Cloud Native @ ING

🚀 We're thrilled to announce the next Cloud Native Meetup @ ING!

Come join us for an evening of talks, great conversations, and good food. Expect fresh insights, real-world stories, and the kind of hallway chats that spark your next big idea.

Agenda
🕕 18.00 — Doors open | Food & drinks
🎤 19.00 — Welcome
🔐 19.15 — What I'll Tell My Kids About K8s Security (Lars Lefebvre, ING)
🚀 19.45 — K8s-wish and other LLM adventures (Andrew Yourtchenko)
☕ 20.15 — Break
⏳ 20.30 — Talk 3 - More details coming soon...
🤝 21.00 — Networking

Getting here
📍 Venue and parking details coming soon — stay tuned!

Sessions:
Session 1: What I'll Tell My Kids About K8s Security (Lars Lefebvre, ING):
What I'll Tell My Kids About K8s Security is a creative and story-driven talk that makes Kubernetes security approachable — even for those who aren't deep in the weeds of K8s. Framed through metaphors and everyday analogies, the talk explores complex security challenges in a fun and memorable way. In the second half, I'll share the story behind an open source tool we built at ING to help teams uncover and understand real-world security issues in their clusters.

Bio: Lars is a dedicated Cloud and Application Security Engineer with a strong background in the Cloud Native stack. He’s experienced in managing multi-cloud environments, promoting cloud-native practices, and enhancing security measures in software development lifecycles.

Session 2: K8s-wish and other LLM adventures (Andrew Yourtchenko)
Can we use LLMs to avoid writing YAML? This talk explores two approaches — a single-shot LLM call and a full agentic loop — using two open source projects, and what each gets right and wrong.

Bio: After 25 years at Cisco across three lives — TAC Security, IPv6 technical marketing, and high-performance networking software — Andrew is now building open source agentic AI tools and doing occasional consulting. He is a coauthor of DHCPv6 and other RFCs, and holds 4 US patents.

Session 3: TBA