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CNCF
CTO
Cisco
Director of Open Source Software Engineering
Nirmata
Head of Community
Mirantis
Field CTO
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
6:00 AM – 4:00 PM (UTC)
| 5:00 AM | Registrations |
| 6:00 AM | Opening - Marcus Noble |
| 6:10 AM | Keynote - Chris Aniszczyk |
| 6:25 AM | Keynote - Natali Vlatko |
| 6:40 AM | Keynote - Cortney Nikerson |
| 6:55 AM | Keynote - William Rizzo |
| 7:10 AM | Break |
| 7:30 AM | Bro, Do You Even Supply Chain? How to Actually Secure Your Software Supply Chain - Plamen Petkov |
| 8:00 AM | Zero Days, Stolen Credentials and Rogue Agents – Runtime Security Is Behavioral - Dr. Constanze Roedig |
| 8:30 AM | Kraflet: Kubernetes at 1M Pod Scale and Millisecond Speeds - Petar Cvitanović |
| 9:00 AM | Your Open Source Standard Is Just Another Lock-In - Simon Schrottner and Thomas Schuetz |
| 9:25 AM | Lunch break |
| 10:30 AM | When Even AI Writes the CVE - Luis Rubiera |
| 11:00 AM | Building Observability for Microsecond Systems - Lyubomir Bozhinov |
| 11:30 AM | Kube-Oddities – The Quirks That Keep Kubernetes Interesting - Marcus Noble & Márk Sági-Kazár |
| 11:55 AM | Break |
| 12:20 PM | Delete Your Log Database: Scale-to-Zero, Sovereign Observability on Your Own Object Storage - Juan Herrera Utande |
| 12:50 PM | The Proxy That Rewrites Itself – Dynamic Compilation for MCP Policy Rules at the Ingress - Zahari Dichev |
| 1:20 PM | Kubernetes in a Suitcase: Why (and How) I Did It - Gerrit Tamboer |
| 1:45 PM | Break |
| 2:00 PM | Lightning Talk - Less Searching. More Shipping. Accelerating Kubernetes Operations with kagent - Desislava Todorova |
| 2:05 PM | Lightning Talk - Project Capsule: Why Namespaces Alone Don't Give You Multi-Tenancy - Hristo Hristov |
| 2:10 PM | Lightning Talk - The AI Side Effects We're Not Talking About - Marcus Noble |
| 2:20 PM | Kubernetes Without the Overhead: Why Hosted Control Planes Matter - Dario Tranchitella |
| 2:50 PM | The Dark Side of AI Agents: Live Hacking Modern AI Applications - Valentin Hristev |
| 3:15 PM | Closing Remarks - Marcus Noble |
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