Cloud Native, Open Source & AI Conf

Join us for the Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference, a full-day, in-person event bringing together engineers, architects, platform teams, AI practitioners, technical leaders, and open-source communities working at the intersection of cloud-native infrastructure, open-source AI, and production-scale systems.

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## Opening Keynote

Evolving the Kubernetes User Experience: More Intuitive, More Extensible, More Agentic
With:
Andrew Randall — Principal PM, Office of the CPO, Microsoft
Pal Lakatos-Toth — Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Kubernetes has become the default platform for modern workloads, and increasingly for AI systems. This keynote will explore how the Kubernetes user experience is evolving for both humans learning the platform and AI agents operating within it, with a focus on usability, governance and production readiness.

## Full Conference Programme

09:00 – 09:30
Doors Open

09:30 – 10:15
Opening Keynote: Evolving the Kubernetes User Experience: More Intuitive, More Extensible, More Agentic
Andrew Randall, Microsoft
Pal Lakatos-Toth, Microsoft

10:15 – 11:00
Panel: From HFT to Enterprise Banking: The Talent War for Cloud Native, Open Source and AI Engineers
Moderated by Ethan Sumner, Community Stack
Craig Whiting, RLS Search
Jon Freedman, Quant Fin

11:30 – 12:00
The Massively Parallel Agent Stack
Peter Bhabra, Doubleword

12:00 – 12:30
Controlling AI Agent Access in Cloud-Native Engineering Workflows
Viola Lykova, nuclecode

12:30 – 13:00
Preventing Silent Interpretation Errors at Scale
Maebh Booth, Senior Engineering Leader, Former M&S

14:00 – 14:30
Prompt Driven Platforms: The Future of Self-Service Infrastructure
Salman Iqbal & Amir Tayabali, Appvia

14:30 – 15:00
Platform as a Product: What Happens When We Treat Security as a User?
Hannah Foxwell, Bimp

15:00 – 15:30
Beyond the Portal: Architecting AI-Native Platforms with CNOE and MCP
Hossein Salahi, Liquid Reply

16:00 – 16:45
Intro to Apache Kafka on Aiven: From Managed Simplicity to Inkless Architectures
Hugh Evans, Aiven

16:45 – 17:15
Closing Keynote: The Age of “Big Tech” is Over
Sean M Tracey, Mitchell Technologies

17:15 – 17:30
Closing Remarks
Ethan Sumner, Community Stack
Mercedes Moxon Greenfield, Community Stack

## Speakers

We are delighted to welcome an exceptional speaker lineup, including:
Andrew Randall — Principal PM, Office of the CPO, Microsoft
Pal Lakatos-Toth — Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Peter Bhabra — Member of Technical Staff, Doubleword
Viola Lykova — Senior Software Engineer, nuclecode
Hannah Foxwell — Co-Founder, Bimp
Sean M Tracey — Founding Technologist, Mitchell Technologies
Craig Whiting — Director, RLS Search
Jon Freedman — Chief Technology Officer, Quant Fin
Ben Davison — Founder, Axiologik
Salman Iqbal — Solutions Architect, Appvia
Amir Tayabali — Tech Lead, Appvia
Maebh Booth — Senior Engineering Leader, Former M&S
Hossein Salahi — Senior Principal Engineer, Liquid Reply
Jon Shanks — CEO, Appvia
Hugh Evans — Senior Product Advocate, Aiven
Ethan Sumner — Co-Founder & CEO, Community Stack
Mercedes Moxon Greenfield — Co-Founder & CTO, Community Stack

## Sponsors and Partners

This conference is made possible through the support of our sponsors and partners:

Headline Sponsor
BrainStation
Platinum Sponsors
Overmind
Appvia
Harvey Nash
Axiologik
AI Native Sponsor
Nearform
Supporting Sponsors and Partners
RLS Search
Doubleword
Postman
X4 Group
Engaging Data
BIMP
Aiven

If you'd like to get involved with a future event, please email: ethan.sumner@communitystack.io