Platform-less + operations + data protection

Thank you to Komodor for sponsoring this time around!

As usual:

1. RSVP's close 48 hrs before the event. Please make it easy on us by RSVP'ing only if you intend to show up.
2. Don't be late! You'll get locked out, and that's no fun!
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Agenda

6:00 pm: food / drinks / networking
6:20 pm: Talk #1: Root Cause Analysis in K8s with Christian Weber
7:00 pm: Who is hiring? Who is looking?
7:10 pm: Talk #2: Build Your Internal Developer Platform with OpenChoreo with Lakmal Warusawithana
7:50 pm: Talk #3: K8s Data Protection with Chris Bonner
8:30 pm: Finish

Speakers & topics

1. Root Cause Analysis in K8s, with Christian Weber

Designed for Day 2 Operations, Komodor is your Single Pane of Glass for Kubernetes. Join us to learn about Klaudia as your AI SRE, helping you to efficiently troubleshoot and resolve issues with Kubernetes.

Christian is a practitioner in the field every day, helping find root causes and turning complexity in K8s into simplicity. Christian will overview some of the tools and platforms that enable this superpower of his.

2. Build Your Internal Developer Platform with OpenChoreo with Lakmal Warusawithana

Building and operating Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) often forces teams to rebuild the basics by gluing together pipelines, securing workloads, and layering tools over Kubernetes just to deliver a consistent developer experience.

In this session, I’ll share our experience of designing and running Choreo, WSO2’s enterprise-grade IDP, and the key lessons we’ve learned along the way. We’ll examine the strengths of Choreo’s architecture, while also highlighting the onboarding challenges and show how these lessons directly shaped OpenChoreo.

OpenChoreo is our new open-source, Kubernetes-native framework built to address these very pain points. Together, we’ll explore:

• OpenChoreo’s Kubernetes-native architecture with GitOps, Cilium, Envoy Gateway, and Backstage
• How the “Cell” model simplifies deployment, observability, and security
• Ways teams can adopt OpenChoreo incrementally alongside existing stacks
• How to join the OpenChoreo community and contribute to shaping its future

3. K8s Data Protection with Ola Owoeye

An expert in cloud architecture, cybersecurity, and AI innovation. He has built and operated top-performing engineering and architecture teams at Google and Cisco, guiding Fortune 500, public sector, and service provider clients through complex transformations. A security professional with deep command of Kubernetes and Kubernetes data protection, Zero Trust, and multi-cloud strategies, Wale is known for translating emerging technologies into measurable business outcomes—accelerating AI/ML adoption, strengthening cyber resilience, and scaling global platforms.

About our sponsors
Komodor simplifies the world’s largest and most complex environments, so you can effectively manage Kubernetes at scale and empower developers to operate, troubleshoot, and optimize their workloads independently.

Hybrid/Remote option

Sorry, this event is in-person only, so please join us in Cambridge!