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。
Keynote Speakers

Kelsey Hightower
Technologist

Satoshi Matsuzawa
Senior Cloud Architect @ Hitachi
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.


















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

Sakuya Nakamura
NTT DATA Group
Agenda
Registration & light refreshments
受付
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)
Traditional FinOps is Dead: Bringing Tokenomics and "Shift Wild" to the Kubernetes Era
Satoshi Matsuzawa (Senior Cloud Architect | Japan FinOps Community Co-Organizer, Hitachi)
From "The Hard Way" to "The Invisible Way"
Kelsey Hightower (Technologist)
Meet Kimchi: The Coding Agent That Uses the Right Brain for Every Task
Kunal Das (Developer Advocate, Cast AI)
170k Jobs a Day on GKE: Scaling Mercari's CI Platform - and What's Next for AI-Native Development
Junya Okabe (Software Engineer, Mercari)
The Token Tax: Why Your AI Bill Is Bigger Than It Should Be
Vanshika Jain (Lead Engineer | Mentor | AWS Certified Developer, Brudite)
Networking
ネットワーキング






