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

Thomas Maurice
Weaviate

Michael Walorski
DKB

Natalie Pistunovich

Dominik Schmidle
Giant Swarm
Speakers from industry-leading companies



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.
Featured Speakers
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Agenda
The full schedule is TBD and will be updated as more details come in.
4:00 PM
Registration & light refreshments
4:30 PM
Keynote - TBD
4:50 PM
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Kim-Norman Sahm, Regional Field CTO, Cast AI
5:10 PM
Breaking Kubernetes for Fun and Profit
Ali Alp, Distinguished Software Architect, Brainlab
View details5:30 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
6:00 PM
Coffee-break
6:20 PM
Automation, But Safely: Early Lessons Scaling Kubernetes in a Regulated Bank
Michael Walorski, Product Owner, DKB
View details6:35 PM
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Mehul Patel, DevOps Team Lead, BuildingMinds
6:50 PM
From Laptop to Cluster: What It Takes to Run Autonomous AI Agents on K8S
Dominik Schmidle, Product Leader Platforms, Giant Swarm
View details7:20 PM
Panel Discussion
- Natalie Pistunovich, Former OpenAI Dev Ambassador, Google Developer Expert for Go, University Lecturer, Public Speaker
- Thomas Maurice, Platform Engineer, Weaviate
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10:00 PM
Networking, food & drinks
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Registration
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Sponsors
Sponsors for KubeAuto Day Berlin are TBD. Interested in supporting this edition?
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