Google; Nadia Pinaeva, NVIDIA

• Why: The best single session for mapping where upstream networking effort is actually going, from the people setting the agenda. Also stakes out a position worth hearing argued: which parts of "AI networking" are just networking.
• What: A presentation-plus-panel covering SIG Network's AI-driven work, from Gateway API through the Gateway API Inference Extension to networking for agentic systems.
• How: Highlights and key projects first, then guided discussion and audience questions. Explicitly includes the claim that AI networking is in large part ordinary networking, with specific exceptions.
• Where applicable: Roadmap-level rather than implementable. Useful for anticipating what lands upstream over the next few releases.