KuberTENes Birthday Bash Wellington, New Zealand

🎉 Calling All #opensource #cloud Enthusiasts, #cloudops #devops and Tech Innovators!

🎉 We're thrilled to announce a special meetup in Wellington to celebrate Kubernetes' 10th Birthday. This isn't just any birthday party; it's a milestone marking a decade of the Kubernetes community driving innovation in cloud-native technologies!

🌟 What's on the Agenda?

• Welcome and Birthday Celebrations: Kick off with a bang as we dive into a decade of Kubernetes and its impact on the tech world.
• Expert Talks and Lightning Sessions: Gain insights from leading voices in the industry with three main talks and a series of engaging lightning talks.
• Cloud-Native Quiz: Cool swags to win, Interactive quiz session with questions related to Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies
• Networking Opportunities: Connect with the cloud-native community's peers, industry leaders, and innovators.

🤝 Thank you to our Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Red Hat
Palo Alto Networks

Silver Sponsor
Sysdig

Venue Sponsor
Catalyst Cloud

Lightning Talks Sponsor
SECTION6

Community Support
CNCF
Cloud Native Summit A / NZ

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### Agenda

4:30 PM Door Opens & Networking

5:00 PM Welcome and Birthday Celebrations
Kick-off with a bang as we dive into a decade of Kubernetes and its impact on the tech world. Birthday party

5:15 PM
Kubernetes for the next decade | Speaker: James Blair, Specialist Architect, Red Hat
Kubernetes is now a teenager! We've come a long way on our journey. For many of us, how we operate our clusters & the behaviour of those clusters has now become a well-understood muscle memory. Is how we do things now what we want though?? In this talk, let's step back briefly and ask ourselves if how we've done things for the last ten years is how we want to do things for the next ten years. We will then explore emerging ideas that could address those questions and shape Kubernetes' evolution for the decade ahead.

5:30 PM Lightning Talks: Women in IT empowerment | Speaker: Roxy Rice

5:36 PM Lightning Talks: 10 years of Kubernetes: You’ve grown up so fast! | Speaker: Caleb Woodbine

5:42 PM Lightning Talks: Power of K8S, How it Changed me | Speaker: Saikiran Dusari

5:48 PM Lightning Talks: Creating a managed k8s platform using CAPI | Speaker: Dale Smith

6:00 PM
Fighting AI with AI: Securing Kubernetes for the Next Decade | Speaker: Tess Davis, Senior System Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
Have you been using GenAI to write better emails, maybe to write your helm chart or review it for you? Could you use GenAI to red-team your own Kubernetes deployment? Happy 10th Birthday Kubernetes! It has been a fantastic ten years. We have seen only the beginning of GenAI's disruption to our daily work and lives. It is difficult to predict how different a day in the life of a Kubernetes operator will look when we are here celebrating again in 10 years. While some question whether “this AI thing” is over-hyped, there is no doubt that “the bad guys” are using LLMs to make more targeted attacks on the precious data that Kubernetes and its guest business processes are the portal to. In this session, we will discuss how the threat landscape has changed with GenAI and how Kubernetes architects and operators can bring us back to a level playing field by fighting AI with AI.

6:15 PM
Picking needles from the haystack - how to find the right vulnerabilities in your containers and build a bridge to DevSecOps | Speaker: Patrick Hanley
It's not a secret - Containers are particularly challenging when it comes to managing vulnerabilities, presenting different problems to both engineering and security teams. Addressing these challenges allows both teams to build a bridge and start a journey to DevSecOps with a positive experience. Get ready to focus as Patrick talks through the issues, the opportunities, how to start and how Sysdig helps solve this unique problem - all in under 10 minutes!

6:30 PM Thank you, Wrap-up & Networking