Oct: cloud-native testing + platform agents + K8s updates
Details
Teleport is sponsoring food and bev this time around. Thanks Teleport!
As usual:
- RSVP's close 48 hrs before the event. Please make it easy on us by RSVP'ing only if you intend to show up.
- 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: AI & Identity-Native Access Control with Paul Curtis from Teleport
7:00 pm: Who is hiring? Who is looking?
7:10 pm: Talk #2: Testing in the Age of AI and Cloud-Native with Dmitry Fonarev of Testkube
7:50 pm: Talk #3: Platform agents with Sameera Jayasoma from WSO2
8:30 pm: Finish
Speakers & topics
1. AI & Identity-Native Access Control and Zero Trust Governance for Modern Kubernetes Platforms with Paul Curtis from Teleport
As Kubernetes AI deployments grow across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, traditional perimeter security and static credential management are no longer sufficient. Managing access for developers, automated pipelines, and emerging workloads across distributed clusters creates operational friction, compliance gaps, and expanded blast radiuses.
In this session, Boris Kurktchiev demonstrates how adopting an identity-native approach to Zero Trust simplifies and strengthens Kubernetes infrastructure security.
2. Testing in the Age of AI and Cloud-Native with Dmitry Fonarev of Testkube
Cloud-native development and AI-generated code make continuous testing both harder and more critical, with challenges such as inconsistent results, scattered observability, unclear release quality gates, infrastructure validation, and testing pipelines becoming a bottleneck as AI produces more code and tests. What lies ahead - autonomous AI testing agents, from locally invoked today to collaborating teams managed by dedicated platforms, and how responsibilities will shift between QA and platform engineering.
3. Platform agents with Sameera Jayasoma from WSO2
Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) have revolutionized developer self-service, but managing infrastructure, troubleshooting deployment failures, and navigating complex cloud-native architectures still introduce significant cognitive load. In this talk, Sameera Jayasoma explores how AI-driven Platform Agents are shifting platform engineering from static portals to dynamic, context-aware digital platform assistants.
About our sponsors
Teleport are the experts in unified identify across classic & AI infrastructure.
They've supported our meetup multiple times but more importantly the technical knowledge they've shared is truly valuable. I encourage everyone to learn as much about identity and security as possible and ask questions of their experts. I'll admit, I find it a very challenging topic, but it's so important!
Hybrid/Remote option
Sorry, this event is in-person only, so please join us in Cambridge!