You Don't Have to Know Everything: Career Lessons

This session opens a conversation about what nobody told us when we were trying to break into cloud native. Starting from my own experience as a first-gen Hispanic American in open source, I'll share a few things I had to figure out the hard way, which include depth over breadth, relationships as a skill, self-advocacy, letting your work speak, and then hand the room the mic. The goal is to surface the unwritten rules people from underrepresented backgrounds are still navigating alone, share what's actually worked, and build the kind of peer network that most of us didn't have access to coming up.

Mapping Industry Representation and Gaps in Agentic AI Standards

In under a year, the Agentic AI Foundation reached 300 members. We will categorize contributors, maintainers, and funders by industry. We will highlight strong industry representation and identify gaps that need closing. Those who shape standards like MCP, AGENTS.md, AgentGateway, Agent Router A2A and goose define whose needs are met. If key industries teams stay absent, they risk inheriting mismatched specifications and costly workarounds. Attendees will learn which sectors lack a voice and how your organization can get involved.

Cloud Native IA: De sus comienzos a la actualidad

Los estándares Cloud Native IA de la CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) han sido adoptados rápidamente y puestos en producción en vivo por organizaciones a nivel mundial. Esta sesión integra las perspectivas de la comunidad y las últimas actualizaciones del programa de Conformidad de IA Cloud Native. Mostraremos las arquitecturas de referencia más recientes y proyectos clave, y definiremos métricas clave para la evaluación comparativa de entornos de IA Nativa de la Nube frente a los estándares comunitarios establecidos.

Cómo encontrar tu ruta profesional en Cloud-Native

Esta charla está dirigida a cualquier persona que busque una carrera, o desea avanzar en el mundo Cloud Native. Ya sea que quieran construir/asegurar/mantener los sistemas que impulsan las aplicaciones modernas, comunicar el valor empresarial de las soluciones Cloud Native, apoyar a desarrolladores e ingenieros, promover el cambio cultural interno o capacitar a equipos. La sesión te mostrará cómo aprovechar tus fortalezas para impulsar tu crecimiento profesional, mientras exploras como expandir tu red de contactos profesionales, las certificaciones profesionales, la educación, la optimización del currículum y los proyectos paralelos o actividades extracurriculares para avanzar en el mundo Cloud Native.

Cloud Native en la Innovación Empresarial

Con la participacion de referentes en la adopcion de tecnologias en el entorno empresarial, compartiran puntos de vista y experiencias relacionadas a la adopcion de tecnologias Cloud Native y como estas les permiten generar innovacion en sus respectivas empresas.

Cloud Native Al: From Conformance to Production

Implementing a cloud-native AI stack often leads to operational and security issues. This session will provide attendees with an analysis of production-ready Cloud Native AI stacks, integrating community insights and the latest Cloud Native AI Conformance guidelines. We will showcase practical implementation methods through reference architectures and key projects, and define key metrics for benchmarking Cloud Native AI environments against established community standards.

Open Source Summit North America 2026 - Minneapolis

From Cloud Native to Agent Native with MCP

DevOps teams use coding agents via MCP servers, requiring platform teams to build, run, and secure them. Just as KCNA and CKA validated cloud-native expertise, the MCPA does the same for MCP. This talk maps KCNA/CKA skills, including service discovery, RBAC, tool calling, and scope to MCP, highlighting shifts from laptops to shared Kubernetes infrastructure. You’ll learn what carries over and what’s new, such as tool design and agent authorization, and how the MCPA certifies these skills.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 - Salt Lake City

Becoming an Impactful CNCF Member

KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON
NORTH AMERICA 2025

How CNCF members directly fuel the health and growth of the cloud native community. This session goes beyond sponsorship to show how member contributions, addressing financial support to engineering resources which are vital for sustaining core projects, funding security audits, and enabling community programs. Learn about the tangible impact of membership and what an ideal contributing member looks like. You'll leave with a clear understanding of the virtuous cycle that connects membership to community vitality.

https://kccncna2025.sched.com/event/29gRC/becoming-an-impactful-cncf-member

KCD Lima 2025 Keynote - La Revolución Cloud Native: Impacto y Oportunidad en LATAM y Perú.

Esta sesión, basada en datos, muestra cómo la adopción de Cloud Native impulsa un ROI medible en América Latina, centrándose en el mercado de rápido crecimiento de Perú (pronóstico de $680M). Detallamos cómo las empresas logran hasta un 40% de reducción de costos y ciclos de desarrollo más rápidos, destacando sectores clave como Fintech y Minería. Aprenderá cómo invertir en habilidades de Kubernetes genera valor profesional directo, abordando el crecimiento anual del 30% en los roles Cloud Native de la región. Se irá con una estrategia clara para contribuir a la comunidad de código abierto y acelerar su carrera en Ingeniería de Plataformas, DevOps y SRE.

https://youtu.be/BgOoGnnhtWs?si=jJ6OGTz4K7j9leas

The Business Case for GitOps

Beyond the buzzwords, this session focuses on the real-world business value of GitOps for large organizations, especially in the agentic era. We'll show you how GitOps is a strategic move that directly impacts the bottom line. Learn to articulate benefits in terms of tangible business outcomes like accelerated time-to-market, reduced costs, agentic accountability and enhanced security. This talk provides a practical framework for building a compelling business case, including an ROI analysis and risk mitigation plan. If you need to sell your leadership on a modern DevOps strategy, this is your blueprint.