CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on 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.

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09:00 BST

ArgoCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Katie Lamkin-Fulsher, Program Committee Member Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A BackstageCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks, Bajaji Sivasubramanian, Bryan Landes, & Blair Fraser, Program Co-Chairs Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1 CiliumCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Hemanth Malla, Program Co-Chair & Denis Jannot, Cilium Community Member Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G Cloud Native University | Welcome + Opening Remarks Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2 Data on Kubernetes Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Beyond Databases: Kubernetes as an AI Foundation, Melissa Logan & Adam Durr, Program Co-Chairs Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E EnvoyCon | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Matt Turner, Program Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 Kubernetes on Edge Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Observability Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B OpenTofu | Welcome + Opening Remarks Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 Platform Engineering Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

09:05 BST

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

09:10 BST

Platform Engineering Day | Project Updates 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 1 Observability Day | Project Updates Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

09:20 BST

ArgoCon | Project Updates Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

09:25 BST

Sponsored Keynote: Stop Building Portals, and Start Delivering Workloads. For Realz - Will Stewart, Northflank Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

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

09:39 BST

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

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 1

10:00 BST

Sponsored Keynote: Why We Are Betting on Argo - Colin Bowern, 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

10:05 BST

Sponsored Keynote: TBA, Roadie

10:10 BST

Sponsored Keynote: TBA, Chronosphere Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

10:15 BST

Sponsored Keynote: TBA, Isovalent at Cisco Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Sponsored Keynote: TBA, EnterpriseDB Sponsored Keynote: TBA, Spectro Cloud Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 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

10:40 BST

Instrumenting Observability for an IDP on Backstage Using OpenTelemetr - Ekansh Gupta, SigNoz & Haardik Dharma, NYU Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1 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 2 Platform-as-a-Product: First Insights From CNCF Platform Working Group's Ongoing Research - Dominik Kress, Giant Swarm & Michael Luskind, MiKind Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

11:00 BST

From Weeks To Minutes: How Focke & Co Packaged Factory Edge K8s Across 20k+ Machines - Alexandre Boutet, Focke & CO & 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

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

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

Thinking Outside the Classroom: Building an Edge Device To Monitor Atmospheric Conditions. - Hadijat Sanni & Jubril Oyetunji, Students Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

11:50 BST

Panel: Engaging the Kubeflow Community: Building an Enterprise-Ready AI/ML Platform - Yuan Tang, Red Hat; Andrey Velichkevich, Apple; Andreea Munteanu, Canonical; Johnu George, Nutanix Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

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: Breaking New Ground with OpenTofu Exclusive Features - Ronny Orot, env0 Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

12:25 BST

CiliumCon | Closing Remarks - Hemanth Malla, Program Co-Chair & Denis Jannot, Cilium Community Member Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Data on Kubernetes Day | Closing Remarks Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E EnvoyCon | Closing Remarks - Matt Turner, Program Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 OpenTofu Day | Closing Remarks 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 2

12:30 BST

Argo Trivia! Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A

12:35 BST

Kubernetes on Edge Day | Closing Remarks 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 - Chris Plank, NatWest Bank & Sapphire Mason-Brown, Syntasso Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

12:50 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks 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

13:25 BST

Istio Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Kubeflow Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E Linkerd Day | Welcome + Opening Remarks - Flynn, Program Chair Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 OpenFeature Summit | Welcome + Opening Remarks Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

13:30 BST

High Performance Backstage for High Performing Organizations - Avantika Iyer & Jack Palmer, Spotify Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1 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: Our DORA Metrics Journey at StackGen - Danielle Cook, StackGen & Cesar Rodriguez, appCD Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

13:35 BST

Kubeflow Ecosystem: Past, Present, Future - Ricardo Martinelli de Oliveira, 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 Putting the Experience in UX: The Importance of Making Data Accessible - Adriana Villela, Dynatrace & Tim Banks, Caylent 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 Panel: Activating Community To Grow in Cloud Native - Lisa Tagliaferri, Chainguard; Divya Mohan, SUSE Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

14:10 BST

Meshy Adventures: Surviving and Thriving in the Wild World of Istio at Scale - Yashwanth Vempati & Venkat Gattupalli, eBay Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Choosing a Service Mesh - Alex McMenemy & Dimple Thoomkuzhy, Compare the Market Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

14:40 BST

Set It To Auto: Using Argo CD Autopilot To Simplify Everything Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room A From Splunk To OTEL: Scaling Observability at MSCI With a Four-Person Team - Aftab Khan & Zach Arnold, MSCI Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C

14:50 BST

(What If We Learned To) Learn and Share Differently - Aurélie Vache, OVHcloud Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2 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

15:20 BST

From Click To Chaos: Linking Argo Workflows and Backstage for Automated Testing - Chris Heisz & Luke Beamish, Neo4j Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1 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 Cloud Native OpenTelemetry Education Gap - Shivay Lamba, Couchbase & Shivanshu Raj Shrivastava, SigNoz Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2 The Future of Linkerd: 2.18 and Beyond - Oliver Gould, Buoyant Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

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

15:55 BST

Fixing Resource Labeling: Tying Infrastructure Metadata To Backstage With Terraform - Michael Reichenbach, 1KOMMA5° Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1 Building a Cloud Native Curriculum for Real-World Readiness - Marko Mudrinić, Kubermatic GmbH & University Union Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2 Demystifying Monitoring and Debugging on Windows Containers - Mansi Kulkarni, Red Hat & Ritika Gupta, Microsoft Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C Flag-tastic and Fearless: Feature Flags Meet Kubernetes for Deployments That Sing - Aditya Soni, Forrester & Anshika Tiwari, AWS Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 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

16:05 BST

⚡ 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

16:25 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: OpenFeature Multi-Provider: Enabling New Feature Flagging Use-Cases - Jonathan Norris, DevCycle Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4 ⚡ 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 1 Teaching Kubernetes To Over 1000 Learners: Key Lessons and Insights - Joseph Page & Max-Emilien Dauvert-Latre, Octo Technology Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2 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 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 & Filip Petkovski, 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

16:40 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Project Zero Day: Building the Ultimate Container Defense System - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

17:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Benchmarking Your Distributed ML Training on the K8s Platform - Liang Yan, CoreWeave Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G ⚡ Lightning Talk: How To Get Istio Help - Rob Salmond, Superorbital Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 ⚡ Lightning Talk: Upgrading Linkerd With Flux - Stuart Golightly & Haydn Stokes, Compare the Market Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

17:05 BST

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

17:15 BST

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: The Permutations and Combinations of Managing Features: Beyond the Toggle - Prerit Munjal, InfraOne Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

17:20 BST

Kubeflow Summit | Closing Remarks Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

17:25 BST

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day | Closing Remarks Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G Cloud Native University | Closing Remarks Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2 Istio Day | Closing Remarks Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9 Linkerd Day | Closing Remarks - William Morgan, Linkerd Community Member Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16 OpenFeature Summit | Closing Remarks Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

17:30 BST

Cloud Native Telco Day | Closing Remarks Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12 Platform Engineering Day | Closing Remarks Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F