KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026 in Amsterdam will carry the cloud native group along with initiatives, distributors and finish customers in what is among the largest open supply occasions.
On this put up, we spotlight periods and actions which may be of explicit curiosity to finish customers, together with devoted dialogue boards and proposals from members of the CNCF Finish Person Technical Advisory Board (TAB) together with sensible ideas for benefiting from the occasion.
Finish Person content material
The TAB has considered other ways the place the expertise of finish customers at KubeCon + CloudNativecan be enhanced This shall be a gradual course of, however among the concepts have been applied prematurely of Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam.
Be sure you don’t miss these alternatives to debate with different finish customers.
Birds of Feather (BoF)
We may have three BoF periods concentrating on finish customers, as an area to focus and talk about how we’re concentrating on particular matters and are available out with finest practices and gaps to be tackled. For this Kubecon + CloudNativeCon we’ll be overlaying:
City Corridor
We’ll have our standard city corridor the place finish customers can come ahead with inquiries to the TAB. However this time we alter the format, beginning the session with a collection of brief 5min displays that ought to set off dialogue between the TAB and the viewers.
Poster periods
The trouble continues on publishing extra reference architectures from our finish customers, you possibly can test them right here. We’re giving the chance for homeowners of revealed architectures to have a poster throughout the poster session to showcase their very own publications.
Move by and you may straight ask your questions.
Finish Person reception
On Tuesday 17:30 – 18:30 there shall be a reception for CNCF finish person members. Be part of us on the Grand Cafe, Floor Degree – Entrance Okay aspect of the constructing.
Session highlights
Under yow will discover session suggestions and extra tips about easy methods to make the very best of your KubeCon + CloudNativeConexperience this 12 months, from the members of the TAB.
Don’t hesitate to achieve out and seize us for a chat within the hallway!
Ahmed Bebars
1000 Providers, 1 12 months, 0 Downtime: Airbnb’s Zonal Cluster Migration
Audio system: Sunny Beatteay, Airbnb
Why I need to see it: I’m at all times searching for actual tales of enormous organizations shifting essential workloads with out reader‑seen downtime. Airbnb talks via how they migrated round a thousand companies to a zonal topology in a 12 months with zero downtime. I’m significantly within the migration methods, blast‑radius considering, and what they’d do in another way subsequent time.
Kubernetes Post-mortem: Stay Debugging a Cluster Meltdown (Disney+ Hotstar)
Audio system: Sandeep Kanabar (Gen), Aditi Gupta (Disney+ Hotstar), Anshika Gupta (Impartial)
Why I need to see it: Information and media platforms expertise visitors spikes and laborious SLOs much like streaming. I’m eager to listen to how Disney+ Hotstar approached an actual Kubernetes cluster meltdown: what their telemetry confirmed (or failed to point out), how they debugged underneath stress, and what everlasting modifications they made to keep away from a repeat.
Good Routing at Scale: How Spotify’s XDS Management Airplane Minimize 75% of Cross‑Zone Visitors
Audio system: Yannick Epstein, Anya Hristova – Spotify
Why I need to see it: Multi‑AZ and multi‑area setups simply leak cash via pointless cross‑zone visitors. Spotify’s discuss on how they used an XDS management airplane to chop cross‑zone visitors by 75% is strictly the form of deep technical routing and management‑airplane story that may translate into each price financial savings and higher latency for customers.
We Deleted Our Observability Stack and Rebuilt It With OTEL: 12 Engineers to 4 at 20K+ Clusters (DigitalOcean)
Audio system: Yash Sharma, Kunju Perath – DigitalOcean
Why I need to see it: Observability is usually the place price, complexity, and toil quietly accumulate. DigitalOcean’s story of rebuilding their observability stack round OpenTelemetry for 20K+ clusters—whereas shrinking the staff from 12 to 4—feels like a masterclass in specializing in the proper alerts, rethinking structure, and balancing visibility with price.
Alolita Sharma
Collisions within the Darkish: Illuminating the 95% of Kubeflow You Can’t See
Audio system: Amine Lahouel and Laura Llinares, CERN
Why I need to see it: That is an fascinating session the place CERN scientists shall be discussing what they want from an observability perspective on the efficiency of their ML platform infrastructure. Gaining deep, actionable insights into the efficiency, useful resource consumption, and general well being of the whole system are main KPIs for end-users. Understanding CERN’s takeaways and challenges in measuring ML platform efficiency with these KPIs shall be priceless.
Uncover Cortex: Excessive Scalability Metrics in 2026
Audio system: Friedrich Gonzalez and Charlie Le, Apple
Why I need to see it: This session goals to dive into the most recent options in Cortex, a multi-tenant framework for observability metrics storage, in addition to the challenge roadmap on what’s rolling out subsequent for scalability and reliability.
Is the Agent within the Room with Us Proper Now?
Audio system: Nick Rutigliano and Andrew Halaney, Netflix
Why I need to see it: At Netflix scale, shifting conventional workloads to agentic AI requires understanding execs and cons of isolation. These necessities apply to safety, RBAC community configurations, containers, and person namespaces, and common noisy neighbor enhancements and could be helpful takeaways for different end-users.
GenAI Observability: Preserving GenAI Trustworthy With out Oversharing
Speaker: Liudmila Molkova, GrafanaLabs
Why I need to see it: Most end-users are leveraging Generative AI for his or her options and companies. This discuss will deal with easy methods to instrument your AI functions with OpenTelemetry following the Generative AI Semantic Conventions. Understanding efficiency and utilization telemetry knowledge is essential however understanding easy methods to deal with separate knowledge for compliance and price info can also be priceless.
Ideas for the very best expertise
- Choose matters and tracks which can be most related for you. I’ve discovered this helps me short-list the periods I’m most fascinated by
- Plan for the time wanted to get from one session to the subsequent
- Hallway discussions are very priceless
- Drop by the challenge pavilion. In case you have an inventory of favourite initiatives, the challenge pavilion is a good place to satisfy the challenge maintainers in particular person
- Have enjoyable and revel in studying from the convention periods
Ben Somogyi
Enterprise Challenges with MCP Adoption
Audio system: Christian Posta (World Discipline CTO at Solo.io)
Why I need to see it: On this session, Christion shall be discussing the Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) and discussing among the points surrounding the institution of MCP servers that present entry to enterprise APIs on behalf of a person. Understanding how different corporations are addressing these issues to stop misuse and to guard their enterprise via governance shall be useful to grasp some finest practices and techniques to leverage AI securely inside your use case.
Navigating the Gateway API Maze: 40+ Implementations, 55+ Options, and a Path to Portability
Audio system: Cristine Kim (Software program Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco) and Beka Modebadze (Software program Engineer @ Google)
Why I need to see it: On this discuss Christine and Beka plan to “cut through the confusion and provide you with the knowledge to navigate the Gateway API landscape”. In a dynamic house the place capabilities just like the nginx ingress controller have been lately retired this discuss will assist present some insights of easy methods to navigate the Gateway API house and uncover implementations that shall be transportable and stay vendor agnostic, serving to you construct a extra resilient platform with respect to k8s networking.
Kenta Tada
10 Years of Cilium: Connecting, Securing, and Simplifying the Cloud Native Stack
Audio system: Invoice Mulligan and Paul Arah, Isovalent at Cisco; Marcelo Mello, Celonis; Neha Aggarwal, Microsoft
Why I need to see it: Cilium has turn into an important piece of software program supporting fashionable container networking and safety. On this session, they are going to be sharing the most recent updates alongside real-world tales from our customers. It’s a fantastic likelihood to see the way it can simplify and safe your personal infrastructure.
Ricardo Rocha
Gateway API: Bridging the Hole from Ingress to the Future
Audio system: Nick Younger and James Robust, Isovalent at Cisco; Katarzyna Łach and Rostislav Bobrovsky, Google; Norwin Schnyder, Airlock
Why I need to see it: the transition from Ingress and companies to the Gateway API will not be trivial but it surely’s a chance for all finish customers to enhance and simplify the methods they expose their endpoints. Listening from specialists ought to carry a variety of good info.
Digital Energy Vegetation (VPP): How They Work and What They Are
Audio system: LeRenzo Malcom and Mario Flores, Enpal
Why I need to see it: New use instances for cloud native often make nice talks. Managing energy crops and photo voltaic gadgets as cloud native assets covers distributed, edge use instances and may carry helpful info to all of us.
Instrumenting Kueue Scheduling for ML Coaching
Audio system: Amy Chen, CoreWeave and Gabriel Saba, Google
Why I need to see it: Kueue is a crucial device for superior scheduling and different capabilities wanted for big scale, distributed ML coaching. A big finish person’s suggestions on their experiences together with one of many Kueue maintainers ought to make a fantastic session.
The Shell Awakens: Cloud Native Workflows for Particle Physicists
Audio system: Raulian-Ionut Chiorescu and Hannes Hansen, CERN
Why I need to see it: This one comes from our staff. Raul and Hannes will describe our next-gen scientific computing platform, and the way we made the outdated and new methods of working appropriate and used on high of the identical assets and stack.
Ideas for the very best expertise
- Kubecon + CloudNativeCon has a number of periods in a really giant venue. Don’t overcommit the periods you need to attend, contemplate the time to stroll between rooms and depart time to ask inquiries to audio system after the periods finish
- Spend time within the hallway, attain out to individuals, community as a lot as potential. These are the individuals that can enable you out as soon as again within the workplace, debugging or constructing new stacks. Additionally… take a look at the a number of events occurring each night
- Notice down highlights and the names of these that may enable you dig additional afterward. Deliver it again to your groups, dedicate time to current and talk about your findings again house
- Have enjoyable! There may be a variety of content material and data on show, however above all this occasion showcases and helps the group that retains cloud native going robust!
