Cloud Native Valencia #2 - AI, Open Source & KubeCon stories

Cloud Native Valencia #2: AI, Open source & KubeCon stories 🚀

We’re back! And this time, we’re diving into two things everyone’s talking about: AI and KubeCon EU 2025.
Whether you made it to KubeCon London or followed it from Linkedln, this meetup is for you. We’ve got two great sessions lined up — both technical, inspiring, and community-driven:

🧠 InstructLab - A community-based approach to do synthetic data-based alignment tuning for LLMs - Mario Vazquez (Principal Solutions Engineer @ Red Hat)
Curious about how people are building open-source large language models — together? Mario will show us how InstructLab is bringing the community into the AI loop. Think open-source ChatGPT, but collaborative.

📦 KubeCon EU Wrap-up - What you missed (and what you didn't know you missed) - Chad M. Crowell (Author - Acing the CKA exam, Trainer, CNCF Ambassador, Kubernetes Contributor)
Chad just got back from KubeCon and will give us the inside scoop: the coolest announcements, the hottest projects, and what’s next for Kubernete

✨ Come hang out with fellow engineers, devs, platform folks, and AI-curious humans. We’ll have:

• Real talks, not just slides
• Live Demo
• Our AMAZING snacks, drinks & networking
• Raffle and a SUPER COOL surprise 🤫

📍 Where? Flywire, Valencia
📅 When? May 8, 2025
🎟️ Free as always — just RSVP here in the meetup page and here to save your spot! And please, don't forget to join and subscribe to our official CNCF chapter here, so you can receive future communications!

Whether you're deep into cloud-native or just getting started, this meet-up is all about learning something new and meeting awesome people. See you there!

Agenda:
6:00 PM - Check-in
6:30 PM - InstructLab - A community-based approach to build open-source LLMs
7:15 PM - Coffee-break
7:35 PM - KubeCon wrap-up
8:05 PM - Networking and drinks

If you missed our last meet-up, check out the photos here!