KubeCon Afterparty with Datadog & CNCF

After KubeCon Europe, this year hosted in beautiful London at the beginning of April, we decided we liked it so much we'd throw an afterparty!! Join us for insightful talks, delicious food, drinks and great networking opportunities.

Date: Thursday April 24th, 2025
Location: Datadog HQ Amsterdam, 1017 CE, Herengracht 601
Time: 18:00 - 21:15

Agenda:
18.00 - Doors Open: Walk-in + Food & Drinks!
18:30 - Kick-off: Welcome by your hosts from Datadog & CNCF
18:35 - Talk 1: KubeHound: Identifying Attack Paths in K8s Clusters at Scale With No Hustle - by Julien Terriac
19:20 - Quick Break
19:30 - Talk 2: How Observability Drives Kubernetes Transformations - by Owen Phelan
20:15 - Closing comments
20:20 - Networking & Drinks
21:15 - The End!

About the talks:

• Talk 1: KubeHound: Identifying Attack Paths in K8s Clusters at Scale With No Hustle
  By Julien Terriac (Security Expert / Pentester / Engineer Manager) at Datadog

In this talk, we'll dive into KubeHound, a Tool for building Kubernetes attack paths. We will present the genesis of the project and what answers regarding your Kubernetes cluster security it might bring to you. We will cover how KubeHound bring you offensive mindset on a silver platter because we think the best defense is a good offense. Live demos of KubeHound from the defender's and attacker's point of view will be performed during the talk.

• Talk 2: How Observability Drives Kubernetes Transformations
  By Owen Phelan (Tech Enablement) at Datadog

During this talk Owen will cover the critical role that observability plays when moving to, a Kubernetes based infrastructure, and how to implement an end-to-end observability platform that not only increases realiability, but also drives faster product velocity and a better customer experience.

Speaker Bio's:
Julien Terriac is a French senior security researcher with a strong background of pentesting with a special taste for Windows authentication, Active Directory inner working and reverse engineering. He developed several offensive tools to automate such as ProtonPack (custom mimikatz), Lycos (share hunter), ExploitPack (privilege escalation framework), IAMBuster (AD auditing framework).
He led the R&D department at XMCO for 5 years before joining Datadog as the Team Lead for Adversary Simulation Engineering (ASE) where his team aims at building offensive tools and frameworks that will automate the simulation of real life attacks against Datadog.

Owen Phelan has been helping customers transform their digital landscape for the past decade, with a specific emphasis on cloud, containerization, and serverless.

Important notes:

• Please inform us on any allergies or dietary restrictions so we can ensure everyone enjoys the food.
• Keep your RSVP up to date, we're counting on you to be there and share in the excitement.
• Your hosts for the evening: Tim Meijer (Datadog), Owen Phelan (Datadog) and Alessandro Vozza (CNCF)