CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on Tuesday, 1 April. This event is happening in person at Excel London in London, England.

The Sched app allows you to build your schedule, but is not a substitute for your event registration. You must be registered for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, and have an All-Access pass in order to participate in the sessions.

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The schedule is subject to change.

WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Schedule (Pre-Registration Required)

08:00 BST

Early Badge Pick Up Level 1 | Hall Entrance S5

07:30 BST

Badge Pick Up Level 1 | Hall Entrance S5 Cloakroom Locations in Description

09:00 BST

ArgoCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Katie Lamkin-Fulsher, Program Committee Member Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A BackstageCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Bryan Landes, & Blair Fraser, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I CiliumCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Hemanth Malla, Program & Bill Mulligan, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Thiago Gil & Yuan Tang, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G Cloud Native University | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Simon Forster, Danielle Cook and Mumshad Mannanbeth, Program Community Co-Chairs Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J Data on Kubernetes Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks: Beyond Databases: Kubernetes as an AI Foundation - Jonathan Battiato & Lori Lorusso, DOK SIG Chairs Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E EnvoyCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Matt Turner, Program Committee Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Kubernetes on Edge Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Katerina Arzhayev, Program Committee Co-Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Observability Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Anna Kapuścińska & Austin Parker, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B OpenTofu | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Sebastian Stadil, Program Committee Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 Platform Engineering Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Paula Kennedy, Program Committee Co-Chair, and Community Members Sophie Weston, Shweta Vohra and Naz Bilgic Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

09:05 BST

ArgoCon | Project Update - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

09:10 BST

Platform Engineering Day | Project Updates - Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Colin Griffin, Krumware; Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F Unlocking Backstage’s Potential: Driving Adoption and Maturity With Your Developer Community - Stanley Nicholl, Spotify Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I That’s Just My Cup of Tea: Configuring Cilium for Performance and Scale - Liz Rice, Isovalent at Cisco & Neha Aggarwal, Microsoft Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 The State of GenAI & ML in the Cloud Native Ecosystem - Alejandro Saucedo & Bartosz Ocytko, Zalando SE Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G The Absolute Beginner's Guide To Cloud Native - Kyle Penfound, Dagger & Cortney Nickerson, Kubeshop Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J Postgres on Kubernetes for the Reluctant DBA - Karen Jex, Crunchy Data Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Securing Every Bit at Uber - David Bell & Ronak Jain, Uber Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Chaos To Control: Kubernetes Resiliency at the Edge - Julia Furst Morgado, Veeam & Candida Valois, Scality Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Breaking Down the TofuLith. How We Reduced Lead Times for Multi-Tenant Infra Changes by 90% - Mike Hodgins, FundApps Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 Observability Day | Project Updates - Observability Project Maintainers Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

09:20 BST

Project Updates: Argo CD - Michael Crenshaw, Intuit Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

09:25 BST

Project Updates: Argo Workflows - Shuangkun Tian, Alibaba Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Sponsored Keynote: Stop Building Portals, and Start Delivering Workloads. For Realz - Will Stewart, Northflank Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

09:30 BST

Project Updates: Argo Rollouts - Zach Aller, Intuit Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

09:32 BST

Sponsored Keynote: Platform Engineering with a Product Management Mindset: 10x Your DevEx - Jabed Amin, Cortex Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

09:35 BST

Project Updates: Argo Events - Caelan Urquhart, Pipekit Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

09:39 BST

Sponsored Keynote: Containerization Beyond CPUs – A Kubernetes-based Serverless Platform for AI Native Applications - Kevin Cochrane, Vultr Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

09:40 BST

Project Updates: Argo Helm Packages - Tim Collins, Pipekit Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A ⚡Lightning Talk: We Built a Unified AI Asset Catalog in Backstage - John Collier, Red Hat Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I Panel: Ask the Devs! - Sharone Zitzman, RTFM Please; Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift; Arel Rabinowitz, env0; James Humphries, Spacelift Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

09:45 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Scalable and Observable RAG for Question-Answering in a Box - Selvi Kadirvel, Elotl Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G High-Scale Networking for ML Workloads With Cilium - Luigi Zhou, G-Research Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Streamline Your App Development With the Power of Cloud Native Tools - Julia Furst Morgado, Veeam & Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J Mastering Kafka Workload Balancing With Strimzi’s Cruise Control Integration - Paolo Patierno, Red Hat Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Adventures in Rate Limiting: Spotify’s Journey Writing a Scalable Envoy Rate Limiter (in Golang!) - Oliver Soell & Peter Marsh, Spotify Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Seamless List-Watch Improvements Across Data Center and Massive Unstable Network Edge - Fei Xu, Huawei Cloud & Huan Wei, Hangzhou HarmonyCloud Technologies Co., Ltd Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

09:46 BST

Sponsored Keynote: The End of Localhost: A Platform Team's Guide to Securing Agentic Software Development at Scale - Louis Bichard, GitPod Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

09:50 BST

Sponsored Keynote: GitOps Promotion Across Multi-cloud and Edge - Christian Hernandez, Akuity Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

09:55 BST

Sponsored Keynote: The Future is Backstage - Pia Nilsson, Spotify Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I

10:00 BST

Sponsored Keynote: A Holistic Approach to Software Delivery with Argo - Bob Walker, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Sponsored Keynote: The Future of Observability: Trends, AI, and New Relic’s Vision for a Smarter Stack - Harry Kimpel, New Relic Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B ⚡ Lightning Talk: Introducing LLM Instance Gateways for Efficient Inference Serving - Abdel Sghiouar, Google Cloud & Daneyon Hansen, solo.io Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G So You Want To Hire for Platform Engineering? - Hazel Weakly, Nivenly Foundation Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

10:05 BST

Sponsored Keynote: How to Succeed with Backstage - David Tuite, Roadie Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I

10:10 BST

Sponsored Keynote: Fluent Bit vs. OpenTelemetry Collector - Why Not Both? Margaret Dawson, Chronosphere Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

10:15 BST

Sponsored Keynote: Scaling Enterprise Platform Engineering with Backstage - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Red Hat Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I Sponsored Keynote: Cilium’s Honeycomb: Cultivating Technical Excellence in a Diverse Ecosystem - Donia Chaiehloudj, Isovalent at Cisco Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Sponsored Keynote: The Next Wave Of Data On Kubernetes: Winning Over The Enterprise - Simon Metson, EnterpriseDB Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Sponsored Keynote: No More Snowflakes: How Kairos Makes Edge Kubernetes Predictable - Saad Malik, Spectro Cloud Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 AM Break 1 Meeting Room Foyers

10:20 BST

Sponsored Keynote: From Fork to Future: OpenTofu’s Role in Shaping Community-Driven IaC - Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/Spacelift Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 AM Break 2 Meeting Room Foyers

10:25 BST

Sponsored Keynote: Navigating the Minefield: Common Lifecycle Management Pitfalls at the Edge - Atanas Dinov, SUSE Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

10:30 BST

AM Break 3 Meeting Room Foyers

10:40 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Seamless at Scale: Migrating from Terraform to OpenTofu Without Missing a Beat - David Jackson, Fidelity Investments Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 Defining SLOs and SLIs for ArgoCD: A Metrics-Driven Approach To Observability - Serhiy Martynenko, The New York Times Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Progressive Delivery With Argo Rollouts and Kubernetes Gateway API for Multi-Directional Traffic - Lin Sun, solo.io Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D Implementing Unified Observability: IDP on Backstage with OpenTelemetry - Ekansh Gupta & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I Improving Network Efficiency: The Power of Integrating Delegated IPAM With Cilium - Tamilmani Manoharan & Will Daly, Microsoft Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Serving the Future: KServe’s Next Chapter Hosting LLMs & GenAI Models (with Fun Drawings!) - Alexa Griffith & Tessa Pham, Bloomberg Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G AI/MLOps for Busy People: A Field Guide To Implementing Cloud Native AI/ML - Zara Ahmad-Post, DigitalOcean Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J Pains and Gains: Lessons From Orchestrating Volumes for Remote Storage in Cloud Native AI Scenarios - Zhihao Xu & Yashi Su, Alibaba Cloud Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Envoy Proxy: Evolved for Serving LLMs - Vaibhav Katkade & Andres Guedez, Google Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Scaling the Sound: Fleet Management at Spotify - Daynesh Mangal, Spotify Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F The Past, the Present, and the Future of Platform Engineering - Mauricio Salatino, Diagrid & Viktor Farcic, Upbound Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

10:45 BST

Beyond Root Cause Analysis for K8s: What Your Logs Should Be Telling You - Ronit Belson & Erez Rusovsky, Sawmills Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C Operationalizing Observability: The Invisible Parts - Hazel Weakly, Nivenly Foundation Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

11:00 BST

From Weeks to Minutes: How to Package Factory Edge K8s Across Thousands of Machines - Dmitry Shevrin, Spectro Cloud Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Enabling Developer Autonomy through IaC and Policy-as-Code: A Case Study at TV4 Play - David Stevens, TV4 Media AB Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

11:15 BST

Automated Resilience: Using Argo Events for Real-Time Incident Remediation - Darko Janjić, Pipekit Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Driving Monorepo Adoption With Backstage - Chau Vu, Zipline Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I Simplifying Multi-Cluster Networking With Cilium and MCS-API: A Technical Deep Dive - Arthur Outhenin-Chalandre, Ledger & Marco Iorio, Isovalent at Cisco Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Manage Cloud Native LLM Workloads Across Edge and Cloud Seamlessly Using KubeEdge and WasmEdge - Vivian Hu, Second State & Fei Xu, Huawei Cloud Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain: A Beginner’s Guide To SLSA, SBOM, and Beyond - Yash Sharma, Meshery & Yash Pimple, Chainguard Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J Write-Through Object Cache for Fleets of Global Edge Clusters - Ryan Beisner, NVIDIA Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Keeping Envoy Gateway On, Even When Bad Things Happen - Arko Dasgupta, Tetrate & Alexander Volchok, SAP Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 From Build To Boom: Using GTM To Drive Internal Platform Adoption - David Stenglein, Missing Mass, LLC & Erica Hughberg, Tetrate Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers - Stéphane Di Cesare, DKB - Deutsche Kreditbank & Cat Morris, Syntasso Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H Panel: Native OCI Integration - Leveraging Argo CD Source Content in a Brand New Way - Andrew Block & Ishita Sequeira, Red Hat; Michael Crenshaw, Intuit; Blake Pettersson, Akuity; Toddy Mladenov, Microsoft Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

11:20 BST

From Logs To Insights: Real-time Conversational Troubleshooting for Kubernetes With GenAI - Tiago Reichert & Lucas Duarte, AWS Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C Observability by Design: Leveraging OpenTelemetry Weaver To Take Control of Your Observability - Josh Suereth, Google & Laurent Querel, F5 Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

11:30 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Locals Only: Patterns and Anti-Patterns in OpenTofu Local Variables - Robbie Glenn, Glennium Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

11:35 BST

Event Processing on the Edge at Scale Using Kubernetes Native Technologies - Sri Harsha Yayi & Derek Wang, Intuit Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

11:40 BST

Lunch Break 1 Level 1 | Hall Entrance S5 Lunch Break 2 Level 1 | Hall Entrance S5

11:45 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Agentic Bee: How To Get AI Agents To Talk To Tetragon - Himal Kumar, FlowPulse.AI Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Understanding Memory Allocation Management in Envoy. Current and Future - Kateryna Nezdolii, Docker Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Taming PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes: Strategies for Dynamic Management - Peter Szczepaniak, Percona Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Don't Stop at the Cloud - Connecting all the Dots with Infrastructure-as-Code - Anuraag Agrawal, CurioSwitch Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

11:50 BST

Proxies, Gateways, and Service Mesh. Why Are Words So Confusing? - Abdel Sghiouar, Google Cloud Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J Panel: What Do Cars, Clothes, Wardrobes and MRI Machines Have in Common? - Scott Guymer, Philips; Remi Higuchi & Tina Vincent, H&M group; Jan Magnusson, Ikea; Martin Wänerskär, Volvo Cars Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I Panel: Engaging the Kubeflow Community: Building an Enterprise-Ready AI/ML Platform - Yuan Tang, Red Hat; Andrey Velichkevich, Kubeflow Steering Committee; Andreea Munteanu, Canonical; Johnu George, Nutanix; Ronen... Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

12:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Mastering Zero Downtime Migrations Between Cilium Identity Allocation Modes - Anton Ippolitov, Datadog Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Introducing ORCA: Load Balancing With Endpoint Provided Load Data - Misha Efimov, Google Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

12:10 BST

Kubernetes Cross-Zone/Region Simplified: Harnessing Bacalhau for Efficient Distributed Compute - David Aronchick, Expanso Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

12:15 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: High Availability for Cilium Egress Gateway - Angelo Conforti, Corner Banca SA Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Navigating the Complexities of Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes - Padmarajan Narayanan, Rakuten Cloud Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E ⚡ Lightning Talk: Dynamic Modules: A New Era of High-Performance Envoy Extensions - Takeshi Yoneda, Tetrate Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Breaking New Ground with OpenTofu Exclusive Features - Arel Rabinowitz, env0 Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

12:25 BST

CiliumCon | Closing Remarks - Hemanth Malla, Program & Bill Mulligan, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Data on Kubernetes Day | Closing Remarks - Jonathan Battiato & Lori Lorusso, DOK Sig Chairs Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E EnvoyCon | Closing Remarks - Matt Turner, Program Committee Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 OpenTofu Day | Closing Remarks - Sebastian Stadil, Program Committee Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 ⚡ Lightning Talk: The Hidden Gems of Kubernetes: Lesser-Known Features You Should Be Using - Saranya Nambiar, University of Leicester | Taikun Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J Lunch Break 4 Level 1 | Hall Entrance S5

12:30 BST

Argo Trivia! - Katie Lamkin-Fulsher, Program Committee Member Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Lunch Break 3 Level 1 | Hall Entrance N11

12:35 BST

Kubernetes on Edge Day | Closing Remarks - Katerina Arzhayev, Program Committee Co-Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

12:45 BST

Panel: Are You Ready for Platform Adoption, or Are You Setting Yourself up for Failure? - Abby Bangser, Syntasso; Whitney Lee, CNCF Ambassador; Leena Mooneeram, Chainalysis; Ana Margarita Medina, Upbound Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F Panel: Platform as a Product as a Transformation Enabler Within One of the Top 4 Banks in the UK - Joel King & Ashley-Jade Marshall, NatWest Group; Chris Plank, NatWest Bank; Sapphire Mason-Brown, Syntasso & Nicki... Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

12:50 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Gergely Csatari & Philippe Ensarguet, Program Community Co-Chairs Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

12:55 BST

A Million Ways To Promote Changes Between Environments - Dan Garfield, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy & Viktor Farcic, Upbound Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Autoscaling and Progressive Delivery - A Match Made in Heaven - Anastasiia Gubska, BT Group & Kostis Kapelonis, Codefresh by Ocotopus Deploy Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D Encrypted Telemetry in Transit - Jason Plumb, Splunk Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B From Sampling To Full Visibility: Scaling Tracing To Trillions of Spans - Sonam Gupta, SigLens Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C Panel: Are We There Yet? Native Kubernetes Networking for Telecom Workloads - Gergely Csatari, Nokia; Lionel Jouin, Ericsson; Surya Seetharaman, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

13:25 BST

Istio Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Denis Jannot & Keith Mattix, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Kubeflow Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Andrey Velichkevich, Program Committee Chair & Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Community Member Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Linkerd Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Flynn, Program Community Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 OpenFeature Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Jonathan Norris, Program Community Co-Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

13:30 BST

One Engine To Rule Them All: Unifying Cloud Workloads With Argo Workflows - Sebastian Beyvers, Giessen University Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Redefining the Multi-Cluster Story of Argo CD - Harriet Lawrence, Red Hat Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D High Performance Backstage for High Performing Organizations - Avantika Iyer & Jack Palmer, Spotify Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I Accelerate Your AI/ML Workloads With Topology-Aware Scheduling in Kueue - Michał Woźniak, Google & Yuki Iwai, CyberAgent, inc Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G Kubernetes the Hard Way: A Live Journey - Sandeep Kanabar, Gen (formerly NortonLifeLock) & Lucy Sweet, Uber Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J OpenTelemetry at Delivery Hero: The Good, the Bad and the Vendor-Agnostic - Elena Kovalenko, Delivery Hero Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C SLOs as an Organisational 'Check Engine' Light - Cail Young, Octopus Deploy Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B DORA Metrics in Practice: Make them Observable through your Platform! - Danielle Cook, CNCF Ambassador & Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H Platform Abstractions an Asset or Liability? - Let’s Understand the Abstraction Debt Trap - Atulpriya Sharma, InfraCloud Technologies Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

13:35 BST

A Telco Game Changer: Sylva Embraces GitOps - Guillaume Nevicato, Orange & Cedric Yhuel, Oracle Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 A New Frontier: Sidecarless Service Mesh on Windows With Istio's Ambient Mesh - Keith Mattix & Mitch Connors, Microsoft Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Kubeflow Ecosystem: Past, Present, Future - Ricardo Martinelli de Oliveira & Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Scaling Progressive Delivery at EarnIn: Leveraging Linkerd for Advanced Deployments With Gateway API - Kush Trivedi & Joe Brinkman, EarnIn Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 OpenFeature’s Positive Impact on Confidence at Dynatrace - Simon Schrottner & Todd Baert, Dynatrace Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

14:05 BST

Argo CD Ephemeral Access in Action: Lessons Learned While Running at Scale - Leonardo Luz Almeida & Katie Lamkin-Fulsher, Intuit Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Argo Workflow Templates: A Practical Deep-Dive - Tim Collins, Pipekit & Becky Pauley, Jetstack Consult Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D Exemplar-y Backstage Templates - Brent Swisher, ITHAKA Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I Cluster Management for Large Scale AI and GPUs: Challenges and Opportunities - Claudia Misale & David Grove, IBM Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G From Chaos To Clarity: Scaling Observability at Dropbox With Centralized Logging Solution - Alok Ranjan, Dropbox Inc Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C Putting the Experience in UX: The Importance of Making Data Accessible - Adriana Villela, Dynatrace & Marino Wijay, Kong Inc. Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B "I Choo-choo-choose You"; or How To Build Modern Platforms in a 200 Year Old Industry - Roberth Strand & Manfred Bjørlin, Sopra Steria Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F The Story of Lemonade's T-env: Scaling a Platform To Improve the Velocity of Hundreds of Developers - Ramiro Berrelleza, Okteto & Nir Gilboa, Lemonade Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H Panel: Activating Community To Grow in Cloud Native - Lisa Tagliaferri, Chainguard; Divya Mohan, SUSE; Langdon White, Boston University & Edith Puclla, Percona Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J

14:10 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: The Permutations and Combinations of Managing Features: Beyond the Toggle - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Kubenet: Harnessing Kubernetes for Network Automation - Wim Henderickx, Nokia & Ashan Senevirathne, Swisscom Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Architecting Istio for Large-Scale Deployments: R&D and Service Mesh Grow Together- Lior Lieberman, Google & Erik Parienty, Riskified Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Speed up Your ML Workloads With Kubernetes Powered In-memory Data Caching - Rasik Pandey & Akshay Chitneni, Apple Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Choosing a Service Mesh - Alex McMenemy & Dimple Thoomkuzhy, Compare the Market Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

14:30 BST

Canary Deployments Are a Myth - True Progressive Delivery Occurs Via OpenFeature - Bob Walker, Octopus Deploy Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

14:40 BST

Sponsored Keynote: Cloud Native Networks - The Open Way - Ranny Haiby, LF Networking Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Multi Cluster Magics With Argo CD and Cluster Inventory - Nick Eberts, Google & Christian Hernandez, Akuity Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D Set It To Auto: Using Argo CD Autopilot To Simplify Everything - Dustin Van Buskirk, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Security Behind the Curtains With Event Monitoring - Paul Schultz, Red Hat Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I Objection! AI Security Mistakes on Trial With Kubeflow and Confidential Computing - Annie Talvasto, Waovo & Karl Ots, EPAM Systems Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G From Legacy Vendor Tooling To OTEL: Scaling Observability at MSCI With a Four-Person Team - Aftab Khan & Zach Arnold, MSCI Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C Transmissions From the Tweet Factory: How Observability Transformed Mobile Performance at Twitter - Hanson Ho, Embrace Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B Panel: Platform Engineering in Financial Institutions: The Practitioner Panel- Suhail Patel, Monzo; Paula Kennedy, Syntasso; Jinhong Brejnholt, Saxo Bank; Rachael Wonnacott, Fidelity; Mark Campbell, Natwest Ban... Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F Platform Perseverance: Taming 1,000 Kubernetes Clusters - Marcy Paramonova & Stéphane Cusin, Banque Pictet & Cie SA Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

14:45 BST

Empowering ML Workloads With Kubeflow: JAX Distributed Training and LLM Hyperparameter Optimization - Hezhi Xie, Independent & Sandipan Panda, DevZero Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

14:50 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: What Operators are Looking for in a Cloud Native Data Plane - Benoit Gaussen, Orange Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Troubleshooting Istio Ambient With Kiali 2.0 - Josune Cordoba & Hayk Hovsepyan, Red Hat Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Meshin’ With WebAssembly: Taking Linkerd Beyond Containers - Joonas Bergius, Cosmonic Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 (What If We Learned To) Learn and Share Differently - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J

15:00 BST

PM Break 1 Meeting Room Foyers

15:05 BST

PM Break 2 Meeting Room Foyers

15:15 BST

PM Break 3 Meeting Room Foyers

15:20 BST

Scaling Argo CD: From Symptoms To Solution - Alexandre Gaudreault, Intuit Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A The Hidden Dangers of Defaults: Securing Multi-Tenant Argo CD Installations - Regina Voloshin, Codefresh by Octopus Deploy & Dag Bjerre Andersen, Doubble ApS Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D From Click To Chaos: Linking Argo Workflows and Backstage for Automated Testing - Chris Heisz & Luke Beamish, Neo4j Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I From Toil To Triumph: Harnessing Agentic AI To Streamline Infrastructure as Code - Jodee Varney, Outshift by Cisco Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G Unlocking Telco Innovation with CAMARA: Bridging the Gap Between Telcos and (Cloud) Developers - Markus Kummerle, Deutsche Telekom & Jill Lovato, The Linux Foundation Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Bridging the OpenTelemetry Adoption Gap in Cloud-Native Applications - Shivay Lamba, Couchbase & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J Navigating the Maze of Multi-Cluster Istio: Lessons Learned at Scale - Pamela Hernandez, BlackRock Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Streamlining Competitive Data Science at CERN: Running ML Challenges With Kubeflow - Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu & Hannes Hansen, CERN Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E The Future of Linkerd: 2.18 and Beyond - William Morgan, Buoyant Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 Customize Your Own OpenTelemetry Collector: An Introduction To OCB - Evan Bradley, Dynatrace & Pablo Baeyens, Datadog Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C The Art and Craft of No-touch Instrumentation - Michele Mancioppi, Dash0 Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B Challenges in Distributed Feature Flag Evaluation and How To Solve Them - Lukas Reining & Christopher Bohlen, codecentric AG Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Platform Engineering and DevEx for Your On-Prem LLM - Hannah Foxwell, Kortensia & Luke Marsden, HelixML Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H Platform-as-a-Product: First Insights From CNCF Platform Working Group's Ongoing Research - Dominik Kress, Giant Swarm & David Stenglein, Missing Mass LLC Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

15:50 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Extending Argo CD CLI Functionality With Plugin Support: Build Your Custom Plugins Now! - Nitish Kumar, Akuity Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A ⚡ Lightning Talk: Scaling Time Series Analysis With Argo Workflows: Patterns and Practices - Anjelica Ambrosio, Akuity Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

15:55 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: OpenFeature Multi-Provider: Enabling New Feature Flagging Use-Cases - Jonathan Norris, DevCycle Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Fixing Resource Labeling: Tying Infrastructure Metadata To Backstage With Terraform - Michael Reichenbach, 1KOMMA5° Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I AI, CERN, and the Quest for GPU Custody: How CERN Leverages DRA for Efficient GPU Sharing - Diana Gaponcic, CERN & Jan-Philip Gehrcke, NVIDIA Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: A Choreography for the Management of Complex Solutions - Adrián Gallego Sánchez & Bernard Tsai, Deutsche Telekom Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Building a Cloud Native Curriculum for Real-World Readiness - Marko Mudrinić, Kubermatic GmbH & University Union Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J A Service Mesh Benchmark You Can Trust - Denis Jannot, solo.io Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Using Training-Operator To Schedule Distributed Edge-Cloud Collaborative AI Applications - Bincheng Wang, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd & Ming Tang, DaoCloud Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Abstracting Multi-Cluster Topologies With CAPI and Linkerd for Internal Developer Platforms - William Rizzo, Mirantis Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 Demystifying Monitoring and Debugging on Windows Containers - Mansi Kulkarni, Red Hat & Ritika Gupta, Independent Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C OTel-y Oops: Learning From Our Observability Blunders - Joe Stephenson & Rodney Karemba, Akamai Technologies Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B Building Platforms With Empathy and YAML at the LEGO Group - Mads Høgstedt Danquah & Christian Trolle Mikkelsen, The LEGO Group Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H Platform Engineering for Architects - Crafting Platforms as a Product - Max Körbächer, Liquid Reply & Hilliary Lipsig, Red Hat Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

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⚡ Lightning Talk: Are You Sure It Works? Double Check Your Workflow Spec With Validating Webhooks - Will Wang, Bloomberg Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D ⚡ Lightning Talk: Mitigating Privilege Escalation in Multi-Tenant Argo CD - Anand Francis Joseph, Red Hat Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

16:15 BST

Beyond Boolean: Solving Hard Problems in Feature Flag Architecture at Scale - Ryan Feigenbaum, GrowthBook Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

16:20 BST

Argo at Scale: Navigating Complex Multi-Dimensional Deployments Across Hundreds of Clusters - Carlos Santana, AWS & Mike Tougeron, Adobe Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A Continuous Delivery & Resource Health for SpinKube/WASM Applications With ArgoCD - Luke Philips, The New York Times & Radu Matei, Fermyon Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

16:25 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: 10 Quick Tips on How To Internally Market Your Platform - Christina Kraus, meshcloud Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H ⚡ Lightning Talk: If You Think Building Platforms Is Hard, Try Selling Them! - Ram Iyengar, The Linux Foundation Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

16:30 BST

The Hitchhiker's Guide To Upgrading Backstage: Don't Panic! - Debabrata Panigrahi & Jenil Jain, Harness Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I Open Source Tools To Empower Ethical and Robust AI Systems - Vicente Herrera & Alberto Rodríguez Fernandez, Control Plane Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G Just Claim It: Simplifying Network Automation with NetBox Operator - Lea Brühwiler & Joel Studler, Swisscom Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Teaching Kubernetes To Over 1000 Learners: Key Lessons and Insights - Joseph Page & Max-Emilien Dauvert-Latre, Octo Technology Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J GenAI Platform: Challenges of Authentication and Authorization in a Multi-Tenancy Environment - Gerald Kleser & Darren Hague, SAP Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Federated Services: Straightforward Multicluster - Alex Leong, Buoyant Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 Beyond the Ephemeral: Mastering Serverless Metrics at Scale With Shopify - Pedro Tanaka, Shopify Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C The State of OpenTelemetry Profiling- Damien Matthieu, Elastic & Felix Geisendoerfer, Datadog Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B Panel: Simplifying the AI/ML Lifecycle With Kubeflow: An Insight Into the Community - Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Red Hat; Chase Christensen, tiledb; Julius von Kohout, DHL Data & Analytics; Tarek Abouzeid, Telia... Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

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⚡ Lightning Talk: Project Zero Day: Building the Ultimate Container Defense System - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F ⚡ Lightning Talk: Save Thousands of DevOps Hours: Unleashing the Power of Self-Service - Ofir Sharony, MyHeritage Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

16:50 BST

⚡Lightning Talk: Feature Flagging at Scale: Problems with Flag Cleanup - Graham McNicoll, GrowthBook Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 No More Pipelines: Reconciling Environment Promotion Via Commit Statuses With Argo CD - Michael Crenshaw & Zach Aller, Intuit Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D Scale GitOps With the Argo CD Agent and Open Cluster Management - Joshua Packer, Red Hat Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

16:55 BST

Panel: Building Thriving Communities in Platform Engineering: Collaboration, Innovation, and Growth - Matteo Bianchi, GitHub; William Rizzo, Mirantis; Cortney Nickerson, Nirmata; Kelly Revenaugh, TestKube; Bart... Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F Panel: Navigating the Platform Revolution: From Bottom-Up Innovation To Product Thinking - Antoine Bermon, SNCF; Kanika Gera, Adobe ; Louis Bichard, Gitpod; Christina Kraus, meshcloud Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

17:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: How Silverflow Uses Backstage To Streamline Engineering and Compliance - Daniel O'Neill, Silverflow B.V. Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I ⚡ Lightning Talk: Benchmarking Your Distributed ML Training on the K8s Platform - Liang Yan, CoreWeave Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G ⚡ Lightning Talk: A Launch in My Kubernetes Journey: How I Became a Kubestronaut in 30 Days - Chad Crowell, KubeSkills & Fabrizio Sgura, Veritas Automata Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J ⚡ Lightning Talk: How To Get Istio Help - Rob Salmond, Superorbital Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Upgrading Linkerd With Flux - James Johnstone & Haydn Stokes, Compare the Market Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Unlocking Customer-Centric Observability: A Case Study of OpenTelemetry To Reduce MTTD < 3 Mins - Kokilavani Kathiresan, Intuit Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C ⚡ Lightning Talk: Who Are You? Solving the Container ID Resolution With Cgroupv2 - Vincent Boulineau, Datadog Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

17:05 BST

OpenFeature Summit | Closing Remarks - Jonathan Norris, Program Committee Co-Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Automating Kubernetes Resource Management Over GitOps for the Telco Cloud RAN Prime Time - Liam Fallon, Ericsson & István Kispál, Nokia Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

17:10 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Kubeflow Profiles Automation for Declarative User-Management at Scale - Kimonas Sotirchos & Manos Vlassis, Canonical Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

17:15 BST

ArgoCon | Closing Remarks Track 1 - Katie Lamkin-Fulsher, Program Committee Member Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A ArgoCon | Closing Remarks Track 2 - Christian Hernandez, Program Committee Co-Chair Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D BackstageCon | Closing Remarks - Balaji Sivasubramanian, Bryan Landes & Blair Fraser, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room I ⚡ Lightning Talk: {”spec”: “nodeSelector”: "EuroHPC"} - Diego Ciangottini, INFN Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G ⚡ Lightning Talk: The Numbers and Narrative of Cloud Native Growth - Thiago GIl, Dotted Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J ⚡ Lightning Talk: Optimise Your Mesh With Istio Sidecar - Maggie Slukova, GetYourGuide Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Benchmarking Journey Through Service Meshes - Dominik Táskai, adesso Hungary Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Empowering OpenTelemetry Users With the OTTL Playground: Simplified Data Transformation and Testing - Edmo Vamerlatti Costa, Elastic Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C ⚡ Lightning Talk: From HAR To OpenTelemetry Trace: Redefining Your Observability - Antonio Jimenez Martinez, Cisco ThousandEyes Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

17:20 BST

Kubeflow Summit | Closing Remarks - Andrey Velichkevich, Program Committee Co-Chair Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

17:25 BST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Closing Remarks - Rajas Kakodkar & Ricardo Rocha, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G Cloud Native University | Closing Remarks - Simon Forster, Danielle Cook and Mumshad Mannambeth, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J Istio Day | Closing Remarks - Denis Jannot & Keith Mattix, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Linkerd Day | Closing Remarks - William Morgan, Linkerd Community Member Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 Observability Day | Closing Remarks - Anna Kapuścińska & Austin Parker, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

17:30 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day | Closing Remarks - Gergely Csatari & Philippe Ensarguet, Program Committee Co-Chairs Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Platform Engineering Day | Closing Remarks - Paula Kennedy, Program Committee Co-Chair, and Community Members Sophie Weston, Shweta Vohra and Naz Bilgic Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

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Evening Reception Level 1 | Hall Entrance S5