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Red Hat at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
Visit the Red Hat booth #705 onsite in the sponsor showcase to speak with our open source experts. As the largest open source company in the world, we build and support open source products from open source projects. With open source, we equip our customers for success.
Connect to discuss AI, security, developer tools, Red Hat OpenShift®, and talk all things open with our team.
Keynote
Inference and Sovereign AI: Scaling Cloud-Native AI with Control and Compliance
Wednesday March 25 | 9:00 CET
Hall 12
Vincent Caldeira, Chief Technology Officer APAC, Red Hat
- Karena Angell, Chief of Staff, Field CTO, Red Hat
AI is moving rapidly from experimentation to critical production workloads—but deploying inference pipelines at scale presents unique challenges. Enterprises need solutions that are high-performance, resilient, and compliant, ensuring both operational efficiency and data sovereignty.
Here we will introduce Sovereign AI, a Kubernetes-native approach to orchestrating inference workloads that balances performance, scalability, and control. We’ll explore real-world strategies for hardware-aware scheduling, dynamic scaling, multi-tenant resource management, and observability, helping teams run low-latency, high-throughput AI services on heterogeneous infrastructure. Attendees will learn practical patterns for containerizing models, optimizing GPU and accelerator usage, and monitoring AI workloads in production, all while maintaining compliance with regulatory or enterprise requirements. Harness Kubernetes to deploy AI workloads that are not only efficient and resilient but also secure and sovereign.
OpenShift Commons Gathering
March 23, 2026 | 07:00 CET
Pencil us in! Red Hat’s OpenShift Commons Gathering takes place on March 23!
Join our community of OpenShift users to get the most out of your application platform. Highlights include:
- Join us in Amsterdam for a no-cost, in-person OpenShift Commons Gathering alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. This event brings together the global OpenShift community-including users, contributors, partners, and Red Hat experts-to share knowledge, build connections, and learn from real production experiences.
- Hear practitioner-driven talks on app modernization, developer productivity, AI/LLM workloads, supply chain security, VM migration, GitOps, edge, and scaling OpenShift across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Expect practical insights you can bring back to your team.
Co-located events
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BackstageCon
Monday, March 23 | 09:00 CET
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Cloud Native Telco Day
Monday, March 23 | 09:00 CET
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Speaking Sessions
Tuesday, March 24 |
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11:15 CET |
Helm 4 Is Here. So Now What?Andrew Block, Distinguished Artifact, Red Hat Robert Sirchia, Director of Technical & Community Marketing, SUSE Contribufest: Get Started Contributing To bootcColin Walters, Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat Laura Santamaria, Community Architect, Red Hat Alice Frosi, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Preethi Thomas, Director, Engineering, Red Hat Joseph Marrero Corchado, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Contribufest: Improving Submariner in Support of Privacy-preserving Federated Statistics Research on KubernetesStephen Kitt, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Julien D., DevOps Engineer, Lausanne University Hospital |
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14:30 CET |
Make GenAI Production-Ready With Kubernetes PatternsRoland Huss , Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat Bilgin Ibryam, Product Manager, Diagrid Not Yet Another Envoy Implementation - Exploring Kgateway To Write Your Own GatewayAPI BackendRicardo Katz, Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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15:15 CET |
Rust Vs. Go: Building a Container Network Stack From ScratchMatt Heon, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Shivang K Raghuvanshi, Former LFX Mentee, Podman Container Tools | Student, Independent / Open Source Contributor Kubernetes Network Driver Unpacked: Modularity, Trade-offs and the Road AheadLionel Jouin, Software Engineer, Red Hat Antonio Ojea , Software Engineer, Google Sunyanan Choochotkaew, Staff Research Scientist, IBM Kubeflow in Cloud Native AI: Orchestrating the Next Wave of Agentic AI and LLMOps(E103-105) Antonin Stefanutti , Software Engineer, Red Hat Valentina Rodriguez Sosa, Principal Architect, Red Hat Michael Zazula, Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Capital One Johnu George, Technical Director, Nutanix Alexander Perlman, Senior Lead Software Engineer, Capital One |
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16:15 CET |
From Static Tokens to Attestation: The Evolution of Secure Node Joining(F002-005) Michael McCune , Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Rita Zhang , Principal software engineer, Microsoft Justin Santa Barbara, Software Engineer, Google Ciprian Hacman, Software Engineer, Microsoft Jack Francis, Principal Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft What's New with Kubectl and Kustomize ... and How You Can Help!(E106-108) Arda Guclu, Software Engineer, Red Hat Maciej Szulik, Staff Platform Engineer, Defense Unicorns Eddie Zaneski , Field CTO, Defense Unicorns Yugo Kobayashi , Software Engineer, SB Intuitions Marly Salazar , Staff Software Engineer, Integral Ad Science |
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17:00 CET |
From Laptop to Cluster: Running AI Workloads Seamlessly from Podman to Kubernetes(Hall 8 | Room E) Urvashi Mohnani, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Ashley Cui , Software Engineer, Red Hat SIG Network: The State of Networking for AI on Kubernetes(E103-105) David Martin, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Shane Utt , Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Etai Lev Ran , STSM, IBM Nadia Pinaeva , Senior Software Engineer, Nvidia Haiyan Meng , Senior Software Engineer, Google |
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Wednesday, March 25 |
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11:00 CET |
Tutorial: Building Intelligent Apps with RAG on Kubernetes: From Raw Data to Real-Life Insights(Elicium 1) Natale Vinto, Technical Director, Evangelism, Red Hat Christopher Nuland, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat Cedric Clyburn, Senior Developer Advocate, Red Hat Legare Kerrison , Red Hat |
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11:45 CET |
Fusing FinOps, Forecasting, and Kubernetes at Scale(Hall 11) Ankur Singh, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat Satyam Bhardwaj , Software Engineer, Mirantis Route, Serve, Adapt, Repeat: Adaptive Routing for AI Inference Workloads in Kubernetes(Auditorium) Nir Rozenbaum , Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Kellen Swain, Software Engineer, Google SIG- Windows Updates(E106-108) JR Valdes , Software Engineer, Red Hat Mark Rossetti, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft |
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14:15 CET |
How Will Customized Kubernetes Distributions Work for You? A Discussion on Options and Use Cases(F002-005) Michael McCune, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Joel Speed , Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Bridget Kromhout , Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Walter Fender , Staff Software Engineer, Google Jesse Butler , Principal Product Manager, AWS Tutorial: DRA-matically Simple: On-Demand GPUs for MLOps(Elicium 1) Doug Smith, Principal MLOps Engineer, Red Hat Miguel Duarte Barroso, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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15:00 CET |
From First Contribution to Leadership: Lessons on Becoming a CNCF Leader(Hall 7 | Room A) Faseela Kundattil, Experienced Cloud-native Developer, Ericsson Antonio Ojea, Software Engineer, Google Priyanka Saggu, Technical Lead – SIG Contributor Experience, SUSE Nir Rozenbaum, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Improving Pod Disruption and Node Lifecycle(F002-005) Ryan Hallisey, Principal Software Engineer, Nvidia Lucy Sweet, Platform Operations & Integrations, Uber Filip Křepinský, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Jaeger V2: The Maintainers' Guide To OpenTelemetry-Native Tracing(Amtrium 1+2) Pavol Loffay, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat The Road To Strimzi 1.0(G102-103) Jakub Scholz, Red Hat Paolo Patierno, Senior Principal Software Engineer, IBM |
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16:00 CET |
AI-Powered Cloud Native Modernization: From Real Challenges to Concrete Solutions(Hall 8 | Room E) Daniel Oh, Senior Principal Developer Advocate, IBM Savitha Raghunathan, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Duncan Doyle, Director of Product, Solo.io Kenneth Kilty, Technical Program Manager, Microsoft SIG-Multicluster Intro and Deep Dive(E106-108) Stephen Kitt, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson, Principal Engineer, Google Laura Lorenz, Software Engineer, Google Contribfest: Prometheus New Contributor Introduction(G107) Ben Kochie, Principal Engineer, Reddit Bryan Boreham, Distinguished Engineer, Grafana Labs Saswata Mukherjee, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Arianna Vespri, Founding Backend Engineer, OllyGarden Tutorial: Full-Stack Observability on a Budget: A Guide to Strategic Sampling and Data Optimization(Elicium 1) Pavol Loffay, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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16:45 CET |
Explore TAG Workloads Foundation: Advancing Cloud Native Execution From Core Runtime To Applications(F002-005) Marlow Warnicke, Senior Engineer, Nvidia Yuan Tang, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Stephen Rust, Principal Architect, Akamai Cloud Kubernetes SIG Storage: Intro & Deep Dive(G102-103) Jan Šafránek, Software Engineer, Red Hat Xing Yang, Tech Lead, VMware by Broadcom Kubernetes Third Party Audit Review(Hall 8 | Room F) Iain Smart, Principal Consultant, AmberWolf Rita Zhang, Principal software engineer, Microsoft Amir Montazery, Managing Director, Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc (OSTIF) Rey Lejano, Solutions Architect, Kubernetes SIG Docs co-chair, Kubernetes SIG Security subproject lead, Red Hat Pietro Tirenna, Security Researcher, Shielder |
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17:30 CET |
Snapshots Gone Wild: Taming Multi-PVC Chaos with VolumeGroupSnapshot(Hall 8 | Room E) Scott Seago, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Shubham Dilip Pampattiwar, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Let Your Network Speak!(G102-103) Joel Takvorian, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Nadia Pinaeva, Senior Software Engineer, Nvidia |
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Thursday, March 26 |
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11:00 CET |
Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform for Both Predictive and Generative AI(E103-105) Dan Sun, Engineer team lead, Bloomberg Yuan Tang, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Enforce VIP Access Only Through Node Attestation(Forum) Alice Frosi, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Jakob Naucke, Software Engineer, Red Hat Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Opening Remarks and Community Update(Halls 1-5) Itamar Holder, Principle Software Engineer, Red Hat Andrew Burden, Community Facilitator, Red Hat Contribfest: Podman/Buildah Contribfest(G107) Matt Heon, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Neil Smith, Podman Evangelist, Red Hat Tutorial: KV-Cache Wins You Can Feel: Building AI-Aware LLM Routing on Kubernetes(Elicium 1) Michal Malka, Researcher, IBM Research Danny Harnik, STSM, IBM Research Kay Yan, Principal Software Engineer, DaoCloud Maroon Ayoub, Research Scientist & Architect, IBM Tyler Michael Smith, Chief Architect, Inference Engineering, Red Hat |
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11:45 CET |
AI Agents & Platform Engineering: Efficiency Boost or New Source of Trouble?(Auditorium) Idit Levine, Founder & CEO, Solo.io Vincent Caldeira, CTO APAC, Red Hat Sara Qasmi, Senior Platform Engineer, NTT Data Carlos Santana, Sr. Specialist SA, Containers, AWS Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V Your Pods: WG Checkpoint Restore in Kubernetes(Elicium 2) Adrian Reber, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Peter Hunt, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Viktória Spišaková, IT architect, Masaryk University Radostin Stoyanov, PhD Student, University of Oxford Multi-Network Step-by-Step: Enabling SR-IOV Support From Kubernetes Network (DRA) Drivers(Hall 7 | Room C) Lionel Jouin, Lionel Jouin Masaharu Kanda, Senior Research Engineer, NTT, Inc. Advancing Kubernetes AI Conformance: Current State and Roadmap(G102-103) Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer, Google Rita Zhang, Principal software engineer, Microsoft Yuan Tang, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Mario Fahlandt, Customer Delivery Architect, Kubermatic Evolution or Revolution: Istio as the Network Platform for Cloud Native(Amtrium 1+2) Daniel Grimm, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Mitch Connors, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft |
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13:10 CET |
Cloud Native Theater | KubeVirt Summit: Bridging Islands: EVPN Overlays for Multi-Cluster KubeVirt(Halls 1-5) Miguel Duarte, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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13:45 CET |
AI'm at the Gate! Introducing the AI Gateway Working Group in Kubernetes(E106-108) Shachar Tal, Distinguished Engineer, Palo Alto Networks Kellen Swain, Software Engineer, Google Nir Rozenbaum, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Morgan Foster, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat KubeVirt's Evolution: Governance, Features, and Community Growth(E103-105) Itamar Holder, Principle Software Engineer, Red Hat Sreeja Varnam, System Software Engineer, NVIDIA Prometheus V3 One Year In: OpenMetrics 2.0 and More!(Amtrium 1+2) Bartłomiej Płotka, Senior Software Engineer TL, Google Jan Fajerski, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat |
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Metal3.io’s Path to CNCF Incubation: Governance, Processes, and Community(Hall 7 | Room B) Dmitry Tantsur, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Kashif Khan, Maintainer | CNCF Tag Infra Co-chair | Open Source Architect, Ericsson CRI-O: Faster Pulls, Better Metrics, and a Future Beyond Images(F002-005) Sohan Kunkerkar, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Ayato Tokubi, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Redefining SLIs for LLM Inference: Managing Hybrid Cloud with vLLM & LLM-D(Hall 7 | Room A) Hilliary Lipsig, Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Red Hat Christopher Nuland, Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat |
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SIG Docs and You: The New Chapter of the Kubernetes API Reference Generator(F002-005) Kat Cosgrove, Head of Developer Advocacy, Minimus Lavish Pal, LFX Mentee @Kubernetes, Independent Rey Lejano, Solutions Architect, Kubernetes SIG Docs co-chair, Kubernetes SIG Security subproject lead, Red Hat WG-Batch Updates: What’s New and What Is Next?(E103-105) Kevin Hannon, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat Yuki Iwai, Software Engineer, CyberAgent, Inc. |
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