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

21 speakers across 17 talks at CloudCon Sydney 2026, 9-10 November at ICC Sydney.

• Adam Cassar
• Alex Eze
• Andrew Jeffree
• Anupam Phoghat
• Charlotte Fleming
• Daniel D'Alessandro
• Frank Fan
• Gajan Kugamoorthy
• Jacob Taylor
• Liz Fong-Jones
• Michael Fornaro
• Mitsuhiro Shibuya
• Olga Mirensky
• Osama Okunbo
• Sami Alakus
• Saurabh Mishra
• Sheng Chen
• Tatiana Selezneva
• Vasilios Syrakis
• Wendy Ha
• Woh Shon Phoon

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Sessions

Session	Speakers	Length
Building a serverless airplane tracker	Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb.io	5 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
How Kubernetes Gets Released: A Contributor’s View from the Release Team	Tatiana Selezneva, REA Group	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
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, One Cluster	Andrew Jeffree, Mitti	20 min
Cloud Native Global Load Balancing with K8gb	Woh Shon Phoon, Nutanix	20 min
Becoming a CNCF Contributor with 1 Hour a Week	Wendy Ha, SEEK	5 min
Provenance for AI Agent Skills	Gajan Kugamoorthy, Vivanti	20 min
Building Hybrid AI Systems: Edge Inferencing Meets Cloud Reasoning	Sheng Chen, AWS & Frank Fan, AWS	20 min

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Workshops

Pre-conference workshops run on Day 1, Monday 9 November 2026. Bring your own laptop.

Workshop	Facilitators	Length
Hosting and Scaling GenAI Workloads on Amazon EKS	Frank Fan, Sheng Chen, Navya Srivastava & Parikshit Patel, AWS	2.5 hours (9:30 am)
Race to Recover: Mission Earth	Commvault	2.5 hours (9:30 am)
Break It, Fix It: Hands-On Container and Library Supply Chain Security	Andrew Dean, Chainguard	2.5 hours (1:30 pm)

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