Best of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026

This talk highlights the unique scale and vibrant atmosphere of KubeCon and Cloud Native Con, emphasizing the opportunity for engineers to engage directly with industry peers. The speaker notes the value of face-to-face conversations with experts in cloud native architectures, which facilitates the exchange of market insights and real-life experiences. The event serves as a platform for networking, allowing attendees to reconnect with old friends while making new connections. Additionally, the speaker reflects on the importance of learning about emerging ideas and open-source projects, enabling quicker decision-making and integration with innovative solutions that meet customer needs.

KubeCon and Cloud Native Con are really unique. The scale of the event is absolutely [music] crazy. We are part of a system that is building the future. We have a lot of practitioners who are hands-on keyboard here. For our engineers, it's a great [music] chance to meet other engineers at different companies solving similar or different challenges. And coming here, I realized [music] that the size of KubeCon

this year is the size of my hometown. >> [music] >> Actually seeing industry experts in cloud native architectures, [music] and that's really interesting because we can have those conversations with those folks, and we're able to derive signals from the market, [music] from the people who are actually touching the technology every day. I get to learn from them directly, face-to-face, [music] ask questions, and get, you know, knowledge

from their real-life experience. What I really liked so far was one of the keynotes where there was an actual glider on the stage. I thought that was pretty fantastic. It gives us an opportunity to see old friends that you haven't seen for a while, but also make new ones. But at the same time, I was amazed on how many people you meet and talk to. I really

[music] enjoy it from that point of view. But it gives us an opportunity to hear about the new ideas that are going around in the open source community today, what new projects are getting more popularity, how we can integrate with those projects. And being [music] able to get all of these signals immediately instead of waiting for reports or waiting for briefings, we can immediately derive conclusions and

make decisions with our business and with our road map [music] and be able to deliver solutions for our customers much much faster. >> [applause and cheering] >> Now we can speak to the right people [music] to learn about what's moving forward these days.