Agenda

Day 1: Tuesday 9th September 2025

Time	Title	Speaker	Location
8:30 - 9:30	Delegate Registration	-	Foyer
9:30 - 12:30	Workshop: GitOps Meets AIOps: Building Next-Gen Kubernetes Platforms	AWS	Cockle Bay Room 1
9:30 - 12:30	Workshop: ClickStack in Action: Building Real-Time Observability for Developers	Clickhouse	Cockle Bay Room 2

Time	Title	Speaker	Location
12:30 - 13:30	Networking Lunch	-	Exhibition Hall
13:30 - 13:45	Opening Session	Conference Organisers	Cockle Bay
	TBA	TBA	Cockle Bay
	"Building AI Agents with Dapr"	Will Velida - Microsoft	Cockle Bay
	TBA	TBA	Cockle Bay
14:30 - 15:00	Afternoon Tea	-	Exhibition Hall
	TBA	TBA	Cockle Bay
	TBA	TBA	Cockle Bay
	TBA	TBA	Cockle Bay
	"Our Journey in AI Platform Engineering"	Brad McCoy - CNCF Ambassador	Cockle Bay
16:30 - 17:30	Welcome Reception	-	Ground Flour outside ICC

Time	Title	Speaker	Location
8:30 - 9:15	Delegate Registration	-	Foyer
9:15 - 9:25	Opening Session	Brendon Thwaites	Cockle Bay
	"Observability and Agentic AI - From Observability to Answers (and new challenges)"	Johnny Mirza - Clickhouse	Cockle Bay
	"Unseen Risks: A Security Founder’s View of Cloud, AI, and the Gaps That Still Hurt Us"	Avi Shua - Orca Security	Cockle Bay
	"The Idle Kubernetes Crisis: Why You're Wasting 70% of Your Compute"	Anatoly Litovsky - Glasswing	Cockle Bay
	TBA	Sponsor Panel	Cockle Bay
10:40 - 11:10	Morning Tea	-	Exhibition Hall
	"Anatomy of a Kubernetes Release Cycle: A Practical Guide for End Users"	Wendy Ha - SEEK	Cockle Bay
	"Building an observability platform for the future"	Sam Dwyer - Nine	Cockle Bay
	"Eating the Elephant - How to land and expand your Kubernetes knowledge for a better career"	Paul O’Reilly - Octopus Deploy	Cockle Bay
	"AI Observability with Envoy AI Gateway: From Black Box to Glass Box"	Adrian Cole - Tetrate.io	Cockle Bay
12:25 - 13:25	Networking Lunch	-	Exhibition Hall

Time	Title	Speaker	Location
	"Argo at Enterprise Scale: Automating Hundreds of Cluster Deployments with GitOps"	Carlos Santana - AWS	Cockle Bay
	"From Failure to Success: Architecting Away Cloud Native Anti-Patterns"	Bojan Zivic - AWS Ambassador	Cockle Bay
	"Gitless GitOps with FluxCD"	Michael Fornaro - EasyGo	Cockle Bay
	"Golden Paths or Spaghetti Pipelines: The Darth Vader of Platformers"	Prithvi Raj - Mirantis	Cockle Bay
	"Implementing custom rate limiting with Istio"	Artur Rajski - Zepto	Cockle Bay
	"Simplifying Kubernetes with AKS VS Code Extension"	Tatsat Mishra - Microsoft	Cockle Bay
	"Gateway API - 5 things about the future of Ingress, in 5"	Leon Seng - F5	Cockle Bay
14:55 - 15:25	Afternoon Tea	-	Exhibition Hall
	TBA	TBA	Cockle Bay
	"AI-Powered Platform Engineering: Lessons from Octopus"	Matthew Casperson - Octopus Deploy	Cockle Bay
	"Platform Engineering IS Software Engineering"	Miguel Elias dos Santos - SafetyCulture	Cockle Bay
	"The Self-Hosted LLMs: Secure & Scalable Inference with Kubernetes"	Gajan Kugamoorthy - Vivanti	Cockle Bay
	"The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: 30 Years of Citizen Science"	James Bannan - CyberCX	Cockle Bay
17:10 - 17:20	Raffle draw	-	Cockle Bay
17:20 - 17:25	Wrapup and closing	-	Cockle Bay