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Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit

A global online summit for practitioners working across Kubernetes, cloud native engineering, open source AI, developer tools and open source infrastructure.

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Took place: 13 Oct; Took place
Global, virtual: Online; Global, virtual
Attendees: 250+; Attendees
Speakers: 8; Speakers

About the conference

The Cloud Native & Open Source Global Summit brings together engineers, maintainers, platform teams and open source contributors from across the world.

It covers the full breadth of the cloud native and open source ecosystem, from Kubernetes and CNCF tooling to open source AI models, inference infrastructure, developer tooling and open source project governance, and surfaces the real work happening inside production environments.

Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Where: Online, worldwide
Format: Single-track, virtual
Location: Global, online
Call for speakers: Open now

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Agenda

The day at a glance.

A single-track virtual summit with practitioner-led talks across cloud native, open source AI and platform engineering.

4:00–4:10 PM
Opening
Welcome Address
Ethan SumnerFounder & CEO, Community Stack
4:10–4:40 PM
Opening Keynote
AI Has Addictively Fast Feedback Loops
Steve FentonPrincipal DevEx Researcher, Octopus Deploy
4:40–5:10 PM
The AI Agent Didn't Have Access. So How Did It Reach Production?
Viola LykovaFounder, Viola Security
5:10–5:40 PM
From Scripts to Reconciliation Loops: Operating Hyperledger Fabric with Kubernetes
Pereowei DanielCloud Infrastructure Engineer, DLM Capital
5:40–6:00 PMBreak
6:00–6:30 PM
Running AI Inference on Kubernetes: What Platform Engineers Need to Know
Ravindra BhargavaStaff Software Deployment Engineer, UPS
6:30–7:00 PM
Observability In The Age Of AI
Richard SimonCTO, T-Systems
7:00–7:30 PM
Terraform and Ansible Are Not an Operating Model
Jeleel MuibiInfrastructure & Automation Engineer, HybridOps
7:30–8:00 PM
Cloud-Native Open Source Software and Standards in the TV Industry
Paul MarkhamHead of What's Next, Markham Digital Media
8:00 PM onwards
Closing
Closing Address
Ethan SumnerFounder & CEO, Community Stack

Speakers

Practitioners on stage.

Practitioners and leaders from across cloud native engineering, open source AI and platform engineering.

Steve Fenton

Principal DevEx Researcher, Octopus Deploy

Researches the socio-technical systems behind software delivery at Octopus Deploy, exploring GitOps, platform engineering, continuous delivery and compliance. Eight-time Microsoft MVP, DORA Community Guide, CD Foundation Governing Board member and contributor to the CNCF Platform Engineering Community Group.

Viola Lykova

Founder, Viola Security

Founder of Viola Security and CTO at nuclecode, working across cloud security, platform engineering and production infrastructure. Around nine years of experience in software and infrastructure engineering, including leading engineering teams, designing cloud-native systems and working on identity, access control and production security. An active technical speaker on IAM, cloud security, SRE and production access risk.

Pereowei Daniel

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, DLM Capital

Cloud infrastructure engineer and open-source contributor working across Kubernetes, automation and distributed ledger infrastructure. Contributed Chaincode-as-a-Service support to Fablo and is now developing FabricOps, a Kubernetes operator hosted by LF Decentralized Trust Labs, focused on turning complex infrastructure workflows into reliable, declarative developer experiences.

Ravindra Bhargava

Staff Software Deployment Engineer, UPS

Cloud and platform engineering leader with more than a decade of experience building enterprise-scale applications and cloud-native platforms. Work spans Kubernetes, Google Cloud, DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, observability and the infrastructure required to operate modern AI workloads reliably at scale.

Richard Simon

CTO, T-Systems

CTO and Cloud Native, Open Source and GenAI advocate with 36 years of IT industry experience, the last 15 focused on cloud computing. Has worked at IBM, Lenovo, SUSE, Mirantis, Heptio, WWT, Contino and T-Systems. Hosts the Cloud Therapist YouTube channel and regularly keynotes and hosts conferences and events.

Jeleel Muibi

Infrastructure & Automation Engineer, HybridOps

Infrastructure engineer working across hybrid infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, networking and disaster recovery. Creator of HybridOps and contributor to public infrastructure automation projects, focused on making infrastructure systems more reliable, explainable and easier for engineering teams to operate.

Paul Markham

Head of What's Next, Markham Digital Media

Over 25 years working on new technologies for radio and TV, from the development of DAB stations through to the launch of BBC iPlayer, automatic speech recognition in captioning and live sports delivery via the cloud. Runs the Cloud Native Media meetup group and YouTube channel, and was nominated for Inspiring Technologist 2024 by the Royal Television Society.

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