KubeAuto Day Japan
🇯🇵 Co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 ・ 併催

Welcome to KubeAuto Day Japan

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

KubeAuto Day Japan へようこそ。KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 の併催イベント。

July 28, 2026 (Tue) · 17:30–21:00 JST
The Wharf House Yamashita Koen, Yokohama, Kanagawa
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Keynote Speakers

Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower

Technologist

Satoshi Matsuzawa

Satoshi Matsuzawa

Senior Cloud Architect @ Hitachi

Event Recap

Relive the highlights from KubeAuto Day Japan: practitioner-led talks on AI-driven Kubernetes automation, platform engineering and FinOps with the cloud-native community in Yokohama.

Attendees registering at KubeAuto Day Japan
Attendees networking over food and drinks
Audience applauding during a session
Laurent Gil welcoming attendees to KubeAuto Day Japan
Speaker presenting on scaling levers in Kubernetes
NTT DATA speaker presenting on stage
Hitachi speaker presenting on FinOps and cloud native
Full room during the fireside chat at The Wharf House Yamashita Koen
Kelsey Hightower and Laurent Gil during the fireside chat
Attendees laughing during a talk at KubeAuto Day Japan
Wide view of the venue during the fireside chat
Group photo of KubeAuto Day Japan attendees and speakers
Kimchi speaker presenting the coding agent demo
Mercari speaker presenting next to the KubeAuto Day Japan banner
Vanshika Jain giving her lightning talk
Kelsey Hightower being interviewed on camera
Kelsey Hightower talking with attendees by the event banner
The KubeAuto Day Japan organizing team

KubeAuto Day Japan 2026 · The Wharf House Yamashita Koen, Yokohama

About KubeAuto Day Japan

KubeAuto Day Japan is the next stop on the global KubeAuto Day series, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 in Yokohama. It's a community-run afternoon 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 from across Japan before the main KubeCon days kick off.

グローバルに展開する KubeAuto Day シリーズが、KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 の併催イベントとして横浜にやってきます。Kubernetes、プラットフォームエンジニアリング、自動化、FinOps など、クラウドネイティブにまつわるすべてを語り合う、コミュニティ主導のイベントです。KubeCon 本会議の前日に、日本各地の実践者・仲間と交流しにお越しください。

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Great Evening

Featured Speakers

Learn from industry leaders and innovators shaping the future of cloud-native automation and AI

Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower

Technologist

Keynote
Satoshi Matsuzawa

Satoshi Matsuzawa

Senior Cloud Architect | Japan FinOps Community Co-Organizer

Hitachi

Keynote
Wataru Hirano

Wataru Hirano

Performance & FinOps Engineer

NTT DATA Group

Sakuya Nakamura

Sakuya Nakamura

NTT DATA Group

Junya Okabe

Junya Okabe

Software Engineer at Mercari Inc. | CNCF Ambassador

Mercari

Vanshika Jain

Vanshika Jain

Lead Engineer | Mentor | AWS Certified Developer

Brudite

Kunal Das

Kunal Das

Developer Advocate

Cast AI

Takuto Nagami

Takuto Nagami

Host

Agenda

17:30 – 18:00

Registration & light refreshments

受付

18:00 – 18:25

Finding the Real Cost Levers in Kubernetes: A Practical Inspection Framework for Pod, Replica, and Node Optimization

Wataru Hirano (Performance & FinOps Engineer, NTT DATA Group) & Sakuya Nakamura (NTT DATA Group)

18:25 – 18:50

Traditional FinOps is Dead: Bringing Tokenomics and "Shift Wild" to the Kubernetes Era

Satoshi Matsuzawa (Senior Cloud Architect | Japan FinOps Community Co-Organizer, Hitachi)

18:50 – 19:20

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

Kelsey Hightower (Technologist)

19:20 – 19:35

Meet Kimchi: The Coding Agent That Uses the Right Brain for Every Task

Kunal Das (Developer Advocate, Cast AI)

19:35 – 19:50

170k Jobs a Day on GKE: Scaling Mercari's CI Platform - and What's Next for AI-Native Development

Junya Okabe (Software Engineer, Mercari)

19:50 – 20:05

The Token Tax: Why Your AI Bill Is Bigger Than It Should Be

Vanshika Jain (Lead Engineer | Mentor | AWS Certified Developer, Brudite)

20:05 – 21:00

Networking

ネットワーキング

Sponsors

Cast AIKimchi