KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 sessions
The public programme of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (Amsterdam, 22-27 March), with the abstract each speaker submitted and links to the recording and the slides where they exist. Searchable in the tool.
Monday
- Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- Hands-On Workshop to Accelerate Platform Engineering on Kubernetes Hosted by Amazon Web Services - AM SESSION | SEPARATE REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED
- [SOLD OUT] Microsoft Azure Day with Kubernetes | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- ArgoCon Hosted by CNCF - Full-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- BackstageCon Hosted by CNCF - Full-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day Hosted by CNCF - Full-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- Cloud Native Telco Day Hosted by CNCF - Full-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- FluxCon Hosted by CNCF - Half-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- KeycloakCon Hosted by CNCF - Half-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- KubeAuto Day: Making Kubernetes Smarter through AI-Driven Automation Hosted by Cast AI | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- Kubernetes on Edge Day Hosted by CNCF - Half-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- Observability Day Hosted by CNCF - Full-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- Open Source SecurityCon Hosted by CNCF - Full-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- Platform Engineering Day Hosted by CNCF - Full-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- Project Lightning Talk: Opening/Intro - Robert Sirchia, Community Manager, Kubewarden & Core Maintainer, Helm
- WasmCon Hosted by CNCF - Half-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- Project Lightning Talk: A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape - Katherine Druckman
- Project Lightning Talk: Container2Wasm: Running Containers On Wasm Environments - Kohei Tokunaga, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: How To Run Kubernetes Pods On My Slurm-Based HPC Center - Diego Ciangottini, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: CNCF Sandbox Project K8Up Under The Hood - Aarno Aukia, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: Translating Ebpf Into Business Value: Lessons From The Cilium Website - Bill Mulligan, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: Finally Incubated! What Comes Next For Metal3?- Ádám Rozmán, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Beyond Guardrails: Resource Lifecycle Automation With Kyverno - Ammar Yasser, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: How To Add A New Language Feature To OPA - Charlie Egan, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: Forensics With Falco - Gerald Combs, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: What’S New In Kairos, 2026 Edition - Mauro Morales, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: A Maintainer’s Tour Of Tag Security And Compliance - Marina Moore, Research Scientistslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: Blocking Vulnerable Workloads Out (And Catching What Got In) - Alessio Greggi, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: What's Exciting Now In Bootc, And What's Next? - Colin Walters, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: Bare Metal Provisioning With Tinkerbell - Jacob Weinstock, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Harbor Update - Prasanth Baskar, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: Visualize And Manage Your Cloud-Native Infrastructure With Meshery - Yash Sharma, Maintainer
- Kubernetes Platform Blueprint: From Multitenancy to AI Infrastructure - A Hands-on Session Hosted by vCluster | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- Project Lightning Talk: KubeEdge Everywhere: From Graduation To Global Adoption - Yue Bao, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Argo CD Source Hydrator: Rendered Manifests Made Easy! - Michael Crenshaw, Lead Maintainer
- Mini Break
- Project Lightning Talk: Multi-Cluster Orchestration System: Karmada Updates And Use Cases - Joe Nathan Abellard, Domain Owner
- Project Lightning Talk: Namespace Multi-Tenancy, But All The Problems Related To It - Hristo Hristov, Maintainer
- VM on Kubernetes Day: Bridging the gap between VMs and Containers Hosted by Portworx by Pure Storage | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- Project Lightning Talk: Multi-Cluster Configuration Management With KubeStellar - Andy Anderson, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Scheduling at the Edge of Reason: Multi-Cluster AI & OCM - August Simonelli, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Argo Workflows 4, What'S New And What'S Next - Alan Clucas, Leadslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: What Can Crossplane Actually Do? A Real World Field Guide - Jonasz Łasut-Balcerzak, Contributor
- [SOLD OUT] SUSE Rancher Day Hosted by SUSE | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- Hands-On Workshop to Build and Scale GenAI Inference on Kubernetes Hosted by Amazon Web Services - PM SESSION | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- Project Lightning Talk: Optimize Sidecarless Service Mesh With A Brand-New Rust-Based Proxy - Zengzeng Yao, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Urunc: The New Kid In The Block Of Sandboxed Container Runtimes - Charalampos Mainas, Maintainerslides ↗
- Elekto Working Session
- OSPOlogy Day Amsterdam | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- Project Lightning Talk: A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape - Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso
- Agentics Day: MCP + Agents Hosted by CNCF - Half-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- CiliumCon Hosted by CNCF - Half-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- KyvernoCon Hosted by CNFC - Half-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- Open Sovereign Cloud Day Hosted by CNCF - Half-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- OpenTofu Day Hosted by CNCF - Half-Day Event | ALL ACCESS PASS REQUIRED
- Project Lightning Talk: Next-Gen AI Orchestration With Volcano On Kubernetes - Zhonghu Xu, Principal Engineer
- Project Lightning Talk: kcp: Scaling The Kubernetes Control Plane For The Multi-Cluster Era - Jan Willies, Contributor
- Project Lightning Talk: Envoy Today: What’s New In Managing Cloud-Native And AI Workload Traffic? - Karol Szwaj, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: MCP Routing In Linkerd - Flynn, Technical Evangelist
- [SOLD OUT] Hands-On Cloud Native Security Workshop Hosted by Sysdig | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- [SOLD OUT] Stop the AGI Apocalypse: A Kubernetes CTF Hosted by Cloudsmith & Chainguard | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- Securing Autonomous AI Agents in Production Hosted by Tigera | SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
- Project Lightning Talk: Let’s Deploy etcd Operator - Arka Saha, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Get To Where You're Going With Kgateway - David Jumani, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: FluxCD - Gitops For All Sizes - Matheus Pimenta, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: K3s Lightning Update - Manuel Buil, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: k0s - CNCF Sandbox Distro Updates - Jussi Nummelin, Maintainer
- Peer Group Mentoring
- Project Lightning Talk: Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform For Both Predictive And Generative AI - Yuan Tang, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: Hami: Dynamic, Smart, Stable GPU-Sharing Middleware In Kubernetes - Mengxuan Li, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Still Burning GPUs On Debugging? Scale AI In One Line - Anna Kramar, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: Modelpack: Standardizing The Packaging And Distribution Of AI/Ml Models - Andrew Block, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: OpenFGA For Agents: Safe Delegation In 5 Minutes - Andres Aguiar, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Run Your Data Layer In K8s With Vitess - Matt Lord, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: What's New And Exciting In Kagent? - Peter Jausovec, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: PipeCDv1 Is Here! Leverage The Power Of Plugin Architecture - Khanh Tran, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Perses General Overview - Augustin Husson, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Safe By Design: AI-Powered Auto-Healing For SREs - Arik Alon, Maintainerslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: OpenCost: Cost And Resource Management - Rajith Attapattu, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Fluent Bit V5 - Eduardo Silva, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Konveyor AI for Every Language and the Future of App Modernization - Shaaf Syed, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: Five Minutes by CloudNativePG River - Gabriele Quaresima, Contributorslides ↗
- Project Lightning Talk: Scaling Kubescape to Thousands of Nodes - Matthias Bertschy, Maintainer
- Project Lightning Talk: From Idle to Ideal: Cross‑Cluster GPU Sharing with CoHDI - Takao Indoh, Contributor
- Project Lightning Talk: youki: What’s New and What’s Next? - Yusuke Sakurai, Reviewer
- Project Lightning Talk: Closing - Robert Sirchia, Community Manager, Kubewarden & Core Maintainer, Helm
Tuesday
- Keynote: Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, Cloud and Infrastructure, Linux Foundation & Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud and Infrastructure, Linux Foundation
- Keynote: Rules of the Road for Shared GPUs: AI Inference Scheduling at Wayve - Mukund Muralikrishnan, Staff Engineer, Wayve
- Sponsored Keynote: From Complexity to Clarity: Engineering an Invisible Kubernetes - Jesse Butler, Principal Product Manager and Technologist, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Keynote: Making Kubernetes for AI Optimized and Reproducible - Nathan Taber, Director of Product, NVIDIA & Mark Chmarny, Sr. Principal Engineer, NVIDIA
- Keynote: From Inference to Agents: Where Open Source AI Is Headed - Jonathan Bryce, CNCF; Brian Stevens, Red Hat; Mark Collier, PyTorch Foundation; Lin Sun, Solo.io
- Keynote: The Future of Cloud Native Is… Agentic - Lin Sun, Head of Open Source, Solo.io
- Project Pavilion Kiosks | Tuesday Morning
- Keynote: Orchestrating Document Data Extraction with Dapr Agents - Fabian Steinbach, Software Architect, ZEISS
- Sponsored Keynote: Scaling Platform Ops with AI Agents: Troubleshooting to Remediation - Jorge Palma, Principal PDM Manager, Microsoft & Natan Yellin, CEO, Robusta
- Keynote: Riding the Waves: Around the World in an Electric Glider - Powered by Nature, Data, and Open Science - Ricardo Rocha, Lead Platforms Infrastructure, CERN & Klaus Ohlmann, Founder, Mountain-Wave-Project
- Keynote: Closing Remarks
- Solutions Showcase
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Sponsored Demo: Tailor-Made Nodes on GKE with Compute Classes
- Project Pavilion Tour wtih Atulpriya Sharma, CNCF Ambassador
- Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Cloud Native vs. Platform Native vs. Cloud Agnostic - Ruckus Voxi, Akamai
- Learning Lounge: AI Runs on Open Source and Real Humans: Why You Need Linux and Cloud Native Skills to Power AI at Scale - Christophe Sauthier, CNCF
- Merge + Meet: Kickoff Meeting for Underrepresented Groups and Allies
- 📚 Tutorial: 5 Stages of Kubernetes - Rick Rackow, STACKIT
- 🚨 Contribfest: Get Started Contributing To bootc - Joseph Marrero Corchado, Laura Santamaria, Preethi Thomas, Alice Frosi & Colin Walters, Red Hat
- 🚨 Contribfest: Improving Submariner in Support of Privacy-preserving Federated Statistics Research on Kubernetes - Stephen Kitt, Red Hat & Julien D., Lausanne University Hospitalslides ↗
- 1000 Services, 1 Year, 0 Downtime: Airbnb’s Zonal Cluster Migration - Sunny Beatteay, Airbnbslides ↗
- Accelerating Thanos at Scale: Faster and Cheaper Queries With Parquet - Giedrius Statkevičius, Vinted
- API-Driven Infrastructure as Code: Kubernetes APIs as the Contract Bridge Between Teams - Florian Hopfensperger, Allianz Technology & Yury Tsarev, Upboundslides ↗
- From NLB Sprawl To Mesh Efficiency: How Skyscanner Handles 60M Requests Per Minute With Istio - John Clark, Skyscanner & Steven Thwaites, Solo.ioslides ↗
- Gateway API: Bridging the Gap from Ingress to the Future - Nick Young & James Strong, Isovalent at Cisco; Katarzyna Łach & Rostislav Bobrovsky, Google; Norwin Schnyder, Airlockslides ↗
- Least-Privilege for AI: Authorizing Agents and MCP Tools with Agentgateway and Kyverno - Luc Chmielowski, Nirmata & Nina Polshakova, Solo.io
- No Pain No Drain: Lessons From Node Drains at Scale - Ryan Hallisey & Natalie Bandel, NVIDIA
- SIG Contributor Experience: Guiding Contributors Through the Project - Nabarun Pal, Broadcom; Priyanka Saggu, SUSE; Arpit Agrawal, Kubernetes; Mario Fahlandt, Kubermaticslides ↗
- Unifying Inner & Outer Loops To Bridge the Gaps Between Devs & Ops With Microcks + Score - Laurent Broudoux, Microcks & Mathieu Benoit, Docker
- Vitess: More Data, No Problems - Matt Lord & Rohit Nayak, PlanetScaleslides ↗
- We Deleted Our Observability Stack and Rebuilt It With OTEL: 12 Engineers to 4 at 20K+ Clusters - Yash Sharma & Kunju Perath, DigitalOcean
- What Survived Production: Operating Game Backends at Million-Player Scale - Berkay Uckac, Futureplay Gamesslides ↗
- When an Agent Acts on Your Behalf, Who Holds the Keys? - Mariusz Sabath & Maia Iyer, IBM Researchslides ↗
- When DNS Blinks: Scaling and Hardening CoreDNS in Critical Cloud Infrastructure - Yong Tang, Ivanti & John Belamaric, Googleslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Kubernetes and the Answer is… 42! - Jan Stomphorst, ACC ICT
- Sponsored Demo: Running HA Kubernetes on Interruptible Infrastructure at Picnic
- 🚩 An Introduction to Capture The Flag - Fabian Kammel & John Kjell, ControlPlane
- Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Kubernetes: The API of Everything - Tibo Beijen, DPG Media Nederlandslides ↗
- Sponsored Demo: Expectations vs. Reality: Scaling the Dream of Zero-CVE Images
- Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: A Simple and Practical Guide to Observability in Kubernetes - Diana Todea, VictoriaMetricsslides ↗
- API is the New SSH: Forging a Zero-Trust VM Platform on Kubernetes - Evangelista Tragni, Devoteamslides ↗
- Breaking the Monolith: Decomposing and Governing Giant LLM Jobs Across Clusters - Kevin Wang, Huaweislides ↗
- CANCELED: 5000 Kubernetes Clusters, 5 Minutes: Walmart’s Secret to Rapid Edge Deployments with Argo - Yug Gupta, Walmart Global Tech
- Cloud Native Non-Functional Requirements: Building Scalable, Resilient and Secure Applications - Jakub Krzywda, Elastisysslides ↗
- Dapr in the AI Era: Orchestrating Complex Multi-agent Workflows With Automatic Recovery - Yaron Schneider, Diagrid
- Flipping the Curve: A Platform Engineer's Guide to Unlocking the Silent 80% - Michael Reichenbach, 1KOMMA5°slides ↗
- Helm 4 Is Here. So, Now What? - Andrew Block, Red Hat; Scott Rigby, Replicated; Robert Sirchia, SUSE
- In Falco's Nest: The Evolution of Cloud Native Runtime Security - Iacopo Rozzo, Sysdig; Aldo Lacuku, Kong Inc.slides ↗
- Intelligent Routing for Optimized Inference - Antonio Berben, Solo.io & Felipe Vicens, Telefonicaslides ↗
- Locking Down Ray Serve: How to Secure Ur ML Models? - Kateryna Hrytsaienko, Valtechslides ↗
- No Shame, Just Pain: How We Migrated Away From Kubernetes 1.16 in 2025 - Jannis Relakis & Michael Seiwald-McCarty, Celonisslides ↗
- Virtual Power Plants (VPP): How They Work and What They Are - LeRenzo Malcom & Mario Flores, Enpalslides ↗
- When OTTL Goes Off the Rails: Debugging Transformations with Confidence - Edmo Vamerlatti Costa, Elastic & Tyler Helmuth, Honeycombslides ↗
- WIT Happens: Exploring the Latest Evolution of the SPIFFE and WIMSE Workload Identity Standards. - Noah Stride, Teleport & Arndt Schwenkschuster, Defakto Securityslides ↗
- Your Models Are Vulnerable: How KitOps Turns KServe Into a Zero-Trust Inference Platform - Brad Micklea, Jozu & Gavrish Prabhu, Nutanixslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Introduction to GitOps - Chris Plank, NatWest
- Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: Platform Engineering - About Tools, Techniques, People and Culture - Max Körbächer, Liquid Replyslides ↗
- Deep Roots: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Community Gathering
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Sponsored Demo: API Collaboration in Postman: Your Git Repo is now the Single Source of Truth for your APIs
- Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: How Kubernetes Actually Ships: An Educator's Guide to Core Releases, SIGs, and Staying Current - Michael Forrester and Mumshad Mannambeth, KodeKloud
- Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: The AI-Hiker’s Guide to Cloud Native AI - Cansu Kavili Örnek and Anneli Sara Banderby, RedHat
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Network Nook Meetup: 1st Time Attendees
- Sponsored Demo: Securely Connecting Agentic IDEs to SaaS MCPs in the Enterprise
- Learning Lounge: Starting Your Kubestronaut Journey with the KCNA, CKA and CKAD - James Spurin, DiveInto
- Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: AI + Kubernetes: What Beginners Need to Know in 2026 - Michael Forrester, KodeKloud
- Sponsored Demo: Autonomous Kubernetes Resource Management in Production
- Laughter Workshop
- Project Demo: Urunc: Fine-Grained Sandboxing for AI Agents
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Kubernetes Contribution 101
- Learning Lounge: What Platform Engineers Need to Know About Developer Experience - Max Körbächer, Liquid Replyslides ↗
- Sponsored Demo: CSI WON’T SAVE YOU - Why “CSI Support” is not a storage strategy and you are being setup to fail
- Project Demo: Shipwright ❤️ Tekton - Build Containers in Tekton Pipelines
- "Will it Kubernetes?" A Tinkerer’s Journey From Curiosity To Career - Niklas Frick, The Platform Engineering Companyslides ↗
- 📚 Tutorial: AI on Kubernetes Without the Chaos: Building Reproducible ML Environments with Argo and Kubeflow - Nourhan Mohamed, KodeKloudslides ↗
- 🚨 Contribfest: Bring Agentic AI To Cloud Native, One PR at a Time With Kagent - Lin Sun, Peter Jausovec & Eitan Yarmush, Solo.io & Dmytriy Rashko, Amdocs
- 🚨 Contribfest: Testing the Waters: Getting Started With Kgateway - Nina Polshakova, Solo.io; Mayowa Fajobi, Marsh McLennan; David Jumani & Steven Thwaites, Solo.ioslides ↗
- 10 Years of Cilium: Connecting, Securing, and Simplifying the Cloud Native Stack - Bill Mulligan & Paul Arah, Isovalent at Cisco; Marcelo Mello, Celonis; Neha Aggarwal, Microsoftslides ↗
- A Tale of Two KEPs: How the Community is Taming Kubernetes' CrashLoopBackoff - Yang Li, Googleslides ↗
- Ask the Experts: Behind the Electric Glider - Open Science, Edge Computing, and Real-Time Data in Flight - Ricardo Rocha, CERN & Klaus Ohlmann, Mountain-Wave-Project
- Bringing Cloud Native PaaS To Space: Onboard Edge Computing for Satellites - Adele Karam Hankache, Thales Alenia Space & Sergiu Weisz, POLITEHNICA Bucharestslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Running State of the Art Inference with Istio and LLM-D - Jackie Maertens, Microsoft and Nili Guy, IBM
- Continuous AI Conformance: The kOps Approach - Arnaud Meukam, Indpendent; Janet Kuo & Justin Santa Barbara, Google; Ciprian Hacman, Microsoft
- Do You Trust Your PodDisruptionBudgets? You Shouldn’t! - Kārlis Akots Gribulis, Saxo Bankslides ↗
- Driving Adoption and Automation With MCP in Production at Liftoff - Tommy Nguyen, Liftoff Mobileslides ↗
- Enterprise-Scale Migrations Using Agentic Workflows with Human-in-the-loop - Alvaro Saurin & Jose M Navarro, Adobeslides ↗
- From Open Source To Enterprise Scale and Back: A Journey With Road-Runner - Michael Kuhnt, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation & Gabriel Adrian Samfira, Cloudbase Solutionsslides ↗
- Make GenAI Production-Ready With Kubernetes Patterns - Roland Huss, Red Hat & Bilgin Ibryam, Diagridslides ↗
- Multi-cluster Orchestration System: Karmada Updates and Use Cases - Hongcai Ren, Huawei; Tessa Pham, Michas Szacillo & Wei-Cheng Lai, Bloomberg; Zongqing Li, Trip.comslides ↗
- Not Yet Another Envoy Implementation - Exploring Kgateway To Write Your Own GatewayAPI Backend - Ricardo Katz, Red Hatslides ↗
- Sponsored Demo: Stop React2Shell & Shai Hulud: Live Demo of Curation with Compliant Version Selection
- The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Kubernetes - Stevie Caldwell, Fairwinds
- What LLMs Do, and Don't, Know About Securing Kubernetes - Rory McCune, Datadog
- What's Coming Next in Containerd 2.3? - Mike Brown, IBM & Krisztian Litkey, Intelslides ↗
- What's New in gRPC - Kevin Nilson & John Feig, Google
- Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Zero-Downtime Migration from ingress-nginx to Istio in a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Platform at Bloomberg - Joe Abellard, Bloomberg
- Sponsored Demo: Context is All You Need: The Art and Science of Information Design
- Project Demo: Cartography: Inventorying AI Agents in the Cloud
- Project Pavilion Kiosks | Tuesday Afternoon
- Amplifying End User Voices: Platform Architects on the Future of Kubernetes - Rajas Kakodkar & Zach Shepherd, Broadcom; Kevin Klues, NVIDIA; Elias Tarn, AWS; Dawn Chen, Google
- Choose Your Own Adventure: AI Meets Internal Developer Platform - Whitney Lee, Datadog & Viktor Farcic, Upbound
- Crossplane - The Cloud Native Framework for Platform Engineering - Jared Watts & Adam Wolfe Gordon, Upboundslides ↗
- etcd 3.6 Updates and 3.7 Roadmap - Arka Saha, Broadcom & Josh Berkus, Red Hat
- Instrumenting Kueue Scheduling for ML Training - Amy Chen, CoreWeave & Gabriel Saba, Googleslides ↗
- Kubeflow in Cloud Native AI: Orchestrating the Next Wave of Agentic AI and LLMOps - Johnu George, Nutanix; Valentina Rodriguez Sosa & Antonin Stefanutti, Red Hat; Alexander Perlman & Michael Zazula, Capital Oneslides ↗
- Kubernetes Network Driver Unpacked: Modularity, Trade-offs and the Road Ahead - Lionel Jouin & Sebastian Scheinkman, Red Hat; Antonio Ojea, Google; Sunyanan Choochotkaew, IBMslides ↗
- Laughter Workshop
- Leveling up with Radius: Custom Resources and Headlamp Integration for Real-World Workloads - Nuno Guedes, Millennium bcp & Will Tsai, Microsoft
- OpenCost - Cost and Resource Management Deep Dive - Rajith Attapattu, Randoli
- Operators in Action: Making Kubernetes Work for You - Verena Traub, b'nerd GmbHslides ↗
- Real-World Supply-Chain Security - Alex Leong, Buoyantslides ↗
- Rust Vs. Go: Building a Container Network Stack From Scratch - Matt Heon, Red Hat & Shivang K Raghuvanshi, Podman Container Toolsslides ↗
- Schema Inference and Automation: A New Era for Telemetry Management - Nicolas Takashi, Coralogix & Arthur Silva Sens, Grafana Labsslides ↗
- The Future of Kubernetes Scalability: Challenges of the GigaWatt Computing Power of the AI Era - Maciek Różacki, Google Cloud & Artur Rodrigues, Anthropicslides ↗
- To Swap or Not To Swap: Memory Management Design Patterns for AI Workloads in Kubernetes 1.34+ - Nic Vermande, ScaleOps
- What Happens in Kubernetes SIG Scalability: Intro + DeepDive - Wojciech Tyczyński, Googleslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: The Good, The Ugly, and The Bad: Leaving Sidecars Behind with Istio Ambient Mesh - Alfonso Ming and Jorge Turrado, SCRM Lidl International Hubslides ↗
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Learning Lounge: Don’t Cross Wires - Cross-Skill: Aligning Teams Around Smart Learning Paths - Mary Campbell & Randi Armour, Linux Foundation Education
- Project Demo: Kyverno: New Policy Types Demo and Deep Dive
- Sponsored Demo: Running Containers under Systemd: Exploring Podman Quadlet
- Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Panel: Tales From the Mesh: Horrors and Successes of Running Istio in Production
- Project Pavilion Tour with Joseph Sandoval, CNCF Ambassador
- Women's Community Gathering
- 📚 Tutorial: Attack Defense: Leverage eBPF To Reveal Attack Flows With Rich Context - Constanze Roedig, fusioncore.ai; Markus Gierlinger, Independent; Teodor Janez Podobnik, Prewave GmbHslides ↗
- 🚨 Contribfest: Dive Into cert-manager and Start Contributing! - Richard Wall & Mladen Rusev, Palo Alto Networks
- 🚨 Contribfest: Getting Started in the Tinkerbell Playground - Jacob Weinstock, NVIDIA
- Celebration of Newly Graduated Projects + Project Birthdays 🎉
- From Alert Fatigue To Self-Healing: Building AI-Enabled Control Planes in Banking - Nuno Guedes, Millennium bcp & Yury Tsarev, Upbound
- From Static Tokens to Attestation: The Evolution of Secure Node Joining - Ciprian Hacman & Jack Francis, Microsoft; Michael McCune & Josephine Pfeiffer, Red Hat; Justin Santa Barbara, Google
- How to Build Your Cloud Native Balance Sheet - Danielle Cook, Akamai & Simon Forster, Stackegy
- Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI (G/H200) - Luca Berton, Dell Technologiesslides ↗
- LLM Inference at Scale: Orchestrating Prefill-Decode Disaggregation - Zhonghu Xu, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
- OpenTelemetry Logs Driving a Major Shift: Events, Richer Data, and Smarter Semantics - Robert Pająk, Splunkslides ↗
- OpenTelemetry Project Update and 'Ask the Experts' - Pablo Baeyens, Datadog; Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden; Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs; Severin Neumann, Causelyslides ↗
- Privacy as Infrastructure: Declarative Data Protection for AI on Kubernetes - Joaquin Rodriguez, Microsoft & Krishnendu Dasgupta, AXONVERTEX AIslides ↗
- Project Demo: ASK Kubernetes Maintainers
- SIG API Machinery: SIG Updates and Deep Dive in the AI/ML Era - Stefan Schimanski, NVIDIAslides ↗
- Slinky Expanded: Slurm, Kubernetes, and DRA - Praveen Krishna, Google & Marlow Warnicke, SchedMD LLCslides ↗
- Smart Routing at Scale: How Spotify’s XDS Control Plane Cut 75% of Cross-Zone Traffic - Yannick Epstein & Anya Hristova, Spotifyslides ↗
- Smoothed and Anchored Rate Calculation in PromQL - Björn Rabenstein, Grafana Labsslides ↗
- Sponsored Demo: Beyond Grep: Interactive, Offline Analysis of Kubernetes Failures
- The 10x DevOps Engineer’s Toolkit: Argo CD + AI-Driven MCP Automation - Alexander Matyushentsev, Akuity & Leonardo Luz Almeida, Intuit
- The Developer’s Nightmare: How To Survive Compliance Checklists (and Still Ship Fast) - Alexandra Hou Aldershaab, Eficode & Thomas Vitale, Systematicslides ↗
- Towards Building an Open Source AI Reference Stack for EU Sovereign Cloud - Madhav Bhargava, SAP Labs & Sanjay Chatterjee, NVIDIA
- What's New With Kubectl and Kustomize … and How You Can Help! - Marly Salazar, Integral Ad Science; Yugo Kobayashi, SB Intuitions; Eddie Zaneski & Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns; Arda Guclu, Red Hatslides ↗
- Sponsored Demo: From Symptom to Root Cause: A Cross-Layer Approach to Kubernetes Troubleshooting
- Building the Next Generation of Multi-Cluster with Gateway API - Mike Morris, Microsoft & Alan Grosskurth, Google
- Declarative Edge Kubernetes: Immutable Clusters with Talos + Zarf - Brandt Keller, Defense Unicorns & Merijn Keppel, TrueFullstaqslides ↗
- Demystifying the Kubernetes Network Stack (From Pod to Pod) - Simone Rodigari, Microsoftslides ↗
- From Laptop to Cluster: Running AI Workloads Seamlessly from Podman to Kubernetes - Ashley Cui & Urvashi Mohnani, Red Hat
- Moving Spotify’s Infrastructure Management Up the Stack from Kubebuilder to Kro and K-poperator - Alexander Buck & Tomas Aschan, Spotifyslides ↗
- Observing Chaos: Real-Time Monitoring of AI-Driven Kubernetes Destruction - Josh Halley, Cisco & Ricardo Aravena, CNCFslides ↗
- OpenTelemetry Collector SIG: Project Updates - Jade Guiton, Datadog; Dmitrii Anoshin, Cisco; Alex Boten, Honeycomb; Evan Bradley, Dynatrace LLC; Antoine Toulme, Splunkslides ↗
- Policy Engines for Kubernetes: Picking One Without Losing Your Mind - Nabarun Pal, Broadcomslides ↗
- Retroactive Sampling with OpenTelemetry: Cut 90% Distributed Tracing Bandwidth Usage - Roman Khavronenko & Zhu Jiekun, VictoriaMetricsslides ↗
- Securing the AI/ML Lifecycle With MLSecOps: Open Source Best Practices - Bahaulddin Shammary, Dell & Andrey Shorov, Ericssonslides ↗
- SIG Network: The State of Networking for AI on Kubernetes - David Martin, Red Hat; Haiyan Meng & Bowei Du & Kellen Swain, Google; Nadia Pinaeva, NVIDIAslides ↗
- Sponsored Session: Performance at Enterprise Cloud Scale: Coupa’s Kubernetes Optimization Journey - Peter Irwin, ScaleOps & Carl Baumcratz, Coupa
- Technical Oversight Committee: Ask the Experts
- Volcano: Orchestrating the Full AI Lifecycle – From Training To Inference and Agents - Chen Zicong, Huawei Technologies; Hajnal Máté, Aumovioslides ↗
- When Multitenancy Goes Wrong: A Deep Dive Into Kcp’s First CVE - Marvin Beckers, ClickHouseslides ↗
- Why Is It So Hard to Run a 5G Core on Kubernetes—And What Needs to Change for 6G - Joel Studler, Swisscom & Ashan Senevirathne, Telstra
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Sponsored Demo: Closing the Loop: Leveraging Agentic AI for Real-Time Diagnosis and Secure Remediation
- Sponsored Demo: Cherry Picking your Cluster: Building a Modular CaaS with Dell Automation Platform
- Open Source After Hours: Demos and Dragons Welcome
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Introducing SeeBOM as Your Tool to Make SBOMs Actionable
- Sponsored Demo: Beyond Training: Volcano for Inference & Agents
- You Spent How Much? Controlling Your AI Spend with Istio and agentgateway - Mitch Connors
- Intro to Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) - Abdel Sghiouar
- Darnit: An Agentic AI Framework for Security and Compliance - Michael Lieberman
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
Wednesday
- Group Fun Run/Walk
- Keynote: Cloud Native in Europe: Regulation, Sovereignty, and the Future of Open Collaboration - Jan Melen, General Manager, Ericsson Software Technology
- Keynote: The CRA and What it Means for Open Source Communities - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation
- Keynote: Digital Sovereignty by Design: Turning Developer Intent into Portable, Enterprise-Scale Automation - Oskar Kristiansen, Enterprise Platform Engineer, Saxo Bank
- Keynote: Keeping Sovereignty on Track: Kubernetes Powering a National Railway Platform - Thomas Comtet, Senior Staff Engineer, SNCF & Yann Rotilio, Senior Staff Engineer - Kubernetes Specialist, SNCF
- Sponsored Keynote: Inference and Sovereign AI: Scaling Cloud-Native AI with Control and Compliance - Karena Angell, Technical Strategist, Global Engineering, Red Hat & Vincent Caldeira, Chief Technology Officer, APAC, Red Hat
- Keynote: Building a Sovereign, Multi-Cloud Strategy with Cloud Native Technologies - Goetz Reinhaeckel, Program Director Cloud, BWI
- Keynote: Powering the European Space Agency’s Space Missions with Open Source Software - Aaron Whitehouse, Senior Product Manager, Canonical
- Sponsored Keynote: From Pilot to Production: Scaling and Optimizing Agentic Workloads on Kubernetes - Idit Levine, Founder & CEO, Solo.io & Keith Babo, Chief Product Officer, Solo.io
- Keynote: Awards Ceremony
- Project Pavilion Kiosks | Wednesday Morning
- Keynote: From Orbit to the Grid: Automating a Greener Future - Faseela K, Cloud Native Developer, Ericsson; Chris Holmes, Vice President, Planet Labs; Michael Reichenbach, Senior Platform Engineer, 1KOMMA5°
- Keynote: Closing Remarks
- Solutions Showcase
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Sponsored Demo: Meet Klaudia: The Autonomous AI SRE Platform by Komodor
- Project Pavilion Tour with Marino Wijay, CNCF Ambassador
- Learning Lounge: Living Open Source Foundation - How Linux Foundation Education is Used to Open Source a Country - Sander van Vugt & Chisha Mambwe, Living Open Source Foundation
- Project Demo: OSCAL Compass Just Got Agentic: AI-Powered Compliance Authoring
- 📚 Tutorial: Building Intelligent Apps with RAG on Kubernetes: From Raw Data to Real-Time Insights - Cedric Clyburn, Natale Vinto, Christopher Nuland & Legare Kerrison, Red Hatslides ↗
- 🚨 Contribfest: Headlamp: Build Kubernetes Experiences Your Way! - Joaquim Rocha, Amutable & Santhosh Nagaraj, Microsoft
- Automate Once, Run Anywhere: The Docker Moment for Security Workflows - Nancy Chauhan & Aseem Shrey, ShipSecAI
- Automating and Scaling of Threat Modelling for Cloud Native Architecture - Hanna Papirna & Emma Yuan Fang, EPAM Systemsslides ↗
- Building Cloud Native Culture in a Bank: With Open Source as a Compass - Marcy Paramonova, The Pictet Group & Stéphane Cusin, Banque Pictet & Cie SAslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: Opening Remarks - Kateryna Nezdolii, Isovalent and Erica Hughberg, Tetrate
- Code and Brain: Health and Performance in High Cognitive Demand Tech Communitiesslides ↗
- From “It Works!” to “It’s Secure!”: Hardening Your First Kubernetes Cluster - Paul Zerdilas-Herrera, Nutanix & Leon Schulze, Palo Alto Networksslides ↗
- From GitOps to AIOps: Evolving RBI's Kubernetes Platform with Crossplane and Sharded Kargo - Gabor Horvath & Ewald Überall, Raiffeisen Bank Internationalslides ↗
- Generalizing Kubernetes Controller Sharding: Patterns That Work Beyond Simple Operators - Motohiro Otsuka, LY Corporation & Tomoyuki Nakamura, LY Corporationslides ↗
- GPUs on Kubernetes: What Actually Happens When You Request Nvidia.com/gpu: 1 - Gulcan Topcu & Daniele Polencic, LearnKube
- Hacking GPU Observability: eBPF & Ephemeral Containers in Action on Kubernetes - Brandon Kang, Akamai Technologiesslides ↗
- Lima Project Updates: Expanding the Focus To Hardening AI - Akihiro Suda, NTT & Anshuman Sahoo, BITS Pilanislides ↗
- Linkerd: Reliable Production in an AI/MCP World - William Morgan, Buoyant
- Sandbox Operator: Enabling Session-Aware, Efficient MCP Tool Execution in Kubernetes - Mingshan Zhao & Zhen Zhang, Alibabaslides ↗
- Serverless GPUs in Production: How Cerebrium Built a Globally Efficient Low-Latency AI Platform with Knative - Dave Protasowski, Dave's Consulting Company & Elijah Roussos, Cerebrium
- SIG Scheduling Update: Transition From Pod To Workload Scheduling - Kensei Nakada, Independent & Maciej Skoczeń, Googleslides ↗
- Strengthening CNCF Projects: Impact of Security Self-Assessments - Eddie Knight, Sonatype; Bradley Andersen, k8gb; Justin Cappos, New York University; Shuting Zhao, Nirmata; Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- The Future of Kubernetes Node Lifecycle - Lucy Sweet, Uber & Dawn Chen, Googleslides ↗
- Sponsored Demo: Life After Ingress NGINX: How To Unify Kubernetes Traffic In One Stack
- Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: Inside Spotify’s Envoy Architecture: What We Learned the Hard Way - Leonardo da Mata, Spotify
- Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: External Processing, Internal Leverage: MCP Tool Calls to REST with Envoy - Jens Kat, INGslides ↗
- 🚩Capture The Flag Experience - Fabian Kammel & John Kjell, ControlPlane
- Sponsored Demo: Simplifying GitOps Deployments with Amazon EKS Capabilities
- Bob and Alice Revisited: Understanding Encryption in Kubernetes - Jackie Maertens & Mitch Connors, Microsoft
- Designing Slides You Can’t See (But Can Still Understand)
- Fluent Bit V5: Pushing the Limits of Observability at Scale - Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere | A Palo Alto Networks Company
- From “No Time for GitOps” to Enterprise Adoption: Selling Flux the Human Way - Lucas Hornung & Christian Matthaei, Tchibo GmbHslides ↗
- From Projects to Products: The Sociotechnical Journey Behind Sony’s Internal Cloud Platform - Eugenia Bergman & Hagen Tonnies, Sony Interactive Entertainmentslides ↗
- Fusing FinOps, Forecasting, and Kubernetes at Scale - Ankur Singh, Red Hat & Satyam Bhardwaj, Mirantisslides ↗
- Hack Me If You Can: Learning Kubernetes Security Through a Role-Play Battle - Aoi Takahashi, Recruit Co., Ltd. & Keita Mochizuki, NTT DATA Japan Corporationslides ↗
- In-place Updates with Cluster API: The Sweet Spot Between Immutable and Mutable Infrastructure - Fabrizio Pandini & Stefan Büringer, Broadcomslides ↗
- Kube-Oddities - The Quirks That Keep Kubernetes Interesting - Marcus Noble, Monzo & Márk Sági-Kazár, Independentslides ↗
- OpenFeature Update From the Maintainers - Lukas Reining, codecentric AG; André Silva, LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Thomas Poignant, Gens de Confiance; Alexandra Oberaigner, Dynatraceslides ↗
- Route, Serve, Adapt, Repeat: Adaptive Routing for AI Inference Workloads in Kubernetes - Nir Rozenbaum, Red Hat & Kellen Swain, Googleslides ↗
- SIG-Windows Updates - Claudiu Belu, Cloudbase Solutions & JR Valdes, Red Hat
- Solving Industrial Challenges With KubeEdge: A Post-Graduation Report - Yue Bao, Huawei; Hongbing Zhang, DaoCloud; Yin Ding, VMware by Broadcom
- Sovereign Identities for Your Cloud Native Architecture With Keycloak - Alexander Schwartz, IBM & Sebastian Łaskawiec, Defense Unicornsslides ↗
- The Shell Awakens: Cloud Native Workflows for Particle Physicists - Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu & Hannes Hansen, CERNslides ↗
- Why Security of Kubernetes Comes Down to Linux Security - Marina Moore, Ederaslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: The Next Generation of Envoy Extensibility: Dynamic Modules for Network, Listener, and HTTP Filters - Rohit Agrawal, Databricksslides ↗
- Kubernetes Meet + Greet
- Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: Zone Aware Routing With Per-Locality Load Awareness- Isaac Wilson, The Trade Desk
- Sponsored Demo: Ctrl+Alt+Deploy: Windows Workloads as a Service powered by kubeVirtslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: The Future of AI Traffic: What's New in Envoy AI Gateway 2026 - Xiaolin Lin, Bloombergslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: From ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway at Zapier: The Benefits, Challenges, and Migration Lessons That Matter - Kalen Wessel, Zapierslides ↗
- Network Nook Meetup: Conference Buddies
- Project Pavilion Tour with Daniel Drack, CNCF Ambassador
- Sponsored Demo: KubeHound: Identifying Attack Paths in Kubernetes Clusters at Scale
- Learning Lounge: Knowledge is a Map, Not a Badge - Nicola Noviello, KLARO
- Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: The End of a Decade, the Start of an Age: Reflecting on the Past, Present, and Future of Envoy - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate, Kateryna Nezdolii, Isovalent, Yan Avlasov, Google, Rohit Agrawal, Databricks and Leonardo da Mata, S
- 🤟 Sign Language Crash Course
- 🪧 Poster Session: Efficient Inference for Training Hurricane Data and Predicting Future Movement - Avery Yang, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
- 🪧 Poster Session: Fantastic KEPs – Part II: Writing and Contributing To Kubernetes Enhancements - Priyanka Saggu, SUSE & Mario Jason Braganza, Janusworx
- 🪧 Poster Session: From FaaS To WaaS: Building Event-Driven Workloads With Wasm in Kubernetes - Brandon Kang, Akamai Technologies & Nam Hai, Hylatek Co.,ltd
- 🪧 Poster Session: Instant Kubernetes Runtime Anomaly Detection Via SBOBs (Bill of Behavior) - Constanze Roedig, fusioncore.ai & Matthias Bertschy, ARMO
- 🪧 Poster Session: Kubernetes as the Universal GPU Control Plane for AI Workloads - Satyam Soni, Devtron.ai & Rudraksh Karpe, ZS Associates Inc
- 🪧 Poster Session: Let’s Embrace Green Cloud Native Engineering - Henrik Rexed, Dynatrace
- 🪧 Poster Session: LLMs, Logs, and Lost Prompts: Monitoring AI on Kubernetes - Ashok M, DigitalOcean & Kumar Soundarajan, Fidelity Investments
- 🪧 Poster Session: Prompt Raider: The Ultimate AI-based CTF - Alberto Rodríguez Fernandez, ControlPlane
- 🪧 Poster Session: Reimagining Auto-Instrumentation: Prototyping Distributed Tracing Without Header Propagation on K8s - Kenta Iijima, NTT, Inc.
- 🪧 Poster Session: VM-Powered Kubernetes: Extreme Density & Sustainable Efficiency - Chen Zhang, JD.com
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Sponsored Demo: Building cross-cloud AI inference on Kubernetes with OSS
- Learning Lounge: Don’t Cross Wires - Cross-Skill: Aligning Teams Around Smart Learning Paths - Mary Campbell & Randi Armour, Linux Foundation Education
- Cloud Native Theater | CNCF Members: Leaving Your Mark In The Community - David Palilonis & Jake Pineda, The Linux Foundation; Danielle Cook, Akamaislides ↗
- Project Demo: Introducing Falco Operator 0.2.0
- Sponsored Demo: Cloud-Native Hardening Beyond Defaults: Secure Hosting for Mission-Critical workloads
- Making Correct and Verifiable SBOMs Meeting
- Project Pavilion Kiosks | Wednesday Afternoon
- 📚 Tutorial: DRA-matically Simple: On-Demand GPUs for MLOps - Doug Smith & Miguel Duarte Barroso, Red Hatslides ↗
- 🚨 Contribfest: K3s ContribFest Session - Manuel Buil & Orlin Vasilev, SUSE
- 🚨 Contribfest: Tell Us How You’re Using Argo CD: A Community ContribFest Session - Alexander Matyushentsev & Nitish Kumar, Akuity; Leonardo Luz Almeida, Michael Crenshaw & Alexandre Gaudreault, Intuit; Regina Voloshin, Octopus Deploy
- Audit-Ready Kubernetes: How Chase UK Leveraged Policy as Code for Continuous Compliance - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata & Nischay Goyal, JP Morgan Chaseslides ↗
- CoC Session: Restorative Justice: What It Is, and Why The Practice is Critical to Community
- Durable Execution in DevOps: How Uniphar Built Reliable Systems with Dapr - Alice Gibbons, Diagrid & Vaclav (Oisin) Haken, Uniphar
- Evolving Baremetal-as-a-Service: Secure Multi-Cluster Networking and Service Identity Automation - Yushiro Furukawa & Mitsuhiro Tanino, LY Corporationslides ↗
- Hello World, Meet the Spanimals: Observability for Beginners - Tiffany Jernigan, Grafana Labs & Matthias Haeussler, CGI
- How Much Platform Is Enough Platform? - John Keates, Wehkamp Retail Groupslides ↗
- How To Break Multi-Tenancy Again and Again ...and What We Can Learn From It - Lorin Lehawany & Sven Nobis, ERNW
- Improving Pod Disruption and Node Lifecycle - Filip Křepinský, Red Hat; Lucy Sweet, Uber; Ryan Hallisey, NVIDIAslides ↗
- Istio's Ambient Mesh: The Real Cost of Sidecar-less Tracing - Mofesola Babalola, Tempo.io & Hannah Olukoye, mobile.deslides ↗
- Open Policy Agent. (OPA) Intro & Deep Dive - Charlie Egan & Anders Eknert, Appleslides ↗
- Panel: How Platforms Can Save Junior Engineers (and Thus the Tech Industry) - Jennifer Riggins, The New Stack; Leena Mooneeram, Chainalysis; Molly Clarke, easyJet; Paula Kennedy, Syntasso
- Platform Mesh: Breaking API Lock-In for True Multi-Cloud Service Portability - Mirza Kopic, SAP & Mangirdas Judeikis, Independentslides ↗
- REST in Peace: AI Needs to Be Async - Meet Asya🎭 - Artem Yushkovskiy, Delivery Heroslides ↗
- Sponsored Demo: Observability to Security: Cloud Native Networking with Cilium & Hubble Timescape
- TAG Operational Resilience: Sustainability Month To Release Guidelines - Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic; Alolita Sharma, Apple; Carol Valencia, KrolCloud; Nabarun Pal, Broadcom; Saiyam Pathak, vCluster
- The KEP Lifecycle: How the Release Team Guides Enhancements To Stability - Kat Cosgrove, Minimus; Sreeram Venkitesh & Rayan Das, DigitalOcean; Subhasmita Swain, Independentslides ↗
- The Missing Half of Performance Profiling: Understanding Memory in Cloud Native Systems - Dom Delnano, Cosmicslides ↗
- The State of Backstage in 2026 - Ben Lambert & Patrik Oldsberg, Spotifyslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: Opening Remarks - Edith Puclla, Percona
- LGBTQ+ Community Gathering
- Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: Tuning Elastic on Kubernetes; How Assumptions On Your Persistency Can Wreak Havoc... - Luuk Stolk and Artur Gromek, ING
- Sponsored Demo: The Path to AI Nirvana Is Through Unified Identity
- Banking on Reliability: Cloud Native SRE Practices in Financial Services - Clément Nussbaumer, PostFinanceslides ↗
- Dynamic Mocking for Event-Driven APIs: A Cloud Native Approach With Kubernetes - Harshvardhan Parmar, YosemiteCrew & Anushka Saxena, Googleslides ↗
- Enterprise Challenges with MCP Adoption - Christian Posta, Solo.io
- From Creepers to Clusters: Evolving Minecraft Into a Cloud Native Platform - Jaden Walderich & Alex Mizerak, Ziax Ltd.slides ↗
- Ghost in the Platform: How the Dutch Tax Authority Built a Service To Scale K8s To 99+ Applications - Jerry van Hulst, Belastingdienst & Marcel Kerker, HCS Company B.V.slides ↗
- How Manual OTel Instrumentation Saves More Than Just Money - Juliano Costa, Datadog & Yuri Oliveira, OllyGardenslides ↗
- How Will Customized Kubernetes Distributions Work for You? a Discussion on Options and Use Cases - Michael McCune & Joel Speed, Red Hat; Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft; Jesse Butler, AWS; Bowei Du, Google
- Invisible Guardrails: Enabling Developer Velocity With a Secure Platform - James Elías Sigurðarson & Vignir Hafsteinsson, Asanaslides ↗
- Jaeger V2: The Maintainers' Guide To OpenTelemetry-Native Tracing - Pavol Loffay, Red Hatslides ↗
- OpenAPI Meets Kubernetes: Auto-Generating CRDs and Operators the Smart Way - Sergiusz Urbaniak & Jose Vázquez González, MongoDBslides ↗
- Operationalizing AI Workloads on Kubernetes With OpenKruise - Zhang Zhen, Alibaba Cloud & Vec Sun, Xiaohongshu(RedNote)slides ↗
- Peeking Into the GPU Black Box: Continuous Profiling on Kubernetes With eBPF - Zahari Dichev, Buoyant
- Project Demo: Cadenceslides ↗
- Pull Request Wars: The Flux Awakens - Ephemeral Kubernetes Environments Strike Back - Matteo Bianchi, GitHub & Stefan Prodan, ControlPlaneslides ↗
- The Next Chapter of Developer Experience: TAG DevEx in Action - Julien Semaan, Kubex; Graziano Casto, Akamas; Mona Borham, swengin.io; Kevin Dubois, IBM; Daniel Oh, IBMslides ↗
- The Road To Strimzi 1.0 - Jakub Scholz, Cloudera & Paolo Patierno, IBMslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: From PVC to Mount Point: Dissecting a Custom CSI Plugin to Master Dynamic Volume Provisioning on Kubernetes - Vivek Singh, MongoDBslides ↗
- Gold Sponsor In-Booth Demos
- Learning Lounge: The CKA Exam Has Evolved - Are You Ready? -Chad M. Crowell, Akamai
- Project Demo: Transforming KServe Into a Zero Trust Inference Platform with Modelkits
- Sponsored Demo: 7 Things You Need to Run Production AI Workloads on K8s
- Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: From Billions of Rows to Sub-Second Queries for K8s Stacks - Victoriya Kalmanovich, Sr. Engineering Leader and Shahar Azulay, groundcover
- Neurodiversity at Work: Practical Tools, Open Source Paths, and Inclusive Community Building
- 📚 Tutorial: Full-Stack Observability on a Budget: A Guide to Strategic Sampling and Data Optimization - Pavol Loffay, Red Hatslides ↗
- 🚨 Contribfest: Kyverno Contribfest: Building the Future Together - Jim Bugwadia, Shuting Zhao, Ammar Yasser & Charles-Edouard Brétéché, Nirmata
- 🚨 Contribfest: Prometheus New Contributor Introduction - Bryan Boreham, Grafana Labs; Saswata Mukherjee, Red Hat; Arianna Vespri, OllyGarden; Ben Kochie, Redditslides ↗
- AI-Powered Cloud Native Modernization: From Real Challenges to Concrete Solutions - Savitha Raghunathan, Red Hat; Daniel Oh, IBM; Kenneth Kilty, Microsoft; Duncan Doyle, Solo.ioslides ↗
- CANCELED: Saxo Service Blueprint: Bridging Legacy and Modern World With Kubernetes Operators - Jinhong Brejnholt, Saxo Bank
- Detect, Decide, Defend: Building Cloud Native Security That Fights Back - Matthias Bertschy, ARMOslides ↗
- From Classroom To Container: Teaching Distributed Systems With CNCF & Cloud Native Technologies - Matthias Haeussler, CGI
- GenAI Observability: Keeping GenAI Honest Without Oversharing - Liudmila Molkova, Grafana Labsslides ↗
- How to Build a European Cloud Orchestration Platform From Within an Enterprise - Maximilian Techritz & Johannes Ott, SAP SE
- Kubernetes Data Protection WG Intro & Deep Dive - Dave Smith-Uchida, Veeamslides ↗
- Kubernetes Security at Shopify Scale: Automating Security Across an Infrastructure Monorepo - Jie Wu & Pulkit Garg, Shopifyslides ↗
- Kubernetes-Native ≠ Cloud Native: Avoiding Architecture Theater - Prerit Munjal, Grouponslides ↗
- One Controller to Rule Them All - Taming Multiple Orchestrators at Uber Scale - Srikar Paruchuru & Egor Grishechko, Uberslides ↗
- Optimizing LLM Inference for the Rest of Us - Abdel Sghiouar, Google
- Rook: Intro and Deep Dive With Ceph Storage - Artem Torubarov & Deepika Upadhyay, Clyso; Niels de Vos, Red Hatslides ↗
- SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive - Stephen Kitt, Red Hat; Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson & Laura Lorenz, Googleslides ↗
- Sponsored Demo: The theory and practice of sampling in OpenTelemetry
- Steering the Ship: Ask the Kubernetes Steering Committee - Kat Cosgrove, Minimus; Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns; Antonio Ojea, Google
- The Hyperscale Uncertainty Principle: Debugging Tail Latency in a Trillion-Object System - Yashraj Kakkad, Googleslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: From VMs to Kubernetes in a Large Global Bank: A DBA's Journey - Gabriele Bartolini, EDB and Laurent Parodi, HSBCslides ↗
- Sponsored Demo: DriftlessAF: The Reconciliation Pattern That Builds 2,000 Container Images
- Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: KubeVirt Benchmarking at Scale: A Vendor-Neutral, End-to-End Testing Framework for Cloud-Native Virtualization - Bhumitra Nagar and Dhruv Bhatnagar, Portworx by Pure Storageslides ↗
- ⚡ Lightning Talk: “Naming Things Is Hard”: A Guide to Naming Using Network Science - Nick Travaglini, Honeycomb.ioslides ↗
- Confidential Platforms for Regulated Industries - William Rizzo, Mirantis
- Enriching Telemetry Signals Through Lookups in the OTel Collector - João Duarte, Elasticslides ↗
- Explore TAG Workloads Foundation: Advancing Cloud Native Execution From Core Runtime To Applications - Stephen Rust, Akamai Cloud; Yuan Tang, Red Hat; Marlow Warnicke, NVIDIA; Kante Yin, HivergeAIslides ↗
- Exploring NRI for Automated CA Trust Injection - Tsuzuki Tsuchiya & Kento Kubo, LY Corporationslides ↗
- Inside Saxo Service Blueprint: Implementing Kubernetes Operators for Legacy Enterprise Infrastructure - Oskar Kristiansen, Saxo Bank
- Introduction To Tag Infrastructure - Kashif Khan, Ericsson & Dylan Page, Lambda.aislides ↗
- Keeping the Cloud Afloat with Deterministic Simulation Testing - Marcus Hodgson, Antithesis & Marek Siarkowicz, Googleslides ↗
- Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive - Xing Yang, VMware by Broadcom & Jan Šafránek, Red Hatslides ↗
- Kubernetes Third Party Audit Review - Iain Smart, AmberWolf; Amir Montazery, Open Source Technology Improvement Fund; Rey Lejano, Red Hat; Tabitha Sable, Datadog; Pietro Tirenna, Shielderslides ↗
- Merge Forward: Branching Inclusion, Merging Belonging - Jay Jackson, CallRevu; Jay Tihema, Stand Tall; Bhavani Indukuri, DigitalOcean; Catherine Paganini, Buoyant; Michiel van Pouderoijen, Avisi Cloud
- Ping SRE? I Am the SRE! Awesome Fun I Had Drawing a Zine for Troubleshooting Kubernetes Deployments - René Dudfield, Microsoft
- Rabobank’s Path to Secure, Fast Kubernetes Delivery - Beatrice Forslund & Koshin Verberne, Rabobankslides ↗
- SIG Apps Updates: Building the Next Generation of Kubernetes Workloads Together - Maciej Szulik, Defense Unicorns & Janet Kuo, Googleslides ↗
- The Symbiosis of Storage and Workloads: Longhorn for Hyperconverged Block Storage - Jinhong Kim & Jangseon Ryu, NAVER Corpslides ↗
- Unleashing Event Driven Capabilities With KEDA - Jorge Turrado, SCRM Lidl International Hub & Zbynek Roubalik, Kedifyslides ↗
- ⚡ Lightning Talk: 10 Years of Building Platforms in the Public Sector - Hans Kristian Flaatten, Norwegian Governmentslides ↗
- ⚡ Lightning Talk: Avoiding CPU Throttling: How Go 1.25's Container-Aware Runtime Fixes GOMAXPROCS - Adarsh K Kumar, Rapido
- ⚡ Lightning Talk: From Learner To Contributor: A LFX Mentee’s Kubernetes Story - Lavish Pal, Independent
- ⚡ Lightning Talk: Going Global: Lessons From Internationalizing OpenTelemetry Docs - Severin Neumann, Causely AI & Tiffany Hrabusa, Grafana Labsslides ↗
- ⚡ Lightning Talk: How To Responsibly and Effectively Contribute To Open Source Using AI - Tyler Helmuth, Honeycombslides ↗
- ⚡ Lightning Talk: KRafting the Cloud: Building a Free, Open, and Accessible Cloud - Alex Bissessur, La Sentinelleslides ↗
- Agentic Networking: Securing AI Agents on Kubernetes - Haiyan Meng, Google & Evaline Ju, IBMslides ↗
- BoF | Beyond Nginx Ingress: Higress as the K8s Gateway for the AI Eraslides ↗
- Building a Kubernetes Platform That Scales From SaaS To Self-Managed - Florian Forster, GitLabslides ↗
- Disaster Resilient Trino on Kubernetes: Multi-Cluster Setup With Karmada and Trino Gateway - Sung Yun & Antoine Marthey, Bloomberg LPslides ↗
- DNS Tracing & Metrics Via eBPF in OpenTelemetry - Endre Sara, Causely & Nikola Grcevski, Grafana Labsslides ↗
- Let Your Network Speak! - Nadia Pinaeva, NVIDIA & Joel Takvorian, Red Hatslides ↗
- Pay Less for More: A Practitioner's Playbook for Kubernetes Autoscaling - Malgorzata Widelicka & Lukasz Ogrodowczyk, Rocheslides ↗
- Right-sized Access Control & Pull with Proof - Stanislav Láznička, Microsoft & Lucas Käldström, Upboundslides ↗
- Scaling Platform Engineering: Lessons From Europe’s Largest Enterprises - Cat Morris, Syntasso; Stéphane Di Cesare, DKB; Anna Kozachenko, Amadeus; Gayathri Thiyagarajan, AWS
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Why Reverse Proxies Outperform VPNs - Peter ONeill, Teleport & Boris Kurktchiev, Independent
- Sink or Swim? Team Lead and "Junior" SREs Debate "Trial by Fire" Onboarding - Verena Traub, b'nerd; David Pech, Wrike; Melody Sofia Eroshevich & Patrick Sieradzon, Cloudeteer GmbH; Petr Rais, Slunoslides ↗
- Snapshots Gone Wild: Taming Multi-PVC Chaos with VolumeGroupSnapshot - Shubham Pampattiwar & Scott Seago, Red Hatslides ↗
- The Latest in GPU, TPU, NIC and Other Device Support - WG Device Management - John Belamaric, Google & Patrick Ohly, Intelslides ↗
- The Ultimate Kubernetes Challenge: An Interactive Trivia Game - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloudslides ↗
- Why Isn't the Fix in My Container? Tracking CVE Propagation Across 10,000 Projects - Mor Weinberger, Echo Security & Lior Kaplan, Kaplan Open Sourceslides ↗
- ⚡ Lightning Talk: The $100K GPU Mystery: Why Your AI Training Dies at 99% - Michael Ifeanyi, Googleslides ↗
- CANCELED: ⚡ Lightning Talk: Building the Cloud Native Ecosystem in Africa: Stories From the Field - Daniel Osarokutamwen, Rarefy Consulting & Ileriayo Adebiyi, Cloudnativeafrica.io
- Documentary Premiere: Backstage: From Spreadsheet to Standard
Thursday
- Keynote: Welcome Back + Opening Remarks - Jorge Castro, Developer Relations, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Keynote: The Cloud Native Feedback Loop: How End Users and Developers Drive CNCF Projects Forward - Karena Angell, Red Hat; Katie Gamanji, Apple; Chad Beaudin, Boeing Software Factory; Ahmed Bebars, The New York Times
- Sponsored Keynote: Universal Mesh: Connect and Secure Everything - Baptiste Assmann, Director of Product, HAProxy Technologies
- Keynote: How Ubisoft Orchestrates Global Multiplayer Games with Agones - Jean-François Hubert, Development Director, Ubisoft Entertainment & Mark Mandel, Staff Developer Advocate, Discord
- Keynote: From Cloud-Native Apps to Cloud-Native Platforms - Abby Bangser, Principal Engineer, Syntassoslides ↗
- Sponsored Keynote: From Cloud Native to Accelerator Native: Kubernetes as the Distributed OS for Accelerated Workloads and Frameworks - Jago Macleod, Engineering Director, Google
- Keynote: Agents as First-Class Users in Production - Mathias Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO, Netlify
- Keynote: Building Autonomous Networks for the AI Era - Gergely Csatari, Senior Open Source Specialist, DMTS, Nokia
- Keynote: Live Demo Showcase
- Keynote: Closing Remarks
- Solutions Showcase
- Learning Lounge: CNPA or CNPE? Roles, Skills & Which One is Right For You? - Alex Coma, Linux Foundation Educationslides ↗
- Security Slam Awards Ceremony
- 📚 Tutorial: KV-Cache Wins You Can Feel: Building AI-Aware LLM Routing on Kubernetes - Tyler Michael Smith, Red Hat; Kay Yan, DaoCloud; Vita Bortnikov, Nili Guy & Maroon Ayoub, IBMslides ↗
- 🚨 Contribfest: kcp: From Zero To Your First Pull Request - Karol Szwaj, Kubermatic & Nelo-T. Wallus, SAP
- 🚨 Contribfest: Podman/Buildah Contribfest - Ashley Cui & Matt Heon, Red Hatslides ↗
- A Bug’s-Eye View: Kubernetes SIG Security Explains It All - Ian Coldwater, Independent; Tabitha Sable & Rory McCune, Datadog; Iain Smart, AmberWolf; Mahé Tardy, Isovalent at Ciscoslides ↗
- Achieving Resilient Multi-Cluster AI Inference on Kubernetes With Karmada and KubeRay - Wei-Cheng Lai, Bloomberg & Han-Ju Chen, Anyscaleslides ↗
- Addressing Non-Deterministic Scheduling: Introducing the Node Readiness Controller - Ajay Sundar Karuppasamy, Google; Sreeram Venkitesh, DigitalOcean; Karthik K N, IBM; Priyanka Saggu, SUSEslides ↗
- Advanced Kyverno Patterns : Automating Platform Security and Operations - Frank Jogeleit, Nirmata; Johannes Sonner, Deutsche Telekomslides ↗
- Advancing Kubernetes AI Conformance: Current State and Roadmap - Yuan Tang, Red Hat; Mario Fahlandt, Kubermatic; Janet Kuo, Googleslides ↗
- An Immersive and Visual Journey Into Kubernetes Networking - Benoit Entzmann, Feeshslides ↗
- Beyond Stateless: Distributed Transactions with Autoscaling and Consistency on Kubernetes - Jumpei Nishitani, Hitachislides ↗
- Cert-manager – Project Update: Beyond 2026 - Tim Ramlot & Maël Valais, Palo Alto Networksslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Opening Remarks and Community Update - Andrew Burden and Itamar Holder, Red Hat
- Cutting Metrics Traffic, Cutting Costs: The AZ-Aware Observability Blueprint - Iris Dyrmishi & Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer, Miroslides ↗
- Enforce VIP Access Only Through Node Attestation - Alice Frosi & Jakob Naucke, Red Hatslides ↗
- From Chaos to Control: A Prescription for Managing Apps on Private Cellular Networks - Luis Ariza, Beantersslides ↗
- Kubernetes Book Club Gathering
- Scaling Valkey the Right Way: Kubernetes at XL Scale - Sarthak Aggarwal & Madelyn Olson, AWSslides ↗
- SPIFFE Meets OAuth: Federated Identity for Cloud Native Workloads - Yoshiyuki Tabata, Hitachi, Ltd.slides ↗
- Stop Flying Blind: Real-Time, Enforceable Cluster-Wide Quotas with Kyverno and KRO - Mariam Fahmy, Nirmata & Adam Crowder, AWSslides ↗
- To Upstream or Not? Why Becoming the Maintainer of Your Dependencies Matters - Christos Markou, Elasticslides ↗
- Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Breaking the Performance Barrier: High-Performance AI Storage Virtualization with KubeVirt - Jian Li, SK Telecom and Yves Weisser, NetAppslides ↗
- Project Demo: Podman and Bootc, Two Sandbox Projects That Change How You Build and Deploy Operating Systems
- AI Agents & Platform Engineering: Efficiency Boost or New Source of Trouble? - Hasith Kalpage, Cisco; Vincent Caldeira, Red Hat; Sara Qasmi, United Nations; Idit Levine, Solo.io; Carlos Santana, AWSslides ↗
- Beyond Image Pull-Time: Ensuring Runtime Integrity With Image Layer Signing - Toddy Mladenov, Flora Taagen & Dallas Delaney, Microsoft
- CANCELED: Building a Scalable and Cost-Effective MLOps Platform at PepsiCo Using CNCF Tools - Chaitanya G, PepsiCo
- Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: KubeVirt on GB200: Virtualizing a Rack-Scale Supercomputer - Fan Zhang, Kevin Klues, and Alay Patel, NVIDIA
- Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V Your Pods: WG Checkpoint Restore in Kubernetes - Peter Hunt & Adrian Reber, Red Hat; Radostin Stoyanov, University of Oxford; Viktória Spišaková, Masaryk Universityslides ↗
- Dragonfly V2.4.0 - Intro, Updates, Data Distribution in AI Infrastructure - Wenbo Qi & Chenyu Zhang, Ant Groupslides ↗
- End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Town Hall
- Evolution or Revolution: Istio as the Network Platform for Cloud Native - Mitch Connors, Microsoft & Daniel Grimm, Red Hat
- From Idle to Savings: Building a Global Scheduler for Cost‑Efficient Data Processing on K8s - Rainie Li & Ang Zhang, Pinterestslides ↗
- How To (Not) Fork Headlamp - Joaquim Rocha, Amutable
- Kill the Ticket Queue: A CNCF Blueprint for Self-Service Platforms - Bhavani Indukuri & Aparna Prabhu, DigitalOceanslides ↗
- Longhorn: Intro, Deep Dive and Q&A - David Ko & Divya Mohan, SUSEslides ↗
- Multi-Network Step-by-Step: Enabling SR-IOV Support From Kubernetes Network (DRA) Drivers - Masaharu Kanda, NTT, Inc. & Lionel Jouin, Red Hatslides ↗
- Redis on EC2 to Valkey on Kubernetes: A Zero-Downtime Case Study - Joe Heyburn, Brazeslides ↗
- Tailor Made: Dynamic Fine-Grained Authorization for API Traffic - Erica Hughberg, Tetrate & Andres Aguiar, Okta
- Taming Complexity: Building Observable Workflows With Dapr and OpenTelemetry - Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino, Diagrid & Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0
- Your Voice on Stage: The Iterative Pitch Lab
- Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Achieving 10× Faster VM Migration to KubeVirt with Storage Offload in Forklift - Ryosuke Tatsumi, Hitachi America, Ltd.slides ↗
- Network Nook Meetup: Share + Continue the Conversation
- Project Demo: etcd: Hunting Distributed System Bugs with Deterministic Simulation Testing
- Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Measuring KubeVirt Performance and Scale with KWOK - Sreeja Varnam, NVIDIA
- Learning Lounge: 3-2-1 Certify! - Everything You Want to Know About Exams, but Are Afraid to Ask - Zuzanna Piskorz-Nałęcka, Linux Foundation Education
- Project Demo: OPA: How to Optimize Your Policy Development Experience
- Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Bridging Islands: EVPN Overlays for Multi-Cluster KubeVirt - Miguel Duarte, Red Hat
- Non-Code Contribution Crash Course
- Project Demo: Kubeflow SDK: Expanding the Python Experience Across Kubeflow
- 📚 Tutorial: Your Application, Batteries Included: Packaging for Deterministic, Secure, and Portable Delivery - Brandt Keller & Austin Abro, William Crum, Defense Unicorns; Merijn Keppel, TrueFullstaq; Jessica Keppel-Drost, Isala
- 🚨 Contribfest: Supercharge Your Open Source Impact: Backstage ContribFest Live! 🚀 - André Wanlin & Emma Indal, Spotify; Heikki Hellgren, OP Financial Group; Elaine Bezerra, DB Systel GmbHslides ↗
- AI'm at the Gate! Introducing the AI Gateway Working Group in Kubernetes - Morgan Foster & Nir Rozenbaum, Red Hat; Shachar Tal, Palo Alto Networksslides ↗
- Beyond the Edge: Cloud Native Application Management Under Extreme Network Conditions - Tobias Nöthlich & Maximilian Nitsch, D3TN GmbHslides ↗
- BoF: AI Infrastructure and Platform: LLMs, Agentic AI
- Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI on Tractors - Mauro Morales, Spectro Cloud & Jordan Karapanagiotis, Aurea Imagingslides ↗
- Discover Cortex: High Scalability Metrics in 2026 - Friedrich Gonzalez & Charlie Le, Appleslides ↗
- Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform for Both Predictive and Generative AI - Filippe Spolti & Jooho Lee, Red Hatslides ↗
- Evolving Policy Management with Agentic AI: Kyverno MCP and Kagent for Multi-Cluster Governance - Shuting Zhao, Nirmata & Dahu Kuang, Alibaba Cloud
- KubeVirt's Evolution: Governance, Features, and Community Growth - Sreeja Varnam, NVIDIA & Luboslav Pivarc, Red Hat
- Navigating the Gateway API Maze: 40+ Implementations, 55+ Features, and a Path to Portability - Beka Modebadze, Google & Christine Kim, Isovalent at Ciscoslides ↗
- Prometheus V3 One Year In: OpenMetrics 2.0 and More! - Jan Fajerski, Red Hat & Bartłomiej Płotka, Googleslides ↗
- Scaling the Kubernetes Ecosystem: Uber's Approach to Cluster Lifecycle Management - Silvio Simunic & Vadim Plakhtinskii, Uberslides ↗
- Spin-Up, Test, Tear-Down: How Trivago Runs Developer Preview Environments at Scale - Armin Aminian, Trivago & Jan Wozniak, Kedifyslides ↗
- The Accidental Platform Team: Kubernetes Operators at Swisscom - Fabian Schulz & Jelena Malic, Swisscomslides ↗
- The Shared Service Blueprint: A Guide to Multi-Tenancy, Illustrated With KEDA - Aya Igarashi, Preferred Networks, Inc.slides ↗
- Visualizing GitOps: A Tour of Flux UIs in the Open Source Ecosystem - Stefan Prodan, ControlPlane
- A Unified Management and Control Plane for Cloud Native Robots With KubeEdge - Sitong Mao, Huawei; Huan Wei, Hangzhou HarmonyCloud Technologies; Yin Ding, Broadcom
- BoF: Infrastructure Optimization for GPUs / Inference / Training / Networking
- Buildpacks: Towards 1.0, AI and Other Things - Aidan Delaney, Bloomberg
- CRI-O: Faster Pulls, Better Metrics, and a Future Beyond Images - Sohan Kunkerkar & Ayato Tokubi, Red Hatslides ↗
- Envoy in the Era of Agentic Workloads - Yan Avlasov, Google & Erica Hughberg, Tetrate
- Freedom Through Boundaries: Building Configurations That Age Well - Bogdan Stancu, Adobeslides ↗
- Harbor Project - The Maintainers Session - Yan Wang, Broadcom & Vadim Bauer, 8gearsslides ↗
- How Telemetry Data Moves: Lessons From Building a High-Performance Open Source Agent - Eduardo Silva, Chronosphere | A Palo Alto Networks Company
- Making Topology-Aware Scheduling Practical for AI Workloads: From Discovery to Simulation at Scale - Weizhou Lan, Daocloudslides ↗
- Metal3.io’s Path to CNCF Incubation: Governance, Processes, and Community - Kashif Khan, Ericsson & Dmitry Tantsur, Red Hat
- Optimizing Error Recovery for Cost-Efficient Distributed AI Model Training with Kubernetes - Radostin Stoyanov, University of Oxford & Andrey Velichkevich, Apple; Viktória Spišáková, Masaryk Universityslides ↗
- Peer Group Mentoring
- Redefining SLIs for LLM Inference: Managing Hybrid Cloud with vLLM & LLM-D - Christopher Nuland & Hilliary Lipsig, Red Hat
- SB💣💣M: Making SBOMs Play Together - Jacopo Bufalino, CNAM & Agathe Blaise, Thales SIX GTS Franceslides ↗
- Three Shades of Isolation: A Multi-tenancy Fortress - Braulio Dumba & Paolo Dettori, IBMslides ↗
- Virtualizing Large Scale GPU Cluster for Sovereign AI: Petasus AI Cloud Journey with Kubernetes - Jian Li, SK Telecomslides ↗
- 18 Bluetooth Controllers Walk into a Bar: Observability & Runtime Configuration with CNCF Tools - Simon Schrottner, Dynatrace & Manuel Timelthaler, Tractive
- Beyond the Cloud: Managing Baremetal the Kubernetes Way Using Metal3.io: Sylva Project as a Use-case - Ádám Rozmán, Ericsson Software Technology; Nicolas Belouin, SUSE
- BoF: AI Observability
- Collisions in the Dark: Illuminating the 95% of Kubeflow You Can't See - Amine Lahouel & Laura Llinares, CERNslides ↗
- Day-2 Reality Check: Taming Wasteful Telemetry - Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden & Elena Kovalenko, Delivery Heroslides ↗
- Emissary-ingress: Version 4 and What Comes Next - Flynn, Buoyant
- From Jenkins to Tekton: Our Journey Toward a Kubernetes-Native CI/CD with ArgoCD - Mustafa Barış Ege & Özge Aygül, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEMslides ↗
- From Logs to Decisions: Autonomous AI Agents for Real-Time Kubernetes Threat Response - Willem Berroubache, Orangeslides ↗
- How Many Spark Applications Can Your Etcd Really Handle? - João Soares & João Azevedo, Feedzaislides ↗
- How Statistical Offices Move to Cloud Native Technology - Frédéric Comte, Insee & Trygve Tatsuya Falchslides ↗
- Is the Agent in the Room with Us Right Now? - Nick Rutigliano & Andrew Halaney, Netflixslides ↗
- K8s-sigs NFD × SYLVA: Declarative Image-to-Node Compatibility for Telco Clouds. - Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, NVIDIA & Chaoyi Huang, Huawei Technology Co., Ltd
- Platform Engineering 2.0: Just-Enough Kubernetes and AI-Native DevOps - Shweta Vohra, Booking.com
- SIG Docs and You: The New Chapter of the Kubernetes API Reference Generator - Kat Cosgrove, Minimus; Lavish Pal, Independent; Rey Lejano, Red Hat
- The Fourth Pillar Arrives: OpenTelemetry Profiling Alpha in Action - Felix Geisendörfer, Datadog & Florian Lehner, Elasticslides ↗
- WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next? - Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, Inc. & Kevin Hannon, Red Hatslides ↗
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Independent index of the public KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 programme, the recordings the CNCF published on YouTube and the decks speakers attached to their sessions · extracts are shown for search, and every result links to its source · not affiliated with the CNCF or the Linux Foundation · a Radixia Labs experiment