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Cloud Native Crash Courses on Agentic AI Infrastructure & Inference

Tuesday, Dec 1, 2026

Platform teams are taking on inference
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Running inference and AI agents in production is quickly becoming a platform engineering problem. Somebody has to schedule the GPUs and keep model traffic secure and observable, and that’s usually the platform team.

On Tuesday, December 1, open source maintainers and practitioners from the cloud native community show how they run these workloads with open source projects. KubeCrash is organized by the community, and every talk is built around tools you can install yourself.


Gold Sponsors

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Silver Sponsors

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Community partners

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Media Sponsors

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Confirmed speakers

Eli Goldberg

Senior Network AI Platform Engineer, NVIDIA

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Abdel Sghiouar

Kubernetes Podcast Host, KubeCon Co-Chair

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Richard Collins

Product Marketing Director, Buoyant

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Sarah Christoff

Technical Evangelist, Buoyant

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Josh Mesout

Chief Innovation Officer, Civo

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Co-Founders & Hosts

Catherine Paganini

Marketing Director, Buoyant; Co-Chair CNCF Merge Forward

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Lisa-Marie Namphy

CNCF Ambassador; Director Developer Relations, Intuit

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Danielle Cook

CNCF Ambassador, Co-chair CNCF Cartografos Group

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Past Speaker Highlights

Sabine Wolz

Senior Product Manager, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation

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Eddie Wassef

Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase

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Solomon Hykes

Founder of Docker and Dagger

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Kasper Nissen

Lead Platform Architect, Lunar

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Philipp Hugenroth

Software Engineer, Spotify

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Charity Majors

CTO, Honeycomb

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Ahmed Bebars

Principal Engineer, The New York Times

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Whitney Lee

CNCF Ambassador

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Iris Dyrmishi

Senior Observability Engineer, Miro, CNCF Ambassador

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Alexa Nicole Griffith

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

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Jake Walden

Technical Product Owner, Capital One

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Dima Shevchuk

Staff Software Engineer, Production Engineering; Grammarly

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Lisa Shissler Smith

Director at Women Who Code; Former Engineering Manager at Netflix and Zapier

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Nicol Daňková

Head of SOC (incl. Incident Response & CTI), Henkel

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Kaslin Fields

Manager of Cloud Runtimes Developer Relations, Google; Co-Host Kubernetes Podcast

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Ricardo Torres

Chief Engineer of Open Source & Cloud Native, Boeing

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Christopher Voss

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft (Xbox)

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