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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.

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WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Schedule (Pre-Registration Required)
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Panel: Building Thriving Communities in Platform Engineering: Collaboration, Innovation, and Growth - Matteo Bianchi, GitHub; William Rizzo, Mirantis; Cortney Nickerson, Nirmata; Kelly Revenaugh, TestKube; Bart Farrell, Learnk8s
Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:55 - 17:25 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
Platform engineering goes beyond building internal tools—it’s about creating a culture that inspires collaboration, excitement, and a sense of ownership. This panel will explore how fostering these elements across teams accelerates platform adoption and drives impactful outcomes like innovation, stability, and long-term growth.
Panelists will share real-world strategies for engaging engineers, gathering actionable feedback, and building alignment between platform teams and users. Whether you are starting fresh or scaling an established platform, join us to discover how community-driven enthusiasm can break down silos, spark advocacy, and create platforms that truly deliver value.
Speakers
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Bart Farrell

Content Creator, Learnk8s
Bart Farrell is a CNCF Ambassador and Freelance Content Creator, event host, and community consultant. He brings creativity and passion to everything he does, whether it's rapping about Kubernetes or producing creative videos to bring technical concepts to life. Bart engages with... Read More →
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Kelly Revenaugh

Developer Relations, Testkube
Kelly Revenaugh is the Developer Relations lead at Testkube, helping testers and developers transition their testing strategies into the cloud native world. She enjoys bringing members of the Cloud Native community together by organizing events such as Kubernetes Community Day... Read More →
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William Rizzo

Consulting Architect, Mirantis
William is a CNCF and Linkerd Ambassador, working at Mirantis as a Consulting Architect. He’s focused in helping customers designing, building, and running Developer Platform and Edge systems. He wore many hats, Engineering, Product Owner and Consulting. from HPC, Storage to Distributed... Read More →
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Cortney Nickerson

Head of Community, Nirmata
Cortney is Head of Community at Nirmata. As a CNCF and Civo Ambassador, co-organizer of CNCF Bilbao Community, and speaker and organizing member of various KCD events, she is a recognized voice in the cloud native space. Initially, a non-techie, she turned techie as employee 7 at... Read More →
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Matteo Bianchi

Solutions Engineer, GitHub
Matteo is a CNCF Ambassador and Cloud Native aficionado, a former startup CTO, DevRel and current Solution Engineer. Kubernetes open source contributor, part of the release team since v.1.31, Comms Release Lead for v.1.32 and Release Lead Shadow for v.1.33Hacker, builder and problem... Read More →
Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:55 - 17:25 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F
  Platform Engineering Day, Examples of internal platform evangelism
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