Overview
For the very first time, Europe's leading cloud native conference lands in the UK capital, bringing together developers, platform engineers, DevOps specialists, architects, and IT leaders from all over the world. Get ready for two days packed with inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, and unmatched community vibes — all set against the backdrop of one of the world's most dynamic tech hubs.
Schedule
100 events • 10 tracks • 4 concurrent events
Day 1 - Feb 11, 2026
Registration
9:00 am to 9:25 am
REGISTRATION
Theatre 2
Talk
9:25 am to 9:40 am
OPEN SOURCE POWERING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
Theatre 1
Talk
9:40 am to 10:15 am
HARDENING KUBERNETES: BUILDING DEFENSE IN DEPTH FROM RBAC TO THE KERNEL
Theatre 4
Talk
9:40 am to 9:55 am
THE TECH IS NOT YOUR PROBLEM. INFLUENCE IS.
Workshop Room
Talk
9:45 am to 10:20 am
FROM CHAOS TO CONTROL: 3 YEARS OF RUNNING KARPENTER IN PRODUCTION
Theatre 1
Talk
9:50 am to 10:05 am
FREEDOM THROUGH BOUNDARIES: BUILDING CONFIGURATIONS THAT AGE WELL
Theatre 3
Talk
10:00 am to 10:35 am
METAL3 AT SCALE: TESTING METAL3 WITH THOUSANDS OF CLUSTERS AT ZERO INFRASTRUCTURE COST
Theatre 4
Talk
10:05 am to 10:40 am
SOLVING SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY, TOGETHER - HOW OPEN SOURCE HELPS YOU!
Theatre 2
Talk
10:05 am to 10:40 am
WHY YOUR KUBERNETES CLUSTER WILL FAIL: LESSONS FROM 1 MILLION REAL-WORLD INCIDENTS
Workshop Room
7 concurrent sessions
Break
10:40 am to 10:55 am
COFFEE BREAK
Talk
10:55 am to 11:30 am
BEYOND TERRAFORM: INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE WITH CROSSPLANE AND GOLANG
Theatre 1
Talk
10:55 am to 11:30 am
DEMYSTIFYING GPUS ON KUBERNETES: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO EFFICIENT AI/ML INFRASTRUCTURE
Theatre 2
Talk
10:55 am to 11:30 am
MASTERING CONTAINERIZED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION TESTING WITH TESTCONTAINERS FOR GO
Theatre 5
Talk
11:00 am to 11:35 am
DEBUGGING YOUR CONFERENCE TALK: PRACTICAL TIPS TO RESONATE WITH YOUR AUDIENCE
Theatre 4
Talk
11:10 am to 11:45 am
KUBERNETES INGRESS OR GATEWAY API – IT DEPENDS!
Theatre 3
Talk
11:25 pm to 12:00 pm
WE RUN K8S CONTROL PLANES INSIDE K8S: HOW 'KUBECEPTION' CUT OUR INFRA COST 30% AT 20K+ CLUSTER SCALE
Workshop Room
Talk
11:35 pm to 12:10 pm
RUN MORE WITH LESS: UNLOCKING CPU & MEMORY OVERCOMMIT IN KUBEVIRT
Theatre 1
Talk
11:35 pm to 12:10 pm
YOU SHALL NOT PASS: WHY "PATCHED" CVES FAIL CONTAINER SCANS
Theatre 4
8 concurrent sessions
Break
12:10 pm to 1:20 pm
LUNCH BREAK
Talk
1:20 pm to 2:15 pm
KELSEY HIGHTOWER ON STAGE - WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT CONTAINERS?
Theatre 1
Talk
2:15 pm to 2:50 pm
HOW TO EASILY SCALE CONTINUOUS CONTAINER GOVERNANCE WITH RUNTIME CONTEXT AND AI
Theatre 2
Talk
2:15 pm to 2:50 pm
VIBE CODING A BACKPORT: DEEP DIVE INTO BACKPORTED PATCH GENERATION
Theatre 3
Talk
2:15 pm to 2:50 pm
SECURING YOUR KUBERNETES SUPPLY CHAIN WITH CONTAINER IMAGE SIGNING
Theatre 4
Talk
2:15 pm to 2:50 pm
PROFILING, MEMORY MANAGEMENT, AND GARBAGE COLLECTION IN GO
Theatre 5
Talk
2:30 pm to 3:05 pm
K8S VS AGENT SMITH: EXPLODING GPUS AND THE AI GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK
Workshop Room
Talk
2:45 pm to 3:20 pm
DEFER: THE SILENT HERO OF KUBERNETES OPERATORS
Theatre 1
Talk
2:55 pm to 3:30 pm
10X YOUR K8S PRODUCTIVITY BY SUPERCHARGING YOUR TERMINAL SETUP
Theatre 2
Talk
2:55 pm to 3:30 pm
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE IS STILL CODE, WHY DON'T WE TREAT IT THAT WAY?
Theatre 3
Talk
2:55 pm to 3:30 pm
USING OPENSSF MALICIOUS PACKAGES PROJECT TO IDENTIFY MALWARE IN RUNNING CONTAINERS
Theatre 4
Talk
2:55 pm to 3:30 pm
FROM CONCERT HALL TO CODE REVIEW, SYMPHONY TO SOFTWARE
Theatre 5
10 concurrent sessions
Break
3:30 pm to 3:45 pm
COFFEE BREAK
Talk
3:45 pm to 4:20 pm
KUBERNETES ON WINDOWS: THE STATE OF AN OVERLOOKED FRONTIER
Theatre 2
Talk
3:50 pm to 4:25 pm
MAKING VULNERABILITY SCANNING SMARTER WITH KUBERNETES SECURITY CONTEXTS
Theatre 3
Talk
3:55 pm to 4:30 pm
SECURITY AS CODE: FROM RULES TO REALITY
Theatre 1
Talk
3:55 pm to 4:10 pm
SIZE MATTERS: WHY OUR GO BINARIES ARE SO BIG AND HOW TO MAKE THEM SMALLER
Workshop Room
Talk
4:00 pm to 4:35 pm
OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN WE ... NETWORK CONTAINERS!
Theatre 4
Talk
4:00 pm to 4:35 pm
DECOUPLE YOUR APPLICATION CODE FROM YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE WITH DAPR
Theatre 5
Talk
4:25 pm to 5:00 pm
ONE INTERFACE, ANY INFRASTRUCTURE: ARCHITECTING A CONSISTENT HYBRID PRIVATE CLOUD
Theatre 2
Talk
4:30 pm to 5:05 pm
THE ANATOMY OF A PATCH: BACKPORTING CVES WITHOUT BREAKING THINGS
Theatre 5
Talk
4:35 pm to 5:10 pm
THE IDENTITY-DEFINED CLOUD: WHY SECRETS MANAGEMENT ISN'T ENOUGH ANYMORE
Workshop Room
Talk
4:45 pm to 5:20 pm
FROM AUTOMATION TO CONTEXT-AWARE DELEGATION - HOW TO BECOME THE 5%
Theatre 3
Talk
4:45 pm to 5:20 pm
FROM REACTIVE TO PROACTIVE: FORECAST-DRIVEN SCALING FOR KUBERNETES
Theatre 4
Talk
4:55 pm to 5:30 pm
PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF KUBERNETES MULTI TENANCY WITH CONTAINER RUNTIMECLASSES
Theatre 1
Talk
5:15 pm to 5:50 pm
DATA SOVEREIGNTY - WHAT IT REALLY MEANS?
Theatre 2
Talk
5:15 pm to 5:50 pm
REAL-TIME PRODUCTION DEBUGGING: UTILIZING PPROF FOR PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTICS
Workshop Room
Talk
5:25 pm to 6:00 pm
REMEMBER ME? YOUR BOT SHOULD.
Theatre 5
Talk
5:35 pm to 6:10 pm
PODS DON'T KNOW THEIR T-SHIRT SIZE -GITOPS DOES.
Theatre 4
Talk
5:35 pm to 6:10 pm
BOTTLENECKS ALL THE WAY DOWN: AI SOLVED CODE GEN, TESTING IS THE NEXT STEP FOR KUBERNETES DEVELOPERS
Theatre 1
Talk
5:45 pm to 6:20 pm
SCALING KUBERNETES NETWORKING: FLEXIBLE MULTI-NIC ALLOCATION USING DRA
Theatre 3
18 concurrent sessions
Day 2 - Feb 12, 2026
Registration
9:00 am to 9:25 am
REGISTRATION
Theatre 1
Talk
9:25 am to 10:00 am
A BRIEF HISTORY OF KUBERNETES FLEET CONTROLLERS & ESSENTIAL FEATURES
Theatre 2
Talk
9:25 am to 9:40 am
WHEN TO WRITE A KUBERNETES OPERATOR — AND HOW TO DO IT RIGHT
Theatre 3
Talk
9:30 am to 10:05 am
BREAKING THE SCALE BARRIER: HOW WE PREPPED OUR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A SUPER-BOWL SIZED TRAFFIC
Theatre 4
Talk
9:35 am to 10:10 am
BEYOND DOCKER BUILDS: DECLARATIVE, REPRODUCIBLE AND SECURE OCI CONTAINERS WITH NIX
Theatre 5
Talk
9:45 am to 10:00 am
ENABLING MULTI-CLUSTER LOAD BALANCING WITH GATEWAY API AND ENVOY GATEWAY
Theatre 3
Talk
9:45 am to 10:20 am
ACHIEVING DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY WITH OPEN SOURCE IN THE CLOUD-NATIVE ERA
Theatre 4
Talk
9:50 am to 10:25 am
WHY ISN'T THE FIX IN MY CONTAINER? TRACKING CVE PROPAGATION ACROSS 10,000 PROJECTS
Theatre 1
Talk
10:05 am to 10:40 am
ZERO TRUST FOR APIS: FROM EDGE TO MESH WITH ISTIO
Theatre 5
Talk
10:05 am to 10:40 am
AI IN THE CLUSTER: NAVIGATING EXPLOITS, ISOLATION, AND VENDOR LOCK-IN
Theatre 3
9 concurrent sessions
Break
10:40 am to 10:55 am
COFFEE BREAK
Talk
10:55 am to 11:30 am
CLUSTER API: A UNIFIED APPROACH TO CLUSTER LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT ACROSS DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS
Workshop Room
Talk
11:00 am to 11:35 am
CUTTING PLATFORM OBESITY: LEANER, SMARTER KUBERNETES JOURNEYS
Theatre 2
Talk
11:00 am to 11:35 am
LINUX (PSEUDO)FILESYSTEMS: THE HIDDEN BACKBONE OF CLOUD NATIVE
Theatre 5
Talk
11:05 am to 11:40 am
GOODBYE INGRESS - HELLO GATEWAY API
Theatre 3
Talk
11:20 am to 11:55 am
CHOOSING THE SMALLEST LLM THAT WON'T COMPLETELY FAIL YOU
Theatre 4
Talk
11:35 pm to 12:10 pm
THE ACCIDENTAL PLATFORM TEAM: KUBERNETES OPERATORS AT SWISSCOM
Theatre 1
Talk
11:35 pm to 12:10 pm
CTRL+ALT+DEPLOY: WINDOWS WORKLOADS AS VMS ON KUBERNETES
Theatre 2
Talk
11:35 pm to 12:10 pm
FROM PROMPT TO PRODUCTION: MANAGING KUBERNETES & CLOUD RESOURCES WITH INFRASTRUCTURE AS PROMPT
Theatre 5
8 concurrent sessions
Break
12:10 pm to 1:20 pm
LUNCH BREAK
Talk
1:20 pm to 1:55 pm
FROM COMPLIANCE TO CODE: THE CYBER RESILIENCE ACT (CRA), SBOMS, DEVTEAMS AND YOU!
Theatre 1
Talk
1:20 pm to 1:55 pm
MANAGING MILLIONS OF STORAGE VOLUMES AT SCALE: INSIDE DIGITALOCEAN'S ARGOCD STRATEGY
Theatre 3
Talk
1:20 pm to 1:55 pm
THE FOUNDATIONS OF MISTRAL COMPUTE: ORCHESTRATING BARE METAL WITH KUBERNETES
Theatre 5
Talk
1:35 pm to 2:10 pm
KUBERNETES AT THE EDGE - COME SEE IT IN ACTION!
Workshop Room
Talk
1:40 pm to 2:15 pm
SCRATCH THAT: WORKING WITH MINIMAL CONTAINER IMAGES
Theatre 2
Talk
1:45 pm to 2:20 pm
MASTERING ARGOCD AT SCALE: A PLATFORM ENGINEER'S PLAYBOOK FOR MULTI-TENANCY AND SANITY
Theatre 4
Talk
2:00 pm to 2:35 pm
WHAT'S NEW IN CALICO OPEN SOURCE: OBSERVABILITY, STAGED POLICIES, AND THE NEW UI
Theatre 3
Talk
2:00 pm to 2:35 pm
ZERO-DOWNTIME VM MIGRATION ACROSS KUBERNETES CLUSTERS: KUBEVIRT MEETS FORKLIFT
Theatre 5
Talk
2:20 pm to 2:55 pm
GOLDEN PATHS FOR ASYNC WORKFLOWS: DAPR MEETS OPENTELEMETRY
Theatre 2
Talk
2:25 pm to 3:00 pm
UNLEASHING THE FUTURE OF KUBERNETES NETWORKING: HOW GATEWAYAPI TRANSFORMS POD EXPOSURE
Workshop Room
Talk
2:40 pm to 3:15 pm
FROM RESOURCE TAGGING TO TOKEN TRACING: THE FINOPS CODE FOR AI COST CONTROL
Theatre 1
Talk
2:40 pm to 3:15 pm
FANTASTIC EXPLOITS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Theatre 3
Talk
2:40 pm to 3:15 pm
NEONEPHOS' OPENMCP: BUILDING EUROPE'S NEXT-GEN CONTROL PLANE-AS-A-SERVICE
Theatre 4
Talk
2:40 pm to 3:15 pm
KAFKAROUTE: EXTENDING KUBERNETES GATEWAY API WITH A NEW STANDARD FOR EVENT STREAMING
Theatre 5
14 concurrent sessions
Break
3:15 pm to 3:30 pm
COFFEE BREAK
Theatre 1
Talk
3:30 pm to 4:05 pm
POD DEEP DIVE: THE INTERESTING BITS
Theatre 2
Talk
3:45 pm to 4:20 pm
THE SHAI-HULUD NPM WORM: WHEN SUPPLY CHAINS BITE BACK
Theatre 3
Talk
3:45 pm to 4:20 pm
EXPLORING WASM ON KUBERNETES
Theatre 4
Talk
4:00 pm to 4:35 pm
OBSERVABILITY WITHOUT OVERLOAD: STANDARDIZING METRICS AND LOGS IN KUBERNETES
Theatre 5
Talk
4:05 pm to 4:40 pm
FROM POC TO PRODUCTION: GATEWAY API IN ACTION
Theatre 1
Talk
4:05 pm to 4:40 pm
REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR OS DEPLOY AND MANAGEMENT WITH BOOTC
Theatre 3
Talk
4:25 pm to 5:00 pm
KRO-NICLES OF KUBERNETES: TAMING RESOURCES THE OPEN SOURCE WAY
Theatre 2
Talk
4:30 pm to 5:05 pm
CLUSTER API DEEP DIVE: USE KUBERNETES TO DEPLOY AND MANAGE CLUSTERS ALL AT ONCE
Theatre 4
Talk
4:40 pm to 5:15 pm
NO MORE 2-MINUTE WAITS: ACHIEVING SUB-10S GPU MODEL STARTUP IN KUBERNETES
Theatre 5
Talk
4:50 pm to 5:25 pm
HOW WE SLASHED COSTS & EMISSIONS 85% FOR 1 OF THE UK'S BIGGEST CHARITIES
Workshop Room
Talk
5:00 pm to 5:35 pm
FROM VETH PAIRS TO SERVICES: THE SECRET LIFE OF CONTAINER PACKETS
Theatre 3
Talk
5:20 pm to 5:55 pm
PIPELINE PATTERNS AND ANTIPATTERNS - THINGS YOUR PIPELINE SHOULD (NOT) DO
Theatre 2
Talk
5:20 pm to 5:55 pm
PRACTICAL SQLC: LEVERAGING SQL-FIRST CODE GENERATION IN GO
Theatre 4
Talk
5:25 pm to 6:00 pm
SERVERLESS OR CONTAINERS? WHO CARES, PICK BOTH!
Workshop Room
Talk
5:35 pm to 6:10 pm
CRACKING THE ON-PREM KUBERNETES PUZZLE WITH CLUSTER API
Theatre 3
Talk
5:35 pm to 6:10 pm
GRPC TRANSCODING: DESIGNING ONE API FOR GRPC AND REST
Theatre 5
16 concurrent sessions
Session Details
REGISTRATION
9:00 am to 9:25 am
Theatre 2