Platform Engineering at tech events
46 write-ups · 33 events · 2024–2026
This page collects talks, meetups and booth conversations on platform engineering and internal developer platforms. At PlatformCon, Red Hat Tech Day and the Amsterdam platform meetups, the same ideas recur: treating the platform as a product, adding AI and Kubernetes to golden paths, and how to measure whether developers actually benefit.
2026
22 Sept 2026 · AI Tech Summit "Filip Avramchev" 2026 · Skopje
AI Tech Summit Skopje 2026: From AI Demo to ProductionMy keynote at AI Tech Summit Filip Avramchev 2026 in Skopje, the sessions I photographed, and a practical checklist for taking AI from demo to production.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Maintaining Everything Forever: The Hidden Cost of Observability at ScaleBeyond deployment, the hidden cost of observability: complexity at scale, tracking debt, and costs that grow faster than you can control.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
KubeCon Japan 2026 Keynotes: AI Platforms at ScaleThe KubeCon Japan 2026 day 1 keynotes from Yokohama: SoftBank's infinite agents, Fujitsu's GPU-centric Kubernetes, PFN multi-tenancy and Hyundai's Argo CD.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Community & Takeaways from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026From KubeCon Japan 2026: the growing CNCF platform-engineering community in Japan, hallway-track moments, and how AI helped me discover volcanic eggs.
1 Jul 2026 · Platform Engineering Amsterdam #10: This is FIN(e)TECH · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering Amsterdam: This is FIN(e)TECH Meetup RecapRecap of the 10th Platform Engineering Amsterdam meetup: Kubernetes security at ING, dark matter supply-chain vulnerabilities, and secure platforms for AI.
25 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon 2026
PlatformCon 2026: Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AILessons orchestrating multi-tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI: GPU sharing, workload isolation, scheduling efficiency, and cost control.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Managing AI Agents at Platform Scale: Cloudsmith's TakeNigel Douglas of Cloudsmith on why LLMs running on individual workstations are shadow infrastructure platform teams need to own, not ignore.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Isovalent (Now Part of Cisco) on Simplifying Kubernetes NetworkingIsovalent, now part of Cisco, showed EVPN at PlatformCon London 2026 — consistent policy and connectivity from Kubernetes clusters through to the data center.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Kief Morris on AI Agents and Being 'Human on the Loop'Kief Morris of Thoughtworks on what engineering identity means when agents write the software: build the system that builds the software, not just the software.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Kyverno Graduates CNCF, and Nirmata Adds AI GovernanceKyverno reached CNCF graduation. Nirmata's CEO on layering AI agents over the policy engine for compliance automation, plus a new LLM governance layer.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
OpenBao Founder on Secrets Management for AI AgentsOpenBao founder Alex Scheel on why short-lived, fine-grained tokens matter more than ever once AI agents start holding credentials.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Your IDP Is the Foundation for Agentic AIA PlatformCon London 2026 session mapped how internal developer platforms evolve for the agentic era: agent paths, a governance plane, and agentic PR review.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
PlatformCon London 2026: The AI Era Runs on PlatformsRecap and full video playlist from PlatformCon Live Day London 2026: AI agents, IDPs, governance, observability, Kubernetes, and DevEx.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
AAP 2.7 Automation Portal & Execution Environment BuilderRed Hat's Automation Portal in AAP 2.7 adds a visual Execution Environment Builder, self-service template gallery, and guided workflows — no YAML.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
GPUs Take Flight: Multi-Tenant Platform Engineering atI presented safety-first multi-tenant GPU platform engineering with NVIDIA and Red Hat OpenShift AI at Red Hat Summit 2026 Discovery Theater in Atlanta.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Summit 2026: GPU Platform Engineering TalkLuca Berton presents 'GPUs take flight: Safety-first multi-tenant Platform Engineering with NVIDIA and Red Hat OpenShift AI' — a lightning talk at Red Hat.
7 May 2026 · DevWorld Conference 2026 · Amsterdam
DevWorld 2026: The Next Generation of AI Is Powered byA DevWorld 2026 keynote argued that the next generation of AI depends on infrastructure, not models — six pillars from latency to 100K req/s scale.
22 Apr 2026 · Platform Engineering Meetup NL (inaugural) · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering Meetup NL: Multi-TenantI am presenting 'Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI' at the first Platform Engineering Meetup NL in Amsterdam.
25 Mar 2026 · Advancing Platform Engineering on AI, K8s, and the Product Mindset · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering, AI, and K8s: KubeCon Amsterdam MeetupRecap of the Advancing Platform Engineering meetup in Amsterdam during KubeCon EU 2026, covering AI-ready platforms, Kubernetes, and product mindset.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
KubeCon Europe 2026 Keynotes and Sessions: On the SlidesWhat was on the slides at KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam: Saxo's service blueprint, SNCF on-prem autonomy, Red Hat sovereign AI and Tekton CI.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Events · Amsterdam
KubeCon EU 2026 Co-located Day: Talks and SlidesThe talks I sat in on at KubeCon Europe 2026's co-located day: golden paths, zero-day prep, backend-first IDPs, OpenTelemetry and a $10,000 Argo CD mistake.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
People of KubeCon Europe 2026: Hallway InterviewsFifteen short hallway interviews from KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam: contributors, a co-chair, observability vendors and a cluster in a cat carrier.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
KubeCon Europe 2026 Recap: My Week in PhotosKubeCon Europe 2026 in photos: co-located days, two Kubernetes Recipes book signings, my multi-tenant GPU talk on OpenShift AI, and the keynote hall.
21 Mar 2026 · Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 · Amsterdam
Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 Amsterdam: MC ExperienceCo-hosting Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 with Julia Hahn — 300+ engineers, deep technical talks, and the best B-side conference before KubeCon.
21 Mar 2026 · Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 · Amsterdam
Steve Wade (Platform Fix) at Rejekts 2026: Fewer ToolsTwo hallway interviews from Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 at Miro HQ: Steve Wade on deleting platform complexity, and Rodrigo on Miro's compute platform.
18 Mar 2026 · Platform Engineering Amsterdam: Human Intelligence · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering MeetUp Amsterdam: HumanRecap of Platform Engineering Amsterdam meetup at Tolhuistuin — agentic dev, inner sourcing IDPs, and cloud migration war stories.
11 Feb 2026 · Xebia meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
kro and Config Connector at a Xebia Meetup in AmsterdamNotes from a February 2026 evening at Xebia in Amsterdam: kro ResourceGraphDefinitions over Config Connector, then an infrastructure self-service agent.
2025
19 Nov 2025 · HOPE 2025 (HCS Open Platform Experience) and Agents in Production (MLOps x Prosus) · Amsterdam
Agents in Production at AI House and HOPE 2025One day in Amsterdam: a platform maturity model at HCS company's HOPE 2025, then Just Eat Takeaway's CTO on cultural lag at Agents in Production, AI House.
7 Nov 2025 · SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4 · Amsterdam
SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4: Observability, MCP, ClickStackNotes from SREday Amsterdam, 7 November 2025: decoupled observability, ClickStack, platform engineering for AI, securing MCP servers and Azure automation.
15 Oct 2025 · Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 · Utrecht
Red Hat Summit Connect Utrecht 2025: AI and SovereigntyNotes from Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in the Netherlands: Dutch AI priorities, open source sovereignty, vLLM and llm-d, Intel TDX and supply chain security.
25 Sept 2025 · Datadog User Group Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Datadog User Group Amsterdam 2025: Spec-Driven DevelopmentDatadog User Group Amsterdam, September 2025: Brent McLean on platforms you inherit, then Gunnar Grosch of AWS on moving from vibe coding to specs in Kiro.
23 Sept 2025 · EDGECASE 2025: The Multiverse Saga · Amersfoort
EDGECASE 2025 Amersfoort: Talk, Booths and InterviewsEDGECASE 2025 in Amersfoort: Justin Garrison's Disney+ story and booth interviews with Chainguard, Dell, Veeam, Sysdig, Sidero, HCS and TrueFullstaq.
17 Sept 2025 · Platform Engineering Amsterdam (September and November 2025) · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering Amsterdam Meetups, Autumn 2025Two Platform Engineering Amsterdam evenings in 2025: maturity data, OWASP LLM pen tests, fintech resilience, event sourcing, S3 savings and KubeDNA.
3 Jul 2025 · Dutch Cloud Native Day 2025 · Utrecht
Dutch Cloud Native Day 2025 – Field Notes from UtrechtA one-day deep-dive into the Benelux cloud-native scene covering Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, and platform engineering best practices.
4 Jun 2025 · Platform Engineering MeetUp & BBQ · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering BBQ Amsterdam 2025: ObservabilityPlatform Engineering Amsterdam's summer meetup and BBQ, June 2025: SUSE on observability from ice age to AI, and a fintech platform startup story.
3 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
Kubernetes at Scale: LinkedIn and New Relic, KubeCon 2025Two Kubernetes at scale talks from KubeCon London 2025: LinkedIn's bare-metal platform with ~5k-node clusters and New Relic's cell-based multi-cloud design.
2 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon London 2025: Kernel Lockup and Safety RulesDay two of KubeCon London 2025: keynote slides on CNCF at ten years, and a Fastly talk with a kernel lockup postmortem and five production safety rules.
1 Apr 2025 · Platform Engineering Day Europe 2025 · London
Platform Engineering Day London 2025: Abstraction DebtPlatform Engineering Day Europe at KubeCon London, 1 April 2025: a platform-hero quiz and a talk on abstraction debt, escape hatches and policy guardrails.
1 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon Europe 2025: Highlights with Luca BertonJoin Luca Berton as he takes you inside KubeCon Europe 2025 — from the Kube Train to the keynotes, automation, and AI talks!
20 Mar 2025 · Cloud Optimization 2025 · Amsterdam
ABN AMRO's FinOps Journey at Xebia Cloud Optimization 2025Notes from Xebia's Cloud Optimization 2025 evening in Amsterdam: ABN AMRO's six-year FinOps timeline, a maturity assessment, Wehkamp's cost bot and wiv.ai.
11 Mar 2025 · Data Union Amsterdam: MLOps in Practice · Amsterdam
MLOps in Practice: Data Union Amsterdam Panel 2025Data Union Amsterdam's MLOps panel: Adyen, Picnic, Ahold Delhaize and Schiphol on MLOps teams, platform blueprints and the Schiphol AI techstack.
12 Feb 2025 · Platform Engineering Amsterdam (February 2025) · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering Amsterdam Meetup, February 2025Platform Engineering Amsterdam, February 2025: Kyverno and VPA for cost optimisation, building a platform team, and a talk from free kicks to git commits.
25 Jan 2025 · BitBash 2025 · Veenendaal
BitBash 2025 Veenendaal: Quantum, IAM and Dev BoxBitBash 2025 at Info Support in Veenendaal: a Q# quantum session, Henry Been on IAM for engineering platforms, and Erwin Staal on Dev Box and ADE.
2024
3 Sept 2024 · Azure Platform Engineering Meetup · Utrecht
Azure Meetup Utrecht 2024: Verified Modules and Private DNSRabobank's Azure platform team on Template Specs, Azure Verified Modules and template tests, then Mark Scholman (CA8) on Private DNS in landing zones.
3 Jul 2024 · Grafana & Friends Amsterdam Summer Meetup · Amsterdam
Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry and Backstage: Meetup 2024Notes from Grafana & Friends Amsterdam on 3 July 2024: a Tempo and OpenTelemetry migration tracked with Backstage, plus Grafana's move to Scenes.
13 Jun 2024 · Dutch Kubernetes / Cloud Native Meetup: Happy Birthday, Kubernetes! · Amsterdam
Kubernetes 10th Birthday Meetup in AmsterdamThe Dutch Kubernetes / Cloud Native meetup celebrated 10 years of Kubernetes at Datadog in Amsterdam: a timeline, a cake, and an RTL platform adoption story.