cncf maintainer summit | march 2025 | post event report overview the cncf maintainer summit is an exclusive event for the people behind our projects to gatherface-to-face, collaborate, and celebrate the projects that make “cloud native.” programmingis focused on sharing best practices, diving into contributing processes, and solving commonproblems across projects to enrich our great community of maintainers. number ofcompaniesrepresented184 number ofprojectsrepresented 382attendees(95% attendance rate) 80 top three represented regions project levelrepresented graduated:34%incubating:24%sandbox:42% cncf maintainer summit | march 2025 | post event report most popular sessions •cncf technical advisory groups - preparing for the next 10 years in cloud native-karena angell, red hat; davanum srinivas, aws; ricardo rocha, cern; lin sun, solo.io;kevin wang, huawei •unconference sessions:node lifecycle working group & including official crds bydefault in kubernetes •technical oversight committee ask the experts •custom resource definitions: let’s talk about versioning and releases-nick young, isovalent •project meetings:wg device mgmt meeting, cri meetup, cluster api status update &open discussion, and opentelemetry leadership