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 — Kubestronaut Panel
🤝 21.00 — Networking

Getting here
No on site parking available, instruction on how to get there over here.
If coming by car, please only refer to the public car park instructions.
Access via entrance A, then follow the signs.

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: Kubestronaut Panel 30 minutes | Q&A
Meet a panel of Kubestronauts, some even Golden. We'll kick off with a quick intro to what a Kubestronaut (and Golden Kubestronaut) actually is, then dive straight into an interactive Q&A. Hear about their journey, what the grind really looks like, and what they'd do differently. This session is all about the conversation.

Bio Olivier Calzi (Golden Kubestronaut):
From pulling Ethernet cables as a student in France to becoming a Golden Kubestronaut, I have spent 10 years learning the stack from the ground up. Now a Cloud Native Expert with 15 CNCF certifications, I focus on SRE and infrastructure architecture. I'm a firm believer in the "work-study" model and a lifelong student who still finds engineering deeply fun.

Bio François Duthilleul (Golden Kubestronaut):
François Duthilleul is a Principal Solutions Architect at Red Hat, leading the security domain in the EMEA Telco CoE, co-author of the OpenShift Security book, and contributing to O-RAN and Sylva standardisation. The first Belgian Golden Kubestronaut and 2025 Top SSA, he brings 15+ years of network cloudification experience — and you'll find him at rock concerts, on a road bike, or talking cloud-native over a craft beer.

Bio Evelien Schellekens (Kubestronaut): Evelien is a Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic. She enjoys sharing knowledge through public speaking and interacting with the technical community. She’s passionate about observability and open source technologies like Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry.