Call for Speakers

Engineering the Invisible: Platforms Behind Production

in 7 days

Engineering the Invisible: Platforms Behind Production

event date

28 Mar 2026

location

Online


Online CNCF Kolkata Meetup


In modern software delivery, what truly differentiates fast-moving teams isn’t just what they build — it’s how they build it. Infrastructure and platforms operate behind the scenes, often invisible to end users, yet absolutely essential to shipping reliable, scalable, and high-performance systems. From Kubernetes operators to service mesh, observability pipelines to CI/CD flows, these platforms power engineering velocity while keeping complexity in check.

Join us for Engineering the Invisible: Platforms Behind Production, a deep-dive meetup by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Kolkata community, where we explore the unseen foundations of production-grade cloud native systems.


What to Expect:

🔹 Expert talks & real stories from engineers building and running platforms at scale

🔹 How platform teams balance developer experience with operational robustness

🔹 Insights into critical building blocks like infrastructure automation, observability, governance, and developer platforms

🔹 Practical takeaways you can use in your own workflows


This online meetup is perfect for engineers, architects, DevOps and platform practitioners keen to understand what really runs production systems — and how to build and improve platforms that enable innovation.

Whether you’re just getting started with cloud native technologies or already running them at scale, this session will shed light on the invisible layers powering production every day.


📅 Date: 28th March 2026


⏰ Time: 11:30 A.M.


📍 Where: Online (link on RSVP)


Get ready to unlock the magic behind the scenes — because great platforms don’t just support production… they drive it. 🚀

open, 7 days left
Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

01 Mar 2026

Call closes at 11:59 PM

27 Mar 2026

Call closes in India Standard Time (UTC+05:30) timezone.
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We’re excited to open CFP submissions for our upcoming CNCF community meetup — The Platform Effect — a deep dive into cloud-native platforms, platform engineering, and the systems shaping modern infrastructure.

We’re inviting practitioners, engineers, architects, founders, and community leaders to share real-world knowledge, battle-tested systems, and practical insights.


We’re looking for talks on:

  • Cloud-native architecture & design patterns
  • Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
  • Kubernetes (production, scale, reliability, security)
  • DevOps, SRE & automation
  • Observability, monitoring & reliability engineering
  • Cloud security & compliance
  • AI + Cloud platforms
  • Multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and distributed systems
  • Open-source tooling & CNCF ecosystem projects
  • Platform product thinking
  • Building developer experience (DevEx)


What we value:

  •  Real-world implementation stories
  •  Production use-cases
  •  Failures, learnings, and trade-offs
  •  Architecture decisions
  •  Practical takeaways
  •  Engineering depth over marketing fluff
  •  Open-source mindset


Submission Guidelines: (Your proposal should include)

  • Talk title
  • Abstract (200–300 words)
  • Speaker bio
  • Target audience
  • Technical level (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced)
  • Format preference
  • Key takeaways for attendees


Whether you’re scaling Kubernetes in production, building an internal platform, designing cloud-native systems, or shaping developer platforms — we want your story.

Let’s build.

Let’s share.

Let’s scale together. ⚡


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