Topics and Types

CloudCon will have sessions on the following areas:

• Kubernetes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI & ML)
• Platform Engineering
• Security
• Other

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Speakers

16 speakers confirmed so far for CloudCon Sydney 2026, 9-10 November at ICC Sydney.

• Adam Cassar
• Alex Eze
• Andrew Jeffree
• Anupam Phoghat
• Ayush Goyal
• Charlotte Fleming
• Daniel D'Alessandro
• Jacob Taylor
• Liz Fong-Jones
• Michael Fornaro
• Mitsuhiro Shibuya
• Olga Mirensky
• Osama Okunbo
• Sami Alakus
• Saurabh Mishra
• Vasilios Syrakis

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Sessions

Session	Speakers	Length
Building a serverless airplane tracker	Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb.io	20 min
Who's Stealing My CPU? Catching Noisy Neighbours with eBPF on Kubernetes	Olga Mirensky, Ping Identity	20 min
When your circuit breaker backfires — outlier detection in Istio and Envoy	Mitsuhiro Shibuya, Mercari	20 min
AI and platform maturity: the foundations that help AI deliver	Charlotte Fleming, Octopus Deploy	5 min
The Bot Might Be Your Customer - Rethinking Traffic Management	Adam Cassar, Peakhour.io & Daniel D'Alessandro, Peakhour.io	20 min
I'm Behind Seven Proxies: Demystifying Envoy on Kubernetes	Jacob Taylor, Canva & Vasilios Syrakis	20 min
The Telemetry Trap: Building Meaningful Open-Source Observability for Multi-Agent Systems	Anupam Phoghat, Core-X	20 min
Operators as Data: Why Lifecycle is Not a Separate Problem	Alex Eze, NHS	5 min
Who Load-Tests the Load Tester? 25 Million VUs and Everything That Broke	Ayush Goyal, Grafana Labs	20 min
The Day I Found Out My Policies Were Off	Osama Okunbo, Immibuddy	20 min
Streaming Under Fire	Michael Fornaro, Easygo & Sami Alakus, Easygo	20 min
Platform Patterns for AI on K8s: Admission, Isolation & Observability That Work	Saurabh Mishra, Vodafone	20 min
ArgoCD, 16,000 Apps, and a Trail of Questionable Decisions	Andrew Jeffree, SafetyCulture	20 min

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Past speakers from CloudCon Sydney 2025 are listed on the full speaker archive.