Kubernetes Automation Day North America
A practitioner-led day on making Kubernetes smarter: automation, platform engineering, FinOps, and production lessons from the field. KubeAuto Day NA is co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026
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Speakers
Kelsey Hightower
Technologist
Vishakha Sadhwani
NVIDIA
Bret Fisher
Course Instructor, YouTuber, Podcaster
Justin Garrison
Sidero Labs
Kubernetes Automation Day North America
Kubernetes Automation Day North America is co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City. It is a community-run event for the cloud native crowd: Kubernetes, platform engineering, automation, FinOps, and everything around the ecosystem. Whether you run clusters in production, build internal platforms, or are just getting into cloud native, come connect with practitioners and peers before the main KubeCon days kick off.
KubeAuto Day is free to attend and built by practitioners for practitioners: real production stories, automation deep dives, and time to meet the people behind the clusters.
Talks
Keynotes and technical sessions from practitioners on Kubernetes automation, platform engineering and FinOps.
Networking
Connect with experts, maintainers and practitioners from the CNCF ecosystem.
After Party
Join our happy hour with food and drinks to close the day.
Speakers
Agenda
All details will be updated as more details come in.
11:00 AM
Registration & Welcome Coffee
11:40 AM
From "The Hard Way" to "The Invisible Way"
Kelsey Hightower, Technologist
View details12:05 PM
Vishakha Sadhwani
12:30 PM
From Static Rules to Reasoning Platforms: Scaling Intelligent Canary Delivery in 2026
Daniel Oh, Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM
View details1:00 PM
Coffee-break
1:25 PM
Justin Garrison
1:50 PM
Caleb Geene
2:15 PM
Pablo Fredrikson
3:45 PM
Lunch
4:10 PM
Bret Fisher
4:35 PM
Zilvinas Urbonas
5:00 PM
Flox.dev
7:00 PM
Networking, Drinks & Snacks
Clark Planetarium
Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
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