Agenda
Day 1: Tuesday 9th September 2025
Morning Session
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 830 - 930 | Delegate Registration | - | Foyer |
| 930 - 1230 | Workshop: GitOps Meets AIOps: Building Next-Gen Kubernetes Platforms | AWS | Cockle Bay Room 1 |
| 930 - 1230 | Workshop: ClickStack in Action: Building Real-Time Observability for Developers | Clickhouse | Cockle Bay Room 2 |
Afternoon Session
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1230 - 1330 | Networking Lunch | - | Exhibition Hall |
| 1330 - 1345 | Opening Session | Conference Organisers | Cockle Bay |
| 1345 - 1400 | "AI-Powered Platform Engineering: Lessons from Octopus" | Matthew Casperson - Octopus Deploy | Cockle Bay |
| 1400 - 1415 | "Building AI Agents with Dapr" | Will Velida - Microsoft | Cockle Bay |
| 1415 - 1430 | "Golden Paths or Spaghetti Pipelines: The Darth Vader of Platformers" | Prithvi Raj - Mirantis | Cockle Bay |
| 1430 - 1500 | Afternoon Tea | - | Exhibition Hall |
| 1500 - 1515 | "Architecting Production-Ready AI Agents with Open Source on Kubernetes" | Frank Fan & Faisal Masood - AWS | Cockle Bay |
| 1515 - 1530 | Maximizing Cloud Efficiency - Minor Tweaks, Bigger Impact | Praneet Chandra - CloudKeeper | Cockle Bay |
| 1530 - 1545 | "Death by Snowflakes" | Gerald Bachlmayr - Patterned Security | Cockle Bay |
| 1545 - 1600 | "Our Journey in AI Platform Engineering" | Brad McCoy - Cuscal | Cockle Bay |
| 1630 - 1730 | Welcome Reception | - | Ground Flour outside ICC |
Day 2: Wednesday 10th September 2025
Morning Session
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 830 - 915 | Delegate Registration | - | Foyer |
| 915 - 925 | Opening Session | Brendon Thwaites | Cockle Bay |
| 925 - 950 | Sponsor Panel | Sponsor Panel | Cockle Bay |
| 950 - 1005 | "Observability and Agentic AI - From Observability to Answers (and new challenges)" | Johnny Mirza - Clickhouse | Cockle Bay |
| 1005 - 1025 | "Unseen Risks: A Security Founder’s View of Cloud, AI, and the Gaps That Still Hurt Us" | Avi Shua - Orca Security | Cockle Bay |
| 1025 - 1040 | "The Idle Kubernetes Crisis: Why You're Wasting 70% of Your Compute" | Anatoly Litovsky - Glasswing | Cockle Bay |
| 1040 - 1110 | Morning Tea | - | Exhibition Hall |
| 1110 - 1140 | "Anatomy of a Kubernetes Release Cycle: A Practical Guide for End Users" | Wendy Ha - SEEK | Cockle Bay |
| 1140 - 1155 | "Building an observability platform for the future" | Sam Dwyer - Nine | Cockle Bay |
| 1155 - 1210 | "Eating the Elephant - How to land and expand your Kubernetes knowledge for a better career" | Paul O’Reilly - Octopus Deploy | Cockle Bay |
| 1210 - 1225 | "AI Observability with Envoy AI Gateway: From Black Box to Glass Box" | Adrian Cole - Tetrate.io | Cockle Bay |
| 1225 - 1325 | Networking Lunch | - | Exhibition Hall |
Afternoon Session
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1325 - 1345 | "Argo at Enterprise Scale: Automating Hundreds of Cluster Deployments with GitOps" | Carlos Santana - AWS | Cockle Bay |
| 1345 - 1400 | "From Failure to Success: Architecting Away Cloud Native Anti-Patterns" | Bojan Zivic - AWS Ambassador | Cockle Bay |
| 1400 - 1415 | "Gitless GitOps with FluxCD" | Michael Fornaro - EasyGo | Cockle Bay |
| 1415 - 1430 | "Don't Pay for Noise: Strategic Traffic Management to Slash Your Cloud Bills" | Adam Cassar - Peakhour.IO | Cockle Bay |
| 1430 - 1445 | "Implementing custom rate limiting with Istio" | Artur Rajski - Zepto | Cockle Bay |
| 1445 - 1500 | "Cloud at Speed, Security at Scale" | Rad Kanapathipillai - DevOps1 | Cockle Bay |
| 1500 - 1530 | Afternoon Tea | - | Exhibition Hall |
| 1530 - 1545 | "Gateway API - 5 things about the future of Ingress, in 5" | Leon Seng - F5 | Cockle Bay |
| 1545 - 1600 | "Building a scalable Edge Gateway Platform using istio and kubernetes" | Harpreet Singh - Staff Software Engineer at Rokt | Cockle Bay |
| 1600 - 1615 | "Platform Engineering IS Software Engineering" | Miguel Elias dos Santos - SafetyCulture | Cockle Bay |
| 1615 - 1630 | "The Self-Hosted LLMs: Secure & Scalable Inference with Kubernetes" | Gajan Kugamoorthy - Vivanti | Cockle Bay |
| 1630 - 1645 | "The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: 30 Years of Citizen Science" | James Bannan - CyberCX | Cockle Bay |
| 1645 - 1655 | Raffle draw | - | Cockle Bay |
| 1655 - 1700 | Wrap up and closing | - | Cockle Bay |