KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Full Schedule

In-person
1-4 April 2025
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11:15 BST

🚨 Contribfest: Kyverno - Let's Automate SecOps With Policy as Code!

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 12:30 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

This session will help you to learn about and contribute to Kyverno, the “Swiss army knife” of Kubernetes that elegantly solves key challenges across security, automation, and compliance.

In this interactive session, Kyverno maintainers will discuss Kyverno’s architecture, the role of each component, show you how to set up your development environment, and guide you on how you can contribute to the project. They will also discuss the project roadmap, and key areas for future development.

Bring your questions, ideas, and use cases and engage with the community to get started as a CNCF

Join us to shape the future of Kubernetes security and compliance together!

Speakers

Jim Bugwadia

Founder and CEO, Nirmata

Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer... Read More →

Frank Jogeleit

Senior Software Engineer, Nirmata

Frank works as a Senior Software Engineer for Nirmata and works with cloud technologies on a daily basis. In addition to his daily job, he supports various cloud native organizations such as Falco and Kyverno. Since 2021 he has been developing various tools, such as his tool "Policy... Read More →

Charles-Edouard Brétéché

Kyverno maintainer, Nirmata

Charles-Edouard Brétéché is a Staff Engineer at Nirmata, a maintainer for Kyverno, and has created and contributed to various open source projects. including a Terraform provider for kOps. He has been building and delivering software for more than 20 years, as a software engineer... Read More →

Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 12:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

🚨 Contribfest, Kyverno

14:30 BST

🚨 Contribfest: Dive Into Cert-manager and Start Contributing!

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:45 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

Join us for a hands-on, interactive session with the cert-manager maintainers and community! cert-manager, a graduated CNCF project, automates certificate management for Kubernetes and is a critical component for securing cloud-native applications. This workshop is perfect for both first-time contributors and seasoned open-source enthusiasts. You'll learn about cert-manager's architecture, the role of its key components, and how to set up your environment to start contributing. We’ll walk through the contribution process, tackle curated GitHub issues, and provide guidance tailored to your skill level. Whether you're interested in improving code, documentation, or community engagement, this session offers a great way to make an impact while learning valuable skills. Let’s build cert-manager together!

Speakers

Maël Valais

Software Engineer, cert-manager Maintainer, CyberArk

Maël Valais is a Software Engineer at CyberArk. Maël has been working in the cloud-native space for the past 6 years and has been a maintainer on the cert-manager project for the past 3 years. Before becoming a software engineer, Maël used to be in academia and defended his PhD... Read More →

Erik Godding Boye

Platform Engineer, Zenior

Erik has 25+ years of experience as a software developer working as a contractor for multiple companies in various industries in Norway, For the last five years, he has been building value-added services on top of large multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters ensuring development teams... Read More →

Richard Wall

Programmer, Venafi (A CyberArk Company)

cert-manager maintainer.

Wednesday April 2, 2025 14:30 - 15:45 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

🚨 Contribfest, cert-manager

16:15 BST

🚨 Contribfest: OpenTelemetry Contribfest

Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 17:30 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

We are bringing the OpenTelemetry ContribFest to Europe! This hands-on session is the perfect opportunity for new contributors to dive into one of the most impactful open-source projects in observability. Guided by maintainers from across the project—spanning the Collector, Go, Java, JavaScript, and more—you’ll receive personalized support to make your first contribution.

Building on the success of previous ContribFests in Chicago and Salt Lake City, this session promises an engaging and supportive environment. As one of the KubeCon staff in Salt Lake City remarked, "It’s the ContribFest where most people stayed until the very end," even when it was scheduled in the last slot on a Friday!

Whether you’re a developer, SRE, or just curious about OpenTelemetry, this session is designed to empower you with the skills and confidence to contribute to open source. No prior experience with OpenTelemetry is required—just bring your laptop and enthusiasm!

Speakers

Jason Plumb

Software Engineer, Splunk

Jason Plumb (he/him) is a hacker, artist, experimenter, polyglot programmer, and dad from Portland, OR, USA. He is co-maintainer of OpenTelemetry Android and an approver in various OpenTelemetry java projects. When not at work, Jason volunteers with Futel to install and maintain a... Read More →

Jamie Danielson

Senior Software Engineer, Honeycomb

Jamie is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb where she works on instrumentation libraries. She is an active contributor to multiple OpenTelemetry projects, and is a maintainer for OpenTelemetry JavaScript. When she’s not working she’s playing dek hockey.

Marc Pichler

Maintainer, OpenTelemetry JavaScript, Dynatrace

Marc is a Senior Software Engineer at Dynatrace and a Maintainer for OpenTelemetry JavaScript. Previously working internally on various open source integrations, Marc transitioned to a more upstream-focused role and joined the group of OpenTelemetry JavaScript Maintainers in 2023... Read More →

Tyler Yahn

Software Engineer, Splunk

Tyler Yahn is a Senior Software Engineer at Splunk and a Maintainer of the OpenTelemetry Go project. He has a background in designing, building, and running distributed systems. Currently, he devotes his time to building and improving OpenTelemetry.

Wednesday April 2, 2025 16:15 - 17:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

🚨 Contribfest, OpenTelemetry

11:00 BST

🚨 Contribfest: Contribute With Confidence: Dive Into Backstage!

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 12:15 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

Join us for an engaging session on Backstage, a CNCF project that powers Internal Developer Portals with its rich plugin ecosystem. We’ll guide you through setting up your environment with tools like Node.js and TypeScript, introduce you to the Backstage Contributing Guide, and help you explore beginner-friendly GitHub issues with expert support.

For more seasoned Backstage developers, use this session to create a plugin and extend Backstage’s functionality. Engage with maintainers, ask questions, and gain valuable insights into the project. Whether you’re new or experienced, this is your chance to make an impact and contribute to the Backstage community!

Speakers

Bethany Griggs

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and a Node.js Collaborator. Beth has been involved with the Node.js project since 2016 when she joined IBM in their Node.js Runtime Team. Now at Red Hat, she’s continuing her work around Node.js, including contributing to the Node.js project where... Read More →

Patrik Oldsberg

Senior Engineer, Spotify

Patrik is a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify and a core maintainer of Backstage. In 2019 he joined the team in Spotify’s platform organization that owned the Backstage platform, and worked together with the rest of the team to bring it out in the open. Before joining Spotify... Read More →

Peter MacDonald

Software Engineer, VodafoneZiggo

I am Peter Macdonald! A full-stack software engineer currently working at VodafoneZiggo in the Netherlands integrating Backstage as an internal developer platform. I am a big Open Source Software advocate and contributor and love spending my free time thinking of creative ways to... Read More →

André Wanlin

Customer Success Engineer, Spotify

André, a full Stack Developer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is an active member of the Backstage open source project having contributed 3 plugins - Azure DevOps, DevTools, and Linguist - as well as various features, bug fixes and documentation updates. He's often found on the... Read More →

Vincenzo Scamporlino

Senior Software Engineer, Spotify

Vincenzo is a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify, based in Stockholm, and members of the Backstage core team. With a career that began as a Mobile Engineer in Digital Creative Agencies, he later transitioned to Full-Stack Engineering. Today, you might find him on Discord, engaging... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:00 - 12:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

🚨 Contribfest, Backstage

14:15 BST

🚨 Contribfest: Enhancing Your Developers Experience With Score

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 15:30 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

Join us to contribute to Score, a CNCF Sandbox project. Score, as a developer-centric and platform-agnostic workload specification, aims to ensure consistent configuration between local and remote environments.
In this session, we will guide your through how you can contribute to either the docs (in Markdown), the source code of score-go library (in Go) or the two CLIs implementations: score-compose and score-k8s (in Go).
Attendees who would like to fix bugs and implement new features can pair program with maintainers to directly contribute and have impact to the Score project. We will also guide anyone who would like to write their own provisioners to provision external dependencies with OpenTofu, Crossplane, etc.

Speakers

Mathieu Benoit

Cloud Native Ambassador & Customer Success Engineer, Humanitec

I’m passionate about Cloud Native Computing technologies driven by Open Source, Cloud, Security, SRE, Containers, DevOps, Platform Engineering and Kubernetes. Based on my past experiences as software engineer, IT consultant, solution architect and customer success engineer, I now... Read More →

Ben Meier

Principal Engineer, Humanitec

I'm a principal engineer at Humanitec working on the backend orchestration services that power the Platform Orchestrator. At the same time, I contribute to the Score CNCF project and its open source implementations and tools that define the standard workload specification.

Chris Stephenson

CTO Humanitec, Score maintainer, Humanitec

Chris has been building platforms to help developers be more effective and less dependant on others for over 10 years. He has experience working in the City of London, Google and also a number of startups. In his current role as CTO at Humanitec he is trying to package what he has... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 14:15 - 15:30 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

🚨 Contribfest, Score

16:00 BST

🚨 Contribfest: KubeStellar Contribfest

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 17:15 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

Join the KubeStellar maintainers to make the project better for everyone. You can choose between several opportunities to contribute, and you can count on maintainers from different project areas to help you on your first steps: Our first User Interface, documentation, website, GO lang, and more.

Speakers

Andy Anderson

Software Architect, IBM

Andy is an experienced software architect with a strong track record of leading research and engineering teams on hybrid cloud and Kubernetes-based platform development. He has a wealth of experience in software development, cloud computing, and data analysis. Andy is particularly... Read More →

Paolo Dettori

Sr. Technical Staff Member, IBM

Paolo Dettori is a Sr. Technical Staff Member at IBM Research in NY. His research interests are in distributed systems, cloud and open-source technologies. Paolo authored and coauthored several journal and conference papers, and he holds several patents issued in the United States... Read More →

Franco Stellari

Dr, IBM Research

Franco Stellari is with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. He has more than 100 international publications and more than 45 granted patents. Some of his work in the field of advanced detectors was recognized with the Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 17:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

🚨 Contribfest, KubeStellar

11:00 BST

🚨 Contribfest: Make Your Own UI for Kubernetes With Headlamp

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 12:15 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

Wanna help make CNCF tools simpler to use by everyone? Do you have your own Kubernetes tool and would like to quickly set up a GUI for it? Or maybe you want to contribute to an open source, CNCF Sandbox project, aimed at making Kubernetes easier to tame for everyone? Well, hope aboard and join the Headlamp Contribfest!
Headlamp is an open source, CNCF Sandbox, Kubernetes UI that offers a great UX for managing Kubernetes, and is extensible via plugins.
This session offers several opportunities to contribute to Headlamp, or to leverage it for your own project.
As Headlamp's maintainers, we will be giving a quick workshop on how to create your own plugin and explain how to also start contributing upstream to the Headlamp core project. We are also happy to brainstorm ideas around how to improve the project or the overall Kubernetes UX.
Looking forward to meeting you!

Speakers

Joaquim Rocha

Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Joaquim has been involved in a number of Free and Open Source Software projects for the past 15 years, from the Linux desktop and phones to the cloud. He is an Emeritus Member of the GNOME Foundation and has been a speaker in events such as KubeCon, GUADEC, and FOSDEM. Joaquim currently... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00 - 12:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

🚨 Contribfest, Headlamp

13:45 BST

🚨 Contribfest: Securing the Kubernetes Host by Finding Kernel Vulnerabilities

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 15:00 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

Join the session on how Kubescape will add functionality that enhances Kubernetes security by implementing vulnerability scanning of the Kubernetes host.
We'll talk about what it takes to identify and address critical kernel vulnerabilities that can significantly impact cluster security.
Don't miss this opportunity to contribute to the security of the cloud-native ecosystem!

Speakers

Ben Hirschberg

Co-founder and CTO, ARMO

Ben is a veteran cybersecurity and DevOps professional, as well as computer science lecturer. Today, he is the co-founder at ARMO, with a vision of making end-to-end Kubernetes security simple for everyone, and a core maintainer of the open source Kubescape project. He teaches advanced... Read More →

Oshrat Nir

Developer Advocate, ARMO

Oshrat Nir is the Developer Advocate at ARMO, where she helps customers adopt Kubernetes security. She has over 20 years of IT experience, including roles at Amdocs and Giant Swarm. She is a big believer in transparency and community, and she loves telling stories. She excels at... Read More →

Matthias Bertschy

Senior Kubernetes Developer, ARMO

Matthias is a Senior Kubernetes Developer at ARMO working on Kubescape. In 2011 he joined a leading security solution provider in Switzerland to become a Security System Engineer. Certified as an Ethical Hacker in 2012 (GPEN certification) and a CISSP in 2015.He has become a regular... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 13:45 - 15:00 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 1

🚨 Contribfest, Kubescape