Cloudland 2027 – Call for Speakers

Die Cloudland 2027 findet vom 31. Mai bis 2. Juni im Heide Park Soltau statt, und wir suchen Speaker, die ihre Erfahrungen aus der Cloud-Native-Welt teilen. Uns geht es um die Praxis: echte Erfahrungsberichte, ehrliche Lessons Learned und konkrete Architekturen statt Produktwerbung. Die Veranstaltung findet überwiegend auf Deutsch statt, Beiträge auf Englisch sind aber ebenso willkommen. Auch Erstredner sind herzlich eingeladen. Die folgenden Tracks und Themen beschreiben wir auf Englisch

Be creative, be bold, we are looking forward to your proposals for the following tracks of Cloudland 2027. The tracks are planned with these focus areas:

The event will primarily be held in German. English speakers are very welcome.

We prefer workshops or interactive formats, but classic talks (30-minute plus Q&A) are also welcome.

Cloud Native & Kubernetes

• Running Kubernetes in production: upgrades, multi-cluster, multi-tenancy, edge and on-prem
• Containers, runtimes and the evolving cloud native ecosystem (CNCF landscape in practice)
• Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures: when they pay off and when they do not
• Migrating from legacy to cloud native, step by step
• Focus: Run cloud native workloads reliably, efficiently and with a team that can sustain them

Platform Engineering & Developer Experience

• Building internal developer platforms that teams actually want to use
• GitOps, CI/CD and infrastructure as code (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Crossplane and friends)
• Golden paths, self-service and platform as a product
• Measuring and improving developer productivity
• Focus: Platforms that reduce cognitive load and accelerate delivery

Security, Compliance & Digital Sovereignty

• Software supply chain security, SBOMs and signed artifacts
• Zero trust, identity and secrets management in cloud environments
• Compliance as code, regulation (NIS2, DORA, Cyber Resilience Act) and digital sovereignty
• Securing build and delivery infrastructure
• Focus: Building secure and compliant systems without slowing teams down

Observability, Reliability & Operations

• Observability in practice: metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry
• SRE practices, SLOs, incident management and postmortems
• Chaos engineering and resilience testing
• FinOps and sustainable cloud: cost, efficiency and carbon footprint
• Focus: Understand your systems, keep them reliable and keep costs under control

AI & Data in the Cloud

• Running AI/ML and LLM workloads on cloud native infrastructure (GPUs, scheduling, inference)
• AI-assisted operations and engineering, including governance and quality
• Data platforms, storage and databases on Kubernetes
• Responsible and sovereign use of AI in cloud environments
• Focus: Use AI and data as a driver for innovation without losing sight of the risks

People, Teams & Culture

• Cloud transformation from the organisational perspective
• Skills, roles and team topologies for cloud native teams
• Community, open source and contributing back
• Psychological safety, on-call culture and sustainable operations
• Focus: Technology succeeds when teams and culture grow with it

The suggested topics in the tracks are, in our view, particularly relevant and allow a good exchange about current challenges and opportunities for our audience. Submissions that do not fit these topics but match the spirit of the conference are explicitly very welcome as well.

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