Extended SONiC Workshop 2025

On October 17, 2025, we invite you to Google's MP3 Building in Sunnyvale, CA, for a full day dedicated to innovation and collaboration. Pre-registration is required.

Morning Program: Kickstart your day with their insightful submitted talks from industry leaders and SONiC experts that will inspire and educate you. The program includes several tracks covering Developer Experience, Virtual Data Plane (VDP), Telemetry, Platform, and Routing.

Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Engage in stimulating in-person working group sessions designed to foster collaboration and innovation among peers. Many working groups are planning to host a meeting.

This workshop is perfectly timed with the OCP Global Summit earlier in the week, ensuring a robust mix of attendees from across the globe. It’s a prime chance to expand your network and dive deep into SONiC’s future.

Agenda

Start Time	Session Title	Speaker(s)	Session Title	Speaker(s)
8:00	Registration
8:20	Welcome Note: Mythil Raman (Sr. Director, Google)
	Room 1		Room 2
8:30	SONiC Master Branch Stability - Challenges and Potential Solutions	Kartik Chandran (Arista), Bhagat Janarthanan (Google)	Enhancing Network Scalability, Flexibility and Reliability: Decoupling RIB and FIB in SONiC	Patrice Brissette (Cisco), Eddie Ruan (Alibaba)
8:50	Using BTRFS and its features for a compact and resilient SONiC image	Saikrishna Arcot (Microsoft), Vaibhav Hemant Dixit (Microsoft)	Leveraging SONiC for real-time adaptive routing in AI-centric Leaf-Spine Fabrics	Jeff Chen (Marvell), Jithender Reddy (Marvell)
9:10	Modernizing SONiC Builds to improve performance and reliability	Brian O'Connor (Google)	Live patching service via LibCare on white box devices	Kang Jiang (Alibaba)
9:30	Break
9:45	SONiC-on-Bare Metal: How Lightweight Can SONiC Be While Still Remaining SONiC?	Leonid Khedyk (PLVision), Taras Chornyi (PLVision)	SONiC gNOI: Advancing Standardized- API-Driven Operations for Open Networking	Neha Das (Google), Dawei Huang (Microsoft)
10:05	Aktive: KNE multi-node virtual testbeds	Sonika Jindal (Google), Marcus Hines (Google)	Network impact for Distributed Inferencing	Udhaya chandran Shanmugam (Dell)
10:25	High-fidelity simulation of deployed DCI routers based on Cisco NGDP	Shenglin Zhu (Alibaba), Feng Xue (Cisco)	HFT: High frequency telemetry for SONiC	Ze Gan (Microsoft), Janet Cui (Microsoft)
10:45	In-Service SONiC Upgrade	Manas Kumar Mandal (Cisco), Jihong LI (Cisco)	Standardizing Network Observability: Mirror-on-Drop with Dropmon	Ravindranath C Kanakarajan (Marvell), Madhu Paluru (Aviz Networks)
11:05	Break
11:20	Panel: SONiC TSC
12:00	Lunch
	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5
13:00	WG 1: TBD	WG 2: TBD	WG 3: TBD	WG 4: TBD
13:50	Break
14:00	WG 5: TBD	WG 6: TBD	WG 7: TBD	WG 8: TBD
14:50	Break
15:00	End of Workshop
15:00	Private TSC Meeting (Invite Only / 90 min)