Cloud Native & Container Day 2026

Agenda

The detailed agenda will be updated as the event approaches. Stay tuned for the full schedule of sessions, tracks, and keynotes!

Registration, Breakfast, Expo & Hacker Village

Get your badge, grab some breakfast, and explore the exhibition area or dive straight into the Hacker Village.

Welcome and introduction by Patrik Gunnersten and Jens Yhrefors, Conoa

Keynote by Kenneth Albinsson, Conoa & Proact

Coffee break and expo

Keynote by Johannes Wagner, NetApp

Modern meets Traditional - Looking for Storage Challenges in K8s?

Kubernetes was initially designed for stateless workloads. However, since the introduction of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) in 2019, this has significantly changed. Many workloads, such as databases, now require enterprise-grade storage solutions. The growing adoption of VMware alternatives like KubeVirt and OpenShift Virtualization, combined with the undeniable industry trend towards AI, has further intensified this need. Learn more about NetApp's approach to tackle and solve these challenges.

Keynote by Michael Cade, Veeam Software & Meriem Belhadj, AWS

AI, Storage, and the Hypervisor Hunger Games in Kubernetes

Kubernetes has proven it can reliably run stateful workloads at scale. Cloud-native storage has matured, operational patterns have stabilised, and state is no longer the exception in modern clusters. But over the past year, a combination of new workloads and industry disruption has shifted the conversation once again.

In this keynote, we’ll reflect on how cloud-native storage has evolved over the last 12 months, before examining how AI workloads are reshaping data access, performance, and scalability requirements in Kubernetes. We’ll then look at the current hypervisor hunger games — driven by industry disruption and licensing changes — and why so many teams are now reconsidering where and how their virtual machine workloads should run, including public cloud, alternative hypervisors, and Kubernetes-based platforms such as KubeVirt.

We’ll close by looking ahead at the emerging trends across Kubernetes and storage, and what this convergence of AI, state, and infrastructure choice means for the next phase of the ecosystem.

Lunch and expo

Breakout session block 1

Room 1: Gitlab – Viktor van den Berg

From Manual to Autonomous: Building Agentic Workflows for Container Delivery

Multi-step manual processes slow down cloud native delivery. GitLab Duo Agent Platform enables you to automate these workflows with intelligent, event-driven flows that orchestrate multiple AI agents. This session showcases how to build custom flows that handle complex scenarios: automatically converting legacy CI/CD to GitLab CI, diagnosing and fixing pipeline failures, transforming issues into production-ready containerized code, and more. See practical examples of flows tailored for Kubernetes deployments, learn the agent platform architecture, and understand governance controls for enterprise-scale automation.

Room 2: Sysdig – Felipe Nonay Serrano

What your workloads are allowed to do: Rethinking Kubernetes security at runtime

Cloud native security has emphasized shift-left scanning and patching, but exploitation often outpaces remediation. Vulnerabilities are probed within hours, while production fixes can take weeks. This session explores the limits of remediation and the role of runtime controls in Kubernetes, outlining practical guardrails that contain compromise and reduce impact even when vulnerable code is running.

Room 3: Dell – Menno De Liege

Simplify Cloud‑Native Operations with Dell: DevOps‑Friendly Storage for Kubernetes with Container Storage Modules

Run Kubernetes with confidence using Dell enterprise‑grade storage. In this breakout, you’ll learn how Dell Container Storage Modules bring together automation, observability and recovery, so DevOps and platform teams can manage performance, protection and compliance in one Kubernetes‑native experience.

• Automate storage with API‑driven, policy‑based workflows
• Observe app and storage health end‑to‑end
• Recover fast with built‑in backup, cloning and disaster recovery

Join this session to get practical insight into real‑world Kubernetes data protection and see why Dell goes beyond basic backup to simplify DevOps workflows and safeguard your most critical Kubernetes workloads.

Room 4: Red Hat – Robert Åkerblom & Magnus Bengtsson

Liberate your Containers/VM’s/AI with a true Hybrid Platform on any Cloud

Today, hybrid cloud and the ability to "write once, run anywhere" is more important than ever. Companies are facing day to day challenges of moving or modernizing VM infrastructure while at the same time meeting high expectations to innovate with AI, or get left behind.

In this session, we look at how Red Hat OpenShift actually helps with this balancing act. Instead of juggling different tools for different environments, we’ll show you how to manage your containers, VMs, and AI workloads from one place, regardless of whose servers they're running on.

We will cover:

• One platform, run anywhere: What managed OpenShift looks like across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, so your team doesn't have to learn a new system for every provider.
• Containers and VMs, side by side: How to use OpenShift Virtualization to bring your VMs over and run them right alongside your modern, containerized apps.
• AI on your terms: A live demo of OpenShift AI. We'll show you how to train models locally so your data stays private, and then easily push them out to the cloud where they are ready to run, or the other way around.

Red Hat is the largest contributor to the CNCF ecosystem, come and listen to how we use Open Source to make your life easier and more fun.

Breakout session block 2

Room 1: NepApp – Johannes Wagner

Beyond Storage: Elevate Kubernetes Data Protection with NetApp’s Innovations

Think Kubernetes storage is tough? Backups and disaster recovery are even tougher! In this session, we’ll demystify the real-world challenges of protecting Kubernetes data. We’ll review common backup approaches and introduce NetApp’s free add-on Trident protect for streamlined data management. Finally, experience a live demo of NetApp’s unique, data-mover-free Backup and Recovery solution—designed to make Kubernetes data protection faster, easier, and more efficient than ever.

Room 2: Veeam and AWS – Michael Cade, Veeam Software & Meriem Belhadj, AWS

The Bridge Between AI, Data Security, and Cloud-Native Storage

Breaking the silos while enabling teams to truly unleash their data has become one of the defining challenges of modern platforms.

As AI workloads accelerate inside Kubernetes and across hybrid cloud environments, the pressure on storage architecture and data protection strategies is intensifying. High-performance access, scalable data pipelines, and persistent state are now table stakes — but resilience, recoverability, and security cannot be an afterthought.

In this session, we’ll build on the themes from the keynote and dive into the practical realities of protecting AI-driven and stateful workloads in cloud-native environments. We’ll explore how storage patterns are evolving to support AI training and inference, why data gravity and sovereignty matter more than ever, and how resilience strategies must adapt to dynamic, containerised platforms.

We’ll examine architectural patterns that bridge Kubernetes, virtual machines, and cloud-native storage — enabling organisations to protect data across clusters, regions, and infrastructure choices. We’ll also discuss how to eliminate operational silos between platform engineering, security, and infrastructure teams while maintaining performance and agility.

Room 3: Avassa – Stefan Vallin

Managing Containers at the Edge: Scale, Security, and Offline Survival

Containers solved the "works on my machine" problem in the cloud. Now they're moving to the edge, driven by AI inferencing and the need to run compute closer to where data is created. But the edge isn't a smaller cloud: devices are constrained, security is physical, and connectivity is unreliable. This session explores resilient design, fleet-wide upgrades, and distributed monitoring and DevOps workflows.

Room 4: Nothing scheduled in room 4 this time slot

Breakout session block 3

Room 1: SUSE – Meriem Ahmed-Wolters

Future-Proofing Your Workloads: Bridging the Gap Between Traditional VMs and Kubernetes

Stop paying for legacy systems and vendor lock-in. Attend our session to learn why SUSE Virtualization should be your next choice, for an open, sovereign, cloud-native platform that unifies all VM and container workloads.

Room 2: GitGuardian – Wassim Hana

Coverage → Detection → Remediation → Prevention: Building a Secrets Security Engine That Actually Works

Secrets sprawl across Git repos, pipelines, containers, and tickets — and attackers know it. This breakout session explores how to move beyond reactive scanning toward a structured, end-to-end secrets security program built on four pillars: Coverage. Detection. Remediation. Prevention.

We’ll show how high-performing cloud-native teams:

• Eliminate blind spots in their environments
• Reduce mean time to remediate exposed secrets
• Automate response workflows
• Shift from reactive cleanup to proactive prevention

Walk away with a clear framework to mature your secrets security posture without disrupting developers.

Room 3: Docker – Stéphane Montri

Adopt a shift-left approach in your SDLC with hardened images

What about improving your pipeline by securing your containerized applications with Docker images free of CVEs?

In this talk, you'll learn how Docker is helping developers and companies secure the build and deployment of applications running in containers. We'll go through why it is critical to improve the security posture of your applications..

Room 4: VMware by Broadcom – Tomáš Michaeli

Scaling the Private Cloud: Kubernetes, Cluster API, and the Hybrid Future

Kubernetes has evolved into the enterprise backbone, but scaling requires more than just clusters—it demands integrated lifecycle management, simplified operations and superior scalability. vSphere kubernetes Service (VKS) is CNCF compliant kubernetes which leverages Cluster API (CAPI) as a native engine since 2020, delivering automated multi-tenancy and K8s consumption at an unmatched scale where both VMs and K8s clusters consume the same shared infrastructure.

We explore extending this fabric with Supervisor Services, integrating production-ready tools like ArgoCD, Harbor, and Velero directly into the platform. By utilizing Multi-Cluster management and Service Mesh, we bridge the gap between environments, enabling a true hybrid-cloud approach.

This session provides a blueprint for reclaiming kubenetes availability single-region multi-zone or single-region. Discover how to transform your data center into a high-velocity service provider, unifying VMs and containers under one scalable, declarative control plane..

Breakout session block 4

Room 1: Nvidia – Ralph Stocker

From Idea to AI Application in No Time – Accelerate your development with NVIDIA NIM

Turn your AI ideas into reality in record time. Discover how NVIDIA Inferencing Microservices (NIM) and containers work seamlessly together to accelerate AI innovation and deployment—no heavy lifting required.

Room 2: Mirantis – Martin Stadler

True Cloud Sovereignty: Enforcing Regional Boundaries in Kubernetes with k0rdent

Sovereign cloud must be enforceable by design, not assumed. This session presents a k0rdent-based architecture enforcing sovereignty at three levels: network isolation with default-deny regions, mTLS with region-scoped certificate chains, and HSM-backed encryption with regional keys. k0rdent distributes policies as signed, immutable OCI artefacts. State aggregation is pull-based and filtered—PII and audit logs stay regional. Practical for EU and national sovereign cloud builders.

Room 3: Komodor – Aled James

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Room 4: HashiCorp – Fredrik Costa Warfvinge

HashiCorp Vault and Agentic IAM

With the rapid rise of AI agents, one of the biggest challenges isn’t just what they can do, it’s what they should be allowed to do. Agentic authorization ensures agents operate within the right contextual boundaries. At HashiCorp we have been solving the challenges for non-human identities for over a decade, so let’s take a deeper look at this challenge and how HashiCorp Vault can help solving it.

Coffee break & Expo

Keynote by Alain Wallström, Polismyndigheten

Polismyndigheten’s journey with container platforms

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Keynote by Matias Placido, Nordea & Johan Hansson, SEK Svensk Exportkredit

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Event summary

Networking, Drinks & Expo

Unwind and connect with peers and experts over drinks and snacks in the exhibition hall.