KubeAuto Day Berlin

Kubernetes Automation Day Berlin

A practitioner-led evening on making Kubernetes smarter: automation, platform engineering, FinOps, and production lessons from the field.

October 15, 20263:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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Featured Speakers

Adi Shacham-Shavit

Adi Shacham-Shavit

Enpal

Engin Diri

Engin Diri

Pulumi

Thomas Bähr

Thomas Bähr

DKB

Thomas Maurice

Thomas Maurice

Weaviate

Speakers from industry-leading companies

Delivery Hero
DKB
Weaviate
Giant Swarm

Kubernetes Automation Day Berlin

Kubernetes Automation Day Berlin is part of the global KubeAuto Day series. It is a community-run event for the cloud native crowd in Germany: 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 from across Berlin.

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.

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Speakers

Adi Shacham-Shavit

Adi Shacham-Shavit

Director of Engineering, Platform

Enpal

Thomas Maurice

Thomas Maurice

Platform Engineer

Weaviate

Engin Diri

Engin Diri

Principal Solutions Architect

Pulumi

Natalie Pistunovich

Natalie Pistunovich

Conference Founder

HeyAI_dev

Dominik Schmidle

Dominik Schmidle

Product Leader Platforms

Giant Swarm

Verena Traub

Verena Traub

Cloud Consultant / DevOps Engineer

b'nerd GmbH

Thomas Bähr

Thomas Bähr

Cloud Engineer

DKB

Michael Walorski

Michael Walorski

Product Owner

DKB

Abdel Sghiouar

Abdel Sghiouar

Senior Developer Advocate

Google Cloud

David Pollack

David Pollack

Senior Software Engineer

Delivery Hero

Emrullah Acar

Emrullah Acar

Senior Systems Engineer

Delivery Hero

Kim-Norman Sahm

Kim-Norman Sahm

Regional Field CTO

Cast AI

Ali Alp

Ali Alp

Distinguished Software Architect

Brainlab

Mehul Patel

Mehul Patel

DevOps Team Lead

BuildingMinds

David Surey

David Surey

Senior Technical Account Manager

AWS

Agenda

3:30 PM -
4:00 PM

Registration & light refreshments

The Platform Bet: Stability, Resiliency, and Speed in the AI Era

Adi Shacham-Shavit, Director of Engineering, Platform, Enpal

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4:00 PM -
4:15 PM

Operators in Action: Making Kubernetes Work for You

Verena Traub, Cloud Consultant / DevOps Engineer, b'nerd GmbH

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4:15 PM -
4:30 PM

Breaking Kubernetes for Fun and Profit

Ali Alp, Distinguished Software Architect, Brainlab

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4:30 PM -
4:50 PM

Pack More, Spend Less: Kubernetes Workload Optimization at 450+ Cluster Scale

  • Emrullah Acar, Senior Systems Engineer, Delivery Hero
  • David Pollack, Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Hero
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4:50 PM -
5:10 PM

Your Code and Your Budget Are Leaving the Cluster

Kim-Norman Sahm, Regional Field CTO, Cast AI

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5:10 PM -
5:25 PM

The 3 AM Pager Is Solved: Building an Autonomous SRE Agent with Google's ADK

Mehul Patel, DevOps Team Lead, BuildingMinds

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5:25 PM -
5:55 PM

Coffee break

Beyond the Pod: Architecting and Scaling AI Agents on Kubernetes

Abdel Sghiouar, Senior Developer Advocate, Google Cloud

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5:55 PM -
6:15 PM

Kubernetes Rightsizing in Practice: A Small Team's Experience with CAST AI

  • Thomas Bähr, Cloud Engineer, DKB
  • Michael Walorski, Product Owner, DKB
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6:15 PM -
6:30 PM

From Laptop to Cluster: What It Takes to Run Autonomous AI Agents on K8S

Dominik Schmidle, Product Leader Platforms, Giant Swarm

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6:30 PM -
7:00 PM

Panel Discussion: "What's Next for DevOps & Platform in an AI Reality?"

  • Engin Diri, Principal Solutions Architect, Pulumi (Moderator)
  • Adi Shacham-Shavit, Director of Engineering, Platform, Enpal
  • Thomas Maurice, Platform Engineer, Weaviate
  • Natalie Pistunovich, Public Speaker, University Lecturer, Google Developer Expert for Go
  • David Surey, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS
7:00 PM -
10:00 PM

Networking, food & drinks

Venue

Alte Turnhalle

October 15, 2026 · 3:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Alte Turnhalle venue in BerlinEvent hall interior at Alte Turnhalle Berlin

Sponsors

Cast AIKimchi
AWS

Community Partners

AWS User Groups Berlin

Interested in sponsoring this edition? Write to us and we will share the sponsorship options.

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