Cloud Native Zürich

Stefan Dietiker (Ergon) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “Ingress is Frozen – What Should I Do?”
Ingress is stuck. The Gateway API is the future.
Learn why it matters, what it solves & how to get started with simple, hands-on examples.
Looking forward to this one!

Simon Lackerbauer (Scigility AG) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “High Security Cluster Operations with Cilium and Kyverno”
eBPF networking + Kubernetes-native policy = secure, compliant clusters.
Real-world use cases, no prior Cilium/Kyverno knowledge needed!
See you there!

Simon Krenger (Red Hat) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “Containers Aren’t VMs… Except When They Are”
KubeVirt in action: run VMs alongside containers in Kubernetes.
Live demos, trade-offs & when to use it — or not.

Rostyslav Myronenko (booking.com) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “Data Asset Discovery for Complex Cloud-Native Environments”
K8s, OPA, Prometheus & Fluentd to map, monitor & secure thousands of data assets at scale.
We are looking forward to learning from you, Rostyslav!

Mario Fahlandt (Kubermatic, GDE) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “The Bedrock of Efficient Software Delivery Are API-Driven Platforms”
From API-first design to cognitive load reduction — smart platforms start with strong foundations.
We’re looking forward to meet you, Mario!

Fabian Schulz & Pablo Garcia (Swisscom) at #CloudNativeZürich!
🎙️ “From Weeks to Seconds: Scaling Network Automation with Kubernetes Operators”
KRM + MetalLB + NetBox = 5G Core network in minutes.
👉 Cloud-native automation in action.

That's all folks


We’ve unlocked unused sponsor vouchers for Cloud Native Zurich – and they're going exclusively to people on the waitlist!

📬 If you're on the list, check your inbox – your ticket might be waiting 🎟️

🚫 Clément Nussbaumer (PostFinance) joins the #CNZRejects stage!
“Quantifying Randomness on Your Clusters with Kubenurse”
Flaky services? DNS issues? Ghost bugs?
Kubenurse monitors in-cluster network health — one DaemonSet away.
Looking forward to this one!

Marco Kuendig (copebit) takes the #CloudNativeZürich stage!
🎙️ “See an Elastic Platform Engineering Foundation”
Live demo of a scalable platform built with Kubernetes, GitOps & Crossplane — from compute to queues, ready for dev teams & real-world workloads.

Marcel Härri (Red Hat) takes the #CloudNativeZürich stage!
🎙️ “Building Kubernetes Clusters on Demand with Hypershift”
Hosted control planes, auto node provisioning & scalable cluster management — from bare metal to cloud.

Jeremy Colvin (Isovalent) hits the #CloudNativeZürich stage with:
🎙️ “Visualizing Security Data with Tetragon and Splunk”
From raw eBPF data to real-time dashboards — turn security noise into insight.
👉 SecOps + DevOps, this one’s for you!

📢 Gold Sponsor Announcement!

We’re thrilled to have Red Hat on board! 🏆
They deliver enterprise open-source solutions, excelling in hybrid cloud, automation & cloud-native development while driving innovation with open-source communities.

🎟️ Get your ticket now: zurl.co/dfgv

Johann Schley & Gregor Wälchli (Swisscom) hit the #CloudNativeZürich stage with:
🎙️ “Enterprise-grade IaaS in a Cloud Native Way”
VMs, multi-tenancy, SDN & guardrails, powered by KubeVirt, Kube-OVN & Kyverno.
👉 Swiss-grade infra, built the cloud-native way.

🚀 Kirusihaan Sathiyapalan (Axians Amanox) & Fabian Böger (Nutanix) take the #CloudNativeZürich stage to show how the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform simplifies ops & boosts cloud-native agility.

👉 Can’t wait to learn from these two and broaden our horizons together!

🎤 Lukas Grimm & Christian Haller bring 25 years of Puzzle ITC to the #CloudNativeZürich stage!
Get ready for their best explosion stories — real outages, bad deploys, hard lessons, and a lot of laughs.
See you there, we can`t wait! 🚀

On the CNZ Rejects stage: Tobias Brunner (VSHN) 🚀

👉 Talk: “Behind the Scenes of Servala – The Open Cloud Native Hub”
A look at its architecture, tools like Crossplane, Kubernetes, Helm, and Django, and the challenges of running multi-tenant cross-cloud services at scale.

👏 Gold Sponsor – Applause, please!

Huge thanks to copebit AG for supporting us! 🏆
As a key player in the Swiss #cloud-community, they excel in #cloud-consulting, #engineering & #automation, with expertise in #AWS & #containerization.

🤓 Get your ticket here: zurl.co/k796

🚀 What if your platform isn’t just a tech layer — but a lever for org-wide change?

Manuel Pais hits the #CNZ stage to explore how orgs like Spotify & ING use platform engineering to unlock delivery, culture & flow.
👉 "Talk: Unlocking Platform Engineering for Organizational Success"

👏 Up next at #CloudNativeZürich: Jonathan Perry, CEO at Unvariance & OpenTelemetry maintainer.

He’ll share how to reduce performance interference in K8s using strategies from Google & Alibaba, plus insights into Kubernetes-native isolators.


We are looking foward!

👀 Golden Sponsor of CNZ 2025!

Huge thanks to Isovalent for their support! 🏆
They develop cloud-native networking solutions with eBPF, enhancing security & connectivity for Kubernetes & hybrid clouds.

👉 Meet them & other industry leaders: zurl.co/1JqN

🚫 CNZ Rejects welcomes: Angelo Skibola (AWS)
🎙️ “Increasing Developer Productivity with GenAI”
Meet Amazon Q Developer — your GenAI assistant for writing code, generating tests, and bootstrapping environments across IDE, CLI, and Console.
Build faster. Search less.

🚫 On the CNZ Rejects stage: Max Körbächer (Liquid Reply)
🎙️ “AiDP – Time to Evolve Our Platforms”
LLMs need more than hype. Max dives into real-world strategies for GPU management, model serving, and secure, scalable AI platforms.
If you're building platforms, don’t miss this.

📢 Daniel Binggeli (CTO, Puzzle ITC) hits the #CloudNativeZürich stage with Adrian Brunner to unpack what Platform Engineering really means. From mindset to feedback loops — and some ice hockey metaphors — it’s not just tech, it’s team, culture, and momentum.

👂Get ready for José Correia & Iveri Prangishvili (Adobe) at #CloudNativeZürich!

Deploying to 15,000+ K8s namespaces daily, they’ll share how SlackOps + GitOps, FluxCD, and DORA metrics power fast, reliable rollouts at scale.

🎙️ George Hantzaras (MongoDB) takes the #CloudNativeZürich stage to explore the third gen of Infrastructure as Code: GitOps, policy-as-code, drift prevention & tools like ArgoCD, Kyverno, Operators. Modern IaC, built for scale.

👀 Who are the Special Sponsors?

Migros—Switzerland’s largest retailer and innovation leader, is transforming the retail industry and fostering a forward-thinking work environment. They focus on empowering their team with a people-first approach.

Thanks for your incredible support!
🎟️ zurl.co/IEnBr

See you on the KubeTrain!! 🚂💨

Meet the Special Sponsors of CNZ 2025! 🚀

We’re thrilled to have INNOQ supporting us! They deliver software solutions and infrastructure, advancing cloud-native technologies with their commitment to innovation.

Thank you for making our vision a reality! 🤝
🎟️ zurl.co/0KwwU

👀 Special Sponsors!

Excited to have Acend – Cloud Native Trainings Schweiz on board! They’re transforming IT training with hands-on courses in Kubernetes, OpenShift, and more, fostering cloud-native expertise in Switzerland.

Thank you for supporting us!
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📢 Special Sponsors!

Lucky to have PostFinance with us! Known for secure digital payments, they drive innovation in financial services by adopting cloud tech for enhanced security, scalability, and efficiency.

Thank you for your incredible support!
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