Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Kaleva (600) Lumituuli (250) Palaver (80) Poster Sessions in Hallway

8.00

Kaleva (600)
8.00 → 50 min

Registration and Breakfast

8.50

Kaleva (600)
8.50 → 10 min

Welcome

9.00

Kaleva (600)
9.00 → 15 min

Keynote: A Peek into the Kubernetes Community Engine

9.15

Kaleva (600)
9.15 → 5 min

Sponsored Keynote: Global Code, Sovereign Systems: Europe’s Next Chapter

  • Sponsored Keynote (5 minutes - 1 speaker)

9.20

Kaleva (600)
9.20 → 5 min

Sponsored Keynote 2: TBA

9.25

Kaleva (600)
9.25 → 5 min

Sponsored Keynote 3: TBA

9.30

Kaleva (600)
9.30 → 15 min

Keynote: Supply Chain Security Reality Check

  • Keynote (15 minutes, 1-2 speakers)

9.45

Kaleva (600)
9.45 → 15 min

Break

10.00

Kaleva (600)
10.00 → 30 min

The state of cybersecurity threats and incidents

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Lumituuli (250)
10.00 → 30 min

The 15-Year Awakening: Why I Finally Rebuilt My Home Lab as a Platform API

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Palaver (80)
10.00 → 30 min

Beyond service.name: A Deep Dive into OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)

10.30

Kaleva (600)
10.30 → 15 min

Break

10.45

Kaleva (600)
10.45 → 30 min

Volcano & KubeRay: Dynamic AI compute environments on globally distributed baremetal K8s clusters.

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Lumituuli (250)
10.45 → 30 min

Bridging Terraform to Crossplane: A Real Migration Path in a Regulated Bank

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Palaver (80)
10.45 → 30 min

Connecting Robot's Spinal Cord to the Cloud: ROS2, Zenoh, K8s

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)

11.15

Kaleva (600)
11.15 → 15 min

Break

11.30

Kaleva (600)
11.30 → 30 min

Research, Clouds, Sovereignty, and Kubernetes

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Lumituuli (250)
11.30 → 30 min

Intent based network isolation in Kubernetes

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Palaver (80)
11.30 → 30 min

Type-safe Postgres access in cloud-native applications with sqlc

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)

12.00

Kaleva (600)
12.00 → 60 min

Lunch

13.00

Kaleva (600)
13.00 → 30 min

The IKEA Assembly Model: What Platform Engineering Gets Right (and Wrong)

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Lumituuli (250)
13.00 → 30 min

OCI as the Packaging Standard for AI Agent Capabilities: From MCP Servers to Agent Skills

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Palaver (80)
13.00 → 30 min

Optimizing a Node for Low-Latency and Real-Time Workloads

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)

13.30

Kaleva (600)
13.30 → 15 min

Break

13.45

Kaleva (600)
13.45 → 30 min

Adaptive Kubernetes Troubleshooting: A Reference Architecture with MCP

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Lumituuli (250)
13.45 → 30 min

SBOMbastic: Getting Ready for Upcoming EU Cybersecurity Regulation in Software Supply Chains

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Palaver (80)
13.45 → 30 min

Polymorphic interfaces in kcp: The three vendor problem

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)

14.15

Kaleva (600)
14.15 → 15 min

Break

14.30

Kaleva (600)
14.30 → 30 min

Understanding the Real Attack Surface of Agentic AI

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Lumituuli (250)
14.30 → 30 min

The Ultimate Kubernetes Challenge: An Interactive Trivia Game on concepts, components, usage...

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Palaver (80)
14.30 → 30 min

State of Kubernetes on European Sovereign Clouds: Integrations, Control, and Portability

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)

15.00

Kaleva (600)
15.00 → 15 min

Break

15.15

Kaleva (600)
15.15 → 30 min

From Device Plugins to DRA: Bringing Topology Awareness to the Kubernetes Scheduler

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Lumituuli (250)
15.15 → 30 min

High-School Exams in the Cloud: Orchestrating Thousands of Exam Servers With Kubernetes & Crossplane

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Palaver (80)
15.15 → 30 min

Addressing the #1 Threat to the Web: Authorization

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)

15.45

Kaleva (600)
15.45 → 30 min

Coffee Break

Poster Sessions in Hallway
15.45 → 75 min

Keeping Apps Afloat: Do We Need a New Way to Reason about Performance?

  • Poster Session (1-2 speakers)

16.15

Kaleva (600)
16.15 → 30 min

Pod Right-sizing in the Second Decade of Kubernetes

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Lumituuli (250)
16.15 → 30 min

Building Scalable Kubernetes Governance with Kyverno and CEL

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)
Palaver (80)
16.15 → 30 min

Schema-Driven Observability in Practice

  • Session Presentation (35 minutes - 1-2-speakers)

16.45

Kaleva (600)
16.45 → 15 min

Break

17.00

Kaleva (600)
17.00 → 5 min

Threat Model a Kubernetes Cluster in 5 Minutes

  • Lightning Talk (5 minutes - 1 speaker)

17.05

Kaleva (600)
17.05 → 5 min

Customize your manifests without the limitations of templating!

  • Lightning Talk (5 minutes - 1 speaker)

17.10

Kaleva (600)
17.10 → 5 min

AI Is Everywhere. And Nowhere.

  • Lightning Talk (5 minutes - 1 speaker)

17.15

Kaleva (600)
17.15 → 5 min

Nopea on Sykli, or How I learned to stop worrying and love the cloud

  • Lightning Talk (5 minutes - 1 speaker)

17.20

Kaleva (600)
17.20 → 5 min

Transition

17.25

Kaleva (600)
17.25 → 15 min

Keynote: The Proof is in the Pudding: Can we formally prove correctness of (AI-generated) code?

  • Keynote (15 minutes, 1-2 speakers)

17.40

Kaleva (600)
17.40 → 15 min

Keynote: Shaping the Next Generation of Cloud Native: A TOC Perspective

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