Agenda is live
The agenda is here.
A huge thank you to everyone who submitted a CFP - we received fantastic proposals, and picking the final lineup was not easy. Here is what's on stage.
Running order
29 September, minute by minute
- 08:00–09:00
Welcome & registration
- 09:00–09:10
MC Opening
Marcus Noble
- 09:10–09:25 Keynote
Chris Aniszczyk
CTO · CNCF
- 09:25–09:40 Keynote
Natali Vlatko
Director of Open Source Software Engineering · Cisco
- 09:40–09:55 Keynote
Cortney Nickerson
Head of Community · Nirmata
- 09:55–10:10 Keynote
William Rizzo
Global Field CTO · Mirantis
- 10:10–10:30
Break
- 10:30–10:55 Talk 1
Bro, Do You Even Supply Chain? How to Actually Secure Your Software Supply Chain
Plamen Petkov
- 10:55–11:00
Break between talks
- 11:00–11:25 Talk 2
Zero Days, Stolen Credentials and Rogue Agents – Runtime Security Is Behavioral
Dr. Constanze Roedig
- 11:25–11:30
Break between talks
- 11:30–11:55 Talk 3
Kraflet: Kubernetes at 1M Pod Scale and Millisecond Speeds
Petar Cvitanović
- 11:55–12:00
Break between talks
- 12:00–12:25 Talk 4
Your Open Source Standard Is Just Another Lock-In
Simon Schrottner & Thomas Schuetz
- 12:25–13:30
Lunch break
- 13:30–13:55 Talk 5
When Even AI Writes the CVE
Luis Rubiera
- 13:55–14:00
Break between talks
- 14:00–14:25 Talk 6
Building Observability for Microsecond Systems
Lyubomir Bozhinov
- 14:25–14:30
Break between talks
- 14:30–14:55 Talk 7
Kube-Oddities – The Quirks That Keep Kubernetes Interesting
Marcus Noble & Márk Sági-Kazár
- 14:55–15:20
Break
- 15:20–15:50 Talk 8
Delete Your Log Database: Scale-to-Zero, Sovereign Observability on Your Own Object Storage
Juan Herrera Utande
- 15:50–16:20 Talk 9
The Proxy That Rewrites Itself – Dynamic Compilation for MCP Policy Rules at the Ingress
Zahari Dichev
- 16:20–16:45 Talk 10
Kubernetes in a Suitcase: Why (and How) I Did It
Gerrit Tamboer
- 16:45–17:00
Break between talks
- 17:00–17:05 Lightning
Less Searching. More Shipping. Accelerating Kubernetes Operations with kagent
Desislava Todorova
- 17:05–17:10 Lightning
Project Capsule: Why Namespaces Alone Don't Give You Multi-Tenancy
Hristo Hristov
- 17:10–17:15 Lightning
The AI Side Effects We're Not Talking About
Marcus Noble
- 17:15–17:20
Break between talks
- 17:20–17:50 Talk 11
Kubernetes Without the Overhead: Why Hosted Control Planes Matter
Dario Tranchitella
- 17:50–18:15 Talk 12
The Dark Side of AI Agents: Live Hacking Modern AI Applications
Valentin Hristev
- 18:15
Closing Remarks
Marcus Noble
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One more lightning talk will be announced soon.
See you in Sofia 💙
29 September 2026 · Sofia Event Center