CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025: Full Schedule

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.

To view the full event schedule for a specific CNCF-hosted Co-located event, you can use the right-hand navigation bar to sort and filter.

The schedule is subject to change.

09:10 BST

The Absolute Beginner's Guide To Cloud Native - Kyle Penfound, Dagger & Cortney Nickerson, Kubeshop

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

For newcomers, stepping into the world of cloud native can feel overwhelming, with a maze of new concepts and technologies to grasp. According to the CNCF, cloud native is characterized by loosely coupled systems that interoperate in a manner that is secure, resilient, manageable, sustainable, and observable.

This session aims to break down these core concepts into simple, digestible pieces, helping participants understand what it truly means to be "cloud native."

Using relatable analogies and practical examples, we’ll explore the stages of the software development lifecycle, the fundamentals of cloud infrastructure, and an introduction to Kubernetes. Along the way, we’ll demystify the principles that drive the cloud native movement and the practices that help achieve its defining characteristics.

Whether you're brand new to cloud native or just seeking a clear way to explain your work to others—perhaps even your family—this session is designed for you!

Speakers

Kyle Penfound

Solution Engineer, Dagger

Kyle is part of the ecosystem team at dagger.io working on the future of CICD. He has a background in DevOps and just loves giving demos!

Cortney Nickerson

Developer Advocate & Solutions Architect, Kubeshop

Cortney is a Developer Advocate at Kubeshop and a co-organizer of the CNCF Bilbao Community. Initially, a non-techie turned tech lover, she began her career as employee number 7 at a DevSecOps startup (acquired by DataDog) and wrote the newsletter and other content for the Data on... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:10 - 09:35 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

Cloud Native University, Core Curriculum: Language

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Cloud Native University

09:45 BST

Ask the Devs! - Christian Mesh, OpenTofu/SpaceLift; Arel Rabinowitz, env0; James Humphries, Spacelift

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

The core developers in attendance will introduce themselves and briefly talk about their experience working on OpenTofu. We will then open the floor for questions related to all aspects of OpenTofu development.

Speakers

Arel Rabinowitz

Principal Engineer, env0

Has been part of the industry for more than a decade, and has taken part in many different engineering roles.Currently working as a Principal Engineer in env0, and as a core team member of OpenTofu.

James Humphries

Spacelift Engineering Team Lead | OpenTofu Core Engineer, Spacelift

As a Software Engineer at Spacelift and a Core Contributor for OpenTofu, I specialize in integrating infrastructure as code tools and improving people's workflows. With expertise across a wide assortment of tools, I've played a pivotal role in forking OpenTofu and developing its registry.I... Read More →

Christian Mesh

OpenTofu Tech Lead, OpenTofu/Spacelift

With over a year of OpenTofu development under his belt, Christian is a Core Engineer and Tech Lead of OpenTofu. He is generously sponsored by SpaceLift.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 09:45 - 10:10 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

OpenTofu Day, OpenTofu Internals

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks OpenTofu Day

10:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Introducing LLM Instance Gateways for Efficient Inference Serving - Abdel Sghiouar, Google Cloud

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:00 - 10:10 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing applications, but efficiently serving them in production is a challenge. Existing API endpoints, LoadBalancers and Gateways focus on HTTP/gRPC traffic which is a well defined space already. LLM traffic is completely different as an input to an LLM is usually characterized by the size of the prompt, the size and efficiency of the model...etc

Why are LLM Instance Gateways important? They solve the problem of efficiently managing and serving multiple LLM use cases with varying demands on shared infrastructure.

What will you learn? The core challenges of LLM inference serving: Understand the complexities of deploying and managing LLMs in production, including resource allocation, traffic management, and performance optimization.

We will dive into how LLM Instance Gateways work, how they route requests, manage resources, and ensure fairness among different LLM use cases.

Speakers

Abdel Sghiouar

Cloud Developer Advocate, Google Cloud

Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Serverless.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:00 - 10:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, LLMs

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

10:40 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Seamless at Scale: Enterprise Migration to OpenTofu Without Missing a Beat - David Jackson, Fidelity Investments

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 10:50 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

It can be easy to hit the right notes when migrating a Terraform project to OpenTofu. The vast majority of Terraform projects require little to no code changes whatsoever to switch to using the Tofu CLI. But how does an enterprise achieve perfect harmony with Tofu at scale?

Fidelity already had tens of thousands of existing Terraform projects when we made the decision to migrate to OpenTofu. This migration needed to be done at a high tempo, without disrupting the rhythm of engineering teams.

Find out how at Fidelity we have orchestrated a fast, seamless path to OpenTofu at scale. Take away some lessons learned that you can watch out for as you conduct your own migrations - all without missing a beat.

Speakers

David Jackson

Vice President, Cloud Automation and Tooling, Fidelity Investments

I lead the Cloud Automation and Tooling space (focusing on IaC) at Fidelity Investments. I work in a variety of technologies, specialising in building serverless solutions on AWS using OpenTofu & Terraform. I have about 25 years’ experience working in the areas of architecture... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 10:50 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

OpenTofu Day

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks OpenTofu Day

10:40 BST

Progressive Delivery With Argo Rollouts and Kubernetes Gateway API for Multi-Directional Traffic - Lin Sun, solo.io

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

With the growing maturity of the Kubernetes Gateway API and the Argo Rollouts plugin for Gateway API, it's now easier than ever to integrate Argo Rollouts with any traffic provider that implements the Gateway API. This allows you to automate progressive delivery decisions based on custom HTTP metrics. While most traffic providers focus on north-south traffic, some now offer seamless support for both north-south and east-west traffic patterns.

In this demo-driven session, we’ll explore how to use Argo Rollouts and the Kubernetes Gateway API to control traffic for both north-south and east-west directions without requiring application restarts. By leveraging Istio Ambient Mesh and HTTP metrics, we’ll dynamically monitor application health to drive progressive delivery decisions.

Speakers

Lin Sun

CNCF TOC member and Head of Open-Source, solo.io

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:40 - 11:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

ArgoCon, Progressive Delivery

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

11:15 BST

Driving Monorepo Adoption With Backstage - Chau Vu, Zipline

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

As a company grows, the number of applications to maintain also increases. Using a monorepo is a common solution to address many pain points when scaling up an organization. However, onboarding new customers to a relatively young monorepo while also supporting the migration of hundreds of existing applications, each with its own infrastructure and observability stack, presents significant challenges.
At Zipline, we leverage Backstage's core features, such as Software Catalog and Software Templates, enabling developers to deploy a new application on AWS and Kubernetes within 10 minutes. This includes pre-configured observability in Grafana, as well as on-call features in PagerDuty and Slack, thanks to Backstage's rich ecosystem of plugins.
In this session, we will present the methodology we used to determine the sequence of Backstage features to introduce as we grow our monorepo, and provide tips on how you can apply these practices to meet your organization's specific needs.

Speakers

Chau Vu

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Zipline

Chau Vu is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the Developer Experience team at Zipline, with a focus on boosting developer efficiency in the development and release of applications from a monorepo. With a decade of experience across big companies and early startups, she has experiences... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

BackstageCon, Transforming dev experience+streamlining dev workflow+doing more with less using Backstage

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks BackstageCon

11:15 BST

Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain: A Beginner’s Guide To SLSA, SBOM, and Beyond - Yash Pimple, Chainguard & Yash Sharma, Meshery

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

In today’s fast-paced world of software development, software supply chain security has emerged as a critical focus area. But what does it really mean to secure your software supply chain? And how do buzzwords like SLSA (Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts), SBOM (Software Bill of Materials), and tools like Sigstore fit into the picture?

In this session, we’ll cut through the buzzwords and unravel the fundamentals of software supply chain security. We’ll break down these concepts, understand what they mean, and present a state of security providing a practical guide to the tools and methodologies shaping this crucial aspect of modern development.

Speakers

Yash Pimple

Engineering Intern, Chainguard

Yash is currently working as a Software Engineer Intern at Chainguard, specializing in securing software supply chains. He is an AWS Community Builder and CNCF Ambassador, he has also delivered talks at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 and KubeCon India 2024. Yash is an... Read More →

Yash Sharma

Maintainer, Meshery

Yash is an SWE intern at Layer5 and contributes to its open-source projects and community. He is a maintainer of Meshery, an open-source CNCF sandbox project. He is a mentor for the LFX 2024 summer project and was an LFX mentee in the 2023 mentorship under Meshery. He hosts weekly... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

Cloud Native University, Core Curriculum: Security

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Cloud Native University

11:15 BST

From Build To Boom: Using GTM To Drive Internal Platform Adoption - David Stenglein, Missing Mass, LLC & Erica Hughberg, Tetrate

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Building the right internal platform is only half the battle; driving adoption is the other.

This talk explores the critical, yet often overlooked, Go to Market(GTM) strategies that are required for successful platform launches. Based on their experience building and launching internal platforms, Erica and David will share practical, actionable techniques for communicating the value of your platform, engaging stakeholders and onboarding users. We'll examine how playbooks for product launches help you drive adoption of your platform.

We’ll discuss strategies for:

Platform Rollout

User Enablement

Feedback Gathering

Diving into gradual rollouts, positioning to drive platform adoption with targeted communication, training programs, and established feedback mechanisms.

By mapping these product launch techniques to platform launches, attendees will learn how to position, promote, and drive adoption of their platform as a compelling business offering.

Speakers

David Stenglein

Solo Consultant, Missing Mass, LLC

David Stenglein is the owner of Missing Mass and a consultant with a focus on internal platforms. He has worked in engineering, consulting and product management roles at large and small companies. He has architected and built large public websites using cloud-native principles. During... Read More →

Erica Hughberg

Envoy Gateway Contributor, Tetrate

Erica is passionate about the arrow between the two boxes in the architecture diagram. How do we make that arrow easy to establish securely? And how can we observe and operate it? After over ten years in FinTech, primarily leading API Platform strategy and engineering teams, Erica... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering Day, Platform product management practices

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

11:15 BST

Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers - Stéphane Di Cesare, DKB - Deutsche Kreditbank & Cat Morris, Syntasso

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Want to level up your engineering career? Product management and ownership skills will help you showcase the business value of IT investments and align technical solutions with company goals. Learn how modern engineering teams—regardless of size or industry—can thrive by adopting a product thinking mindset.

Join Stéphane (Cloud Engineer applying product thinking) and Cat (once engineer, now Product Manager) as they share actionable insights from their journey. You'll discover how embracing product management principles can help your team deliver more impactful results and gain greater ownership of what you build.

What you'll learn:
- How to use product discovery techniques to better understand user needs
- Which metrics matter most when measuring product success
- Practical frameworks for identifying real problems before jumping to solutions
- Tips for bringing product thinking to your engineering role

Speakers

Cat Morris

Staff Product Manager, Syntasso

Cat is the Product Manager at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms. She has worked in tech for over 10 years, the last 6 have been in Platform Engineering across all kinds of domains. She specialises in bringing Product... Read More →

Stéphane Di Cesare

Senior Platform Engineer, DKB – Deutsche Kreditbank

Stéphane Di Cesare is a Senior Platform Engineer in the Platform Experience team at the German online bank DKB. He is helping to increase the adoption and advocate for the value of the bank's container platform.Stéphane is focusing on bridging the gap between engineering and users... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Platform Engineering Day, Platform product management practices

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

11:20 BST

Observability by Design: Leveraging OpenTelemetry Weaver To Take Control of Your Observability - Josh Suereth, Google & Laurent Querel, F5

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:20 - 11:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

Ever curious what labels are on a metric or trace, but can't find the documentation? Ever upgrade a service and find all your observability dashboards and alerts broken? Ever wish you had a tool to prevent developers or OpenTelemetry Collector config from breaking the signals you rely on?

In this talk we'll show how OpenTelemetry Weaver solves these problems. OpenTelemetry Weaver is the tool which powers OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions.

This session will explore how to use OpenTelemetry Weaver to:
- Define your Observability signals
- Automatically generate documentation, code and tests, etc.
- Enforce compatibility guarantees
- Extended for your own needs

Speakers

Josh Suereth

Staff Software Engineer, Google

An enthusiastic supporter of Open-Source, Modern Application design and hipster programming languages. Previously, the author of Scala In Depth, I'm currently involved in OpenTelemetry technical committee, driving the Semantic Conventions effort. I spend my off hours on Scala and... Read More →

Laurent Querel

Distinguished Engineer, F5

Author of the OpenTelemetry Protocol with Apache Arrow Specification. Maintainer of the OTel Arrow repository. Author of the Application Telemetry Schema Specification and maintainer of the OTel Weaver project.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:20 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

Observability Day, Uses of Open Source Tooling to Achieve Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Observability Day

11:45 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Agentic Bee: How To Get AI Agents To Talk To Tetragon - Himal Kumar, FlowPulse.AI

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:45 - 11:55 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Tetragon delivers powerful runtime security logs, offering unmatched granularity. However, these detailed insights can overwhelm users with an endless stream of alerts and events. Usual approaches include tracing policy tuning, aggregating, and then visualising data on dashboards, however, not everything is meant for human consumption.

This talk introduces a fresh approach: integrating Tetragon’s runtime telemetry with LLM-powered AI agents. By leveraging a simple Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, we enable AI agents to automate workflows directly on top of Tetragon events. These agents can perform tasks such as correlating vulnerabilities with runtime context and extracting actionable insights for human consumption—without relying on dashboards.

Speakers

Himal Kumar

Co-Founder, FlowPulse.AI, FlowPulse.AI

Himal is Co-Founder of FlowPulse.AI, and Co-Founder & CTO of Canopus Networks. Himal has years of experience in building production grade networking solutions and has engineered multiple products deployed in production networks. He has been a key contributor to many open-source SDN... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:45 - 11:55 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

CiliumCon, Use Cases

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks CiliumCon

11:45 BST

Taming PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes: Strategies for Dynamic Management - Sergey Pronin, Percona

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:45 - 12:10 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Running PostgreSQL in Kubernetes is becoming increasingly popular, but managing database extensions in this environment presents a challenge. Containers are designed to be immutable, making it difficult to add extensions after the database is up and running. Rebuilding containers every time you need a new extension defeats the purpose of using pre-built images with security and best practices baked in. This talk explores different approaches to managing PostgreSQL extensions in Kubernetes, including their pros and cons, and discusses potential future standards for streamlined extension management.

Speakers

Sergey Pronin

Product guy, Percona

Sergey is a product leader at Percona focusing on delivering robust open-source database and cloud-native solutions. Prior to Percona Sergey led product management and engineering teams in other organizations with a primary focus on products in infrastructure and platforms space... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:45 - 12:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E

Data on Kubernetes Day, DoK Emerging and Advanced

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Data on Kubernetes Day

11:45 BST

Don't Stop at the Cloud - Connecting all the Dots with Infrastructure-as-Code - Anuraag Agrawal, CurioSwitch

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:45 - 12:10 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) has become best practice for managing infrastructure. However, it commonly stops at cloud infrastructure despite supporting so much more.

We will dive into examples of going beyond just the cloud with OpenTofu. A reusable module can create two GitHub repos for app and infra code, two GCP projects for dev/prod with corresponding GitHub environments and the IAM pools and permissions to allow deployment from a main branch's CI to dev and release branch to prod, with approval. All permissions are kept to a minimum to allow security without losing developer velocity. We know the infra needs of the frameworks used by apps and set it up by default, so developers can focus on logic and have tools to debug when they need to. A startup can have all of this with a single "apply".

By the end of the talk, you will know how to take advantage of IAC flexibility to speed up development, and with all the examples being OSS, will also have ready-made tools to start with.

Speakers

Anuraag Agrawal

Software Engineer, CurioSwitch

Anuraag works on WebAssembly to solve real problems rather than tech demos, using it to allow extension of various aspects of a service mesh. Currently his main focus is on using WebAssembly to solve real-world problems, not tech demos. Anuraag is an OSS enthusiast and has also been... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:45 - 12:10 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16

OpenTofu Day, Upgrades and Usage

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks OpenTofu Day

11:50 BST

Proxies, Gateways, and Service Mesh. Why Are Words So Confusing? - Abdel Sghiouar, Google Cloud

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

Can you tell the difference between an API Gateway, the API Gateway, and a Gateway? What is Nginx or HAProxy anyway? Are they proxies? Controllers? CRD’s? Resources?
Sometimes, it feels like things are named in a certain way to confuse us on purpose. But don’t worry, this talk is made for you. To simplify things, we will go back to square zero. We will look at the history of these things, where they came from, and their purpose. We will then fast forward into the Cloud Native modern world, and you will not be surprised that nothing is new. We are just reusing stuff people used 10, 15, or 20 years ago.
Back to Basics is the other title I could have given this session. You don’t need to have a lot of experience; you just need to join me, and we will reminisce and look into the future.

Speakers

Abdel Sghiouar

Cloud Developer Advocate, Google Cloud

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

Cloud Native University, Core Curriculum: Cloud native solution architecture

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Cloud Native University

11:50 BST

Panel: What Do Cars, Clothes, Wardrobes and MRI Machines Have in Common? - Scott Guymer, Philips; Remi Higuchi, H&M group; David Terol, Philips; Jan Magnusson, Ikea; Martin Wanerskar, Volvo Cars

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:50 - 12:25 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

What does it take for non-software companies to adopt and thrive with modern developer platforms like Backstage? In this panel, leaders from renowned global brands—spanning automotive, fashion, furniture, and healthcare—will share their journeys of overcoming unique challenges to improve developer experience.

These organizations face struggles familiar to many Backstage adopters: integrating with legacy systems, fostering internal alignment, and proving the value of a developer portal in environments where technology supports the business rather than leads it. From initial hurdles to transformative successes, our panelists will discuss how Backstage became a key driver of modernization.

Join this session for candid insights, practical strategies, and diverse perspectives on how Backstage is transforming industries you might not expect—and why their lessons matter for your Backstage journey.

Speakers

Martin Wanerskar

Product Manager, Volvo Cars

Jan Magnusson

Ikea

David Terol

Program Director Software Excellence, Philips

Engineering and Program Director with 25+ years of global leadership across Communication, Semiconductor, and Healthcare sectors. Proven track record at industry technology leaders like Ericsson, Marvell Technology, and Royal Philips, directing multidisciplinary hardware/software... Read More →

Scott Guymer

Principal Engineer, Developer Experience, Philips

Scott is a Principal Engineer working as part of the Software Excellence team in Philips. He works with teams from across Philips to help them make software better. He is passionate about improving the developer experience through automation, tooling, and better practices.Scott comes... Read More →

Remi Higuchi

Software Engineer・Co-driver of Engineering Culture, H&M group

A software engineer passionate about blending technical skills with a design-focused and business-aware approach

Tuesday April 1, 2025 11:50 - 12:25 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

BackstageCon, Transforming dev experience+streamlining dev workflow+doing more with less using Backstage

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks BackstageCon

12:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Mastering Zero Downtime Migrations Between Cilium Identity Allocation Modes - Anton Ippolitov, Datadog

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:00 - 12:10 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Cilium offers two options for storing security identities: KVStore mode and CRD mode. Both have their pros and cons when it comes to scalability, operational complexity and cost.

Previously, there wasn't a straightforward method to migrate live Kubernetes clusters between these two modes without incurring downtime. In this talk, we'll discuss the challenges Datadog faced and the upstream contributions we made in order to seamlessly migrate hundreds of clusters from KVStore to CRD mode without causing network disruptions for users.

Speakers

Anton Ippolitov

Senior Software Engineer, Datadog

Anton Ippolitov is a Senior Software Engineer working on Kubernetes and container networking at Datadog. Before joining the team, he has spent more than five years developing internal Data Engineering platforms and tooling. In his spare time, he is an avid concert-goer and sports... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 12:00 - 12:10 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

CiliumCon, Technology

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks CiliumCon

14:05 BST

Argo Workflow Templates: A Practical Deep-Dive - Tim Collins, Pipekit & Becky Pauley, Jetstack Consult

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

If you are starting out on your Argo Workflows journey, you’ll soon find yourself surrounded by the word ‘template’. Templates are a fundamental cornerstone of an Argo Workflow and allow you to define the work to be performed.

In this talk, we'll explore the versatile world of Argo Workflow template types. We'll break down the different types, demystifying their use cases and best practices. While container templates are widely used and referenced in the documentation, we'll delve into the lesser-known but equally powerful template types such as the http template, container sets and resource templates.

Along the way, we’ll also tackle common misconceptions - including the surprising difference between a workflowTemplate and a Workflow Template.

Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the world of Argo Workflows, expect to leave with a deeper understanding of Workflow Templates - ready to apply their versatility and power to solve complex workflow challenges.

Speakers

Tim Collins

Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Pipekit

Tim is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Pipekit, a control plane for Argo Workflows that enables massive data pipelines in minutes, saving engineering time and cloud spend. He has a keen interest in open source technologies and is an active member of the Argo community, often found... Read More →

Becky Pauley

Solutions Engineer, Jetstack Consult

A self-taught engineer and career changer, I finally made the leap from teaching to tech three years ago. I’ve since worked in various Platform and Cloud Engineering roles, with a focus on Kubernetes best practices and Cost-Optimisation. As well as all things Cloud Native, I’m... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:05 - 14:30 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D

ArgoCon, Data Processing

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks ArgoCon

14:15 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Bridge Infrastructure & Application - OpenFeature for Dynamic Feature Management in K8 Deployments - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe & Aditi Gupta, Disney Plus Hotstar

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:15 - 14:25 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

As cloud-native systems scale, managing application features dynamically without disrupting services is a cornerstone of modern software delivery. In this talk, we'll delve into the integration of Kubernetes with OpenFeature, a powerful open standard for feature flag management, to bridge application logic with infrastructure orchestration.

The session will explore Kubernetes-native resources like ConfigMaps, Secrets, and external flag services to store and manage feature configs, enabling real-time toggling without service restarts. Combined with Kubernetes' rolling updates, it ensures rapid recovery from critical issues, safeguarding system stability. This integration redefines how developers roll out features, offering unprecedented control for A/B testing, and canary deployments.

By combining K8s' orchestration power and OpenFeature’s runtime control, this approach not only redefines feature management but also aligns with the future of scalable, adaptive cloud-native ecosystems.

Speakers

Nikunj Goyal

Member of Technical Staff, Adobe

Hi, I am Nikunj Goyal, working as a developer at Adobe and a Maths major from IIT Roorkee. I am working with AI and Machine Learning for some time mainly with Generative AI and graph based methods. I am a core part of Text-to-vector generation team at my org and previously worked... Read More →

Aditi Gupta

Aditi Gupta, Software Developer at Disney + Hotstar, Disney Plus Hotstar

I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer. Graduated from Asia's largest tech university for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service architecture... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:15 - 14:25 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 2-4

OpenFeature Summit, Feature flag lifecycle

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks OpenFeature Summit

14:40 BST

Security Behind the Curtains With Event Monitoring - Paul Schultz, Red Hat

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

Backstage is now an essential platform for software development, but how do you track critical events like logins, data access, and configuration changes? How do you categorize these events by severity or ensure you're capturing all the necessary information for analysis? This talk introduces Backstage's Auditor, a new core service designed to answer these questions and enhance the security of your Backstage platform. We'll explore its key features: capturing a wide range of security-relevant events, categorizing them by severity, capturing rich metadata for analysis, tracking the outcome of operations, and integrating with Backstage's authentication and plugin system. We'll also dive into the flexible configuration options for directing log output and showcase how these features work in a real-world scenario. This talk equips platform engineers and Backstage developers with the knowledge to enhance security, meet compliance, and gain deeper insights into their platform's activity.

Speakers

Paul Schultz

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Hi! I'm Paul Schultz, a Software Engineer at Red Hat. I started as an intern in 2021 and now work on open-source projects like Devfile and Backstage. As engineer for Red Hat Developer Hub (based on Backstage), I tackle maintenance challenges – dependencies, version control, automated... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

BackstageCon, Technical deep dives on Backstage topics customizing+scaling+securing+plugin development+etc

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks BackstageCon

15:55 BST

A Service Mesh Benchmark You Can Trust - Denis Jannot, solo.io

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Service Mesh unlocks powerful capabilities for Kubernetes, enhancing observability, security, and traffic control. However, concerns about complexity and overhead have slowed adoption. This session debunks those myths! We’ll showcase how Service Mesh technologies have matured, offering approachable solutions with minimal impact. Istio’s Ambient mode exemplifies this shift, minimizing operational complexity and overhead. Many existing benchmarks raise doubts due to conflicting results. This session tackles this head-on! We’ll run a live, representative benchmark at scale (10s of nodes, thousands of Pods, thousands of RPS throughput) and dissect the metrics with the audience.

Speakers

Denis Jannot

Senior Director, Product Excellence, solo.io

Denis is Senior Director of the Product Excellence team at Solo.io, a company building application networking solutions for the edge and service mesh. Denis is a passionate engineer who has spent his career in technical roles working directly with customers and users in architecting... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Istio Day, Istio Recipes

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Istio Day

15:55 BST

Platform Engineering for Architects - Crafting Platforms as a Product - Max Körbächer, Liquid Reply & Hilliary Lipsig, Red Hat

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Most Internal Developer Platforms fail not because of technical limitations, but because they're built like infrastructure projects rather than products developers want to use. Drawing from our combined experience of implementing platforms across enterprises and different use cases, this talk provides practical insights into designing platforms that create real value.
We'll explore why traditional infrastructure-first thinking leads to low adoption and how a product mindset transforms platform success. You'll learn how to identify actual developer needs, implement the right level of abstraction, and create platforms that evolve with your organization.
Highlighting practical patterns for managing technical debt, implementing effective self-service capabilities, and measuring platform success through meaningful metrics will round up the session. You'll leave with concrete strategies for building platforms that developers choose to use rather than are forced to adopt.

Speakers

Max Körbächer

Technology Advisor & Managing Director, Liquid Reply

Max is Founder and Cloud Native Advisor at Liquid Reply based in Munich. His focus is on building cloud-native solutions on/with Kubernetes and platform engineering to simplify the current challenges of complex target environments. He is Co-Chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability... Read More →

Hilliary Lipsig

Senior Principal SRE, Red Hat Inc

Hilliary is an autodidact and start-up veteran who has frequently learned and applied technologies to get a job done. She’s had her hand in every part of the application delivery process, honing in her skills originally as a QE engineer. Hilliary is an IT polyglot able to talk the... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 15:55 - 16:20 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering Day, Improving platform maturity

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

16:30 BST

Open Source Tools To Empower Ethical and Robust AI Systems - Vicente Herrera & Alberto Rodríguez Fernandez, Control Plane

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

In this talk, Vicente Herrera will show us some open source tools for evaluating and securing AI models that are essential to building responsible AI systems. He will present an ontology explaining where each tool can assist in these tasks.

He will show tools like Garak, that helps identifying undesirable behaviors. LLM Guard and LLM Canary, providing detection and prevention of adversarial attacks and unintended data disclosures. Promptfoo, that optimizes prompt engineering and testing, leading to more reliable and consistent AI outputs.
For adversarial robustness, Counterfit, the Adversarial Robustness Toolkit, and BrokenHill provide solutions to assess AI models against malicious threats. Regarding fairness and compliance, AI Fairness 360 and Audit AI are important to understand how models can be just and accountable.

The final goal is being able to choose a model not only because how big ir is or good a knowledge evaluation score it has, but also about how robust and fair it is.

Speakers

Alberto Rodríguez Fernandez

Control Plane

Vicente Herrera

Principal Consultant, Control Plane

Principal Consultant at Control Plane, focusing on Kubernetes and AI cybersecurity for fintech organizations. Core member of AI Readiness Group in FINOS, collaborating in defining security risks, controls and mitigations. Lecturer at Loyola University in Seville for the Master's program... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:30 - 16:55 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G

Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, Ethics

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day

16:55 BST

Panel: Navigating the Platform Revolution: From Bottom-Up Innovation To Product Thinking - Antoine Bermon, SNCF; Kanika Gera, Adobe ; Lou Bichard, Gitpod

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:55 - 17:25 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Platform engineering is no longer just about building infrastructure—it’s about creating products that empower teams and businesses to innovate. But how do we transition from a technical, bottom-up approach to one that is truly user-centric?
This panel will bring together diverse perspectives from industry leaders who have led the charge in transforming platform offerings into cohesive, product-driven solutions. We’ll discuss how they’ve navigated the challenges of aligning with stakeholder needs, measuring success, and overcoming the risks of overengineering, all while ensuring the end-user remains at the heart of the product. From qualitative metrics to platform maturity models, this discussion will provide insights on how to build platforms that not only serve the infrastructure but are also recognized as strategic products.

Speakers

Antoine BERMON

Senior Staff Engineer, SNCF

Technology enthusiastMember of the "containers" team at SNCF (France) for 8 years, contributing and promoting our internal kubernetes service, containers practices, cloud-native ecosystem and now platform-engineering.

Kanika Gera

Senior Product Manager, Adobe

Product Leader at Adobe with 13+ years of industrial experience with strong technical, leadership and product management skills encompassing leading SaaS products, Developer Platforms and Serverless technologies. A strategical thinker and passionate about building great products and... Read More →

Lou Bichard

Product Manager, Gitpod

Lou has worked in tech for over 10 years, starting out as a front-end engineer, then back-end, and later into cloud engineering and platform engineering in internal developer experience teams. Lou now works on product at Gitpod.

Tuesday April 1, 2025 16:55 - 17:25 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room H

Platform Engineering Day, Platform product management practices

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

17:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Bringing Cloud Native To the Classroom: Empowering the Next Generation of Technologists - Nikita Verma, Independent

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

Cloud native technologies are reshaping the tech industry, yet they remain underrepresented in academic curricula. In this talk, we’ll explore why teaching cloud native concepts in academia is essential for preparing students to meet industry demands. I'll address key challenges, such as the overwhelming complexity of the CNCF Landscape and the rapidly evolving best practices that make curriculum design difficult.

To bridge these gaps, I’ll present actionable solutions, including starting with foundational tools like Docker, simplifying Kubernetes learning through hands-on projects, and structuring topics into manageable modules from containers to CI/CD pipelines. I’ll also highlight free resources, such as the CNCF Playground and online tutorials, and the transformative impact of community engagement through platforms like Slack, GitHub, and meetups.

Speakers

Nikita Verma

Contributor, Independent

Nikita Verma is an active contributor to the open-source community with a strong focus on Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. She worked on developing forest growth simulations, automating configuration generation, and integrating CI/CD workflows. Nikita has volunteered at KubeCon... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2

Cloud Native University, Teaching and Learning Academy: Academic Curriculum

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Cloud Native University

17:00 BST

⚡ Lightning Talk: Unlocking Customer-Centric Observability: A Case Study of OpenTelemetry To Reduce MTTD < 3 Mins - Kokilavani Kathiresan, Intuit

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C

At Intuit, we manage over 1500 web/mobile plugins serving our customer needs. However, detecting and quantifying real-time user impact during failures remains a significant challenge. Traditional approaches only highlight large-scale issues and don’t offer insights into the specific business workflows affected.

This talk covers,
1. Leveraging OpenTelemetry to develop a capability called “Failed Customer Interactions” (FCIs)
2. Computing real-time customer impact on business workflows
3. Reducing our Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) to less than 3 mins, powered by Anomaly detection
4. Designing cost effective, highly scable system that handles 130,000 spans per second

Speakers

Kokilavani Kathiresan

Kokilavani Kathiresan, Engineering Manager, Intuit

Kokila is an Engineering Manager at Intuit, leading an exceptional team of Observability experts. Specializing in Tracing and Real User Monitoring, her team effortlessly handles millions of spans per second. A proud member of Tech Women at Intuit, sharing her expertise and providing... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room C

Observability Day, Interesting Use Cases for Observability

Content Experience Level Beginner
Event + Breaks Observability Day