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CNCF
CTO
Cisco
Director of Open Source Software Engineering
Nirmata
Head of Community
Mirantis
Field CTO
CLASTIX
CTO
Monzo
Platform Engineer
Flagsmith
Fractional Developer Advocate
kre8.tech
DevOps
Datadog
Senior Product Solution Architect
Cloud-IAM
CTO
Cloud Native Ambassador
TSC Labs
Cloud Native Trainer and Architect
DojoBits
Co-Founder
Buoyant
Software Engineer
fusioncore.ai
Independent Researcher, CNCF/NeoNephos Ambassador
TrueFullstaq
Chief Evangelist
Tide Platform
Staff Engineer
Tradu
Director of Engineering
Unikraft
Software engineer/Kubernetes lead
Cognyte
DevSecOps engineer
Giant Swarm
Platform Engineer
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
6:00 AM – 4:00 PM (UTC)
| Registrations |
| Opening - Marcus Noble |
| Keynote - Chris Aniszczyk |
| Keynote - Natali Vlatko |
| Keynote - Cortney Nikerson |
| Keynote - William Rizzo |
| Break |
| Bro, Do You Even Supply Chain? How to Actually Secure Your Software Supply Chain - Plamen Petkov |
| Zero Days, Stolen Credentials and Rogue Agents – Runtime Security Is Behavioral - Dr. Constanze Roedig |
| Kraflet: Kubernetes at 1M Pod Scale and Millisecond Speeds - Petar Cvitanović |
| Your Open Source Standard Is Just Another Lock-In - Simon Schrottner and Thomas Schuetz |
| Lunch break |
| When Even AI Writes the CVE - Luis Rubiera |
| Kubernetes Without the Overhead: Why Hosted Control Planes Matter - Dario Tranchitella |
| Kube-Oddities – The Quirks That Keep Kubernetes Interesting - Marcus Noble & Márk Sági-Kazár |
| Break |
| Delete Your Log Database: Scale-to-Zero, Sovereign Observability on Your Own Object Storage - Juan Herrera Utande |
| The Proxy That Rewrites Itself – Dynamic Compilation for MCP Policy Rules at the Ingress - Zahari Dichev |
| Kubernetes in a Suitcase: Why (and How) I Did It - Gerrit Tamboer |
| Break |
| Lightning Talk - Less Searching. More Shipping. Accelerating Kubernetes Operations with kagent - Desislava Todorova |
| Lightning Talk - Project Capsule: Why Namespaces Alone Don't Give You Multi-Tenancy - Hristo Hristov |
| Lightning Talk - The AI Side Effects We're Not Talking About - Marcus Noble |
| Building Observability for Microsecond Systems - Lyubomir Bozhinov |
| The Dark Side of AI Agents: Live Hacking Modern AI Applications - Valentin Hristev |
| Closing Remarks - Marcus Noble |
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