KubeAutoDay

Event Agenda

08:00 – 09:00

Registration + Breakfast 🥞

09:00 – 09:05

Opening Remarks

Kunal Kushwaha

lightning
09:05 – 09:30

DevOps Career in the Age of AI. Is DevOps Still Relevant?

Nana Janashia, TechWorld with Nana, YouTuber (1.4M+)

talk
09:30 – 09:45

No GPUs Available? How We Built Multi-Cloud Kubernetes to Solve the Capacity Crisis

Kim-Norman Sahm, Field CTO @ Cast AI

lightning
09:45 – 10:30

From "The Hard Way" to "The Invisible Way"

Kelsey Hightower

fireside

Group Photo

10:30 – 11:00

Automation, But Safely: Early Lessons Scaling Kubernetes in a Regulated Bank

Michael Walorski, Product Owner @ DKB

talk
11:00 – 11:30

High Availability Across Regions and Clouds Sounds Great on Paper , Until the Bill Arrives

Filipe Revez (Head of Kubernetes) & Pedro Cachaldora (Platform Engineer) @ Millennium bcp

talk
11:30 – 11:45

AI Code Review in the Cloud-Native Era

Dedy Kredo, Co-Founder & CPO @ Qodo

lightning
11:45 – 12:30

Conversation Between CTOs

Daniel Gebler (CTO @ Picnic) & Leon Kuperman (CTO @ Cast AI)

fireside
12:30 – 13:25

Lunch 🍔

13:25 – 13:30

Raffle – iPhone 17 Pro

13:30 – 13:45

It's The End of Dashboards As We Know It: Building the Context Engine for Agentic Kubernetes Observability

Prabhat Sharma, CEO @ OpenObserve

lightning
13:45 – 14:00

Realising Compute as a Commodity: Releasing Innovation Beyond Hyperscalers

Jeremy Murray, Founder & CEO @ Stack8s

lightning
14:00 – 15:00

AI Panel

Nana Janashia (YouTuber 1.4M+), Tatiana Botskina (Founder @ MintyCode), Jochem Herber (Enterprise Partnerships @ Aethir), Ioana Apetrei (Product Manager @ AI Enabler), Leon Kuperman (CTO @ Cast AI), Santosh Yadav (Principal Developer Advocate @ CodeRabbit)

panel
15:00 – 15:30

Agentic AI Meets Kubernetes: MCP, A2A, and the Future of Autonomous Infrastructure

Janakiram MSV, Principal Analyst @ Janakiram & Associates

talk
15:30 – 16:00

Break ☕

16:00 – 16:30

How We Use DRA to Save Money on GPU Costs?

Katarzyna (Kasia) Kujawa (Senior Software Engineer @ Autoscaler)

talk
16:30 – 17:00

Automating Compliance in Kubernetes: Lessons from the Continuous Compliance Framework

Ian Miell, CTO @ Container Solutions

talk
17:00 – 17:30

Escaping the Script Chaos: How We Built an Operator to Manage 15+ Components Across Thousands of Clusters

Niccolo Castelli (Software Engineer) & Theodor-Felix Iacob (Engineering Manager) @ Wire

talk
17:30 – 18:00

The 10-Hour IDP: Can Claude Code Actually Reduce Platform Engineering Toil?

Michael Forrester, Senior Technical Architect @ KodeKloud

talk
18:00

Closing Remarks + Raffle – MacBook Neo

talk
18:00 – 22:00

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