Gravity of Ecosystems: Pollinating the Modern AI Orchestrator - Wenjia Zhang & Bo Fu, Google

Open source isn’t just code; it’s the human gravity that keeps our industry moving. However, for too long, infrastructure, orchestration, and AI frameworks have behaved like oil and water—occupying the same space but never truly mixing. This friction creates massive inefficiencies, from "double scheduling" gaps to workloads that remain blind to the hardware they run on. In this session, Antonio Ojea and Wenjia Zhang share how we are breaking these silos through active pollination. This is not a mere declaration of intent; it is the result of over a year of moving core contributors into projects like Ray, Slurm, and PyTorch and starting dedicated initiatives within Kubernetes. We’ll explore how this hands-on work is evolving the K8s core through Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) and the Workload API. By collaborating across foundations instead of working in isolation, we achieve the efficiency and community sovereignty needed to keep the future of AI open and in our hands.