The audience will have the opportunity to learn more about Istio Ambient Mesh and the sidecar-less approach Ambient offers, while additionally informing and driving awareness on how they can:

- reduce operational burden of deployment and management of a service mesh

- cut back on CPU and memory utilization as the sidecar can be dropped

- reduce lifecycle and upgrade burden as there are fewer components to manage

- continue to leverage the benefits of Istio and it's sidecar capabilities

- continue to leverage existing technical skillset

- consider and introduce new deployment and designs for their microservice-based applications