Name: Sponsored Keynote: The Next Wave Of Data On Kubernetes: Winning Over The Enterprise - Simon Metson, EnterpriseDB
Start: 2025-04-01T10:15:00+0100
End: 2025-04-01T10:20:00+0100

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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Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:15 - 10:20 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Ten years in, Kubernetes has transformed the way we build, deploy, and manage distributed systems. The skepticism around running data workloads on Kubernetes has largely faded, and within the broader Kubernetes community, the advantages are well understood. But is data on Kubernetes the default choice for modern solutions in the minds of enterprise decision-makers? No, not yet.

To make data on Kubernetes the de facto standard across industries, we must expand from technical advocacy and embrace a new language and approach—one that speaks to the enterprise and resonates with executives. The message is clear: data on Kubernetes delivers time to value, efficiency at scale, cost optimization, and empowers engineers to do greater things with less effort.

As the leading contributors to PostgreSQL and founders of CloudNativePG (CNPG), we understand the four critical pillars that ensure the long-term health and stability of open source systems, particularly when applied to modern enterprise data workloads:

- Contribute to and build the core technologies
- Develop and grow the ecosystem
- Nurture the practitioners and communities
- Address the needs of the enterprises

This keynote explores:
- Four real-world examples of enterprises successfully adopting Postgres on Kubernetes for their most critical and complex workloads
- The urgent and pivotal role of the Kubernetes community in ensuring this technology becomes the default platform for enterprise data
- How we bridge the gap between the technical community and executive decision-makers—building a shared understanding of why Kubernetes is the right foundation for data at scale.

We’ve built the technology, we’ve grown the ecosystem. But to unlock the next phase of adoption and ensure the lasting health and impact of data on Kubernetes, we need to elevate the conversation—making data on Kubernetes synonymous with modern data strategy for enterprises everywhere.

Speakers

Simon Metson

SVP Engineering, EnterpriseDB

Simon Metson is SVP for EDB’s Hybrid Cloud products. Throughout his career he’s worked on data problems on distributed systems; whether 100's of 1000+ node batch farms for physics experiments processing petabytes of data, first generation Cloud DBaaS products or bringing automation... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:15 - 10:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

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CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

Simon Metson

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