Agenda

The Schedule Is Coming Soon

We’re putting together a packed day of talks and community sessions for CND Poland 2026. The full schedule will be published here as speakers are confirmed. In the meantime, here’s who’s already on the lineup:

Keynote

Talk

The State of the Cloud Native Union

Alex Chircop

Principal Engineer, Google · CNCF TOC

Keynote

Talk

The Trace I Never Instrumented

Julia Furst Morgado

Principal DevRel Engineer, Dash0 · CNCF Ambassador

Keynote

Talk

Zen AI Cohabitation: How I learned to embrace the slop

Adriana Villela

Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace

Keynote

Talk

Zen AI Cohabitation: How I learned to embrace the slop

Josh Lee

Developer Advocate @ Altinity

Talk

Operating Systems as Code: The Missing Layer in Cloud Native Platforms

Jan Bronicki

Software Engineer, Microsoft · Flatcar Maintainer

Talk

What Could Go Wrong? Threat Modeling Kubernetes in 5 Minutes

Svitlana Chaplinska

Security Engineer @ Metacore Games

Talk

After Docker: Isolation for Agentic Workloads

Yair Etziony

Founder, False Systems · CD Foundation Ambassador

Talk

Reversibility as a Service: The Property Your Platform Needs

Wojtek Gawroński

Developer Advocate, Unleash

Talk

One Brain, Many Skills: How to Serve 100 Models on One Foundation

Kateryna Hrytsaienko

Senior Software Engineer · GDG Kyiv Co-Lead

Talk

Boring Work Is Where Agents Actually Start Paying Rent

Moritz Johner

Staff Engineer, Form3

Talk

Running Multi-Tenant GPUs on Kubernetes with NVIDIA GPU Operator and MIG

Nikhil Kumar

DevOps & Platform Engineer

Talk

Predicting GitOps at 15,000+ Clusters: What Large-Scale Testing Taught Us

Artem Lajko

Head of Platform Engineering, iits-consulting

Talk

Predicting GitOps at 15,000+ Clusters: What Large-Scale Testing Taught Us

Gianluca Mardente

Principal Engineer, Ciroos AI · Projectsveltos Maintainer

Talk

Rethinking Observability as a Platform Product

Kasper Borg Nissen

DevRel & Product, Dash0 · CNCF Ambassador

Talk

Kube-Oddities - the quirks that keep Kubernetes interesting

Marcus Noble

Platform Engineer, Monzo · Cloud Native Ambassador

Talk

The Full Picture: Visualizing Service "Fullness" to Rethink Saturation Prevention

Tal Nordan

Envoy Contributor · Independent

Talk

Agentic Telemetry Was Never Flat: OpenTelemetry Stops Pretending Otherwise

Robert Pająk

OpenTelemetry Maintainer · Senior Staff Engineer, Splunk

Talk

"YOU MUST NOT ssh!" and Other Stories from Building Our SRE Agent

David Pech

DevOps Engineer · Kubestronaut

Talk

Container Startup time Or: How to lower it and why should you care?

Patryk Piętka

Software Engineer

Talk

Str-AI-tjacket: A Tale of Marrying Agentic AI and Declarative GitOps

Konrad Rzentarzewski

DevOps · Kubestronaut

Talk

Kube-Oddities - the quirks that keep Kubernetes interesting

Márk Sági-Kazár

Software Engineer · Cloud Native Ambassador

Talk

Sovereign by Architecture: A Cloud-Native Reference Stack for AI Workloads Under EU Jurisdiction

Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza

Developer Relations · CNCF Ambassador

Talk

Beyond Utilization: Pressure-aware vertical autoscaling

Mateusz Szostok

Staff Engineer, Cast AI · Kubestronaut

Talk

Agentic Telemetry Was Never Flat: OpenTelemetry Stops Pretending Otherwise

Cijo Thomas

Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Talk

Operators in Action: Making Kubernetes Work for You

Verena Traub

Cloud & DevOps Consultant, b'nerd

Talk

Building a digital beehive: The cluster that wasn't real, but the attacks were

Arnav Tripathy

Cloud Security Engineer · Kubestronaut

Talk

Who Gets the GPU? Building Fair Multi-Cluster Allocation for GenAI Research

Sagar Utekar

SRE, Omnissa · CNCF Ambassador

Talk

Optimize Your Agents for Cost and Reliability

Anton Weiss

Software Delivery Futurist, Otomato

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