Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020

Experts From Around the World Will Join Over 8000 Attendees in Amsterdam

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe on March 30 – April 2, 2020, in Amsterdam. The event will feature over 240 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks and breakout sessions, including real-world cloud native technology case studies from experts.

“Last year we hosted more than 23,000 attendees across KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Europe, China, and North America, with each event breaking individual attendance records,” said Dan Kohn, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “We are looking forward to kicking off 2020 with the largest European event to date and carrying this momentum throughout the year.”

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A program committee of 91 experts and 30 track chairs led by conference co-chairs, Vicki Cheung of Lyft and Constance Caramanolis of Splunk, reviewed 1525 submissions to help create the show’s diverse content slate. The agenda features an impressive mix of topics, including technical sessions, deep-dives, and case studies spanning from technical deep dives and end user stories to beginner level insights. Organizations and project maintainers will discuss CNCF’s hosted projects – including Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, gRPC, containerd, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, TUF, Vitess, CoreDNS, NATS, Linkerd, Helm, Rook, Harbor, etcd, Open Policy Agent, CRI-O, TiKV, CloudEvents, and Falco.

“I am thrilled for the community to see the schedule the program committee has lined up for this event,” said Vicki Cheung, engineering manager at Lyft and conference co-chair. “With a record number of submissions, it is amazing to see the breadth and creativity the community is bringing to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe this year.”

“This is the first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon I am co-chair for and it is an honor be involved at this level,” said Constance Caramanolis, senior software engineer at Splunk and conference co-chair. “I’ve been attending the event for years and always walk away having learned so much. Attendees can expect to go home with significant insights on cloud native technologies and how organizations are implementing them in the real world.”

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The community-curated schedule will feature sessions from leading open source technologists, including:

• “Keynote: How to Love K8s and Not Wreck the Planet” – Holly Cummins, IBM
• “Deploying K8s to an Airgapped Data Center” – Connie Wang, GE
• “Where to Put All That YAML: Secure Content Management for Cloud Native Apps” – Ryan Abrams, Mirantis
• “Start Solving Problems with Service Mesh” – Maxim de Bie, ING
• “Compliance the Hard Way: Navigating Complex Regulatory Policy with Linkerd” – Christian Hüning, finleap connect GmbH
• “Integrating Kubernetes with HPC Environments at Oak Ridge National Lab” – Jason Kincl, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• “An Open Platform for Trading Interconnected Equities and Assets” – Walid Ali, Google & Sandeep Rao, NASDAQ
• “Migrating to OpenTelemetry From a Custom Distributed Tracing Pipeline” – Francis Bogsanyi, Shopify
• “Better Histograms for Prometheus” – Björn Rabenstein, Grafana Labs
• “Neuro-Inclusivity: The Future of the Tech Industry” – Kiran “Rin” Oliver, GitLab & Leena Haque, BBC

CNCF and other organizations are also hosting the following Day Zero co-located events as part of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, occurring on Monday, March 30 – if interested, attendees should plan their attendance when booking flights and hotel:

• Amsterdam OpenShift Commons Gathering and Workshops hosted by Red Hat
• CalicoCon Europe 2020 hosted by Tigera
• Cloud Native for Java Day hosted by the Eclipse Foundation
• Cloud Native Security Day hosted by CNCF
• Cloud Native Storage Day hosted by the CNS Ecosystem
• Continuous Delivery Summit EU hosted by Continuous Delivery Foundation
• KubeAcademy: Kubernetes Application and Container Workflows hosted by VMware
• Kubernetes Contributor Summit
• KubeSec Enterprise Summit hosted by Aqua Security, AWS, and Red Hat
• NSMCon hosted by the NSM Community
• Serverless Practitioners Summit hosted by CNCF
• ServiceMeshCon hosted by CNCF

Diversity Scholarships applications for CNCF-hosted Day Zero co-located events Cloud Native Security Day, Serverless Practitioners Summit and ServiceMeshCon are due February 2. CFPs for these events are due February 4.

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