KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China – news and events round-up

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 has hosted two days of keynotes, presentations, and lightning talks, with the main and exhibition halls and the breakout rooms at The Hopewell bustling with conversation and enthusiasm.

On day one, Bill Ren (Ren Xudong), Chief Open Source Liaison Officer for Chinese electronics giant, Huawei, compared AI with the arrival of steam power in the 19th Century. But he adds a caveat, saying:

But it took another 70 years until what we call the Industrial Era arrived, with real applications for the steam engine.

The same principle applied to Faraday's discovery of magnetic induction in 1831, he says: it was a half century before the planet, industry, and human lives began being transformed by electricity. The lesson? The real benefits of these early days of the AI Spring may be hard to predict or take years to arrive – even at internet speed.

But the open ...