CNCF Announces Speaker Lineup for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, 2023 -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, shared the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, happening in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and virtually from April 18-21.

Coming back to Europe after a successful North American event, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-chairs – Aparna Subramanian, of Shopify, Emily Fox of Apple, and Frederick Kautz – helped the program committee of 85 community members and 36 track chairs review 1768 submissions to develop the European schedule this year. Attendees can choose from more than 303 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and breakout sessions both in-person and virtually, including 91 sessions hosted by CNCF project maintainers with content ranging from introductions and open source culture content to deep dives and technical demos.

"We are thrilled to bring together the cloud native community in Amsterdam this April for an inspiring and collaborative conference," said Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "CNCF has grown considerably, now with 153 Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects that respond to the pressing needs of organizations across industries and geographies. We hope you join #TeamCloudNative as we meet this year to continue shaping cloud native innovation together."

"I have had the chance to attend numerous KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conferences over the last several years and it has been an honor to be on the inside, helping select the talks for this event," said Aparna Subramanian, Director of Production Engineering, Shopify. "The 1000+ submissions we received were so insightful and have immense value to offer our community. I want to thank everyone who submitted a talk and the program committee for their time and effort in reviewing the talks. It was tough to widdle the list down to the agenda we are sharing today. We've curated the schedule with a diverse set of talks so you can get the most out of the event. We hope you enjoy the content this year!"

Come join the cloud native community for three days of knowledge sharing! The community-curated schedule will include talks from all types of community members, including:

• Malicious Compliance: Reflections on Trusting Container Scanners - Ian Coldwater, Twilio; Duffie Cooley, Isovalent; Brad Geesaman, Ghost Security; Rory McCune, Datadog
• Going for Graduation: Crossing the Chasm - Bill Mulligan, Isovalent & Katie Gamanji, Apple
• Practical Challenges with Pod Security Admission - Ellen Körbes, VMware
• Scale Down Your Environmental Impact - Mary Karroqe & Zinnia Gibson, D2iQ
• Building a Globally Accessible Community - Kaitlyn Barnard, Kong & Hannah Ouellette, NGINX
• Connecting and Securing Services for Hybrid and Multi Cloud Kubernetes - Purvi Desai, Google; Pere Monclus, VMware; Ricardo Rocha, CERN
• Building on-Premises MLOps for ISS Columbus Ground Operations - Samo Turk & Christian Geier, JUST ADD AI GmbH
• Learn the Helm Code Base and PR Review Process - Scott Rigby, Independent & Andrew Block, Red Hat
• The Day We Delete(d) Production - Ricardo Rocha & Spyridon Trigazis, CERN

CNCF and other organizations will be hosting a number of co-located events as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, which will happen on 18 April. The following CNCF-hosted co-located events are included in the All-Access pass.

Sponsor-hosted co-located events can be added individually when registering:

• ArgoCon Europe
• CiliumCon Europe
• Cloud Native Telco Day
• Cloud Native Wasm Day
• Istio Day Europe
• Kubernetes Batch + HPC Day Europe
• Kubernetes on Edge Day Europe
• Linkerd Day Europe
• Observability Day Europe

CFPs for all CNCF-hosted co-located events are due Sunday, February 12 at 23:59 PST.

CNCF-hosted co-located events sponsorship opportunities close on Thursday, February 23, 23:59 PST. Interested organizations can contact sponsor@cncf.io to secure a sponsorship.

The Dan Kohn Scholarship (includes Diversity, Need-Based, Maintainer, and Student Scholarship) applications for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe are due February 19 at 23:59 PST for in-person conference scholarships and March 26 at 23:59 PST for virtual conference scholarships.

For the full KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 program, please visit the schedule.

Registration

This year we are offering three types of registration. Standard pricing is available until February 15, 23:59 CET:

• In-person all access registration includes access to all CNCF-hosted co-located events on Tuesday, April 18, AND KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe.
• In-person KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe registration.
• And virtual registration which includes all KubeCon + CloudNativeCon keynote and breakout session access.

About Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Cloud native computing empowers organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software stack in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry's top developers, end users, and vendors, and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world's largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as over 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation.

Source: CNCF