meshcloud Con '26

Are you ready for the Platform Engineering Event of the year? We’re thrilled to announce meshcloud Con'26!

meshcloud Con ’26 brings together practitioners working on Sovereign Platform Engineering. In interactive formats, they'll share how they navigate multi-cloud autonomy and exchange real-world lessons from teams shaping Europe’s digital future.

📅 Date: September 24th , 9am-5pm (CEST)
📍 Location: Atelier Lihotzky, in Frankfurt am Main
🗣️ Language: English

## AGENDA

08:30–09:00 - Check-in & coffee
09:00-09:30 - Welcome Speech by Jörg Gottschlich, meshcloud

09:30–10:30 - Talks by

• Harald Joos (DRB) "Strengthening Europe’s Digital Sovereignty: Opportunities, Risks, and Strategies Beyond Black-and-White Debates"
• Benjamin Flaven-Stein, Pascal Petsch (Markant) “Impacting DevEx, Costs, and Sovereignty with an Internal Developer Platform”
• Andre Silva (Suse) “Extending a cloud GitOps workflow to on-premises Kubernetes”

10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break (meshStack Booth available)
11:00-12:00 - Talks

• David Sterz “Why Europe’s cloud market should be sovereign and decentralised”
• Max Korbächer (Liquid Reply) “We need to evolve our platforms to support Agentic AI”
• Mick Becker, Markus von Struensee (Edeka IT) “Platform-on-Platform: How EDEKA IT Scales Through Decentralized Self-Service”
• Manuel Zapf (codecentric) "Bare Metal Platform Engineering with Harvester and Rancher"

12:00-12:10 - Sponsor greetings by Robert Specht (Enclaive) “The Dilemma of Regulated Industries”

12:10-13:10 - Lunch (meshStack Booth available)

13:10-14:00 - Panel Discussion “Minimum Viable Sovereignty: How Much Control Do You Actually Need?”
Erik Schubert & Jan Simons (RheinEneregie), Julia Pergande (microfin), André Alfter (Bechtle), Christina Kraus (meshcloud)

14:00-15:00 - Workshops

• Lukas Weberruss (STACKIT) & Andreas Grub (meshcloud) “STACKIT Landing Zones”
• Florian Nowarre & Young-Hwan Kim “Internal Developer Platform for Kubernetes”

15:00-15:30 - Coffee break (meshStack Booth available)
15:30-16:00 - Talk by Johannes Rudolph “Agentic Platform Engineering with meshStack”
16:00–16:30 - Award ceremony
16:30–17:00 - Post-event drinks & wrap-up

Sign up now! con26.meshcloud.io
Join the event to learn from the in-depth experience of Europe's leading organizations while exploring the future of building and running internal platforms successfully!